Notebook for planning of projects and organization, capable of sharing, direct export to Docs
Google Docs- online database for files.
Presentaion or page creator
Sharing capapbillities- collaborate
Page Creator- makes webpages, like publisher for webpages Look into for night school projects!!
Groups- Classes communication
Need Google twitter!!!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Cell Phones as Tools
Podcasting- Gabcast- call in phone number channel code. Speak your podcast, stored online in private or public immediate post.
Create Podcast channel- with password
will post to blogger
Sixty minute limit
Cell Phone Conferencing
Up to 200
Freeconfrencepro
not toll free, but with cell phone no long distance
(Skype) Record as MP3 file
Private Voicemail
Local save voicemails
Contact w/o invasion
Interviews, Field Trips sounds, video
youtube jumpcut editing included
create documentary, digital storytellting
Research tool-
Ask a Librarian
Class website for mobiles
Hall Passes
Parent Notes
Cell phone Software
Not really sure how feasabe this will be in my system with it's severe anti cellphone policies...but homework podcasts by phone.
Create Podcast channel- with password
will post to blogger
Sixty minute limit
Cell Phone Conferencing
Up to 200
Freeconfrencepro
not toll free, but with cell phone no long distance
(Skype) Record as MP3 file
Private Voicemail
Local save voicemails
Contact w/o invasion
Interviews, Field Trips sounds, video
youtube jumpcut editing included
create documentary, digital storytellting
Research tool-
Ask a Librarian
Class website for mobiles
Hall Passes
Parent Notes
Cell phone Software
Not really sure how feasabe this will be in my system with it's severe anti cellphone policies...but homework podcasts by phone.
A New Approach to Classrooms
In one of the first presentations of the k12 online conference Clarence Fisher approached the connections that web 2.0 allows in the classroom. These connections have the ability to take what we are doing and actually revolt ionize it, not just slap on a new coat of computers. What I really took from the presentation is that classrooms can now be approached as studios. I think that this is one of the more powerful statements that I've heard in this 2.o gig. A studio is a place of creation, collaboration, and growth. What more could we ask of a classroom?
I think that that approach will work well in younger grades ( I teach High School Science), but I see difficulty in translating that to my classroom. I am a fan of rules and rituals so it is hard for me to imagine a classroom where many of those are removed. I hope that this new approach to classrooms (especially mine ) will help me in helping my students achieve.
Firstly I want to attack the idea of a studio physically. What does a studio look like? In reality it looks much like an empty classroom. A large open space with no separating walls. In fact looking at my room right now it would stand as a decently sized studio apartment . The problem I think I will face physically is how to get the workspace that a studio requires. Maybe I could extend into my lab and use a web cam to monitor. The combined space of my lab and the two classrooms we have is rather large. It may be a possibility.
Next what does an assignment look like in a studio? Portfolio is the thing that keep coming back in my mind, but those are real nightmares to keep up with. Maybe an online or Blog portfolio could be the answer for daily work like bell ringers and closers. (that might actually be a good way to get a closer in there. ) But what about Tests? I could give 1.0 tests and I guess I would need to because they would be expected to take those and pass them. Any Suggestions here?
Finally, how could one deal with the dynamic nature of a studio with potentially 28 students whose levels were all different? Could you possibly expect an illiterate child to make products of the same caliber as a well seasoned (for lack of a better word) computer geek? would you simply grade for growth? How can you take multi-level children and expect a uniform turn out? Or should you even? Especially considering the free-form-ness of a studio...
More questions than answers....
I think that that approach will work well in younger grades ( I teach High School Science), but I see difficulty in translating that to my classroom. I am a fan of rules and rituals so it is hard for me to imagine a classroom where many of those are removed. I hope that this new approach to classrooms (especially mine ) will help me in helping my students achieve.
Firstly I want to attack the idea of a studio physically. What does a studio look like? In reality it looks much like an empty classroom. A large open space with no separating walls. In fact looking at my room right now it would stand as a decently sized studio apartment . The problem I think I will face physically is how to get the workspace that a studio requires. Maybe I could extend into my lab and use a web cam to monitor. The combined space of my lab and the two classrooms we have is rather large. It may be a possibility.
Next what does an assignment look like in a studio? Portfolio is the thing that keep coming back in my mind, but those are real nightmares to keep up with. Maybe an online or Blog portfolio could be the answer for daily work like bell ringers and closers. (that might actually be a good way to get a closer in there. ) But what about Tests? I could give 1.0 tests and I guess I would need to because they would be expected to take those and pass them. Any Suggestions here?
Finally, how could one deal with the dynamic nature of a studio with potentially 28 students whose levels were all different? Could you possibly expect an illiterate child to make products of the same caliber as a well seasoned (for lack of a better word) computer geek? would you simply grade for growth? How can you take multi-level children and expect a uniform turn out? Or should you even? Especially considering the free-form-ness of a studio...
More questions than answers....
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Why We Are Here
This place began out of a need that I, as a struggling new teacher, have. As a teacher today I am preparing students for a world that doesn't exist yet. It is a fact that many teachers still haven't faced yet. I've dome to realize that the most important thing we can teach out students is how to teach themselves. We are incapable of teaching our students the information they will need to know because few if anyone even knows it yet.
In short as educators today we standon a cliff with rising standards and changing literacy requirements taking our traditional ground from us left and right. In the mean time new tools are being launched constantly to aid us in this feat we are to accomplish, but how do we use them? What are they for? Why bother? These are questions we need to answer for ourselves and for our students. So the plan is to slowly shine a light on the How, the Why and the Why bother's.
Expect a lot of new stuff here in the next couple of weeks. It's the k12online conference. (read as overwhelming amounts of new tools and new interfaces, and new people)
In short as educators today we standon a cliff with rising standards and changing literacy requirements taking our traditional ground from us left and right. In the mean time new tools are being launched constantly to aid us in this feat we are to accomplish, but how do we use them? What are they for? Why bother? These are questions we need to answer for ourselves and for our students. So the plan is to slowly shine a light on the How, the Why and the Why bother's.
Expect a lot of new stuff here in the next couple of weeks. It's the k12online conference. (read as overwhelming amounts of new tools and new interfaces, and new people)
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