Red+Deer

=Red Deer Catholic Team 1 is excited about the journey!! =

//**Victor Hugo **//
Cyber School PLP Leader || dleontowitz@rdcrd.ab.ca || 403-314-9382 || donnale1309 || donnaleontowicz || dleontowicz ||  || Coach and Teacher St. Marguerite School || mwasylik@rdcrd.ab.ca || 403-227-2123 || mwasylik || micaela.wasylik || micaelawasylik || [] || Coach and Teacher Notre Dame HS || jmarchinko@rdcrd.ab.ca || 403-342-4800 || JonasMarch36 || jjmarchinko || jonasmarchinko || [] || Notre Dame HS || bwolfe@rdcrd.ab.ca || 403-342-4800 || bwolfe17 || bwolfe17 || bwolfe017 || [|bwolfe17.edublogs.org] || Camille J. Lerouge || mrheaume@rdcrd.ab.ca || 403-347-7830 || polrbear2000 ||  || polrbear || http://mrheaume.edublogs.org/ ||
 * || == ﻿ Who Are You? == || ==What Do You Do? == || ==E-mail == || ==Phone Number == || ==Twitter == || ==Skype == || ==Delicious == || ==Blog == ||
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 * [[image:brenda_closeup.jpg width="92" height="82" align="center"]] || Brenda MacDonald || Curriculum Coordinator PLP Fellow || bmacdonald@rdcrd.ab.ca || 403-343-1055 || bmacdonald47 || brenda.macdonald47 || bmacdonald47 || [] ||
 * [[image:Donna_closeup.jpg width="103" height="97" align="center"]] || Donna Leontowitz || Principal of St. Gabe's
 * [[image:Micaela_closeup.jpg width="93" height="109" align="center"]] || Micaela Wasylik || Learning Coach, Tech
 * [[image:Jonas_closeup.jpg width="100" height="109" align="center"]] || Jonas Marchinko || Learning Coach, Tech
 * [[image:Brad_closeup.jpg width="91" height="95" align="center"]] || Brad Wolfe || Tech Coach and Teacher
 * [[image:Martin_closeup.jpg width="99" height="113" align="center"]] || Martin Rheaume || Tech Leader and Teacher

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What we hope to learn on our journey?
We hope to learn through a online learning community and let our passions lead us. We look forward to the the being stretched in our knowledge, pedagogy, connections, sustainability and capacity. We hope to walk away richer for the experience.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Action Research Project - Template**
//We want to be able to share and post your Action Research Projects on the PLP website so that others may learn from you. We want to brag on you! We will be making web pages from these projects, so to make the projects a little more uniform and easier to flip through we are asking that you fill out this form. Don't worry - it's not nearly as daunting as it looks. This is meant to be a snapshot of your project with artifacts and links should a reader wish to dig deeper into your research.//

//For your convenience we have copied and pasted this information into your school's team page. Please delete the directions that are *in asterisks* once you are finished.//

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Team Name:** Team Awesomer and Team Number 2 Daha real number 1 =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">//Red Deer Catholic launched a modest action researach project and initiative on 21st century learning environments and educator proficiency with 21st century learning. Teachers were encouraged to explore digital technology strategies to increase student engagement, as well as, student achievement. One-to-one learning initiative is an opportunity for teachers to best prepare students and educators to be contributing members of an ever-increasing technological and global society through anytime, anywhere learninging environment. The initiative provides teachers with equipment such as netbooks, ipods and flip cameras. Teachers are invited to participate in a collaborative one-to-one mobile technology, maximum of 2 month project in a subject area of their choice optimizing the use of division and school purchased software and hardware.// =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> //Our district is considering having students bring their own devices to school. Although very practical, many teachers have not used these tools or considered their teaching practices and pedagogy to support the use of student owned devices. This action research was to get equipment in the hands of teachers to do a small interactive pilot of the equipment with a focus on student engagement, student achievement, teacher pedagogy and collaboration.// =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">//Focus: Improve achievement for all students, bridge the digital divide and enhance instruction// =====

Objectives:
1. Provide professional development support to adapt instruction to optimize the benefits of student one to one technology environment 2. Increase student achievement, engagement, and ability to learn how to effectively learn in a digital environment 3. Create and support equitable opportunities for student learning through the use of technology as a learning tool in a mandated programs of study 4. Collect student and teacher data on the impact of the project through a legacy report that we post in a collaborative wikispace 5. Identify factors in professional development, preparation, lesson design, use of technology and assessment that are important in implementing digital teachng and learning approaches. 6. The development of promising practice that can be shared across the division 7. To improve the attainment of 21st century skills in key areas - inventive thinking (inquiry, ciritcal thinking, problem solving) high productivity, collaboration, effective communication, and digital age literacy. 8. To build a foundation based on the concept of digital citizenship 9 An increased understanding of issues and considerations that impact the successful implmentation of classroom technologies.

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> December - post on the wiki and share with Round 2 teachers =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Round 2 - December PD and introduction to the equipment =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> February - post on the wiki and share with Round 3 teachers =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Round 3 - February PD and introduction to the equipment =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> April - post on the wiki and share with Round 4 teachers =====

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The 3-D wiki (http://rdcrd3dproject.wikispaces.com/) is where teachers post what happened in the project and the evidence of whether these outcomes have been achieved. We have discovered that success is our learning and some of our learning is in what did not happen they way we thought or intended.

<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">We are presently collating the information from the wiki to complete our action research project to discover big learnings, recommendations and create a plan for next steps. We are presently creating a plan for new equipment for purchase for next year.

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">//*Please share any and all materials developed throughout the project. Artifacts can include videos, meeting notes, surveys used, presentations, pictures, supporting documents, URLs, slide sets, etc.*// =====