come together Launching a Learning Community & Intro to Podcasting photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/ ASCD Texas 2010
Dec 19, 2014
come together
Launching a Learning Community & Intro to Podcasting
photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/
ASCD Texas 2010
ojectivesCraft a clear vision of schoolsHone in on 21st century skills:Global collaborationEmpathyCritical thinking on the webAlign technology to curriculumCreate rigorous and motivating assignmentsLearn about collaborative tools for sustainable improvement
• Align technology to curriculumCreate rigorous and motivating assignmentsLearn about collaborative tools for sustainable improvement
• Align technology to curriculumCreate rigorous and motivating assignmentsLearn about collaborative tools for sustainable improvement
This conference is designed for all levels of Texas educators with the objective to help them:
This conference is designed for all levels of Texas
educators with the objective to help
them:
Learning Community?
from Wikipedia: A learning community is a group of people who share common values and beliefs, are actively engaged in learning together from each other.
As educators, this used to happen only within our schools
With students, perhaps just neighborhood friends
NEIGHBORHOOD'S GOTTEN A WHOLE LOT BIGGER
Learning Community?What about your Learning OWN Community? What are its strengths? What could be improved? What is your ideal Learning Community?
What components need to be in place to build a successful Learning Community?
•Nings (Seedlings)•Facebook (Seedlings Group)•Classroom 2.0•edtechtalk.com•K12 Online Conference•Bit by Bit (my Blog/Podcast/Seedlings Podcast)•Delicious (this is our Seedlings' "Geek of the Week" Links)•Diigo•Flickr•Twitter
Quick tour of my Pln
where would I be without my Pln?
bobsprankle.com
How many with email?How many with Blogs?How many with your own DOMAIN?
Stake a claim!
I WOULDN’T BE HERE WITHOUT MY PLN
http://www.tagxedo.com
“We learn from the company we keep.”
Frank Smith
So much out there!
One connection = thousands... and thousands!
Start SMALL!
how do we know?
photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2326448445/
Sign up
Get a Twitter Client
Who to Follow?
What are #hashtags?
How I follow
Locked/Open
SPAMAZOIDAL FACTOR
TWEETDECK
Why Should our Students have Online Communities?
•Connection to Self◦In order for work to have real meaning, students must have a significant interest and even personal connection to the work. Without this, the work is artificial, forced, and carried out in isolation. Work WILL be Engaging
•Connection to Others◦An understanding that people are social by nature and therefore will be motivated by a collaborative curriculum.
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS!• Work Must Be Meaningful or Purposeful◦ An acknowledgment that it is a fundamental and universal human desire for people to want to do
work that is meaningful or purposeful. People want a job to do and gain great satisfaction in doing that job.
• Work Must Have an Authentic Audience◦ In order for work to have real meaning, it must reach a true audience as well as have significant
impact on the world outside of the classroom.
• Work Must Be Lasting and Sustainable◦ In order for work to have real meaning, it should have permanence.
• Students will be Prepared◦ With Teachers along using the tools with them as role models/mentors
STORY TIME
LASTING AND SUSTAINABLE
INTO THE TOOLS!
WIKIS
MICROBLOGGING
BLOGS
WEBPAGE
PODCASTING
Quick Edit
Many Can Edit
Rollback
Collaborative Authorship
Living Document
Open/Closed
wikis
Private Wiki: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/privatelabel/k-12
Time to explore some great examples in Education:
http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/7-wiki
Less is more
Usually 140 characters
Continued conversation
Simple
Easily Mobile
MICROBLOGGING
Show individual authorship and growth over time ...
Galleries of Thought
Comments (moderation)
Private/Open
BLOGS
private...
....if you want
WEEbly... has it all
Website
Photo Gallery
Blogs
Drag ’n Drop Editing!
Stats!
ETC!
PODCASTINGPODCASTING<in 90 minutes>
Outline:
What’s a Podcast?
Let’s Find Some (iTunes)
Room 208 Story
Why Podcast?
Tools
itunes u!itunes u!
Civil War Search
W
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Go Play!Go Play!Explore, Discover, Share!
Room 208
Webpage:
•Static
•Teacher Centric
•Blah
Room 208
Blog:
•Read/Write
•Student Centric
•Motivating
•COMMENTS!
•GLOBAL!
Room 208
PODCAST:
•Blog on Steroids
•Read/Write/LISTEN
•Student Centric
•Motivating
•CONVERSATION
•Really GLOBAL!!!!!!!!
Blog + Audio = Podcast
Why Podcast?
Play
Performance
Simulation
Appropriation
Multitasking
Distributed Cognition
Collective Intelligence
Judgment
Transmedia Navigation
Networking
Negotiation
New Skills Needed:
•Connection to Self (ENGAGED)
•Connection to Others
•Work Must Be Meaningful or Purposeful
•Work Must Have an Authentic Audience
•Work Must Be Lasting and Sustainable
•Students will be Prepared
“It Doesn’t Feel Like School Anymore!”
“I should have them Podcast anything that I want them to learn.”
—Beth Bush
Data
Data
Tools
Audacity (quick overview)
iTunes for Compression
Aviary: Mina
RSS... attach to Blog (Remember Weebly? Posterous?)