Face-to-Face Staff Development

On Friday, I delivered my face-to-face staff development on the Web 2.0 tool called Symbaloo. Previously, I conducted a needs assessment with Mrs. White, the technology director for Telfair County schools. Together, we determined that the faculty members in our county lacked knowledge of how to further expand their access to educational resources. Therefore, we decided to help develop their knowledge by developing a staff development workshop that introduced Symbaloo. I created a content outline for the workshop, Prezi presentation about the benefits of Symbaloo for teachers and students, and instruction sheet for how to create their own Symbaloo.

I was thrilled to do this face-to-face staff development. Symbaloo is a great Web 2.0 tool to use in education. It was a great experience to be able to share my knowledge of the tool and to help them see the benefits of using the tool in their classroom. I was very satisfied with the teachers’ responses to the staff development. After giving the staff development on Symbaloo, I had several teachers that asked me to stay and help them further expand on their Symbaloo webmix. They had several questions regarding student use. I’m confident that they will use Symbaloo in the future to help organize their educational resources, share resources with the students, and allow students to utilize Symbaloo for class projects.