kboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) virtual teaching and learning platform. While presenters are responsible for being familiar enough with Collaborate to present, they often (almost always) appreciate help in their session to answer chat questions and if they get stuck or forget how to do something in Collaborate. This is where you can help!
You can sign up to help moderate sessions at http://learning20volunteer.youcanbook.me. You can help with one session or with many--either way, thank you!
Training sessions for those new to Collaborate or who want a refresher for this conference start tomorrow. The schedule and information are at http://www.classroom20.com/page/learning-2-0-training. The first of three live training sessions (you only need to attend one) is tomorrow. There will also be a recorded version after tomorrow's session (recommended only for those who are already familiar with Collaborate).
As a volunteer, we do have a "badge" you are welcome to display (and we'd love it if you'd link back to http://www.learning.20.com). The badge is at http://www.classroom20.com/group/2012-learning-2-0-volunteer-group/forum/topics/volunteer-badge.
There will be a special page with links to enter the session rooms during the conference, entering with which will give you moderator privileges. This will get updated the day before sessions start, and will be at http://www.classroom20.com/page/learning-2-0-presenter-and-volunteer-links-page. We'll cover this in the training.
Also for reference during the conference, the lounge (or "green room") for presenters and moderators will be at http://www.l20.me. Again, more information in the training, but keep this email handy.
Thanks for your help! Can't wait to be part of this with you! Be sure to promote the conference--it is free, and there are still presentation slots available.
See you online,
Steve
Steve HargadonChair, Learning 2.0http://www.stevehargadon.comsteve@hargadon.com…
network, and being "expansive" and not "controlling," if that makes sense--modeling collaboration by giving an opportunity for anyone to stretch themselves.
1. I'd like to set up a system for producing "talk-casts" or presentations that anyone can produce and schedule, and that anyone can attend. They could be run live, or just recorded. CR 2.0 would hopefully allow for a centralized scheduling and publicizing place for these events. I've been looking at TalkShoe and wondering if that would work well for us. Elluminate might also work, but would require getting some sponsorship from them. Sessions could be any any topic that someone feels they have an expertise on. The hardest part right now is figuring out how to let people schedule the events and let others know. Use the wiki, and then once a week post on the front page here?
2. This next one might knock some socks off... I'd like to do the same kind of thing, and publish a Classroom 2.0 book. Use the wiki at http://www.classroom20wiki.com and anyone who wants to can write a chapter on an aspect of Web 2.0 or technology in the classroom. Every chapter has to be edited by two other CR 2.0 members, and we have a small cadre of volunteers that will do final editing and oversee and coordinate putting the material into PDF book form and also offering on Lulu. Funds from any book sales could go to holding an annual conference, or could even be divided by the authors. Again, the focus here being on allowing anyone who wants to to be a contributor who feels they have something to share. The tricky part here is being respectful of the work that Terry Freedman has done and is doing with his "Coming of Age" project while still making this happen.
3. I'd like to start using the subdomain features of Classroom 2.0 to allow other Ning networks to benefit from the exposure of CR 2.0. For example, David D.'s great http://eflclassroom.ning.com/ could become (if he wanted!) http://efl.classroom20.com. Then motivated individuals could create associated Ning networks for all of the subject areas, in the process helping Classroom 2.0 become more than just a starting place for discussions of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies--it could become much larger professional development tool.
So, I'm very interested in help and feedback on these ideas. I'd like to start with 1 & 3 right away.…
ivery method within reach to offer to the kids. Text they already have in their textbook, so merely adding text to the Moodle would be redundant. The Moodle is designed to be a place to extend, offer in a different learning style format, and to build social connections. :0)
You reach a lot more kids with the content when you use some of those tools for your content delivery. For instance, in my biology and chemistry courses, we meet live in an Elluminate classroom, but the kids also have an asynchronous option in case they need to miss a class, have a family vacation, or just want to go at their own pace. Instead of text only, they can watch a VoiceThread that uses the exact same slides as we use in the live session with audio and onscreen annotations such as how to solve a given problem. Visual spatial kids benefit from the Cmaps (concept mapping tool) which help them get a pre-scafforld of the content so that they can better 'file and retrieve' what they learn (I am visual spatial and concept maps are so very helpful).
The portability of podcasts is something I hope to build in to my courses in the summer when I do my refinements to my courses. I also want to offer a 'creatives track' within my courses which will coordinate what they are studying with companion courses on creating learning products of their own.OneNote is another integration that I am planning on. In the past we have done e-notebooking (see the density e-notebook resource course), cmapping for life-long learning, creating 3-D learning objects using Blender. My favorite was a project we did while studying arthropods (crayfish focus) in which two of the boys worked as a team. One made a crayfish complete with tail flip animation and the other the observation tank with a bubbling treasure chest that opened and closed with the bubbles rising up. I want to run the companion courses so that the kids can select a creative focus and use it in correlation with the biology. It should be a blast.
Sorry, got carried away I guess. I am excited about the plans. :0) If the course you are designing already has text available to your students, why not experiment with a non-text option? VoiceThreads are personable and comment-able. Podcasts are portable. OneNote files gives the students the ability to have a head start in note taking but with integrated lecture audio easy editability that a traditional text document will not give them. Word comes the closest to being just text, but with Word they also have the ability to edit, interact, annotate, and highlight that they wouldn't have with a web page on the screen.…
d participate? I would definitely be insterested. :0)
Hmmm, no on to shat I would want to know. I have been working with teaching online and have a traditional art background. I am gaining digital knowledge pretty well for internet and book based assistance because I am actively seeking it. I think one thing that would be good is a good list of the best resources out there for creating the digital resources would be a great start. You could have a list of free but good all the way up to the all-the-bells-and-whistles commercial tools (Gimp to Photoshop/Illustrator). Then lead them to some the best tutorials that are as close to what an educator can put most directly to use for a reasonable cost (Lynda.com for Adobe products, Gimp.org's site for Gimp, etc). Giving the teachers the ability to fish instead of just a fish I guess is what I am getting at. Give them a way that they can learn outside of a particular class.
Many instructors don't know if they need digital design because they don't see how it can be put to good use in their own teaching. Having a time of showing them how they can be creative and make their own resources would be essential. For instance, I wanted to have a very versatile vitual lab set for chemistry that the students could interact with on-screen (I teach online). A face to face teacher with a Smartboard would find a use for this sort of project. But what I found was that images from the net provided glassware images that didn't behave like glassware. I needed something that made the glass show through to what was behind and in it. So, I learned how to create an image in png file format which had varying degrees of opacity and I continually am adding to my set. I had need of making the bunsen burner flame and solutions in test tubes in beakers look like they were moving, so I learned how to creatd animated gifs. I wanted to create interactive biomysteries and chemystries so I learned a great deal about image searches and Creative Commons licensing to help me build the stories quickly. I wanted to create a Jeopardy like review game but with easy scoring, so I got pretty good at taking an image and slicing it up into puzzle pieces that could show the team's score visually instead of slowing down to add up points (for instance a brain was divided up into lobes for my Build a Brain review template). I am using digital tools almost continually to produce the materials I want.
I hope this helps. :0)…
Added by Tammy Moore at 12:46pm on September 13, 2009
me projects in Africa. Perhaps there are some possibilities through TWB .
Since you have one computer connected to the internet there may be a possibility for retired teachers from around the globe to teach a class of students in a 'video conference-like" setting using such tools as Elluminate, WizIQ, or WebHuddle. It's not ideal, of course, and would require additional equipment such as a speakers and projector as well as additional internet time (another cost) but who knows, you may just find someone... there are over 9,000 people with the possibility of getting your message in the Classroom 2.0 site!! If you find a teacher who is interested and you're able to get the required equipment, I will gladly help by mentoring.
Another thought might be to use a 'distance education' approach to some of the courses for which you need teachers. In this scenario, the course curriculum would be available online for individual students to access on their own time. The students would need access to an internet connection (either at the school or through an internet cafe if there is one available); you would need the content written for online delivery (I'm willing to help you with that!); and you will need a teacher - for this scenario, there may be someone within Uganda who would like to increase their online teaching skills and donate time to your school or someone else from outside might be keen.
The last option I can think of for leveraging the power of technology to solve your teacher shortage is to find a teacher who is willing to record video of lessons of content from within each of the topics that you feel are key to deep understanding for your students. These videos could be made available to be played on DVD player hooked up to a TV (additional equipment?). But it would be important to not just provide the videos, I would highly recommend, that a 'teacher guide' be included with the videos which can used by a teaching assistant that will work with the students. The teacher guide would include many learning activities to get the students involved in the content.
I believe a committed 'good teacher' in any of the above scenarios working with someone from your school who is maybe not as qualified but cares about education and the students, will be able to put together some very effective courses for your students. In Canada, we have a long history of distance education for our outlying regions. What's nice now, is that the students can have more contact with mentors, tutors and teachers because of the internet.
I operate a Moodle site and will gladly give you access to my site if you're interested in setting up online courses.
Lastly, please tell us more about your school - Is it a private or government school? Can you supply the 'learning outcomes' or other curricular documents for the courses which you have listed above? What about the assessments for the courses - are there state-wide assessments? Why are so many of courses without teachers?
Good luck in your search for volunteers!…
earn EFL...
I give also the VoiceThreads for training... Next sessions next sat with a new one for italian language with Vincenzina...
Can you tell us if you are interested to be a teacher/learner in your own language, and what do you think about it ?
Learning chinese with Yumei:
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Learning french with Vincent (me)
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The VoiceThreads for training :
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and village a very nice festival: Spring of the Poets. This year the topic is "Poetry in all its burts (of laughter)". Our international educational network School Beyond the Walls is proud to present you our special online/offline event (see flyer below). We invite you to share poetry with us. You can use this discussion to post here your own poems or poems you like... We specially enjoy audio and video-poems... You can also use funny vokis with kids for short poems less than one minute... Here is also a link to see our live event last year...
You can also join this group to post poems about the topic "Poetry in laughing" to meet our amazing partners from all over the world. All the languages are accepted, try to give the original version and the translated english version... You can also sing poems like this one... i have composed the music and two of my students sing the song while i played guitar...
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Pay Attention: we'll have an online event on March 25th with our community partner Elluminate... Tell me in this discussion if you are interested to join us by this way... i will explain how to do...
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While presenting, we uploaded a Google Doc slide presentation. With a traditional PowerPoint, the webinar moderators guide the viewers through screen by screen. This navigation was not possible, so you will need to actively advance slides to follow along while viewing the webinar. When we watched video examples, the time which elapsed does not appear on this recording; you will want to pause our webinar (bottom left) and watch the videos until you have seen the amount you desire, pause the video, and unpause the webinar recording.
Technology never fails to challenge our flexibility - please forgive my abundance of "um's" - I was a little distressed that viewers may have not had the ideal viewing experience - when I watched the recording, I saw that the content hadn't been jeopardized as I was worried it had in the midst of the presentation thus creating my "um's"!
The webinar content begins 7 minutes into the recording (prior is a recording of the setup process). You may want to drag the bar to the 7 minute mark when you watch the archive.
We hope you enjoy watching the archive and are inspired to use screencasting in many ways to educate students!
Click here to view the recording (via Elluminate) from Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
Presenters: Karen Hornberger (Library Media Specialist, Palisades SD) and Rebecca Kelly (Library Media Specialist, Quakertown Community SD)
Title of session: Using Screencasting in Education: "If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be priceless!"
Description: At Quakertown High School, cyber teachers are using screencasting to teach students. Cyber students are using screencasting to teach other students. At Palisades High School, the library media specialist is creating screencast tutorials and posting them online for students, staff, and the public to use as a resource. The multimedia communications teacher is asking her students to develop screencasts to serve as tutorials or product comparisons.Screencasting is a tool that can be used by teachers or students to:
demonstrate any online or electronic process
provide feedback and/or assessment of an online document or presentation
This webinar will show examples of various types of screencasts and teach you how to create a screencast and make it accessible to your students via digital curation or other methods.
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