Connecting Within the Unconnected ClassroomThe Connecting within the Unconnected Classroom Project (tag:cuc2) is a professional learning experience bringing together educators from around the world to investigate strategies and tools to leverage effective application of 21st Century Skills in classrooms with limited technology and connectivity.
Ideally, the team we would like to assemble will include educators from many diverse regions of the globe whom display three types of expertise (based on
TPCK): (1) Pedagogy Knowledge regardless of technology skill (2) Technology Knowledge, regardless of teaching skill and (3) teachers with deep content knowledge.
Classroom 2.0 Ning - The Unconnected Classroom Project Group We will gather members here. In this ning group, we will have our main discussions and post about realtime meetings.Connecting with the Unconnected Classroom WikiA 'work in progress' where you can learn more about the project, review some of the models we may apply in the project, become more aware of the issues, etc.Connecting within the Unconnected Classroom Main Project SiteThis site is set up to be a "Visual Snapshot" of what's happening in the project. It is set up to accept RSS feeds from the many social areas of the project.Diigo Group for Collecting and Discussing Bookmarks This is where you will find an annotated collection of the resources for the team. There is also an opportunity to add to the annotations or start a discussion based on the topic.Project Brainstorming MindmapA place to brainstorm issue exploration, project organization, etc.Flickr CUC2 Group This area has been set up for Collecting Photos of Classrooms in our target group as well as exemplar ways to use technologies and no-tech teaching methods.CUC2 - Media SiteCollection of Videos and Podcasts which will help inform our discussions and activities
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I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
Thanks for the invitation!