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Emily Beyer

Web 2.0 Projects - a Celebration of Student Learning - 2 views

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web 2.0 project student

shared by Emily Beyer on 12 Jul 11 - Cached
    • Emily Beyer
      Emily Beyer on 12 Jul 11
       
      This site has a lot of really cool projects created by middle school students. You can tell that the librarian and/or other teachers are really incorporating technology into their classrooms across the entire school. These projects cover many different topics and tools.
  • Kyle Campbell on 16 Jul 11
     
    Awesome way to showcase East Middle School's Library in this case. But just think we can use Web 2.0 Tools like Animoto to create slideshows of students work and even a culmination of projects we will do in class. This would be a neat thing to create to show parents on back to school night!
Karen Kohn

Miss Night's Marbles: I heard them say, love is the way - 0 views

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Social Networking Kindergarten Education

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  • a virtual exchange between our class, and a partner class overseas. For my 20 Canadian munchkins, we found a partner group in East Borneo, Indonesia. Both classes have created an imaginary friend, who attends our partner school. (For the curious, our imaginary friend is a little girl named Ella. She is 6 years old, she has blond hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Her gender and name were decided by vote. Her age and appearance were drawn at random.) We use Twitter to ask research questions of our partners, and the answers allow us to write stories documenting our imaginary friend's experience in another country. Each child has a journal for the project, where they record things they have learned. It being kindergarten, the recording mostly takes the form of drawings. The children dictate text to go with their drawings, and then copy that text onto their pages. We are working on a Prezi presentation to share our learning with parents and other classes. We have made a video to teach our "Indonesia friends" about snow and how to get dressed for recess when it is very cold. When my team conceived of this project, I knew it was going to be cool. As mentioned in my previous post about Twitter in kindergarten, I love love LOVE that my students are building real connections with other children their own age. This project brought it to another level, by pushing them to imagine themselves in a completely different setting. (As we graph the often FIFTY degree difference in our daily temperatures, I often imagine MYSELF in a completely different setting, too!) I knew that this project was going to take us in unexpected directions, and there is no doubt that it has.
  • Karen Kohn on 10 Jul 11
     
    This is a great example of why Social Networking in the classroom works. Please visit this blog post. Miss Night, along with her fellow Kindergarten teachers in her school in Canada use social networking to communicate with another class in Indonesia. Night has come up with many lessons using the information the students gathered from their friends in Indonesia. Her students have learned so much from this contact and have even surprised her with some of their comments and questions. This has given me so many ideas! READ THE POST.
  • Emily Beyer on 12 Jul 11
     
    I also read this blog a few days ago. It is so inspirational! It really shows how even kindergarten students can participate in a social network with the help of their teacher.
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    I can't get over what a leap it is that teachers can communicate with classrooms in other countries. The possibilities are endless not just for learning but promoting intercultural understanding. Great post.
Janet Swistock

Middle School Color Theory Projects - 0 views

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color theory projects Colour education design meaning colors lesson

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      Janet Swistock on 14 Jul 11
       
      Make sure to go to the bottom of the page for a preview of another lesson using monochromatic self portraits.
Janet Swistock

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education - 9 views

Love Zoho for students to work together on a presentation on a period in art history, or a study of the life and work of an artist. They could even create a group presentation with artist statement...

started by Lesley Maurer on 07 Jul 11 5 follow-ups, last by Janet Swistock on 18 Jul 11
Victoria Steele

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom | Online College Tips - Online ... - 1 views

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facebook Social Networking

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  • Victoria Steele on 11 Jul 11
     
    Just an interesting article that came up when I was researching. Not sure that I would ever use Facebook in the classroom, but for all of you who may be teaching upper grades maybe this is something to consider?
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    I am amazed at how these social networking sites can be used in education. It's so challenging to my previously held ideas about what they are good for! I have no doubt that used in the classroom safely and effectively they are great in getting and keeping student's attention.
  • Kyle Campbell on 16 Jul 11
     
    Facebook has been "THE" social network to stay away from in the classroom as a teacher. I recall posting back and forth with Angela about this topic as she was one of the first I saw back Facebook in the classroom. While I said everyone teaches us to be weary; just look at all the increadible uses we have for using Facebook in school. 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom is a great resource for those skeptical about incorporating it in the calssroom. I didn't even know you could create 2 Facebook's (probably because I don't even have one) but just create one for class use. Keep it private for just those in the class, and benefit from all the neat options you have to work with this form of technology. From creating polls to providing a platform for students to work and collaborate on projects; this article along with Angela's views on its uses in the classroom - have certainly changed my mind!
Kate Castle

Adapting Social Networking to Address 21st-Century Skills - Internet@Schools Magazine - 0 views

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  • 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      This is so interesting. I think that students need to learn technology to be sucessful in their lives because technology is only going to grow, so it would be niave to think that we don't need to teach technology in schools.
  • another aspect of a social learning network is the potential to build global awareness among students.
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      Students could use skype to achieve this.
  • same ePals online email service
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  • communicate with them using Web 2.0 technologies (the ePals service has a language translator, helping students to communicate regularly and across cultures)
    • melanie gladden
      melanie gladden on 12 Jul 11
       
      I had no thought about the language barrier as a complication. It would be interesting to see what other socail networking tools have the ability to translate.
  • Consider what tools, when implemented together in a holistic and thoughtful manner, can encourage collaboration, spark creativity, teach 21st-century skills, and address the needs and challenges of different socioeconomic environments.
  • Consider the following questions
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      These are five really crucial questions. I suspect too they are very different approaches to teaching than what has been typical in the past.
  • what tools best fulfill the needs of each school and district’s environment
  • What should be encouraged is the next level of communication—collaboration.
  • create, invent, and showcase their work
  • as many as 70% of the new jobs recently created in the U.S. are positions that require interactions between people and involve judgment, insight, and collaboration.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Students need to be aware in a different way than before. Learning is no longer a passive activity. This new interactive stance fosters the skills of judgement, insight, and collaboration that employers are looking for.
  • the framework suggests three overarching student outcomes, including life and career skills; learning and innovation skills; and information, media, and technology skills. Ultimately, the Partnership is advocating for educators and students to consider the implication of skills beyond the basic subject areas that are critical to success in the 21st century.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      It makes me happy to see that it is obvious to people that producing a literate student involves more than teaching him or her the core subjects. Learning how to learn, meta-learning (has anyone coined that one yet?) is THE indispensable skill of the 21st century it seems. If I take nothing from this class, it will be that.
  • free, online email service for K–12
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      This is a cool site. Worth looking into. Connects educators who want to collaborate on classroom projects, great and interesting forums, and email accounts for kids to use for school.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Good to know this exists.
  • to match students with other students around the world
  • Educators can choose to utilize Web 2.0 tools
  • preparing them for working in a global marketplace
  • His students take part in a global newscast, featuring students from the U.S., Japan, Russia, Belize, and several other countries.
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      What a great idea! Very cool.
  • narrowing down which combination of tools would be best with the curriculum and pedagogy for the class
    • Kate Castle
      Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
       
      Each class will be unique in its abilities and needs and having knowledge of a wide varitety of tools makes teachers able to customize web tools to best serve their classrooms.
  • Kate Castle on 13 Jul 11
     
    today's students need to be creators and collaborators, not just individual learners
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