Action Research Project: Online Collaboration for Teachers

My action research plan centers around the use of technology to improve a process within the school, specifically, ongoing collaboration among teachers. Technology is a very important subject for me. I enjoy working in those areas that can provide simple answers to help improve teacher and student success through the use of a system.

My project allows me to research existing technologies that may improve the collaboration process for teachers, allowing them to work asynchronously and at a distance to accomplish the same types of collaborative planning and communication that have been done through traditional methods. After a thorough documentation of current processes and needs, several online tools will be selected and evaluated, then compared to the current method.

My hope is to determine ways in which teachers can benefit from online collaboration via connected systems. Additionally, I would like to provide a detailed comparison of time and cost to the district, so that an informed decision can be made on the feasibility of implementing an online collaboration structure as described above.

I believe that this project, and similar innovations will be highly beneficial to our organization due to its tremendous strength in technology equipment and infrastructure, and may help to increase the overall adoption of technology use as an administrative tool within the district.