This presentation was the introduction to Flattening Classrooms, Expanding Minds, Growing Business given at the Center for Quality Teaching and Learning and covers an overview of why tools should be allowed in the classroom.
64. Google Jockey
A person who watches the backchannel and
posts information and hyperlinks in response to
questions th t are posted.
ti that t d
65. Backchannel
Moderator
A person who monitors the backchannel chat and
informs the speaker of predominant questions
and i
d issues arising f
i i from th conversation.
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66. Classroom Uses
•Group Notetaking
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•Link Sharing
•Quick Quiz
Quick
•Archivable Record
•Involvement of quieter students
Involvement
67. Websites
•http://www.chatzy.com
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•Google Presentations
http://docs.google.com
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•Meebo Rooms
http://wwwl.meebo.com/rooms/
•Skype Group Chat
http://www.skype.com
69. Backchannel Netiquette #1
1.
1 Answer with @
Iteachkids: I need help
with differentiated
instruction.
Joanna: I need help
with my reading
program
Hamster: @iteachkids
I have a great program
to share with you
you.
70. Backchannel Netiquette #2
1.
1 Answer with @
Iteachkids: I need help 2. Get a Room
with differentiated
instruction.
Joanna: Anyone
want to hear a joke?
Hamster: You’re the
joke.
Joanna: I know what
you did last week,
week
don’t tell me that.
71. Backchannel Netiquette #3
1.
1 Answer with @
Iteachkids: I want to 2. Get a Room
ask Vi ki a Q
k Vicki Question.
ti 3. Get M d t
3 G t a Moderator
Joanna: I’m the
backchannel
moderator, type your
question in and when
it is time, Vicki will
time
ask me what is
happening in the
backchannel.
72. Backchannel Netiquette 4
1.
1 Answer with @
Iteachkids: I want to 2. Get a Room
ask Vi ki a Q
k Vicki Question.
ti 3. Get M d t
3 G t a Moderator
Vicki Davis: I’m not
really Vicki, I just
4. Be yourself but
thought it would be not a fake
fun to impersonate
her.
her
73. Backchannel Netiquette #5,6
1. Answer with @
2. Get a Room
Iteachkids: Anyone
k
know a great blog th t
t bl that 3.
3 Get a Moderator
helps teachers. 4. Be yourself but
Vicki Davis: I have a not a fake
blog that I write for
teachers, you can 5. Be a link
find it at dropper
http://coolcatteacher. 6. Be up front
blogspot.com – I also
love Jo McLeay’s
about self
at…. promotion
77. Work Flow
Uploading Outsourcing
O tso rcing
Software
Offshoring Supply‐Chaining Insourcing
Mobile and
In‐Forming Digitization Ubiquitous
Computing
The Trends
Virtual
Communications
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Design y
Story Symphony
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Empathy
p y Play
y Meaning
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The Methods
80. A Whole New Mind
Design & Story & The Fun
Innovation Empathy Factor (Play
Connecting the World Online 1A 1B 1C
World Wide Web 2A 2B 2C
Work Flow Software 3A 3B 3C
is Flat
Uploading 4A 4B 4C
The World
Web 2.0 5A 5B 5C
Globalization & Outsourcing 6A 6B 6C
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Google 7
7A 7
7B 7
7C
T
PLE’s Social Networking 8A 8B 8C
Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing 9A 9B 9C
Virtual Communications
Vi t l C i ti 10A 10B 10C
Wireless Connectivity 11A 11B 11C
The Teams 2007
81. Expert
Judges
USA (GA, St.
China
, )
Louis, LA)
Flat Classrom Project
http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com
Qatar Austria
Australia
82. Expert
Judges
USA (me) China
Horizon Project
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com
Bangladesh Austria
Australia
83. Tools Used
Evoca Flickr
Elluminate Youtube
Ning (private areas for teachers) Teachertube
IM G
Google Video
l Vid
Skype Blogs
Twitter Podcasts (evoca)
Wiki Odeo
E‐mail Slideshare
Wikipedia
p PhotoStory y
Meebo MovieMaker
Second Life Clustrmap
Facebook! Grazr
84. NETS Standards
4. Technology communications tools
T h l i ti t l
Students use telecommunications to collaborate,
publish and interact with peers experts
publish, and interact with peers, experts,
peers
peers,
and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to
communicate information and ideas effectively to
multiple audiences.
Flat Classroom
87. Casey & Katie
• Explain a typical class day of the Flat Classroom
p yp y
project?
• Explain a typical day of the Horizon Project?
• Why do you think the Flat Classroom and Horizon
Projects were good learning experiences?
• Do you believe more students need opportunities
like this?
lik thi ?
• What are your favorite Web 2.0 tools?
• How do you think these projects will affect you and
your future careers?
• Backchannel questions (take up cards)
88. Gillian, Tayler, Mitch
• Talk about what you did with the Flat Classroom project.
• What did you do when a student wasn’t “pulling their weight.”
• What did the Flat Classroom project teach you about life?
About your future career?
• Di it l St t lli i a bi component of thi project, d you
Digital Storytelling is big t f this j t do
think this is an effective way to demonstrate your knowledge
of a subject?
• In schools which largely have essays why is digital
essays,
storytelling important to learn too?
• How could you envision digital storytelling used in other
subject areas?
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• What are your favorite Web 2.0 tools?
• How do you think these projects will affect you and your future
careers?
• Backchannel questions (take up cards)
89. VOIP
( Voice over IP)
This stands for voice over Internet protocol and
provides a way for computers (and phones) to
call one another over th I t
ll th the Internet.
t
91. Classroom Uses
•Bring in Experts
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•Inexpensive Video Conferencing
•Send Files
Send
•Group Conference Calls
•Archivable Instant Messaging
Archivable
92. Websites
•http://www.skype.com
•Pamela -
http://www.pamcorder.com/ - Free
•Pretty May -
Pretty
http://www.prettymay.net/ - Voice
recorder for Skype
•Video chat – Dr Holmes
Video Dr.
95. Skype Netiquette #3
1.
1 Chat is the blue button
2. Ask first
3 D ’t “ k
3. Don’t “skype me” ”
96. Skype Netiquette #4
1.
1 Chat is the blue button
2. Ask first
3. Don’t “skype me”
3 D ’t “ k ”
4. Share w/
permission
97. Skype Netiquette #5,6
1 Chat is the blue button
1.
2. Ask first
3. Don’t “skype me”
3 D ’t “ k ”
4. Share w/
permission
5. Group chat
p
wisely
6.
6 Viruses can come
from anywhere
100. Jump In
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• Doorprizes
• Backchannel Cards
• Coffee!
101. “the capabilities we once thought frivolous
– th “right-brain” qualities of
the “ i ht b i ” liti f
inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness,
inventiveness empathy joyfulness and
meaning- increasingly will determine who
flourishes, and who flounders.”
Dan Pink
A Whole New Mind, p 3