Work in Progress- Scholarly Teaching Techniques in a Web 2.0 Workshop for Educators

Abstract- The educational technology landscape is changing with web-based tools emerging for collaborative learning. This paper describes a technology workshop session conducted for public school teachers. The session presented web 2.0 tools and focused on blogs to enhance classroom learning. The workshop was developed using a course blueprint and Bloom’s revised taxonomy to align content, instruction, and assessments by identifying desired cognitive processes and knowledge dimensions. The workshop demonstrated how to transfer in-class instruction into web 2.0 contexts for enhanced student engagement. The key goals of the workshop were to teach about blogs, demonstrate pedagogy potential, and engage teachers in a lesson that they could use in their classrooms. Index Terms: teacher professional development, scholarly teaching, web 2.0, course design blueprint