presentation for Archidociese Tech conference 11/11/09 covers blogs and Wikis with Voicethread links

1. Humanities 2.0 Nancy Jones Katie Lowry Sacred Heart Schools

2. Created on wordle.net

3. Benefits Expects students to construct & validate meaning Makes Learning Public Purposeful Reflection Participatory Learning and Peer Teaching Multimodal Learning “Prosumers” – Producers of content “A Well Rounded Education for a Flat World – Richard Hersh “The Change Agents” – Cheryl Lemke & Ed Coghlin ASCD Magazine

4. WIKIS Can serve a number of purposes Creates easy “ one stop” shopping Great tool for collaboration Did I say it was easy? Just type and enter Allows for discussion and questions Gives students an opportunity to share what they learn Engages learners

5. Start small

7. Created a collaborative project between all four 8th grade classes that required discussion and creation entirely on the wikispace

8. Utilize visuals, primary resources, and create a haiku

10. Can send email to author Discussion Tab Allows a member to see revision history Can create educator account with no advertising

12. The Apiary

13. Roles: connect chapter quote and explain allusions , metaphors. or symbols research enricher - could be historical info or about bees or even black Madonna Vocabulary blog as a character blog as a character ( this would be to have at least 2 perspectives other than Lily's per chapter, maybe add another as more characters are introduced) Illustrator ( I am working to have a clear description of this) Key quotes or concepts and support Powerful paragraph - choose either because of concepts ,theme, or writing style and explain 10. Motifs or extended metaphors - how they continue and or connect ( i.e. the image of bees per chapter and what they represent) , how people handle grief, Every student has 7 jobs Every other chapter

14. Students drew and then scanned their images

15. Blogging as a character in response to the events of that chapter From The B-Hive

17. French blog

18. Mrs. Lowry’s Math Class

21. Student created pages are “fun”

23. Requires a lot of teacher set up

25. Edublogs.org

26. Voicethread

28. Developing a sense of voice

29. Writing with a purpose

30. Real Life connections

31. Making learning social

32. Multimodal experiences

33. Creating content

34. Peer Teaching

36. THANK YOU Nancy.jones@shschicago.org Katie.lowry@shschicago.org These slides can be reviewed at: http://www.slideshare.net/nancass1/humanities-20