Michelle

=**NECC**= Monday, June 25th, 2007

Will Richardson
 * Learning with Blogs: Bringing the Read/Write Web into the Classroom**

Session wiki

Need to use Web 2.0 tools for the right objectives: - students writing for a world-wide audience - students responding to one another's writing

Did You Know (You Tube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

Need to read the book Blogs, Wikis and Podacasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson. This might be useful to give to our TEC Leaders. It is a good overview of the importance of including these tools in the classroom as well as specific tips and tricks for getting started and examples of authentic users.

Jane Knauss, Suzie Boss
 * Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age**

Project Based Learning group in Flickr - posted and tagged photos of students engaged in project based learning

Book published by ISTE in Fall 2007

Relevance of Project Based Learning: - authentic - engaging - collaborative - motivating - relevant to future learning - faciltates formative assessment - meets many learning styles - enables deep learning

Book is set up with the metaphor of a journey. Contains suggestions for including blogs and wikis in Project Based Learning. Perhaps this is something that would be useful for our TEC Leaders?

Kathy Schrock
 * A Bright Idea: Shedding Light on Web 2.0 Applications**

online support materials http://kathyschrock.net/web20/

Web 2.0 tools allows people to focus on ideas collaboration creativity

Mash Up - two or applications used to 'mash up' content to create a new product Example - visitor's guide to Atlanta - Flickr photos combined with Google maps and reviews from Travel Advisor

The New Visual Literacy navigate, evaluate and communicate access to world class photography (get the rest from online support)

ICT Literacies technical skills (get the rest from online support)

Disruptive Technology (Australian educator) disruption is essential for change disruption is seen as evil by some administrators and leaders (get the rest from online support)

Check out [|Podcasts] from David Warlick

Tim Pelton and Leslee Francis Pelton
 * Geocaching and Geotrekking with GPSs to Build Integrated Literacies**

website - [|Geotrekking.net] slides available on NECC website

information represented in metres as well as latitude and longitude about 30 satellites right now, needs 24 to make the system work selective availablity - GPS needs 4 satellites to work - 3 to pinpoint the locations and one to represent the information accuracy of 5 to 10 metres
 * GPS**

walk in a straight line, stop and look before you turn, and then turn hold the GPS up in the air, not down toward the ground

check out geocaching.com (can drag the files right onto Google Earth and then view the caches, can ) histrocially called treasuring hunting, waymarking and letterboxing problem-solving activity community (420000 caches 43000 paticipants) microcache(film canister) geomuggles-people who are not in the know (reference from Harry Potter) - supposed to be a secretive activity TNLN - took nothing left nothing, CITO-cache in trash out, encryption is used to avoid spoilers - codes to classify the information so only people in the know can access the information read - Geocaching for Dummies
 * Geocaching**

A collection of geocaches(traditional, virtual, or online GE) that are designed to provide clues, resources and scaffolding to support learners as they work toward achieving their learning goals. Could be used as an end of unit activity - a consolidation challenge.
 * Geotrekking**

Problem Based Learning Curriculum Integration Possibilities Low Friction, Low Threshold Technology Learner Centred

Three types of Geotreks 1. Fixed Location self-directed tour of interest - leads learners to locations and items of interest

Examples: ecologically significant site historically significant site geographically significant site create an Amazing Race kind of activity look into the Garmin Gecko - virtual games built right in which increases the physical activity aspect of geotrekking Math - A - Rama activity with clues at the geocache

2. Portable not location specific may or may not have predefined waypoints

Examples: map of the school yard or park - assign different sets of features to different groups of students

3. Google Earth manipulatable globe of high definition images overlays, placemarks, snapshots, tours, files cacheless discovery

Examples: Geotrek of airline costs

Doug Johnson
 * Classrooms and Libraries for the Net Generation**

Common Understandings 1. Net genners like to learn - they just don't like to learn the way that we are teaching them. 2. It is easier for us to change, than to try and change them.

Suggested Resource - Educating the Net Generation by Educause (free downloadable book)

Characteristics of the Net Generation: fascinated by technology access to media is primarily at home, not at school

Implications: use technology as a hook create education that is ubiquitous and 24/7 use students' own technologies to teach them develop buildings where kids want to be

[|Threshold Magazine, Fall 2005] - image of digital backpack and examples of how mobile technology can be used in positive ways

folksonomy - enables one object to have more than one label - a can of tuna fish can be tagged as tuna, fish, canned meat, protein, sandwich fixings, things less than $2, things on sale, etc.

authority - the higher your education, the more likely you are to consult wikipedia, 36% of people check wikipedia daily, collective wisdom

information fluency - organizing, creating and using information

For future reference - might want to look at Doug Johnson's page and blog for lots of good information on the Net Generation - charactistics and implications http://www.doug-johnson.com/welcome/