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Web 2.0 Classroom Implications |
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Possibilities:
Technology attractive to students
Cross-curricular possibilities
Integration of required literacy skills
Means of taking writing public
Multi-sensory teaching applications for students with language-based learning disabilities
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Impact:
Student tech use, not presentational but engagement
Increased collaboration students builders of knowledge
Increased creativity and motivations
Student ownership
Innovative techniques encourage more meaningful learning communities
Publication for a purpose
Audience goes beyond teacher
Motivating
Engagement in technical projects remove bad behavior and encourages peer interaction
Fosters creativity
Promotes diversity
Audio/video components make students think more about their writing – gives them Voice
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Inquiries:
How much can
technology be substituted for the traditional emphasis on academic
writing with use
Different technologies, different uses for known technologies
Fast pace of technology is also intimidating
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Infrastructure:
How to get equipment? (Students may have access)
Hardware/software availability
What tech resources are available?
What is blocked by firewall?
High speed internet available
Funding – ongoing, updated programs
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School-based support:
Teaching others in the school – tech support in districts
Acceptance by Administration
Time
Many student more tech savvy than teachers
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Project ideas:
Service learning
hours required by same states (high school requirement) –
older students make
Pull group of students together -- seniors create for elementary students – genuine purpose and audience
Alternative to peer tutoring
Students sharing – reluctant readers
HS Students record books for lower grade/ability students
Use audacity record reading/listening
Dialogue journals discussing reading transfer to online
Digital yearbooks
Use ABC movie at the end of a novel to showcase what was learned
Use digital medium to give voice to student poetry
Collaborate with pen
pals in Canada (reading and writing)
Senior with picture
click to hear own life story
Online writing conferences
Post parts of story through class blogmeister to offer comments/peer conference
Author Podcasts
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Implications for Sites/Professional Learning Communities |
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Programs/Project ideas:
Inservice – Advanced, SI
Pod and blog case continuity meetings
Student Writers’ Workshop – Anthologies on CD and linked to website
Teacher Inquiry Institute
Have WP make ABC story
New ways for class anthologies
Limit # of technology projects in SI
Indepth with only one idea
Digital storytelling to capture/promote summer institute
Develop reading out loud/recorded Cds to share throughout project districts
Extend SI through “Tech Tuesdays” and online forums
Podcasting to illustrate summer institute – PR
Just as ABC project
brought together a larger technical community it can bring WP’s
together
Site inservice Tech institute: Summer Institute, Advanced Institute
Monthly “Clicker Club” (monthly sessions, practice in-between)
Sharing technology techniques through Advanced Technology Institutes
Tech teams
Digital storytelling institute
Connecting local WP site to the global community
Tech Matters Institute (Funding?)
Site leaders providing something comparable to Betty’s Tech Tuesdays
Sites should consider some type of digital movie on websites so interested persons get the facts, faces, and voices of NWP
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Needs:
Funding: Demands for service then evidence of use of service supports federal funding for hardware, software and human resources
Support from site/University about technology
Technology training, sharing ideas, hardware/programs, tutorials
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Possibilities:
Collaboration with businesses in the community who can share info/presentations at our sites and maybe in our classrooms too
Open Source as a draw for community
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Inquiries:
How can this further other purposes than just using tech?
How long does it take to learn the technology (Intuitive/organic acquisition?) |
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“Writing is Messy”
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