Learning Word –she teaches them the tools of Word that they need to use
Inserting Clip Art
Writers Workshop –highlighter – edit other students work, they can show that they have made changes
Spelling Word Art
Templates – could be used in centers – more guided – save as document template, they will then have to save and make their changes, put it on the desktop
What to include in your web quest
Introduction
Tasks
Resources
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
Use links to appropriate sites, your choice
Find ISTE upload and look up this presentation for PowerPoint
Classroom Connections
My Grade 2 Reflections – Teacher, Friends, Favorite Subject, Favorite Event
Templates
PowerPoint Slides
Interactive Games
Math Facts & Sight Word Practice
Jeopardy Games
Group Project Presentations
Transitioning – cloze sentences, answers come in later
Invitations to Parties
Picture Story Prompts – give them a picture, they write a story
Mother’s Day Cards
Storybook Weaver
Write your own stories and illustrations
Landforms
Space
Inspiration
Webs for Stories
Web for books – students can fill in the characters, setting
Kid Pix
Pictures to go with stories
Diagrams
Compound Words
Type to Learn
KidWorks
Write the stories and Kidworks will read it back to you.
Video Streaming
Download video and have the students respond to the video, make template that they will have to fill out.
MovieMaker
Take lots of pictures and put on website
Does technology increase student writing scores and attitudes?
PowerPoint presentation is on the ISTE website – type in Any Walker
Presented by Adam Frey - Wikispaces and Vicki Davis - CoolCatTeacher Wiki
It is hard not to be impressed by Vicki's enthusiasm and effective use of wikis. She has developed two successful wiki projects - The Flat Classroom and The Horizon Project.
To add new page – put them in workspace surrounded with brackets
Lesson summaries
Notes collaboration
Cooperative learning
Westwood.wikispaces.com/work+ex+5
Introductory & Exploratory projects
What’s a wiki – google it – to have it become their knowledge
Wikis are for facts
Blogs are for opinion
Classroom organization
Master Wikis
Small edits
Communicate
Use the history
Discuss
Refresh before writing
Making student accounts
Private vs public
Structure vs free form
Installation options
Moodle has a wiki option
Educationalwikis.wikispaces.com – teachers share examples
100,000 wikis free wikis for teachers
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=38
Horizon Project Students
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com
Look at rubric for this project
Training materials on the wiki
Educational Ning
Clustrmaps
The Engaged Teacher
Look at her wiki for more
What social networking skills do you use?
From the Bloggers Café
David Warlick’s Handout
What does it mean to live in a world that is connected like it has never been connected before?
This changes how we teach, how we run our classroom….everything
Trends:
A networked world, Wikinomics – Don Tapscott, Taking IT Global, People can come together by there passions and connect with them.
Our kids are going to enter a hyper connected world, they have to understand certain Literacies, have particular talents.
Ideas of privacy is changing.
More of the work we create, is expected that we will share it out on our network. That is a shift, plagerism, copyright.
Extremely collaborative world.
Take my stuff, use it as you will, make money off of it, attribute it me, or not.
MitOpenCourseware – all free
Content is everywhere!
Wikipedia – currency of the articles may make up for some errors, content is always changing (look at recent changes)
Self - Starters
Self - Selectors
Self – editors – information literacy – MartinLutherKing.org
Delicious Network Explorer
How do our kids build their networks? We aren’t happy with MySpace, Facebook, or kids need help organizing their network..
Kids are writing in hypertext environments – links drive the network.
Self – organizers
NECC special tags
Self – Publishers
Google – scan this book
Tucker – Iditerod info added to Wikipedia
Self – regulators
Balance?
Self – protectors
VoiceThread the have an audience
Flat Classroom Wiki – 10 Flattners from Thomas Friedman’s book
Thanks Will for another inspiring message!
Ask probing questions, you can check on unread discussions, might have a requirement that you have to comment on 3 posts, if you don’t participate on online discussion it’s like sitting with your hands over your ears in a live classroom.
We get to really know our students in the online learning area.
Great online discussions do not just happen.
Before:
Rubric: /5
quality information not just quantity, resources - give reference to your resources, interaction (what is expected), participation – require a minimum amount and hope they add more, delivery – tone of comments, no flaming. Discussion tips
During:
Great discussion are purposefully led
After
Great discussions are assessed
· Debriefing or journals – provide a record or summary of key points as they emerge –things they learned from the discussions, activities, chats etc
· Draw connections between the day’s discussion and other topics – even a final project.
· Evaluate their responses based on the ground rules for participation and inclusiveness – not just quantity but quality of responses
· Use your rubric! Give lots of feedback.
***have your course built before you start the course, this teacher only releases a week at a time (Wednesdays)
“I will be online on Saturday at 10:00 for anyone who is interested”
She has handouts for everything you have to do with the online course’
Don’t use face to face classrooms as an example for online learning.
It’s time to reinvent education!
Experiment with all aspects of the course, to learn the program and then look at the best practice.
25 ideas for integration into your curriculum
Lucie's presentation information is posted on a wiki at http://necc2007.pbwiki.com/
Suggested browsing: Infinite Thinking blog www.infinitethinking.org
What is Social Bookmarking? Saving webpages through your browser, tagging them, sharing them with others.
The Wisdom of Crowds
Teachers like to work smarter not longer
Blog with students on the concept of social software
You could all login under the same account to work collaboratory project
Use the help menu in delicious.
Have students include their name in their tag, you can then mark their critical thinking.
You can set up your tags before the assignment
Bundles – to group things further
Tagging is like the parts of a book.
Lucie gave us many good ideas for incorporating social bookmarking into our research project. I am going to look into this further.
Please refer to her wiki.
Have a look at Doug’s T-Shirts – go to his site – Blue Skunk Blog
www.doug-johnson.com – presentations/ workshops/ handouts available on the site
www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset
It will be easier to change the way we teach than to change the GenXers.
Net Gen – Millennial Generation
Bibliography in the handouts on Doug’s site
Characteristics of this generation:
Planning is fluid and done on the cell phone
Multi-taskers
Don’t do anything without music
Gamers
Compulsive Communicators
Instant Generation – I need it yesterday
Bombarded with commercialism
Have a lot of stuff
Know a little about a lot
They learn by inductive discovery
Spontaneous communicators
Net Gen demographics
What are the implications of these changing characteristics?
36% of population
31% minority
20% have one immigrant parent
Larger group than the baby boomers
Valued
Sheltered
Play dates
NCLB
SAT prep
Helmets
Metal detectors
V-chips
Net Nanny
Chart Educating the Net Generation for the table
Dislikes – Matures – water, technology
Boomers – laziness, turning 50
Gen X – red tape, hype
Net Gen – anything slow, negativity
Zits – find out about the NetGen
Fascinated by technology
Grown up with tech immersed
96% have gone on line
Watching less TV – watching another screen – they want to control it
Access through home not school, amount varies with economic level
Media in the Children’s Bedrooms
Student Monitors Lifestyle & Media
iPods were the #1 in thing on campuses 73%
The Digital backpack
Cell Phone
Notes
Share ideas
Poll groups
Photo research materials
Embedded in society
Helpful
Makes things faster
Abstract concepts
Can learn on any topic
Connect to friends to get or offer help
Project-based learning – take away the test
Let them bring their iPods
Choices
Individualized Instruction – online? – Differentiated Instruction
Minimize the lengthy instructions
Use technology as the hook
Make education ubiquitous and 24/7
Use students’ own technologies to teach them
Buildings places kids want to be – especially true in libraries – Barnes and Noble
Ubiquitous – mobile
94% used the web for school research
Taggers
Satisfice (satisfy and sacrifice) – read snip-its
Information=conversation=authority?
Everything is Miscellaneous
The evil “Wikipedia”
Higher education=higher use
36% of adult American users consult it
8% online users use it Daily
Not a bad starting point
As a Net Genner, change…..
Library vendors
Sharp search tool
Standards and tagging have to be done
Discrimination and evaluation skills important
Students need guides more than ever – librarians
Focus on organizing, creating and USING information
***Teachers have to know how to do this***
Teachers are vital – computers can’t replace humans
Building social skills is a part of school
Social learner – informal learners
See personal information
Re-mixers – share 57% content creators
Read visual images
Inductive discovery
Learn by doing
My Space
Classroom blogs
Areallydifferentplace.org
Virtual lit worlds
Wiki Wikijuniorbugs
Second libraries
The ultimate tinker toy set?
What will be expectations?
Relevance
Teach and use collaborative groups
Teach copyrights from POV of creator
Emphasis on safe and ethical use
Rules,schedules,agendas “Cool to be smart
Focused on grades
Work on things that matter
Identify with parent; values
Busy with extra activities
Thinkb4ulink
Schools=positive connotations
Got to have faith and fun
Dr. Arnie Abrams
www.arnieabrams.net
Click on Handouts – Digital Photo and Video Projects
Technology that can be integrated in to the curriculum
Still Photography - .jpg, Powerpoint
Flash animations – SWF
Single-Frame Animation
Stills and video brought together as video
Videos – MOV, AVI,WMP,MP4
Share movies – tape, CD, DVD, online
Various organizations and university contests
International Student Media Festival
Film Festivals – youth awards
Manufacturers contest – Sony, Apple, Adobe
Discovery Educator Network
Apple Student Gallery – Learning Interchange
Adobe Digital Kids Club
Google Videos, Your Tube
Final Paper, research report, presentations
Portraits of our school
Cultural Understanding –the invention of the Caesar Salad
Digital portfolios
“All About Me”
Macro –Abstract photography – use the macro setting on the camera to take very close up pictures, ask other students to guess what it is
On-going assignment
Photo journalism assignment
It is very easy to change pictures, ask students to manipulate pictures and then have other students guess which one is the real one.
Make a commercial – Rule of Thirst – SFETT
Public Service Announcement –
Photo sequences or every picture tells a story
Story Starters
Digital Storytelling
Personal expression
Book reports come to life
Phoetry – Write or read a poem and then take pictures to accompany the poem
Bilingual photo dictionary
Weather images
Environmental issues
Extreme close-ups
Time-lapse photography
Single frame animations – “If Only This room would clean its self” “Planets”
Flash animations
360 degree panorama – take pictures in all directions, put it into a program and make your 360 video or 360 object.
SimplyVR from tech for learning
Pano or panorama or spin
Field trip documentary
Past present future community
Shapes and patterns – make a poster of a pattern or a shape
Human bar chart – process video
Visual count
Fraction photos
Rules and procedures
Health and issues – “For Life”
Illustrating emotions
Digital scavenger hunt – can take pictures rather than real things, pollution scavenger hunt
Visual seating chart and student ID cards
Enhancing field trips with cameras – before hand to introduce, send pictures to person who gave the field trip, use instead of going on the field trip – virtual field trip
Class orientation and rules
Share teacher experiences
Class videocasts
Teacher Experiences – “Carpe Diem”
iMovie
Photoshop Elements
iPhoto
Premiere Elements
Microsoft Photo Story 3
Picasa
Keep the video under 3 minutes
Encourage using a tripod
Minimize printing
Share & distribute projects
Submitting to contests
Explain confidentiality & appropriateness
Check permission to shoot pictures
Copyright and copying
Assessing media projects
Creative use of technology
Content choice
Organization 0 mechanics
Personal reflection
Inexpensive cameras for student use
Standardize equipment
No “hand off”
Keep a camera handy
Keep spare batteries charged
Lots of small memory cards and tapes
Survey Monkey – for more intensive applications
Questionform – embeds a survey to your blog - free
Go2Web2.0.net – The Complete Web 2.0 directory
Lots of great site to look at over the summer!
Literacy module, targeting 8th grade reading and writing, Chalk House takes place in a mystery/ghost setting. Students begin as fledgling reports. Investigate the disappearance of Rebekkah and Caleb Forrester. Ghost story unfolds as students complete writing and reading tasks.
Chalk House is based in game – central conflict that students try to overcome with reading and writing.
Used the ADDIE model – Analyze the system to find out what is wrong and then design and solution, implementation, evaluate to try to meet the need of the learner.
Do your students have the literacy skills to solve the mystery?
Many more people here today. The conference is being held at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC).
· Online learning attracts a “bimodal” range of students. Quality students that want to go faster than the other students. At the other end are the students that struggle in a face to face school (credit recovery). Different groups of students have different needs.
· Online learning can differentiate easily, Students can go over a module again if needed, can go at their pace.
· Virtual schools have improved in recent years at retaining students and increasing course completion rates.
· Teacher development in student-centered teaching, collaboration, problem-based learning, group work and authentic assessment contribute to improving academic performance. Teaching online, good professional development, teachers learn to be more project-based. If we teach online we will be better in the classroom!
· Communicate often, promptly, give feedback, or standard will be that we will respond between 24-48 hours. Teachers will communicate with parents every two weeks.
· Simulations, manipulatives and tutorials that offer student feedback increase performance. Higher levels of student engagement and sense of community are correlated with higher academic performance in language curse, this happens when students move through the course together. More time practicing the course content (writing, speaking, listening, reading) corresponds to higher achievement. Students can use 21st Century tools to practice.
· They are motivated, independent, self-directed
· They enjoy technology, have strong language skills, and are visual learners.
· They have consistent parent support and are involved I non-academic activities
· They have positive attitudes and are wiling to ask for help
· Extroverted students should be encouraged to take interactive courses, while more introverted students succeed in self-paced courses. Teachers should identify those introverted students and draw them into the discussion. Online learning allows for forums, time to think!
· Students preferring active experimentation and concrete experience tend to have more difficulty with virtual reality, for example, than students preferring abstract conceptualization and reflective observation. For both learning styles, learning increased with the use of guided exploration in a virtual reality setting – scaffolding.
· Structure in courses and a meaningful curriculum are critical to student success.
· Components of structured courses are clear expectations concrete deadlines with some flexibility, outlines of course requirements (Pretests before a new unit help to focus the students), timesheets and study guides.
· A combination of flexibility, independence, and experience with online tools resulted in improved critical thinking, research and computer skills.
· Instructors must be qualified to teach the content online and experienced in online learning
· Courses should include student-student interaction facilitating metacognition and reflection
· Instruction should be differentiated, using content that can be repurposed (refreshed)
· Instructors need assistance with the constant updating and adapting of course materials
· Immediate tech support keeps momentum going
· Students need additional strategies in locating and evaluating information
· Successful online teachers have will-developed organization skills and routines
· Learning is enhanced when instructors are actively involved in the learning process.
· Students benefit from mentors, onsite support staff, counseling, media specialists, and technical support
· Ongoing use of student data should be analyzed and represented visually to illuminate relationships between activity in courses and student course grades
· Students thrive when they have educational support, time and continual access to will-functioning technology
· Online learners need guidance counselors.
Academic Integrity – Are the students doing the work? Many teachers say that they know the students better than in a face to face class. They say they can recognize the students work. Most online work that is project based learning that has check-point. Students come to the school to write a test. We are held to a higher standard in an online learning course. Communication is key. Many ways of assessment, can solve this problem
· How does online learning work for K-4 students? (K12.com)
· Better understanding of students
· Predictive instruments, diagnosis and prescription of services and scaffolds could enhance every student’s chance of success while increasing the efficiency of teachers. Pretesting on first course might identify online skills that the student might need work on
http://drscavanaugh.org/distlearn/index.htm
Book: What Works in K-12 Online Learning
Handbook of Distance Education from Erlbaum
Quiz
Some people have a problem including a document multiple times. Suggestion: Document management systems – you could put documents onto another server and link to them – metacourse (designed to manage course material this would be if you offer more than one course, have document open in a new window)
No email, there is a plug-in, subject line, attachments
Look for message icon (envelope) beside users list
Students can send you a message if they have a question.
They can see other students online and send them a message.
Class discussion – allows you to talk to several students at one time
** start out with it on, but set guidelines for use**
If you are offline, you will receive the message through e-mail or when you login again
Teacher should have Course Creator rights, if we want them to develop their own courses.
Weekly – Michelle likes this format for teachers, problem: some projects may last more than a week
Topic – Could put dates at the top of the page
Social – for discussion courses,
Course start date is important if you are using the weekly format.
Add On – (Modules and Plugins) - Black list (no access), white list, (has access to messaging) grey list (can’t use messaging through this time)
We finished the day, exploring and playing with Moodle.
Thanks Michelle Moore
