Setup an online store and sell t-shirts, posters, mugs, and more.
--Useful for school fundraisers, class/club sponsors, etc.
--Ideas for gifts at holidays, Mothers' Day, etc.
Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.
I'm sharing this resource because, in the right context, I see true potential in its integration with teaching and learning. You can read about my ideas for teaching and learning with Squidoo at http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/197.
EduCon 2.1 is both a conversation and a conference. And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas -- from the very practical to the big dreams.
Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.
Secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world.
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload)
Can be used to put "instruction" online.
This web application could be used with the following:
-Research/ Reports in any content area
-Lab reports
-Data collection/ analysis (research journal/ log, data trail, notes, formation of ideas and early possible findings, etc.)
-Pre- and post-assessment
-Ogranizer
-Group or whole-class projects
-Self-paced instruction
-Journal writing exercise spanning an extended timeframe
-Group/ Project management
This web application could be used with the following:
-Research/ Reports in any content area
-Lab reports
-Data collection/ analysis (research journal/ log, data trail, notes, formation of ideas and early possible findings, etc.)
-Pre- and post-assessment
-Ogranizer
-Group or whole-class projects
-Self-paced instruction
-Journal writing exercise spanning an extended timeframe
-Group/ Project management
-In IDT 7/8052
Presentations are important. They are a gifted opportunity, given to you by someone who hopes that you will educate and equip (and entertain!) the people who have gathered to participate. As such, I treat them as important opportunities, and I invite you to do the same, should you find yourself invited to speak in some form or another with people.
I want you to succeed. It's my hope that some of what I share with you is useful, that you can pick it up, that you can take some of what I come up with here and run with it yourselves. I call this "giving your ideas handles."
We'll do three things with this post: talk about the audience, share with you my most concise advice about presenting, and give you some further resources.
Are you a professional developer, a high school teacher, or university faculty? Are you finding that some of your adult students born between 1976 and 1995 maybe even up to 2001 have specific needs that are difficult to meet in a traditional classroom situation? This generation is what we call the "Generation Y" high school and college students. You may be a Gen Yer or "Millennial". Think about what type of learning environment works best for you. If many of your students are the Generation Y, here are some ideas that might help you when you design your learning activities:
The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative.
Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.
Some ideas on using Jing in the classroom. Jing is a way to do screen captures (stills and animated), and otherwise add media to what is usually text based chats, etc.