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:
- plan professional development
- integrate ourselves and our projects more effectively
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
- 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
- microphone Logitech
- headphone/mics
- 300 Gb external drive
Email for information (CD will be on website)
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
- findsounds.com
Ideas:
- media coordinators do some audio book talks and teachers allow their students to do others
Best of Web 2007
- Tim Tyson Mabryonline.org Podcast Central (in iTunes)
- presenting at Atlanta conference
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
- 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
PowerPoint
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?
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- 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
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- curriculum coverage
- acceleration
- personal experience
- remediation
- Sunburst Software
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- prescriptive instruction
- hands – on math program
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- remediation or acceleration whatever fits the kid
- everyday 20 minutes in the morning
- front loaded instruction
- high movement and excitement
- smart tutor
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- 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
- 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
