Presentation I gave to ARA teachers on Sept 2 2009

1. Social Web and
Opening up the walls
of the classroom
June 24, 2009

2. Michael Wesch
A Vision of Students today

3. topics
• What is this?
• Why do it?
• How do you do it?
• Examples
• PLNs

4. The Art
of
Convers
ation
2008

5. The Art
of
Conversa
tion
2009

6. Vicki Davis
The Flat Classroom Project
“A Flat Classroom is middle school students blogging with an
astronaut on the space station. It is children around the world
partnering together to speak out against the genocide in Darfur. It is
expanding the classroom to include global communities and forms
of communication such as blogs and wikis.”
SEVEN STEPS
www.AtomicLearning.com
TO flatten YOUR
CLASSROOM
by Atomic Learning: Award-Winning technology training provider
Based on an Atomic Learning workshop developed by Vicki Davis

7. Alan November
The Importance of Learning Communities

8. Vicki Davis
The Flat Classroom Project

9. Examples

10. MathTrain
Middle School Math Podcats

11. Gail Lovely
K-5 resources

12. voicethread

13. Mindmapping
Web 2.0 online options

14. Kiva
Micro loans for all

15. The Pitot House
a Grade 3 Wikipedia Project

16. Ning
Specialized Social Networkings

17. Michael Wesch
Web 2.0 - The Machine is us/ing us

18. Michael Wesch
Web 2.0 - The Machine is us/ing us

19. And now a word about
PLNs
(personal learning networks with
Will Richardson)

20. Building a PLN
one path: RSS