Blogging in the Teacher 2'0 Classroom

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Blogging in the Teacher 2.0 Classroom
Academic Technology Services
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Role of Technology Integration in Advancing
Learning

• Results from the ISTEs Center for Applied
  Research in Educational Technology (CARET) are
  Promising!
• Results from Library Research Service
  (www.lrs.org) and Educational Research Service
  (www.ers.org) also show great results!
• One key to both is the power of collaboration
• Collaboration has been called the single
  most important factor in sustaining the effort to
  create a professional learning community and
  there is evidence of improved student learning in
  schools with collaborative norms. (K20 Center,
  University of Oklahoma.)

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State Federal Expectations for Digital Age
Skills of Students

• No Child Left Behind requires that students
  are technology literate by the eighth grade.
  Integrating TA TEKS into instruction will help us
  meet this requirement.
• SBEC has approved educator certification
  standards in Technology Applications for all
  educators, which are based on the TA TEKS.
  Standards I-IV deal with teachers technology
  skills. Standard V deals with teachers
  integration of technology into their
  teachingAll teachers know how to plan,
  organize, deliver, and evaluate instruction for
  all students that incorporates the effective use
  of current technology for teaching and
  integrating the Technology Applications Texas
  Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) into the
  curriculum.

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Focusing on 21st Century Learners

• In the Framework for 21st Century Learning,
  the Learning and Innovation Skills focus on three
  strands
• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Communication and Collaboration
• These higher-order thinking skills really
  focus and engage students!

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Role of 21st Century Teachers

• Todays technology provides a perfect platform
  for developing such skills. The 21st Century
  Teacher moves from a primary role as a dispenser
  of information to an orchestrator of learning.
• Such teachers strive to
• Experiment with Emerging Technologies
• Explore New Ways of Teaching
• Expand their Professional Expertise

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Moving to Education 2.0

• This clip entitled Shake it Up from Teacher
  Tube reinforces our need to change our approach
  to educating todays students and the need to
  embrace some new approaches, such as Web 2.0
  Tools

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Promise of Web 2.0 for Learning

• Web 2.0, sometimes called the Read/Write Web
  has excited educators regarding some new
  approaches one of the most promising being
  blogs, or weblogs.
• A weblog invites interaction users are
  engaged with ideas and questions and links!
  Reflections and conversations are included and
  updated frequently.

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Benefits of Blogging on Learning

• Learning Specialists Fernette and Brocke
  Eides research shows a great potential for
  positive impact on students (Will Richardson,
  2006)
• Promote Critical Analytical Thinking
• Promote Creative, Associational and Intuitive
  Thinking
• Promote Analogical Thinking
• Increase Access Exposure to Quality Information
• Combine the best of Solitary Reflection Social
  Interaction

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Lets glance at some NISD Blogs!

• Powell ES Math Specialists blogs on Hands-On
  Equations with Audio
• Villareall ES CIT Book Club with student
  mentors
• Neff MS Language Arts with a metacognition
  emphasis
• OConnor HS Psychoanalysis of Shakespearean
  Macbeth Characters

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Lets Take a Closer Look!

• Lets look at the structure of
• Class Blogmeister and refer to a
• reference sheet for classroom setup.

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Discussion/Reflection - 1

• Why would we try to incorporate the social
  aspect of the Web into the classroom?

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Discussion/Reflection 2

• In what ways do you see blogging fitting into
  your classroom?

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Please Stay in Touch!

• Please share your ideas and any blogging
  lessons as you create them this year!

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Watch for Future Blogs to Use

• Edublog - Library Services Database
  http//nisdlibdb.edublogs.org/-World War 1 study
  http//ww1soldier.edublogs.org/
• NISD Blog Spot our own version of Edublog, but
  bigger and better, coming soon

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Food for Thought on Web 2.0

• As we go our separate ways, this clip which
  has been a big sensation on You Tube may help us
  ponder the power of Web 2.0
• The Machine is Us/ing Us
• Professor Mike Wesch, KSU

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Thank you for Joining Us!

• Thank you for taking time from your busy
  schedules to focus on reaching todays Digital
  Natives by collaborating to harness the power of
  Web 2.0!