Thing-23

From Blogs, RSS, Flickr and photos, online video, widgets, tagging, Delicious, Google Docs, Slideshare, Podcasting and Wikis this has been a great journey. It’s not always been easy but it has been so worth it! So often the technology is an add-on that teachers don’t have time to include. But here’s what’s emerged as the connector that 23 things encompasses and why we need to include this as part and parcel of what we do. It’s all about the 4 Teaching and Learning principles from the Michigan Curriculum Framework;

1. Higher-Order Thinking: Instruction involves
students in manipulating information and ideas by
synthesizing, generalizing, explaining or arriving at
conclusions that produce new meaning and
understandings for them.
2. Deep Knowledge: Instruction addresses central
ideas of a topic or discipline with enough
thoroughness to explore connections and
relationships and to produce relatively complex
understanding.
3. Substantive Conversation: Students engage in
extended conversational exchanges with the teacher
and/or peers about subject matter in a way that
builds an improved and shared understanding of
ideas or topics.
4. Connections to the World Beyond the Classroom:
Students make connections between substantive
knowledge and either public problems or personal
experiences.

I have developed higher order thinking, some deep knowledge, had substantive conversations, connected, and learned about Web 2.0 tools and beyond. Thanks for all you’ve done to organize the course in such an engaging and thought provoking way.

Thing-22

My wiki is https://thepoint.wikispaces.com/. This is a nice way to collaborate. In a blog others respond to what I write. In a wiki I put my work out there and someone else adds to it revises and edits and deletes. So you have to be okay with peer revisions!!. I would definitely use wikis.

Thing-21

I went to Examples of Educational Wikis. Wow!! I explored a really well done wiki called "Cool tools for schools". The wiki organized web 2.0 tools at one site. Each idea had a separate button that linked you to information about podcasts, wikis, etc. I think the hurdle for me will be sheer numbers. Where to go? What to look for? There were search tools but I tended to scroll through the list and never got past the C's. Still I liked the wikis.

Thing-20

This is the first time I have really explored iTunes. I liked the video and audio choice...something for everybody. I plugged into NPR's fresh air and then tried to access some video but no luck.

Thing-19

Podcasting seems to be taking on a life of it's own. looked at David's K-7 science expectations. He's a pro.

Thing-18

Leadership Lessons slideshare

Leadership Lessons

View more presentations from Bob Schultz.

I like slideshare. I used the education link and first started exploring some very interesting presentations on visual mapping. I do get engaged in the content and tend to lose my way! I appreciate how the content is displayed just below the presentation. That helped me know exactly what I might be viewing. And, that might save me some time.