Participants in this workshop will learn how the Mitchell School District utilizes SWIVL Technology in their CTE classrooms. Joe Childs, MHS Principal along with other Mitchell staff will share their knowledge about implementing the technology to address these challenges: enhancing the technological skills of the faculty, providing repeated learning opportunities for students in the building and in surrounding schools, and reducing the seemingly unavoidable instructional losses due to teacher/student absences. Accomplishing all of these is possible through the use of classroom lesson recording technology, in this case SWIVL.
When teachers use SWIVL, as demonstrated by a 3-teacher pilot this year at MHS, they have and extensively use the recordings to enhance their own instruction. They also create libraries of lessons for their classrooms which students can then visit and revisit to assist them in their understanding. When the instructor is absent from the classroom and students left in the less capable hands of the substitute, with SWIVL the lesson can still be provided ahead of time or from the past with no loss of instructional time. When the student is absent--games, activities, illness, etc.--they can go to the day's lesson and instantly have what they would have otherwise missed.
