Analysis

media type="custom" key="7289871" **Guidelines:** 1- to 3-page analysis report. You will use a real group of people for your project. Therefore, you should conduct the analysis with a real group of people. This same group can be used later as well. **Due Date:** Sept. 30th

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 * Final Analysis Paper**

This staff development will focus on using and creating wikis at Charleston Day School, a private school in Charleston, SC for approximately 200 students in grades one through eight. At this time, there is a faculty wiki started, CDSteach, http://cdsteach.wikispaces.com/, with several different sections—Why Technology?, Our Needs, Setting Goals, Tips & Tutorials, Keyboarding, Educational Links, Digital Etiquette, Copyright, Web 2.0 Tools, Student Projects, About Computers, and References. The purpose of this wiki is to share information with the faculty. Teachers can use this to find help with common technology issues or questions, providing a place for self-help. It can also be used to share information about technology policies of the school or goals for each grade level, to obtain information about new technologies, to share technology ideas to use in classroom instruction, or simply to communicate information that faculty should know. This resource is limited to the imagination of the faculty members and users. One of the goals of the technology coordinator at Charleston Day School is to encourage faculty members to use wikis. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to: teaching technology skills to students in grades one through eight, helping faculty develop better technology skills, working collaboratively with teachers, and assisting with the development of the school website. Many of the faculty members hesitate with creating and editing their own section on the school’s website, especially since it is public and able to be viewed by parents and students. Perhaps by teaching the faculty to use more private, easy to use wikis first, the teachers can build more confidence in their technology skills. Wikis can be a place to develop some technology skills, reflect on the needs of the faculty and school, and grow in a less risky environment. When the faculty is more comfortable with using and creating wikis, perhaps information can be transferred to a more public format, such as the school’s website. Although the long term goal for the staff at Charleston Day School is for all the teachers to create a wiki of their own, the teachers will need the proper training to accomplish this task. Many of the teachers at the school are not comfortable using technology and neglect to use it any more than necessary. These teachers need more basic technology skill development so they can develop confidence and contribute to the faculty wiki. As teachers become more comfortable using this faculty wiki tool and see the how it can aid in their classrooms, they may be interested in taking the next step—creating a personal wiki for their students or adding a section to the faculty website. A more realistic goal for Charleston Day School is to engage faculty in using and contributing to the school wiki and assist interested individuals in creating, improving, or elaborating on an individual teacher-made wiki. This diversification will allow an introduction to wikis for those technology challenged faculty, and will also meet the needs of the more technology advanced individuals; quenching their thirst for new technology skills and ideas.
 * Needs Analysis **

**Learner Analysis** Although most of the teachers at the school are comfortable with MS Word, according to the results of an online survey, only half feel comfortable creating a basic PowerPoint slide show and less than half feel comfortable with creating a basic Excel spreadsheet. Even fewer use a Web 2.0 tool and most don’t feel comfortable teaching technology skills to students. One fourth said that they have never used a wiki and are not interested in learning about one. The remaining teachers are more open to learning about a wiki to see if it might be something that they could use in their classroom instruction. The thirty teaching faculty members at Charleston Day School is comprised of a variety of individuals, about half under and half over 40 years-old. Surprisingly, about one quarter of the teaching faculty are over 50. Fifteen percent are male. All teachers have school assigned laptops and access to SMART Boards when teaching in the classrooms. One faculty member is an advanced SMART Board user, two teachers are enthusiastic users of technology in their instruction, the science teachers regularly use streamline and video in instruction, a middle school teacher is using Inspiration with her students, and one teacher is trying to use some online software to enhance math and history instruction. Many of the other teachers use the SMART Board but don’t seem to use other technology in their instruction. Although teachers frequently ask for help with individual technology needs, few ask for more elaborate staff development. The two or three more advanced users of technology are eager to acquire new skills and technology tools. Along with the diverse technology backgrounds of the teachers, there is also a split in the administration’s attitudes towards technology. Although the headmaster suggests wanting us to be more technology advanced and endorsed the purchase of some more powerful Dell Latitude laptops for students this year, the primary, intermediate and middle school division heads haven’t demonstrated equal technology support. When monthly Tech Tuesday staff development was suggested for this academic year, the division heads agreed that they could consider requiring that two sessions be mandatory for each staff member but would make the other technology sessions optional. With quickly changing technology, it seems that the technology literacy gap is increasing; with many faculty members’ technology skills falling further and further behind. Because the administration wants to create a faculty website, perhaps they may see this wiki staff development as a stepping stone towards their goal. After staff development, it is hoped that teachers will use and add to the CDSteach faculty wiki, making it another tool for collaborative teaching and learning. One teacher has already suggested adding a section about proper grammar, especially for teacher-parent communication. If teachers begin using this tool for discussing various topics, book clubs, teaching tips, and more, then perhaps others will eventually see an opportunity to create a wiki for their students.


 * Task Analysis/ Sequence for Instruction: **

Prior to the staff development training, faculty will respond to a prompt such as: Name one thing that other teachers know about what I teach. This will be written in Word.
 * Pre-Instruction: **


 * Instruction: **
 * Set Induction/Prompt (for teachers to respond to): “How can I use technology in my teaching or in my planning of instruction?”
 * Introduction to wikispaces.com (What is a wiki?)
 * Using Wiki to Enhance Instruction and Learning
 * View example educational wikis
 * Prompt (teachers respond): How do you think you could use wiki in your teaching?
 * Discussion: Different ways to use wiki in the classroom (teachers share ideas)
 * Introduction to faculty wiki ( http://cdsteach.wikispaces.com/)
 * Joining wikispaces.com (setting up an account)
 * Editing a wiki:
 * Adding text to pages
 * Changing font style, color and size
 * Adding tables
 * Uploading documents and images
 * Inserting/embedding document and images
 * Working in small groups, faculty will format their Word response and import it into the staff wiki
 * Closure: Faculty will respond to one of these questions, in writing:
 * How can I use this wiki?
 * What would I like to see on this wiki?
 * How could I use a wiki in my classroom instruction?


 * Follow-Up/Techie Tuesday Session (optional session for interested users ** ):
 * How to begin/create your own wiki
 * Adding new pages; editing navigation bar
 * Adding a personal logo/changing the look and feel
 * How to embedded other media into the wiki (such as video from teachertube.com)
 * Question answering

Prior to instruction, faculty members at Charleston Day school will complete a technology skills survey located at []. The purpose of this survey is to gather information about the learners and how they feel about their own technology knowledge and skills. Based on the data gathered, we can better serve our learners with the proper level of instruction.
 * Pre-Assessment: **

Some of the questions that are included in the survey include:
 * 1) Have you ever created a website or wiki?
 * 2) On a scale of 1 to 5, how confident are you with using technology?
 * 3) I would be willing to share my technology skills with a colleague.
 * 4) On a scale of 1 to 5, what are the best ways for YOU to learn or develop technology skills?
 * 5) On a scale of 1 to 5, what are the best ways for YOU to learn or develop technology skills?
 * 6) When learning new technology skills, I would like the instruction to start at…
 * 7) How do you think that we can use technology to improve teaching and learning at our school?

**Task Analysis for the Group:**

Below is a chart displaying the sequence of tasks that TechsQuad will accomplish in preparation, implementation and evaluation of instruction. Figure 1. Task analysis flowchart for TechSquad. This figure illustrates the sequence of planning, implementation and assessment of instruction.