Techforlearning

Ok here is my summary (finally!) of day three… of the

HSNF Conference

Connecting Session

By the way …if text is blue–click it- its a link

Questions for us teachers…

• How are we going to use the tools we have?
• What is the core curriculum?
• What is the best way to find out what kids have learned?

Next

Groups have to finish this sentence..

“Students learn best when”..

Some answers were when lessons are:

1. engaging
2. relevant
3. personal
4. Student are given ownership of the content

21st Century Learner Learns Best because

• Engaging students schema
• Constructivist theory of learning can now be really implemented. We now have all the web tools to truly do it.
  • Resources are all there on th web and have been created by other teachers
  • Rip Mix Learn – use best minds resources and make lesson plans
  • Students are going to expect more of us

Ways to use Blogs/Wikis/Podcasts

Each content area shared ideas of how to use tools in different ways.

Technology:

• Reverse mentoring:
  • students help tech-phobic teacher while teacher helps kids with content.

Science

• podcasts
  • create glossary
  • create instructional video put on own wiki or blog
  • have Wiki Wednesday:
  • write own science articles on blog

English

• journal about novels
• blogs with other districts

Wikis

• create a class soundtrack
• wiki with literary elements with pictorals
• jigsaw: visit each groups wiki and deepen the response to questions
• elluminate: meet up with students around globe
• Second Life create: avatar and create plays
• Flickr: take picture and create story using six words with capture, work with Art classes and post around school. Create hotspot over picture label and identify picture. Narrate what is going on in picture with hotspots.

Business Education

• connect with students in other countries and get take on current events
• Use wikis to educate teens and community on consumer/credit info
• Business problem of the day: creative problem solution for a entrepreneurship unit

Foreign Language:

• Students created podcasts in that language
• Students fill in chapter outline together
• Twitter: language practice
• elluminate: talk with college students and native speakers

Physical Education:

• collaborative fitness portfolio

Social Studies

• Blog: Have a simulated dinner conversation between historical figures

Math

• collaborative review chapters
• set up time for students to blog (write and discuss) about math problems

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I will start teaching with laptops this fall. I am excited to change from stationary seating. That is the first thing that pops into my head of why I am excited. I will be able to give students the opportunity to work collaboratively with different people. I am going to strive to make that happen this year. It will allow for a lot more audio recording for students because of their ability to move. I am going to use student recording/teaching with audio in different ways this year to help to with the comprehension of vocabulary, ” pass the mike” discussion, ” and podcasting for starters. Any others ideas for using mics and audio in class, comment away.

Students in my classes have always been able to learn using technology. It changes now though because of the mobility they will have. My classes have always had the benefit (sort of) of a “one to one” classroom, except that they can’t take the computers home and have them in all their classes. Ok, so there is still a big difference. I really want to take the opportunity and have students become aware of their learning and all that “one to one” computing can do by differentiating instruction. I will keep you posted on how it is going by posting my wireless lessons.

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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

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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.
            • Bloglines
            • Gaggle
              • student e-mail
      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:
         • Technorati
         • Feedburner

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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The BOCES of Western New York presents the conference to explore

High Schools New Face

Session 2

Connecting Students
http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/

Our groups answered a thought:
Speculate on what you think the School of the Future looks like. Classroom 2.0, School 2.0, or Teacher 2.0

View all the groups answers here

Groups were asked to pick an icon that represents their group and then explain the image.

View all the groups answers here

1. Sheryl shared with us interesting way to handout blogs usernames: Famous wrestlers!
2. Talked about a video conference she and partners put together.
3. She talked using Skype as the sun went down across the world. People asked her to repeat things because she was the only American on-line.
4. She shared with us David Warlick’s presentation that he used for the online K-12 conference.

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