During the time that I am at the conference, I will load notes that I take during the various session to this site. I encourage you to do the same; you can add any info you want to on your school pages. - Dale
This session is using 3 lenses for the context of this conversation
Teacher & Administrator
Parent
Blogger
Carl Fishe – Blogger (5 million times people have seen his video) about the statistics of what is happening in the world (link on page)
Book - “The World is flat”
Big shift is with the ability to read and WRITE on the web
Changes in:
Politics (many candidates have blog sites)
Supporters are able to support candidates by having their own blog site on the site
January 1 & 2 will be the first presidential primary on MY SPACE
Being called the YouTube campaign
Media and Journalism
If something happens, picture and blogs etc can be placed on the web before the media even knows about it.
USA today – all of the articles on the website are basically blogs
You can actually access and let the writer know that their info is not correct.
Music is changing
Music is being shared
You no longer need a promoter, just a YouTube account
Businesses
Advertising really had nothing to do with sales, but rather what the reviews are of.
ePinions or Angies list
The problem is that businesses etc are changing, but education is stuck
If you were a police officer monitoring the speed of change with the radar gun the car doing 100 MPH is business and the one doing 10 MPH is education
65% of students presently have social networking sites
Large gap between how students use the web and how adults use it
60 to 70 million bloggers
Standardized test are still in place and are a barrier to real growth in education
“HOW” – book
Kids communicate with My Space, Blogs, text messaging, and IM but we tell them to leave that at the door when they come to school
Edublogger – Will Richardson – ClusterMap
The amount of learning that has been experienced is far greater on the blog site than the hours spent in classes to get Masters degree and beyond
FanFiction.net
You can add chapters and sequels to books online
MYSpace
Social Networking sites are on the rise and have no sense of slowing.
Meg Cabot, MY SPACE site – Adolescent girls are communicating with the Author about the Princess diaries
Clarence (?) – Teacher teaching with Blogs (Nata Village)
The traditional ways of educating students needs to change to meet the needs and social networking that many students are using.
Text message – 46645 (googl)
MIT Open Courseware – Everyone of MITs courses are now online for you to take free of charge.
Content is everywhere
Content is always changing
Wikipedia
2 million entries
Can be changed by anyone
We need to teach our kids how to use it so they can learn more about how to analyze and compare info
Discussion tabs for each subject
his is where items are hammered out
This is the negotiation area
ERRATA – website where errors in textbooks are laid out.
Students need to know how to find the information and become Literate with that information vs. being a very large walking repositiory of information.
Hypertext writing and reading, who is teaching this?
Scan this book – Read the article off “my” site.
Challenges
What changes need to be made to our classrooms?
What needs to be changed in the way teachers teach?
“Secret Life of Bees” Blog from his blog
Polar Science 2006
Let kids learn from the experts
Flatclassroomproject
The notion of our classroom being 4 walls has to change.
The work that is given to classes has to change.
Radio Willow web – Awesome and amazing Ants
All the work in my classroom has to have wings, it is not for me (teacher).
We have to move beyond the digitizing of the regular educational world into how do we educate kids for the world that has yet to be discovered that is and will be their reality.
What is your personal “Yea, but”? We have to own it before we can give it away. No matter what you are passionate about and begin to connect with them in ways that will transform you thoughts.
Three questions to consider as we wrap up the session:
Who are your teachers? Are they all in physical space or are they also online?
How are you building your networks? We have to understand how to do what we need to work with the kids?
How are you modeling what you want the students to see? How do we learn and how do we show this to the students?
The next 5 to 10 years will make or break the education system as we see it. How will we change to make education relevant for our students
Tuesday - 1:00 to 4:00
Hands-On Podcasting; Dr. Dan McCormack
The road to the Digital School has come down the road to include:
Productivity Software
Desktop Labs
Online Digital Curriculum
Mobile carts
Project based Learning (iPod)
1 to 1 initiatives
Types of Pod Casts
Audio - Radio Willow Web
Enhanced - Adds images
Video - Adds Video
A Podcast is meant to be a broadcast, something you subscribe to, and a series of sessions.
Who is tuned in? In the sample of Radio Willow Web, the intended audience is kids, teachers, and other students
Potential of iPod & Podcasting in Education:
Create - Engaged Learning
Distribute - Communication
Access - Extended Day Learning
Creating Podcasts:
web research and image capture
Create additional graphics
edit / enhance image media
create podcast audio, jingles, chaptering etc
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
Really important to have students script; we don't "wing" the evening news!
3 Things I need to record a podcast:
Script
Images
Links
Ah HA's! -
In iPhoto, if you view by Film Roll and then drag the film roll to the album navigation bar, it will create a new album with the same name as that roll!
Garageband will do "auto ducking". This means that the background music will "duck" under any narration automatically!
The components of iLife were discussed and how they could be used in the classroom. The two parts that he spent the most time on were iPhoto and iMovie.
This was definitely not the strongest presentation that I have attended during the conference.
Thursday Morning - 8:30 to 11:30
Stop, Capture, Stop, Capture! Making Animation with Students
I started into this session this morning and found no room to sit (my fault for being late). As a result I stood and listened long enough to hear what that the session was focused on Tech4Learning's Frames program, a stop motion / animation program. So, after I heard most of the presentation I decided to sit in the lobby just outside of the room and download the free trial version of Frames. This program seems to have many applications in the classroom. I think it can be used as another avenue for Digital Storytelling.
How could this program, or any stop motion / claymation / animation software be used in the classroom setting? Come on down and share your thoughts!
Take a look at the program when you have a chance.
Thursday 1:00 to 3:00
Increasing Literacy using Garageband
Ideas and ways to use this in the classroom
Recording the student voice so they can hear themselves. This allows student t evaluate themselves before the teacher talks with them.
Good way to keep track of running records
Usable to burn to CD for portfolio
Used for parent teacher conferences
Burn a CD at the end of the year that can be passed off to the teacher for next year.
Record books and then produce them to be played by younger students
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