June 24th Class Assignments

Please work to complete the following assignments before our next class on July 8th.

• Read Curriculum 21 chapter 6.
• Read Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts chapters 5 & 6
• Post a reflection on your blog (include some form of media) about your experiences with using the Social Web to learn
• Read and comment on at least one of your classmate’s blogs. Find the list on the right side.
• Test your computer for July 8th’s online/virtual class. Contact Steve for technical support. Log in on the right under Bb Collaborate vOffice.
• Continue to work on Digital Storytelling Assignment (due July 15th) – assignment checklist
• Continue to work on the Technologically Integrated Unit Plan (due July 30th) – description – rubric
• Enjoy the July 4th holiday.

**Groups still needing to present Podcasts on July 8th, please upload the file into Dropbox or send me a Youtube/Vimeo link.

I will be at the Reston Center on July 8th for class. Class should last no more than 2 hours.

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Podcast Encore

The three podcasts presented at Friday night’s class convinced me that this ED554 assignment needs to have freedom of choice for the subject matter (no more summaries of the course readings). The podcasts shared were distinctly different, informative and extremely creative. BRAVO.

Check out each one below.

Blaise Pascal by Erick, Holly and Kathy

Gardening in Northern Virginia by Cindy, Karen & Shabrayle

Deer Population Control by Molly, Leslie, Lindsey and Catherine

 

ED554 Bookmarks (weekly) via Diigo

• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

  Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once:

  Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
  Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.
  This page is organized to combine the two techniques into a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author(s).

  Tags: 21st Century Fluency, 21st Century Skills, analysis

• Digital StoryTelling Part III- PhotoStory | Langwitches Blog

  Tags: langwitches, digitalstorytelling, digital_storytelling, PhotoStory, tutorial

• Text 2 Mind Map – The text-to-mind-map converter

  Tags: mindmap, mindmapping, web2.0, visualization

• 21centuryedtech – home

  Tags: 21st Century Skills, 21st century learning, techintegration, wiki, wikispaces

• ED Pubs – US Department of Education

  The ED Pubs web site is intended to help you identify and order U.S. Department of Education products. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education.

  ED Pubs offers more than 6,000 titles. Items include:

  * Brochures
  * CD–ROMs
  * Grant applications
  * Newsletters
  * Posters
  * Research reports
  * Videotapes
  * Financial aid products

  Tags: education, ED.gov, USDOE

• Interactive NETS*S – home

  Tags: NETS*S, resources, 21st Century Fluency, 21st century skills, ISTE, technology, interactive

• Digital_Storytelling

  Tags: digitalstorytelling, digital_storytelling, livebinder, storytelling

• GoAnimate for Schools and Educators – Sign Up Page

  Tags: animation, web2.0, goanimate, digital storytelling

• Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting | Langwitches Blog

  Tags: langwitches, podcasting

• NETS Implementation – home

  Tags: nets, NETS*S, Wiki, wikispaces, 21st Century Skills, standards

• Discovery Education: Tech Tips Blog: Digital Storytelling 2.0: Connect, create and collaborate

  Tags: digital storytelling, discovery, storytelling, education, digitalstorytelling, digital_storytelling

• 10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class | The Whiteboard Blog

  Tags: digital storytelling, storytelling, digital_storytelling

• How To Get Better Grades Using Social Media [Infographic] – Edudemic

  Tags: infographic, social media, social networking

• Learn It In 5 – Do you use Twitter in school?

  Tags: Twitter, twitter in education, mobile learning

• The Innovative Educator: Why Twitter is a big deal

  Tags: Twitter, twitter in education

• Blogging Guide- Blogging with your Students

  Tags: blogging, guide, guidebook, langwitches, scribd

Posted from Diigo. The rest of MU_ED554 group favorite links are here.

 

Visions of Students Today

Dr. Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University, put together an interactive video collage highlighting hundreds of video entries of digital learners. You can read his latest blog entry to learn more about the project and check out the project @ http://visionsofstudents.org/ .

This site was built with HTML5 which allows one (with the latest versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome) to interact with the collage by selecting any of the images to view more video. Once you watch the 5:00+ minute video, you can click the “Show All” tab in the upper left corner to select an image.

This is a great example of the digital learners that will enter our class. Understanding how they see the world and use technology might help us better engage their learning and help them disconnect to focus without the digital world…model a balanced life.

Below is the non-interactive video.

 

June 17th Class Assignments

;Please work to complete the following assignments before our next class on June 24th.

• Read Curriculum 21 chapter 8.
• Read this blog post from Discovery Education – http://goo.gl/CYjSE
• Watch Digital Storytelling video below.
• Post a reflection on your blog (include some form of media) about your experiences with teaching with storytelling or a summary of Chapter 8.
• Come prepared to begin your digital storytelling assignment (see details in syllabus>>> http://goo.gl/cFOAT

 

ED554 Bookmarks (weekly)

• 21things4students – Home

  This site was created by a grant from the REMC Association of Michigan for the creation of an educational resource for educational technology for students. Members of the REMC Instructional Technology Specialists in Michigan along with teachers from the state, have created this site to provide project-based activities which are aligned to the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S), and the Michigan Educational Technology Standards for students (METS) as well as the Framework for 21st Century Learning identified by the Partnership For 21st Century Skills.

  Tags: 21st century learning, techintegration, technology_integration

• Class Blogs

  Blogs are becoming more and more commonplace for educational use as alternatives to Learning Management Systems (LMS) or for the use of teaching aides in the classroom. With Class Blogs, teachers can create unlimited free blogs for bibliographies, assignments, e-learning, learninglogs, or student blogs for their students. If you would like to try out the service, subscribe to the mailing list below. When we are ready, you will be sent an invitation code to try out the service and you will also be able to send out invitations to friends and colleagues as well.

  Tags: blogging, publishing, social network

• No More PCs, No More Books, No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

  Tags: 21st Century Fluency, 21st century learning, reform, technology leadership

• Free Technology for Teachers: 77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer

  Tags: techintegration, technology_integration, Web 2.0, web app, rmbyrne

• PD Summer: Understanding How the Brain Thinks (Part 1 of 4) | Edutopia

  Neurologist and teacher Judy Willis will be presenting a 4-part series on how young brains develop neurologically; she’ll also offer some research-based classroom strategies to teach critical thinking and other 21st century skills.

  Tags: Edutopia, brain research

• PLN Challenge #1: What the heck is a PLN? | Teacher Challenge

  Tags: Pln, personal learning network

• The Innovative Educator: Using Classroom publishing to teach outside the box

  Many teachers use publishing as a way to display student work, but not many let the students have control of the publishing process. This process, which involves acquisitions, editing, design, production, and marketing, allows every student to participate

  Tags: publishing, writing, 21st century learning

Posted from Diigo. The rest of MU_ED554 group favorite links are here.

 

Aviary’s Audio Editor – Myna Tutorial

My attempt to make using Aviary’s Myna easier;

 

June 10th Assignments

;Please work to complete the following assignments before our next class on June 17th.

• Read Curriculum 21 chapter 11.
• Read and comment on one of your classmate’s blogs. Find the list on the left hand side.
• Come prepared to record audio for the Podcast assignment.

 

TEDxNYED – Heidi Hayes Jacobs

 

Fun with Avatars

Some of you have already discovered the fun in creating an avatar or cartoon version of yourself. This is an activity that I do with 4th graders every year as part of my Internet Safety/Digital Citizenship lessons. It is a fun way to help kids find an alternative to sharing pictures of themselves on their social profiles. You too can have fun in creating your own avatar to share on your blog (this is an optional activity).

These are 5 of my favorites-

Clay Yourself

Lego withhttp://www.reasonablyclever.com/mizers.html	Simpsonize Me (uploading photo)… http://simpsonizeme.com/
Face Your Manga http://www.faceyourmanga.com/	SP Studio & Create South Park Avatar.. http://www.sp-studio.de/index.htm & http://www.southparkstudios.com/avatar/
Clay Yourself http://www.clayyourself.com/

To find more options for creating avatars, visit my Diigo Library @ http://www.diigo.com/user/plan3t_t3ch/avatar

Quick Tutorial on adding the Avatars to your WordPress.com Blog.