Carol's NCaect Notes

 

Suggested Blogs

 

http://21stcenturycollaborative.com  (Sheryl Nussbaun-Beach)

http://learningconditions.blogspot.com (Deneen Frazier-Bowen as student characters)

 

  

Ideas

 

Opening Session (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach)

Social and intellectual capital are the new values in the world economy

Education will shift from averages to the individual – from standardization to personalization

Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of our advancement or decline

The greatest obstacle to change is our memories

Classrooms should become a community where teachers and students learn from each other

Focus will shift from accountability to responsibility

Passionate Learning – move from deficit based to strength based instruction

Help students chase their passion

Culturally Responsive Teaching (Bobby Hobgood)

4 components

Establish Inclusion: everyone feels respected and connected

Develop Positive Attitude: establish personal relevance, offer choices, make real world and my world connections

Enhance Meaning: make it matter to the learner

Engender Competence: students have to believe they can be effective in learning

Personal Learning Networks (David Warlick)

Need to “train information to find us”

Helping Teachers Shift Gears (Barbara Nesbitt)

            “If it’s not moving you forward, get off.”

Student said she didn’t remember the story she wrote last week but she remembered everything about the video she made last year.

Technology - Rigor = Entertainment, Technology + Rigor = Engagement, the teacher makes the difference

Luncheon Speaker (Deneen Frazier-Bowen)

            If we put students in the driver’s seat, we’ll go a lot faster.

            Dropout rate is the thermometer that measures the health of a community

            How can we make a connection when we don’t know what students are saying?

            different definitions lead to different labels

            access and choice are what students are asking for

 

Suggested Resources

 

Opening Session (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach)

use http://www.slideshare.net to post PowerPoints for easy retrieval from any computer with Internet access

http://www.ustream.tv lets you broadcast video

Personal Learning Networks (David Warlick)

http://technorati.com  searches blogs and posts

Google News: searches news articles around the world

http://flickr.com to post or search for photos

http://www.cellphedia.com register your phone and indicate areas where you have knowledge, send text message to a specified number to post a question and it is forwarded to people who have knowledge in that area so they can reply to you

http://twitter.com posting limited to 140 characters, choose who you “listen to”, send out message to invite folks to add to a blog and build an information base

Teacher Tube www.teachertube.com  (Jodie Smith)

there is adigital divide between students and teachers not just between the have and have nots

new technology is scary to teachers

become part of a virtual community of educators to share ideas – anytime/anywhere professional development

capture amazing teaching with video technology to break down classroom walls and contribute outside the classroom walls

launched March 6, 2007

meet teachers as learners where they are

community for viewing and sharing instructional videos

can give feedback

way to grow professionally

safe community – flag inappropriate comments and videos

not blocked because teachers monitor the site and send flags when there is a problem

can mark uploaded videos as private or share with a limited audience

teacher groups to communicate with a specific learning community or create your own

link to video or embed videos (have codes set for most wikis)

download and save to play offline

give credit when you use it

Screen Capture Movies just need headset with microphone and CamsStudio free software to capture images

Still Image/Clips Movies can be done with Photo Story or Voice Thread

Live Action Movies can be edited with Movie Maker

Audacity can be used for audio editing

membership lets you comment, upload, join and manage groups, have favorites, internal messaging – can view without joining

can add support files to a video

also organized by channels

 

NC DPI Suggested Instructional Resources         

            Lots of great sites were reviewed.  Click the link above to review my page of notes from the K-5 and 6-12 update sessions.