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Randy Ziegenfuss

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age - 0 views

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    In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.
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

FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS - 0 views

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    Just how radically is the internet transforming the experience of childhood?
Randy Ziegenfuss

Project Based Learning - 0 views

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    Welcome to PBL-Online, a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.
Randy Ziegenfuss

4Teachers : Main Page - 0 views

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    4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.
Randy Ziegenfuss

14 Ways K-12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal - 0 views

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    For librarians, and for most other professionals, the game has changed. There is no textbook for new practice, and it is absolutely true that some of us are a little more retooled than others. Nevertheless, there are at least 14 retooled learning strategies that teacher-librarians should be sharing with classroom teachers and learners in the 2009-2010 school year.
Douglas Gimbar

http://heatjim.edublogs.org - 6 views

shared by Douglas Gimbar on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • chaos city
    • jamie hill
       
      Why do they not know how to set up an email account on their own? This should have been an easy task for 21st century students.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      Not for my kids... a lot of them do not have computers at home. I teach at-risk, low social economic students.
    • jamie hill
       
      Fair enough.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      I had to laugh when you wrote that. This afternoon I got all my kids in and did a trial homework assignment with just gmail. They were very enthusiastic... it was a good day
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I think it is great that you keep plowing through the messiness of using these tools. So often, teachers (and administrators) are uncomfortable with messiness. What can you expect though with NCLB? Don't make any mistakes. And if things aren't perfect, there will be hell to pay! Keep going, Heather!
  • she was very into finding out how to use these thing
    • Douglas Gimbar
       
      At least she is behind you, that's a start. There's nothing harder than cutting through the legal tape and fighting against your administration.
  • She had not heard of either of these tools
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I shall be blunt. How pathetically sad!
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  • I’m soooooo upset. Gmail needs to stop for now!
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      Looking forward to hearing about the story! This should dove-tail nicely into the whole digital citizenship discussion.
  • AND OVER 3000 STUDENTS
  • AND OVER 3000 STUDENTS
  • AND OVER 3000 STUDENTS
  • any thoughts guys
    • jamie hill
       
      you know the risks. We all take risks. And as long as you know what you are getting yourself into, I say go for it.
  • maybe access it at home and complete? Any ideas?
    • jamie hill
       
      Can they create a list of words first in google docs or Word then copy and paste into wordle in class?
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      That's what I figured out.Have them type and save in a word doc.... which they can open whenever, I can even have them gmail it to themselves at home.
  • I keep having to go back to the help button to figure out how to make the show work.
  • I intent to introduce my students to it next week. I hope they will be as excited as I am about the concept.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      That is great, Heather! I'm sure with your enthusiasm, they will love it, too!
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      Randy, I cannot figure out how to access my eductaional account... any ideas?
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I have not use the educational account, but we can work on that in class. As well as your camera issue...we can work on that too.
  • By Thursday I will be into a story about the Black Plague
    • Janelle Schaeffer
       
      Just a hunch...but you might find some interesting interactive things on the internet that deal with the black plague or Medieval Europe.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      I love it ... this is the perfect time to be doing this unit.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      I like how you are sharing this "aha" moment about prior knowledge. Around 2000, John Bransford et al, published a book called How People Learn. Prior knowledge is a key feature of what we hang new learning on. That is why it is important for teachers to understand the experiences of their students. If you just teach content, you will likely never tap into the prior knowledge that kids will attempt ot hang that new learning on.
  • I realize that this class has opened a whole new world to us.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      So what you now know has changed your paradigm of the "classroom?"
  • Students can use their cognitive skills and stretch their imaginations beyond any limits in the 21st century.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
       
      As you think about those two essential questions, push yourself to think beyond the technology. How is the teaching and learning different as a result? Otherwise, we get sidetracked by the tehnology and forget to think about its impact.
    • Heather Apostolopoulos
       
      Yes, Randy, but using the technology as only a tool is what the idea is.
  • The other tool that I am learning how to use is imovie.
    • Douglas Gimbar
       
      I can't wait to see your project. Anytime someone uses something new it is exciting and creats a sense of accomplishment. You should be proud of yourself.
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    Randy, I now have a meeting with head of tech at my high school as well as Tom Drago( head of technology for Easton sd. )Oh boy, my principal wants me to show them what I'm doing. Hope this doesn't fall all over me and the rest of the English department is going to have to stop using gmail and google docs, since they all been using it but never asked permission. The good thing is my enthusiasm and my kids'. They love it. I'll post my wordle experience tomorrow( was wonderful). After I took this job, I was so worried about to reach these kids. Thanks for showing me a way and for your support!
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!!!!!
  • animoto a
  • 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.
Kevin Bush

Educational Games - 1 views

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    A list of interactive games for students.
Shawn Collier

ImageChef - Customize Photos, Clip Art - 0 views

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    Very cool site similar to wordle, however using word mosaic you can create specific shapes that your "worlde" will appear in.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Google Apps K-12 Lesson Plans using Docs, Sites, and Calendar. - 0 views

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    "Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans."
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

Microsoft UK Schools News Blog : Scaling up Innovation - 0 views

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    "The Scaling Framework - an interactive tool that helps analyse how you move an innovation from being something done by 1 or 2 people, to making it widespread."
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