This is what I viewed:
Kicking it up a Notch
Parental Engagement in the 21st Century – Leveraging web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non-traditional ways
By Dean Shareski ⋅ October 31, 2008 (notes) -
Main Idea: social networking platforms for parents to be involved (ex: Parents As Partners group on facebook)
Children are Growing up online
Digital Citizenship – Acceptable Use Policy
Informed Parents will be better prepared to help their children succeed
Using on-line platforms (facebook, twitter, RSs, myspace)
Parents are challenged to find the time to be involved
Parens & Teachers need resources training
Great waying of keeping in touch with new & thought provoking ideas in education…(in your pjs)
I have to admit — this was a fun exercise. probably had too much fun:
check out the video of ‘The Big Mouth Frog’ on my Wiki
thanks!
Saw lots of neat things I was unaware with Flickr – so easy to use!
Theme was: Calculus OR Chemistry OR Physics (cool right?)
photo was from username: kharied
URL
It’s funny, one of the graphics I used in my week 9 wiki assignment was ‘lifted’ from a friend of mine’s t-shirt company’s web site. I emailed him to make sure I could use it. Weird.
I’ve never seen or used cc myself, so it is difficult to say what it’s impact has been or will be on digital sharing. I would imagine it’s an easy way to let other people know that they can use material pretty freely. I know even regular c copyrigted material can be pretty difficult to protect, so i would imagine cc designation rights have to be pretty much next to nil. Maybe I’m wrong…
From an Educational standpoint, my view is that information is free. Whatever I put out there personally I am ok with reproduction or tweaking from other teachers, schools, students…the more spread of useful tools for the purpose of learning, the better. Granted this view does not lend itself well to more ‘creative’ fields such as graphic design or music production.
I’m behind but catching up quickly. Enjoyed creating my first Wiki page:
Well this was fun!
Wow. Having seen a few examples of the power of wikis, this is really starting to make sense. It was so easy to see the value that this tool brings from planning a camping trip, to organizing and editing collaborative creative writing pieces, to daily classroom application (lesson plans, assignments, grades, etc..). I can think of so many ways additional ways to utilize a wiki both personally and in teaching. I have a very good friend in Europe that I would like to commuicate and develop a site to stay in touch with each others lives, thoughts, activities, people… sort of a virtual coffee shop/journal/story board. A lot cooler than just talking & writing emails, no?
A few things that came to mind when viewing the following wikispaces:
1-Math 12V Outcomes Portfolio
Used by a teacher in Canada to collaboratively create a curriculum with expectations of material mastery through topic identification & description with examples generated by users (students) for 4 units of a 12th grade math class (Quadratic Functions, Exponential Growth, Circle Geometry, & Probability)
2-Small Stones
Woodward AP Calculus students write their own textbook by “scribe posting” a review of each day’s lesson. I actually know one of the students in this class! small world indeed… Wiki includes very comprehensive review of AP Calculus lessons over the course of 23 weeks.
3-Welker’s Wikinomics
Extermely thorough & interactive wiki site of an AP Economics classroom. Not only does it provide a centralized place for all class material, grading, syllabus, and other pertininen information but also a very in depth discussion forum where students elaborate on application of the lessons and relevancy to current day events. Example discussion (where does the music industry make it’s money?)
4-Grazing for Digital Natives
Resources for educators about using new technologies in the classroom Wiki managed by Philadelphia 9th grade history teacher Jennifer Dorman. Give some background information about Jennifer, but not easily able to see how the wiki is organized or to be used. There are some messages in the discussion forum from other teachers that have found her site helpful in educating about Web2.0
5-1001 Flat World Tales
An ongoing global writing workshop emphasizing peer editing and revision
6-Westwood Schools Computer Science
Classroom wiki for Vicki Davis’ (coolcatteacher) high school computer science courses
It is amazing to me with this technology available for several years now that there are not standardized applications of it across all high schools (or middle & elementary). I can imagine a day when every teacher, every class, every grade has the expectation to have wikis to enrich everyone’s learning process. People sometimes say that technology drives people apart, lessenign direct in person commuincation. The class-room will never be replaced, but tools like this I can see how they make the process of learning much more interactive, fun, and meaningful.
Google Reader is incredible. This is exactly what I was looking for in terms of developing a custom toolbox with information relevant to my interests & skill development needs. Check this video out from Abject Learning: Interesting display of contagious phenomena…
This week in Thing 5 we learned about RSS feeds and utilizing the ‘push’ functionality of RSS in order to aggregate websites/blogs/podcasts etc… in one place – the Google Reader. This is extremely helpful in creating a toolbox of user defined, dynamically updated information furnished to the user, instead of having to fish it out or ‘pull’ from numerous websites and/or bookmarks one at a time…saves lots of time!
This week I found interesting the post:
Teachers enjoy various amounts of long stretches of time that can be utilized in numerous way. As lifelong learners part of the deal is continuing education, new skill enhancement, career development, volunteering, coaching, etc… Downtime during summer break provides a unique opportunity for educators to take inventory of our situations (careers/skill sets/relationships…) and create a path that leads to where we want to be. Most people don’t have, or don’t make time to utilize, this luxury.
The 5 Blogs I read were:
(1) http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=133 Why I don’t assign Homework
(2) It Doesn’t Matter if You’re 6 or 26 or 106
(3) SP-817 Math Blog: Boeun’s Scribe for December 4th
(4) Creating Lifelong Learners (Mathew Needleman): Energize Your Classroom: How Jim Cramer Made Me a Better Teacher
The Take Away = Teachers are entertainers whether we want to be or not. Use your post to be interesting. It’s true that it’s not your job to entertain but when students are entertained they pay attention, they comprehend, and your classroom management is stronger.
(5) Wandering Ink: How To Prevent Another Leonardo Da Vinci
Things I’ve noticed so far:
- Writing styles vary greatly, but most are very conversational and inviting.
- Reading is different in that text often varies in font, size, color, etc within a single post, making it easy to take emphasis away. Similar, in that it is, well, reading…
- Writing has more of a free form flow, but should still maintain an order and thought process and organization that is easy to follow.
- Gives numerous points of view (agreement/disagreement/extrapolation) that may have not been considered. Gives depth and life to the original post.
- Blogging can help facilitate learning by integrating classroom learning with reflection and communication of key concepts, their application, as well as extension.
Notes:
THING 2 – What is Web 2.0 (Read/Write web)?
Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking and social bookmarking sites, tagging, photo- and video-sharing, RSS, etc…) are collaborative, browser-based and user-driven. They include platforms and tools for publishing, connecting, sharing, organizing and remixing
(1) The Web is Changing – on the fly demonstation of linking/editing/html/ publishing/broadcasting/exporting information utilizing the web.
(2) Did You Know? we are living in exponential times…through the internet
1 in 8 people married in 2005 met on the internet
if myspace was a country it would be the 3rd! largest in the world
***SHIFT HAPPENS***
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein
shifthappens.wikispaces.com
(3) Students Are Changing – KSU video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
shows student classroom/learning college academic life experience
(1) “Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education.” – STEVE HARGADON
10 Trends:
Trend #1: A New Publishing Revolution – Blogs, wikis, podcasting, video/photo-sharing, social networking, and any of the hundreds (thousands?) of software services preceded by the words “social” or “collaborative” are changing how and why content is created
Trend #2: A Tidal Wave of Information – I remember how much work I had to go to in my childhood to just find information. Now, we must figure out what information to give our time and attention to when we are engulfed by it.\ Trend #3: Everything Is Becoming Participative – Amazon, tracking buying trends/reviews
Trend #4: The New Pro-sumers – More and more companies are engaging their customers in the creation of the product they sell them. (And don’t get me started on American Idol, which is a fairly brilliant way to create a superstar.) The nature not just of how knowledge is acquired, but how it is produced, is changing.
Trend #5: The Age of the Collaborator – The expert is giving way to the collaborator
Trend #6: An Explosion of Innovation – The combination of 1) an increased ability to work on specialized topics by gathering teams from around the globe, and 2) the diversity of those collaborators, should bring with it an incredible amount of innovation.
Trend #7: The World Gets Even Flatter and Faster
Trend #8: Social Learning Moves Toward Center Stage – the model of students as contributors
Trend #9: The Long Tail – “differentiated instruction” as speciallized production. long tail = customized output
Trend #10: Social Networking Really (Opens Up the Party)
* From consuming to producing
* From authority to transparency
* From the expert to the facilitator
* From the lecture to the hallway
* From “access to information” to “access to people”
* From “learning about” to “learning to be”
* From passive to passionate learning
* From presentation to participation
* From publication to conversation
* From formal schooling to lifelong learning
* From supply-push to demand-pull
here are some things I think educators can do if there is truth to what I have suggested:
* Learn About Web 2.0. http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com.
* Lurk
* Participate
* Digest This Thought: The Answer to Information Overload Is to Produce More Information.
* Teach Content Production
* Make Education a Public Discussion – I had a friend who use to tell me that when he said he was a teacher, all dinner conversation would stop. Maybe the general public hasn’t spent much time discussing or debating education and learning lately, but it’s about time for that to change.
* Help Build the New Playbook – now we have to teach them to create appropriate content
(2) A Day in the Life of Web 2.0 – DAVID WARLICK
RSS/Blogs/Wikis/podcasts in leading the way for classroom learning & administrative/strategic direction of improvement at every level.
Tools can be used to more fully engage today’s learners by streamlining information from source to recipients accessible and able to be updated/collaborated/propogated 24/7.
Tools can be personally utilized to support & promote my learning by developing a series of organized dashboards/toolboxes around various subject matters (education/technology/news/etc…)
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