21st Century Learning-Connecting Students- Day Two

Posted on August 9th, 2007 in HS Technology, HS tech, HSNF by Nicole



Web Resources and Applications to use in Education

Below are some thoughts and info I picked up on Day Two of the (HSNF) High School New Face conference held at Holiday Valley Resort sponsered by Cattaragus Allegany BOCES July 17-19 2007.

I made some great connections especially attending Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s session.

Terminology:

  • Blogging scholarship- blogging and building on the work of others.
  • Blog promotion – When speaking about another blogger in your blog, linking to their blog is good netiquette.:)

http://del.icio.us/abpcjohn has a great list of wikis and blogs created in this Alabama school district.

  • Live Blogger: Someone who blogs about something as it is happening.

Virtual Learning Communities

[slideshare id=79226&doc=vlcs4189&w=425]

Benefit
Teachers are collaborating getting staff development in an unconventional environment customized to Just in Time Learning when they need it.

Teaching with a wiki- Sheryl’s use of wikispaces is great.

  • Has her course syllabus on it
    • Students help with it and have a personalized
  • Had side link with itinerary

Second Life

  • Educational Bloggers have avatars
  • Teachers should at least figure out how it works so that they can connec with students.

Ning Community- sharing resources Yak Pak- Use this and record a message to students for vocalizing feedback on assessments
Tapped In-Comunity for Educational Professsionals

  • Sign in and go to Reception, please will immediately chat with (IM) you and offer assistance.
  • Enter discussions

Some of the features

  • Talk- click on and click off to stop talking
  • Tools-drop into rooms

Showcase time

High School Blog- Darren AP Math teacher from Canada

  • Students go home tired not the teacher.
  • Students blog
  • Has a scribe Hall of Fame- students win badge.
  • Student winner blog full of detail, color, and images:)
  • Calculation s on SMART Board
  • Saves as .ppt
  • Uploads to Slideshare
  • Notes and lesson of that day are on the web

Wikis-

A good video explaining wikis in plain English here. Oops there was. Now the link has a 404:(

  1. Easy to create web page
    1. Important buttons Edit and Save.
    2. Save and doc becomes web page
    3. Groups can coordinate easily.
      1. People can create collaborative lists.
      2. People edit and change the lists as they go.
      3. Link creates a new page.
      4. Wikis and ideas
        1. pbwikis
        2. wikispaces
        3. Wet Paint (wiki and web page combined)

      Blogs vs Wiki

      1. Blogs have one author. Wikis are collaborative and many can author the same page.
      2. serves two purposes
      3. blog search
      4. watch list
        1. anytime that there is a post for a specific blog post
        2. link to people so that you can rank
          either link to the name or blog link
          enter your blog and it starts to rank it.

      5. TakingitGlobal
        • On-line youth community to help change our word.
      1. Wikispaces the quickest way to add pages is to Edit nav bar and type page name and click link and it becomes a page.
      2. Ways to promote and spread your blog:

    2. Great session! Here was the agenda by the way:)

    I was able to add my blog to a list of edubloggers and bookmark their blogs for some good ideas and philosophies.
    One great one I read almost daily is On the Trails by Chris Shively.

    Here is a list of some of the session participants and links to their web spots.


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