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Presentation made at the November 22, 2008 Triple I Conference.TRANSCRIPT
21st Century Technology Skills for Board Members
and Administrators
PresentersMeg Ormiston, School Technology Presenter
Rich Voltz, Associate Director, IASA
November 22, 2008
Objective of session…
• Familiarize you with various Web 2.0 tools
• There is not enough time to teach tools• Explain why schools should be using
Web 2.0 tools• Board members or administrators can
take at least one idea back and attempt to use
How many of these terms do you know?
1. Wiki2. Blog3. Ning4. Jing5. delicious6. ProfCast7. Podcast8. Gcast9. Chacha10.Wikipedia11.Forum12.Tinyurl13.Flickr
14. Second Life15. Myspace16. Web 2.017. Gotomeeting18. Ustream19. Wiimote20. Chatzy21. Gabcast22. Link:23. RSS24. Twitter25. Ask a ninja?
What is a Wiki?
Wiki is…
• A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.
• "Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast"[4].
Don’t get stuck on the technology escalator…
Why Use Web 2.0 Tools?
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Y 2 K
Can you read this?
•Chinese students start mandated English as second language training in grade 3.
•There will be more English speaking high school graduates in China this year than high school graduates in all of North America.
As promised, President-elect Barack Obama and his transition team have put his weekly radio address on
YouTube so that all can see him deliver it. The plan is to continue doing this once he becomes president.
Web 2.0 Thank You
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Industrial Model of Leadership and Organization
Distributive Model of Leadership and Organization
Dr. Phil SchlechtyOn October 2008 Audio Ed-Online
Instead of IT (Instructional Technology)
Call it LT (Learning Technology)
Who makes the decision in your school district about
access to Internet and technology?
Who should be making that decision?
Many say you can do anything with
technology…
I guess you can.
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Cloud Computing 1998
The Internet
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The Internet
Cloud Computing 2008
How many of you believe your children or grandchildren know more
about technology than you do?
Why is this?
Students are different today
Net GenerationGeneration Y
• 97% own a computer• 97% have downloaded music• 94% own a cell phone• 76% use instant messaging• 75% of college students have a Facebook
profile• 60% own iPods• 34% use websites as their primary source of
news• 28% author a blog and 44% read blogs
Source: Wikipedia 2008
• Students are more engaged outside of school than in school
• Students are content developers through their own social networking sites
• Students use email, IM, Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools that are all banned in schools
Authentic Learning
• When students do work in Web 2.0 it is never done.
• In a school once a teacher grades the paper the student is finished. In a Web 2.0 world, the student can post his/her paper on the net and people who are interested in similar topics may blog with the student.
21st Century Ideas
• Cell phones are the technology of the future• Movies have great impact on learning• Use Google to set up your own search engine• MySpace users would outnumber all countries in
the world but two• Social networking encourages divergent
thinking, school is all about convergence• Use videos of good teachers teaching• Students no longer live in a paper and pencil
world
Be careful not to make a $1,200 piece of equipment a glorified
pencil.
Wikinomics
• Principles– Open doors to the world– Co-innovates with everyone– Share resources that used to be guarded– Harness power of mass-collaboration
TodayFlickr beats Webshots
Wikipedia beats Encyclopedia Britannica
Blogger beats CNN
Epinions beats Consumer Reports
Google Maps beats Map Quest
MySpace beats friendster
Craiglist beats monistor
Why?
• Peering– When masses of people and firms collaborate
openly to drive innovation and growth in their industries (MySpace, YouTube, linux, Wikipedia)
• Blogosphere– Self-organized network of personal commentary
sites that are updated every day
• Wiki– Software that allows the users to edit the content
of web pages - Wikipedia is bigger than Encyclopedia Britannica
• Web 2.0 is about the communities, participation and peering.
Gold Corp Story
Book studies
Exercise
Driving
Blog
Discussion group for administrators or teachers
Work smarter not harder
RSS
• Delicious
• Google Reeder
• Many others…
iTunes is a RSS Feed
What is Web 2.0?
• Instead of always downloading information off the web, you interact with information on the web.
• Superintendents join the IASA Ning to learn from each other.
• Board members and administrators can set up their own blogs to communicate with the community.
• Information flows both ways.
Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti resignsBy Jim Kirk | Tribune staff reporter9:39 PM CDT, August 26, 2008
Jay Mariotti, the opinionated and polarizing sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, told the Chicago Tribune he resigned on Tuesday after 17 years with the paper.
Just back from Beijing where he wrote about the Summer Olympics, Mariotti said in a phone interview Tuesday night that he decided to quit after it became clear while in China that sports journalism had become "entirely a Web site business. There were not many newspapers there.'' He added that most of the journalists covering the Games were "there writing for Web sites.''
Inspiring Idea
Video produced by Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
Check these out…
Would you like to share a document with others to develop an agenda for a
meeting?
Google Docs
Google Docs: The Basics
The following videos show how to begin working with Google Docs:
Part I : Getting Started
Part II: Creating Folders
Part III: Sharing and Publishing Documents
Google Forms
RV Google Reeder
Blogger
Google Sites
Your school district needs a vision of what you want to do with technology.
You need to know what technology can do to engage students in 21st Century Learning Skills.
Then you need to train administrators and teachers.
Students get it and want to be engaged.
One District’s Story
• Superintendent’s vision
• Principal training
• Teacher execution
You may listen to my podcasts at
www.iasaedu.org and then select Dr. Voltz’s Podcasts
mrgcalculus.wikispaces.com
Use your cell phone to make a Podcast that is recorded on the Internet and automatically sent
to your webpage…
Superintendent Blog
Gcast• Can make audio recording via your
phone
• Set up a Gcast account
• Call your own account from cell phone, record conversation
• Send as a digital file where you want it to go
•Made with iWeb
•Saved on MobileMe
•Link to Gcast (embed)
Screencasting
Bob & Paul Screencast
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Mathtrain.TV
Screencasting
• Jing
• iShowYou
• Camtasia
• Demo Profcast
Jing
ProfCast
iShowU
Would you like to know how to do video phone calls for
FREE?
Skype on the go…
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Let’s Skype
What is a Ning?• Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like
MySpace and Facebook, by appealing to users who want to create networks around specific interests or have limited technical skills.[6]
• The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own custom social network for a particular topic or need, catering to specific audiences. Many educators are using ning for developing educational resources.
• Features were customized so that participants could upload pictures and videos of student developed projects as well as links to blogs and Flickr.
Source: Wikipedia, 2008
www.iasa4u.ning
Do you want to know how to make a professional looking podcast?
First you need to know what podcasting is?
Have you ever heard of “Ask a Ninja?”
Ask a NinjaWhat is Podcasting?
You will learn that the “pod” in podcasting is not a group of whales but rather “Personal
On Demand” content.
Podcasting in Plain English
Why Podcast?
x
40 hours?
40 minutes?
4 minutes?
Do you have the time?
Audacity - (You will have to learn by yourself, this is too hard and the reason I use a Mac)
Evaluation of Technology
November Learning 9 Essential Questions
• Is there a shared vision?• Does the infrastructure hinder
instruction?• Are you using a variety of
methods to support the use of technology?
• Does the administration model technology use?
• Are you using the power of the computer and the Internet to change teaching and learning?
• Does instruction foster creativity and support alternative learning styles?
• Is learning taking place 24/7?
• Is your staff development focused on the curriculum more than the tools?
• Are you using the power of technology to connect with homes?
Work efficiently in your office
Using technology for walkthroughs…
Walk-Throughs
Make long URL’s shorter
• Long url's can be made shorter at tinyurl.com
Who is linked to your school?
• Go to AltaVista website
• Start with link: in the search box
• Then type in your school URL
• Remember to leave no space before or after the colon.
Source: November Learning
RV’s Favorite Podcasts
Audio Education On-Line
Internet Grammar
• Truncating a URL– Start with the top address and remove one
level at a time.• http://web.mac.com/rvoltz/Site/Podcast/Podcast
.html• http://web.mac.com/rvoltz/Site/Podcast/• http://web.mac.com/rvoltz/Site/• http://web.mac.com/rvoltz/
Source: November Learning
Read the URL
• Do you recognize the domain name?– .k12– .edu– .ac– .com– .org– .gov– .net– .mil
Source: November Learning
Blogs
• Administrative uses– Once a week a superintendent can blog about
a subject he/she picks– Public has an opportunity to blog back– Administrator does not need to read and for
sure should not react to all blogs– A wise citizen once told me to communicate
all the time, not just when the school district needed money.
Technology Tips• Use your phone call system for more than just
calling out to students• Learn how to embed a video into a PowerPoint
presentation• Learn how to podcast using GarageBand• Learn how to podcast using Camtasia or ProfCast• Learn how to use Google documents to group plan a
meeting or an agenda or a project• Learn how to blog as a superintendent
RV uses…
• Podcasts when running– Twit– Fitness Rocks– Audio Ed Online– Audible (Books on line; A Whole New Mind)
• IASA website– Education News Clips– RSS feeds
RV productivity tools
• Smart Phone• iWeb• ProfCast• iShowyou• Skype• Jott• Portable wireless
modem• GarageBand• iTunes
• Gcast• Wikispaces• Outlook pushed• Gotomeeting• ZillaTube• Jing
More ideas with technology
• Use video to record best teacher for other teachers to view.
• Establish PLC’s and communicate via the Internet (works for small schools as well as large schools)
• Share documents using Google Docs• Have teachers engage students with
students in other countries via Skype
How RV uses Outlook
• Push emails to your phone• Make calendar reminders for “To Do” list• Schedule appointments with number of
minutes warning you need to make the appointment then set vibrate
• If you go by an email do you ever go back?
• Put read emails in folders
Web 2.0 in 5 minutes
Create your own search engine
• Google - http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Wiki’s in Plain English
Blog’s in Plain English
Social Networking in Plain English
What not to do!