In addition to extrinsic rewards like the welcome gifts (jump drive, RWP keychain) and intrinsic rewards (knowledge, fun, support, resources, camaraderie), ATI2009 participation also comes with a $500 stipend: $200 at the end of the summer, $200 at the end of the 2009-2010 school year, and $100 at the end of your workshop (or approved project). (Please note that the payment plan may change—resulting, most probably, in faster payouts—depending upon RWP budget needs.)
In order to reap these extrinsic and intrinsic benefits, you really must:
- Bring morning munchies one day during the summer session.
- Attend both days of all three summer sessions.
- Commit to making up the activities, time, and contributions of anything you miss.
- Attempt everything on the agenda. You don’t have to fall in love with everything we do, and after you’ve tried everything, you can vow never to use/do it again, but we do ask that you try on everything. Otherwise, how will you know how well it fits?
- Undertake a modest technology project of your choosing to launch with your students during the 2009-2010 school year—and please do pick something in which you are interested, not just something pressed on you from above, below, or next to you. This is your time.
- Maintain an in-house blog to chronicle and support your tech project that includes some WRs, related reading, vocabulary, troubleshooting / FAQ / TechTip information, and other tech-project materials.
- Develop and deliver a workshop based on your tech project. If you don’t want to or can’t give a workshop, you must negotiate an alternative project with the RWP Tech Team.
- Arrange and attend a coaching session if you give a workshop; participate in someone else’s coaching session if you do not give a workshop.
- Participate in monthly school-year eSessions by posting responses to WRs—and do so on time.
- Contribute by lending moral support to your colleagues, sharing resources, and offering suggestions for improving the directions/descriptions available on the blog.
- Notify Tracy if you want to cloak any WR or deny access to your material once we go public in May 2010. (We will keep our work—WRs, blogs, and the like—private during the 2009-2010 school year, but we would like to “publish” our work and activities at the end of that period. We will respect your privacy, of course; we just need to know what you want kept out of the limelight.)
