I will try to keep notes for most of the sessions on this wiki page and then reflect upon what I have learned over on my blog https://musingsfromtheacademy.wordpress.com/

November 6, 2006

Personal Professional Development - Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us

by Jeff Utecht

  • "Favorites" that can be accessed and shared from any computer
  • Tagging allows you to allocate favorites to more than one "folder"
  • Directions for adding buttons to browsers to tag sites
  • Ideas - set up a page for a class to all contribute to

Professional Development... with Fries Keynote

by Ewan McIntosh

  • Taken back by the "Draconian" view of new technology in the US
  • Teachers and students can refelct on each others works
  • Teachers can choose to have students critique their work
  • His blog has forced Ewan into reflecting on his teaching
  • Large number of teachers seem to be "clock watching" when it comes to professional development - inconsistency with union rules, etc.
  • We talk about different learning styles etc., but teachers tend to be taught in one way - "sitting and getting"
  • "I don't have time" - the amount of help you get makes it worthwhile... reflection time, etc.
  • Questions/Points - (1)You have to implement whatever you dream up (2) Fear you will fail - not knowing everything (3)Fear you will do something stupid and be made fun of by your peers (4)Accountability - How accountable are you? (5)Fear of change (6)Fear you will be missing out on something else

November 5, 2006

No Teacher Left Behind - The Urgency of Web 2.0

by Graham Wegner

  • To contribute to Web 1.0 you had to have high-level technical skills (consumption remained the role of education)
  • Web 2.0 - blogs and networking through communication
  • Why is Web 2.0 important for educators? In order to be leaders and not just reactors, students use the tools outside of the classroom - we need to use the tools as a way to engage them, focus on the process and not just the product, community of learners, share knowledge, makes orgamization easier
  • Great example from Doug Noon
  • Allusion to Malcolm Galdwell's "Tipping Point" - Web 2.0 has not reached the Tipping Point yet in education

October 31, 2006

Listening to the Voices: Student Empowerment Through Collaborative Learning Projects Beyond the School Walls

by Sharon Peters

  • Video of student perspectives on web 2.0 technologies like blogs, RSS feeds, podcasting, etc.
  • Student interview about Freidman's World is Flat - Why bother learning information in school if you don't see how it will apply to you in the real world? "The main idea that Friedman missed in his book is the interim step between going on-line and finding information and making my voice heard... how to contribute to the global society
  • Peters poses this to her student... Where were you when you realized the world was flat? When he joined Facebook
  • Wikispaces site with more information https://k12onlinespeters.wikispaces.com/

Publish Your Podcast in Less Than Five Minutes Using Taking It Global

by Robert Karulas

  • Presentation assumes that you know what a podcast is and how to create a podcast - this presentation focuses merely on the ease of publishing on the Taking It Global Website
  • Must sign-up for an account on TIG
  • Basically browse and attach audio file (2 MB limit)

RSS: A Four Part Series

by James Gates and Kurt Paccio

  • http://k12online.wm.edu/rss4partseries/indexrss.html
  • RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary)- saves the user from having to go to several different sites
  • Aggregator - collects feeds (Examples - Bloglines, Netvibes)
  • Part I has you create a Bloglines account and shows you how to add feeds
  • Part II Netvibes and Pageflakes - create and account in Netvibes (graphical aggregator); Pageflakes is an aggregator similar to Netvibes
  • Part III Social Bookmarking/Tagging - create a del.icio.us account, description of tagging and look at popular tags, subcribe to tags via RSS, get delicious buttons for browser
  • Part IV More Tagging and Summary - links for you in delicious - for:anddeliciousname; Google News - search RSS subscriptions
  • Classroom ideas - have changes to wikis sent to you via RSS, have students subscribe to Google news feeds

Two-Way Teaching: An Overview of the Read/Write Web in Education

by Mark Wagner

  • In previous media content moved from the producer to the consumer (ex. TV, books, movies, etc.)and it couldn't be edited
  • It is as easy now to create and share online content as it is to consume it
  • Teaching as a two-way street; two-way teaching - student made movies, reading buddies, cooperative learning, dramatizations
  • Professional development for teachers by teachers - two-way teaching
  • Blogs - connect with others, authentic audience - example of authors interacting, meaningful feedback; gave example of student blogs
  • Wikis - wepages that anyone can edit, good for collaborative work, Wikipedia,
  • Podcasts - www.epnweb.org, Itunes - subscribe to podcasts
  • Social Bookmarking - access your favorites from any computer, furl.net, you can share your favories with others in a public view, you can share your sites on your blog site
  • RSS - allow you to subscribe to sites (blogs, podcasts, social bookmarking, etc.)
  • Instant Messagining
  • Video Conferencing
  • Two-Way Teaching gives a context or purpose for learning and facilitates questioning and collaboration. Teaching each other encourages reflection and metacognition
  • With these powerful Read/Write tools come responsibilities - talk to students

Second Nature: Extending Dialogue in the Blogosphere

by Lani Ritter

  • Dialogue isn't always second nature - scaffolding, nurturing, modeling, guidance and discussion is needed
  • Art of commenting - celebrate, understand, validate and respect
  • Comment starters... "I wonder", "You made me think", "I wish I understood", "I can relate to this"
  • If a student receives and inappropriate comment then "grab taht teachable moment and move on"
  • Seek and gain commentors - parents, church memebers, other teacher's classes, other edu bloggers, etc.
  • Lots of sample comments and comment resources

October 30, 2006

TIGed Basics: A Beginners Guide to Social Networking in the Classroom

by Luke Walker

  • Taking It Global http://www.takingitglobal.org/tiged/ - Social Networking with "a purpose"
  • Offers a framework for students to use scoial networking to work towards a common cause
  • Intro to Take it Global and the concept of Social Networking in general
  • Blogs, discussion boards, etc.

All About Internet Audio

by Lee Baber

  • Audio for podcasts, sounds - mood casts, music, interviews, etc.
  • http://www.newmediaguides.com/Audio - interactive website
  • Assistance with audio software and hardware
  • Provides info, but requires you to work at your pace and be engaged interactive website

Whose Teaching Who? Are We Ready?

by Chris Kaminski

  • Introductory video with student perspectives on education and the role of web 2.0
  • Links to student blogs and other created material

October 29, 2006

Blog if You Love Learning: An Introduction to Weblogs in Education

by Mark Wagner

  • Wagner gives a basic explanation of Read/Write Web via books and files on hard drive and illustrates the importance of blogs through political examples
  • Kids are blogging anyway, so you can take advantage of it or not...
  • Gives directions for setting up account on edublogs.org, write a post and add comments
  • Good step-by-step directions for setting up and managing blogs on edublogs
  • Gives some good example blogs and discusses how they might be used
  • Cites as a place to find great examples of blogs http://supportblogging.wikispaces.com/
  • Shows ways to search for blogs
  • Blogs provide a context for learning - students write for an authentic audience and get comments from others
  • Blogs offer a framework for collaboration and they encourage reflection
  • Concerns - Need for inforamtion literacy skills - students are going to have to be able to identify sources, inappropriate information
  • Intellectual property is a concern, copyright - these things need to be discussed with students
  • Student free speech is protected in many states (parody) - we can educate students in this area
  • http://blogifyoulovelearning.wikispaces.com/

I Did Not Know You Could Do That With Free Web Tools

by Alan Levine

October 28, 2006

Wiki Collaboration Across the Classroom

- by Vicki Davis

  • History of the Wiki
  • Why do students need to know how to wiki? Students need to graduate knowing how to collaborate online in effective ways. Techno-personal skills are essential.
  • http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/
  • Directions about how to navigate through the Wikispaces site
  • Use rubrics for every project - give them the rubric before the project and return it after the project has been graded
  • Different permission levels for editing wikis
  • Several mentions of RSS and updating
  • The online world is an extension of the off-line world - the online world has off-line implications

Journey Through the Week as I Journey Up (or Down) the Road

- a Keynote by Bud Hunt

  • Via a podcast while driving (rather lengthy intro)
  • Read/Write web can be used safely with students
  • January 2005 Bud Hunt began blogging and never quit because he learned more by being able to engage the text
  • It is frustrating to teach information management in an environment where ideas are filtered - compares it to driving in to a brick wall
  • Filters - People who control the filters are not the people who are teaching the classes
  • To have a good conversation you almost have to be taught how to talk - civility, forwarding the conversation... we have to teach the students to discuss and interact appropriately
  • Shouldn't be about the computers but about the communication - why should students be connected to anyone else in the first place?
  • We need to know why we are doing what we are doing

October 18, 2006

Derailing Education - Taking Sidetrips for Learners

- a Keynote by David Warlick

  • Learning can now take place at anytime and from anyplace
  • "Information just does not travel in a straight road anymore."
  • Learning as a non-linear function - learning happens in the moment
  • Office, classrooms, learning no longer needs to be tied to a specific location
  • We live in a time of rapid change
  • The only way we will be able to teach our students in a way that is meaningful to them is through technology
  • Metaphor - How much are our students on the rail? How much are our students on the train? All facing the same direction going the same way? We know that when our students leave school our students continue to learn and they learn things by leaving the rails behind and taking side trips. The rail = curriculum and standards; Side-trips - foundation of what students should be learning, choices, what students would like to know and specialize in
  • This conference will be independent of a time and place. It will continue on the web through blogs, etc.
  • 21st century learning - when we start teaching each other and learning from each other's knowledge and experience
  • Sharing ideas and teaching with others across the world
  • Learning now means more than just sitting in a classroom and listening. It means being engaged. It means observing an experience. It means reflecting upon that experience, sharing it with other people and then engaging in conversation with others. "Learning today is work. It is not passively sitting back and paying attention." Bring content together in ways that are personally meaningful to you.

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