Monday

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**Monday**
 * Session 1**


 * Blogging as Learning**

-Blogger -Wordpress -Edublog

all options for blogging. Blogger allows you to addd wigets or gadgets. This can be used to organize tags for students can be access. Edublog is a pay site for any good features Wordpress and Edublog are the same site. Edu allows for teacher functions. Privacy: may have viewable by whoever they feel comfortable with. Wordpress is cleaner, more options with theams, more sophisticated. Wordpress allows the students to develop a cool page, which students are really interested in.

Kidblog and Edublog (good classroom blogs) Kidblog does not require an e-mail address. Edublog Use for reflection on topics Allow students to use their personal blogs to incorporate their interests. Allow them to incorporate things they want to write about. Can tag individual posts as private. Encourage active use when assignments aren't due (existential bonus points) Use as opportunity to talk about safety
 * Blogs in the classroom.**

-Girls seem to be drawn to blogging More girls blog than boys, it's not a frivolous waste of time, It is learning. students learn most about themselves, and how they learn, and how they write.
 * Girls and Blogs**

Assessed as one writing assignment. Feedback is given directly on the post. Unless it is somewhat negative. Then they email the student

**Global Learning**
 * Session 2**

Personal project description of students in U.S and Senegal, Africa.

Kent State ILIP International Teachers, come to the university and would be a resource if interested in this. Mostly English as a secondary language, some science, some social science.

Safety, Parent permission, teacher control, rules for students, accessibility issues (used google sites), teacher control over content being added, viewable by parents -Used Google sites to organize for the reasons stated above. -Fusion Charts (great gadget for created quick graphs on google site)

-Wrote short letters to an english club in Senegal. Kept the conversation short so that translation and response was not overwhelming. -Teachers emailed back to let partner school know the class had responded to the letters. -Required questions in the letter so that conversation continued. -End of the year they matched up time-zones to have skype meeting.

Lessons Learned. -Match grade level. Start with a f2f introduction at the beginning of the project Place student photos in Photostory and let each student narrate their photo/slide by saying "Hello-my name is...." Use this opportunity to teach each other about culture and daily life instead of requiring students to learn things through other resources. Brainstorm ideas about content of conversation Consider tech. accessibility and experiences of collaborating class.

Other type of communications. 1 Letters sent through e-mail 2. Vidcasts of a. field trips b. dances c. playground games d. celebrations e. cultural crafts 3. Podcasts a. songs b. vocab-language c. read orginial poems or short stories 4. Current events discussions 5. Honor each other with celebration cards which could be created in photostory 6. Collaborative science projects 7. Web conferencing with Skype-discuss ahead of time with partner teacher how the conference time will be used.

Key Success

1. Tech. Training on the other side of the experience 2. Getting the knowledge to the cooperative teacher 3. All editing rights was on teacher ( she taught 2nd graders) May want to give some access to upper level students. Something to think about. 4. Google Translator may be useful. 5. Don't forget about S.America. Don't have large time zone mismatches. 6. Watch news, cartoons from the fellow country to see what life is really like before conversation begins.

Session 3:

 * The 4 C's: a framework for fostering 21st century skills in studetns**


 * @http://the4cs.weebly.com/index.html**


 * ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.**
 * -Grant recipients**
 * -Collaboration**
 * -Creativity**
 * -Critical Thinking**
 * -Communication**

This group is embracing moodle as a tool to work on the 4C's Encourage more critical thinking in forum and journal posts

-Sounds similar to Voicethread.
 * Photostory**: Microsoft free download. was a tool the group used to organize their learning. This website allows students select images to represent their knowledge.

Audacity: Free download to record audio and then podcasts.

Youtube: Book trailers were done to get students excited about reading

This group has a final electronic portfolio rubric that may be interesting to incorporate into our courses. Students select artifacts to show learning over the course of the year. The rubric is found in the More section of the attached website

Session 4:


 * A Spectrum of Moodle Uses**

Pros Cons User environment/ procedural changes Limited/Non-compatible themes non-compatible 3rd party plug-ins Delayed module/plug-in compatibility
 * Moodle 2.0???**
 * Open source**
 * Developed Support Community**
 * External Apps integration (Google Docs)**
 * Web Services Support**

1st Degree User -Post links, use in computer lab, -information add text, syllabus, rules

2nd Degree User -Posting files, Repository of uploaded files, powerpoints, example student work PDF files, Contact information. Post documents

Ist and 2nd degree allow you to get used to the site

3rd Degree User -Moodle is for everyone -Students get involved, students gain accounts -track students by enrolling. -interact with students

4th Degree User -Moodle is interactive -essentially a online course. flow of information is multi directional

Moodle 2.0 New features -Self checking/ Course completion block. Get immediate feedback on the course as a whole. -Restrict access to tasks until certain requirements are completed restrict by grade (release remedial work until they reach goal percentage) could work for gifted students as well. student don't know what other student have access to.

=This session is more for the the administrative level, districts looking to get on board with it. Mentioned a bit about new Moodle 2.0 features.=

Skype a Scientist. Tweet a Teacher
Twitter: farmgirl44614 Skype: nichole.m.gordon-coy Bent Pholman: Skype address for lab director from the workshop How to use Social Media to enhance your classroom...any subject, any grade
 * May want an external webcam so that skyper and skypee can see each other.

Pros and Cons http://www.twitip.com/twitter-versus-facebook/

Hashtags label your tweet and give it a searchable attribute. Tweet chat allows you to follow hash tags of interest Common educational hashtag -#educ -#school -#oetc11

Twitter allows you to organize into lists. for example: Science list will categorize all your contacts and people you follow.

Presenter starts class each day with several links and tweets. To promote very current trends in her topic area. Through twitter she has met several people, experts, professionals in the field who want to talk to students

Skype Uses her personal account for classroom use. May want a classroom account. Many professional are interested in outreach with classrooms and students. Great way for students to learn directly what careers are available and what professionals do on a daily basis

How to hook up with people
 * National Lab Day Network.org**
 * STEM focused**


 * Social Media Guide**

[] houses the social media guide that was used in the presentation. Will give you explanation of all social media how to's

Designing Motivating Scenario-Based Wiki Activities
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This link has all of the presenters ideas about using wikis. In a project based class. She uses blogs, wiki, podcasts as activities to reaching a goal. Activities build towards goals, similar to rungs

Always share examples. Keep them in folder. Organize Great, Average, Poor. Set the bar high. Give explicit deadlines. Word count deadlines. She creates wiki groups and puts students into them.
 * Audacity: is her top recommendation. Highly recommended for commenting. Save for several days and then she deletes them. Mp3 files are large.**

  The best way to explain the myriad uses of wikis is by experiencing them. Here is a wiki about current technology created by students at Millis High School near Boston. They say “The key to our success is blended learning.” 21st Century Learning  SmartTeaching.org has many teaching resources and articles including the following: [|50 ways to use a wiki] Michael Gorman, a middle-school teacher, also has a wiki on 21st Century Technology  with a formidable array of resources. More good ideas on how to use wikis can be found at this site from Educause: [|Wikify your Course] Here is a physics  wiki, a  history  wiki, an  [|English]  wiki and a  science  wiki. There’s even a wiki on being creative with wikis: Getting tricky with wikis. What will //you// think of next?


 * Really great Idea**


 * Using Blooms Verbs: Chapter Summarize three for each chapter: Allows for flexibility and choice.**

Additionally, throughout this class, it’s important that we collaborate, engage as a community rather than as individuals working alone, particularly because this course is online. The wiki assignment is, therefore, collaborative and an integral part of the 7% of your grade for each chapter or set of chapters in the grade book. In order to facilitate this assignment, the following steps will guide our creation of journals for each chapter. **
 * Rather than simply taking quizzes over the chapters in our text or just randomly commenting, I think you’ll find it more worthwhile to apply the knowledge and understanding that you gain from the book through analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating what you learn.


 * After all this. Students took 3 examples from comments and summarizes. Cite specific people that comment on their writings. **

-Use debates in wikis for passionate participation from students. Voted members of a story off an island. Very passionate participation from students. Topics of responsibility.
 * Testimonies and wiki's **