Please investigate (roll mouse over icons) and join two Web 2.0 services of your choosing at this index of Web 2.0 services. Use your ASU EDU 591 gmail account when you subscribe. After exploring and joining the services, please post your comment under this blog thread. Comment should include the name of the service, what it is and how it might be useful for the K12 teaching/learning practice.
You will note that if you toggle the little "mapping" icon at the top of the web site, the graphical display will change to an index of services, sorted by tagging. That is, additional sites related to a topic will appear by clicking on the topic. The bigger the lettering of the topic, the more Web 2.0 services there are that are cataloged.
Post your URL as a comment under this posting.
Assignments
• Day 1
Read the Horizon Report (2008).
Post a blog on what technological trend you feel will become most prevalent in K12 learning within 5 years and why.
(see Rules of Engagement)
• Day 2
Please watch both of the Sir Ken Robinson videos linked below. Then post two slides on the shared presentation: 1) one way schools kill creativity, and 2) one way schools foster creativity.
Do schools kill creativity?
Creatively Speaking
• Day 4
Assignment 1 - Wikipedia - see post below.
Assignment 2 - Colliding Forces - see post below.
• Day 5 and Day 6
Live Broadcast - post a response to the blog below on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Day 7 and Day 8 - Surprise.....
Your assignment is optional - you will receive credit whether you email me yes or no, but you do have to email me. I do not believe in zeros, nor in failure as an option. However, you get what you put in, so I encourage you to say yes....;-)
If you email me yes, here's what you are committing to. Give me your email address at work, what grade level or content area you teach, whether you are an administrator, whatever. What school you are at and a short resume/introduction of yourself. I will leave your name and contact anonymous until I find another teacher/educator/administrator in PVUSD who might like to work with you on REACH, and in turn you with them. I will make an intitial email introduction of each of you to the other - from there, you are on your own to put into practice the communication, collaboration and creativity of 21st century teaching and learning, using information technology to bridge time and space constraints.
REACH (Real Experiences Advancing Childhood Humanities) is an initiative our district is implementing with other educators/administrators outside of our walls. We are connecting students/teachers/administrators, from differing classrooms, differing schools, cities, states, countries, using technology to communicate/collaborate/create in whatever ways possible and appropriate to postively impact student learning - totally up to you and your PVUSD counterpart on what you think would be useful - how big, how small, how deep, how thin, is up to you.
It does not have to be high tech, with tons of technology - in fact, the technology is not the point - learning with and about others is, being creative and taking a risk is the experience. One simple internet connection and a Google account can do wonders (you should now know that), to connect students, teachers, administrators, whatever. I suspect your kids, your school will be richer for the adventure and you will cross into something I believe is profound and necessary in education - REACH'ing beyond the walls......
So, if you want to REACH, give me the details and I will personally try to connect you with an appropriate counterpart. Then, you have the opportunity to extend your coursework learning into actual practice - the point of taking a class. Email me yay with details, or nay. What I wish for you is to REACH beyond this ASU class, throw optimism into the wind and see what emerges in your participatory networking experience.
Jeff......
Read the Horizon Report (2008).
Post a blog on what technological trend you feel will become most prevalent in K12 learning within 5 years and why.
(see Rules of Engagement)
• Day 2
Please watch both of the Sir Ken Robinson videos linked below. Then post two slides on the shared presentation: 1) one way schools kill creativity, and 2) one way schools foster creativity.
Do schools kill creativity?
Creatively Speaking
(see Rules of Engagement)
• Day 3
Assignment 1 - See Blog entry on Web 2.0 Directory below for instructions.
Assignment 2 - See Blog entry on P21 Skills below for instructions.
• Day 3
Assignment 1 - See Blog entry on Web 2.0 Directory below for instructions.
Assignment 2 - See Blog entry on P21 Skills below for instructions.
• Day 4
Assignment 1 - Wikipedia - see post below.
Assignment 2 - Colliding Forces - see post below.
• Day 5 and Day 6
Live Broadcast - post a response to the blog below on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Day 7 and Day 8 - Surprise.....
Your assignment is optional - you will receive credit whether you email me yes or no, but you do have to email me. I do not believe in zeros, nor in failure as an option. However, you get what you put in, so I encourage you to say yes....;-)
If you email me yes, here's what you are committing to. Give me your email address at work, what grade level or content area you teach, whether you are an administrator, whatever. What school you are at and a short resume/introduction of yourself. I will leave your name and contact anonymous until I find another teacher/educator/administrator in PVUSD who might like to work with you on REACH, and in turn you with them. I will make an intitial email introduction of each of you to the other - from there, you are on your own to put into practice the communication, collaboration and creativity of 21st century teaching and learning, using information technology to bridge time and space constraints.
REACH (Real Experiences Advancing Childhood Humanities) is an initiative our district is implementing with other educators/administrators outside of our walls. We are connecting students/teachers/administrators, from differing classrooms, differing schools, cities, states, countries, using technology to communicate/collaborate/create in whatever ways possible and appropriate to postively impact student learning - totally up to you and your PVUSD counterpart on what you think would be useful - how big, how small, how deep, how thin, is up to you.
It does not have to be high tech, with tons of technology - in fact, the technology is not the point - learning with and about others is, being creative and taking a risk is the experience. One simple internet connection and a Google account can do wonders (you should now know that), to connect students, teachers, administrators, whatever. I suspect your kids, your school will be richer for the adventure and you will cross into something I believe is profound and necessary in education - REACH'ing beyond the walls......
So, if you want to REACH, give me the details and I will personally try to connect you with an appropriate counterpart. Then, you have the opportunity to extend your coursework learning into actual practice - the point of taking a class. Email me yay with details, or nay. What I wish for you is to REACH beyond this ASU class, throw optimism into the wind and see what emerges in your participatory networking experience.
Jeff......
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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TK posted:
Go2Web2.0
There are so much to choose from Go2Web2.0, I found www.bableboard.com and www.costtodrive.com fascinating.
Dabbleboard - is a website just acting as a whiteboard online, we can draw and write. This is a whiteboard reinvented, it's visualize, its let you explore and collaborate.
This is a great place to teach drawing and any method of teaching because it's just like a whiteboard just a click of a button.
Costtodrive.com - the name speak for itself. If you want to know how far from point A to point B and want to calculate the cost to get from one place to another. This is the best place to go find all those information when planning for a road trip.
I would use this webpage to teach math when calculating distance, budgeting money when going on a roadtrip. Maybe geography, economic teachers would be able to use this webpage to aid them with their instruction
Comment should include the name of the service, what it is and how it might be useful for the K12 teaching/learning practice.
introPLAY
In an attempt to connect the world via exercise routines and workout hours, introPLAY offers users a way to log their activities and view their health life on graphs. The site asks users for information like 'happiness', 'soreness', hours of workout, max bpm, average bpm, resting bpm, sleep hours, body fat %, and what kind of activity was done. A particular feature, introLEAGUE, allows users to form competitions or events for others to match their achievements in presumably friendly rivalry.
This site could be used for PE classes. Fitness challenges could be presented via introLEAGUE and all students would be able to log in their hours and compete with each other, which would hopefully provide for more exercise and encouragement for the continuation of fitness post PE class.
Prognosis: FAIL. The site's premise is based off customization. The initial fun of creating your own profile and showing off your workout hours and interests on colored graphs wears off quickly when you realize that the 'replay value' of the site is based off interaction with other people using the site. When hours are already spent on MySpace and Facebook, it probably wears at even the most socially addicted's patience to visit yet another social website. This idea would flourish as an applet.
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eventsbot
A site that helps provide information of an event as well as ways to sign up for, buy the tickets of, and register for said event.
This would probably be most useful for clubs and Student Government. Only the planner or administrator of the event has to sign up for an account so the only thing that others need is the web address.
Prognosis: Competent. A saving grace is that it allows you to publish a link of the event on places like Facebook. The site is entirely geared for allowing people to sign up for an event and takes into account all types of event and their options. Of course, since I only have the basic account, I may not be seeing the true genius behind this website. Personally, I think the fact that they'd charge is stupid in and of itself but that's just me...
Julie-
lifetick
Lifetick is a website that is used to help "individuals achieve more out of life." It is an organizer that helps people prioritize different tasks. It focuses on core values and goal setting. Lifetick provides pie graphs to determine specific events to maximize life.
Lifetick can help students organize homework. Students will be able to see what assignment is coming up minimizing late work and preparing students for test taking. It also help students prioritize tasks. For example, what is more important... returning a permission slip back to school on time or playin video games in the morning?
For PE, students can also can create a heathy eating log or a work-out program. Lifetick will help students stay on task and will encourage students to complete their goals.
As a teacher, this could help me to be better organized, too. It reaffirms the importance in every day and long-term goals.
I really liked the sight www.visiblebody.com as a science teacher. Here it takes you on a virtual tour of the body. The pictures are very accurate and extremely eduactionsl for my biology and the health and wellness unit. I have seen other sights similar before but none with graphics this good.
I also liked www.answers.com. It kind of remined me of yahoo of sorts as it was custimizable to the person using it. It would be s great source for research/information and current events too. It is very intercative in the sense that it gives you a chance to make it your own and has a helpful toolbar that could help with many assignments on top.
Matt
dabbleBoard - I had a lot of fun playing around with this electronic whiteboard. Its lets you create drawings extremely easily and the ways you could use it as a teacher are unlimited. One of its best features is that you can share your documents and work collaboratively. Just like on Google, you can send the shared document out and have more than one person working on a project at a time. I could imagine groups of students working on a collaborative project on-line or adding pieces to a whole class lesson from their laptop as the teacher models on a proxima.
Zefty - A program designed to help parents with allowances for their children. I signed up for this to help with my own child become more responsible and to help me be consistent with giving an allowance. Helping students become more responsible, especially for getting their homework done, can have benefits on their education. I would definitely share this website with other parents trying to get their child on track.
I was so overwhelmed by all that there was to choose from on Web 2.0.
So many of the sites could be useful for students. The two that I found were Vista Zoo and Diary beta.com
Vista Zoo gives virtual tours of anywhere around the world. Once you have joined you can upload your personal tours on this site. There is also an IPHONE link so it is "virtually" effortless to upload from an IPHONE. Our students could benefit from this is many ways. They could see the world from someone elses point of view. They could see museums that they may never get a chance to see in real life. The students could also make virtual tours of their own and post them.
Diary.com beta is a personal diary website, but can also be a shared diary if you choose.
Our students can use this for personal writings and projects. You can do a lot of reflection work or personal growth through a year with this. Students can also share their diaries and get responses anonymously.
I liked scribblar.com. As an educator it is important to collaborate with other educators to keep up with new teaching modalities, changes in the profession and communication with colleagues.
The second site I liked was planzone.com. It is a collaborative website where I can see students working on projects in groups or pairs using the offerings of the internet and other learning tools provided by the computer.
The two sites I looked at were Shelfari and Middlespot. Shelfari is a place where you can share literature that you like and you can view what your friends are reading at a glance. I think this would be great for kids to become an interactive community of readers. They could also form an online book club. Middlespot is a place where you can go to interpret information faster from search results this could help teachers research for new teaching strategies/information as well as help kids with their research projects.
First of all I thought the site was an amazing resource...a wealth of information. So many interesting technological resources have been introduced to me in the short time we've spent in this class with Jeff and I want to share them with my students....Damn the Scottsdale access denied! Anyhoo....some of my favorites...
Soundcloud.com-Are you a talented musician who would like to market your music? Check it out. Send your music samples to groups or people of your choice via web.
Snooth.com-Do you like wine? Do you ever feel insecure about your knowledge of wine when collective company may ask, "What do you think would pair better with the rosemary pork, a St. Michelle cabernet or Toasted Head merlot?" If so, this website is your answer. You can also purchase wine off the site but I recommend Trader Joe's fabulous prices.
Docoloco.com- An Aussie based website that offers 2.0 capability about the best restaraunts and local establishments in the neighborhood you may have recently moved to or be visiting. As far as I could tell most of the information was about Australian sites, however what a concept...does anyone know of a similar site based in America? Imagine if this concept was applied to worlwide destinations As a traveler, I would love to read other traveler's and locals views on restaraunts and bars in cities I may visit. Any good suggestions for vegetarian eating in Montevideo, Uruguay?
icharts.com has Excel sheets or manually added data using bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts on all sorts of topics. I looked at economics and it had 14 subtopics with various graphs. Its great to use for students who neeed to work on interpreting graph skills and/or need more visuals to learn rigorous concepts
On a totally unrelated topic, I liked cost2drive.com. If you plan on traveling on the road and want to know what the cost of traveling from point A to point B. I put in a trip from Phx to San Diego and it gave me the miles, driving time, gallons of gas used, and total cost of gas at the current gas price. One thing to mention it did not have my model of vehicle so I used the Toyota Prius instead of the Matrix.
I REALLY liked Journeys www.jneys.com It is virtual real world travel. The pictures are awesome!!! I am totally ready to go on a vacation!! I am definitely going to show this website to my Dad.
http://www.jneys.com/
Kimberly Orgill
Web 2.0 is great. One of the sites that I found useful was graspr. It is an instructional video network that allows you to view other people's videos and post your own videos. They have all kinds of videos that kids and adults can reference. It is a great site that would be beneficial to both students and adults.
The other site that I really liked was knowtes. It is a site that lets you create and save online flashcards. I think this would be a great site for students to create flashcards about what they are learning, and use flashcards that others have created as well.
After searching for awhile I decided on chitchat with is a web side for educators to share ideas on how to incorporate technology in the classroom. This is important since my school is very limited on funds and rely on creativity to help buld something we are lacking in. The other web site I chose was quizlet. I thought this would be a good resource for my teachers. Plan to share it with them and hopefully they will use it.
Paula those sites do look interesting and I imagine that they will be great for your school - I think they would work for me as well - we are little too:) Kimberly
Elizabeth, I like both of those sites! I can't believe I missed them as I was looking over the sites!
Kimberly
The two web 2.O's that I'm passing on are:
KID ZUI is an internet browser for kids. This browser allows them to create an avatar and play games, explore websites and to view photos and you tube videos from a safe,secure site. It allows parents an opportunity to view their children's activity,set parental controls if needed and a piece of mind knowing their kids are on a safe site. The possibilities are endless in implementing this site into every day learning.
www.KidZui.com
Zefty is an online allowance and money management for parents and kids. It allows parents to set up virtual accounts for their kids. It allows kids an opportunity to save and spend responsibly.
They can use the Zeftycalc to determine how long they'll need to save for that next video game or cd. This site is a good educational tool that could be used within a math unit.
www.zefty.com
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