Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Dr. Garrigan

Cloud: Google Apps, G-mail, Sumo paint, etc.

Curriculum
Open Content
TED.com, BigThink
Freereading.net (K-3 reading - Florida)
21st Century Physics (H.S. flexbook - Virginia
CK-12 Flexbooks (Mid/HS flexbk -CA)
Opencouseware projects higher ed - MIT
Wikipedia

merging Critical Areas

Arts
Foreign Language/cultures
Globalization/business/entrpreurship
STEM
Genetics/genomics
NanotechnologyRobotic
Computer Science/A1
Metallearning....movitivation, lifelong learning

NREL - STem help?

Organizations
World Future Society
New Media Consortium - Horizon Report (EDUCATION)
TED.com (talks)

The Singulartity is near
Transcend
Disrurting Class
Who New mind
World is Flat

Abundance, Asia and Automation

sgarrigan@verizon.net


Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Science using technology -- Physics

Prezi

Wiki

Google Docs

CSV and logger pro? Lori, what on earth is she talking about?

glogster

Dweeber Students can work together/ can use a white board!

Notaland - Online notebook

delicious

Rubistar



Epals and In2books

FREE email for students

In2books, grades 3 - 5

Learning Space - New Platform integrating web 2.0 applications

Free computers
OLPC - One Laptop Per Child
Intel Classmate PC

Go to EPals Tour ( tab on right top)

Must write in complete English, not text messages

Watch age range, colleges are not like in US

There are projects already in place if you want to use them, but can set up any project you want.

In2Books student to adult, adults write to the students

Video tutorials about how to do things

Monday, April 19, 2010

Making Learning Irresistible

Dr. Tim Tyson

One to One Pre-Conference 2010

Digital nation: Life on the Virtual frontier Check this out

Skylight Pano for a tour of the school

Screencasting Use sreenflow, Camtasia

Start outcasting the information online. Creates a period of time. Screenflow is free!!

Use Diigo to get lists of how to or for students

Use RSS feeds

NetNewWire & FeedDemon-Link to Google accounts

Blogs: Blogger, Wordpress.com, Type Pad, Edublog (WordPress is Tim Tyson’s recommendation

Answers.com/main/answertips.jsp will help with word definitions and pronunciations. Talkr

MT-Cumulus; WP-/cumulus

Tagul.com

AddThis.com

Zamanta.com install as a Firefox add-on. Hiring a team of people to read what you are writing to suggest changes. Suggests related articles

OPIN file?

Upload pdf, upload to server,

uStream.tv Set up your own television station for ISS students

Jott.com Set up distribution list This is for Tom, walk around and talk to phone , will send an email, reminder

DropBox.com Access from any digital device

Digital identity – lots of people all over thought they knew things by what is online.

Dan Pink’s book, Driven

Working on the Work by Schlechty

What empowers students using technology?

Bena Kallick & Art Costa’s work on:

Habits of Mind & Intelligent Behaviors

THIS IS IMPORTANT Tyson’s ideas:

Instructional Best Practices

Curriculum Mastery

Effective Tech Integration

Monday, April 12, 2010

Speaker Debra Pickering

Debra Pickering

Marzano Research Laboratory

Expand…

Dark side…makes teachers lazy

No high yield, just high probability 6% gain is positive

Not digital age but “Interaction Age” Interaction because of the technology. How do we do it?

Four things:Fomative assessment/feedback – feedback increases learning 37%. Feedback from the students, not the teachers!!

Student engagement

Focus

WEBINARS:

11:00am tomorrow.

May 13th, 2:30 webinar on Cell phones

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Polyvision Webinar

Go online for help first, lots of tips here.

Two resources that are very helpful:
rmeducation.com - user guides, wonderful pieces there.

Make sure you have the last available driver.
There are onsite sessions, check this out if you want it.


One board, 5 different computers.
3.5 for Windows was released, latest version 1.26 for MAC
Upgrades - contact Polyvision

800 620 poly - Customer Support. Start user groups through IU.

How to erase on a walk and talk: icon to erase on