To close Infographics Week here on The Learning Network, I invited a classroom teacher (and self-described “fanatic” about the use of infographics in education) to detail a project I first heard her talk about on a National Writing Project-affiliated podcast called “Teachers Teaching Teachers.”
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Rick Rees, and Apple Professional Development trainer recently conducted a workshop in Tupelo. The teachers that he worked with were introduced to iLife & iWork and would you believe they started school this week, first week of August. Braden Bishop, one of the workshop participants contacted Rick to share his iMovie that he made to introduce himself to his students.
This is the scenario:
Braden connected some big desktop speakers with a subwoofer to his computer and had everything set to go. After his new high school students came in to his Economics class on the first day of school, he shut the door, didn’t say a word, turned out the lights, and turned the video on. He said “they were kinda floored.” and that “three of my six periods stood up and clapped…and DIDN’T EVEN know me!”
Thanks Rick for sharing Braden’s project, it is simply amazing. What a creative way to use iMovie too! Check out Braden’s work. When you watch it you’ll know why his students were excited. What a great way to start the year. Although, starting school the first of August, oh my!!
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
Kudoo’s to Steve Anderson, BLOGGING ABOUT THE WEB 2.0 CONNECTED CLASSROOM A BLEND OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION
The video is a funny mash-up that demonstrate the six levels of Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as found in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Music from Pirates I and III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhKmhKjzsQ
http://www.catpin.com/bubbletest/
CATPIN allows you quickly create multiple choice tests for free. You can save, print, edit and retrieve them from the website and it is extremely easy to use. No strings attached
I teach a technology class to future teachers (5 sections of about 30 students each + 1 small honors class) at Kansas State University in the College of Education. In fact, every education major has me for this class, I am the only one that teaches it. Good or bad, it does make for consistency.
Anyway, in the fall, I will now teach an Honors section and I just learned (yesterday) that my request to have an iPad for each of the students in my Honors class has likely been granted. Yippy Skippy! I am so excited. These students will have the iPad checked out to them for the entire semester. How cool is that!
Of course, there is a catch, first, I have to include information about how they will be utilized in my syllabus (by tomorrow) as well as, the fact that my students and I will be doing lots & lots of digging, playing and experimenting on how they can be used productively in the classroom by teachers, students, and administrators as well as personally. Ultimately I hope my students can write an publish an article about he experiment and even present at a conference.
So far, this is what I am thinking for my syllabus, I have begged and borrowed from many sources. It is too long, so looking for help in condensing it into something very concise. If you have suggestions, ideas, thought, please comment below.
Very, Very–ROUGH DRAFT
As we move education toward the future, there needs to be a balance between past, present and future, it is essential. Each student in the honors section of DED 318, fall 2010 will receive an iPad to use during the fall semester. Clearly, the iPad is poised to revolutionize the classroom in an abundance of ways. The iPad is likely change textbooks, note taking, turn classrooms paperless classroom, studying and reviewing, student interest level, and may help to individualized curriculum. The iPad will provide the chance to move into becoming 21st century as learners and teachers. The iPad will be in your (my students) hands 24/7 and you will experience “living” with the tech.
There’s an app for every student, every learner, any minute of the day. Ken Robinson and his book “The Element” comes to mind when I think of having students discover their gifts and specialties…..finding…”their element.” And, the iPad is a tool that can do just that…help students/teachers find their element.
The iPad is so new that we have more questions than answers at this point. Our research during the fall semester will try to answer the many, many questions about iPads in the Classroom.
- Where does the iPad fit in education? i.e. K12 and higher education
- Where does the iPad fit in each grade level and content are of K-12 classrooms?
- What is the iPads potential to change education?
- What are the stumbling blocks for school, students and teachers?
- What can the iPad be used for in the classroom? Is it a better method or not?
- What apps are available for use in the classroom?
- How will iPads have an impact on reading or the way we teach reading? Or any content area?
- Can the iPad move us forward to a paperless environment?
- Can the ipad move us forward in meeting 21st century skills?
- How about Project Based Learning, Differentiated Instruction?
- Is it cost effective and could it help save money in a school?
- Is the iPad constructed to hold up to the rigors of use by elementary students?
Resources for additional information
apptivities: Its applications of apps for learning: This website is the response to our challenge at the ADE Summer Institute 2010 at Full Sail University, Orlando, Florida. Our Challenge: Support teachers in using mobile applications effectively to improve student learning. Our Solution: The apptivities website at http://www.apptivities.org/ We ask our ADE (Apple Distinguished Educators) colleagues to contribute your apptivities, a specific learning activity using apps on mobile devices. A key part of our vision for apptivities is to provide media resources that give a “view” into best practices in the classroom. apptivities: Models for successful instructional practices with mobile devices
It’s the application of apps for learning.
This blog is from a teacher who began using ipad in their classroom last April when they first shipped. There are links to the previous post about the experience. 7 Reasons Why the iPad is Going to Change Education
iPads in Education 1:1 with first through 5th graders
Measuring the Potential for iPads in Education
Where does the iPad fit in education? from Ed Galaxy Blog
iPad in the Classroom, a running discussion on Classroom 2.0 site
The Potential of the iPad to Change Education
Wired Educator: An iPad in Every Classroom: First Impressions of Apple’s Tablet in Education
iPad in the Classroom All things related to the iPad™ in schools
WoW, here is some real food for thought for Weekly Standard.com by BY P. J. O’Rourke.
The school year is drawing to a close. Time to balance the educational accounts and see what’s been learned. Though not by my kids. I don’t worry about them. They’re geniuses like your kids and soak up knowledge the way a sponge (or a SpongeBob) does. Muffin, in sixth grade, has learned that Justin Bieber is very talented and doesn’t—really, Dad—sing like a girl. Poppet, third grade, has learned how the Plains Indians made tepees. (They waited until after dinner to announce that their “Lifestyles of the Cheyenne” project was due tomorrow so that all the Cheyenne dads were up until one in the morning gluing dowels and brown wrapping paper to a piece of AstroTurf.) And Buster, kindergarten, has learned he can make himself giggle hysterically by adding “poop” to any phrase. The Little Engine That Could Poop.
To read the FULL story, CLICK HERE, (You really do have to read the entire story!)
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.
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An irreverent, surprising, and fresh approach to teaching social history to secondary schoolers, American Dynasties is an immersive digital video game where players live the lives of Americans from eras past.
Imagine a learning experience where students are thrust into the everyday hustle and bustle of a century or to ago. Where they find themselves enslaved in an antebellum town, or caught up in a strike in a Massachusetts textile mill, or riding the rails in the Depression. Where they’ll need to have all their wits about them to survive in these unfamiliar environments.
Check this site out, it is pretty darn cool. CLICK HERE
WHERE ARE YOU IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM?
Are tech tools improving your teaching or just a distraction? The quiz below will rank you on our technology integration scale and provide you with smart tips to extend your tech comfort zone. Get started! – Take the 10 question Quiz and see where you rank! It takes about 3 minutes to take.
Ok, I just took it and I am an All-Star Advanced, Yippy Skippy!!!!!!!!!!!
All-Star (Advanced)
You are a wired wonder, comfortable adding a technological dimension to your teaching, learning, and life. The challenge is now to keep up with the pace of innovation and your student’s accelerated mastery of digital tools. Plus, how do you bring your school colleagues along with you? How do you bring like-minded folks into your school community? Click these links and get pro-active:
- Share your wisdom and help spread the word in one of Edutopia’s groups:
Multimedia Literacy
Online Learning
Technology Integration (Elementary)
Technology Integration (High School) - Explore how technology integration can give students a more personalized learning experience.
- Try using screen-capture software to explain a difficult concept and post the video on YouTube so your students can review at their own speed.
(See this example math video.) - Check in with other Twitter-savvy teachers for new ideas. And tune into the weekly #edchats, held every Tuesday at 12 p.m. EST/5 p.m. GMT and 7 p.m. EST/12 p.m. GMT.
- Don’t let the budget stop you. Learn how to find and write grants so you can get the funding to support important technology initiatives at your school.
- Help students make constructive use of social networking.
- Go the way of the wiki and build online creativity and cooperation in your classroom.
- Use online simulations and games as teaching tools:
- Explore the world of Wii
- Find real-world games on environmental sustainability
- Save the world with games that tackle social issues like solving world peace
- Discover how avatars teach teens about self-image
- Get some inspiring lesson plan and new media ideas from other Edutopia students and teachers.
- Join a professional organization, such as the International Society for Technology in Education, that guides and supports what you’re trying to accomplish with technology in the classroom.
Teachers who often use technology in the classroom believe their students are learning more, according to a survey of more than 1,000 educators. The data, collected by researchers at Walden University, also found that newer teachers were just as likely as veteran teachers to utilize classroom technology, and that many teachers said they lack training in classroom technology. Researchers said teachers’ skill level when using the technology is the most prominent factor in how much students benefit. T.H.E. Journal (6/28) , Education Week/Digital Education blog
I love photography. It wasn’t until I started doing Project 365 as a new year’s resolution that I really started to be so intrigued with it. Often times, I find myself pretending I’m some professional placing things or people, looking for lighting, finding unique angles, etc… but it is most definitely fun. Last night when I was uploading my photo for the day to my Flickr account I started to think about how Flickr could be used in the classroom.
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P.S. I started the Project 365 too, was trying to shoot a photo everyday with my iPhone, I lasted about a month!! I applaud Elizabeth!!!
Written by Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, with Cherise A. Hodge, M.Ed. and Mary W. Sepelyak, M.Ed. Dr. Becker is an expert researcher in achievement and equity effects of educational technology and curriculum development.
Special thanks to Sylvia Martinez for sharing this on her GenerationYES Blog.
Assessing Technology Literacy: The Case for an Authentic, Project-Based Learning Approach (PDF)
This whitepaper takes a comprehensive look at the research, policies, and practices of technology literacy in K-12 settings in the United States. It builds a research-based case for the central importance of “doing” as part of technology literacy, meaning more than just being able to answer canned questions on a test. It also explores the current approaches to develop meaningful assessment of student technology literacy at a national, state, and local level.
Where “doing” is central to students gaining technological literacy, traditional assessments will not work; technological literacy must be assessed in ways that are more authentic.
Building on this definition, the whitepaper connects project-based learning and constructivism, which both hold “doing” as central to learning, as the only authentic way to assess technology literacy.
True project-based assessment is the only way to properly assess technological literacy.
Finally, it examines our TechYES Student Technology Literacy Certification program in this light.
A review of existing technology literacy models and assessment shows that the TechYES technology certification program, developed and implemented by the Generation YES Corporation using research-based practices, is designed to provide educators a way to allow students to participate in authentic, project-based learning activities that reflect essential digital literacies. The TechYES program includes an excellent, authentic, project-based method for assessing student technology literacy and helps state and local education agencies satisfy the Title II, Part D expectations for technology literacy by the eighth grade.
This whitepaper can be linked to from our Generation YES Free Resources page, or downloaded as a PDF from this link.
Sylvia
Here is a wiki with excellent informationa bout Google tools. We hear all the hipe, but WHY should we use it. Maybe this will help.
Description: You’ve heard the buzz about Google tools – Docs & Spreadsheets, Maps and Sites. A Google Certified Teacher will share real classroom examples of how Google tools can encourage communication and collaboration. Find out which ones are right for you and what options are available in “Google Apps for Education”.
If you don’t know who Jeff Utecht is, you really should. I feel as though I know hm, although I have never met him in person. I follow and talk with him via Twitter and other Social Networking. He is one of the hosts of ED Tech Weekly Podcast show on Sunday evenings (6:00 central time, 7:00 Eastern) . I subscribe to the show via iTunes Podcasts, but, I try to participate in the live show on Sunday’s as often as possible. It is so much fun to be in the chat room with a group of educators. The conversations are rich and sharing is amazing!! Worth your time for sure.
Jeff recently had an open course of which I sorta, kinda participated. Actually, I would have to say I was a lurker!! But I learned a ton!!
I downloaded the book and at first glance, I plan to purchase it too. Only $9.99 from Lulu. I can already see I want a printed copy and 102 pages on my printer would work, but the $9.99 is probably a cheaper way to print and he does deserve to make a bit of money on this project. Don’t you agree!!
Download your free copy of Reach via The Thinking Stick
Thank you for being part of my blog community. Whether you’ve been a reader for years or just a day. This is my way of saying thank you for all your support and help in understanding this new digital world we work and teach in.
If you have the password from The Thinking Stick you can click on the link below, enter the password and download the complete book in a DRM free PDF format.
If you would like you can also buy the book from here.
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/free-book-download
http://www.jeffutecht.com/reach/download-your-free-copy-of-reach-via-the-thinking-stick/
Well this certainly worth downloading, 53 pages, in PDf or from an eBook publisher called ISSUU.
Ana Maria Menezes, Life Feast Blog; This is my personal blog and an attempt to try different ideas on blogging. I´m very interested in learning and my personal project is to learn how to use internet tools to enrich my classes and offer variety to my students.
I´ve finally managed to finish the english version of the e-book I´ve published earlier this year.I describe 20 webtools I´ve tried out, give examples of how teachers have been using it and suggest other ways to use them in class.
The e-book is free and can be read online or downloaded from the link below.
http://issuu.com/anamariacult/docs/webtoolsappliedtoteaching
Crossed posted with permission from the blog The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness
by Michael Zimmer
My First Blog Series – Common Misconceptions
Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:46 AM PDT by Michael Zimmer
I have been wanting to start a blog “series.” One that centers on a specific topic and will have a post (hopefully daily) related to that topic. My new job this year as a TIS (Technology Integration Specialist) has opened my eyes to a ton of ideas and thoughts about the common misconceptions of technology integration that we face in education. Technology is a growing tool in education. One that we as educators need to have a better grasp of in order to effectively integrate it into our classrooms. So, what are those common misconceptions?
8 Common Misconceptions about Technology Integration in Education
1.) Technology integration is THE ANSWER to improving test scores.
2.) New teachers have a better understanding of how to integrate technology integration in schools.
3.) Current teachers have no desire to learn how to integrate technology in their classrooms.
4.) Integrating technology is too expensive for my school to afford.
5.) I don’t have time to learn how to integrate technology in the classroom.
6.) There can’t possibly be any technology to integrate in the subject matter that I teach.
7.) I have to know EVERYTHING about the technology before I can integrate it.
8.) My students have a better understanding of the technology, and that is embarrassing.
What I plan to do is write a post about each of these common misconceptions. If you have an article, blog post, or experience that you would like me to share in my postings, please share a link with me so that I can include it. You can leave it in the comment section or Tweet me a link on Twitter.
Have you experienced or even thought about these common misconceptions yourself?
Crossed posted with permission from the blog The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness
by Michael Zimmer
