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SWAP presentation for MNPS Teacher Inservice Tuesday, October 19, 2010TRANSCRIPT
What do you want to learn today?
microblogging?Google Apps?
Ning?social
bookmarking?whiteboards?
chat?screencasting?
Glogster?Plurk?
YouTube?Flickr?RSS?VOIP?
what...?
Probable Schedule8:30 to 8:45 – Introductions and “On Task Distraction” backchat setup
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8:45 to 9:00 -- Sir Ken Robinson: Why Education Kills Divergent Learning Skills
9 to 10:30 - Build your PLN with Web 2.0 tools (Twitter, Facebook, and such)
10:30 to 10:45 - Bio-break
10:45 to 11:30 - Navigate the ReadWriteWeb (Blogs, wikis, and more)
11:30 to 12:45 - Lunch on your own
12:45 to 2:00 Online Webinar, Learning in Today’s World: Blending the Best of Formal and Social Approaches--Implementing the New Blended Model
2:00 to 2:15 Bio-break
2:15 to 3:15 - Virtual Worlds—3D Immersive Environments (Second Life, OpenSimulator, and beyond)
3:15-3:30 - Wrap up: “Where to from here?”
Web 2.0 for US--Nurture Your PLN!
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MNPS SWAP
Common Foundations:
Our schools are what they should be.
Preserving traditional schools = Serving students responsibly.
Technological tools are available that were available so a single decade ago.
We understand and make best use of these new tools in our teaching practice and in our own learning?
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Do you agree or disagree?
New Tools are for:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
allinthecloud
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Incorporating New Tools:
Steps to build your PLN:
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Try this:
Begin with Twitter
Educators on Twitter Googledoc
Twitter4Teachers
and, of course, Twitter!
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Try this:
“Educize”your Facebook
Read “Establishing a PLN on Fb”
Look at “Best Practices for Educators Using Facebook”
Read “Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook”scottmerrickdotnet
Are your charges “students” or are they “learners?”
(David Warlick’s blog post on the topic)
An important ?:
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Web 2.0 for US--The ReadWrite Web!Scott Merrick
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Common Foundations:
Blogs are in my radar for my own personal learning.
I am interested in keeping up with the global dialog about learning and teaching.
Blogs are dead. Long live the Blog.
Blogging is a waste of my time. Who cares what I think?
Do you agree or disagree?
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New Tools:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
allinthecloud
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Incorporating New Tools:
Steps to build your
Blogging Know-how:
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Try these:
Blogger.com
Blog posts at Classroom20.com (48,801 members)
Huffpost Education
The Bloggers Hut in Second Life (requires override)
The ReadWriteWeb
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Web 2.0 for US--Virtual Worlds!Scott Merrick
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Common Foundations:
I hardly have time for my “first life.” Why would I want a Second Life?
Immersion is for a bath or a swimming pool, not for a classroom.
I can’t get to these things in my school.
I get it.
I don’t get it.
Do you agree or disagree?
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New Tools are for:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
allinthecloud
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Incorporating New Tools:
Steps toward your 3D immersive experience:
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Try these:
Second Life
Virtual Environments Education Videos
Open Simulator
ReactionGrid
VenueGen
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and these:
KZero Q3 slideshow
ISTE Special Interest Group for Virtual Environments (SIGVE)
SIGVE walkthrough at ISTE 2010 in Denver, CO
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What have YOU learned today?
microblogging?Google Apps?
Ning?social
bookmarking?whiteboards?
chat?screencasting?
Glogster?Plurk?
YouTube?Flickr?RSS?VOIP?
what...?