A Dose of Twitter for Every Day of the Year December 2, 2009
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Cure What Ails You:
A Dose of Twitter for Every Day of the Year
VSTE 09 Closing Keynote
Kathy Schrock
- Support page: http://linkyy.com/7u
- Books:
- The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reily
- Twitter for Dummies
- What is twitter?
- Online messaging service
- One-to-many
- Messages are public (option for private)
- 140 characters
- Follow or not follow
- Why should I use twitter?
- Follow famous people or just your friends
- Find our more about companies or causes
- Get instant feedback about anything
- Gvie back to others
- Spread others’ messages
- 2010 Projected Twitter users: 26 Million
- Howard Rheingold
- “Successful use of twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.”
- How does it work?
- Sign up for an account @ twitter.com
- Choose a good username (make it short)
- See what friends use Twitter
- Twitter vocabulary
- Tweet: a twitter post
- Retweet: you post someone else’s tweet
- @mention: reply to someone else’s tweet
- Follow: receive tweets from another user
- Direct Message: direct one-to-one response (does not show in timeline)
- Hashtag: allows tagged tweets to appear in a single list (uses the # sign)
- Fail Whale: Logo page that appears when Twitter site is down
- Tweetup: real life gathering of twittering colleagues
- Twitterized: word turned into a new word that uses a portion of “twitter”
- Twitter applications
- Tweetie
- Tweetdeck
- Twhirl
- Twitteriffic
- Twitterberry
- Twitter Mail
- Twitter mobile website
- Twitterbox
- Finding others
- Click on friend’s friends or look at their lists
- Search Twitter by keyword
- Button on someone’s website (caution!)
- Directories
- Recommendation engines
- Wefollow.com (search by group name)
- twitter4teachers (wiki)
- Who Should I Follow? (analyzes who you follow)
- twittercounter
- Twitter and your PLN
- Right tool for certain things
- Keeping up with friends
- Asking for help or advice
- Offering your expertise
- Leads to deeper connections
- Right tool for certain things
- Twitter and your classroom
- Tweet as a historical figure
- Student summaries of readings
- Students share a hyperlink (current events, topics, etc.)
- Collaborative writing (use hashtags)
- @manyvoices
- Post a question at night (summary, teaser)
- Follow a breaking news story
- Practice foreign language
- @rosinella
- Tools to extend twitter
- Tag clouds
- tweetcloud
- twittersheep
- tweetvolume
- Filtering data
- Relationships
- twitterdigest
- Followers
- twitterless
- Searching
- http://search.twitter.com
- search by keyword or hashtag
- tips and tricks for search operators
- readtwit
- allows you to follow links in feed via RSS reader
- Tag clouds
- Twitter tips and tricks
- URL shortening
- linkyy
- use punctuation
- =
- &
- ?
- 2 = to/too
- etc
- URL shortening
- Fun with twitter
- Share pics
- twitpic
- share videos
- twitvid
- followfamous
- twitlogo
- make your own twitter-looking words
- Share pics
- Miscellaneous
- Mistakes
- tweet an entire event
- survey request
- ask for opinions from followers only
- didn’t realize they were watching
- careful how much info you post
- Mistakes
- Comic Relief
- woofer.com (1400 characters)
- the homing-twigeon
Think Outside the Ban December 2, 2009
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Think Outside the Ban
The Use of Cell Phones in Schools
Mike Speidel
Loudoun County Public Schools
- Middle School (6-8)
- 90% of students have cell phones
- Of those, 90% had unlimited text
- and, over 50% had data plans
- Today’s high end cell phones have more computing power than a desktop PC in 1995.
- Today’s simples phones have more powerful chips than the 1969 onboard computer that landed a man on the moon.
- If the kids are going to use cell phones to cheat, and you ban phones, will you ban paper when they pass notes to cheat?
- By using cell phones for educational purposes, you’re hijacking kids’ time for ed purposes without them realizing it!
- http://www.txtblaster.com
- manage groups via text message
- http://www.wiffitit.com
- Public messaging board
- Search Engines
- Google SMS
- ChaCha
- Dotgo
- Mobile Podcasting
- http://www.gcast.com
- http://www.yodio.com
- Voice to Text Transcription
- http://dial2do.com
- Google Voice
- Geo-tagging
- http://www.geograffiti.com
- http://www.flagr.com
- QR Codes
- Much like bar codes
- Any phone with a camera can read QR codes if you have the right software
- You can create your own QR codes to instruct phones to do certain things
- http://zxing.appspot.com/generator
- Interactive Response
- http://www.polleverywhere.com
More resources: http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com
Discovering New Territories with iPod Touch December 2, 2009
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Discovering Uncharted Territories with iPod Touch
http://teachers.iwcs.k12.va.us/tmevans/evans/VSTE2009.html
Isle of Wight, VA
- Benefits of the iPod Touch
- Just by holding it in their hands, it’s engaging without you having to do any extra work!
- Student Engagement
- Differentiation
- Pacing
- Accessibility
- Multiple activities
- Make up work
- Review (podcasts)
- Kids tell what they know
- Teachers produce material for students
- iTunesU
- Webquests and Activity Sheets
- Lesson plan
- Closure and feeback
- Make the most of your time
- Differentiation
Real World Math: Using Technology to Build Context December 1, 2009
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Real World Math
Using Technology to Create Context
http://learningdifferently.wikispaces.com
Heather Blanton
Wise County
“I am the world’s worst math student, but, therefore, I understand the struggling student…”
“I could do the procedure, but I didn’t understand it.”
“The struggle lies in the inability to see a real-world connection”
- Math is everywhere
- How many minutes until lunch?
- How many books do we need for three groups of two?
- How many slices should we slice the pizza into?
- How much gas do we need to get to school?
- How much water does the fishtank need?
- Math helps “make sense” of the real world
- NCTM
- math evolves from problem situations that have meaning to children and are regularly related to their environment (paraphrase)
- NCTM
- Building Context
- Make an intro video and include vocabulary
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- Let the students follow-up with their own video interpretations of the concept.
- Shape Walks
- Demonstration
- Discovery Streaming
- Math Vocabulary: http://www.brainyflix.com/videos
- Students enter video contests to demonstrate SAT vocabulary words
- Use as a resource to explain words
- Make your own brainyflix
- Competitions
- http://www.worldmathday.com
- Simulations/Games
- Absurd Math (http://www.learningwave.com/abmath/)
- Also teaches critical thinking and problem solving
- Use literal interpretations of abstract concepts/vocabulary
- Video your ideas
- Take pictures
- The Great Chocolate Caper
- CSI math, STEM project
- Based on a project from TI website (http://education.ti.com)
- Could you determine a suspect based on the stride length of their walk, and can shoe size predict stride length?
- Google Earth
- Geometry Meets Geography
- Measuring with Google Ruler
- Google Earth Webquest for Math
- http://www.realworldmath.org
- Project Based Learning
- Talking the Walk
- Many students are doing the procedures without the reasons (no concept)
- Students need opportunities to engage and express conceptual knowledge in math
- Technology can give multimodal learners new avenues to express conceptual understanding
- We are forming and shaping our future math teachers
60 Apps in 60 Minutes December 1, 2009
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60 Apps in 60 Minutes
Tim and Emily Owens
http://drop.io/vsteapps
- Pandora (free)
- Use it to teach music theory or music appreciation
- Leaf Trombone (free)
- Musical Instrument
- Dexterity
- Ocarina ($0.99)
- Musical instrument and recorder
- Similar to Leaf Trombone
- Clock App
- Preinstalled
- Timer, Stopwatch, Alarm, World Time
- Calculator
- Preinstalled
- Normal or Scientific (rotate the iphone)
- Camera (iphone)
- Preinstalled
- Autostitch ($1.99)
- Create panoramic pictures
- Tripod (free)
- helps steady pictures
- Mill Colour (free)
- Apply color filters
- Photoshop Mobile (free)
- Qik
- Pronounced “Quick”
- Live streaming video from your phone
- Animoto (free)
- Video editing
- Free account lets you create 30-second short clips
- Google App (free)
- Access to all google online apps
- Dictionary.com (free)
- Word of the day
- Thesaurus
- Some words have audio pronunciation
- Wikipanion (free, $4.99 upgrade)
- Access to wikipedia
- Instapaper (free)
- Free account, free website
- Bookmark button to cite news articles
- Read your bookmarked articles on your iphone
- Musee de Louvre
- View images of the museum and collections
- Video clips
- Default is French
- Art Info and background
- TED Talks (free)
- Inspiration, personal development
- The Constitution (free)
- The Declaration of Independence
- Bio of the signers
- Images of the document
- US Historical Documents ($0.99)
- Magna Carta to Modern US History
- History Maps of the World (free)
- Google Earth
- iPresidents ($0.99)
- Bio Info
- Signature
- Pictures
- Bobble Rep ($0.99)
- State reps, National reps
- Make a bobble head for your rep
- USA State Capitals (free)
- Flags, images
- Flashcards
- Quiz
- iLingual (free)
- Built in phrases
- Take a pic of your lips and watch them move with the words
- iTranslate (free)
- Type what you want to translate
- 52 Languages
- Email the translated phrase or word
- Jibbigo Speach Translator ($25)
- Speak into the phone, translates the phrase, plays back the translated phrase
- iSign Lite (free)
- Sign Language
- Small vocab on free version
- Animated signs
- The Chemical Touch (free)
- Periodic Table
- Hubble (free)
- Press releases
- Images
- Video
- Discovery Channel (free)
- Most videos have advertisements
- Show notes
- Quizzes
- Stars (free)
- Constellations
- Touch Physics Lite (free)
- Game
- Flight Control ($0.99)
- No educational value
- Use to work on dexterity
- No educational value
- Enigmo ($0.99)
- physics
- guide a path of water from one bucket to anther
- critical thinking, problem solving
- Brain Exercise Lite (free, $2.99 upgrade)
- Mental Math
- Brain games
- eClicker
- Clicker app is free
- Host app is $25
- take the place of an interactive clicker set
- Full-featured
- Dropler ($2.99)
- Connects to drop.io
- Easy way to share articles, pics, etc.
- LogMeIn ($29.99)
- Remote desktop app
- Valuable for IT people
- Blackboard
- Needs background IT work
- Harvest Timetracker
- Logs activities
- Free 30 day trial
- Website subscription
- App is free
- Current or past updates
- Recall
- To-Do’s
- Transcription
- WordPress (free)
- Control your blog from your phone
- Evernote
- Homework
- Mathemagics Lite
- Mental tricks for complex math problems
- Basic Math
- Math Ref Free
- Formulas for all math levels
- Numberline
- Decimals, percents, fractions
- Practice ranking numbers
- The Classics ($2.99)
- Preloaded classic books
- Kindle for iPhone
- Word Magic ($0.99)
- choose the missing letter from the word after hearing the word
- positive reinforcement
- Spell It Right
- Choose the correct spelling after hearing the word
- SAT Vocab Challenge
- MobiCIP
- Alternative to Safari
- Built in filtering options based on grade level
- Pocket CPR ($9.99)
- FDA Approved
- Audio instructions for administering CPR
- Reads movements, pressure and rhythm
- I Am TPain
- AutoTune modulation for your voice
- Fun way to record voices
VSTE 09 Keynote — Matt Monjan December 1, 2009
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VSTE 09 Keynote
The Content-Creating Classroom
Matt Monjan, Discovery Education
- Up until the 20th Century
- We were consumers
- In the 21st Century
- We became creators of content
- How much content is out there?
- 1 Trillion unique URLs
- 150 URLs per person on Earth
- 20 Hours of content is being uploaded to YouTube every minute
- If info is ubiquitous and can be accessed so easily…
- We need to transform our classrooms into hubs of creativity
- http://www.theblueschool.org/multimedia
- MIT Media Lab
- Finding, Analyzing, and synthesizing information
- we have to teach it in a way that is meaningful to our students
- we also need to be able to communicate in their language
- Digital Immigrant
- Digital Camera
- Browsing
- Phone (land line)
- CD Player
- Internet
- Digital Native
- Camera
- Google
- youtube
- myspace
- Texting
- Cell phone
- IM
- Skype
- mp3 player
- net
- http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html
- Their Language (cont)
- Write in text speak
- research and deliver a topic in 140 characters or less (twitter)
- Discovery Education Writing Prompt Builder
- What if we dive deeper?
- Creativity
- Higher Order Thinking
- Different Pedagogies
- Digital Storytelling
- Weaving multimedia into a story
- In the classroom
- Students demonstrate their grasp of the concept
- Synthesized Brain
- Creative outlet
- Students can use a myriad of media
- ELL Instruction
- Associating words with images
- It’s engaging
- A format that the YouTube generation is used to
- Students demonstrate their grasp of the concept
- What media?
- videos
- images
- sounds
- songs
- speechs
- sound effects
- Seven Elements of Storytelling (http://www.storycenter.org/programs.html)
- Point of view
- Dramatic Question
- Emotional Content
- Adding Your Voice
- Power of a Soundtrack
- Economy
- Pacing
- Students are not the only ones creating content…Educators create content too…
- Web 2.0, Students and Content Creation
- 64% teens engage in content creation
- 47% posted photos
- 89% receive comments
- In the classroom
- Create content to transmit info or ask questions
- Create a podcast
- http://podcast.phila.k12.pa.us
- http://phone.io (alliteration example)
- http://edu.glogster.com
- http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article637.html
- Create a facebook page for a character
- http://www.wordle.net (for political speech evaluations)
- A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
- The essence of persuasion is the ability to take content and create a narrative (paraphrase)
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