tate residents the tuition is more. The best part of this program is that the courses are applicable and relevant for educators who are interested in integrating technology into the curriculum. This program is done completely online but you are not an island. The instructors require collaborative learning via wikis and blogs. They also use GoogleDocs, Skype, and VoiceThread as a means to collaborate and share information. BlackBoard is the medium used for weekly class discussions. As a busy educator, this program was perfect for me. They have an accelerated program where I believe you can finish your masters in one year, but you are taking classes during the winter and summer sessions. I spread my classes out because I needed the break from school and "school"...so it took me two and a half years. But I feel that this program has prepared me with the tools and skills to be an effective teacher of technology. =) I've uploaded a link to a more detailed description of the program.
M.S. Ed Tech Program
If you're interested, please let me know. I can put you in touch with my graduate advisor who is AWESOME! …
me different uses of technology. I think its is even better, though, if they are given the opportunity to explore the technology themselves. In the past, I have assigned or asked students to choose a topic related to our class (Anatomy & Physiology) and had students use a Web 2.0 tool to create a short lesson to present to the class. I give my students many options, such as Educreations, Voicethread, Prezi, Glogster, PBWorks, Screencast-o-matic, etc., so that they can choose a tool that they are comfortable with. This assignment not only forces the students to research a topic, which will expand their knowledge of my course's content, but it also familiarizes them with the uses of technology.
A new Web 2.0 tool that I just used for the first time, and that I think my students will really enjoy, is PowToon. This can be used to create animated videos or presentations. This is very different than the traditional PowerPoint presentation that I typically use in class. I think that by introducing a topic or unit using a PowToon animation, I can grab and hold the attention of my students. I'm looking forward to introducing my students to this tool, and even having them create their own PowToon animations!…
below in the teaching of your subject (i.e., science, art, phys ed, math, social studies, etc.) and the effect of these technologies on ESL students in your classes. Here are some possible topics:
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Podcasts
- PhotoStory
- VoiceThreads
- Social Bookmarking
- Second Life
- YouTube/TeacherTube
- Facebook/MySpace
- Twitter
If chosen, I will ask you to write up a brief narrative about the
project/activity. Here are some questions that you might answer in your narrative:
- How was the technology used with your students (details, please!)
- What did the students produce/do with the technology?
- What instructional objectives and/or standards were met?
- How did you assess your students?
- How did the technology help your ELLs in particular?
Of great importance is your reflection and description of the project, your feelings/reactions, your students' feelings/reactions, etc. I am not looking for an academic paper - no citations! no research! I'm really interested in your story about using these technologies.
Benefit to you? Sharing your wonderful work with other teachers... and possibly being published!
Please contact me at lori@miscositas.com as soon as possible if you are interested in sharing!
THANKS!
-Lori
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Lori Langer de Ramirez, Ed.D.
web: www.MisCositas.com
email: lori@miscositas.com…
ed collaboration, as this is a significant theme essential to 21st century learning. We hope to think, ponder, and analyze the impact that our actions have on the world as well as the world's impact on our actions. These experiences with how we interact with each other, the environment, society, economies, etc. could illuminate the commonalities amongst us all. Ultimately, this Impact Lab will provide students with a space to brainstorm, design, and propose insights into the impacts that affect their lives. These insights will be shared with the global community through the use of 21st century technologies (i.e. Elluminate, Skype, VoiceThread, etc.). If you agree with this, please take a moment to read through our proposal and add your thoughts/comments to our thread. (it can easily be found by typing "weber" into the search field)Thank you for your time and support! …
Added by Connie Weber at 11:30am on January 27, 2010
t to move beyond saving site to "Favorites" on their local computer and most simply want their "webpage" to consist of links their students can access. (These are the same teachers that get totally excited when show them the "links" bar on Internet Explorer!). Delicious has been a big hit with upper elementary to high school staff with me but I'm not sure the primary grades have had as much success with it. Perhaps Buzka or iKeepBookmarks would be the way to go since it's somewhat folder based which little kids see better.
VoiceThread and YackPack have also been big hits with inservice teachers I have worked with, espcially the primary grade teachers since both focus on the audio input of users (children) rather than text.
Third, BlogMeister is an easy, very safe (moderated), and not-very-customizable (that's a good thing in my opinion) blogging tool for elementary students. Just look at what Kathy Cassidy and Jody Hayes have done with primary grade children -- the K & 1st grade students themselves write the blog entries!…
to implement such a program. Our IT department is working on technical logistics, and I can provide guidance in general for implementation of a 1:1 program, but not specifically tablets. And yes, though my background is in sciences, I can provide ideas for implementation across the curriculum.
Jean - I have a long term plan for providing my faculty with both technical skills and a grasp of the paradigm shift. My plan was to run a 1hr workshop once a month until June, then a two day workshop in June, and another three day workshop in August. I am looking for external PD for the larger workshops, as I only have theoretical knowledge, not actual practical experience.
And of course, my first workshop in January was coopted by the Powers that Be, so now I have to cram five workshops into four time slots. Sigh.
My workshop topics are:
1. Pedagogical philosphy in a 1:1 tablet environment - student constructivist learning vs teacher broadcast instruction
2. Tools for the 21st century - Web 2.0 in the classroom - using blogging, Wikis, Voicethread, Google Notebook, del.icio.us, etc to facilitate information sharing, and the philosophy behind students sharing with students.
3. Assessment and evaluation in an IT rich classroom - building and evaluating authentic assessments.
4. Applications - OneNote and othet Tablet specific apps.
5. Classroom management in a tablet/laptop class.…
Added by Ed Hitchcock at 1:28pm on February 10, 2008
t will help with some ideas, or provide some teachers to collaborate with. Students in Latin America could contribute some voicethreads for your students to listen to, and vice versa.
Also look for e-books that are in Spanish, for example Tumblebooks. www.tumblebooks.com
In Miami, the public library has a license, so with a library card, you can get these at no cost.
You could display these digital books on the SMARTboard and they also have an option to have the story read to you, so students could use on the Macs with headphones. I think these are such fun stories!
Also check out the International Children's Digital Library for books originally in Spanish. There is no option to hear the book, but again you can easily display them on your SMARTboard and use with the whole class for a "read aloud." http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ Currently they have 143 books in Spanish! You could also use the "picturebooks" from another language--say Russian--and ask the students to tell a story to go with the pictures.
If you wanted the class to create and share a digital story, you can post it on ePals and share with children of the world. See http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?divid=storytelling_home It could be a story about your school, or they could retell a folktale.…
es I took from a Ian Jukes preso). The internet is where students want to find information so they need skills for searching and yet it is fraught with mis-information. Students also need to understand multiple perspectives as before the students were expected to accept the text as being the authority, now they need to understand the viewpoint and source of the author's ideas as well.
Literacy incorporates visual understandings involving "reading" photographs, videos, virtual environments, graphs, charts, and also how to "write" and organize their own student work as they present their ideas with various media. Students can present their ideas in a manner that they believe is appropriate for their group. For a current alternative energy project students can use any of the tools that we have used so far be it Voicethread, Scratch, Google Sketchup, etc. Each tool has it's own organizational challenges so they need to have strategies to approach them.
For a current project I am doing with my students I told them that we are using a science book as a reference and that in their groups on diigo they are each creating their own text book using the internet to answer their essential questions.
Lastly, for myself, one area that is important for my students and which I am still working to accomplish is global collaborations. We need to "globalize the information" for our students as Alan November discusses whenever he shares collaborative student projects that help students understand how the information is shaped and determined.…
these types of interactive applications on a local computer basis using just word processing software. Now that we have "reliable" internet access on site, we are ready to move up to the web-based versions. I've also used Photostory for digital storytelling/reports. Now I'd like to try Voicethread too.
This is the first year I'll officially be serving 1/2 time as a site technology integration mentor. No one else is doing this in my district so I'm hoping to get a few ideas from the many of you who much more experience. Many colleagues would like to begin using web based tools with elementary students and want to know where to start. I started with non web-based applications out of necessity, but I don't think is necessary now for others.
I have two main questions and would greatly appreciate your feedback.
1) For those who are ready to start, where do you think they should begin? Wiki? Blog? Digital storytelling? Other???
2) Do you have favorite 2.0 applications that are fairly easy for a beginner with basic computer skills to use?
Thanks!!!…
mmunity. This got me thinking about how we as educators can harness technologies to help students connect with their immediate surroundings both in conducting research and in presenting information. As you join is group, feel free to share a little bit about yourself, any ways you have your students explore their community, and/or resources you have come across. I am a middle school English / Language Arts teacher, and I have gravitated toward some place-based learning projects so that students can experience firsthand the place they will research and write about. We wrapped up with a project on nearby Kezar Lake at the end of the last school year. We used Voicethread to record our interviews with local experts and Google Docs and Sites to showcase student writing about what they learned. I feel the students were enthusiastic about the project, and they particularly enjoyed conducting and commenting on the group interviews. One regret is that I didn't work in enough time for students to analyze and prioritize the facts we learned from the interviews and articles provided by our local historical society. I look forward to gaining new insights and learning about new resources as we explore this topic together!…