After having a couple of days off to work on the PD that I will be delivering later this summer, I had the chance to spend the day with Tim Yenca, Lisa Johnson, Dillon Finan, Greg Garner and Janet Espinosa at Westlake High School. I have been searching for a long time for reasons to use iTunes U, so I was excited about this training as I had a strong suspicion that this group of dynamic educators would deliver the information that I would need to get on the iTunes U Bandwagon. I was not disappointed. By the end of the day, I walked away with my very first iTunes U Course.
The Setting
First and foremost, when planning for a day of summer professional development, ALWAYS remember the food.
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I love the WHS library.
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The Content
| Tim started the day by setting the intention of the workshop which was to create a culture of learning in which we would encourage and enable collaboration, celebrate success and take a risk. He spoke of building a learning organization which would facilitate the learning of all of its members. 
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We moved on to a brief recap of the SAMR mode. Tim explained that this model is not a ladder with constant upward movement. There is an ebb and flow to the movement within the SAMR scale.
And then we dove into iTunes U. We joined the class that Lisa and Tim had set up for our course today and Tim went over the parts of the course with us stressing the importance of setting up a detailed class outline before you did anything else. The outline is more or less like a course syllabus and all other parts of the book will spring from that outline.
We worked in groups to explore existing courses. We were tasked with choosing a course and finding 3 things we noticed about it and coming up with one question we might have about iTunes U courses in general.
Then it was our turn to create a course. Though I had a few questions along the way, I felt like the information covered in the morning session had given me such a solid base that creating my course was fairly easy and oh so rewarding.
Here is the link to my class. You can join this course by opening this link on your iPad. That will send a request for enrollment to me, I will approve you and you can learn all about MediaCore for Sharing Student Learning! Enjoy!
https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/enroll/F5Z-7RT-EL4
And then we dove into iTunes U. We joined the class that Lisa and Tim had set up for our course today and Tim went over the parts of the course with us stressing the importance of setting up a detailed class outline before you did anything else. The outline is more or less like a course syllabus and all other parts of the book will spring from that outline.
We worked in groups to explore existing courses. We were tasked with choosing a course and finding 3 things we noticed about it and coming up with one question we might have about iTunes U courses in general.
Then it was our turn to create a course. Though I had a few questions along the way, I felt like the information covered in the morning session had given me such a solid base that creating my course was fairly easy and oh so rewarding.
Here is the link to my class. You can join this course by opening this link on your iPad. That will send a request for enrollment to me, I will approve you and you can learn all about MediaCore for Sharing Student Learning! Enjoy!
https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/enroll/F5Z-7RT-EL4
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