8:30 – 11:00
Searching & Google Apps
Information Facts
Let’s Search
Building Search Understanding
Google Search Tips –courtesy of Google
Google for Educators – some great resources
Google for Educators Training Center
Inside Search Education
Search Lessons from Jeff
Search Lesson for K-2
Search Lesson for 3-5
Search Lesson for 6-8
Search Lesson for 9-12
Learn some basic search syntax, or use Google Advanced Search
Sign Up for Google’s Search Course
Activity
Google Apps
Gmail
Calendars
Drive/Docs
Setting up a Google Docs Classroom
10 reasons to trash Word for Google Docs
Using Google Docs with Kinder to create an iPad book
Classroom Newspaper 8th Grade Spanish
Scripts used in Education
Script Developers Help Section
Sites
Sites as Science Notebooks – Middle School
Sites as textbook / lesson – High School
Links:
11:00 – 12:15
Looking For Learning in the Digital Classroom
Connectivism
Principles of connectivism:
- Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
- Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.
- Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
- Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
- Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
- Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
- Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
- Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
Stages of Technology Use
SAMR Model SAMR Matrix
TRUDACOT (Technology-Rich Unit Design and Classroom Observation Template)
12:30 – 3:00
Communication and E-Folios
Why be social?
COETAIL Social Setup
- Library Facebook Page
- Dean of Students Page
- IB HL English Group
- Blog Posts about Facebook
- Compliments for ISB
- ISB Radio
- UNL24
Reach – Jeff Utecht – FREE Book!
History Collaborative Notes
5th Grade Map Project
5th Grade RSS Pages
Four Square
- ISB Official Foursquare
- ISB Library
- ISB Cafeteria
- ISB Dance Room
- ISB Weight Room
- ISB Field B
- ISB Field A1
- ISB ES Playground
- ISB HS Art Room
- ISB Tennis Courts
Attorney General’s Report on Cyber Predators
Badges are the future
News and Press about Open Badges (from Open Badges)
- Harvard Business Review: “Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013″
- The New York Times: “Show Me Your Badge”
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Badges’ Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas” and “A Future Full of Badges”
- The Next Web: “Mozilla launches Webmaker Badges…”
- WebProNews: “Mozilla Rewards Digital Literacy With New Webmaker Badges“
E-Folios
Why Millennials Can’t Find Jobs
– View examples of blog e-portfolios and discuss
- Student Blogs
- Isebel’s Blog (8th Grade…4th year blogging)
- Regina’s Blog (10th Grade….3rd year blogging)
- Brian’s Blog (11th Grade……4th year blogging)
- Haley’s Blog (2nd Place winner of Edublog Awards 2011)
- 9th and 10th Graders
- 11th Grade IB English
- IB TOK
- Brian’s Video
International School of Bangkok’s Student Blogs
http://blogs.isb.ac.th
International School of Bangkok’s Teacher Websites
http://inside.isb.ac.th/elementary/
Thanks to these students for allowing me to use their blogs as examples:
http://blogs.isb.ac.th/pedrof/
http://blogs.isb.ac.th/tanyaw/
http://blogs.isb.ac.th/isabela/
http://blogs.isb.ac.th/reginad/
Getting Started with Blogging
Blogging Rubric (Educational Origami)
Blogging Comment Rubric (Educational Origami)
Reach – Jeff Utecht – FREE Book!
Teacher as connector