San Juan Read180 Implementation Notes

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Classroom 2.0 - Featured Teacher Series

First of the new ”Featured Teacher” series featuring classroom teachers who are using technology and web tools innovatively to impact instruction. TEDx speaker, Zoe Branigan-Pipe, will be the first teacher featured. Zoe will give an overview of "life as a networked teacher - in and out of the 6th grade classroom". Join us to learn more about how this dynamic 6th grade teacher uses web tools in the classroom with her students. "Dip your toes in" the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to "jump into the conversations with both feet"! More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com/.

"LiveScribe pens are a great way to work with ELL or ESL learners"

pipe-dreams.edublogs.org

Use of Skype between classrooms around the world

Creative Commons Collaboration discussion on The Clever Sheep

Use of Twitter in elementary setting

Archive of session http://fcinternet.hwdsb.on.ca/~zoe.branigan-pipe OR
http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources.html

"My SmartBoard is our window to the world"

Podcasting
A walk down memory lane with google street view

using student blogs for critical thinking, reflecting, and learning
classblogmeister by David Warlick has lots of safeguards
i was really moved by the postings on this young man's blog http://www.andyshospital.blogspot.com/
glogster  voicethreads

have studetns make a powerpoint into a video and embed on own student blog
Teaching embed codes Moderator (Kim Caise): http://gl.am/82Ycb
jackiegerstein: ask McTeach to share her blog about teaching kids to blog using paper and stickey notes
Moderator (Peggy George): http://gl.am/82Ycb All of Zoe's links are here
 
storybird
 
blogging with paper activity: http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/2010/09/learning-to-blog-using-paper.html
permission forms for blogging... one teacher also gives over moderation rights to parents? use rss feed to monitor student blog posts
 
: http://space213.wikispaces.com/ (Space213 Wikispace: Culminating Activities Examples-Glogster
 
What does she use every day?
First thing she taught her pre-service teachers was about delicious
Evernote
youtube
 
Don't forget about print!
 
81 educator participants on a Saturday morning!
 
"vidstrips" ?
http://livewithlivescribe.edublogs.org/
 
livescribe lots of incredible features

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Ning

Flickr

Twitter

Elluminate

Skype

Texts, email

Virtual environments (second life)

Wikispaces

Blogs, music groups

Youtube

Voicethreads            g-docs, maps, surveys, rss feeds

Prezi

One step at a time

Participate, encourage and involve other

You don’t have to be ON all the time

Always engage your students and make it fun and real

Learn from others and share your learning blog

Always be willing to change           

 

21st Century Tools, 20th Century Schools: Headware not hardware for digital learners

Presented by: Ian Jukes, InfoSavvy Group and Frank S. Kelly FAIA, SHW Group

Changing the TTWWADI mindset (That's the way we've always done it)

"The golden rule: Those who have the gold, rule."
"Insanity is doing the same over and over again and expecting different results."

Schools were designed in an era where 3/4 of the workforce was in agricultural and manufacturing jobs.  Today those jobs account for less than 1/2 of the workforce and their numbers continue to dwindle. Knowledge or creative workers (creating solutions, solving problems, inventing new tools and methods) now account for 25% and their numbers are increasing.

Reference to The Flat World by Thomas Friedman

Example of a school modeled on The Big Picture:
Minneapolis School of Environmental Studies www.edutopia.org/its-all-happening-zoo-school

"It's not about technology, it's about learning."

The Committed Sardine www.committedsardine.com
Great resources and news aggregator.

Student Empowerment

"If your goal is empowerment, your demon is entitlement."

Video Assessment Tool

Allows for the detailed analysis and annotation of video. Allows user to tie comments to specific points within a video. Multiple reviewers of same video allows for the side by side comparison of reviews.

www.videoanalysistool.com

Beyond Catch Phrases - Digital Age Best Practicies for Real Classroom Teachers

Presented by Dr. Chris Moersch www.loticonnection.com

Digital age best practices:

• Promoting shared expertise through networked collaboration
• strategies: problem-solving, investigation, experimental inquiry
• tools: Edit Grid www.editgrid.com, Monster Exchange www.monsterexchange.org, Gaggle www.gaggle.net 
• Bolstering purposeful inquiry through student questions
• strategies: surveys, discrepant events, staged scenarios, 
• tools: wordle www.wordle.net, survey monkey www.surveymonkey.com, YouTube
• Personalizing and globalizing content by making authentic connections
• strategies: 21st century themes, current events, consumerism
• tools: 270toWin www.270towin.com, Google Earth, Scholastic News Online 
• Accelerating individual growth through vertical/horizontal differentiation
• strategies: anchor activities, centers/stations, tiered assignments
• tools: wikispaces www.wikispaces.com, ReadWriteThink www.readwritethink.org, Thinkfinity www.thinkfinity.org
• Anchoring student learning with digital-age tools in the classroom 
• strategies: challenging, collaborating, analyzing
• tools: Interactivate www.shodor.org/interactivate, Blogger www.blogger.com, Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
• Clarifying student understanding with formative assessments
• strategies: discussion forums, online quizzes, open-ended problems
• tools: Moodle www.moodle.org, Rubistar rubistar.4teachers.org, Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com

Ways to insure academic rigor in your "Digital Age" teaching. Levels of Teaching Innovation LoTI. Useful research-based tools available on his website.

• H.E.A.T.  checklist is a succinct way for teachers to assess their own lessons for rigor and engagement. 
• LoTI implementation model is a checklist for building capacity

Ambiance for Learning

Presented by Lynell Burmark at ISTE 2010 www.educatebetter.org

Synopsis: A fabulous presentation ranging from the physical plant: "You can't learn in ugly" to visual literacy.

Day-to-Day Classroom Stuff

Sources of copyright free images:

• www.pics4learning.com/
• www.morguefile.com

Activities Modeled:

• Pre-session slideshow with positive images and music  
• Multiple intelligences - posters describing Gardner's Multiple Intelligences were placed around the room. Participants were given four colored stickers and asked to apply the stickers to the posters that matched their learning styles/intelligences. As a presenter, this helps determine how you should present.
• Progressive story - groups of three. Person with the shortest hair starts a story with the first slide, then tosses the ball to a second person to continue the story when the slide changes, etc. Koosh balls available at www.orientaltrading.com
• Wordle - helping students process both words and pictures www.wordle.net
  Feed in text of your choice. Resulting graphic will be based either on word frequency or weights you assign to words. Free article with lots more detail at www.educatebetter.org 
• Compare/contrast - Marzano's #1 strategy from What Works in Schools. Use images. e.g. toilet paper over or under.

Projectors 101 - beware the cheap deals:

• Old standard was XGA: 1024x768 or 4:3 aspect ratio
• Current standard is widescreen or WXGA: 1280x800 or 16:10 aspect ratio
• DLP vs. LCD: have a projector shoot-out by comparing identical images projected side by side.  choose a range of images such as lemons, outdoor lighting, skin tones.

Improving presentation quality:

• Ideas from graphic designer Nancy Duarte "slide:ology"  http://blog.duarte.com/
• Four step process for making slides with high impact:
• start with original slide (one with lots of text)
• find a key word in each bullet point
• delete everything else
• add a picture

Improving the Physical Plant

• Windows and natural light wherever possible
• Don Callejon School, Santa Clara, CA www.doncallejon.org 
• Hip Hop High www.hsra.org 
• Denver School of Science and Technology  www.scienceandtech.org
  is an example of a school designed for learning.  Video tour:

Prepping students for real life?

Heard in an HP Solutions pitch on the ISTE exhibit floor.

Are we prepping our students for real life? Answer: Search Monster.com based on specific skills to see the number of jobs posted requiring that skill. Not particularly scientific,  but interesting.

Where's the Beef? Assessing Digital Products for Rigor, Relevance, and Craftmanship

ISTE 2010 Session
Presenter: Bernajean Porter
www.bjpconsulting.com
http://www.digitales.us/

Used http://www.polleverywhere.com/ as an audience response system.

Digital products refers to student work products. She encourages the use of rubrics but doesn't think it's effective when individual teachers create them on the fly. Free scoring guides are available on her website.

Is the work useful and beneficial to others? Don't use technology for technology's sake. Do the images and sound effects illustrate or extend meaning? Showing not telling. Distinguish between reading, reciting, and performing. Good media grabs you. It's memorable.

Example: Used www.voicethread.com to set up a formal debate with middle school teams across seven countries.

Questioning leads to higher order thinking!
Check out

• http://fno.org/ 
• http://questioning.org/

Dissecting the 21st Century Teacher

ISTE 2010 Session
Panel discussion
www.selenaward.com
www.daringlibrarian.com

Used Qwizdom responders during the presentation. Responders were cryptic as to when response was submitted or whether a response could be changed. Screen display good: clear, easy to read questions; response graph could be displayed side by side with question or seen only by the presenter.

Investigate:

• http://edu.glogster.com/ 
• twitter for teachers http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/ 

Innovative Leadership: 21st Century Innovations That Matter

ISTE 2010 Session
Presenter: Cheryl Lemke,  Metiri Group
Supporting Research

• Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). ISTE's Technology Facilitation and Leadership Standards. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education. ISBN.
• Rooke, D. & Torbert, W. R. (2005). Seven transformations of leadership. harvard business review, 83(4), 66-76.
• Bondi, G. (2009). The Influence of Teacher Leaders. Learning, 66(5), 85-86.
• Spillane, J. P., Halverson, R., & Diamond, J. B. (2001). Investigating school leadership practice: a distributed perspective. Educational Researcher, 30(3), 23-28.
• Ancona, D., Malone, T. W., Orlikowski, W. J., & Senge, P. M. (2007). In praise of the incomplete leader. Harvard business review, 85(2), 92.

Globalization is creating change at warp speeds with an order of magnitude of error.
There are multiple nodes of learning besides just school. The majority of learning occurs in informal learning environments. Check out the research going on at Stanford's LIFE (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments) Center an NSF supported initiative. http://www.life-slc.org/

School leaders must develop a deep understanding of and affinity for working effectively in teams.

1. Leaders need to own the innovation not delegate it. 
2. Drive change through creativity and knowledge. An innovator's DNA includes lots of associating outside of own area of expertise, lots of questioning (question the unquestionable, imagine opposites, embrace constraints, wonder, encourage backchannel)
3. Consider failure an opportunity for learning
4. Shift from rules to shared principles
5. Shape culture of openness, collegiality, honesty, adaptability. Look for "positive deviance" What's working well? Change the rules! See notschool.net http://www.stevehargadon.com/2009/11/notschoolnet-proven-successful.html

Effectiveness of teachers has an enormous impact on student outcomes. Research shows that the most effective teachers share "a recurring positive relationship between student learning and teacher's flexibility, creativity, and adaptibility.

What really motivates workers?  The ability to see progress is the top motivator.

Look at best practices:

• Check out working models such as High Tech High 
• Look at high performing countries. They have fewer student contact hours than we do! They establish a professional learning system where there is less student contact time and more lesson study, classroom observations. Singapore Teacher's Network
• The Flat World and Education - Linda Darling-Hammond 
• Research shows that 49 hours of substantial, focused professional development can increase student test scores by as much as 21 percentiles. PD can be virtual, blended, just-in-time, mentoring, coaching, collaborative ed. network. Elements of effective PD: sustained over time, content-based, concrete modeling

10 Leadership Components - Presenter: Chris O'Neal

ISTE 2010 Session
chris.wikispaces.com
Supporting research: http://sws.wikispaces.com/Change+%26+Leadership
Sponsored by www.skoodat.com

• Assure equity of access for both teachers and students.  For example, assure every student has access to technology during school hours. Technology access should not just be a reward for good behavior.
• Understanding and using data. Spend a day with your test scores looking for trends. Dig beneath the surface. Structure PD to address a need shown in the trend data. For example, if fluency were an area of weakness, teachers could learn how to have students use podcasting to practice their oral fluency.
• Effective PD is customized and narrowly focused to a particular need. 
• Encouraging adoption of new technology/practice:
• Find your "rock star" teachers
• Figure out the top 10 people who would be needed to help move a tech initiative forward.
• Walk the talk. Model the use of whatever you're trying to get adopted. Don't just talk about it. 
• Offer to co-teach or provide support in creating a lesson.
• Have teachers create a whole group podcast on a particular topic.
• He modeled a technology visioning session at a faculty meeting by having session participants respond to a survey on-line.
  
  
  
  
  What area should be top priority for this coming school year?  

  What area should be 2nd priority for this coming school year?
  
  From there he used www.wordle.net to create a mashup highlighting the most common terms from teachers. Specifically, he used google docs to create a spreadsheet which he then turned into a form that he embedded in a web page. Then he used tinyurl (http://tiny.cc/) to create a short, memorable url for participants to access. We could do this!
• Use google forms for tech observations.
• Reward growth.
• Recognize each and every small step accomplished
• Find rewards that are meaningful to teachers. For example, the reward for attending an after school workshop could be an early release on Friday. 
• Encourage genuine reflection.
• How can I use what I learned? 
• What will be viable? 
• What's the one chunk I can actually use?
• Student-driven technology
• Minimize hand holding.
• For example, if synching of a device is required, teach them to do it.
•  Personal Learning Networks
• Use Twitter, Blogs, Wikis, Nings to create your own PLN
• Tip: www.tweetdeck.com allows filtering of tweets based on specific words or phrases

Cartooning Project

Please visit the cartooning project page to see more student created vocabulary cartoons like the one below.

Create your own Toon

iPad, print, Kindle, oh my

This marketing piece from Penguin books gives a great view of where eBooks are headed. I wonder if Amazon has a new, improved Kindle in the works to go toe to toe with the iPad.

Classroom Response Systems

Here is a list of popular SRS (student response systems - AKA "clickers").

If you're interested, please feel free to surf to the vendors' websites shown below, and or share personal/collegial experiences with SRS by responding to this blog post.


Qwizdom
TurningPoint
CPS

Cartooning & Animation

http://goanimate.com/

Improving teacher preparation programs

It's about time. NCATE (National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education) is recommending that teacher preparation programs move towards a clinical practice model that parallels medical and nursing education and training programs. More at http://www.ncate.org/public/010510_BRP2.asp

Digital Storytelling

Resources for teachers to learn more about the art of digital storytelling courtesy of a newly published book called Digital Storytelling - A Guide for Educators p. 14 http://www.iste.org/source/Orders/isteProductDetail.cfm?product_code=digsto

• http://www.digitales.us/  examples and lesson ideas
• http://www.storycenter.org/ examples
• http://www.technosavvy.org/  look at the podcast page:
• Joe Lambert: Digital Storytelling Part 1 for a general history of the emergence of digital storytelling
• Bernajean Porter: Digital Storytelling Part 2 and Part 3. Where to start; assessment; connections to content standards
• http://www.speedofcreativity.org/  look at the podcast page:
• Podcast 184: Online digital storytelling curriculum
• Podcast 188: The Oklahoma Digital Centennial project.

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Teachers and Interactive White Boards

It's a lot of money. Is it worth it? Professional development is a key component.

Beyond Teacher Chalk Talk from Education Week on Vimeo.