Teaching With Wings

August 17th, In-Service Workshop @ Universal School


Technology:Teachers:Students!
Learning has changed, but teaching has stayed the same "outdated"
Daily technology impact by the year 2010
Buying a Computer: selecting components for data capacity vs. human capacity

• Google Earth assignment
  
• Marking places
• Tours/Virtual Field Trips
  
• Sketchup Download (IFS 3D Model)
  
• Multiple Layers and Content Available (Darfur)
  
• Enhancements are Endless
  

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• iGoogle homepage setup
• create gmail account
• select a theme
  
• "Add Stuff" link: search gadgets
  
• gmail
• Keeping online Notebook to track your thoughts

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• Docs & Spreadsheets http://docs.Google.com

*Keysha! This is a dream come true for collaboration efforts! Thanks for thinking of it! :)

• Google Scholar: simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
  
• News Highlights by subject of interest or current affairs
  

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• RSS (Free Subscriptions)
  
• Google Reader
• Blogs= Linked writing (key to creating network, global linking to each other)
• Subscribe to blogs, build with subscriptions

• http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2006/12/09/how-three-cups-of-tea-changed-my-life/

• Chicago Tribune rss search, add link, add subscriptions by searching name or content Isn't this cool?

• News.google.com

  • Search (darfur) sort by date; rss link on left

  • Advanced news search for specific rss links

  • http://blogsearch.google.com/
  
  
  • Start with Blogger.com or edublogs.org

  • Sign in at blogger.com with email address and see dashboard with post

  • visit http://key-tech.blogspot.com/
  • 21classes.com for class blogs, also www.classblogmeister.com
  
  

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Wikis

• Metaphore for openness on web
• Collaboration of content book “Wikinomics”

• http://www.wikispaces.com/

• www.Webloggedwikispaces.com

• http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/main_page

• http://Wiki.monroe.edu/index.php?title=gargeBand

• Connecting without hardcover textbooks: http://cnx.org/ and http://creativecommons.org/

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Extras Resources

• Firefox best browser free download at Google Pack Link

• Instant Snapshots (Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site.) http://www.snap.com/about/shotsdownload.php?source=www.weblogg-ed.com&campaign=shot_link_2!!www.weblogg-ed.com

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in one snapshot

• http://digg.com/login = Discover, promote, and share the news that's important to you!

• TED Great Speeches by Future Leaders in Education, Design, Tech and more
• Ted Talks video featuring Sir Ken Robinson, titled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” and Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning

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Hands-on break time

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Curriculum Integration Tools {ISTE NETS-T Standards 1A-B, 2A-E, 3A-D, 4A-D, 5A-D, 6A-E}

• Podcast: internet radio
• http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/
• • Recent site Will Richardson and others are enjoying for podcasting their blogs: Talkr for podcasts
  • Podcast with itunes education link categories, k-12 Princeton review vocabulary minute

  3 steps: Record digital audio: ipod, microphone jack, cell phone, etc
  

• Audacity recording software

• Compose
• add link to classroom/school websites or begin a digital portfolio
• EPals
• http://www.epals.com/search/maps/ Get classrooms globally connected!
• create projects and learn from students in any part of the world
• Pictures & Video
• www.teachertube.com
• Dove Beauty Video on youtube sample
• Teach students the right way to use for positive benefits to share knowledge (myspace)
• 2008 Presidential Elections staying afloat with global audience in cyberspace
• Overhead projectors are antique and should be replaced with LCD projectors!
• Digial Storyboards: Have students dipict or search for content related images to navigate through chapters.
  
• Pangaea Cinema Day , on May 10, 2008= simultaneous screening to millions of people around the world of powerful human stories
• PowerPoint
  
• Presentation in less than 5 minutes
• Connection, Content, Passion with audio, animation and digital media
• Microsoft Free Templates
• Hand-outs for student notes
• Discovery Education
• allowing classrooms to journey with scientist and interact with technology

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Today thanks to interactive technologies it is possible to break down the barriers of our walls and distance, to be mentored and serve as a mentor by and for teachers and students literally all over our planet.

Traditional twentieth-century educational practices will no longer provide students with the skills needed to become productive citizens in today's high-tech global workplace. Capture your children's attention and retain it with digital media!

• Website for teachers with lesson plans and samples of how you can integrate digital media into the curriculum: SCsite
• Digital Media Corner links
• The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides, Lesson plans, Question/Answers, and more
• Education World: more resources!
• workshop resources are available on teachdigital.pbwiki.com