finding inspiration: real teachers and students transforming teaching and learning
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Presentation for Elmhurst College eventOctober 21, 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Finding Inspiration: Real Teachers and Students Transforming Teaching and Learning
Lucy Gray
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Where Do I Start ?!?!?
+Enlist Help
Consult on a regular basis with your building tech coach, tech coordinator, or curriculum specialist
Find an online community or mentor. Illinois Computing Educators Classroom 2.0
Classroom 2.0 Live Webinar Calendar on Classroom 2.0 Live Site
EdTechTalk Women of the Web 2.0
+Examine Your Curriculum: Integration vs. Decoration *
What concepts are difficult to teach?
What are you most confident teaching? Least confident?
What concepts need to presented in a more compelling way?
What do you already doing that might fit well with technology?
What can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time?
How can you address both state standards and NETS standards?* Credit to Tom Woodward for this phrase!
+Focus on One Project, One Tool
Pick one thing and do it well. Gain confidence
Consider using a tool that you can build on. Wikis, blogs Let kids see work of others who came before them.
Expect kids to help. Create tech oriented jobs in your daily classroom job
assignments. A student who maps geographic locations mentioned in class
in Google Earth Create routines where technology is used on a daily basis.
Interactive whiteboard calendar
+Join a Project in Progress
Consider a joining a project run by another teacher. Classroom 2.0 Global Education Collaborative ThinkQuest.org Rock Our World Around the World with 80 Schools
+Engage in Online Communities
Visit blogs of people in the know Silvia Tolisano – Langwitches Kim Cofino – Always Learning Lisa Harrison – Passionately Curious José Picardo – Box of Tricks Will Richardson - Weblogged
Explore the Classroom 2.0 community See the Enlist Help slide
Start following people in Twitter. Click here to get started.
Participate in the K12 Online Conference
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Starting Points
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The School at ColumbiaGoogle AppsSocial NetworkConstructivist
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+Lisa Parisi & Christine Southard“I have moved from a teacher-directed classroom to a project-based learning classroom. My students are much more connected outside of the classroom and are much more willing to step outside their comfort zone to collaborate with others.” – Lisa Parisi
+Wikis
Time Zone Experiences
Classroom Book Talk Mysteries of Harris Burdic
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Comparing Hemispheres
Poetry Collaboration
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Valerie Becker
+Global Collaborations
Global Learning Partners Where Are We? Who Are We? Laura Jernegan Whaling What a Wonderful World Learning About Whales
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Karl Fisch
+A Whole New Mind
+This I Believe
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Contact Information
Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://lucygray.org
Skype: elemenous
iChat/AIM: elemenous
Flickr/Delicious/Twitter etc: elemenous
+Presentation Resources
Slides can be found at: http://lucygray.org
Links to resources mentioned can be found at: http://delicious.com/elemenous/teachernet09