Brian Abeling  
Pekin District 108  
Pekin, Illinois 

Background: 
During the last school year, we gave intensive training to one webmaster from each building and a shorter one-day training to 80 classroom teachers.  Each webmaster runs their school web site and each individual teacher maintains their own classroom site. Next year, we would like to train an additional 80 classroom teachers while still advancing those who had the training the previous year.  However, because of limits on release time and staff development resources, we will need to look for alternative staff development methods that will enable us to handle this task. 
  
Proposal:  
Web-based training 
Develop a just-in-time web-based model for staff development related to web page production.  Beginners and advanced users could access resources via a web site. 

Final Product  
The final product will consist of three resources that will enable self-training and self-trouble shooting in a just-in-time manner. 
 

• Print Manuals (This will likely be a Word or PageMaker document that will be printed in a manual that each teacher can take back to their classroom. The print manual will contain mostly step by step directions for completing various web development skills) 

• Web Site (Basically a copy of the print manual will be placed on the Intranet server, but will also contain an interactive table of contents, search engine, and links to the training videos) 

• Digital Videos (Mpeg 2 quality videos will be stored on an Intranet video server.  Teachers will be able to access these videos from their teacher workstation in their room through the Intranet web site.  Each video will cover a short topic in a 3-5 minute time frame.)

Timeline 

Task	Finished by...
1) Survey the training needs	June 12
2) Compile the final organized needs	June 15
3) Identify Resources needed	June 19
4) Generate the print version	July 15
5) Create HTML and PDF formats	July 30
6) Create video clips	Aug 30

Concerns 
* I am still debating what format of video I will use for the project.  If I stick with high quality video, I must store it on the Intranet.  However, I could decrease the quality of the video to enable it to be placed on the Internet. Unfortunately, it will be much more time consuming to produce for the Internet.  

* I am a little worried about getting the print version done by July 15th.  I think it’s a realistic timeline, but if something goes wrong it will push the rest of the timeline behind.