Presentations and comments from class

Hi -
I just wanted to comment on the great conversations Saturday morning around your experience with Web 2.0 tools over the last few weeks. The presentations on Saturday afternoon were outstanding! I learned a great deal from all of you!

Feel free to post your comments here.

Also here are few links that were discussed late in the day and I wanted to make sure I posted them.

From Sandy
Sandy’s blog with her Wii demo http://mespaem.blogspot.com/
The porgram used in her video was Tux Painthttp://www.tuxpaint.org/drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. Open source/free download.

Links from Rob
Free-Reading is an “open source” instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading. Because it's open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. It's designed to contain a scope and sequence of activities that can support and supplement a typical “core” or “basal” program http://www.freereading.net

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Julie made screencasts using jing check it out http://screencast.com/t/wNjjUoUD

And one more example of the power of a wiki....
http://www.curriki.org/ - Global Education and Learning Community – Browse by subject http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Browse

Let's keep the converstation going while you are working on your final projects over the next few weeks.

Have a great week!
Mary

Interesting quote ...

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
--Alvin Toffler, American futurist

What are you learning this week?

In class I had everyone look at the K12Online Conference for ideas for midterm projects and to look at new digital tools. This week, I downloaded some of the K12Online Conference 2007 podcast to my ipod and decided to listen to a few on my way to work.

I remember Rob showing podcasting last fall and I hope all of you continue to use this great resource.

Today I listened to K12Online07 Audio Podcasts "Online Professional Development" by Jeff Utecht. Jeff talked about the increase role of online PD for teachers, joining communities and building "your" network. If you do not use iTunes/podcasts, I would like to remind you of all great resources that are available to you. You may want to share these podcasts with your staff. All you have to do is listen and learn.

Does anyone else listen to podcasts? Do you have any recommendations?

FRONTLINE presents GROWING UP ONLINE Jan 22nd 9:00pm

This is an optional exercise, instead of reading one of the articles, you may want to watch this show on Tuesday evening and share with colleagues/administration at your school.

You can also use this as one of your reading assignments and post a short reflection in the class blog. I was just notified of this show by my principal.

FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES THE RISKS, REALITIES AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF TEEN LIFE ON THE INTERNET
FRONTLINE presents
GROWING UP ONLINE
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Readings and Blogs

As we discussed in class there are many good blogs and articles that support new digital tools in the classroom.

Articles from the class wiki/readings
Read 2-3 articles that pertain to your classroom and post a brief reflection about one of the articles listed below or from the wiki/reading page. Feel free to recommend articles to your colleagues. Your response should be posted as a comment in the blog.
1. A Day in the Life of Web 2.0 By David Warlick
2. Blogs: Webs of Connected Learning
3. Think Outside the Blog
Looking for more choices? Go to the class wiki reading tab.Listed below are a few blogs that you may want to checkout, remember you can also subscribe to them in your google reader.
4. TV this week FRONTLINE presents GROWING UP ONLINE - Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS www.pbs.org/frontline/kidsonline
Blogs - Pick a few blogs to review and subscribe using GoogleReader or igoolge
1. The Fischbowl:Karl Fisch
2. Learning.Now:Andy Carvin
3. Moving at the Speed of Creativity:Wes Fryer
4. 2 Cents Worth:David Warlick
5. Teach42.com:Steve Dembo
6. The Tech Savvy Educator
7. Weblogg-ed:Will Richardson
8. A Difference:Darren Kuropatwa
9. TheThinkingStick:Jeff Utecht
10. Marc Prensky's Blog

Get inspired - Watch and listen to K12Online Conference Teasers and podcasts. Many of the "teasers" will actually give you a good idea for a midterm project.

Comparing Blog Tools

As I menitoned in class, you may want to evaluate a few blog tools before deciding on one.

1. Blogger http://www.blogger.com/
- integration with google is a good feature
2. WordPress to sign-up.
Here is a link to my wordpress site I like the tab feature.
WordPress and tutorials http://www.wordpresstutorials.com/newtowordpress.shtml
3. Edublogs http://edublogs.org/
- great for classroom setup *I noticed this site seems to be down this week, I was finally able to create a site today. Here is the link.

SlideShare

I decided to take the same PowerPoint presentation that I created in Voicethread and upload to Shareslide and RockYou. This is another way to take something I would normally save on my tablet or network and allow me to publish. I hope you try to publish using slideshare and voicethread.

| View | Upload your own

Other Options to post slideshows -
RockYou - Link
BubbleShare on the sidebar

Voicethread - Post your feedback (voice or comments)

I thought it would be a good idea to use Voicethread as a way to get feedback about the class. You can comment on each page, or a general comment on the first page. I also posted the voicethread in the class wiki and now I am copying the same code to the blog. Post a test/audio on the site. This is a great way to expand my network! What a great way to get feedback from students and share with administration.



Enjoy!

Snow Day

I hope everyone is enjoying their day off! I will be working online today doing the following.
1. Adding tools to the class blog/sidebar (Links, Youtube playlist on web 2.0, polling features and the RSS feed). Please add the class RSS feed to you google page/reader.

2. Add my voicethread that is in the class wiki to this site and will also experiment with uploading to Slideshare.

I hope you get a chance explore the Web 2.0 tools discussed in class. Once you have created your blog, please post in the class wiki, on the "groups" page. If there is a password put it in the table next to the site. That way we can look at each others blog and wiki. Remember, the goal of the class is to review new digital tools and collaboarte in a web 2.0 setting.

I will be making a few posts on the blog today. Feel free to post comments.

Mary

Welcome to the New Digital Technologies Class Blog

Hello Everyone -

I am looking forward to seeing all of you on Saturday! I know many of you have used Moodle as a vehicle for class communication. I would like to model the use of a blog and wiki to deliver this class.

You will need to create a google/blogger account; you will then receive an email with a link that will validate your account in order to post a comment. Modify your blogger profile to include a picture and any other information you would like to share.

Please post a comment for this entry and let me know if you have used a blog or wiki with students to facilitate a class. Additionally, please create an account with pbwiki http://pbwiki.com/ for class this weekend.

Feel to post any other information that you would like to share.


Regards,
Mary Marotta