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SpICE Mini Conference – October 23, 2010

October 23, 2010 · No Comments · Web2.0

The SpICE mini conference was held in Springfield this morning, October 23, 2010.

Approximately 65 participants were present from Williamsville, Petersburg, Springfield, Rochester, Jacksonville and other locations near Springfield. It was the first time in 10-12 years that we have had the local mini conference.

I had the pleasure of presenting a couple of sessions, one on Clickers/Responders and another about Edmodo. I also attended a session for Google Tools brilliantly presented by Karen Thompson.

Clickers/Responders
My experiences are with the eInstruction clickers and the Classroom Performance System (CPS) software. The eInstruction website offers great tutorials and videos for utilizing the clickers as well as their other products, such as Workspace software, the Mobi and their Interactive Whiteboards. My goal was to share how the clickers were being utilized and not be focused too much on the software, as the participants had various clicker systems including Smart and Promethean.

Edmodo
Edmodo is a learning management system, a classroom management system, or social networking system. It can be utilized in a variety of educational environments.
The best resources for learning about Edmodo are:
blog.edmodo.com - for learning about how people are utilizing
guide.edmodo.com - for learning how to use the system and for information about getting your District setup with the Institutional installation of Edmodo.

I shared various examples ranging from using for an extra curricular HS organization and an 8th Grade Media Literacy class.

I look forward to your comments and questions.

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2010 Sangamon County Schoolmasters’ Workshop

January 20, 2010 · No Comments · Web2.0

Trouble seeing the slideshow? Try this link

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2009 IL Education and Technology Conference

November 21, 2009 · No Comments · conferences, Web2.0

It has been 2 years since I jumped into the Web 2.0 world. Wow! What a difference 2 years has made. I attended the 2007 Illinois Education and Technology Conference. At that conference, I learned about social bookmarking, blogs, and wikis. Since then I have learned a lot of great things by investing some time into learning about many technologies that are available to all of us.

I had my first opportunity to share this year at the 2009 Illinois Education and Technology Conference. My presentation was titled, “Creating a Digital Substitute”.  The presentation was basically about using tools such as Flip Video cameras, MP3 Recorders, myplick.com, Microsoft  MovieMaker, Audacity and a variety of other tools. These tools allow a teacher to leave materials for a substitute teacher to utilize during a planned absence or  a staffing. Other opportunities could be a digital field trip, notes for an absent student or review for science lab setup and notes from class.

The idea of creating a digital substitute is a ultimately a way for the teacher to learn the technologies that eventually they will feel comfortable in sharing these technologies with their students. Two speakers (Charlene Chausis and David Jakes) at the 2007 conference shared that we need to immerse ourselves in these tools/technologies  in order for us to have a comfort level that we can then share these tools with others (students).

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Using MyPlick.com for podcast

October 19, 2008 · 2 Comments · blogs, howto, openpd, Personal, slideshows, Web2.0

Maybe podcast isn’t the correct term or maybe it is.

MyPlick.com allows you to sync audio with slides. I find it much more informational than just uploading your slides, especially as it is becoming more popular to use less words on slides.

MyPlick allows you to upload slides from various sources such as PDFs, Powerpoint, and even Google Presentations. It allows you to upload audio to the site, so no need to host the .mp3 elsewhere.

Here is an example of a recent myplick “podcast” that our JH Principal put together. He is now scheduling a Tech Breakfast for the teachers to learn as we share the process. Give it a try and let me know what you think of myplick and what other tools and techniques you utilize for podcasting.

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Using Google Reader in Flock

July 21, 2008 · No Comments · Web2.0

I am going to try using Flock (Basically is it Firefox for Social Networking).
It has a RSS reader. I wanted to be able to read the items in my Google Reader. This is possible by creating tags in Google Reader and making the tags public. This then can be used to create a blogroll, but you can also subscribe to the page to then be able to read in Flock. Here is an example of the page created by Google Reader

7. Are there other ways to share items in Google Reader?Google Reader allows you to assign tags to individual items. To tag an item, click on the ‘add tag’ link and enter a descriptive tag name. You can then go to the Settings page and make the tag public. A unique URL is created that links to the latest items with your public tag. You can then post this link online or send it to your friends.

Google Reader – Sharing FAQ

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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More and More

July 20, 2008 · No Comments · Web2.0

I think that the more I utilize twitter, the more I realize the power of the network. The experiences of others are very powerful.  The ability to learn and share is enhanced greatly by twitter and other Web 2.0 technologies.

As I explore more and more of the technologies that are available on the Internet and the impact that these tools have on my education. The more, I realize the impact that these tools can and will have on K-12 education.

Keep learning more and sharing more,
chris

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modla.org Presentation

July 10, 2008 · 1 Comment · Web2.0

I am presenting this morning at the Missouri Distance Learning Association (MODLA) conference in Osage Beach, MO. (Lake of the Ozarks)


 

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Testing blogging from n800

June 16, 2008 · 1 Comment · Web2.0

Just loaded MaemoWordPy on my Nokia N800. I am using my stylus to type this entry. I am trying to figure out how this unit could be utilized in a K-12 educational environment? Open to all suggestions.

Keep learning and sharing,
Chris

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End of Another School Year

May 31, 2008 · No Comments · Web2.0

It has been a good year.

I learned a lot this year and hopefully people feel that I have shared a lot as well.

Learning and sharing about edublogs, wikispaces, OpenPD, Ustream, Twitter, Ning, and many other new technologies that we can utilize within the educational environment has been very energizing.

I look forward to next year and having Computer Club for our teachers starting in September. It will also be good to have an office in the Junior High building. We will be implementing the web edition of our student management system which will replace the necessity for Gradequick and Edline.

I get to share with a group of 5th-8th Grade students this summer during TechnoKids summer camp.

I also get to share to a group of Educators at the Missouri Learning Distance Association summer conference.

I look forward to this summer and getting ready for another school year, which will be starting sooner than I think.

Keep learning and sharing,
chris

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Technology PD

May 1, 2008 · No Comments · CC, Inservice, openpd, Web2.0

Next week will be the last week for Computer Club (CC) at the buildings. It has given me a little more time with a few teachers this year to look at technology tools that could assist them instructionally, professionally and/or personally.

I will continue the Computer Club for teachers next year and try to coordinate the materials with Inservice and School Improvement (SI) agendas. Next year, we will actually have SI days that students dismiss at 11:30. This is compared to dismissing at 2:15 in the past few years.

Really we are still very limited on Professional Development (PD) time. 36 hours according to my calculations. Then you take away time for breaks (restroom and eating) and you have even less time. If this was just technology time, cool, but then you throw in RTI, School Safety, Curriculum, Classroom Management, Special Education, etc, etc, etc…

I am not saying these are not important issues, but I am saying we need need more PD time for all of these things.

I recently listened to a Podcast from Sylvia Martinez from a Online K-12 2007 Conference session, where she talked about teaching being one of the only professions where you get training and then go back to your job and are alone in trying to implement the newly gained knowledge.

Also Darren Drape in a recent blog entry that it is important that teachers could get involved with OpenPD. I attended the most recent session of OpenPD and found it very valuable, learning about wikis and blogs and how others are utilizing them. I also value the knowledge gained about the technologies utilized in the process of OpenPD with skype, ustream and wikispaces.

So between CC, Inservice, SI and OpenPD, I hope to reach more teachers with Technology PD next year.

Keep Learning and Sharing,
chris

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