Launching a Learning Community
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This document discusses launching a learning community and introducing podcasting. It describes the objectives of helping educators craft a vision for 21st century skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and aligning technology to the curriculum. It then discusses what learning communities are and explores examples of online tools that can be used to build communities, including wikis, microblogging, blogs, websites and podcasting. The importance of students having online communities for connection, meaningful work and preparation is highlighted.
Launching a Learning Community
- 1. come together Launching a Learning Community & Intro to Podcasting photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/ ASCD Texas 2010
- 3. ojectives Craft a clear vision of schoolsHone in on 21st century skills:Global collaborationEmpathyCritical thinking on the webAlign technology to curriculumCreate rigorous and motivating assignmentsLearn about collaborative tools for sustainable improvement Align technology to curriculumCreate rigorous and motivating assignmentsLearn about collaborative tools for sustainable improvement Align technology to curriculumCreate rigorous and motivating assignmentsLearn about collaborative tools for sustainable improvement This conference is designed for all levels of Texas educators with the objective to help them: This conference is designed for all levels of Texas educators with the objective to help them:
- 4. Learning Community? from Wikipedia: A learning community is a group of people who share common values and beliefs, are actively engaged in learning together from each other. As educators, this used to happen only within our schools With students, perhaps just neighborhood friends NEIGHBORHOOD'S GOTTEN A WHOLE LOT BIGGER
- 5. Learning Community? What about your Learning OWN Community? What are its strengths? What could be improved? What is your ideal Learning Community? What components need to be in place to build a successful Learning Community?
- 8. Now it’s Your Turn!
- 9. Quick tour of my Pln Nings ( Seedl ings ) F ac ebook (Seedl ings Group) Classroom 2.0 edtechtalk.com K12 Online Conference B it by Bit (my Blog/Podcast/S eedlings Podcas t) Delicious (this is our Seedlings' "Geek of the Wee k" Links) Diigo Flickr Twitter
- 10. where would I be without my Pln? bobsprankle.com How many with email? How many with Blogs? How many with your own DOMAIN? Stake a claim!
- 11. I WOULDN’T BE HERE WITHOUT MY PLN
- 12. http://www.tenthousandcents.com / Drawn by 10000 anonymous artists
- 16. “ We learn from the company we keep.” Frank Smith
- 17. So much out there! One connection = thousands... and thousands! Start SMALL! how do we know? photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2326448445/
- 18. Twitter Sign up Get a Twitter Client Who to Follow? What are #hashtags? How I follow Locked/Open
- 21. TWEETDECK
- 22. Why Should our Students have Online Communities? Connection to Self In order for work to have real meaning, students must have a significant interest and even personal connection to the work. Without this, the work is artificial, forced, and carried out in isolation. Work WILL be Engaging Connection to Others An understanding that people are social by nature and therefore will be motivated by a collaborative curriculum. MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS! Work Must Be Meaningful or Purposeful An acknowledgment that it is a fundamental and universal human desire for people to want to do work that is meaningful or purposeful. People want a job to do and gain great satisfaction in doing that job. Work Must Have an Authentic Audience In order for work to have real meaning, it must reach a true audience as well as have significant impact on the world outside of the classroom. Work Must Be Lasting and Sustainable In order for work to have real meaning, it should have permanence. Students will be Prepared With Teachers along using the tools with them as role models/mentors
- 23. STORY TIME
- 25. INTO THE TOOLS! WIKIS MICROBLOGGING BLOGS WEBPAGE PODCASTING
- 26. Quick Edit Many Can Edit Rollback Collaborative Authorship Living Document Open/Closed wikis
- 28. Private Wiki : http://www.w ikispaces.com/site/privatelabel/k-12
- 29. Time to explore some great examples in Education: http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/7-wiki
- 30. Less is more Usually 140 characters Continued conversation Simple Easily Mobile MICROBLOGGING
- 33. Show individual authorship and growth over time ... Galleries of Thought Comments (moderation) Private/Open BLOGS
- 37. private...
- 38. ....if you want
- 39. edublogs Wordpress Engine: Blog on Steroids
- 40. WEEbly... has it all Website Photo Gallery Blogs Drag ’n Drop Editing! Stats! ETC!
- 41. PODCASTING <in 90 minutes>
- 42. Outline: What’s a Podcast? Let’s Find Some (iTunes) Room 208 Story Why Podcast? Tools
- 44. itunes u!
- 46. Civil War Search
- 48. W O W !
- 49. Go Play! Explore, Discover, Share!
- 50. Room 208 Webpage: Static Teacher Centric Blah
- 51. Room 208 Blog: Read/Write Student Centric Motivating COMMENTS! GLOBAL!
- 52. Room 208 PODCAST: Blog on Steroids Read/Write/LISTEN Student Centric Motivating CONVERSATION Really GLOBAL!!!!!!!! Blog + Audio = Podcast
- 54. Why Podcast? Play Performance Simulation Appropriation Multitasking Distributed Cognition Collective Intelligence Judgment Transmedia Navigation Networking Negotiation New Skills Needed:
- 56. Connection to Self (ENGAGED) Connection to Others Work Must Be Meaningful or Purposeful Work Must Have an Authentic Audience Work Must Be Lasting and Sustainable Students will be Prepared “ It Doesn’t Feel Like School Anymore!” “ I should have them Podcast anything that I want them to learn.” — Beth Bush
- 57. Data
- 58. Data
- 59. Tools Audacity (quick overview) iTunes for Compression Aviary: Mina RSS... attach to Blog (Remember Weebly? Posterous?)