Web2Point0InTeacherEd

n08s233

=Digital Innovations in the University Classroom=

12:00 at Hyatt

Twitter's Strawpoll - new app for voting in class via twitter (Twitter is down at the beginning of this session)

Slides for this are on Diigo: http://slides.diigo.com/list/mkm420fritz/necc2008

Megan Fritz: how to help teachers (grad students) develop professionally

- twitter - google reader account for bringing in blogs, news sites; but make them bring in what can help them professionally; Megan shows them Vicki Davis, Will Richardson, for info related to the classroom (Google reader rather than Pageflakes at this point cuz it's easier for beginners to RSS and blogs etc)

They're comparing wikispaces and pbwiki; Megan finds pbwiki easier, but wikispaces gives lockability more easily and previous versions more easily

Profs model use of blogs with their own; requires teaching them how to comment; see Vicki Davis' post: "How to comment like a king (or queen!)" on her Cool Cat Teacher blog

Voicethread: required comments on a preso there; typed ok, audio preferred - and now Voicethread allows comments to be left via phone (only awesome)

iTunes U podcasts (from elem teachers via Penn State); went through the steps to explain the So What factor: what does this uniquely do for your students?

covered design, delvelopment etc; audacity is their tool

Presentations online: Called them Digital Sharing, and more of the grad students got it... had them post links to their projects in wikispaces, then had them put comments on each other's projects, all on the wiki, so it's all centrally located, easier for each of them to find and use, and for the prof to evaluate; this solicited more and more effective responses from the students on each others' work.


 * Diigo* rocks they say; it's what to use rather than delicious. Search NECC2008 at diigo, join their group, and share share share. Set up a list of urls in diigo, it will let you make a "webslides" option that provides all the pages in the preso in a box on the page. It's how they're presenting this.

Carrie Rathsack: Assistant Director CTL at Bowling Green; works with teachers and profs

"Collaboratory": play on collaboration and laboratory; socially constructed learning, metacognitive

Point at the ISTE NETS standards for tech in education for elem ed


 * many 2.0 tools in her preso; make sure to look them up**

A good question: what about CMSs and this kind of end run around it? **USE WHAT YOUR TEACHERS CAN AND ARE LIKELY TO USE.**

How to manage all the diff online tools, if one prof requires edublogs, another pbwiki, another ning? **AGGREGATE.**

Let the students know that it might fail some of the time; be ready with Plan B

What can you do that you couldn't do before: eg, share philosophies of teaching, build a wiki archive of knowledge, etc.

Have students mail URL of blog and headshot (from Photo Booth or other) and put in a document to share with the class to easily learn names, faces, etc. Then put the URLs in a bookmark folder and open them all in tabs all at once for evaluating them Craft and take an oath on growing with technology in professional development

USTREAMS OF THIS: http://www.ustream.tv/search/all/mkm420fritz - That's Megan Fritz's ustream channel

Kristen Kozloski's ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/search/all/kozloski