http://mabryonline.org
Dr. Tyson is principal of Mabry Middle School which is located not far from the convention site.
He believes the important points in successful education is meaningfulness, significance, connectedness, and contribution.
He has given his students authentic feedback by sharing their work (when it is of an excellent level) with the whole world by posting it on the school web site and iTunes. He asks his students, "What do you have to say that everyone on the earth needs to hear?"
The students have created very high quality 2 minute videos on serious subjects (slavery and the chocolate trade, transplants, stem cell research). They have received response from people all over the world.
The videos are quite emotional, especially made so because of the choice of music. I think we need to keep remembering, "The medium is the message." (Marshall McLuhen). What type of message would have been conveyed with a paper or poster or play?
I think his message that students will do great things on work they consider meaningful is important to consider.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Exhibit Hall - Wednesday
www.facts4me.com
"More than 400 pages of engaging content written for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade readers.
Fifty dollars a year for a school site license.
RedHalo
http://www.redhalo.com/
This is an "online service for the distribution and management of digital learning content for environments where the learner is mobile." It's client installed on the device and runs in the background. Anything saved in the RedHalo folder in My Documents in automatically synchronized in the background. It's a free service and offers 1 GB of storage. Students could save their work there and access it anywhere.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
www.history.org/teach
They offer a series of specials on Williamsburg that are braodcast through CSD in St. Louis. There will be seven this year starting in October. There is a $500 charge and it includes much supporting material.
Netsmartz
http://www.netsmartz.org/
They have a new sheet out on blogging safety.
NetSupport School
http://www.netsupport-inc.com/
They offer a classroom management software similar to DyKnow. Cindy and I will investigate it this summer. Their cost is approximately $1100 (one-time fee) for the 20 tablets in middle school science. Yearly maintenance would be about $250.
Zarbeco
http://www.zarbeco.com/
They have a small electronic microscope which is a digital movie camera with 40 - 140 magnification. It includes a light and is connected to a computer through USB. It costs $250.
Lumens Integration, Inc.
http://www.mylumens.com/
They have a portable document with SXGA resolution. It costs $700 - $800. One nice feature is the ability to take a screen shot and show a divided screen with half showing a live picture and half the screen shot.
TakingITGlobal
http://www.tiged.org/
They offer a free service of connecting classes around the world. They offer blogs, podcasts, maps, live chat, discussion boards and student writing. For $30 a year, a teacher gets access to these tools. Vangie could be interested in this.
Toshiba
http://www.sell.toshiba.com/
Toshiba offers a 2700 lumen projector with wireless for under $1400. Could be interesting.
"More than 400 pages of engaging content written for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade readers.
Fifty dollars a year for a school site license.
RedHalo
http://www.redhalo.com/
This is an "online service for the distribution and management of digital learning content for environments where the learner is mobile." It's client installed on the device and runs in the background. Anything saved in the RedHalo folder in My Documents in automatically synchronized in the background. It's a free service and offers 1 GB of storage. Students could save their work there and access it anywhere.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
www.history.org/teach
They offer a series of specials on Williamsburg that are braodcast through CSD in St. Louis. There will be seven this year starting in October. There is a $500 charge and it includes much supporting material.
Netsmartz
http://www.netsmartz.org/
They have a new sheet out on blogging safety.
NetSupport School
http://www.netsupport-inc.com/
They offer a classroom management software similar to DyKnow. Cindy and I will investigate it this summer. Their cost is approximately $1100 (one-time fee) for the 20 tablets in middle school science. Yearly maintenance would be about $250.
Zarbeco
http://www.zarbeco.com/
They have a small electronic microscope which is a digital movie camera with 40 - 140 magnification. It includes a light and is connected to a computer through USB. It costs $250.
Lumens Integration, Inc.
http://www.mylumens.com/
They have a portable document with SXGA resolution. It costs $700 - $800. One nice feature is the ability to take a screen shot and show a divided screen with half showing a live picture and half the screen shot.
TakingITGlobal
http://www.tiged.org/
They offer a free service of connecting classes around the world. They offer blogs, podcasts, maps, live chat, discussion boards and student writing. For $30 a year, a teacher gets access to these tools. Vangie could be interested in this.
Toshiba
http://www.sell.toshiba.com/
Toshiba offers a 2700 lumen projector with wireless for under $1400. Could be interesting.
Brett Hinton - Use Your Moodle - Learn Moodle!
What is Moodle? - free, open Play with Moodle at http://moodle.remote-learner.net/. There are companies that will host Moodle or guide us through downloading it ourselves.
Moolde activities: assignment (for giving out and collecting assignments), chat, choice (polling), forum, glossary (teacher and student can add words; any words added then show up as highlighted words in any posted assignment, lesson (a series of pages typed in that can include questions; if the answer is incorrect, the student is sent back to the question or to another question), quiz (allows for fully online quizzes; students get immediate feedback), resource, scorm, surveys, wikis, workshops, books, and blogs.
Powweb.com and siteground.com for paid hosting. Three hundred GB for $7 per month.
michelle@remotelearner.net Moodle trainer
Video and audio can be uploaded to Moodle.
Adam Frey & Victoria Davis - Using Wikis in the Classroom
http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=38 This site has detailed information on setting up a wiki.
Adam is a founder of wikispaces.
Wiki is "a web page with an edit button," shows history of entries.
Good for sharing everything learned together. Good for groups of 2 or 3.
Meebo interfaces with all IM. Meebome and Meeboroom.
You can paste widgets unto Wikispaces pages.
You can chat through wiki pages. Gives a back door for chat in the classroom. Students can share concerns, comments and questions.
From Vicki, why she uses wikis - free, runs on older computers.
Use in classroom - lesson summaries, collaborative notes, cooperative learning, introduction and exploratory projects
She tries to not tell the students too much. She will start something with a question and allow the students to search the Internet for answers. Then she has the students find the answer and share it. This is better than just telling them the answer.
She saves and shares the best wikis.
Wikis give students an audience.
Teachers can see the history of all editing. So students can be held accountable to make meaningful edits.
Can set up on wikispaces student accounts without email. You send them the names and they assign an account and password. A wiki can be set up public or private.
Don't spend a long time setting up the structure of the wiki. Let it evolve over time.
Wiki allow for connection of students around the world.
Look at the "Flat Classroom Project" and the "Horizon Project."
Vicki spent over 200 hours collaborating with a teacher in Australia through a wiki.
Cool things to embed in wikis: Meebo, slides http://slideshare.net, Eluminate sessions, Youtube, Odeo, www.toondo, Google maps, Bubbl.us, anything you can add to a web page, voiceThread.com,
She requires all of her students to have an RSS reader.
Every teacher should have an RSS feed.
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=38 This site has detailed information on setting up a wiki.
Adam is a founder of wikispaces.
Wiki is "a web page with an edit button," shows history of entries.
Good for sharing everything learned together. Good for groups of 2 or 3.
Meebo interfaces with all IM. Meebome and Meeboroom.
You can paste widgets unto Wikispaces pages.
You can chat through wiki pages. Gives a back door for chat in the classroom. Students can share concerns, comments and questions.
From Vicki, why she uses wikis - free, runs on older computers.
Use in classroom - lesson summaries, collaborative notes, cooperative learning, introduction and exploratory projects
She tries to not tell the students too much. She will start something with a question and allow the students to search the Internet for answers. Then she has the students find the answer and share it. This is better than just telling them the answer.
She saves and shares the best wikis.
Wikis give students an audience.
Teachers can see the history of all editing. So students can be held accountable to make meaningful edits.
Can set up on wikispaces student accounts without email. You send them the names and they assign an account and password. A wiki can be set up public or private.
Don't spend a long time setting up the structure of the wiki. Let it evolve over time.
Wiki allow for connection of students around the world.
Look at the "Flat Classroom Project" and the "Horizon Project."
Vicki spent over 200 hours collaborating with a teacher in Australia through a wiki.
Cool things to embed in wikis: Meebo, slides http://slideshare.net, Eluminate sessions, Youtube, Odeo, www.toondo, Google maps, Bubbl.us, anything you can add to a web page, voiceThread.com,
She requires all of her students to have an RSS reader.
Every teacher should have an RSS feed.
Gary Stager - Way Beyond WebQuests and Information
http://stager.org/necc
http://stager.org/news.html
He believes that standards are being lowered. Thirty years ago students he worked with in seventh grade did programming. Today in that class, students are learning where the return key is.
Computer is not just an information appliance.
http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse
Buy Will Richardson's book on Web 2.0.
Wikipedia is controversial because we have never taught students to use multiple sources.
Problems with blogging: very narcissistic, same short, choppy writing, little narrative, absence of real debate, intimacy and informality which cause problems when there is disagreement, ahistorical, anti-intellectualism, reverse ageism
Worst idea on earth is to use the laptop as a textbook. He doesn't like textbooks. We need to use original sources.
Bad ideas are timeless.
Education in NOT just about information.
For an activity, he put up an image of an election poster in Arabic from Australia for a Christian Iraqi party. We were to find out who the poster wanted people to vote for. The point of the activity was that two days after the election it took him 2 hours to find the answer. Months later it takes only minutes to solve. The information on the web keeps growing.
www.stager.org/whoshouldIvotefor
Activity he used with a class: Were the Chicago seven martyrs?
Gave his graduate students in Australia this question, "Is Ned Kelly a hero." He is a well known teacher, but he has killed people.
When there is a meaningful context, a lot of computer tools can be used and learned.
http://stager.org/news.html
He believes that standards are being lowered. Thirty years ago students he worked with in seventh grade did programming. Today in that class, students are learning where the return key is.
Computer is not just an information appliance.
http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse
Buy Will Richardson's book on Web 2.0.
Wikipedia is controversial because we have never taught students to use multiple sources.
Problems with blogging: very narcissistic, same short, choppy writing, little narrative, absence of real debate, intimacy and informality which cause problems when there is disagreement, ahistorical, anti-intellectualism, reverse ageism
Worst idea on earth is to use the laptop as a textbook. He doesn't like textbooks. We need to use original sources.
Bad ideas are timeless.
Education in NOT just about information.
For an activity, he put up an image of an election poster in Arabic from Australia for a Christian Iraqi party. We were to find out who the poster wanted people to vote for. The point of the activity was that two days after the election it took him 2 hours to find the answer. Months later it takes only minutes to solve. The information on the web keeps growing.
www.stager.org/whoshouldIvotefor
Activity he used with a class: Were the Chicago seven martyrs?
Gave his graduate students in Australia this question, "Is Ned Kelly a hero." He is a well known teacher, but he has killed people.
When there is a meaningful context, a lot of computer tools can be used and learned.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Birds of a Feather - Free, Open Source, and Web 2.0 Software for the Classroom
Steve Hargadon
http://newlearning.ning.com/
http://comingofage.ning.com/
http://classroom20.net/
http://adifference.blogspot.com/
http://splashcastmedia.com/
http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/ (history teacher resources)
A school in England developed its Technical Use Policy by creating a wiki and inviting students to participate.
In a high school math class, each day the teacher assigns a student as class scribe for the day and this is posted on a wiki.
If a teacher wants students to journal, use a blog. If you want students to discuss, use a forum.
When dealing with objections to certain blocking policies, show how unblocking would support the educational process.
Sharepoint from Micorsoft is free to those own Microsoft 2003 servers. You can host blogs and wikis on this that are within the garden wall. WAMP is an alternative. http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php
http://newlearning.ning.com/
http://comingofage.ning.com/
http://classroom20.net/
http://adifference.blogspot.com/
http://splashcastmedia.com/
http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/ (history teacher resources)
A school in England developed its Technical Use Policy by creating a wiki and inviting students to participate.
In a high school math class, each day the teacher assigns a student as class scribe for the day and this is posted on a wiki.
If a teacher wants students to journal, use a blog. If you want students to discuss, use a forum.
When dealing with objections to certain blocking policies, show how unblocking would support the educational process.
Sharepoint from Micorsoft is free to those own Microsoft 2003 servers. You can host blogs and wikis on this that are within the garden wall. WAMP is an alternative. http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php
Exhibit Hall - Tuesday
Chester Creek
http://www.chestercreek.com/
They offer a col0r-coded keyboard. The colors are divided so all the right index finger keys are the same color, etc. Maybe for our lower computer lab?
Aries Institue of Technology, Inc.
http://www.ariesinstitute.com/
They offer courses on teaching computer literacy. They include one aimed at middle school students. Maybe to be included with keyboarding?
DeMarque
http://school.typingpal.com/
They offer a web-based keyboarding program. Students could learn keyboarding at home.
EduPlatform
http://www.eduplatform.net/
This is classroom management software that Cindy and I will be checking out.
Mitsubishi Electric
I looked at their projectors. They offer a complete line that we could buy from GovConnection. They didn't offer anything unusual, but they are a step up from the InFocus IN26+EP that we bought last. The Mitsubishi projectors offer better connectivity.
WorkshopLive
(413) 358-9605 Michael Thomas mthomas@workshoplive.com
They offer an on-line music instruction program for guitar and piano. Maybe Becky would be interested.
http://www.chestercreek.com/
They offer a col0r-coded keyboard. The colors are divided so all the right index finger keys are the same color, etc. Maybe for our lower computer lab?
Aries Institue of Technology, Inc.
http://www.ariesinstitute.com/
They offer courses on teaching computer literacy. They include one aimed at middle school students. Maybe to be included with keyboarding?
DeMarque
http://school.typingpal.com/
They offer a web-based keyboarding program. Students could learn keyboarding at home.
EduPlatform
http://www.eduplatform.net/
This is classroom management software that Cindy and I will be checking out.
Mitsubishi Electric
I looked at their projectors. They offer a complete line that we could buy from GovConnection. They didn't offer anything unusual, but they are a step up from the InFocus IN26+EP that we bought last. The Mitsubishi projectors offer better connectivity.
WorkshopLive
(413) 358-9605 Michael Thomas mthomas@workshoplive.com
They offer an on-line music instruction program for guitar and piano. Maybe Becky would be interested.
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