Wonderful World of Wikis: Practical Classroom Wikis\n[Formal Session : Open Source Lab]\nVicki A. Davis, Westwood Schools, Technology A with Sarah Cove and Adam Frey
COSN (The Consortium for School Networking Initiative) has a new Broadband Knowledge Center that highlights the issues of Broadband needs in the Schools.
In the first two projects of Technology Literacy, students research complex topics, write narrative essays, collect and analyze data to think critically about their topics and produce publications.
Over the last four years, more than 10,000 children on five continents have participated in the project. We have demonstrated learning gains in science, language arts, and social studies, and students have completed literally thousands of Quests, some of which were assigned by teachers and many of which were chosen by students to complete in their free time.
Quest Atlantis is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks from the Center for Research on Learning & Technology at Indiana University.
QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae.
FLAT CLASSROOMS: USING WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD BETWEEN STUDENTS & TEACHERS. In this segment of ISTE Eduverse Talks host host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax) discusses the Flat Classroom Project with Vicki Davis (SL: CoolCat Whitman), the IT Director of Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia about her FLAT CLASSROOM PROJECT.
Links to schools that have implemented an ITOUCH program. To Discuss the methods, best practices, and tools for implementing a 1:1 itouch (or iphone) program at a school including release forms, how you add apps, and best practices.
Go to the Program Search and find the checkbox for Handouts to Date near the bottom of the page. By clicking on that box, you'll get a Search Results page showing all presentations whose presenters have submitted a handout or research paper.