MEC 2010

MEC 2010

MONDAY 3-15-10

Keynote Presentation
Steve Dembo--Discovery Educator Network
dencommunity.com

signgenerator.org
teach42.com

Learning to Speak Native--How education is being transformed in 140 characters or less
What is a native?
Multi-Taskers
Prefer graphics before text
random access (Non linear)

• Shift from prohibiting putting first and last name online with work, to now putting it all there to credit the work.

• collegeconfidential (website which demystifies the college application)

• Now more than ever have the ability to lock down, but many don't know how to really keep it locked down from friends and what not which people can view you from.

Marc Prensky--"If digital immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives..they will have to change"

wiziq--website--virtual meeting/virtual learning
wiki.museummobile.info
10 Things your student can blog about Today--Blog post done on March 7, 2010

dougbelshaw.com/blog
spaaze.com
atomkeep.com--saves a lot of time--this syncronizes your profiles across all the sites you're on.
Howto create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s

Need to not only push the information out for schools in social settings, say via twitter, but need people to respond.
Involvement vs. Engagement

Twitter School a Learning "Tweet" For kids
tinyurl.com/yzbv7k2

Edmodo--similar to twitter, but more restrictive for students
Discovery Educator Network--connecting teachers to their most valuable resource...each other
Native Way to Share info:
    blogs
podcast
skypecasting

Social Media Resumé--gathers what they have done in the past as well as now, currently--
demonstrating our passions and accomplishments
could start a ning for the unemployed and then have people join and then share tips.

crowdspring.com

Three Trends to work towards
Websites:
Ustream--broadsetrem
qik--one button
livestream--entire tv studio within the browser, can do a livecast--takes a few hours to get it all set up.

Geo-Applications-
almost.at--aggregate all photos and media from a certain geographic area
foursquare

Augmented Reality
take a webcam and then you can control a 3D version
Mindspace Solutions
Imaginality
print out these cards and then hold them up in front of the webcam and they become a 3d object.

Breaktrhoughs occur at the intersection of fields, disciplines and cultures.]

Google Lit Trips--using Google Earth to help tell the stories behind stories.

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Why Intel Teach  and Essential Questions?
by Rachele Woodman and Valerie Quarto

Professional Development which is not a canned system.

Intel Teach Essential Question
How can technology be used most effectivly to support and assess student learning

Intel Teach Essentials Course--two ways to participate--face to face, or online
Introduces Web 2.0
Blogs
WIkis
Collaboration Apps
Discussion Boards
Group Work/Problem Solving

Teachers learn different basic computer techniques to better help their students.

Intel Teach Thinking with Technology Course
Models of Thinking
    Bloom's revised taxonomy of thinking skills
Marzano's dimensions of learning
Costa and Kallick's 16 Habits of the Mind

The three tools:

1. 1. Visual Ranking
2. Seeing Reason
3. Showing Evidence

What's Similar?
Project based learning
Curriculum Framing Questions
Differntiated instruction
21st Century Learning Skills
Assessing Projects

under my ideal google account, go to sites then go to AZ Intel Presentations site.
http://tinyurl.com/azintelpresentation

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Discovery Education Tools--Beyond the Stream--Integration Strategies

Start day off with using Atlas (under the atlas)--can go through and share the link anywhere including Google Earth where you put a placemark and then ask a question such as "How do the Chineese start their day" then put the link in the description field. The link is one which requires the user to login so you're not violating the copyright.

District has to upload the students to Discovery Education for the students to login, same way as the teachers are done. Some districts use a standardized username as well. This is FREE through Arizona--no additional cost because it is part of the subscription.

Other tool to use is Calendar, can use this to look at certain pieces and it will give you a showcase of great resources to put together. Great transition from one subject to another, on this date in history in science....


When downloading a file/movie from Discovery Education you can copy the citation, and then paste it into the Spotlight Comments by doing a right click on the file, pressing get info and then pasting it there. You can also put this in on properties on a Windows OS. This stays with the file always. Very useful when you download it and put it in a folder or go through and put it for students to work with the media instead of having them to find it themselves.

Editable files are meant to be mashed up.

Best to embed the media file into the presentation, rather than just link it and wait for the file to open the program to load and then play. Good thing to make sure and do is when putting the media file into the presentation to not make it take up the whole room, but use space to put an essential question or vocabulary or even your objective, what the reasoning you're showing it.

Good idea is to use media as a writing prompt.

My Builder tools is place to create quizzes, assignments and my writing prompt builder... very good resource. Writing prompt builder can only have 3 media pieces in it, rationale is to just have this to not take up too much time and then let the students create their writing. You can assign by code or URL if students are not in the system. NO ACCOUNT is needed because they're not logging in, they are going to write their name as if they're writing their name on the top of the paper. Can read it and score it online, the great thing is you can share this with everyone who has sharing capabilities in the school or the district and you can use it again and again or modify and then use the next year.
If you are trying to assess grammar and spelling, then writing prompt builder is great because their is no grammar or spelling check which is there in the office tools.

Instead of having to do wiki pages, you can use assignment builder. Go ahead and bookmark all the media you're going to use and put it in My Content and it is much quicker than just having to search it.

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Free Resources from Discovery Education--Steve Dembo


http://www.discoveryeducation.com

ALL under Classroom Resources--AS LONG AS you're logged out you'll be easily able to get to the various  sites. If you're logged in, go to Additional Resources in the bottom right corner.

• Web20.10
• SIEMENS STEM Academy
• Stem Institute--workshop in DC--week long professional development all expenses paid, August 1-6th, 2010, selection process online at discoveryeducation.com
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• community.discoveryeducation.com/webinar--ALL THE WEBINARS ARE FREE
• New Teacher Survival
• Clip Art
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Under Contests and Grants
• To stop underage drinking
• http://its21justpass.discoveryeducation.com/
• fuelourfuturenow.com

If we can get 5 students to go on the discovery student adventures, then we as educators can go completely free.
STAR Institute--we pay to get there then we get all free lodging and registrations and conference during the Summer.

cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools (expanded digital story telling, 50 different ways to tell a digital story using web 2.0 tools)---can go through and use all the resources from Discovery Education, as long as you publish these privately, meaning to those who have a login or subscribe to the service in which case is all of Arizona.

Generic term for sharing your presentation, open up a skype line then go through and share it via twitter.

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DAY 2--

STEM, PBS, VOD... Free Resources Not Just Alphabet Soup--by Mark Becker and Kimberly Flack

Show one math resource and one which works with Science and many subjects. Everything we'll do is under the resources section on the asset.asu.edu website.

Mark can come out to any of our sites or districts to help with technology integration and provide free training.

MATH RESOURCES
Still have a large library of Math Flash Activities--Math Active under the Intermediate Resources--these are all FLASH Programs
There are extension activities on the right side of the lesson called "Dig Deeper"

Most use it as a piece of the lesson and use it as an introduction to the concept. Good to use it with a smart board as well to let the kids come up and use it.

The only plugins are flash, quicktime and windows media that are needed.

SCIENCE RESOURCES with other subjects as well
Can get to it through Intermediate and
Teachers' Domain is from WGBH out of Boston--they provide this free and don't mind if we let our students' use it as well. THey'll let the kids register as well.

All the standards are aligned to the Arizona State standards as well, as long as you've registered your account for AZ. Great to use as a visual to help the students really see what you're speaking about. All of the resources from Teachers' Domain are downloadable as a zip file and the videos and images are able to be used in their entirety for educational use, so you could put it in a presentation to help demonstrate a concept.

Continuing to stay busy

I'm continuing to stay very busy with teaching, being the President of the Creighton Education Association, a member of the AEA Board of Directors, technology trainer, and in the long stretch for my campaign to become the next AEA Vice President. Life has continued to keep Sammy, Maya and Karen all busy as well with school, learning, and Cub Scouts. We'll work on keeping this more up to date, but you can always look for us on Facebook too.

Maya wanted to say Good Night to her Opa

We wish Oma and Opa a very Happy Anniversary and Maya has a special message for her Opa.



Love always,
Jason, Karen, Sammy and Maya

passover 2009

We had a great Seder. Jason read the questions in Hebrew and Sam repeated it. Karen read the questions in English and Maya repeated it. Sorry no video this time. It was really cute.

Sam's First Cub Scout Overnighter- Grand Canyon Council October 17-18, 2008

Sam was waiting here at the Archery range, doing a nice job listening to the rangemaster. Even though he was not in the first group he still did well. The camp had over 150 boys on this campout, well more than they were prepared for but as the Scout Moto says, "Be Prepared" the leaders did great and made it fun for the boys. Sam's group had 31 boys in it, which meant at the archery range and the BB gun range, he had to wait because they didn't have enough equipment.
Sam was now at the Blue Line--the ready line on the archery range. He was waiting for his turn to get to pick up his bow and arrow and attempt to shoot it down range. The range master did a great job in explaining to all the boys what they needed to do and the commands which were in place for safety. Sam had thought because he shot a bow and arrow before he knew what to do. He still came in with an good listening attitude.








Sam was ready to go, he listened and was now awaiting the two short whistle blasts telling him to pick up his bow and his arrow. Since he is a lefty he had to face to the left, which was a challenge for Dad (Jason), because he is a righty and learned to shoot differently.








Now, Sam was able to pick up his arrow put it in the notch on the string of the bow. He doesn't have the arm strength to pull it back all the way, so Dad helped a bit. Even then, he did nto get it down at the target. He was not upset or discouraged. Dad explained how to keep practicing at it and he would get it down to the target.

Sam turns into an author!

Hi Family and Friends,

Sammy wanted to share his story he wrote about Cub Scouts with you. He is very excited about being in Tiger Cubs and even though it was tough having him write, because this is his weak area, having him write about something he is enjoying was easier.Enjoy and watch for more stories to come from Sam Schnee the author.
Jason, Karen, Sammy and Maya :-)

Jason's home for a little bit!

Well, Jason is finally home from being gone for the week in Tucson, teaching for the Arizona K-12 Center's Camp Plug and Play and then teaching for the AEA at their annual officer's training. Jason finished teaching around 12PM at the Westward Look in Tucson and then headed up to the AEA training at the Phoenix Airport Hilton. He stayed there overnight and then had to teach the next day for AEA local officers. He also had made a promise to Sam that he would go workout with him at his karate school. So he had to leave by 9:30 the training then go workout and once he was done working out had to go back down to finish training. He finally came home around 5PM and the kids were so excited to see him. He has been enjoying his Father's Day so far with the kids making him a bowl from As You Wish.

We went to breakfast this morning and then to Home Depot to get some stuff for our pool so we can go swimming later. We are just taking it easy around the house and resting since when Jason was gone no one including him slept well. Happy Father's Day to all of you Dad's out there.