Use of this TDSI website and all its tools

I am excited about this new resoruce and want to use it myself and recommend its use to the schools and teachers with whom we work and who utilize our website. I'm just not clear myself as to how to best navigate it or utlize it. Could it be recommended to principals as a self-paced professional development tool with group discussions based on working individually on some of the cases or surveys? Could it be used as an assignment for a teacher education class? If so, what parts, and how (should) could work done on it be evaluated by a professor? Some initial suggestions for use would be really helpful. Thanks so much!

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Submitted by scott lowery on 3 January 2011 - 11:53am.

I have the same question, and am disappointed that there are no responses to your query. The materials here are excellent, and maybe it's best to let everyone decide how best to use them, but it would really help me get a handle on how these "tools" could be sequenced and processed if there were some sample curricula, timelines or syllabi or something along those lines. I wonder if the forum is being actively monitored by the authors, and I wonder if those who are using the site for professional development in learning communities could share some nuts and bolts on what they are doing....