nts to digital literacy. I heard about it from a friend, Cody Howitt, and he found it from a guy named Matthew Bettelheim. Matt writes for Inkling Magazine and his Tentacled article was brilliant.
The actual site to take students is here and if you use a boring monotone voice, boy will this one be fun. Try to set a webcam up discreetly.
These Tree Octopus pictures could be blown up to place around your room using another program I discovered recently called Block Posters
At archive.org, I ask the kids for a game site they frequent (I get webkinz, miniclip) and at the 'take me back' stage I type one of them and wait. They go crazy when they see I can bring up boxing games between John Kerry and George W Bush or Santa games in August. We visit the school site and a few others. I tell them their grandchildren will read about them, so be smart in what they write. Most don't get that, but they do get the fact some things last forever on the Internet - by those games still being accessible.
I'd like to follow you Britt. My wife teaches math and pyschology. I'd like to see how you use Voicethread. I'm most easily reachable at http://twitter.com/mikeromard
Kind regards, Mike…
Added by Mike Romard at 7:32am on November 3, 2008
ow feel that I have something to add to the discussions here.
I am so excited and passionate about this paradigm shift in education. My goal is to educate as many school administrators, teachers, and students as to the incredible potential that comes with this new frontier.
I am currently the Program Director for a gifted magnet school in Colorado Springs. We have 100 6th, 7th , and 8th graders in a self-contained program with 5 GT teachers. It has been an amazing experience to bring Web 2.0 to my students and teachers.
I first started a wikispace for students who have and Advanced Learning Plan. They explored their passions and strengths using their ALP pages. They produced some amazing content using VoiceThread and Animoto. I hope to showcase their work at the end of the year.
Then I started teaching a debate class during the 4th quarter. I set up a pbwiki space that included the syllabus, daily lesson plans, discussion pages, student blogs, and debate resources(videos, articles, graphic organizers, and research links). The kids are eating it up. They submit their weekly homework on line(it gets time stamped so I know how much to mark off for lateness). One of the most exciting aspects of this class is that I have invited experts to join the wiki and provide direct feedback to students as they are constructing their arguments for debate. We have 2 lawyers, 1 judge, and a philosophy professor who periodically comment on student work. It has been amazing and I love teaching this class.
Anyway, our district is very excited about these developments and they would like me to present their work to schools.
I am very happy to be a part of this community of educational revolutionaries. I even started a blog: http://21clearners.wordpress.com/…
time. The most important thing that we emphasize as we assist teachers with this transition is to make sure they are continually asking themselves, " how does this change help me reach/engage the kids." It has become evident in the last few years that it isn't about saying you use a tool, but how you are actually using the tool. Web 2.0 cannot be an add-on, but a main component of the curriculum.
With that said, when assessing students you can use various methods as long as the rubric is clear to the students. This Spring we had the 8th graders work on a capstone project in which they werer able to choose their final product - Visual Art, Movie, Formal Speech, etc. A rubric was created and posted on the project ning for each type of final product and how the process would be evaluated. Another fundamental component was the reflection piece. The great thing about this web 2.0 world is that the conversation is not longer between the student and the teacher but the entire class. Not sure if I answered your questions, but feel free to shoot me a message.
Here are a few examples:
Wikis- a few project based wikis we created for 6th graders to get them used to the structure and to start collaborating.
ex. Big Dig, Cultural Heritage Project, Movie Madness.
In addition, a handful of teachers are using the Ning Platform for projects and to house all of their different classes.
ex. BCDS Photo (includes information, assignments, tutorials, etc for every class she teaches), BCDS Senior Project Ning (seniors have a 4 week internship at the end of the year, this ning houses all their reflections and any other content they want to share).
We use other tools too such as flipcam, skype, voicethread, to help us connect to the students.
Best,
Kelley…
t would like to improve my knowledge. Mostly I uploaded images to animoto and let them do the work.
I will look and google for the software you suggested. I am from Germany so please excuse my poor English :).
My students learn touchtyping and using Microsoft office programs. I have in mind to let them show in a movie some healthy practices for to prevent bad sitting positions during computer work and getting health problems with their back in some years maybe :). Perhaps I will use voicethread...
Yesterday I got a link to http://jaycut.com/ It is an online video editing software for free use. I havent tried yet, but doesnt look that bad.
Here is a ressource to online videos you might get ideas from
http://www.neok12.com/. What a pitty that it is all in English, so I cannot use it for my class.
But I saw great stop motion videos last time and was wondering how to do it. I would love to be able to do something like this with my students, just for fun
http://www.medien-bilden.de/video/Stoptricks-und-Greenscreen-an-der-Goetheschule/ea6e033c222cff0792ac5f506f8c6e53
best regards
Evi
PS: just downloaded Monkey Jam...looks good and I even got a German tutorial...thanks bunches :)
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Added by Evelyn Frank at 8:23am on January 9, 2011
Is it just me, or does everyone else, when getting ready to attend a faculty or department meeting, prepare themselves for these stellar events by figuring out what they are going to read…
Added by Alan Sitomer at 11:03am on September 11, 2009
I need to have my head examined. I got so excited over the Web 2.0 tools we discussed in class and the few more that I stumbled on that I volunteered to conduct a one-hour workshop at my school in…
Added by Antoinette Go at 11:41pm on October 23, 2008
t deal of resources too. Recording lessons is a breeze and great if you teach "how to..." multiple times. This summer I finally created lessons in the notebook and tried out the new tools and galleries. Looking at lessons provided that others have created is good for ideas for making your own.
I will change some video projects with my Cannon and Digital Blue Movie Creator camera and software. Each of my K-5th Technology classes has different digital camera projects. (we've done projects with many books, signs/topics around the school, field trips, personal photo editing, import pics into KidPix, Photostory3, Movie Maker...) Important note: I always integrate technology with core academic standards.
Some examples for new this year-
I want to restucture one grade level project to incorporate claymation with students this year - any suggestion for a certain level? I will collaborate with the art teacher for this project and begin with a math topic.
I'll use wikispaces for teacher and student collaborative projects. I signed up for multiple spaces and have set up a wiki for our first Technospud activity- A Salute to Dr Suess.
Podcasts (using audacity and podomatic) for different grade level project- book reviews, community/state/nation information, personal interviews. Great for writing and reading fluency skills.
Voicethreads.com for open house and other projects.
Blogmeister for one grade level until I figure it out better, and blog for my parent-teacher communication.
Looking forward to checking out the resources mentioned in this forum.
I am still trying to edit my year long plans. After packing my brain this summer- thanks in great part to CR2.0 - many new plans are hatching.…
grades K-5 and with whom I meet once a week (with a few lucky classes that come to me twice a week). We are doing animation, wikis, blog responses (I'd love to set up individual blogs for my older kids, but we're not there yet), podcasts and we're just beginning some collaborations online with schools in other parts of the city and in other states. I've done PowerPoint with Grades 3-5, but after I do an initial project to familiarize my kids with the software (likewise word processing apps like Word and Appleworks), I've been moving on. We learn how to use a search engine, Internet safety and how to use a number of graphics programs.
Specifically, I use (in varying degrees), MS Office,;Appleworks; iLife; Tech4Learning's Frames, Pixie, and Twist; Kidspiration; Kid Pix Deluxe 3X and the Edumark suite for the little kids (Bailey, Millie, and crew). We do a little bit of keyboarding, but I don't like to spend too much time on it as the kids figure out the keyboard out of necessity as they write their scripts and wiki/blog entries. I have steered them to some online keyboarding programs like Learn2Type, and I have Type to Learn 3 in the lab.
I'm really excited about using some new Web 2.0 applications like Voicethread and Animoto (for fifth grade this spring), but this has been the Year of the Wiki for us. Our class wikis are all private at this point, but I hope to have some protected wikis going at some point, so the audience will be larger than our school community. I started up a new blog this year (ps233techteacher.edublogs.org), and we've just getting back into using blogging (Last year was The Year of the Blog).
I'm happy to find a computer lab community here.
You can check out my website at http://nylearns.org/ephillips…
ious famous artists. Grades K-3 used KidPix exclusively while Grades 4 & up had the choice of using KidPix, Paint or PhotoFiltre.
Here's a slide show of the pictures inspired by Van Gogh's "Starry Night":
2) Grades 5 & 6 created avatars for use on Voicethread
3) Grades K-2 drew pictures for Earth Day based on "The Lorax"
Here's a video created with our Lorax pictures:
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am learning. What I had thought about was doing an Animoto film (I don't have a video camera) of the first day(s) of school and getting the kids to comment on how they are feeling as school starts (ie nervous, excited, etc). Then, I wanted to compile these on one site/wiki and compare how kids experience the first day of school around the country and world. I do not know if you have any pictures from your first day(s) that would work for this or not.
BUT, since I finally have a contact, there are some other things I wanted to work with a class on. I wanted to look at habitats in different parts of the country/world and how they are different/same. I am in contact with a teacher in Australia who could be part of this project. I also wanted to look at how other governments work in different countries and how this affects the kids. Also, I read your wiki about social issues, and this topic closely mirrors some thoughts I have had. My school is an inner-city school in a high crime/ high poverty neighborhood, and my kids are pretty isolated. They live in public housing, but I want them to see that others in the world struggle to even eat, go to school, sleep under a roof, etc. I want them to see that others in the world live similarly to them and differently as well. Past all of this, I would love to have classes around the globe that we can communicate with (email, voicethread, etc) just to get exposure to people of other cultures (my students--and the whole school except for one student--are all black, and they generally only see other cultures on television).
Please let me know your thoughts on any/all of these. I really hope something interests you and that we might work together! Take care!
Sam…