Open Light (OL) is an Enhancing Education Through Technology Partnership Grant that includes six NM districts and one school in a variety of shared participating in customized professional development efforts. Educators participating in Open Light are exploring and extending their use of emerging technologies in the classroom. GenYes is also a component of OL.
Partner Districts
Lordsburg Municipal Schools
Las Cruces Public Schools
Dexter Consolidated Schools
Truth or Consequences Municipal Schools
Socorro Consolidated School District
Alamogordo Public Schools (APS)
New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Partnership Goals
- To provide alternatives to proprietary courseware, software, and professional development via Open Source and/or freely available solutions.
- To provide online, accessible professional development opportunties for each partner district which support technology integration and incorporation of online learning tools into the classroom (focus areas include Moodle, Open Source Tools, 21st Century Tools, GenYes).
- To facilitate sharing of Moodle courses created by partner districts.
- To develop educators within each district who will become comfortable with distance learning technology in order to support others in the district.
Activities
- GenYes implementation in each district and online synchronous support sessions for GenYes Educators
- Three Open Light Mini Conferences for all partner districts (full day, face to face events)
- Four full day, face to face custom workshops for each partner district (topics tailored from Open Light focus areas)
- Four full day, sychronous online custom webinars for each partner district (topics tailored from Open Light focus areas)
- Community Blog and Wiki
Funded through an E2T2 Partnership Grant
Timeline
- August-October 08 - Partners participate in Needs Assessment and plan professional development efforts
- October 08 - First Open Light Conference
- October 08 - April 09 - Customized workshops and webinars delivered
- January 09 - Second Open Light Conference
- March or April 09 - Third Open Light Conference
- April 09 - NM PED Innovate and Educate Summit - Partners meet to share results.
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