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.