Random Ramblings

I didn’t think it would be possible to have a better day than the one with Will Richardson, but this might have been close. I don’t think I went to any bad sessions. Great sessions on being an leader in the technology community, audio booktalk, best of web 2007, podcasting, thinking differently and teaching differently, and cyber-safety.

My notes are following. Used Google Docs and still love it!

NCAETC Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Leading from the Edge
Chris O’Neal (funny guy! down to Earth)
http://leaders.wikispaces.com
www.edleadersonline.org

Agenda:

• reflect

• assess priorities

• plan professional development

• integrate ourselves and our projects more effectively

• explore resources

professional development can be done passing in the hall – doesn’t have to be a “sit ‘n get”

MySpace

• why should we talk about MySpace?
• social networking – same reason we are at the conference – we are making our own social network
• 75+ million registered users
• how do we tap into this treasure chest of information?
  • adults have a worse image of myspace than kids do – kids are doing good stuff with their accounts

21st Century students

• pew Internet site great site for statistics
• 80% of kids grades 7-12, 45% in grades 4-6, 29% in grades k-3 have at least one email account
• 22% kids in grades 7-12 have at least 3 email accounts
• ~ 60% of kids have a blog, webpage, photos, artwork, stories or videos online

Strategy

• justify expenditures
• prepare the above with index cards and bullets, elevator speeches
• preemptive conversations, newsletters with data
• do your research! how will this benefit our students? how much will it cost? how will you energize the teachers to use this technology?
• make it personal for the higher ups
• AYP for middle school boys (minorities)
• know who you are dealing with and deal with them!
  • invite yourselves to join their meetings
  • be a real team player
  • mass emails and generic flyers on the staff bulletin board DON’T COUNT
  • use reflections on school-level team building & collaboration handout (graphic organizer)
  • who do we neglect the most often: PE, counseling/guidance
  • we tend to work with the people who are open to what we are doing we need to get to the people who aren’t comfortable with technology
• take are of yourself
  • schedule time to reflect
• be a better technology user
  • take advantage of resources around you – kids, clubs
  • leading learning journal, ASCD – ISTE – CoSN good professional associations
• clarify your expectations
  • have the conversation with the building people – make sure everyone is on the same technology page
  • set priorities, vision, common definitions
  • sit down as a faculty and decide on a good technology integration plan

Resources

• The World is Flat Thomas Friedman
• technology is driving the world
• untouchables: doughnut makers, grocers, hairdressers
• students must acquire transferable skills that focus on communication, collaboration, productivity, and innovation to flourish in the flat world
• Edutopia real world integration, not pie in the sky
• EPN Education Podcast Network
• Webquests for Teacher’s www.ivyrun.com
  • technology and teaching strategies
  • developing a learner centered
• Video collections
  • PT3 Now! www.pt3now.org
  • Annenberg CPB Project www.learner.org
  • Netfiles www.netfiles.org
• Blogs
  • netvibes (aggregator) easy to use, customizable
  • David Warlick, Will Richardson
• Handouts & Resources
  • leaders.wikispaces.com
    • other links
    • leadership resources
    • download-ables
• Scenarios
  • teachers will pay more attention and are more likely to integrate technology if they have something to go by
• Questions
  • email Chris if you want the handouts or PowerPoint
  • Chris O’Neal onealchris@gmail.com

Audio Book Talks
Carol Johnson, ITF Pitt County School
cjohnson@pitt.k12.nc.us

• when media coordinators and teachers collaborate, scores increase 22%

• use Audacity
• call vendors to ask for resources

Equipment

• Mp3 Sansa to record

• microphone Logitech
• headphone/mics
• 300 Gb external drive

Email for information (CD will be on website)

• www.media.pitt.k12.nc.us

Lesson:

• title of book
• genre of book
• interesting passages
• description of book
• make book jackets
• email Cindy to get Beta website
• have Director call Cindy to get permission to save booktalks and have access to booktalks website
• no kid names
• permission form for parents
• software is easy to use

Rippers:

• ccmixter.org
  • load and change music
• findsounds.com

Ideas:

• media coordinators do some audio book talks and teachers allow their students to do others

• video vocabulary

Best of Web 2007

• Tim Tyson Mabryonline.org Podcast Central (in iTunes)
  • presenting at Atlanta conference
    

• ettc.armstrong.edu/marshawe/best.html

Podcasting Toward Excellence
Chris Shearer, ITF Durham Public Schools
2006 NCAECT Grant Recipient

• Sansa Mp3 players
  • quantity over memory size
• durable headphones and microphones (Siennheiser ~ $35 headphones)
• small mixing board
• decent microphones and stands
• weekly writing tip of the week for students
• weekly tip for elementary teachers
• WRMT for students
• record band students and chorus
• professional development modules

To make podcast:

• a topic
• a microphone
• recording software

Higher level skills

• active listening and speaking
• interviewing
• problem solving
• planning

Portableapps.com

• create a file and burn on a cd or flash drive and can run off any computer

Music

• music.podshow.com
  • podsafe music network
  • use any for podcast is free, but if you download for your own use (iPod) is 99 cents per song
• ccmixter.com

Podproducer

• not as good as Audacity
• if you record in another program

eBistro

• modules for podcasting to earn CEU’s

RadioDaddy

• www.radiodaddy.com/
• voice-overs for free

PowerPoint

• Impress from OpenOffice

Cyber penpals

Think Differently, Teach Differently

• Matthew Barfield and Laura Kerr Stanly County
• North Abermarle Schools 4th and 5th grades
• what do you want a school to look like? a teacher to look like? a student to look like?
• North Albemarle School
• nothing is the same as it was before – change is imperative
• what do you do with the teachers who are resistant?
• • the teachers who want to be involved will be involved
• close the gap from how schools were traditionally to 21st century
• digital portfolios to “go with” the students as they progress through school
• teaching strategies match new learning preferences
• 64% of students go home to something digital
• if not, what?
• computers don’t care your socioeconomic status when you sit in front of it
• project based learning
• we are training our students for jobs that aren’t even invented yet
• time saver on computer from doing paper and pencil activities
• balanced approach – whole child
• high student achievement
• • curriculum coverage
  • acceleration
  • personal experience
  • remediation
  • Sunburst Software
  • • prescriptive instruction
    • hands – on math program
    • • remediation or acceleration whatever fits the kid
      • everyday 20 minutes in the morning
• front loaded instruction
• high movement and excitement
• smart tutor
• • when will teachers be extinct?

• engaged students
• a World within reach
• Change of Philosophy
• Digital Classrooms
  • Promethean ACTIVboards, mounted projectors, Workgroup Laser Printer, Charging Station, Wireless Access
• shared colored printer teach students to use correctly
• document cameras for digital storytelling
• Title 1 school, class size is larger
  • complete Title 1 budget applied to 1 to 1 computer innovative
  • hosted lunch with banks and other movers and shakers to ask for investment
  • commissioners will pay for something that they think will benefit the county and people
  • implemented over 2 years
• expect, equip, and retrain
  • after-school sessions
• parent nights
  • Horizon Project Night
  • Technology Night
• www.north.scs.k12.nc.us Best Practices Link
• get a district leader to buy into this 1st, find a principal that wants
• laura_kerr@sca.k12.nc.us
• matthew_barfield@sca.k12.nc.us
• per student ~ $700 includes staff development($10,000 for Apple to come in) and all equipment

NetSmartz Internet Safety
Kim Guffey, Haywood County & David Rose, Landon School (Bethesda, MD)
NetSmartz
iSafe

• have to complete online modules to have access to the materials
• parent, teachers, students, older adults, officers (SRO) modules
• online virtual training
• modules are called iLearn
• has videos in modules

Surf Swell Island

• from Disney
• 4 places on the island
  • Privacy Falls
  • Virus Cave
  • Temple of Tact
  • Challenge of Doom
  • Treasure Palace
• elementary level

Attorney General Office Internet Safety DVD

• 2 dvds:
  • What you don’t know can hurt your child
  • What you don’t know can hurt your student
• request dvd or speaker to come out to talk to parents or teachers

Town Meetings

• parents only, for open and honest discussion
• AOL representative
  • statistics, parent controls
• Internet Crimes Against Children
  • Sex crime registry
  • highway patrol – parent responsibility
• Students added to panel for Q & A (Kaleidoscope)
  • Kaleidoscope has documents

CyberSmart

• Curriculum Scope
  • divides curriculum into grade levels
• posters

www.haywood.k12.nc.us/HCS/administration/media
Kim Guffey kguffey@haywood.k12.nc.us
David_rose@landon.net

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