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
(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 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......

Sunday, December 7, 2008

TK's Individual Final Project

My individual final project is that I created a mogulus account for my school to do announcement. I proposed this mogulus webpage to my principal on Friday and he really like it. He tell the secrectary to order him a webcam. I just created the account about half an hour go. I'm working on how to use this website and I am going to teach my principal to use this webpage. My proposal to him about this webpage is for the use of: School Announcement, STUGO announce and activities. We are a small school, we only 8 classroom. Whenever the principal or STUGO need to make an announcement, they go to every classroom and announce it. I felt it's just too much to do and STUGO members waste time out of the classroom to do their announcen. Two years ago when I was at a bigger campus, the announcement was done through TV, every classroom has a TV. There is a small room in the library set up like a TV station and the announcement is being broadcast through this room and everyone on campus able to watch it if they all turn in on the same channel. This Mogulus webpage is FREE. I told my principal, we can use it as an announcement purpose. He absolutely love to get started and went right ahead order a webcam.

Here is the school mogulus account www.mogulus.com/sdea

1 comment:

Jeff Billings said...

TK,

Glad you and your Principal are off and running with this. I believe that personal broadcasting is one of the next big waves to be embraced by the digital kids. Putting it to productive use now, will put you ahead of the curve and hopefully guide kids to good uses. I look forward to watching digital broadcasting from your station. It will be wild.