Examples of my work - to show what summer students and I did and to demonstrate different techniques with technology that we will be integrating.

1. With info about requirements for this assignment Eileen O’Connor All about me & my summer vacation With tips & links about using features like these in your work

2. What YOU will need to create Brief pre-MAT background Info about your teaching, if you are doing so now: What school, grade level, classes Are you a TA or the official teacher? Personal background, that you may choose to share (not required) The use of schematics (see my Venn diagram) and images with callouts – to talk about yourself , your present teaching, or your anticipated teaching In the first week you will create an introductory PowerPoint about yourself that you will post in www.slideshare.com and then put the link in your course; details in the course A picture can be worth a thousand words . . . and you can get some ideas from my techniques

3. Loved ones Daughters & sons Son-in-law Skinny hubbie Grandchildren Me

4. My background highlights Education B.A. – biology w/ chemistry minor, College of New Rochelle, 1969 Masters of Civil Eng – in Environmental Science & Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NY, 1981 Ph.D. – Science Education & Instructional Technology – University at Albany, 1997 Work summary – link to resume: K12 Teaching – 4th grade & science 4th – 8th (1969-70) Chemistry – Dept of Labs & Research & Technicon (1975-1980) IBM (1980-1989) Consulting in K12 – Albany, Troy / science & tech professional development (1998 – 2004) Higher Ed – 1990 – present College of St. Rose – chemistry & computers 1990 – 1996 U-Albany – 1998 – 2008 (teacher ed part time faculty) RPI – 1998 – 2001 (summer, teacher ed program) Empire State College – 2004 – present (Master of Arts in Teaching program)

5. My educational philosophies

6. What follows: My work with the STEP program Fun with a microorganism study and with date probes Neat ways to save research – MindMeister & Diigo Our course website – you’ll make your own too Super science projects that MAT masters created this summer

7. Working with STEP Every summer I work with the Science Technology Entry Program at U-Albany This summer we worked in the Second Life virtual island The students planned for a day about a game they could make in this 3-D environment They only got about 1 hr. to make games because of tech issues . . . but they were engaged, learning, and having fun Students are not shown for privacy reasons

8. Worked w/ urban middle school students on a Second Life project

9. Students select the available “shapes” for a 3-dimensional game

10. Then they use the 2-dimensional shapes in Microsoft’s drawing program to further develop their games

11. They had their first introduction to the virtual location

12. They tested avatar appearance and clothing

13. Now, students were really adventuresome

14. Creativity and boldness were evident

15. Texting on the computer; talking in real time – learning new techniques

16. They adjusted avatars’ appearances, and moved the camera angles

17. They interpreted menus & made complex shapes

18. Some shapes became vehicles, with scripts that made them move

19. STEP students made real advances

20. “Kitchen” science Can always be a good way to have students see science in the world around them . . . thus, I played with some experiments You’ll see more about these in the course, but for now, see the pictures and click-on the videos to see what I was testing

21. Prepping for the virus/bacteria unit A wonderfully gross bread study to bring a kitchen science focus to a virus/bacteria study with a literacy focus It’s not finished yet; my grandchildren loved the project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mYhOZcAJY - first 2 weeks of the study http://www.slideshare.net/eoconnor/home-science-bread-microorganisms - images & details in a PowerPoint presentation that was uploaded to www.slideshare.com

22. Some startup work with data probes But I erased some video by mistake, oops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAwqEwmt61E - see equipment used here

23. I took temperature curves of heated water for different solutions – and then brought them into Excel & had fun with the graph format

24. Making planning & sharing even easier Mindmeister – lets you work collaboratively (you can be editing from different home computers) through the web on: organizing ideas (the maps help you plan), and saving resources Using e-bookmark Never collect a good resource without having www.diigo.com open; you don’t have the time to waste

25. Using mapping to show concepts AND to save links and materials The visual layout of the materials can help you keep organized; you can assess students through mapping too Links & info has been attached to many of these branches

26. E-bookmarking – saving resources is easy & sharing is easy too I saved a lot to share with you on microorganism

27. Of course, we will need a website You will need your own website too – so easy with Google Sites & other vendors I save my work under SER/VE – the STEM Exploratory Real/Virtual Environment – there will be many tutorials accessible from www.interactivelearningsolutions.net/serve and other sites I will be sending you

28. Summer science projects Wonderful work – students selected, studied, and developed science projects to engage students in learning science more deeply They created wikis/websites that explained the projects They created pods in Second Life to explain their work In the following you can see an image from the presentation of their science project in Second Life – come and visit these pod in the SER/VE Second Life private island this semester, after the semester begins

29. Sharing & learning The next 8 slides highlight the projects & the tech used to display them (see notes at the bottom)

30. A great summer – great enzyme/disease study & good links to free technologies (www.glogster.com)

31. A great summer – one of the presenters had his class study the Bronx River

32. A great summer – a useful project, with how-to info & YouTubes

33. A great summer – learning from students & their science projects A visit to a fishery engages many different skills

34. A great summer – ocean issues too? and excellent info on using e-tools in the classroom This group made YouTubes too

35. A great summer – learning about science & literacy from parks & backyards This is blank until the speaker clicked on the embedded website

36. A great summer – learning from students & their science projects This is a website that is linked into Second Life

37. A great summer – solar cars can integrate many different areas in physics instruction

38. Thinking ahead Soon, you will be developing understandings, ideas, and materials for your classrooms And, you will be working with colleagues to learn and share LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU!!! Eileen