Week Two: Personal Learning Communities
May 13, 2010
Material From Week One:
- Vision of Students Today
- Visual Literacy
- John Taylor Gatto
- Student Videos of Teachers
Examples of Technology:
Discuss and categorize. What are the pedagogical 'hooks'?
Activities:
Construct a PD plan for your school district that would advance the use of technology for teaching and learning. What obstacles do you face? What strategies can you employ? What technologies can you employ? What are the key elements of a successful PD plan?
Class notes from this activity: Teacher Designed PD.doc
What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 (RWW)?
Examples of Web 2.0
Activity:
How would you transform the following Web Resources so that they become more Web 2.0 ish?
- www.mapquest.com
- www.marriott.com
- www.nyt.com
- www.bestbuy.com
- Microsoft Office
Explore:
Digg Labs
What is a Personal Learning Community?
Professional Listservs
Network at conferences
Join Professional Organizations
Creating RSS Feeds to read others work
Tagging your own blog, wiki, delicious, flickr accts.
Review Blogs:
Creating a Post
Uploading an Image
Creating a Web Link
Leaving a Comment
Tags and Categories
Blogroll
Embedding a Video
Trackbacks
Blogmeister
Review Wikis:
Creating a new page
Editing a page
Creating a Web Link
Adding a photo
Adding a video
Adding a Document
Creating Sub-Pages
Editing the Sidebar
Linking to Sub-Pages
Page History
Review RSS Feeds:
What is RSS?
Subscribe to a Feed
Feed Readers
Review Delicious Accounts:
What is Delicious?
Find Resources on Delicious
Review Flicker Accounts:
What is Flickr?
Find Resources on Flickr
Review Creative Commons:
Why is CC important?
Assignment:
National Educational Technology Standards
The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with the National Educational Technology Standards for students (NET-S), teachers (NETS –T) and administrators (NETS – A). Working in groups, you will examine one set of standards. You will review and discuss your set of standards and put together an overview of them for the other groups and present it to them. You may put together any type of presentation you wish using software applications such as PowerPoint, Inspiration, SMART Notebook, video, etc. The following criteria will be used to evaluate your presentation:
o The presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the standards.
o The presentation explains how the standards were developed.
o The presentation gives examples of how the standards would be implemented in professional practice.
o The presentation uses at least one software application as a means to communicate information.
o The presentation suggests online resources that provide additional information on the standards.
o Each group member had a role in creating part of the presentation.
o Each group member has an equal part in making the presentation.
Suggested Readings and Resource:
ISTE NETs Standards:
Classroom Leadership
Evaluating the Uses of Technology
Professional Organizations
Resources for Professional Sharing
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