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=NECC= June 27, 2007

Joyce Valenza
 * Web 2.0 Meets Information Fluency**

presentation wiki http://informationfluency.wikispaces.com/ wait to download slides until next week when presenters put up the final version

Recommended Reading The StarFish and the Spider The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams The World is Flat by Daniel Pink The World is Flat by Thoman L. Friedman

Presentation Ideas - Stone Soup analogy - villager share ingredients with soldiers to create a tasty soup out of stones - create a greater good when we work together - creativity rocks - so do wikis for collaboration

Key Ideas Information Fluency is a new name for information literacy, media literacy social networking, user created content are the two big ideas We all own this problem! What is your responsibility? demand some energy from our students as they search our notion of information has definitely changed - students should be accessing a breadth of resources - sites, blogs, wikis, podcasts Pathfinders for Information - wiki pathfinders as a gateway for students to find quality information (possible professional development opportunity for teacher librarians) think about including ebooks in the Pathfinders use survey monkey to have students do original research be cognizant of the 'western press' - have students look at media from around the world to become aware of different perspectives

Application - I think that this presentation, as well as the information shared by Doug Johnson, must form the basis of a professional development opportunity for teacher librarians, technology teachers and perhaps all teachers through the PD Academy. I think that we would be remiss if we assumed that students or teachers had sophisticated information fluency skills. It is our responsibility to share these big ideas.

Lisa Buck
 * Beginner's Guide to Possibilities of GPS Use in the Classroom**

I sure hope that Keith captured the main ideas of this session because I was a little bit late and missed the important parts.

Adam Frey - founder wikispaces Vicki Davis - teacher, Westwood Schools
 * Wikis in the Classroom**

How exciting is it that I am creating a wiki during the presentation given by the founder of wikispaces? Man, technology is cool!

Presentation Information Available at http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com go back to site to check out information that Vicki learned in the bloggers cafe

The teacher used to be the sun and the students the planets. Now, the students are the planets and the teacher is the space ship going around the planets.

//Adam Frey's Key Ideas// wiki is a webpage with an edit button, easy to edit, easy for a group to work together wiki wiki means faster faster in Hawaiian history is critical because you have to see all of the edits that occur over time for the purposes of asseessment and tracking blog is a conversation, a stream of journal entries wiki is more about content that evolves over time - teachers working on a lesson plan over time, each contributing to the final product wikipedia is one use of a wiki wikispaces provides space for teachers to do work in classrooms every day wikis are not about structure - they are about content - they are fluid and dynamic technical limit of 205G per wiki

history is really important - you can see exactly what is added each time it is saved wikispaces just unveiled synchronous editing discussion tab is really powerful - individuals who view the wiki can add their comments, questions and collections notify me tab allows you to receive notification of each and every change to the wiki - either to RSS or to email

//Vicki Davis's Key Ideas// add a new page with double brackets Keith II, Kelly II Meebo - instant messenging with all services - widget wikis are for fact, blogs are for opinion photobucket is non-searchable - students can post pictures and videos have wiki awards for students who create excellent wikis kids are demotivated because they don't have an audience - need to give students an authentic audience - it is not enough to put strong students with weak students and assume that some type of project will be created wikis allow teachers to see exactly what each student is creating/adding/changing to the collaborative project

//Solutions to Objections// users do not need to have an email teachers can send a list of user names and passwords to wikispaces and they will provide the accounts wikis can be private, public

//Other Stuff// check out educationalwikis.wikispaces.com for examples of how teachers are using wikis http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=38 - Vicki has created a workbook and tutorial for wikis and it is available on the k12 conference site Check out the Flat Classroom Project and the Horizon Project (look for a great rubric) on Vicki's wiki http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com

Effective Web 2.0 Classroom relies on The Engaged Teacher walled garden - instead of plastic fencing we need shark nets - nets that capture the predator, not block everything researching the use of a wiki is like researching the use of a pencil focus on the subject matter, not on the point and click

//Things to Embed in a Wiki// Widgets Meebo – virtual office hours Slide share – presentations Elluminate – live conversations You Tube/ Teacher Tube / Photobucket Odeo - podcasts ToonDoo Delicious Google maps Meebo room Bubbl.us Yack Pack Flickr

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Need to check out Project Headwear:Raising Expectations for Student Impact Higher and Higher (Bernajean Porter)

Alan November
 * Expanding Boundaries of Learning: Designing Rigorous nad Globally Connected Assignments**

Who owns the learning? Students owning the learning is one of the most important things in a globally connected economy Every third grade teacher brings 3 students to the professional development - Alan November says that teachers shoud not be allowed to attend professional development without students - teachers need to learn how to manage technology - students need to learn how to use the technology and then they will teach other students Schools of today create a culture where the learning is owned by the teacher or the school How can we shift control to the students to manage their own learning? Need to create less dependency, not more, graduates shoud be completely interdependent in a networked world New role of a teacher is to create students that are self-directed As soon as the teacher takes home home work - the learning plummets - teachers need to know immediately how the students are learning Need to give kids a global voice - power with responsibility

Check out Bob Sprankle's podcasts Four roles: 1. writer 2. producer 3. mixer 4. publisher

Big Ideas Teach children that there are other points of view Need to teach people the syntax of the internet Need to transcend time and space - blogs and wikis are perpetual - the conversation exists long after the class

Applications - We need to use podcasts and videocasts in our professional development for teachers. That will get the thinking started.

Need to check out the vidcast or podcast of this presentation Need to check out Alan November's website Need to check out Alan November's blog

Really awesome sounding live music happening in the room next to mine - it is a bit distracting. Sounds great - I bet that means that the closing keynote session will be cool. I am looking forward to an inspiring ending to this fabulous experience.

Tim Tyson - Mabry School
 * Closing Keynote-School 2.0**

School 2.0 Meaningfulness Significance Connectedness Contribution

School 1.0 students are taking it in - School 2.0 students are putting out for the world

For the first time in history, schools are globally connected. Why would you want to post it on a bulletin board when you could post it for the world. Mabry School students' work can be accessed through iTunes. Dr. Tyson asks students "What do you have to say to the world? What do you have to communicate that will motivate others to action?"

Presentation Notes - PowerPoint - select one colour as the main colour of the slide, put it in the middle of the slide- then choose a darker shade and use it to sandwich the main colour, then finally select a much darker colour to put at the top and bottom of the slide - use grey horizontal lines to separate the colours - PowerPoint - use close up photographs of students as the main image - crop the photo tight so that you can just see cheek bones, eyes and part of the forehead