A1Digital Expedition

For the past several years our district has offered a course called 21 Things that was designed by me and a few other tech leaders in our district. It has been very popular and so important to our district tech goals that it became a requirement for technology certification renewal. This summer we decided to update the course.
Now instead of 21 Things the course is called Digital Expedition. The title ties in with our A1 Digital Innovation initiative. We made several improvements including creating a version for teachers and another for administrators. We cut down to 15 tasks, but they are more in depth. Finally, we made the course more iPad focused and moved the course from Wikispaces to iTunes U. We wanted the course to serve as a model for how teachers could deliver content to their students on the iPad.
The teacher version is still facilitated by the librarian at each school. The three instructional technologists debated this choice because we don't want to burden others with technology tasks, but in the end we decided that it was important to have someone at each school that was easily accessible. I also wanted the librarians to remain in this role to illustrate that they are still tech leaders in our district.

Our 15 tasks for teachers are:

1. Office 365
2. Schoolwires
3. PD Express
4. Using the Smartboard with the iPad
5. iWork Suite
6. Edmodo
7. Core Apps
8. Beyond the Core
9. Flipping the Classroom
10. Formative Assessment Tools
11. Blogs and RSS Feeds
12. Using Twitter
13. Curation Tools
14. Evaluating Apps
15. Goals and Reflection

Our 15 tasks for administrators are:

1. Office 365
2. Schoolwires
3. PD Express
4. Building the Home/School Connection
5. iWork Suite
6. Edmodo
7. Using the iPads for Evaluations
8. Beyond the Core
9. Flipping the Faculty Meeting
10. Formative Assessment Tools
11. Blogs and RSS Feeds
12. Using Twitter
13. Curation Tools
14. Evaluating Apps
15. Goals and Reflection

The course is a public course on iTunes U if you'd like to take a look.