Last week Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers posted a survey asking his readers about new things they were trying in their classrooms this fall. He is has put together a great presentation with 140 items. Wow, just packed full of good ideas. Check out his presentation at:
I subscribe via email to Tom’s blog, so I read it regularly. In the post I opened in it this morning, Tom basically has a open invitation for sharing. See below and Thanks Tom for sharing these amazing resources. I don’t usually post the entire article from someone blog, but Tom’s warranted his complete message to be shared.
by Tom Barrett, EDTE.CH|Inspire, Connect, Engage, Create
Interesting Ways
The Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development.
They have been a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been great fun connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. Thanks for all the help so far.
It all began with One Idea, One Slide and One Image as a premise for the IWB presentation and that has always remained. I hope we can all continue to create them – let me know if you have any other ideas for a presentation.
I wanted to keep the family together in one place and give you one page to see them all, as so many of you have requested. Don’t forget that if you want to contribute an idea just let me know and I will give you access to share your thoughts.
Interesting Ways to…
- Get to Know Your New Class
- Use a Learning Platform in the Classroom
- Support Spelling in the Classroom
- Teach Reading Comprehension in the Classroom
- Use Web Conferencing in the Classroom
- Make Your Classroom a Sparkly Place to Learn
- Use Audio in Your Classroom
- Use Wallwisher in the Classroom
- Support Writing in the Classroom
- Use Google Wave in the Classroom (although Google has announced WAVE is on thew way out)
- Use an iPod Touch in the Classroom
- Nintendo Wii in the Classroom
- Use a Wiki in the Classroom
- Use a Visualizer in the Classroom
- Use Twitter in the Classroom
- Use Wordle in the Classroom
- Use Your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom
- Use Google Docs in the Classroom
- Use Google Earth in the Classroom
- Use a Nintendo DS in the Classroom
- Use Search Engines in the Classroom
- Use Your Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom
- Prezi in the Classroom
- Use Voicethread in the Classroom
- Use the iPad in the Classroom
- Use Google Search in the Classroom
- Use Google Maps in the Classroom
I presented at this conference last year and I am sure I learned more putting my presentation together that you can imagine. I have participated and learned from the sessions since it began. It is an amazing experience and all FREE. I encourage you to submit a proposal, but at the very least, mark you calendar to participate. The K12 Online Conference is FREE technology staff development when it is convenient for you. And it is top notch!! This is a total volunteer effort!
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=596
“Today we are excited to announce the 2010 K-12 Online Conference call for proposals, strands and hashtag. The theme for our fifth annual K12 Online Conference” is “Cultivating the Future.” Our free, online conference is for educators around the world interested in the use of web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference schedule returns to October, when we held the conference in 2006, 2007, and 2008. K-12 Online 2010 is scheduled for October 18-22 and October 25-29 of 2010, and will include a pre-conference keynote during the week of October 11. Our conference is mostly asynchronous, but will again include several live events. Over 140 archived presentations from 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 remain available online.
The deadline for proposal submission is August 13, 2010. Selected presentations will be announced on August 23rd.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL via Google Forms.“
For complete details, CLICK HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHNhcdyMtc
Do we know what we are doing? Does society know what it wants? Are we still working towards reform… Ask yourself…
Who seriously believes that locking 25 students in a small room with one adult for
several hours each day is the best way for them to be “educated”?
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
– George Evans
Why do we think every 6 year old is going to be at the same place in math, english and all the other subjects so we clump them together.
We already live in a time of disconnect, where the classroom has stopped reflecting the world outside its walls. The classroom is born of an industrial mode of thinking.
Greatest hurdle in ed reform is that society doesn’t have a clear vision of what school is for
“If you put a doctor of 100 years ago in today’s operating room, she would be lost, yet if you placed a teacher of 100 years ago into one of today’s classrooms she wouldn’t skip a beat. ”
Molebash 1999
Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality.”
Cisco Systems
“If we don’t focus on the experience dimension of learning, we run the risk of mistaking the publishing of information for learning and training”
Elliott Masie
In education the Use it or lose it rule may mean If you don’t use tech for learning , you may lose relevance. An educator must be relevant.
Teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture. You have no credibility if you are not where they are.
“Because the generation of students that I am teaching is an instant pudding, drive-through, microwave, download-it-from-the-Internet, media-driven generation, I know that I must be innovative to keep their interest and to inspire in them a creative curiosity.”
Doug Martin
Do I create lifelong learners.
Am I preparing students for my age or theirs?
This picture was made using green screen and PhotoBooth. Kevin Honeycutt, Mike Cook and others from ESSDACK built this VW Bus out of plywood. It was also used and the check-in desk and Podcasting studio during the conference!! In fact, this is what Kevin was working on when I interrupted and had him SKYPE into my class and talk to my summer tech class of pre-sercvice teachers.
Link to Photos from Kevin from the conference
I just returned from the Podstock 2010 conference in Old Town Wichita. It was AMAZING. I mean amazing. I presented two sessions, Celebrate Kansas Voices and the first session I did, Changing the Face of Teaching one Teacher at a Time was packed out the door. That is a bit unnerving for sure. But what a great group of teachers, it truly was the audience that made my session interesting, they had questions, and shared resources and had opinions. It was a rich discussion. Such fun!!
Actually, as I was walking from my hotel room in the very cool Hotel at Old Town that morning to the conference facility across the street, I was thinking to myself, “I sure hope nobody shows at my session, so I can to one of theother sessions. Man, there were so many good sessions. I am feeling very honored needless to say.
I do think it speaks more to the conference organizers Kevin Honeycutt and ESSDACK, for having the right variety and number of sessions for the number of folks in attendance. Podstock is just a different kind of tech conference. There is tons & tons to learn from the sessions, but more from the people. The conversations are so very rich. It is not overwhelming or high pressure. I don’t know about you, and I do love to attend ISTE, but ISTE is somewhat overwhelming, just because of the size. Podstock is small by comparison. I think the intimacy is what makes it so darn powerful. There really is the opportunity to get to know and talk to everyone at the conference. I met so many teachers that I now feel connect to. My PLN just grew, which means I grew and have more people to call on for help when I need to.
Everyone was sharing resources and things from sessions via Plurk. So even if you weren’t in the session, you could get the resources. My Plurk handle is (cyndidannerkuhn). I have been a Plurk user for some time, but, I always considered myself more into Twitter (cyndidannerkuhn). BUT, this experience really showed me the power of the conversations that can take place in Plurk. I think tomorrow in my summer class of Pre-service teachers, I will show Plurk in-depth, usually I do Twitter in-depth and just mention Plurk.
So, please be watching for the shout-out on both about 2:00 Monday and help my very apprehensive pre-service teachers learn about Plurk and Twitter and the power of a PLN.
I brought a friend with me to Podstock, Cathie Klein, teacher, Seaman High School, 9th grade center. Cathines teachs a career life skills type class. She had never been to a tech conference before and during our 2+ hour drive home we talked about the conference non-stop and how she could convince her administration that more teachers from her school needed to attend Podstock next summer. She told me about all the ideas she learned to integrate into her classroom this fall. We were going a hundred miles a minute (talking, not driving). Anyway, it is so exciting the impact this had on us both.
I wish more tech coordinators and administrators would attend Podstock next July 15-16. It would be an eye-opener for them for sure. I am sure it would hlep them move forward with technology in their schools. At the very least, it might give them a new perspective and get the conversation started.
My wheels are turning! I am trying to think of a way I could make PODSTOCK2011 a required part of my summer technology class. It would be such a rich experience for my pre-service teachers to come learn and become a part of the conversations with these amazing teachers. Not sure how to make it happen, but clearly, I am going to be doing some serious researching, thinking and likely arm twisting. If you have ideas or suggestions, please post them in comments.
So, I guess, what I am really trying to say is, mark your calendars for July 15 & 16 next year and plan to attend Podstock 2011. Join the Ning at http://podstock.ning.com/ so you can keep up on developments. You will be glad you did!! I PROMISE.
Links and Resources for Podstock2010 (I will keep adding more as I find them)
Podstock, or What’s a New Yorker doing at a Kansas regional ed tech conference?
Wallwisher site with tons of resource
Voicethread, the Power of Plurk
Digital Revolution on Wallwisher
Plurker with Podstock resources
Kimberly Wrights Website (Mayor of Podstock or was it Podsock?)
Diigo Bookmarks from Karin Bell
I have to thank Wesley Fryer for sharing this video from TEDxNYED. I have watched a slew of the presentations from TEDxNYED. I even had applied to attend and received the invitation to go (Attendance was limited to a couple hundred), but, could not secure any funds to go. BUMMER!!
I have to admit that I originally skipped this one because it was about Math. I know I need to get over that. And had I had a teacher that taught Math this way, I probably would have been a better Math student and maybe even enjoyed Math. I do love that TV Show Numb3rs, basically solving crime using Math. It is pretty darn interesting.
Dan Meyer teaches high school math outside of Santa Cruz, CA, and explores the intersection of math instruction, multimedia, and inquiry-based learning. He received his Masters of Arts from the University of California at Davis in 2005 and Cable in the Classroom’s Leader in Learning award in 2008. He currently works for Google as a curriculum fellow and lives with his wife in Santa Cruz, CA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8
Here is another presentation by Dan Meyer: Dan Meyer at NCSM Ignite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5IKIrIQ1kc
Dan’s Blog: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
Dan’s Vita: (Interesting Format) http://mrmeyer.com
By the way, Michael Wesch of Kansas State University also spoke at the conference.
Mike Wesch, dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society.
This morning Kevin Honeycutt Skyped me in my office. He was doing professional development in Arkansas and wanted to demo the power of Skype. Remember pen pals? Skye and a few other tools can do digitally what pen pals do and much MORE. Imagine connecting with other classrooms.
Skype seems to be thethe most popular tool. It’s easy to use and free. The only downside is that you and the person you want to talk with must both have Skype installed on your computers.
There are other options, and as with anything, all have advantages and dis advantages. The key is using the right tool for the task.
Present.io real time web presentation in just two clicks. very drop has a built in presentation mode. log in to the drop as the ‘admin’ (Using the administrator’s password) and you can instantly start a real-time web based media presentation to everyone else on your drop. No one needs to download anything, there is no registration or installations – it just works, 100% in your browser. So you can say, “meet me at http://drop.io/mypresentation, and let me walk you through the meeting materials” to as big a group as you want.
watch the video – to get a quick sense of how this all works, or please see below
Steve Dembo has a great post on his blog today, Teach 42. If Presenting with your iPad is important, you might want to read Steve’s article, he has some great resources and information. I would basically put this in my Thank you Steve for doing the research for me pile!!
One of the first things I thought to use my iPad for was presenting and live demos. After all, it’s such a sleek, elegant device, why on Earth would I want to lug my laptop around at all? So I started researching ways to present from it.
First choice seemed to be obvious: Use Keynote. There are a few problems though. I’m not going to get into it, as it has been well documented in other places, but suffice to say there were enough issues that I decided it wasn’t the right solution to me. Amongst other things, I didn’t want to have to convert 5 years worth of presentations over.
Please join in to watch.
MacResearch Webcast on Developing Apps for iPad to Cover Papers and Mental Case
On Tuesday, 6th July, 2010 starting at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern, Apple will broadcast a free webcast on developing apps for the iPad.
MacResearch’s own Alexander Griekspoor and Drew McCormack will be the guests, and will discuss the process of porting Papers and Mental Case to the iPad.
The abstract of the talk:
Picturing the iPad as just a big iPod touch misses the point of the device entirely. iPad apps are not just scaled up iPhone apps. The extra screen real estate provided by the iPad challenges application developers to be more creative, and find efficient uses for the space.
We’ll discuss some of the dilemmas we faced in migrating two successful iPhone apps, Papers and Mental Case, to the iPad. We’ll look at how designing and developing for the iPad differs from designing and developing for the iPhone, and in what ways it is similar. Our experiences marketing the apps will also be covered.
Information for joining the webcast live is as follows:
URL: http://webcast.training.apple.com/
Webcast ID: MacResearch
Passcode: 368176
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Troubleshooting
1) Make sure you have the very latest version of Mac OS X installed by running Software Update.
2) If you are unable to watch the video, you may have streaming ports blocked on your firewall by your Internet administrator or Internet service provider. If this is the case, you can try changing the QuickTime streaming transport setup from UDP to HTTP. Follow these steps in Mac OS X:
- - Open System Preferences.
- - Click the QuickTime preference pane.
- - Click the Advanced Tab.
- - Under the Transport Setup pull-down menu, choose “Custom…”.
- - Change the Transport Protocol from UDP with a RTSP Port ID of 554 to HTTP with a Port ID of 80.
3) The webcast team monitors the video and audio stream throughout the webcast. Unfortunately, internet congestion (on the viewers end) can cause video and audio breaking up. If this occurs, try logging out and back in again.
4) Check Apple Sales Web (http://asw.apple.com) for the on-demand version of the webcast, if you are unable to resolve technical issues. Most webcasts are posted on Apple Sales Web within 10 days of the broadcast date.
Cheers,
Andrew McKinney
Co-Chair, MacLearning.org, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog
Sorry my PC was a slow boot and the ISTE wifi won’t connect to my laptop, so it took a moment to take notes. This session is with Mike Muir, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, and Sam Farsali. Moderated by Alice Owen.
Mike – “Do not do workshops around hardware and software training. The research is clear if you train teachers how to do spreadsheets — if you teach them how to analyze data – they go back and teach kids how to analyze data and do spreadsheets.”
Cyndi – “Get rid of the network nazi’s — people who are IT people with no background in curriculum or education have no business making curriculum decisions.” (Those who have heard me speak know I agree with this.)
Mike- Leadership is everything – 4 characteristics of places where successful things are happen
To Read the full post, CLICK HERE
I want to thank Vicki Davis for taking such great notes and for the compliments. I am feeling so stupid that we did not record the session. Mike and Sam really had some great info.
Jerry Blumengarten or Cybraryman1 has created a an amazing website dedicated to new teachers. Check it out here. But, for any teacher, new or experienced who is ready to begin learning about how to harness technology as a teaching and learning tool should also check out his new e-book, The Beginner’s Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning.
“The Beginner’s Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning, designed for the digital immigrant, will answer these and many more of your questions, hesitations and fears surrounding integrating the internet and technology into your curriculum. It serves as a technology handbook for teachers ready to harness technology as a teaching and learning tool.
Web-based instructional activities have an enormous potential to enhance and entice learning. However, integrating the internet into your curriculum in a way that has a positive impact on students’ learning can seem like a daunting process. This e-book is meant to serve as a starting point for 21st century teaching and learning. It, like 21st century teaching and learning, will continue to evolve. Check back regularly for updates and new volumes.”
A Vision of Students Today with over 3 million views
Each semester his anthropology class produces a project and a video, they are all amazing, take a look, here is a link to all: http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm.
Sadly, I have never taken an anthropology class, but every time I see one of these projects, I want to take his class!!!
http://sites.google.com/site/dottodot2010/
Dot-to-Dot was first held at IS 339, a public middle school in New York City, on June 9, 2009. The website for that event is here. All 67 teachers at IS 339 developed projects around the theme of connections, and presented their projects with their classes both in-person and online. Examples of those projects included:
- A documentary on the New York City Council’s proposed ban on the construction of fast food restaurants near schools,
- A news program that examined international issues and the possibility of social change,
- A student-written bilingual play about the immigration experience, and
- A Bronx Youth Story Corps project, among others.
More than 300 guests attended Dot-to-Dot in person on June 9th. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof joined a class presentation about Darfur via Skype, and ed-tech blogger and speaker Will Richardson joined representatives from MTVu, Google and PBS Frontline in a conversation about the future of education. Thousands of guests from hundreds of countries explored the Dot-to-Dot projects online.
Date: Sat., June 19 2010
Time: 9:00am PST/10:00am MST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST
Location: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live (http://tinyurl.com/cr20live)
This Saturday, June 19th, Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 Ning community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat and desktop sharing. A Google calendar of upcoming shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html. If you haven’t used Elluminate before, we encourage you to view this tutorial to prepare for the Elluminate session: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-06-25.1027.M.3A8024183F2D7473CFAF69B116B230.vcr.
The topic this Saturday will be, “Using Social Media with Students, Parents and Faculty“, with special guests , Stuart Oakley, T.J. Goertz, Manny Da Luz, Chris Spence, and Aveline Ristuccia. Members of the Toronto District School Board will share how they use social media with district students, parents and staff members. More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com.
If you’ve never participated in a live webinar, don’t be afraid to come and observe. “Dip your toes in” the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to “jump into the conversations with both feet”! More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’re new to the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show you might want to spend a few minutes viewing the screencast on the homepage to learn how we use Elluminate and navigate the site to find the archives of previous shows and resources. Each show begins at 12pm Eastern and may be accessed in Elluminate directly using the following link: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live.
Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
Designing Place-Based Mobile Learning Experiences
Please join us for our next MacLearning.org
June 23, 2010
10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern
With the widespread, grassroots adoption of location-sensitive mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad, many educators are interested in designing learning experiences that leverage place. This presentation provides a brief background on emerging applications of place-based learning in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and provides a hands-on demonstration of ARIS, a free, open-source platform for developing place-based learning activities that is available in the App Store.
As always, you can ask questions of the presenters live.
Presenters:
Kurt Squire, Associate Professor and David Gagnon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
To view the webcast:
Go to http://salesguide.apple.com/webcast/
Webcast ID: MacLearning
Passcode: 581037
Learn more about Apple’s free iTunes U at http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u
I stumbled onto this YouTube video about PowerPoint by Don Mcmillan and could not resist sharing. It is funny and makes some great points. I wish everyone who uses presentation software would view and think about his advice.
Additional Presentation Resources
Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
Do you need professional development points for certificate renewal, or maybe even college credit? Or do you just want to attend a GREAT workshop and learn about digital storytelling and how to integrate into your curriculum?
Consider participating in our Celebrate Kansas Voices Digital Storytelling Project this summer on the Kansas State University Campus. http://celebratekansas.ning.com
Please consider and forward this information to any teacher you know. This workshop is available for professional development points as well as college credit. (College Credit optional).
This project was started by Wesley Fryer (Moving at the Speed of Creativity) in Oklahoma nearly 3 years ago. They have trained over 500 teachers already and have 16 workshops scheduled this summer.
It is an amazing project and can be implemented in every grade level and content area. We are starting here it in Kansas this summer and going to replicate what they have done in Oklahoma. Except, we have one key advantage, we can learn from them. It is powerful, and the workshop is a ton of fun and you will leave with a finished project and all the skill and know-how to implement it into you own classroom curriculum immediately.
Wesley and his team of trainers are going to do this first workshop. An additional goal is to get a core group of teachers trained to present the CKV workshops around the state in the future. So, we are hoping some of you that attend this first CKV workshop as a participant will be interested in becoming a CKV trainer. By the way, you will get paid to conduct these workshops as a trainer.
So please consider this opportunity, and pass this along to any teacher you know. Enrollment is limited to 25 participants, so don’t delay enrolling.
You will find the registration form at our Ning site. And don’t forget to join the Ning site.
http://celebratekansas.ning.com
COLLEGE CREDIT INFO ((optional, but available)
EDCI 502: Celebrate Kansas Voice: Digital Storytelling for K-12 Teachers:
Instructions on how to enroll as a nondegree-seeking student can be found at http://www.dce.k-state.edu/courses/how-to-enroll
Can be taken for graduate or undergraduate credit and may enroll in 1, hour or 2 hours or 3 hours.
Credit Option Hours Tuition
Undergraduate 1 304.00
Undergraduate 2 608.00
Undergraduate 3 912.00
Graduate 1 393.00
Graduate 2 786.0
Graduate 3 1179.00
It is set up that enrollment must be completed by Aug 6. The advantage of that is someone could choose to enroll after they arrive. And ending on Aug 23, mean I have to submit grades a day or two after Aug 23. If they enroll after Aug 6, they get charges an extra $50
Course description information for those interested in College Credit
Title: Celebrate Kansas Voice: Digital Storytelling for K-12 Teachers
CKV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is starting in 2010, based on the successful Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project which started in 2006.
Participation in all three days of this educational workshop is required. In addition, each participant is expected to CREATE AND SHARE AT LEAST one digital story WITH STUDENTS in the six month period of time following the workshop. Our goal is that you will USE the knowledge and skills you gain in this workshop, and actually help students CREATE digital stories by interviewing local veterans or others in your community. Optionally, you can apply to co-teach / facilitate a “Celebrate Kansas Voices” for other teachers as well as students, if desired. We expect you to CREATE and SHARE at least one digital story made with students following your participation in this workshop.
Project Details: Celebrate Kansas Voice: Digital Storytelling for K-12 Teachers
This is a 3 day technology integration workshop as part of the “Celebrate Kansas Voices” digital storytelling project. More details about this project are available on our project learning community, http://celebratekansas.ning.com.
The Power and Point of using Prezi in the classroom | learningblog.org.
Paul Hill has a really great Prezi Presentation about using the tool in your classroom. Worth a look for sure.
