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Click on ISTE 2011
Select Wed. 11:45
Google Apps for Educators is FREE.
Using Google Docs
Presentation- Use 1 slide to create a postcard where they pretend they are visiting a place they learned about and wrote a message to home. (Print as a handout so you can save paper and will print as a postcard size.
Switch settings to anyone with the link, and allow them to change. Will need to do this for each student, however you do not need a Google account to do this.
Use google doc(or word) to do I'm T-Rrific Because (kids list 5-7 reasons as to why) Move title down from the top (about 10 lines) so you can turn paper into a tee-shirt like shape.
Blogger: Post to blog by sending an email to it. (I don't know how I feel about this because then students are not going to the blog)
**Go to settings
**Email and mobile
**set up an email posting address
Students can take pictures and post to the BLOG with a caption to go along with the story.
Google Maps: Must have a Google Account
Log in and go to "My Places" then Maps. Create new maps. You can place pins on the map with descriptions and links.
Teacher can create a generic Google Account for students to use within the classroom.
In groups the students can plan to go on a tour and at each place they are going to stop at they have to include something they will do there. (3rd grade can do with State Projects, each student can mark their state and a specific place to visit there.
Google Spreadsheets and Forms
Can collaborate to collect data (great for staff meetings in lab, and of course with students)
Fill out a form under Google Docs and you will instantly collect anonymous data.
If asking for people to put in words that describe how they feel about something you can copy and paste into a Wordle. People need to not use caps b/c it will read as a separate word. www.tagxedo.com (Does same as Wordle, with option to put the words into a shape.
Click underneath a category, select formula and you can determine average, totals...
If highlight names, places to live, information go to www.batchgeo.com
* Input the data
* It marks on Google maps where everything is and when you click on a pin their information comes up.
* Have the option to then embed map or a link to it, in your BLOG
For a Quiz competition
Go to form
Question one says: Name
Question 2 says: Answer
(use tiny url to make link easier)
To use this same url again, can't delete data with just delete key, need to delete those rows!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Twitter in the Schools
@roseannesessa
@afs8science
Roseanne Sessa 8th Grade Science Teacher and Dean
Private Quaker school
John Rison
Drector of Technology Abington Friends School
@johnrison
Build a Personal Learning Network first for teachers to improve skills
The Pope is on Twitter! ...on an iPad!
Roseanne started by following what the Tech Director followed
Created a class account
Followed the oil spill
Students followed their interests
Teaches students about their digital footprint
Students examine who follows us and who we follow
Check out hashtags
Be careful about certain hashtags
Look up the hash tags of people tweeting you
Students go to www.worldpress.org,NPR, or the New York Times, and tweeting about it
@afs8science
Roseanne Sessa 8th Grade Science Teacher and Dean
Private Quaker school
John Rison
Drector of Technology Abington Friends School
@johnrison
Build a Personal Learning Network first for teachers to improve skills
The Pope is on Twitter! ...on an iPad!
Roseanne started by following what the Tech Director followed
Created a class account
Followed the oil spill
Students followed their interests
Teaches students about their digital footprint
Students examine who follows us and who we follow
Check out hashtags
Be careful about certain hashtags
Look up the hash tags of people tweeting you
Students go to www.worldpress.org,NPR, or the New York Times, and tweeting about it
Getting Geeky with Google Apps
NETS*S: 1-6; NETS*T: 1-5
http://goo.gl/Y4Q0s
Chris Fitzgerald Walsh
Twitter: @fitzwalsh
Email: cwalsh [at] newtechnetwork.org
http://goo.gl/Y4Q0s
Chris Fitzgerald Walsh
Twitter: @fitzwalsh
Email: cwalsh [at] newtechnetwork.org
Using your SMARTBoard All Day Long
Get your students up to the board!
Move an object on the board when done with morning work. (Kite in the sky, move a person outside the room....)
Look on SMART Exchange for attendance slides to start off the day, get the kids engaged early.
Could have a mystery pic on board, when finish work come up and touch an area that disappears to reveal a picture. Then go back and write a sentence or two in their journal about what they think it is and why.
Use dice with words/pictures to determine setting, character, and prop in a story.
Have multiple activities planned and have students roll dice to determine activity.
Sequencing map where students can drag words/pics into correct order.
Students can create their own quizzes or sorts using the SB. Template can be saved on class website for students to open at home.
Move an object on the board when done with morning work. (Kite in the sky, move a person outside the room....)
Look on SMART Exchange for attendance slides to start off the day, get the kids engaged early.
Could have a mystery pic on board, when finish work come up and touch an area that disappears to reveal a picture. Then go back and write a sentence or two in their journal about what they think it is and why.
Use dice with words/pictures to determine setting, character, and prop in a story.
Have multiple activities planned and have students roll dice to determine activity.
Sequencing map where students can drag words/pics into correct order.
Students can create their own quizzes or sorts using the SB. Template can be saved on class website for students to open at home.
The "Yeah, Buts": Answering the Top 10 Arguments Against Change
NETS*T: 3, 5
Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli
Book "Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Education to Transform Education"
Today's Meet
Todaysmeet.com/wriste11a
Presentation is at: bit.ly/istewrrm
#yeahbut
They study how people change
Beyond the book- how to build a strategy, framework
ISTE top "10 yeah buts"
Hearing yeah but means you are successful, you explained it well, this is it I can help them change
http://fluidsurveys.com/
Books:
Switch
Change or Die
Only 10% patients changed life when told they would die if they didn't do all these "rational" things
It's the result of a purely rational response.
Totally missing the emotional piece...
Did all the same stuff as the first,
Engaged people in a conversation about change. Set long term goals and short term goals. Gave support to overcome roadblocks 72%!!!!
*to change we need a rational response, but also an emotional response
Feeling of fear, anger, embarrassment, overwhelmed
Time rational response- takes time upfront, less and less next time, reallocate time, half-days, use social networks to continue learning
Time emotional response- talk about doing it over a long period , if I could wave a magic wand what could I get rid of to help you do this, what do you need to succeed? Give them permission to fail, tell them there will be support
Give them an avenue to publicly say yeah but and address the positives and negatives
Brainstorm what we can leave behind, old baggage, ADDING without taking away
We need to assess opportunity cost of new technology
Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli
Book "Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Education to Transform Education"
Today's Meet
Todaysmeet.com/wriste11a
Presentation is at: bit.ly/istewrrm
#yeahbut
They study how people change
Beyond the book- how to build a strategy, framework
ISTE top "10 yeah buts"
Hearing yeah but means you are successful, you explained it well, this is it I can help them change
http://fluidsurveys.com/
Books:
Switch
Change or Die
Only 10% patients changed life when told they would die if they didn't do all these "rational" things
It's the result of a purely rational response.
Totally missing the emotional piece...
Did all the same stuff as the first,
Engaged people in a conversation about change. Set long term goals and short term goals. Gave support to overcome roadblocks 72%!!!!
*to change we need a rational response, but also an emotional response
Feeling of fear, anger, embarrassment, overwhelmed
Time rational response- takes time upfront, less and less next time, reallocate time, half-days, use social networks to continue learning
Time emotional response- talk about doing it over a long period , if I could wave a magic wand what could I get rid of to help you do this, what do you need to succeed? Give them permission to fail, tell them there will be support
Give them an avenue to publicly say yeah but and address the positives and negatives
Brainstorm what we can leave behind, old baggage, ADDING without taking away
We need to assess opportunity cost of new technology
Giving Student Control of Interactive Whiteboard Learning
The presentation for this session can be found at:
http://www.teachersfirst.com/iste/iwb/
It doesn't matter if you love them or hate them, if you have it, USE IT!
For some kids, touching it HELPS! Make the whiteboard their space!
Good Reasons To Use a Board
Kinesthetic Learning
Color Code, highlight,
rearrange, order, sort
Send Home or post on web
Main idea, summarize, cloze
large view of interactives
Tips of what you need to know on SB many of these are done as whole class or in centers
* Drag and drop activity for a class discussion, where the class makes the decisions on where things go. Can do thumbs up or thumbs down from class to make non-consensus decisions.
* This sort is on the website
* Teach people to get a screen shot. KIDS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS
* Dragging items. Have your students become comfortable doing this so they feel comfortable coming up in front of the class.
* Kids highlight important ideas
Sentences, words, or groups of words to work on sequencing, or creating sentences.
*Working with words for Main Idea and Summary for any content area. Students can highlight/underline. If you double tap on a specific word once in text format you can pull a specific word out of the passage. This will allow students to identify specific words for main idea that they can then use to write a main idea sentence.
* Ranking words. Use words from thesaurus for the word ___________. Rank them in order from good to bad. Categorize into three groups; Great, Good, Not Great, Don't Know (if they are unfamiliar with the word)
* Kids can do these and link to a class BLOG and then other groups can comment/compare with what they have done.
* If you use color coding, BE CONSISTENT. If you can be consistent with other grades, even better!
* Working with words as images. Kids brainstorm words for an idea. In group turn into word cloud. More important words stand out, less important words smaller. Use color to also group similar words. Take a screen shot to share on class BLOG.
* Web Tools- Visuwords
* Create word concept maps, or complete organizers
* Put an image up and have students drag labels over. Also could drag over animal adaptations, how/why and an organism uses a particular part of them.
* Kids can draw on maps the paths that someone or a group followed. REMEMBER the lines can move and be re-sized! EX: Battle of Gettysburg troop movements.
* Use images to sequence or tell a story.
* Students can take images or photos that they take and create an activity (labeling, sorting) to go with it.
*** Peer editing-NOT JUST COMMAS AND PERIODS. True editing. Works best in small groups. Protect the person who wrote it, we have no idea who wrote this. (maybe swap with a partner class) Kids touch and move things around the board.
* Collaborate to create, improve, or decide- Google Docs...
* Create a study guide together or a concept map.
* Brainstorm- easy to move things around
* Have something soft for students to pass around for whose turn it is to go up and share
Management Tips and Strategies
Center/Student Sidebar
All 4 one (all work for shared grade)
anonymous drafts
small groups
tool master or master of ceremonies (kid up front running the show while teacher walks around and leads discussion)
whole group
Bump Vance/Vanna (Student up front doing.... and students can "bump" them)
Student made activities (ALL STUDENTS need the software, you don't need to be at a whiteboard for most of these)
http://www.teachersfirst.com/iste/iwb/
Hands Off Vanna! Giving Students Control of IWB Learning
View more presentations from Teacher's First
It doesn't matter if you love them or hate them, if you have it, USE IT!
For some kids, touching it HELPS! Make the whiteboard their space!
Good Reasons To Use a Board
Kinesthetic Learning
Color Code, highlight,
rearrange, order, sort
Send Home or post on web
Main idea, summarize, cloze
large view of interactives
Tips of what you need to know on SB many of these are done as whole class or in centers
* Drag and drop activity for a class discussion, where the class makes the decisions on where things go. Can do thumbs up or thumbs down from class to make non-consensus decisions.
* This sort is on the website
* Teach people to get a screen shot. KIDS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS
* Dragging items. Have your students become comfortable doing this so they feel comfortable coming up in front of the class.
* Kids highlight important ideas
Sentences, words, or groups of words to work on sequencing, or creating sentences.
*Working with words for Main Idea and Summary for any content area. Students can highlight/underline. If you double tap on a specific word once in text format you can pull a specific word out of the passage. This will allow students to identify specific words for main idea that they can then use to write a main idea sentence.
* Ranking words. Use words from thesaurus for the word ___________. Rank them in order from good to bad. Categorize into three groups; Great, Good, Not Great, Don't Know (if they are unfamiliar with the word)
* Kids can do these and link to a class BLOG and then other groups can comment/compare with what they have done.
* If you use color coding, BE CONSISTENT. If you can be consistent with other grades, even better!
* Working with words as images. Kids brainstorm words for an idea. In group turn into word cloud. More important words stand out, less important words smaller. Use color to also group similar words. Take a screen shot to share on class BLOG.
* Web Tools- Visuwords
* Create word concept maps, or complete organizers
* Put an image up and have students drag labels over. Also could drag over animal adaptations, how/why and an organism uses a particular part of them.
* Kids can draw on maps the paths that someone or a group followed. REMEMBER the lines can move and be re-sized! EX: Battle of Gettysburg troop movements.
* Use images to sequence or tell a story.
* Students can take images or photos that they take and create an activity (labeling, sorting) to go with it.
*** Peer editing-NOT JUST COMMAS AND PERIODS. True editing. Works best in small groups. Protect the person who wrote it, we have no idea who wrote this. (maybe swap with a partner class) Kids touch and move things around the board.
* Collaborate to create, improve, or decide- Google Docs...
* Create a study guide together or a concept map.
* Brainstorm- easy to move things around
* Have something soft for students to pass around for whose turn it is to go up and share
Management Tips and Strategies
Center/Student Sidebar
All 4 one (all work for shared grade)
anonymous drafts
small groups
tool master or master of ceremonies (kid up front running the show while teacher walks around and leads discussion)
whole group
Bump Vance/Vanna (Student up front doing.... and students can "bump" them)
Student made activities (ALL STUDENTS need the software, you don't need to be at a whiteboard for most of these)
Blended Learning
This ended up being a sponsored event from Educurious.
Real world problems with teachers as coaches.
www.educurious.org
Algebra
English
Biology
Based on Gates Foundation Core Principles
CMS+Social Media=the platform.
A social network built of experts in different fields.
Students have a Home page (Similar to Moodle)
Meet on line and in person.
Six week sessions all based on big questions and challenges.
Project is less than a year old and based on Common Core Standards. It is pretty exciting, but it is too early to draw conclusions about it. They have been focusing on creating exciting and relevant courses for the students on the margins.
Real world problems with teachers as coaches.
www.educurious.org
Algebra
English
Biology
Based on Gates Foundation Core Principles
CMS+Social Media=the platform.
A social network built of experts in different fields.
Students have a Home page (Similar to Moodle)
Meet on line and in person.
Six week sessions all based on big questions and challenges.
Project is less than a year old and based on Common Core Standards. It is pretty exciting, but it is too early to draw conclusions about it. They have been focusing on creating exciting and relevant courses for the students on the margins.
Swimming in the Flow: Navigating the New Information Landscape
Will Richardson's talk to SIGMS
Slide show here
bit.ly/istewr2
Backchannel here
http://www.todaysmeet.com/sigms11
Will Richardson's talk to SIGMS
"curate" we need to teach this
"The word “curate,” lofty and once rarely spoken outside exhibition corridors or British parishes, has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded, who seem to paste it onto any activity that involves culling and selecting." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/fashion/04curate.html
buckets
Not using tools well in a learning context
Need LMS to teach students how to "connect" through the technology
Important book by Clay Shirky "cognitive Surplus" not information overload, but filter failure
"The Filter Bubble"
"The Power of Pull"
http://refynr.com to parse down twitter feeds
http://www.tumblr.com hits sweet spot between blogs and twitter, update really quickly, 140 not always enough, here he can do both, has built in community
http://iftt.com "if this, than that" rules it you post to twitter, goes to tumblr, beta, invite only, ties to evernote, find someone on twitter who can invite you, send from evernote to elsewhere
Instapaper- synchs to iPad
Flippad great for iPads
Who do you trust online? http://klout.com eventually we might look to this
Slide show here
bit.ly/istewr2
Backchannel here
http://www.todaysmeet.com/sigms11
Will Richardson's talk to SIGMS
"curate" we need to teach this
"The word “curate,” lofty and once rarely spoken outside exhibition corridors or British parishes, has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded, who seem to paste it onto any activity that involves culling and selecting." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/fashion/04curate.html
buckets
Not using tools well in a learning context
Need LMS to teach students how to "connect" through the technology
Important book by Clay Shirky "cognitive Surplus" not information overload, but filter failure
"The Filter Bubble"
"The Power of Pull"
http://refynr.com to parse down twitter feeds
http://www.tumblr.com hits sweet spot between blogs and twitter, update really quickly, 140 not always enough, here he can do both, has built in community
http://iftt.com "if this, than that" rules it you post to twitter, goes to tumblr, beta, invite only, ties to evernote, find someone on twitter who can invite you, send from evernote to elsewhere
Instapaper- synchs to iPad
Flippad great for iPads
Who do you trust online? http://klout.com eventually we might look to this
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