Chinook's+Edge+School+Team+4

Leader/SPED guy || 403 227-3244 403 788-3224 || car120c || dave.dale007 || car120c || [] ||  || 403 318-0251 || nramrattan ||  || nramrattan || [] || nramrattan ||
 * Name || email || What you do || phone || Twitter? || Skype? || Delicious || Blog? || Google Docs Account ||
 * Rhonda Jessen || rjessen@chinooksedge.ab.ca || Teacher/CTS Team Leader/Tech Integration Lead || 403-227-7246 || rljessen || Rhonda.Jessen || RhondaLynn || [] || rljessen ||
 * Allan Whitehead || alwhitehead@chinooksedge.ab.ca || Social Studies Teacher/ AISI leader || 403-227-3244 403-227-3244 || alwhitehead82 || alwhitehead82 || alwhitehead || [] || alwhitehead ||
 * Kaitlin Eyestone || keyestone@chinooksedge.ab.ca || Teacher || 403-358-8792 403-358-8792 || eyestonek || eyestonek || eyestonek || [|http://eyestonek.edublogs.org] || eyestonek ||
 * Dave Dale || ddale@chinooksedge.ab.ca || Teacher/Science Team
 * Narsh Ramrattan || nramrattan@chinooksedge.ab.ca || Math Science Teacher, VP || 403 227-3244

We are the fantastic team from Innisfail Junior Senior High School.



**Team Name**
**Team I Am Not A Number**

**Team members**
**Dave Dale, Kaitlin Eyestone, Allan Whitehead, Narsh Ramrattan and Rhonda Jessen**

**School**
**Innisfail Junior Senior High School**

**Abstract**
====The goal of our project was to introduce the idea of professional learning community to the staff at our school as well encourage them to learn web 2.0 tools that they can use in their classrooms. Before we started we had them complete an on-line survey that asked about their knowledge of Digital Literacy and how much they use web 2.0 tools. This gave us an idea of the type of tools and training that staff were interested in. We started an Edmoto site to foster collaboration & sharing. We introduced Edmodo, walked them through joining it and taught them how to use it in small groups. And then we did a tools jig-saw session where each team member introduced a different web 2.0 tool.====

**Problem, Issue, or Possibility**

 * =====Finding a time to meet that would work for everyone in our group.=====
 * Trying to narrow down a question for our action research - we had a bunch of ideas but we had a really difficult time coming up with a question that would encompass everything we wanted to do.
 * Fluffy criteria for action research project.
 * Trying to find a way to encourage other people/ reluctant people in our building to try to be more open minded in using web 2.0 tools without being perscriptive.

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With our project we want to build a learning network the includes, but also extends beyond the people in our building. We want to encourage our staff to develop their own PLNs and to start using Web 2.0 tools to increase student engagement. At the start of our project we asked staff to complete an on-line Digital Literacy survey that asked about their knowledge of Digital Literacy and how much they use web 2.0 tools. In order to assess the success of our project we will measure the use of the Edmodo site, and resurvey the staff to see what tools they are using with their classes or personally and determine the amount of change from the first survey in February. =====

**Implementation Plan**

 * //February 28 - Staff survey on technology/digital literacy.//
 * //Thursday's (4-5) - Group meetings to discuss ideas/concerns/progress for our action research project.//
 * //April 26 & 27 - Small group introductions to Edmodo and jig-saw groups (twitter, google docs, effective internet search, wikis, and glogster)//
 * //Beginning of May - Staff survey on their use of Edmodo or tools learnt in our group sessions.//
 * //Middle of September - Re-survey the staff.//

**Evaluation and Results**

[[file:survey results.pdf]]
Edmodo Site - [] If you would like to join our group site make yourself an account and then when you're logged in look on the left hand side and click on the Join link. It will ask you for a code, use: 01sxum