One-to-One Computing @Penn State University

Mary Hall — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:12:53 +0000

On April 28 and 29th, I was priviledged to attend and present at the statewide One-to-One Computing Conference at the PennStater in State College, Pennsylvania. For a high-tech conference, this conference center is notably low tech. There were probably about 350 people in attendance including presenters and attendees, all of whom came with the expectation of being wired…..oh, no. We linked to files on our desktops so we needed to have screen shots and downloaded files prior to our presentations. I usually work on this blog while attending a conference. Once again, that couldn’t happen. Although Word was available, the connection was not.

We were well fed and inspired and entertained by

I attended several concurrent sessions which I will summarize below:

Using Moodle to Deliver Teacher Professional Development

This presentation was made by a group from Cumberland Valley School District. They use a Moodle course that they have developed to deliver inservice content. Most of the presentation was about the process they went through to make the decision about the delivery system (Moodle was not in the district’s bag of tools.), the design of activities, the connectin to Penn State’s eLearning standards, and the connection to Moodle. They described their pilot program and related how happy everyone at the school was with the program. They were able to somehow link completion of the course to automatic reporting to the state Act 48 system.

This is a link to the conference presentation resources that they used. At their website you will find the guest access login.

Building Collaborative Classrooms

One-to-One Computing @Penn State University