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Randy Ziegenfuss

KnowledgeWorks Foundation - Institute for Creative Collaboration - 0 views

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    "KnowledgeWorks' Institute for Creative Collaboration builds the capacity of organizations and groups to think bigger, learn together and work smarter.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Us Now : Home - 0 views

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    New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.
Randy Ziegenfuss

YouTube - This Is How We Dream, Part 2 - 0 views

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    The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?
Randy Ziegenfuss

YouTube - This Is How We Dream, Part 1 - 0 views

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    The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?
Randy Ziegenfuss

socialmediaguidelines / FrontPage - 0 views

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    This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administrators, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Web 2.0 - Cool Tools for Schools - 0 views

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    This is a site that contains links to web 2.0 tools in various categories: presentation, collaboration, research, video, etc.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Creative Thinking Home - 0 views

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    NKU's W. Frank Steely Library is pleased to present class lessons, films, and activities on plagiarism and copyright awareness for the classroom, funded by a generous grant from the Cincinnati Bar Foundation. Collaborative community support was provided by NKU, the University of Louisville, and regional partners such as CET (Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation), KYVL (Kentucky Virtual Library), and the Campbell County (Ky.) Public Library.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Technology and youth: A remix that is changing the education landscape - 1 views

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    New technological tools are expanding-and fundamentally altering-the ways students can interact with the world. Helen Haste, Visiting Professor at HGSE, offers some provocative views of the implications for education that stem from new means for accessing information, communicating with others, and participating in a community. In these video segments, building on her four decades of research, Haste describes the 21st century student as a collaborative tool user who needs a new brand of competences to thrive within a changing environment.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Google Apps for ePortfolios - 0 views

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    "Schools and universities can set up free Google Apps accounts with their own domain name, where they can give all student and faculty acces to a variety of tools, including a GMail account, iGoogle portal, Google Groups for collaboration, and Pages, for creating websites. Each user can also use their GMail account to activate other Google services, such as GoogleDocs."
Shawn Collier

moravian PARKING - 1 views

shared by Shawn Collier on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Anderson and Krathwohl reworked Bloom’s Taxonomy
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Nice reference. Is there a Diigo link to this on the web?
  • , I think it’s a positive. “
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Have you had a chance to actually use one? I am going to try and bring one in on Thursday.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      I agree, we need to get these types of things into the classroom.
  • There are thousand more Apps to explore these are just a few.
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      Apps make me happy for this reason :)
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  • learn what is appropriate to add as comments (Digital Citizenship)
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Nice idea to bring in multiple aspects of what you are learning in class.
  • Diigo allow people to highlight the internet.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Yes...it allows us to annotate the web. Previous to Diigo, that was certainly one of the constraints of web technology.
  • loaning that book to a friend
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Wouldn't it be great if you could do that with a Kindle? How much more would kids love reading if they could highlight, ask questions and offer thoughts to a vast audience of readers? Now that would really change the game for reading!
  • technology helps foster collaboration
    • Douglas Gimbar
       
      Collaboration is one of the most important aspects in education.
  • If my class was using social bookmarking they could have then shared those bookmarks so we can all visit the sites and highlight and comment on our favorite parts or parts we still don’t understand.  With Diigo in place in your classroom at home reading assignments can be commented on all in the same place. Students can come to class, with questions in mind from what conversations where started through highlights and comments.
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      great idea! this is also the same reasoning I have behind using wikis with texts we are reading
  • There is no student not listening or drifting off and they have as much time as they need to get their thoughts out too.
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      This is a great attribute!
  • eaching 21st century students with 21st century methods seems so obvious now.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      The rest of the world needs to come on board now!
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      How can we do that, Heather? How can YOU do that? How can I do that?
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      I'm not sure how we should tackle this Randy, but I was happy to hear when one of my students came and said they used their cell phones in Algebra for some homework post! Going to try and search that teacher out and connect!
  • With our final project (for lack of better name) quickly approaching
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I do hope you are all stressed out. That is what I am aiming for. LOL STRESS!!!!!
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  • This new approach might be pushing my students zone of proximital learning but its pushing mine too.
    • Shawn Collier
       
      It's great that you're learning with your kids. I really believe the most powerful way to teach your kids that learning is important is by learning with them. You should be proud of yourself for taking a chance!
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development We are ALL learners. That is part of the shift. The teachers is not the sole source of knowledge...in fact, the teachers, just like the kids, is always learning!
  • Researching a new technology each week has been inspiring
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Curious....do you think you will continue to investigate technologies beyond the end of the course in December? Why or why not?
    • Alicia Cortese
       
      AMEN! The techonology can only improve thus making our jobs even more exciting.
  • And continue this cycle every year.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Great idea....create this repository of shared information around a topic...or even your whole course, depending on how you envision it.
  • I am thinking that I want to use the technologies in my tool box as assessment tools but as
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Interesting...I am developing a new course for summer II on alternate assessments using technology.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      Sign me up!
  • T eaching 21st century students with 21st century methods seems so obvious now.
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      I wonder what we have to do to get there? I think it might take more people getting on board with this approach to teaching and learning and exposing them to it at a younger age,
  • free time today
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Free time on a Monday? You need more work!
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      Free time, tell me where I can find it? I was out sick on Monday... I spent the whole day reading and creating an outline for chapter 7 of our text! Fun fun fun!!
  • to help them review.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Or even TAKE the test? Ooooo..novel.
  • So, the idea is to have an alternate assessment at the end of each chapter. The alt. assessment will be created using one of many technologies we have discussed in our class (ex. animoto, flipbook, comicstrips, prezi). At midterm I plan on assigning a larger project, more cumlative of course.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Really nice idea! Love it!!
  • What do you think?
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Nice way to scaffold the assignment. And don't worry if it's a bit messy at first. Reflect on it and work out the problems, and you'll end up with a great way to engage your kids!
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      I think it is a great idea, but how will the kids be given the choice of which to do?
  • it was crucial for students to have the rubric in hand when their animation assignment was assigned.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Definitely!
  • The students still seem un-easy about this new type of assignment.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      New things can be uncomfortable!
    • Shawn Collier
       
      Sometimes comfort leads to complacency, so a level of uncomfort (with your support along the way) can be a good thing.
  • I can show all of you too.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Looking forward to it!
  • I like the students to know what I am looking for but the rubric is vague enough that students can still be creative. 
    • Shawn Collier
       
      It's great that you're planning a way for students to be creative when completing your project. I think it will really help them take ownership of it.
Randy Ziegenfuss

bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online - 0 views

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    Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Randy Ziegenfuss

My First Blog - 1 views

  • I am a bi
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      This is a comment
  • Thinkfinity is a database
    • jamie hill
       
      This is similar to Web Guru then??
  • creating a product that they can print out or save
    • jamie hill
       
      Are most of the activities on the computer then, or can they been done without computers?
    • Douglas Gimbar
       
      Jamie, it all depends on what you are looking for. There are hundreds of lessons and activities. You can find ones that can be completed off the computer as well.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      The problem with this is then we hear complaints about using ink and toner to print everything out. How do we bypass that?
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  • I would really love easier access to computers
    • jamie hill
       
      Our science department has our 17 laptops tied up almost everyday. If I want to use them it has to be scheduled well in advance and cant conflict with their lessons anyway. Why can one department create their curriculum around tech. but the others have to suffer.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Good question, Jamie. I think it is because education has looked at technology as a "nice if you can get it" extra.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      I agree, but since my Read 180 is a big thing right now. All of the read 180 classrooms have computer carts with 30 or so lappies! I consider myself lucky, but I do sympathize.
  • vast resource that it is almost overwhelming
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      This is one of the new skills - how we deal with the overwhelming amount of content. Thinkfinity is designed to try and help us do this by sifting and sorting through content that would otherwise take more effort to determine reliability (i.e. a Google search).
  • I hope that I am not overlooking great tools as I meander through the site.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Collaboration can help this!
  • One of the problems that I am experiencing finding a way to work these into my lessons when I don’t have instant access to computers or laptops. 
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      This is a real challenge for logs of teachers wanting to try new things, but not having the resources.
  • recite the speech and incorporate a series of images that compliment and connect to the speech.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Good activity to highlight media literacy. How will they find the images?
  • a very realistic goal
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      And ou don't have to actually have an iPod. You can listen to these files on any computer.
  • fireplace
    • jamie hill
       
      I debated the fireplace.
  • gathering information from Internet resources
    • jamie hill
       
      What a great tool to have as a HS student going into college. They can collect school stuff and fun stuff in the same place too. I couldnt help but notice a game widget.
  • be a highly technological concept
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      It can be a little intimidating at first.
  • I am wondering why more people I know don’t have one of these pages set up for themselves
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Good wondering. Why do you think more people don't use RSS?
    • Douglas Gimbar
       
      I think because it is a fairly new technology and certain people are hesitant to try something new. . .a fear of change.
  • Before making my netvibes page, I did create a bloglines page but was not impressed
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Yes...Bloglines is just plain ugly looking!
  • personalize t
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      This one word captures what technology can do for us.
  • my trip to the world of educational technology
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Hopefully you'll stay, even after class is over!
  • This is the impetus for me to continue to further develop more uses of technology with my students.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Great! Our understanding really develops over time --- there is no end point. So stick with it!
  • I always thought about learning how to use wikis as a way to respond to reading novels in my class but felt I needed someone to guide me through learning about it.  I haven’t had the time yet to incorporate a wiki in any of my classes, but I am teaching a new course in the spring semester, and I think that I might have the opportunity to try it out there.  As far as I can tell, the course’s curriculum doesn’t seem to have many big technological highlights, so it  might give me the opportunity to engage students using a new medium.  The class is 10th grade on level, which is a step below college prep, and those students might benefit from the ability to engage in discussion outside of class and use a hands on way of doing it.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      This is an idea you might want to consider developing as part of your final project in this class.
  • Hamlet Facebook pages
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Is this something you might share in class?
  • truly engaged and had a good time doing it
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      What do you think they learned?
  • they really had an honest reaction of surprise at how fast class was going.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      It would be interesting to dig into this deeper, trying to understand - maybe through some conversation with them - what they found most engaging about the approach you took with the class.
  • ultimately share this idea out there in cyberspace. 
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I wonder if there are practitioner journals - NCTE, ISTE, etc, that would be interested in an article?
jamie hill

The Inclusive Classroom - 2 views

shared by jamie hill on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The skills needed to effectively create a project would be that of writing, editing, evaluating information based on audience, and presenting.
    • jamie hill
       
      This is the important lesson to learn. In a world where you can look up any info or fact with your cell phone there is no need to memorize facts.
    • Kevin Bush
       
      I think there still is a place for facts however, I dont think students need to know anything, I want them to learn depth. As I was taught very early on, students need a certain amount of content if not you are sorting an empty drawer, they need to be given content first before manipulating it with technology.
  • done without publically publishing a podcast
    • jamie hill
       
      I had no idea.
  • My students don’t come to their portfolio meetings, so wouldn’t it be great to be able to have students make a recording of their reading fluency at the beginning of the year and then rerecord during the third marking period. It would also be nice to scan in student work and have them record their portfolio presentation, so they have a larger say in how their conference is organized.
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      evaluation is the highest level of bloom's taxonomy, and it would be great for the students to be able to do a podcast of their reflections on their portfolio.
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  • It is another way to bridge the communication gap between school and home.
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      I hadn't thought about using it this way, but it's a great idea.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      One of the things the wiki allows is two-way communication. I wonder how you might use a wiki with parents as two-way communication. Would there be ways they could provide feedback, ideas, etc. - a way for THEM to engage with the information rather than just consume it. After all, that is what the web is all about these days - two way communication - consuming and creating information.
  • The wiki allows people to collaborate from a multitude of locations.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Yes...an important point. How could we use it this way in this course?
  • accumulating information in one space
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Yes...creating information.
  • So how can I use it?
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Excellent ideas! I am looking forward to hearing more in class and listening to what others are thinking about this idea.
  • What are your thoughts on this issue that I am having? Is it appropriate to post the video on my wiki for a short period of time?
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I like how you pose a question. We should talk about this in class and see what others think.
  • Photostory
    • jamie hill
       
      I hope we get a chance to see something you create in Photostory.
  • the Kindle (the Nook) w
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      There are definitely down sides to the Kindle - no color and no touch screen. The Nook changes that. Ironically, I was investigating the Nook earlier today and will likely get one for school to try it out.
    • Alicia Cortese
       
      If you get one can you bring it in for us to try?
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      so the nook has color?
  • The Nook has a colored screen that looks easier to use, plus it is more eye appealing, so it is appealing to the buyer.
    • Douglas Gimbar
       
      I'm more of a numbers guy, not a words guy (which is why I'm a math teacher). However this seems like a pretty amazing tool. Can you get magazines on it or just books?
  • effective it will be in an elementary classroom.
    • Alicia Cortese
       
      Do you think High school students would be interested?
  • please let me know.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I think you would just create a new one. It will be easy to copy/paste the content you have now....except files that you uploaded. You would need to do that all over again.
    • jamie hill
       
      go to manage wiki
    • jamie hill
       
      then domain name
  • what I am left with is still just the wiki.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      We should have the class problem-solve this on Thursday.
  • I plan to implement some pictures into Flickr
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Excellent..we haven't talked much about flickr.
  • I could use some guidance at this point
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Let's definintely chat on Thursday! Great ideas....keep up the good work.
    • jamie hill
       
      It sounds like you are trying too many things at once. Find the one that works for your classroom and go with it.
  • I am proud of what I have created so far.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      You should be...you've are doing a swell job!
  • I became frustrated with many of the other technologies that I explored or did not find them functional for my classroom.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Shawn wrote about some frustration this week. You may want to check out his post. Maybe this is something we could talk about in class.
    • jamie hill
       
      many of these technologies i do not think i could implement well in my classroom either, but i try to pass them off to other teachers.
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