Team+5

Kirsten Lofton

LeeAnn Needham

Loretta Diarmit

Marissa Garcia

= King T.U.T. (Trickle Up Training) =

Goal: To make short instructional videos for students explaining how to use the digital camera, flip cams, and some computer programs. The videos will be available on the EPISD district server. We want to provide access on how to use the equipment in hopes that students will start using the equipment and teach their teachers about it. Thus, the "Trickle Up Training" begins. Although we have online and face-to-face technology training for teachers, many teachers do not participate for a variety of reasons. Of those surveyed, 47% of teachers have never even visited atomiclearning.com. Over half of all teachers surveyed indicated that they attend three hours or less of technology training per year. In order to prepare students to be 21st century learners, we need to make "training" available to students who usually readily embrace technology. We hope that teachers will be inspired by their students and begin to incorporate digital technology into daily lessons.

Method: Teachers in our group recorded short video clips of students showing how to use the digital equipment we received from the grant. When all the videos have been made, they will be placed on the EPISD server. All students will have to do is click on the King Tut icon to access the videos. For the Final Culmination meeting, our videos will be available on a website (by invitation only). Clips will show how to use the digital cameras, the flip cams, Movie Maker and iPhoto. If this idea is a success, we would like to continue adding video clips to include GarageBand, iMovie, etc...