Moravian+Academy

**Moravian Academy**
We are an independent school located in Bethlehem, PA.

Team Leader- Sara Polefka, technology coordinator Sarah Harshman- third grade teacher Paul Messman- MS science teacher Carol Walker- MS media specialist Leigh Nataro- US math teacher

Lower School Middle School Upper School

We began our introduction of Web 2.0 at a faculty inservice day. We shared the following powerpoint with the entire faculty: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=dcdc4j5_0cfgtcxd9&hl=en

Goal – ====We will encourage faculty, through professional development, to embrace technological innovations to meet contemporary challenges. By using 21st century tools, we will engage students in experiences that will develop maturity, independence, adaptability, integrity, and a love of learning.====

Evaluation-
====We will create and use an all school Ning as a support/reference/means of communication among the faculty. We will also use a technology survey. This survey, given once a year, will help us see how the faculty is progressing and will help us decide what workshops will be needed for professional development. Survey- http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cFpBeXl0eGJiSFA1X3piUDFBZk5fS0E6MA..====

====The purpose of our Moravian Academy Ning is to provide a forum for faculty to ask for help, communicate, troubleshoot, and collaborate in the effort to expand the use of new teaching strategies. This would be a place where information and discussions are threaded and are available and archived for the whole school. Videos, photos, and websites are some of the items that can also be shared. It is a place where our school can come together as one.====

Uses:
====share ideas, share success stories, promote the idea of expert voices on a particular tool/teaching strategy, summer reading discussions, posting of new tools and strategies, learning about new ideas, getting help when you have a question or problem, requesting workshops.====

Using the ning:
====All members of the faculty and administration will join the Ning and develop a personal page. Others who have external email at the school such as support staff, secretaries, nurses, etc. will also be given the opportunity to develop a page.====

We would like to use it as a means of communication about our summer reading.
====The administrator of the Ning, along with the members of the ADVIS cohort, will encourage individuals to post comments on the Ning to highlight specific ideas, tools, strategies, etc, in order to foster communication and collaboration through the Ning.====

====These are our initial goals. There are more aspects of Ning to explore, and these would be introduced throughout the school year by the PLP group. Initial introduction would be at the Headmaster’s meeting day when we have time to talk, and initial login by faculty would be done at the end of the year meetings, in coordination with the directors.====