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Showing posts with label onlinelearning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label onlinelearning. Show all posts
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Are We Ready for...Government 2.0??
I picked this one up from the Remote Access blog last night as I was surfing my reader. At 60 minutes, this is quite a long video, but it is worth a look to gain more familiarity with how online communities work. Folks who are skeptical of online communities as being "real" places where people develop relationships, collaborate, and empathize with one another will most likely struggle with this piece. Nevertheless, it is worth a look...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Anytime, Anywhere, Summer 2009 Learning Opportunities
As we head into summer, I wanted to point out some wonderful multi-disciplinary learning opportunities that are entirely FREE and available anytime/anywhere.
1. Join the Classroom 2.0 online social/professional network and engage in some of the ongoing discussions. Classroom 2.0 is one of the largest global networks of educators and is a great place to meet other innovative teachers from around the world. You might also consider the Saturday morning (9:00 am pacific) "Classroom 2.0 Live" sessions, which are live, interactive webcasts that take place through a platform called Elluminate.
2. "Attend" the 2007 and/or 2008 K12 Online Conferences . Of course these conferences happened already, but they live on in the form of the archived audio/video presentations and web resources. The 2007 conference is archived here and the 2008 conference is archived here (if you'd like to go way back to 2006, that conference is archived as well).
3. Create a Twitter account and begin building up a global network of people with whom you can share resources and engage in conversation. The easiest way to start out is to create an account (be sure to use a picture and fill out the profile information) and follow folks that other Twitter users here at Castilleja are following (Flaurie, Nanci, Matt, Steve, Bear, and Heather are a few who use Twitter). It can take several months to really start to understand the value of professional networking via Twitter...stick with it and be patient!
4. Join the Independent School Educators Network. This is another social network, but it is primarily targeted toward independent school educators around the world. Be sure to join the Castilleja and the Mid-Peninsula groups and then check out the forums to join the discussions.
5. Join Facebook if you haven't already. There are some wonderful education related groups that you might consider joining, like the Global Educational Collaborative, Teaching and Learning with Facebook, Shift Happens: Bringing Education into the 21st Century, Parents as Partners, Edutopia, and the Stanford University Fan page. You could also become a fan of the Bucky Badger page to get your Wisconsin fix!
6. Start a blog. A blog is an excellent way to reflect and share out on your practice. Your professional blog would be a great space to share our your summer '09 professional development experiences. If you do start a blog, consider dropping the link in a comment so we can share it out with other members of our learning community. There are many places to blog...I would suggest Blogger and Edublogs for ease of use.
Of course there are many, many other wonderful open and free opportunities for professional development on the web. If you come across any others not on this list, drop the links in a comment on this post.
Good luck with your summer 2009 professional development pursuits!
1. Join the Classroom 2.0 online social/professional network and engage in some of the ongoing discussions. Classroom 2.0 is one of the largest global networks of educators and is a great place to meet other innovative teachers from around the world. You might also consider the Saturday morning (9:00 am pacific) "Classroom 2.0 Live" sessions, which are live, interactive webcasts that take place through a platform called Elluminate.
2. "Attend" the 2007 and/or 2008 K12 Online Conferences . Of course these conferences happened already, but they live on in the form of the archived audio/video presentations and web resources. The 2007 conference is archived here and the 2008 conference is archived here (if you'd like to go way back to 2006, that conference is archived as well).
3. Create a Twitter account and begin building up a global network of people with whom you can share resources and engage in conversation. The easiest way to start out is to create an account (be sure to use a picture and fill out the profile information) and follow folks that other Twitter users here at Castilleja are following (Flaurie, Nanci, Matt, Steve, Bear, and Heather are a few who use Twitter). It can take several months to really start to understand the value of professional networking via Twitter...stick with it and be patient!
4. Join the Independent School Educators Network. This is another social network, but it is primarily targeted toward independent school educators around the world. Be sure to join the Castilleja and the Mid-Peninsula groups and then check out the forums to join the discussions.
5. Join Facebook if you haven't already. There are some wonderful education related groups that you might consider joining, like the Global Educational Collaborative, Teaching and Learning with Facebook, Shift Happens: Bringing Education into the 21st Century, Parents as Partners, Edutopia, and the Stanford University Fan page. You could also become a fan of the Bucky Badger page to get your Wisconsin fix!
6. Start a blog. A blog is an excellent way to reflect and share out on your practice. Your professional blog would be a great space to share our your summer '09 professional development experiences. If you do start a blog, consider dropping the link in a comment so we can share it out with other members of our learning community. There are many places to blog...I would suggest Blogger and Edublogs for ease of use.
Of course there are many, many other wonderful open and free opportunities for professional development on the web. If you come across any others not on this list, drop the links in a comment on this post.
Good luck with your summer 2009 professional development pursuits!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Dallas, TX Teacher Online Review Session
I had the good fortune to catch up with Kyle Stevens, a high school teacher from Dallas, TX and his econ review session online this past Sunday night. He Twittered out that he was getting prepared to use DimDim for his review and I dropped him a reply letting him know that I was interested in learning more about DimDim as a stable platform for conducting these types of synchronous learning opportunities. He eventually emailed the link to his session and invited me to join in.
I really enjoyed the experience of sitting in Kyle's economics review session and observing how he and his students used the space to conduct a review session. Kyle took questions from his students via a chat room and he used DimDim's shared whiteboard space to sketch out various econ concepts. I thought it was an outstanding technique to carry out such a review experience.
My buddy, Chuck Taft of Milwaukee, WI does a similar thing with US History exam reviews using ustream.TV. I have a feeling that as creative teachers like Kyle and Chuck continue to pioneer these types of electronic workspaces that we'll see more experiences like this taking place in our learning environments.
Click on the image below to get a sense of what the online learning environment that Kyle and his students used on Sunday. It is a free tool by DimDim, and as you can see it has a chat space along the right, a shared whiteboard in the middle, a participant list along the left, and a web cam video of Kyle in the lower left hand corner of the window (you can see Kyle holding up a Kansas Jayhawks basketball...I had a great time in his review session until he pulled this stunt ;-)
I really enjoyed the experience of sitting in Kyle's economics review session and observing how he and his students used the space to conduct a review session. Kyle took questions from his students via a chat room and he used DimDim's shared whiteboard space to sketch out various econ concepts. I thought it was an outstanding technique to carry out such a review experience.
My buddy, Chuck Taft of Milwaukee, WI does a similar thing with US History exam reviews using ustream.TV. I have a feeling that as creative teachers like Kyle and Chuck continue to pioneer these types of electronic workspaces that we'll see more experiences like this taking place in our learning environments.
Click on the image below to get a sense of what the online learning environment that Kyle and his students used on Sunday. It is a free tool by DimDim, and as you can see it has a chat space along the right, a shared whiteboard in the middle, a participant list along the left, and a web cam video of Kyle in the lower left hand corner of the window (you can see Kyle holding up a Kansas Jayhawks basketball...I had a great time in his review session until he pulled this stunt ;-)
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