In this Webinar, presented by Jared Dees, Adolescent Catechetical Specialist at Ave Maria Press, you will learn elearning teaching strategies for to use with e-textbooks. Teachers will find this advice very useful in this digital age.
2. Opening Prayer
Feast of St. Charles Borromeo
Patron Saint of Catechists
O Saintly reformer, animator of
spiritual renewal of priests and
religious, you organized true
seminaries and wrote a standard
catechism. Inspire all religious
teachers and authors of
catechetical books. Move them to
love and transmit only that which
can form true followers of the
Teacher who was divine. Amen.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pray0213.htm
3. What has worked for you?
Type your most successful e-textbook or
laptop teaching strategy or activity in the
Questions section of the Go To Webinar
Panel.
5. About the Presenter
Jared Dees
Adolescent Catechetical
Specialist
at Ave Maria Press
Email jdees@nd.edu
6. Advanced Organizer
1. Teenage Digital Natives
2. How Teens Use Technology to Learn
3. Details on E-textbooks
4. Additional Tools that Students Can
Use
5. Tutorial of Xplana.com
6. Sample E-textbook Teaching
Strategies
7. The Digital Natives
Your students spend:
• 1:22 hours watching TV per day
• 1:14 hours listening to music per day
• 1:30 hours on their phones per day (and send or
receive 96 text messages per day)
• 0:25 minutes gaming per day
• 0:23 minutes on the Internet per day (1:00 hour
total on the computer day)
8. This may surprise you…
• Teenagers spend 0:25 minutes reading per
day (more than both the Internet or gaming)
• 25% of teenagers read the newspaper daily
• Teenagers spend almost 18 hours LESS than
adults on the Internet per week.
• Teenagers spend 35% less time watching
online videos than adults ages 25-34.
• 77% of the time, teenagers focus on one
medium at a time (myth of multi-tasking).
9. Sources on Statistics
• Prensky, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
• Nielson Study, “How Teens Use Media” (June
2009)
• Kaiser Family Foundation, “Daily Media Use
Among Children and Teens Up Dramatically
From Five Years Ago” (January 2010)
• Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet and American
public life project
10. How students learn with computers
today
• “Google it.”
• Wikipedia
• Copy & Paste Reports
• Social Sharing
• Video (YouTube)
11. Words of warning with technology
• Multitasking
• Finding Reliable Resources
• Plagiarism
• Turning off text-speak (LOL)
• Lack of Critical Thinking
• Privacy Concerns
12. Work with Parents
• Parents as Partners
– Convince them to monitor their children online
– Send home letters or emails
– Beginning of school year meeting
• Social Networking Sites
– Read their posts
– Logout and check your son or daughter’s page
• Cell Phones
– Parental control time limit
• Set up Google Alerts
13. Benefits of E-textbooks
• Reliable information on the web
• Students are comfortable
with technology
• Technology = engaging for teens
• Students can create within the book
• Integrate with other e-learning systems (i.e. Moodle,
wikis, etc.)
14. E-textbook Capabilities
• Projecting the book in front of the class
• Examining pictures
• Highlighting, note-taking, linking, book-marking
• Searching within the text
15. Incorporating Other Tools
Note-taking:
– Evernote
– Microsoft OneNote
– Google Notebook
– Microsoft Word Document
– Google Docs
Book-marking:
– Delicious: www.delicious.com
16. Online Collaboration Tools
• Facebook (yep, you can’t stop it)
• Google Docs: Documents,
Spreadsheets, Drawings
• Wikipages
• Blogs: Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad,
Weebly, Tumbler, and more…
• Moodle
17. Creating Presentations
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Publisher
• Google Docs: Presentation
• Zoho Show: www.zoho.com
• Animoto: www.animoto.com
20. Ave Maria Press Textbooks
in Xplana
• Introduce the Xplana learning platform
• Survey the e-textbook platform
• Examples of Teaching Strategies:
– Modeling note-taking and highlighting
– Answering Review Questions
– Pre-reading strategies
– Responding to activities
– Using Evernote
21. Resources for Teachers
Ave Maria Press:
www.avemariapress.com
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My name is Jared Dees, I am the Adolescent Catechetical Specialist at Ave Maria Press.
I have experience as a catechist, youth minister, and religion teacher at both the middle school and high school level. Although I am no expert on technology, like many of you, I have learned by experience the many benefits of using technology. I have also had my struggles. Many things have huge learning curves with more hassle than they are worth.
The goal to day is to introduce you to some tools that are out there and provide some tips for using them. I will also be sharing with you some of the tools we offer at Ave Maria Press.
Here is how I would like to organize today’s presentation:
Effective Instruction never changes. People continue to learn in the same ways even though the media they use to learn changes.
Therefore, this presentation will be organized around ways you already teach.
This adds up to about 5 hours, by the way.
(in addition to the cost savings and durability)
What did we do in the past?
Notecards: coded at the top corner, filed in a system
Lay out the notecards for writing
College:
Simple Word documents with lots of information
Evernote: my #1 note-taking tool of choice:
Send from anywhere, use on any computer, smart phone or on the web
Creation of notes, send web pages, pdfs, emails, etc.
Organized in Folders, tags, and search
Web clipping
Microsoft OneNote – evernote without cloud computing
Great for manipulating PDF notes
Word Doc/Google Docs (google docs = collaboration)
Delicious
Excellent bookmarking tool
Tags
Social aspect with sharing of links
Diigo
Highlight and take notes on webpages
Bookmark and Take a snapshot of webpages
Organize by tags
List – display bookmarks
Using Facebook effectively
Surpassed Google as #1 site on the web
Google Docs
Excellent collaboration tools
Now with real time collaboration, editing
Wikipages
A number of teachers use this effectively
If you are not familiar with a wiki…essential a group of people can collaborate to create and edit
If you can get past the technical difficulty, then it is a great tool
Blogs:
Easy to set up
Have students blog add entries themselves, or comment on what others have written
Moodle
More and more schools and teachers are using Moodle
Course Management System
Great fore creating a home of your course online: communication, content, assignments, and more
Edmodo
Chat
Calendar
Upload Assignments
TodaysMeet
Great for conversation at desks
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Publisher
Google Docs: Presentation
Adds collaboration opportunity
Zoho Show
Dark horse
More editing options
Collaboration like Google Docs
Animoto
Upload pictures, videos, music and it creates a video