Patrick Ledsma and Lara Long
Referred to Marzano’s book on building background knowledge to increase student achievement.
Lots of experience working with sped students.
How convince other people that a new technology that will improve teaching and learning?
* Research based
* Promotes student achievement
Remember focus is on standardized test results. SPED students can make the difference in school classification. [...]
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Empowering Diverse Learners and Special Education Students with Wikis
Posted in necc2008, special education, web_2.0, tagged n08s392, necc, necc2008, special education, wikis on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Classroom 2.0: Exploring the Potential of Web 2.0
Posted in necc2008, web_2.0, tagged n08s311, necc, necc2008, web 2.0 on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Hargadon, Vicki Davis, Lucy Gray, Karen Greenwood Henke, Rushton Hurley, Leigh Zeitz
Audience uses: collaboration, Google Docs, Animoto, Flickr, del.icio.us, voicethread (very popular),
http://www.necc2008.org/forum/topic/show?id=1997968%3ATopic%3A11028
What is web 2.0? How important is it?
Web as platform (like travelocity–the OS is irrelevant)
Harnessing collective intelligence (like Wikipedia, collaboration and competition among many individuals–primarily for ideas)
Wisdom of crowds–(like YouTube, the recommendations you [...]
WEMTA 2008 21st Century Cartographers: Using Google Earth & Google Maps to Empower Student Learning
Posted in GPS, educational_technology, google earth, google_maps, professional_development, technology_skills, web_2.0, wemta, tagged google, wemta on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Jakes
Presentation materials
IT Coordinator in Downer’s Grove, IL.
Can every subject be studied within a geographical context?
How will you help your students make meaning of visual information?
How does this change teaching and learning? What’s possible?
What are the logistical and technical requirements? How does this all work?
A challenging technology. Everything is on the online resources. Feel free [...]
WEMTA 2:30-3:30 Really Cool New Tool Trio Face-Off
Posted in educational_technology, professional_development, technology_skills, web_2.0, wemta, tagged new technology, web 2.9 on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Jakes, John Pederson, Jennifer Wagner
Over 175 people for presentation.
They are UStreaming the presentation.
John Pederson stuff http://www.shiftedlearning.org/wiki/Cool_Tools
David Jakes stuff http://jakes.editme.com/CoolNewToolDuel
Check out this stuff when have time or even when don’t. Looks like some good stuff.
PicLens looks real interesting.
Flip Camera by John. Looks pretty good. Not great but not bad either for the price. Has built-in [...]
Using Wikis in the Classroom
Posted in educational_technology, n07s643, necc2007, web_2.0 on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
12:00-1:00 Wednesday Session: Using Wikis in the Classroom
Presenters: Adam Frey, Founder, Wikispaces & Vicki Davis, Teacher, Westwood Schools, GA
The room is packed. There are people everywhere, many more than I would have anticipated at lunch on the last day of the conference.
Gave a brief overview of what a wiki is and how it [...]
Empowering Practice: Leveraging the Read/Write Web for Professional Growth
Posted in n07s167, necc2007, professional_development, web_2.0 on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday 8:30-11:30 Workshop Notes
Believes that teachers need to understand and use the tools before they will use in their classroom practice and change schools. Uncertain times for educators, some things our students are using that we don’t understand. Many in-classroom educators don’t use these tools in their classrooms. We need to create a personal learning [...]
Sidebar Envy Workshop at NECC 2007
Posted in educational_technology, n07s142, necc2007, rural_schools, web_2.0 on June 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m currently at a workshop in the Omni hotel in Atlanta attending a workshop titled Sidebar Envy. A Wikispaces notes page about the workshop. We’re exploring Web 2.0 stuff and having some discussions on issues pertinent to schools (K-12) and the new technologies. Lots of links and a chance to try out WikiSpaces for taking [...]
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