Monday, April 12, 2010

Speaker Debra Pickering

Debra Pickering

Marzano Research Laboratory

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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

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Closing Speaker PETE&C

Prepare students, workers and citizens
  1. Literate in all subjects
  2. Learning is a social act
  3. Habit of Inquiry, life-long learning.
  4. Assessing progress is part of learning
  5. Information into knowledge using multiple media
  6. Learning in a Global Context
Schemata for the STEM

  1. Technology certification
  2. foundation for studies
  3. high percentages
Gaps:
  1. Achievements
  2. Cost per pupil
  3. Best preschool, but not available for 4/5 of our students
Expectations
2.4% take AP Calculus


"Ultimately, we will be judged by the success of each child" Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, PA Secretary of Education

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

NING Diane Krauss

  • box.net is a file holder.
  • NING has private, more robust than wiki
  • Edmodo is even better
  • NING is robust with space, lots can go on a NING but there is advertising. Pay to get rid of the advertising
  • classroom20.com
  • educa

Jim Gates Session A Digital Literacy

Creative Commons
  • Check out Tianammen Square, Google, Bing, then Google in China
  • Yahoo has Creative
  • Big Huge Labs does neat things with pictures
  • Copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com

  • Digital Literacy Document Management
  • Gapminder.com
  • www.officelive.com, like Google Docs difference is you cannot create, must have office 2007 this is storage only
Research skills
  • Zoomit.com will zoom in, free
  • site:ir elections
  • Wolfram Alpha (Firefox browswer) computational search engine
  • Split screen is an add on from Firefox
  • Del.ico.ious
  • Diigo
  • mailcatch
  • Aggregator - Netvibes.com to have information come to you
Security, Privacy, Digital Footprints
  • "Please rob me" on Twitter, finds people not home- WARN STUDENTS
Presenting
  • pecha kucha style Power point presenting. Each slide 20 seconds, 20 slides
  • mappingworlds
  • uuorld
  • slideshare
  • Bubble motion charts in Google
  • Google Earth
  • Evernote to take notes
  • Symbaloo - site to pull up lots of icons

Sunday, February 21, 2010

STEM Favorite 10 sites

STEM:

Problem solvers


Siemens STEM Academy Oakridge, trips conferences

http://stem.discoveryeducation.com/


PBS Eduction Resource Center

~Link to shows PBS/STEM


The STEM School blog


Minn STEM - Flashy

http://www.mn-stem.com/


STEM Education Blog


Pennsylvania STEM Initiative

http://www.pasteminitiative.org/


Teach Science and Math Blog

www.teachscienceandmath.com/2010/01/29/math-and-science-integration-with-environmental-science/


STEM ED

http://k12s.phast.umass.edu/stem/


Engineering is Elementary

http://www.mos.org/eie/


STEM Connect

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/stemconnect/


National Engineers Week Foundation

http://www.eweek.org/Home.aspx


Discover Engineering

http://www.discoverengineering.org/


On Discovery site: Fuel the Future Now