Instructional Technology Resources

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Instructional Technology Resources

• New Teacher Orientation
• 2009-2010
• Doug Walker
• Supervisor of Instructional Technology

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Technology Team

• Bob Fleming District Technology Coordinator.
• Rich Gherardi Network Admin
• Valerie Ciaburri - Secretary
• Alex Santos Technician (WR, Cozy and Milton
• Tom Creswick Technician (Stanlick, Briggs and
  Drummond)
• Megan Banola Technician (MS and HS)

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Network Accounts

• Logons
• Username first Initial last name
• Password jefferson
• You will be asked to change your password every
  30 days.

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File Shares

• U Drive
• Save your work here. Do not save unnecessary
  files here.
• Other Shares
• Common Share Read only for students
• Staff Share No student access
• Student Home Folders Accessible by all faculty.
  

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Network

• Filtered Internet
• Mandatory Profiles for Students
• Roaming Profiles for Teachers
• Profiles
• Do not save large files on the desktop.
• My documents folder does not pull over on the
  profile and is not backed-up.

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Email

• www.jefftwp.org
• Link for Staff
• Web Based
• Calendar
• Contacts
• Can be connected to Blackberry or Iphone
• Do not send a file larger then 4mb.
• Storage Quota No current archive but we do
  backup.

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Computers

• Classroom Setup
• Labs
• MS/High School lab Sign-up on the High School and
  Middle School websites under quick links.
• Mobile labs in the middle school.
• LCD Projectors
• Smartboard or Intelliboards

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Technology Requests

• Filled out in the main office of your school.
• Bob Fleming District Technology Coordinator.
• Rich Gherardi Network Admin
• Alex Santos Technician (WR, Cozy and Milton
• Tom Creswick Technician (Stanlick, Briggs and
  Drummond)
• Megan Banola Technician (MS and HS

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Software

• Office 2003 and 2007
• Inspiration
• Kidspiration
• MS photostory
• Windows Movie Maker
• Dreamweaver
• Photoshop
• Etc.. List will be provided.

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Subscriptions

• Study Island
• United Streaming
• Turn-it-in
• Media Center Database Subscriptions

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My Website

• www.jefftwp.org District Offices
  Instructional Technology

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Any Questions?
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Web 2.0 Educating the Digital Natives

• By,
• Doug Walker
• Supervisor of Instructional Technology
• Jefferson Township Public Schools

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Did you know? 2.0
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Digital Native Children

• What do they like to do?

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What do we block in school?
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In order to ensure we are preparing our students
to have 21st Century skills we must understand
accept these technologies.
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Can they be a tool to make connections?
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What variations of these tools can we use to
engage students?
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By digitalizing our instruction curriculum we
give students 24/7 access to learning.
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These are key skills for the 21st century student
and a requirement for success in our global
society.

• Creativity
• Innovation and Design
• Collaboration and Communication

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Left Brain Vs. Right Brain
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WEB 2.0
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WEB 2.0
Podcasts
BLOGS
SHARING
RSS/FEEDS
WIKIS
USER GENERATED CONTENT
OPENNESS
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Topics for Today

• Multi-Media
• Wiki
• Social Networks
• Distance Learning and Video Conferencing
• Podcasting
• Digital Storytelling

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Multi-Media
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Multimedia

• Hulu - http//www.hulu.com/ - Tv Clips and shows
• Teacher Tube www.teachertube.com
• School Tube www.schooltube.com
• Youtube www.youtube.com
• Convert them here
• Academic Earth www.academicearth.org
• For a www.fora.tv

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United Streaming

• http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
• Video clips and full movies
• Advanced Search
• My Content
• Streaming VS. Downloading

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Wiki
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Wiki
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Wiki In Plain English

• http//www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id
  20514titleWikis_In_Plain_Englishrefdwalker500

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Wiki

• Wikipedia 2,700,000 articles in English
• More than 10 million in 264 languages
• Wiktionary1,131,000 definitions in English
• WikiQuote 16,400 quotations
• Wikitravel 20,500 destination guides
• Lyricwiki 400,000 song lyrics!

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What is a Wiki?

• A webpage with an Edit button
• Easy to use
• Perfect for collaborative learning
• There are different types of Wiki
• We have chosen Wikispaces

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Collaboration
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Student Classroom Benefits

• Builds a classroom learning community
• Facilitates Collaborative Authoring
• Learning From Others
• Develop a high level of critical thinking
• Deepening Investigative skills.
• Exercise creativity
• Empowers students to create knowledge
• Prepares students for 21st century

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Why Bring It To The Classroom?

• Posting homework
• Creating a forum for discussion with students
• Use as a writing tool for students
• Classroom discussion and debate
• Collaborate with an international classroom
• Promotes communication between students,
  teachers, and external resources.
• Collaborative environment for student group
  projects
• Display student work

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Online Discussions Using A Wiki

• Each page on a Wikispaces site has a Discussion
  option at top of page

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https//edunology.wikispaces.com/wiki
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Educational Uses

• Student writing
• Discussion Forum
• Group Projects
• Test Review
• Collaborating with another school

• Class website
• Links for a project
• Organize a webquest
• Publish student work
• Post work for student review
• Online vocabulary words with audio

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Social Network / Blog
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www.ning.comhttp//mrsmaxwell.ning.com
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Personal Learning Network
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Collaboration and Video Conferencing
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Distance Learning Concepts
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• Good distance teaching practices are
  fundamentally identical to good traditional
  teaching practices.

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Examples of Distance Learning

• Web chats
• Real time e-mail exchanges
• Wiki
• Social Network
• Supports the teleconferencing activity or project

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Global Classroom

• Two or more classrooms
• Different locations
• Common activity or project
• Agreed upon time limit

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Electronic Appearances

• Subject matter expert
• Usually one time visit
• Example Science in the Cinema
• Your Congressional Representative in Washington,
  D.C.

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Impersonations

• Ed. Director at Monticello answers questions as
  Thomas Jefferson
• Older students impersonate historical figures for
  younger students
• Biographies
• Question and answer

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Presentations and Exhibits

• Science Fair Projects
• Art Show
• Food Preparation
• Plays
• Singing

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Information Exchanges

• Sharing interesting information
• Example Cultural Exchange Global Grocery List
• Compares prices on a virtual shopping list

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Hong Kong Exchange

• Shared packages of items depicting ourselves
• Shared video of a typical day at school
• Shared video about lunch time
• Shared packages containing snacks
• Sang songs
• Shared short skits and presentations

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Database Creation

• Collecting and assembling information for future
  use
• Example Multicultural Calendar
• Students around the world contribute information
  about holidays and celebrations

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Tele-Field Trips

• NASA Space Center
• Philadelphia Art Museum
• Rutgers Stedman Art Gallery
• Liberty Science Center
• Cape May Zoo
• Ellis Island

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Pooled Data Analysis

• Gathering and analyzing information
• Example Water Analysis Project
• Students around the world analyze water content
  and pollution

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Electronic Publishing

• Poems, stories, journals, magazines, etc. on the
  Internet
• Older students writing and sharing stories,
  poems, etc. with younger students

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Parallel Problem Solving

• Problems are presented, explored and solved
• Students compare, contract, and discuss their
  separate problem-solving methods

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Sequential Creations

• Collaboratively creating a common work
• Examples
• Sequential written text like stories or poems
• Sequential acts of a play or video
• Sequential music compositions
• Alternative sequences or endings

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• Skype in Schools. I have used Skype several times
  in my class. Once during Read Across America (Dr.
  Suess's birthday) I read a book to another class
  in another county and they read to us. We then
  used Google Earth to locate their school. It was
  a great experience and a virtual field trip
  without leaving the classroom. I love it...so do
  the students!!!

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What is a Podcast?

• Audio or Video recording

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More Detail..

• Ipod Broadcast Podcast
• A podcast is a digital media file which is
  distributed over the Internet using syndication
  feeds for playback on portable media players and
  personal computers.

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Guess What..
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Types of Podcast

• Audio
• Video
• Screencasting

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21st Century Skills

• Promotes collaborative, independent, and
  differentiated learning.
• Authentic, real word task that is of interest to
  them.
• Hone students critical thinking and information
  literacy.
• Provide an opportunity to promote media literacy
  rather than compete with the popular media
  students consume out of school time.

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Why use this technology?

• Stimulates students interest through the use of
  media production techniques as well as their
  attention and motivation.
• Facilitates small group, collaborative work so
  that each student can serve as a resource and
  amplifier for their peers learning.
• Allows for the creation of a digital portfolio
  that can be made available to next years teacher.
  

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How is this any different then a tape recorder???
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Examples

• Elementary Audio - http//bce2.eanesisd.net/blue
  jay
• Science - http//www.mschien.com/podcast/
• Math - http//students.saugususd.org/baguemath/web
  log/
• Our City Podcast - http//www.learninginhand.com/O
  urCity/index.html

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Some Ideas

• Digital Story
• Create a book talk-book reviews and dialog
  focuses on literature.
• Student conducted interviews
• Record lessons

• Screencast a lesson
• Student presentations
• Assessment
• Audio Newsletter
• Old time Radio Broadcast
• Test Reviews
• Foreign Language Practice

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Its evolving
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Digital Storytelling

• Tell me a fact and I'll learn.
• Tell me the truth and I'll believe.
• But tell me a story and it will live in my heart
  forever.
• - Indian Proverb

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Engagement with new forms of publishing
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What is Digital Storytelling?

• Images
• Graphic
• Music
• Sound
• Voice
• Video

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A modern expression of the ancient art of
storytelling Digital storytelling is a process
of connection. It is a remembrance of life
stories, in combination with the power of voice
and imagery. Digital Storytelling allows people
to connect, using technology that's relevant to
the way they live today. (Hicks Woodburn,
2004)
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4th Grade Digital Story Project

• Pick and research a topic of interest
• Follow a rubric/guidelines
• Data/research template
• Store shared drive
• Store images
• Store music
• Edit project

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Elementary Example Science Animal Unit Project

• Pick animal to research
• Use project outline
• Gather research
• List works cited
• Save images
• Save audio

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Elementary Example- Important Parts

• Record story using appropriate software
• Narration templates- write research
• Guidelines
• Rubric

Students in technology rich environments showed
increased and positive effects of achievement and
students attitudes toward learning had improved.
(Milken Foundation, 1999)
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https//edunology.wikispaces.com/Digital_Storytell
ing
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Examples

• http//www.bedminsterschool.org/70327062145616/cwp
  /view.asp?A3Q297797C55622
• http//www.hillsdaleschools.com/535711012173814/po
  dcasts/browse.asp?A399BMDRN2000BCOB0C53663

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Any Questions?
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