HELP-Need Teachers to have disucssion with my Education Majors!!
This is a request is for teachers, elementary and secondary who would be willing to join class discussions beginning with summer session.
I am just beginning to think about how I can do this, so, I haven't quite figured out how all the nitty-gritty details will work, but this Classroom 2.0 seems like a great place to begin.
My students are soon to be classroom teachers. I'd like them to have real discussions about technology and teaching and learning with real teachers (besides just me). Ones who are using technology with purpose in their classrooms. They need to hear from the trenches.
Sometimes I believe they think I am feeding them a line and teachers out there aren't really doing all this stuff. If you are reading thin then I know you are one of the teachers I am talking about. So I need your help.
Right now I am thinking each week (beginning in June), I will post a discussion about the topic we are learning about and doing in class and everyone can join in the discussion. By the way the class is online. This class is very project based, for example, when we discuss blogs, they create one, when we talk about social bookmarking, they do it, when we talk about classroom websites they make their own, etc. etc. On my syllabus I begin by saying:
"You are encouraged to be a Knowledge Seeker rather than a Knowledge Meeter, i.e., You need to add education to your course rather than add a course to your education."
At the moment some of the Units in my course include:
• The Internet & Educational Websites to support your curriculum
• Integrating the Internet into your classroom curriculum
• Kan-ed & it’s wide variety FREE Resources for Kansas Teachers
• Educational Technology Publications-Free Subscriptions
• WEB 2.O-Blogs, Wiki’s & Podcasts, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc.
• Classroom Enhancements: iPods, PDA’s, SmartBoards
• Open-Source software
• Creating PowerPoint Games
• Using Digital Cameras & Images in your classroom, online photo sharing
• Educational Software (demos, trials, freeware, shareware, purchasing, licensing, open-source)
• Inspiration (concept mapping and organization – thinking maps)
• Using United Streaming in your classroom or other such resources
• Grammar of the Internet and Internet Safety (Alan November)
And a variety of others I can't think of right now. Of course it changes all the time in a effort to keep current. Needless to say, this class is packed full. And summer is in 7 weeks rather than 15.
If you would be interested in joining in our discussion this summer and in the future, let me know. I would appreciate it more than I can say. If you have ideas on other things I should include in the course or ways to accomplish this, let me hear from you.
I suspect I will create a Classroom 2.0 site just for the class and invite all of you as friends? What do you think?
I am just beginning to think about how I can do this, so, I haven't quite figured out how all the nitty-gritty details will work, but this Classroom 2.0 seems like a great place to begin.
My students are soon to be classroom teachers. I'd like them to have real discussions about technology and teaching and learning with real teachers (besides just me). Ones who are using technology with purpose in their classrooms. They need to hear from the trenches.
Sometimes I believe they think I am feeding them a line and teachers out there aren't really doing all this stuff. If you are reading thin then I know you are one of the teachers I am talking about. So I need your help.
Right now I am thinking each week (beginning in June), I will post a discussion about the topic we are learning about and doing in class and everyone can join in the discussion. By the way the class is online. This class is very project based, for example, when we discuss blogs, they create one, when we talk about social bookmarking, they do it, when we talk about classroom websites they make their own, etc. etc. On my syllabus I begin by saying:
"You are encouraged to be a Knowledge Seeker rather than a Knowledge Meeter, i.e., You need to add education to your course rather than add a course to your education."
At the moment some of the Units in my course include:
• The Internet & Educational Websites to support your curriculum
• Integrating the Internet into your classroom curriculum
• Kan-ed & it’s wide variety FREE Resources for Kansas Teachers
• Educational Technology Publications-Free Subscriptions
• WEB 2.O-Blogs, Wiki’s & Podcasts, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc.
• Classroom Enhancements: iPods, PDA’s, SmartBoards
• Open-Source software
• Creating PowerPoint Games
• Using Digital Cameras & Images in your classroom, online photo sharing
• Educational Software (demos, trials, freeware, shareware, purchasing, licensing, open-source)
• Inspiration (concept mapping and organization – thinking maps)
• Using United Streaming in your classroom or other such resources
• Grammar of the Internet and Internet Safety (Alan November)
And a variety of others I can't think of right now. Of course it changes all the time in a effort to keep current. Needless to say, this class is packed full. And summer is in 7 weeks rather than 15.
If you would be interested in joining in our discussion this summer and in the future, let me know. I would appreciate it more than I can say. If you have ideas on other things I should include in the course or ways to accomplish this, let me hear from you.
I suspect I will create a Classroom 2.0 site just for the class and invite all of you as friends? What do you think?
Tags: classes, ideas, learning, resources, teaching, technology
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Permalink Reply by Nancy Cavillones on
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Count me in!
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Permalink Reply by Ginger Lewman on
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I would love to participate in this with you! I think it's important that pre-service teachers go out wearing the armor of the future for our children (or if you prefer a non-violent analogy, they're carrying a toolbox full of tools that kids --and other professionals--can learn to use).
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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Foote on
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Ok, aside from being fascinated by the project above, I was also excited to see your yackpack on your ning page.
How did you do that? ;)
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Permalink Reply by Cary Harrod on
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I would be happy to participate in this discussion!
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Permalink Reply by Paul Harrington on
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Hi - I have just come to the end of a similar project with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach in Virginia at William and Mary College, it was an interesting exercise which I would be interested in repeating, so yes. If you don't mind a British (Welsh) perspective on Web 2.0. I know that Sheryl used a program called Elluminate to have videoconferencing between mentors and students, there is something called Flashmeeting which is used by academics in UK which may work for face to face videoconferencing.
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Permalink Reply by Durff on
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I volunteer! I can learn a lot from you about SMARTBoards!! My Skype is mrsdurff. You might want to use Elluminate if your university pays for it. Otherwise go free. Skypecasts are good for those all in the same place at once or blogs for asynchronous communication. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is a great resource for university level education departments. She is at William & Mary....I probably spelled something wrong...oi veh....
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Permalink Reply by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn on
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wow, seven volunteers in just a few hours and lots of resources to keep me busy. I will be in touch as soon as I work out the details. I am also excited that the list includes other countries. This is going to be so exciting!!!
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Permalink Reply by Glenn Moses on
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Hi, Cindi. I'd love to be a part of this. Let me know what I can do to help. :)
I noticed that one of your topics was Inspiration. There's a free online collaborative version at http://www.bubbl.us/. Check it out and see if it meets your needs. :)
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Permalink Reply by Sue Collins on
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Me, too.
I'm running a teacher's SD online class this summer, Aug 4-Sept 4, introducing Web2.0 tools for classroom use too. I may be able to insert you into it, but least of all I'd love to be part of the discussion with teachers in the making.
Confirm the suggestion about bubbl.us. Looks like a very easy and rich Inspiration-like tool.
I will be writing a new online class to run in Moodle promoting Global Virtual Projects, too. I'm looking for K-12 classrooms (international) that want to collaborate and develop projects.
Sue
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