I’m lucky enough to be doing an online staff development with St. Scholastica \u2013 it’s a course on teaching with App Inventor \u2013 and this is the college I went to last summer for Tapestry.\n<\/p>\n
I love the model and really wish the AP College Board people would take a look at it. I hate, HATE, HATE, the 1 week and even 2 day College Board Workshop format and I’ve even taught it once. Way too much material in too short a time frame and no way to absorb it all. Gridworld has been done in a similar fashion but not quite as well as what I am seeing so far.\n<\/p>\n
They have combined a traditional online course with Google Handouts and have assigned us to PLN groups of 10 for discussion. We haven’t had our first group yet, so I can’t tell you how that works out. They are also having weekly large group hangouts \u2013 and if you miss it record it for later viewing.\n<\/p>\n
I like the interactivity they have done so far, and the fact that the material is spaced out over a long time period rather than expecting us as teachers to learn an entire year’s material in one week. I have trouble with that concept and I’ve been teaching this stuff for 21 years, gone to over 10 of those workshops and taught one.\n<\/p>\n
And yes, I’ll keep complaining about staff development until it gets fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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