lisacweber
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Researcher/Consultant |
| Location | Beaumont, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | Blogging free technology application sites used for Professional Learning Communitites (PLC's) when the educator is planning and designing learning environments and experiences with the use of technology. |
| Interests | This blog was created by a Technology researcher and consultant for supportive Professional Development (PD) for educators whose campuses are implementing 1:1 iPads for the entire campus curricula. This blog is also an Action Research project (EDLD: Research) for Lamar University Academic Partnership. The difference between traditional research and action research can be speculated from three different angles all of which connects to the role of the practitioner as researcher. Since traditional research was conducted and handled by an outside entity such as independent university researchers, facilitating action research has allowed the researching to be done by the practitioner who is actually inquiring about fact findings pertaining to their research. The next tradition would be classroom research where educational practices along with investigative processes can be conducted. Lastly, as all of the above is taking place, the practitioner is able to initiate change as research information is generated and analyzed. I have learned that being exclusively involved in the research and development of building a PLC, it will take the knowledge gained by all to allow the continuous growth of strategizing, planning, making decisions, developing policies, monitoring and sharing leadership for the success of the action research to support a professional learning community (PLC). Feel free to comment and give feedback. purposes. |