Monday, February 9, 2009:
Keynote Speaker Dr. Jason Ohler Act 48 Credit ZL013684
Dr. Ohler told a story about story telling as a method of engaging students.
Digital story telling brings all together (art, oral, written, digital)
- Follow DAOW of literacy
- Attitude is the aptitude attitude towards learning new stuff is your aptitude
- Practice private and social literacy co-writing
- Develop literacy about digital tools–help students get perspective of technology tools–what are the impacts–what are the disconnections–microwave makes it possible for families to NOT eat together; digital retouching of photos
- fluency, not just literacy–best understands what the tools will do and how to leverage them to innovation, leadership
- Harness both report and story..embrace story the way we connect information in a story
Kids come to school wired for story, they understand story,….internal relationships that motivate–conflict, character,
This is a big one for me: Use the rule of 80/20
first 80% is created and finished in the first 20% of resource base
last 20% takes 80% of resources (time)–don’t bother tweaking, it’s about the story
Students don’t need to “perfect” everything. The learning is done in that first 20% of the time. I don’t need to allow so much time for students to complete their projects.
Hints:
Story first, tech second
Leave clicks and tricks to kids with time.
Create learning communities by taking talent inventory
quality, wisdom—evaluation of quality, critique,
teacher as Executive Producer
Everyone gets to tell his/her own story
story core…
- problem (tension) inquiry
- solution (resolution) discovery
- transformation (growth)
phisyical/kinestheitc
emotion
moral
psychological
social
intellectual/creative
spiritual
realization, realizaing
iPods & Podcasting for Teaching & Learning — David Marra Senior Systems Engineer for Apple 10: 15-11:15 Cocoa Terrace Act 48 Code–AL191858
iPod + Broadcasting
enhanced podcast includes multimedia
to be effective must be subscribed to using iTunes on a Mac or PC
150,000 free subscriptions
- students create
- teacher records class d publish for students who are absent…or who need additional help
- iMovie to create video cast
- iTunes.Stanford.edu
iTunes U–download from college courses
iTunes U K-12
Beyond Campus organizations like Smithsonian
Podcast Producer used to record a class
- powerpoint, video, handouts
teach students to create as well as use
…”create podcasts for staff development–new and more effective ways to communicate with our employees and the iPods will help us do both.” brian Hall CED National Semi-conductor
marketing and education
http://www.apple.com/education/podasting
will send pdf of all 4 sessions
Accessing a podcast:
- launch iTunes
- iTunes Store podcasts and iTunes U
- Submit a podcast
beyond campus
k12
iTunes U
Apple podcast server
Where does Warwick have a place for studnets to store their iPods–then publish in iTunes
iMovie and Garageband
create in iMovie and publish as podcast
post on iTunes what is our AUP for publishing student work
Garageband
- create music
- new podcast track–drag and drop images
- radio style sounds
- voice enhancement tools–filter sounds
- iChat AV–text, audio, video
- video conference with up to 4 people
- chapter, tracks, and bookmarks
- Research to gather information, take notes and gather images (right-click “add image to iPHoto library”
- In iPhoto create an album of all files
- Launch Garageband > Podcasts
- Select track
- Record
- While playing recorded track, Add markers at important facts. Drag images, insert links,
- Add music
Technology Staff Development That Works! Scott Radaszkiewicz & Dotty Katuskas 11:30-12:30 Cocoa Suite 5 Act 48 Credit BL141655
New Hope-Solebury School District
Director of Technology Asst to the Superintendent
Whole staff had webinar for all of staff;
registration for individual workshops on line
discovery, digital story telling, etc……
21st Century learners need
- Capability to network
- choice
- ability to collaborate
- participation in a global society
Keep all staff up to date
- newsletter (she should have a podcast) www.nhsd.org
“A vision of K-12 students today” a YouTube video
How do you know if your technology staff development is effective?
How can you gauge the technology skills that your staff uses in the classroom?
How do you take the global look at the K-12 learning environment?
Pieces of Success: Systemic Model
Collaboration and Leadership
- collaboration between curriculum and technology
- buy-in from all stakeholders
- technology plan/strategic plan
Teacher Leaders
- teacher leaders in technology /1 per building — extra stipend
- curriculum liasons –
- library/media specialists
- collaboration amongst the groups
liasons and leaders meet to collaborate
Staff Development
363 days a year
- Act 48 professional development committee
- summer technology academy–smart board (beyond basics), podcasts, wikis, blogs, google docs, Google Earth give teachers what they have asked for
- professional development days
- conferences and workshops
- “Pockets of Brilliance” — teachers who are great with something teach other’s on the staff
Feedback and Evaluation
- Exit slips
- Surveys–survey monkey
- Tracking last year’s Kindergarten
- Technology walkabouts — when life is out of balance, drop everything and take a walkabout– degree of student engagement, resources being used, what choices do yo have?, what are you learning?–to have teams of administrators, teachers etc go into classes in other buildings
- The “grapevine” — tech director listens but redirects to teacher techs–
Resources and Funding
- fiscal responsibilty and accountability
- classrooms for the future ($22 million currently in budget)
- accountabiltiy block grant
- Education Fund grants
Networking and Support
- IU–Act 183 WAN, Tech staff development, webinars, NASA eMissions
- Outside Vendors–Discovery, Apple, Curriculum Mapping, www.rubicon.com …need help, just ASK
Vision to Reality:
- Wikis all teachers have
- Art portfolio podcasts
- Magic
- Earthquakes–google sketchup
The Future
- virtual islands
- more online learning
- capturn staff development for the future
- teachesr as facilitators of social networking
- reality of turriculum
BL141655
Losing Control and Gaining Enthusiasm Cocoa Suite 3 Act 48 CL161923
- ning.com
- didn’t use student last names
- didn’t ask student
- jbickelenglish.ning.com
- check out PETE & C ning
- let students have more controlds
Technology, Assessment, and Staff Development Act 48 DL141939
Free staff development narrow focus for district goals