I was fortunate to hear Ian Jukes speak at http://ncaistech.wikispaces.com/NCAISTECH2009. I have enjoyed listening to Ian and this time I also was able to talk with him after the conference for over an hour as part of NCAIS C.O.T. His handouts are available at his site.
I was very interested in his brain research and how [...]
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At NCAIS Tech Conference in a session called Creating Learning Studios with Matt Scully http://pdsblogs.org/mattscully/
He is giving his background and introducing how he is now teaching a Middle School English class and realized that he needed to start over with his thinking and teaching.
Quick Quotes: “What is the point?” – Jonathan Zittrain, “Part [...]
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Each year I learn something new and am affirmed at what I know already when it comes to digital learning. Thanks to all who exposed me to something new. I enjoyed learning from David Warlick like I always do and hearing Alan November was a true treat. I think either one of these two could [...]
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Karen Fasimpaur from K12 Handhelds
Karen did a great job presenting the plethora of tools and options that are available in the open area.
“Open Educational Resources can help us reshape education by providing free high quality resources”.
K12 Open Ed
Workshop Notes
Sites:
Tools:
CamStudio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
Audio
Creative Commons Mixter
http://ccmixter.org/
MusOpen – Classical
http://www.musopen.com/
Wikimedia Commons Music
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Spoken Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_articles
Freesound Project
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Photo:
Stock XCHNG
http://www.sxc.hu/
Open Photo
http://openphoto.net/
Morguefile
http://www.morguefile.com
Educational Content
Wikibooks and Wikijunior
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org
WikiEducator
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
Free-Reading
http://www.free-reading.net
MIT OpenCourseware
http://ocw.mit.edu
Wikipedia for [...]
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David Warlick is presenting this session on what our students face in the flat classroom world of today.
Link to Presentation: http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.OurStudentsOurWorlds
If the world is flat what is the impact to our students?
Future Tech:
Wearable computer MIT
Toe Ring GPS Units and Cell Phone with a thumb and pinky finger unit
Books:
Richard Florida The Rise of the Creative Class [...]
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I am excited to hear Alan talk today about “Banning Student Containers” as he inspired me to change the title of what I do. I am no longer the technology coordinator as it was too limiting. There is no pencil and paper coordinator. It was freeing to me as I am no longer “that computer [...]
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November 26, 2007.
Attending Workshop the session is on the Finer Points of Web 2.0 by David Warlick.
Next to me is Carrie Willamson and Julie Williams.
Topics to discuss are: Podcasting, wikis, Virtual Reality, Blogs, Social Networking Virtual Learning, Social Networking
Handouts at: http://handouts.davidwarlick.com
Wiki Notes: http://web2atncetc.wikispaces.com/
Tools: Twitter and Ajax Chat Open-Source Ajax Chat that we can install [...]
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Some day I will attend one of Alan November’s Building Learning Communities workshops, but until then, I can listen in and get the message from the experts he invites. One such person is Professor Angela McFarlane who gave the keynote speech this year. Her research into Online Learning Communities and games has allowed her to [...]
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Wesley Freyer was one of quite a few presenters at the Learning 2.0 conference at the Concordia International School Shanghai, Pudong 201206, Shanghai held in September of this year. Wesley podcasted one of Alan’s sessions called: Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments. This podcast is worth listening to as it is 1 hour [...]
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Wesley Freyer tagged everyone who reads his blog to list 3 reasons why teachers should “attend” the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Well here are mine:
1. Because I never have
2. Because I want to learn from others without leaving home
3. Because I can
What are yours?
From the K-12 Online Conference Web site:
“The K-12 Online Conference is for [...]
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