This is a presentation given at the 2009 NJEA Convention. It is an overview of Web 2.0 tools available for K12 educators and provides tips to getting started using these tools in their schools or classrooms.
Education 2.0: Innovation, Collaboration, Celebration via Effortless Integration
1. Education 2.0: Innovation, Collaboration, Celebration, via Effortless Integration Ryan Evans Wanaque Public Schools November 5, 2009 http://k12ed2point0basics.wikispaces.com/ [email_address]
24. “ Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology. Schools remain unchanged for the most part, despite numerous reforms and increased investments in computers and networks.” Rod Paige
43. CMS, LMS, LCMS, WHAT!!! Smile You’re on Camera What’s My Inspiration Quote Your Sources Help! Web 2.More Blabber Mouth Just Goo It! Lights, Camera, Action It Killed More Radio Stars In the Fog? It’s Not Tricki Ready or Not Digital Citizenship
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54. Educational Uses for Wikis Period in History Project Periodic Table Math Facts Project Vocabulary Project Famous / Historical Figure Project Plant Classification Geometry (Hypotheses & Postulates) Project Grammar Project Continent / Country / States projects Solar System Geometry (Shapes) Project Summary of Book or Novel Social Studies Science Math Language Arts
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56. Wiki Host Comparison More info at: http://k12ed2point0basics.wikispaces.com/Wiki+Basics No Yes No Spell-check Yes Yes Yes WYSIWYG Editing 2GB Unlimited (limit on attachments) 2GB Storage Limited Yes Limited Customization Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Number of Users Yes No Yes Page Permissions Yes Yes (+ questionable language feature) Yes Ability to Track Edits Yes Yes Yes Control to View &Edit No w/ edu wikis Yes No w/ edu wikis Advertisements No Yes (Will accept fakes) No Email Required Yes Yes (13 and Older Only) Yes Secure Student Accounts Yes No Yes Free for Educator Option Wikispaces Wetpaint PBWorks Feature
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62. Blogware Comparison More Info at: http://k12ed2point0basics.wikispaces.com/Blog+Basics Yes Yes No Suitable for children under 13 No (but, you control what is published) No (but, you control what is published) Yes Only members can comment option Yes (Must indicate this in the settings) Yes Yes Articles and Comments not published until approved Yes Yes Yes Email Notification of Comments No No Yes Private Blogs Yes No No Advertisements Yes (will accept fake emails) No Yes Email required No Yes Invite via email Add User 20MB Not Indicated 1GB Storage Space Edublogs Class BlogMeister Blogger Features (Free Accounts) Blogware
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71. Free Screencast Software Windows http://camstudio.org/ Camstudio Windows & Linux http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink Any http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ Screencast-O-matic Windows & Mac http://www.jingproject.com/ Jing Mac http://copernicus.en.softonic.com/mac Copernicus Windows http://www.bobyte.com/AviScreen/index.asp Aviscreen Platform(s) URL Name
72. Commercial Screencast Software $15.95 $65.00 $29.95 $39.95 $199 $799 Cost Windows http://camstudio.org/ All Capture Mac http://www.miensoftware.com/screenrecord.html ScreenRecord Mac http://www.decimus.net/ScreenMimic.php Screen Mimic Mac http://store.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html iShowU Windows http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/ Hypercam Windows http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/ Adobe Captivate Platform(s) URL Name
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75. Google Tools Apps & Sketchup More info at: http://k12ed2point0basics.wikispaces.com/Google+Tools Google Sketchup allows users to create 3D models that can be made into videos, images, and even added to Google Earth. http://sketchup.google.com/ Sketchup Google Apps is a suite of Google applications that brings together essential services to help your school. This is a hosted service that allows educators use a variety of Google products http://www.google.com/apps/ Google Apps
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77. Google Tools Google Earth Hargadon, S. (March 13, 2007) A Great “Mashup” Mapping Literary Journeys. Retrieved from http://www.googlelittrips.org/ More info at: http://k12ed2point0basics.wikispaces.com/Google+Tools Real World Math utilizes Google Earth to enhance math lessons. By allowing users to add place marks, annotations, photos, and models, as well as measure distances and draw paths a collections of lessons, examples and downloads have been created. http://www.realworldmath.org/ Real World Math By using Google Earth, students can travel with characters, plot out key areas, and witness the landscapes of stories they are reading in class. Jerome Burg, a co-creator of the lit trips stated that he feels these Google Maps projects can draw the students into really studying literature in a way that the authors would have wanted. (Hargadon, 2007) http://www.googlelittrips.org/ Google Lit Trips Take a virtual tour of national and international structures. (Incorporate these tours into all subject areas). http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&cat=3d 3D Tours Create your own tour. [The URL will take you to a tour of the National Mall in Washington, DC. This was an activity created by netTrekker personnel prior to the 2009 International Society for Educational Technology (ISTE) Convention in Washington, DC]. Sample Tour: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&vps=1&jsv=164e&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115675159882378415364.000469422d5332b28946b Create a Tour Description URL Name Google Earth
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86. Course Management Software More info at: http://k12ed2point0basics.wikispaces.com/Management+Systems (Free Web Hosted Trial Option) Install Required Requires Technical Knowledge http://sakaiproject.org/ Sakai Web Hosted Yes http://www.rcampus.com/ RCampus (Includes Demo Courses) Install Required Requires Technical Knowledge http://moodle.com/ Moodle Web Hosted Yes http://www.edu20.org/ Edu 2.0 Web Hosted Yes http://www.ectolearning.com/ecto2/Default.aspx ECTO Software / Hosting Easy Setup URL Name Course & Learning Management Systems CMS / LMS / LCMS
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95. Notable Mentions Free online file conversion tool http://zamzar.com/ Zamzar SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs http://www.slideshare.net/ Slideshare Photo management & sharing application http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr Social bookmarking service http://delicious.com/ delicious Live online learning software http://www.wiziq.com/ WiZiQ Description URL Name
Welcome to Education 2.0: Innovation, Collaboration, via Effortless Integration. My name is Ryan Evans and we will spend the next hour and a half exploring a variety of Web 2.0 tools that you can use in your classrooms. We’ll also discuss the concerns or parents and educators and the steps to begin using these tools in your classrooms or schools.
Remember when children had to help on the farm during the Agricultural Age.
School schedules were aligned with agricultural activity. A 9 month school year allowed children to help on the farms during the summer and a 7 hour school day allowed children to complete chores after school.
Business was driven by work on the assembly line.
During the Industrial Age, Desks and chairs were in rows, classes were set up in increments of 50 minutes, and grades levels were established to model industry.
Remember when teachers lectured.
And you were bored out of you mind? Anyone. Anyone…
Remember when classes were textbook driven and many were out dated?
Remember when. They talked…You listened?
Remember when you first heard…You’ve got mail
Remember when the world was round? Tom Friedman, in his best-seller denoted how technology has changed the world. Society has been globalize as business, government, even religious organizations have taken advantage of the World Wide Web. He has decreed that The World is Flat.
Then all of that changed.
Do you bank online?
Do you shop online?
Do you pay bills online?
Do you learn online? Do you know anyone or have you received a or are currently working toward a degree online?
Do you collaborate?
Do you blog?
Do you network?
Do you text?
Do you tweet?
Do you download music, videos, and or pictures?
Mark Prensky refers to 21 st century students as Digital Natives in his 2001 article titled Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. John Palfrey stated in his book, Born Digital. Quote: “they were born after 1980, when social digital technologies such as Usenet and bulletin board systems, came online… They have access to networked digital technologies and have the skills to use those technologies.” End quote. Prensky also notes that students have changed radically and “are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. We can argue that students of every generation are different, but the differences in Digital Age students is heavily influenced by digital technologies. Many of us, on the other hand, who were born prior to 1980 are referred to as Digital Settlers or Digital Immigrants in that we have to assimilate into this digital world similar to a person moving from their native country to a foreign land. Steve Hargadon, from Classroom2.0, stated in an Encyclopedia Britannica blog that reports released by BECTA, Becta, a government agency In the UK leading the national drive to ensure the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning, surveyed students 11 – 16 and indicated that 74% reported that they had at least one social networking site account, 78% having uploaded pictures, videos, or music to the web and 50% having done so in the last week.
Rod Paige the former U.S. secretary of Education stated, that “Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology. Schools remain unchanged for the most part, despite numerous reforms and increased investments in computers and networks.”
New Jersey has revised is Core Curriculum Content Standards in Technology as well as other subject areas. School districts should be in compliance with the new technology standards by September 1, 2012. I’ve inserted only small clips of wording each of the grade ranges. The K – 2 standards state in part that: Students are formally introduced to the basic features and functions of the computers and demonstrate understanding that technology enables them to communicate beyond the classroom on a variety of topics.
The 3 - 4 standards state in part that: Students continue to develop information-literacy skills and increasingly use technology to communicate with others in support of learning
5 – 8: Students participate in online learning communities, collaborating in the design of products that address local and global issues across the curriculum.
9 – 12 Students collaborate adeptly in virtual environments and incorporate global perspectives into problem solving at home, at school, and in structural learning experiences, with the growing realization that people in the 21 st century are interconnected economically, socially, and environmentally and have a shared future. That being said: The categories are:
Digital Citizenship
Ready or Not
It’s Not Tricki
In the Fog???
It Killed More Radio Stars
Lights, Camera, Action
Just Goo It
Blabber Mouth
Quote Your Sources
What’s My Inspiration
Smile, You’re on Camera
CMS, LMS, LCMS, WHAT!!!
Web 2.More
HELP!
Let’s Play
The 21 st Century has been dubbed the Digital / Information Age. With that label on this period of time Marc Prensky has labeled certain people of this age Digital Natives and others Digital Immigrants. He notes that digital natives are K – college students and are the first generation to grow up with this new technology. They have always been exposed to computers, video games. cell phones, digital music players, and other digital tools. These of us from previous generations have had to assimilate this new technology into our lives and change the old way we do things Digital Natives speak the digital language. Digital Immigrants speak with an accent. My question to you is how strong is yours? While some of use may be digital immigrants, we may have adapted to the digital age a little better than others. Prensky states, “Digital Immigrants instructors, who speak an outdated language are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.” Now while this is arguable, he makes a valid point that today's students are different and we as educators should respond to their needs.
How strong is your accent? Let’s conduct a quick test. Take out your cell phone. Pretend to dial a number. Did you use your index finger or your thumb. Index finger – Digital Immigrant Thumb Digital Native.
Let’s review other things that will influence your accent.
Web 1.0 is when the web was static. It was a provider of information. Similar to some our classrooms. It was oneway. We’d go to a website find information, play a game, etc.. It was also very technical. In order to create a publish a web page required a learning curve that many would rather leave to experts.
Web 2.0 encourages interaction. Technical ability is not an issues as many of the tools have features that allow novice computers users to get started right away with minimal effort and minimal time. Web users are encouraged to interact, collaborate, and share information. We’ll get a little more into this aspect especially when we look at blogs and wikis. But if you simply think of sites like YouTube where you can find a video of almost anything or facebook where you can interact with friends you haven't seen or heard from in the past twenty years it’s simple remarkable what has happened with the emergence of Web 2.0