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EARCOS NOTES

Student: Sam Ramos-Jones

Value of service

Living in a bubble - PCF - Philippine community Fund

Video - dump site (where does the trash go) - people sorting in midst of trash sorting it out

Living conditions - rotting food, flies, dirt, garbage, toxic chemicals, hard to breathe - psychological distress

PFC: Take in garbage - recycle to make products - bags, jewelry, shipping containers building a school

Saturday service - some don’t want to contribute

Everyone’s bubble burst when...

Sept - Typhoon - Manila

School was open - hub for coordinating relief efforts

Concert - singing in the rain - 10000USD in 3 hours - all came together

In desperate times we realize our greatest potential

Jan - Haiti - ISB continues to raise funds

Keynote: Taylor Mali

Filling buckets and Lighting Fires: Why We Do What We Do

Amazing imagery in his speaking

Let me teach like the new snow falling…

New venacular: You know…..not….question?…. Interrogative tone

What has happened to our conviction? Disarticulation,

Say what you believe - speak with conviction!

Labeling keys… (turning the tumblers of the past)

The Miracle Workers

440 convinced to be teachers

Education is the miracle, I’m just the teacher, it’s what I do.

When does the human heart rest?

Pluto - planet

Often Enough

Poet billy collins - the lanyard

Like Lily

What Teachers Make or Objection Overruled or If things don’t work out you can always go to law school

Teachers make a difference

http://www.taylormali.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neslRBRo_wc

ROBOTICS-Don J. Chambers - Chemistry/APChemistry

American School in Japan (ASIJ)

Robots Can

• Extend our senses
• Enter hostile environments
• Make exteremely precise motions
• Be miniaturized
• Be remotely controlled
• Be programmed to operate autonomously
• Teach critical thinking and problem solving

Examples

Chernoble

Oil spill

Nano robots - in blood stream (coming)

Surgical robots

Remote surgery - filters out hand tremors, scales down surgeon’s motions, 25 fold enlargement of view

Medical prothesis

Roves

Its NOT all about robots

Increase technological literacy

Strong motivator for mathematics and science learning

Catalyst for integrating knowledge from all disciplines, including mathematics, sceince, social students, English language arts, art, etc.

Sports like games and challenges with culminating tournament…. Sports for the brain...

Develop team work, communication skills, critical thinking skills, problem/project/contextual based learning (SLOs)

Current and other programs provide a variety of opportunities ain robotics for elementary and secondary schools, informal education.

Potential for global participation

Inspirational professional development both locally, nationally and internationally.

Competitions

• World Robotics Olympiad - LEGOS - Nov 6-7 in Manila - good entrance into robotics

http://www.wroboto.org/ (Use Robot C to program your lego robots - www.robotc.net - download robotc for Mindstorms - if don’t use, kids don’t learn programming or electronics???)

• Micro Robotics

• Botball: middle/high school (KISS Institute: www.kipr.org)

• Vex from Innovationfirst.com - more sophisticated programming www.vexrobotics.com - can enter online competition, shipped out of Hong Kong

• MATE: marine advanced technology in education middle/high school

Micromechanism contest - March 17 2010 - key is cell phone motors

Problem - students want to make a complex machine - keep simple with primary function

Consider the problem

Brainstorm, plan the best way to solve it

Design and build robot

Community effort - more than lone genius

www.marinetech.org/rov_competition/resources.php

http://robotcoach.blogspot.com

www.cc.toin.ac.jp/sc/hayashi-lab

http://robotevents.com - KISS Institute

www.kipr.org

Teaching electronics - Parralax

SATURDAY 27 March

ALAN NOVEMBER KEYNOTE

Twitter up on big screen

Using cell phones creatively??? Cell phone police

Question about what causes mass of trees to grow?

Adding technology to the current culture of teaching/learning is not going to make a difference.

Why do people learn and why do people not learn?

Video on harvard grads

Project Zero - Harvard

Teaching is not merely delivering information - missing critical last step that makes kids apply knowledge

Once students get a misconception in their heads, they don’t change without ...

How else can we teach???

Eric Mazur - see video on YouTube

1. Teachers have students read and reflect before coming to class.
2. Students tell teacher what they need covered.

The only industry to - not changed its processes with technology.

Flip over the flow or work - teachers content goes to web with multimedia, text, different learning style. - Homework

Kids read, reflect, ask questions BEFORE they come to class.

Brain research shows if you make a mistake in homework- turn in - don’t get back until next day means it has been established in brain. Must get down to zero seconds of delay.

Need to get information from kid’s heads to teacher. The way kids are making meaning of knowledge is the most importatnt thing in the classroom.

Classwork becomes homework - reversed classwork and homework. No delay in correcting.

“Convince one another of the correct choice.” - articulate and defend your answer

What information does a teacher need to be a great teacher? Some schools technology rich and information poor.

Processing misconceptions that students have.

Being part of community of peers - need real time staff development.

Role of family essential to student doing well.

Reading by third grade and algebra one?????

Need to do a lot more to build the capacity of the home - flip cam - video kids reading and sent DVD home (poverty area)

Do the teachers at your school have the right information at the right time?

Students

Parents

Leaders

Do we have the right relationships? Should we have students help each other if the teacher has the right answers??

How do you know what just happened in the class?

Build the social networks of the kids to help each other.

www.mathtrain.tv - create tutorials for math curriculum

Children need to hear another child’s voice - rather than voice of teacher. “If you want to create a tutorial then you don’t have to do the homework.” Process of designing a tutorial

Kids have been underestimated in making content for the rest of the class to learn. All learning is social - all learners are teachers, all teachers are learners. What is the job of the kid in the school? Redefine the role of children in the classroom.

www.wolframalpha.com

What’s homework?

Screencast - explain problems (Jing)

Get rid of tech planning committee - learning results committee

Who should own the learning? Discussions about information and relationships

Teacher must first test for misconceptions - whole process of writing multiple choice questions at the beginning of the unit. Have to listen to kids explain WHY they believe that. Find students who have the right model and have them teach the others.

Unteach before you teach.

Practice makes permanent, not perfect.

Teach really good research skills - make them come with a problem.

Global collaboration - every teacher should globalize the curriculum - teach empathy!! Having the perspective of another people.

Summer conference in July - 12th

SESSION: TEACHING ZACH TO THINK

Going back to the ungraded school - cross age teaching. One room schoolhouse.

Book: The Digital Learning Farm

Retread old ideas with new technology.

Google search “American Revolution” site:sch.uk site:ac.uk (higher level - university)

Google: “country code” internet - http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/

Newseum.org - front pages of newspapers - http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

site: url.k12

Ask kids to design assignments.

Google - site: kr haiti response crisis earthquake

Scan results and see url - want government sites - site: go.kr haiti response crisis earthquake or organizations - site: or.kr haiti response crisis earthquake

Have to be cognizant of the grammatical pattern

Sites ranking - do you know how Google works? To make number one in listing has most links from other sites.

1. Put search term in web address (november in web address)
2. Google counts the number of links between web sites

Martin Luther King example - 4th in list - owned by stormfront - white supremacist group

easywhois - shows who owns web address

Are you teaching children to validate information on the web? Will they have the strategies to find out whether or not it is true or false?

Validating Information

Google search: link:www.martinlutherking.org

AltaVista: link:www.martinlutherking.org

link:www.martinlutherking.org host:edu - only education sites linked to site

Teach students to see the invisible

Link:www.martinlutherking.org host:edu link:stormfront.org - drill down even more - now can see relationships between 2 sites

We need to teach children skills of validating content on the internet.

Wiki - has separate web address for each page

Points for more “powerful” friends who link to your page.

Write well and share knowledge with rest of the world and then they will mess with the article - Wikipedia

Lack of caring depends on who owns the learning - did they come up with the assignment - did you teach them how to design the assignment?

GO WORLD WIDE!

******* Quiz on web literacy - on website.

IB got stuck in time!!!!!!!!!!

www.archive.org -

Teaching Zach to Think - on archive of novemberlearning - dead link

How do you get stuff that’s been gone for 10 years? Copy dead link to archive - use WayBackMachine

Kids think that they can take content off the web. “Once it is on the web, your grandchildren will be reading what you put on the web when you were 15.”

*****SCREEN CASTING WITH WEB CONTENT

******SOCIAL BOOKMARKING in the classes you teach. - have kids tag all their websites - must set up tagging system - way to harness what the kids know - must teach tagging - organizational system!!!!

Starting in Kindergarten - what words would you use to tag this site

YOLINK - searches links on a page

http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/yolink-education.jsp

*******Diigo for kids - gives cards and references - go to youtube to get info on how to use

ALL THIS BY END OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Compare and contrast websites - student designed lessons

Go to the web and find 3 websites - why not here are 10 websites compare and contrast websites

GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH - create your own search engine - all elementary teachers would be contributing to this one search engine

google.com/cse -

Mary Ewald - Using Web 2.0 Tech tools to Teach Poetry

Note - definitions - add oral so kids can hear the word

Voxopop - http://www.voxopop.com/ online tape recorder

Each student sets up own account -

Read some material (or research something) add an audio file on your best question

Studyshack - online flash cards http://www.studystack.com/

Spreeder http://www.spreeder.com/ Practice poetry reading free speed reading trainer

Wordsift - like tag crowd - but also visual thesaurus - http://www.wordsift.com/

ALAN NOVEMBER : BUILDING LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Google Docs: Guarantee perfect notes - 2 or 3 person takes notes - all review at end of class - divide content into collaborative content - for example one resources - one relationships - one skills teachers need to learn

Gives reflection of teaching - gives teacher information that usually walks out the door - gives kids good organizational structure

Kids not note taking - some different learning styles - some need to take notes to learn, others can’t take notes while learning (don’t prevent kids from taking their own notes)

Etherpad

Ning - build in advance - watch the videos and reflect on them BEFORE the (conference) or lesson - NOW teacher can tap into student feedback

SixthSense video - MIT - http://tinyurl.com/ac4ees

One of the essential skills of a teacher is to build community - provide rich opportunities for reflection.

Hi Tech High School - http://www.hightechhigh.org/schools/HTH/

Set expectation that students will be teachers.

International School of Washington Ning - http://www.studentnewsaction.net/ run by kids

Get contact beyond your own classroom!! - join a community of other teachers - get together build nings

Learning community doesn’t have to be world-wide BUT…

Find work of other children all over the world - line it up and develop rubrics -

Read novel - find where characters live and go there on web - connect with students who live there. Learn about how the book is thought of, read, etc. In other culture. Empathy to understanding other cultures. Find characters of book that might in the culture today (farmers, laborers).

Note to self - put grade 4 podcasts on iTunes

Connect with teachers around the world - authentic audiences - value differences, different perspectives - every single classroom is a global center!

Global Elementary Classrooms - youtube - Michelle Anderson, Heidi jacobs, Alan November

Create a custom search engine: http://www.google.com/cse/

Invite teachers from around the world to input into this search engine

Teach children how to use tools to gather the work of a lot of people in one place.

Note to self: coordinate search engine within our school, invite ADE schools

Stop answering questions for the kids - get your own answer! Every day one kid is the official researcher for the class.

Have to be invited to join the search engine - 99 invites - anyone can use.

Directory of custom search engines - http://www.customsearchengine.com/

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd93ftgv_140hgh9tqhd notes from this session

Presentations by Groups

Notes for my reference:
Word cloud
Cartoon
Create YouTube channel
Collaborative google map
Original content to wikipedia
Google custom search
Flickr to upload images
TagCrowd to get keywords
mindnode - free mindmapping
Google sketch-up
Apple Education - global learning - iTunes U (U of South Florida - good K-12 topics)
Ted Talks
Google map of interesting places or places to visit - show to class
xtranormal.com

ALI Journal:

to document the PD that you do

everything up on ALI before end of Jan

Panel Discussion

Strategies for good use of tech

-- emphasize community aspects

-- ownership brings responsibilities - if you have enough laptops on a cart - make them personal with name(s) so always goes to same kid

-- AUP - flexible - have rules about what can be downloaded

Tech Issues

-- some schools parents pay a "technology fee" - each gradelevel selects necessary software - bundles of software loaded to computers

-- most schools wipe computers when students leave schools

-- good idea to have an implementation committee - parent/student/teacher/admin - is also an Apple booklet that talks about this

Issues with misuse of laptops

-- lunchtime program with fun options - student led and run

-- keep students engaged in class

-- treat students with respect - gain their trust and discuss the necessity/responsibility of working together

-- tell students that teachers want to teach with engaging materials - when students are off task this goes back to parents - ultimate result is discontinuation of laptop program

-- remote desktop for locking computer - issue with cost of remote desktop, very expensive for entire school

-- propagate the myth that they are being watched!!

-- responsibility of teacher for supervising

Spotlight - sharing

PlanBook: http://www.hellmansoft.com/ $30 per license, site license available

publish to mobile me account

Moodle

www.angryalien.com - plot, protagonist, etc

cosmopod - http://www.cocoamug.com/cosmopod/ - download videos with one click - changes file format automatically

tubetv - same as above but free

virtualbox - run linux and windows

Salinclicker (spelling) control computer from phone

leadertalk.org - group blog

www.voicesofadeasia.com - group blog for this group - send name to Amanda

Apple Programs - Services - speech - Start speaking text

PictureSync - batch uploader - http://picturesync.net/

bubbleshare

xtranormal -

Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/ - can make highlighting and comments on blog post - not on public blog but on linked page

classtools - http://classtools.net/

http://www.manytricks.com/desktopcurtain/ - hides desktop for presentation

http://www.elfyourself.com/ - totally for fun

knowledge forum - purchase - good use of tags

Skitch - screen picture and annotation - http://skitch.com/

little geometry - onscreen set of geometry tools

chemsense animator - animator and can save as quicktime movie

Work day for getting our Group Project together. Greg, Kate, Amy and I work on our unit samples. It's hard to work under pressure!! One reflection that I have is how important it is to PLAN before you start to work! We'll upload some of our work to the Apple Learning Interchange and have enough done to show at project presentations tomorrow.

At the end of the day 5:00-6:00 there is a lecture by a professional photographer. Absolutely, amazing photographs! Following there is a short demo of the software titled 'Aperture'.

Photography Lecture by Peng-Eik Chng

Seeing Photo Graphically, Thinking Graphically

Composition: the art of clearly presenting your creative vision in an appealing manner
• Impose order and structure on the chaotic world around us
• By organising the photo frame and placing of the subject
Framing and Placement of Subjects
• Ask yourself: What is my Subject? What am I really photographing?, What do I want to show the audience? What's the purpose?
If you can't answer these questions, then you are not communicating thru your photos, they are just snap shots.
If there are several answers to each question then you should be taking several pics and making them into a photo story.

THINK GRAPHICALLY!!!

Before you click the shutter, check

Have I chosen a subject?
Does it stand out or have I isolated it?
Is the background pleasing and not cluttered and distracting?
Is there good light for the subject?

Rules of thirds

When a subject is placed in the center of a frame it usually looks boring and static.
Points of power - eyes are attracted - intersection of thirds
Give space - space in front of moving boat, not behind - must be a useful space

Layering of Foreground to Background

Layering is a technique used especially in landscape photography to divide the picture into 3 parts - foreground, center, background. This injects a sense of dimension into otherwise a rather empty picture and leads the viewer's eyes. (Leads you through the picture and out the back.)
It is usually used in conjunction with rules of a third.
Also - lines in photograph lead viewer to main subject.

Breaking Rules?

When you have a purpose.

Cool Development in Digital Photography

HD Video
Higher ISO
WiFi
GPS

APERTURE

Big brother of iPhoto.
Can store folders in Library or keep in location on HD.
Allows you to manipulate the picture.
Can see thumbnails, picture or both.
Magnifier checks for clarity.
Allows you to make changes and keeps original file.
File management - only has one directory of photos (iPhoto makes its own directory so original directory is still there)
Can make a change to multiple files at once.

Here we are in a room at an Apple store in Singapore. It's an amazing training center with room for us 65+ ADE's with connection, electricity and 4 huge screens across the front of the room.



Before we get started on the notes for this morning. You can watch the progress of our groups project at http://when-in-rome.wikispaces.com/ This is a wiki for our planning process.


The focus for today is Web 2.0 tools. There is reference to Web 3.0 in regard to virtual worlds such as Second Life, but for now let's concentrate on Web 2.0!


The overarching theme of web 2.0 is the collaborative nature and connectedness that the tools enable. Links, information, tools, connections, etc. all on ADE wiki. https://adeasia2008.wikispaces.com/

Here are some notes from today...

1. http://www.classroom20.com - a Ning for classroom educators. Kind of one stop shopping and a good jumping off place to get involved. I'll join and get involved. It has concrete examples and a good place to find people and topics.

2. http://www.go2web20.net is a huge list of Web 2.0 tools. I'm thinking of the possibility of having my Grade 10's do their second project on some aspect of these tools.

3. Google Maps: great resource! There are lots of things that you could do with this is a classroom. You can draw a line from one location to another and it will give the miles. You could trace explorers journeys - use one map so kids could see how routes overlapped. You could have students map the content of a book. You can then send this file to GoogleEarth. You can also put pictures and other content up.

4. Twitter: micro-blogging. You need followers and people to follow you. It enables immediate feedback. You can use Twirl or TweetDeck as an app to run Twitter without having to keep the web open. You can look at it as a river of information - not to keep track of every tweet, but as a reference
when needed. There are educator, tech, news available through different individuals - it is moving beyond "what I had for lunch" tweets. Observe good practice when twittering - don't waste people's time and remember your professional image. Try to give back as well as take. Not too many people are using it in the classroom - some uses are collaborative stories, communication between teachers in a building, anecdotal classroom evidence.

5. Delicious - social bookmarking - travels with you. Able to see other's bookmarks. Use a Bookmarklet - for any browser - for bookmarking on the fly. Digo? mentioned but not explained.

6. Flickr - picture sharing. Can join groups. Use of notes on a picture for analysis and comments for interaction. Example - art picture. Look at Flickr toys.

7. Ning - can create your own social networking site. Look at http://globaleducation.ning.com.

8. Google Docs - interactive documents - multiple users can use at one time and it won't override like a wiki does.

The pouring rain outside is preventing our next planned activity - we'll see if it clears soon. Meanwhile we'll be working in our groups on our project that we started yesterday.

OK, rain has cleared and we're off on our next adventure. This sees us in groups roaming Singapore in a quasi "Amazing Race" to gather clues, work collaboratively, take digital images, video, and use an iPod touch for notes. There are 5 stations set up around the city manned by Apple reps where they have a short challenge for us to do so that we can earn points, pick up our next clues and work towards solving the mystery that was presented to us. Fun!! We have a good group - all working together really well. We get around to 4 of the stations in the next couple of hours and return to the training room where we're given 45 minutes to put together a news podcast about our results. YIKES! 45 minutes to download pics, video, come up with a storyline and create a podcast!!! Well it stretches into an hour and we get something put together - not polished by any means but presentable.

I'm thinking about how to use this type of activity with students - maybe Trip Week for sure for team building as it's great for collaboration and group work. Possibly create something like this for the grade 6-7-8 Tech Conference coming up and why not even for the next teacher Inset??






Dinner at a film set??

Then a movie - local producer - low budget - great film - all shot using Final Cut!!

Back to hotel at 11:00 - midnight now and going to bed!!

Starting the journey of a 1-1 laptop program. Notes and observation along the way.

Here is my first web entry on Leopard user weblog.