Tech Tools and Iowa Core Curriculum

We need to brainstorm connections between the Iowa Core Curriculum and Technology Tools.  

Podcasts from the Zoo

Can you see them now!!

Podcasts

1. Download iTunes (free) - you can also listen to podcasts on several other audio programs

2. iTunes Store - Podcasts - Education. Podcasts are free!

3. Find a podcast, listen. If you want to save it to iTunes, click on "subscribe."

4. Everytime you open iTunes, the program will go look for updates to the podcast and automatically download them.

There are already thousands of podcasts on the Internet - enjoy listening to them! You can listen to podcasts on your computer, burn them to CD, or sync them to an mp3 player or iPod if you want to make them truly portable.

To make a podcast, you'll might want to download Audacity for the PC.

If you have a Mac, you are all set to go with GarageBand which is part of your iLife suite!

Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts! Oh My!

Thought we might try to make these terms a little clearer. Click on the following terms to see the Wikipedia definition and below them for some examples:



Blog personal, less collaborative, newest posts at top, usually someone's "thinking" for the world to see, changeable but usually static

• CAM High School's blog from Washington DC
• Harlan High School News Blog
• David Warlick's 2 Cents Worth
• Teaching Matters Most
• Every One Learns - Pedagogy, Technology, Motivation
  
  
  Wiki - can be personal but more open to collaboration than a blog, very changeable by all collaborators but keeps an archive of changes
• Bud the Teacher
• Wiki Wiki Teaching
• Information Technology in a Global Society
  
  
  
  Podcast -can be just audio like a radio broadcast, or can be enhanced with photos and links, or can even be a video. You can subscribe (for free) to podcasts and listen to them on your computer or an mp3 player or iPod.
• iTunes store - podcasts - education

Summer Class planning

Notes, sites, videos, ideas...

Articles/blogs to read:

TechLearning blogs

Hand Truck - blog by David Jakes

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants article by Marc Prensky

Alan November's Weblog

David Warlick's 2 Cents Worth blog

Moving at the Speed of Creativity blog

The Lost Art of Discovery and Time, The Enemy

Blog - Teaching Better with Web 2.0

http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/ - Back to School with the class of Web 2.0

Gone Google - lesson ideas for Google tools, podcasts, web 2.0 ideas

Web 2.0 for Educators

Blog - Teaching Better with Web 2.0

Webquests

Webquest Page - A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Example Webquest on social networking

Favorite Web 2.0 sites

http://teachertube.com/ - yes, YouTube for educators!!

Go2Web20.net - find most of the web 2.0 applications here! How can you use some of them in your classroom.

Google docs and spreadsheets - word processing, spreadsheet, presentation software all online

ZoHo.com - word processing, spreadsheet, presentation

Scrapblog http://www.scrapblog.com/ -a blog for scrapbook lovers

Picnik- online photo editing

Del.icio.us - store all your bookmarks to get them from any computer - share your bookmarks with your peers and friends

Videos

Think Before You Post

Pay Attention

The Machine is Us/ing - Web 2.0 video

Framework for the class: Using technology tools to raise Rigor and Relevance in the curriculum

Day 1 and 2

Theory: Examine the NETS standard

Examine the 21^st century skills

Examine the Rigor and Relevance Framework

Demonstration

Incorporate new literacies into the curriculum

Use digital media to raise the level of rigor and relevance

Use Internet resources to raise the level of rigor and relevance

Discussion board

Email

Class Blog

Day 3 and 4

Practice

Create lesson plan that is in quadrant c or d and that uses tech tools

Create or adapt a rubric for evaluating student projects

Share lessons with others online, (Zoho Writer, Google Docs, Wiki

Class Groups:

Council Bluffs Group: Charles Black, Jill Clevenger, and Marilyn Wymore

Glenwood/FM Group: Janis Moore, Karen Barrett and Carolyn Scott

Logan/Mo Valley/Walnut Group: Deneen Healy, Marsha Wiese, and Angie Radloff

Clarinda/Essex/ISD Group: Andrea Stanton, Anthony Smith and Michael Grandick

Riverside/Tri-Center Group: Angie Thomas, Shelly Rhoten and Dennis Jarrett

Welcome

Welcome to "Using Technology Tools to Raise Rigor and Relevance in the Curriculum"