Wednesday, July 1, 2009

necc09: Strong Nests, Successful Students: Skills and Strategies for 21st- Century Learning

Strong Nests, Successful Students: Skills and Strategies for 21st- Century Learning
Annette Lamb

eduscapes.com/sessions/nests

[imbee]

what do we want kids to know, involve deepthinking and creativity

Students write a historical fiction book called That A Man Can Stand by Decatur Discovery Academy Grades 7-8 and publish it on Lulu. worked with local library for promotion community

changing how we communicate

Students read a graphic novel such as Laika by Nick Abadzis and create their own comic using Comic Life exploring the fact and fiction in the book.

new standards
will they challenge and engage you people in meaningful activities an assessments
will they motivate up to beyond the basics and ask high level questions

nurturing compassion & collab
preparing independent learning
promoting a love of leanring
stimulating inquiry and thinking

marry iste + aasl standards = strong nest

real world connections
critical thinking ask students to check facts, eg factcheck.org
personal responsibility have to use tools to develop ethical behavior

readwritethink profile publisher

Strategies
focus on designing instruction for immersive learning environments
2.?
Connect to content - see the big picture
be a model
reinvent with tech tools

NECC09: School 2.0: Progressive Pedagogy and 21st-Century Tools

School 2.0: Progressive Pedagogy and 21st-Century Tools
chris lehman

What is good

these teakss from the tools

Research rss (delicious google wikipedia)
Collaborate (wiki google docs ning)
Create (drupal podcasting blogging)
Present
Network

Tools don't teach, they change the way we teach

hard to do as a single teacher; iterative process, not do once

Common language to produce common inputs, common process, common outputs

5 core valuse:
Inquiry, Research, collaboration, presentation, reflection (metacognition);
use UBD as process;
Outputs: project based, so every quarter project benchmark with common rubric

Step1: Blank UBD template:
goals: understandings: essential questions:
big idea understanding versus content understanding
what students know vs what they will be able to know
assessment evidence

NECC09:Earth Mashing: Web 2.0 Meets Google Earth

Earth Mashing: Web 2.0 Meets Google Earth
www.digitalgoonies.com
www.curriculummagic.com

web20tools.wetpaint.com
googleearthlessons.wetpaint.com

lesson exampless:
add haiku to picture placemark
Several placemarks, use strikethrough for incorrect placemarks
measurement lessons

voki narrarate
polls
slideshows
leafletter
photopeach
scrapblog
vocaroo
wix
magtoo
slideroll
photostory
timetoast

students can piggyback on teachers' gmail
eg holland@gmail.com holland+johnsmith@gmail.com

jholland.otherinbox.com so that anything@jholland.otherinbox.com will come to one email box

slideboom.com

timetoast can make or find timeline , click embed/share

scrapblog needs some maniputaiton
on digitalgoonies.com we describe 3 lines of code you must replace first line of scrapblog, then it will work

magtoo.com
slideshow where click addphotos ; can grab from flickr [teachers can collect photos and point students to folder]
example: jayleesdaddy washdc folder
add style, skin, music
uncheck autostart

[online-stopwatch.com]

voki.com
use myspace code embed

http://creativeedgeresources.com/
jim@crea... susan@crea...

can make powerpoint slides into jpg instructions on digital goonies

when make placemarks, can drag into folders and rightclick saveplaceas for kmz file


iste.org/byoleval2009

random.org

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

necc09:vendors1

e-beam.com and mimio.com and eno polyvision.com
http://paratsolutions.com/ unusual carts and discoverycartav.com
http://www.ljcreate.com/ smartboard software accessories
livescribe.com pulse smartpen
soundzabound.com
http://board-of-the-future.com/
spinscape.com
camcore.com and mylumens.com and brilliantechnology.com
strscopes.com and ken-a-vision.com
http://learnwithvirsona.com/

Pasco.com Spark

wyse thin client
legoeducation.com

NECC09: Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for K-3 Learning

Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for K-3 Learning

Gail lovely twitter glovely

10. vocaroo.com
record sound and imbed in website or url to point to it
easy to use

9. simplybox.com
easy visual bookmark and captures screen; very graphical and will tweet when add
can type notes on sites
can share boxes

8. kerpoof.com
interactive tool for making movies and stories, recently bought by disney
make a movie, choose background
characters for scene and timeline--gets smaller as move to background; actions, eg juggle, drag to timeline
has doodle tool to draw own character

7. yackpack.com
closed community for voicemail , verbal communication
messages to each other but only within a pack
yackpack live-can communicate live
opportunity for conversation

6. glogster.com/edu
glogster.com has a lot of teenage angst, but edu is usable, very straightforward
like a learning center, can imbed video; photos can thumnail and resize with click
this will capture and put it there; it will ask if want student accounts and generate accounts that can only communicate with each other

5. animoto.com
education.animoto.com has education version

4. skype.com
can connect to viturally anyone

3. voicethread.com


2. blogs: list including classblogmeister.com, 21classes.com, gaggle.net,
new favorite: yola.com
blogger next blog can be removed

1.wikis including wetpaint.com
little more flexible than blogs

Special consideration:
voki
nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/default.aspx
yola.com
bubbl.us


glovely09.webpaint.com

NECC09: Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload

Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload
Kathy http://kathyschrock.net/score/

netbook
very smart phonnes
youtube.com/watch?v=wZRuF-H172s
Peek-email device
chumby device for email facebook
Kindle-text surfing; kindle app for iphone
Low-tech -- take photos of board, flipchart, slideshow

Onlinetools
faxage: fax with pdf attachment
etherpad--new url on the fly up to 8 users, no account no password
glidedigital.com glidemobile.com glide OS 3.0

getdropbox.com, ripway.com, box.net, drop.io

thinkature
need to learn to extract the signal from the noise

Measure the quality: make list of sources; percent of last 10 posts useful; elim botto 50

data can be like clutter--dont't be packrat

will it mean anything in a year

NECC09: Google Spatial Technologies: Maps Building Better Problem-Solving Skills

Google Spatial Technologies: Maps Building Better Problem-Solving Skills

http://www.isat.jmu.edu/stem

Recent Nationa acadey report
cocepts, tools of represenctaiotn , and processes fo reasoning

visualize vs analyze; must move beyond visualize and get kids to analyze

Google Earth: visualize not analyze
streetview
visualize the pattern of earthquakes, but need to analyze
can visualize past maps--not about maps, about making decisions
can get kml for more earthquakes at earthqueake website

AEJEE
Mac & PC Gis tool free
GIS-maps meet databases

ArcGIS row 3500
all about analysis
more detail work
PC only

MyWorld Mac at pasco booth