PPS Technology Leaders Cadre (TLC)

Deadline to Submit:  Aug. 14, 2009

39th Annual Northwest Council for Computer Education Conference (NCCE)
March 2-5, 2009  *  Seattle, WA

“Capture the Magic of Teaching and Learning” at the largest ed tech conference in the Pacific Northwest.
NCCE is accepting proposals to present a workshop or concurrent session at the 2010 conference, March 2-5 in Seattle, Washington.

Workshops:

• 3 hours in length – $300 stipend for educators!
• Present on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
• May be hands-on or presentation only

Concurrent sessions:

• 60 minutes in length
• Present on Thursday and Friday
• Presentation only

Interested?
Click the link below for Application for Proposals
http://www.ncce.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=830&Itemid=257

The American Association for School Libraries has released their top 25 websites for teaching and learning.

“The ‘Top 25′ Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm

Check out the ISTE NECC blog if you couldn’t attend this year’s conference in DC. Lots of great resources and on-demand videos.

Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started

Jessica Schlosser from Laurelhurst asked about some specific topics that her students said they would like to learn about. I thought I’d post my reply.

I would recommend showing 6-8 graders how to set up RSS feeds in Google Reader in an appropriate context. For example, if you had small groups create blogs for a project and then had each group subscribe to everyone else’s blogs and provide feedback via comments, which can also be set up in an RSS feed. I think that could be valuable, especially with writing.

I will compile all the topics you listed for possible PD. Here are some related resources:

Making Movies
Makin Movies Made Simple
http://www.slideshare.net/jgingerich/makin-movies-made-simplekey
Great presentation from colleague Jennifer Gingerich. Also includes links to handouts at the end of the presentation.

Flickschool
http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/
Great resource from Marco Torres about everything multimedia.

Blogging
Why should middle school students blog?
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/05/13/why-should-middle-school-students-blog/
Great post. Read the comments too. This topic then leads to a discussion about when to start teaching kids about self-branding, in terms of their online identities.

When to start teaching self-branding
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/when-to-start-teaching-self-branding

Games
Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. It’s free!

Social Networking
socialnetworking4teachers
http://socialnetworking4teachers.wikispaces.com/Bloggers+to+Learn+From
Great list of comprehensive sites to check out.

Here’s a great curriculum resource on teaching copyright:

Teaching Copyright

News & Announcements

• eWaste Recycling
  Last pickup of the year is June 5.
• Tech Bundles Initiative: population to receive bundles during year one has still not been decided, but project is still a go.

The 21st Century Educator: Creating a Personal Learning Network
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajb789gvf6sk_147gbn5s3gx

What is a personal learning network?
“…Personal learning networks are created by an individual learner, specific to the learner’s needs extending relevant learning connections to like-interested people around the globe. PLNs provide individuals with learning and access to leaders and experts around the world bringing together communities, resources and information impossible to access solely from within school walls.”
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html

“A personal or professional learning network involves an individual’s topic-oriented goal, a set of practices and techniques aimed at attracting and organizing a variety of relevant content sources selected for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or interest.”
David Warlick

Teachers can use personal learning networks to start exploring some of the tools that so many of their students are already using.

Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader/

Google Reader Blog
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/

Google Reader lets you keep track of all your favorite websites in one place. It constantly checks news sites and blogs for the latest content and updates it in the Reader. Take a tour.

Web 2.0 Sites Handout

Video

Raffle
Todd Stewart-Rinier of Irvington got a presentation remote, Terri Schumacher of Scott got a wireless mouse, and Fran Barth at Hayhurst got an HP laptop! Congratulations!

Thanks for a fantastic year. Have a great summer!

The last meeting of the year is today from 4-6 p.m. in the Wallowa Lab at the BESC.

Agenda

1. News & Announcements
2. Creating a Personal Learning Network, Google Reader
3. Video-Learn to Change, Change to Learn
4. Raffle

Have a great summer! Keep checking the blog for news and updates.

Here are all the Web 2.0 handouts compiled in one document.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajb789gvf6sk_246cp6hssdn

List of videos, some related to technology, some not.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajb789gvf6sk_145g37kcncm