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This Meta Media workshop is the first of many similar technology based, hands-on professional development experiences for teachers and classroom activities for students we are developing.
This particular version introduces and gives a proof of concept of our notion of a Meta Media workshop as one that enables teachers (or students) to take (do) a hands-on math exploration, using a real manipulative (in this case Dr. Super’s Triangles), at their own site by way of technology.
In a next iteration, the Meta Media workshop will also include a virtual manipulative component. This will enable teachers and students to first do the activities with a real manipulative (an important part of learning the underlying ideas) but also to then do the same or similar activities or extended explorations completely on-line, by using an interactive, computer generated version of the real manipulative.
Initially, workshops without the virtual component are designed to serve two purposes --
(1) They are the on-line presentations one needs to take the workshop on-line.
(2) They are presentations of the workshop that can be reprinted (as transparencies, e.g.) so teachers can then offer the workshop ideas other teachers or to students.
To accomplish this dual purpose, all workshops are designed to have two parts -- the shell and the content.
The shell is all of the information you need or may want to know about the workshop, this presentation, how to replicate the workshop with children, etc. The shell is written using our notions of an electronic book so you can "experience" this new idea -- i.e., a means of presenting textual information that is not sequential (as it would be in a print publication) but instead takes advantage of the unique power of technology to convey information in non-linear forms.
The content is the actual workshop you will take (do) on-line. In this version, the content has two parts -- the actual workshop you will do and the teacher’s guide material you need if you want to present the workshop to other teachers or students.
The content, while presented on-line is purposely presented sequentially as a series of pages, each representing a transparency you would see if you were sitting in an actual workshop or a page of text you might read in a teacher’s guide.
In a next iteration, in addition to having a virtual manipulative in our Meta Media workshops, it is our hope to extend the idea of the electronic book to the actual content of the workshop -- i.e., to use our non-linear approach to presenting both the actual workshop and the teacher’s guide.
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