Building Collaborative Classrooms

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)

1. Follow DAOW of literacy
2. Attitude is the aptitude  attitude towards learning new stuff is your aptitude
3. Practice private and social literacy  co-writing
4. 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
5. fluency, not just literacy–best understands what the tools will do and how to leverage them to innovation, leadership
6. 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

1. Research to gather information, take notes and gather images (right-click “add image to iPHoto library”
2. In iPhoto create an album of all files
3. Launch Garageband   > Podcasts
4. Select track
5. Record
6. While playing recorded track, Add markers at important facts.  Drag images, insert links,
7. Add music

• marra@apple.com
• marrathon.com

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

1. Capability to network
2. choice
3. ability to collaborate
4. 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

1. collaboration between curriculum and technology
2. buy-in from all stakeholders
3. technology plan/strategic plan

Teacher Leaders

1. teacher leaders in technology /1 per building — extra stipend
2. curriculum liasons –
3. library/media specialists
4. collaboration amongst the groups

liasons and leaders meet to collaborate

Staff Development

363 days a year

1. Act 48 professional development committee
2. summer technology academy–smart board (beyond basics), podcasts, wikis, blogs, google docs, Google Earth  give teachers what they have asked for
3. professional development days
4. conferences and workshops
5. “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

1. fiscal responsibilty and accountability
2. classrooms for the future  ($22 million currently in budget)
3. accountabiltiy block grant
4. Education Fund grants

Networking and Support

1. IU–Act 183 WAN, Tech staff development, webinars, NASA eMissions
2. 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

1. virtual islands
2. more online learning
3. capturn staff development for the future
4. teachesr as facilitators of social networking
5. 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

• embeddedlearning academy
• Concept to Classroom  www.thirteen.org
• annenberg  www.learner.org/resources
• annenberg www.learner.org/interactives

On Tuesday, April 29th and 30th, I attended the 2008 One-to-One Computing Conference at the Penn Stater Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania. This was a hectic conference with 3 keynote speakers and 5 1-hour sessions in a day that began at 7:30 a.m. and ended at 8:00 pm.

Monday Evening

Monday evening we were introduced to a learning environment called studywizspark, created by the eTech Group Henry Patel and WesBaugh presented the program. The plan for the conference was that all of the presenters’ presentations and blogging and chatting would occur through this learning environment. This is not, however, what happened.

Please feel free to log in to the environment and take a look around using my log in:

http://conference.studywizspark.com

User id: mary.hall

Password: spark100

I, along with many others, continued to communicate and post through their usual methods: blogs, wikis, listserves, email, and webpages. Presenters did not post their materials to studywizspark. It would be very difficult for me to evaluate the post since only presenters were given “teacher” privileges while mere attendees have only “student” privileges.

Tuesday

Opening Keynote: Bernajean Porter, author of Evaluating Digital Products: Training and Resource Tools for Using Student Scoring Guides and DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories.

Affinity, Joy, Passion

What is the concentual reality I buy into?

Critical Conversations: Innovation and Accountability: complimentary or Contradictory? Conversation Thought Leader: Bernajean Porter, Morderated by Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation President, Bruce Dixon.

“Is the drive for accountability an icon of conservatism or an agent of innovation? In this session we will look at how schools can make some of the innovative changes discussed in this morning’s keynote while dealing with the need for and issues around accountability. We will look for the benefits and limits, both real and perceived, that our ideas around accountability present.”

Sustaining and Extending CFF with Open source Software and Open Content: Dr. Scott Garrigan, CAPE Center for Advancing Partnerships in Education

Lunch Keynote “Enabling the New Classroom Conversation”: Paul Curtis, Chief Academic and Innovation

Officer for the New Technology Foundation

Google Docs: Using on-line authoring tools; Deb Kerr & Jane Sutterlin, Instructional Technology Specialists, State College Area School District

What Does a 1-to-1 Classroom Look Like? Brent d. Frey, Education Development Manage, Apple, Inc.

Managing the Digital Classroom; Laurie Vitale, West Shore School District

Dinner Keynote: Bruce Dixon, President, Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation

Wednesday

Digital Literacies for the English Classroom; Jamie Meyers, Penn State and a panel of teachers from State College Area School District

Incorporating Technology in the Language Arts Classroom; Alison Kocis, Kutztown Area School District

Digital Storytelling using MS PowerPoint: Sam Bundy, DuBois Area High School

Lunch Keynote: Wade Pogany

Closing Remarks: Kyle Peck, Penn State

Books to get for our professional library:

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink

Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce by National Center on Education and the Economy

Confronting the challenges of Participatory

Although I was not able to attend the presentation, Dan Vos, Holland Christian Schools, Holland, Michigan posted a voice thread that I thought was an interesting use of the tool.

http://www.slideshare.net/secret/sQvZqCXEsmHOtF

http://voicethread.com/#q.b118321.i609698