Session+1+-+Friday

by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Session 1 - Robyn**
 * The Dimensions of Change within Schools in the 21st Century

Web 1.0 really didn't change anything about anything that we do in the classroom. Web 2.0 - not only could we read the Web but now we could add our thoughts to it. Not only could we go to a webpage but we could read how other people responded to that. We weren't doing things the same anymore. The tools started interupting our world. We changed the way we did things. It became the participatory media. Web 3.0 is really about the concept of singularity...the creation of avatars - an artificial world. Our avatars do our bidding. "By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds" - Gartner Vice President Jackie Fern We need to own these things - (be knowledgeable about how to interact with an avatar) - because that is the world that our students will be living in. Using participatory media educators will help today's students shape tomorrow's world. Q. Why do we need to teach these things when the students already seem to be able to do it? A. While the students know how to get onto different websites, they have virtually been left alone and have not been taught how to use them ethically. (e.g. MySpace etc) The students are knowledgeable about some technologies - but they will not know how to use these technologies to enhance their learning.

A lot of our students will spend a lot of their life online. Learning used to happen at school. When you left school you went home and went out to play. When our students go home they can, and do, go online and continue their learning. What, however, are they learning? We need to help them be able to make best sense of social networks and virtual worlds. One of the top 10 jobs of the future is predicted to be Community Leader - perhaps online Community Leader. Education today needs to be more about individual learning. Let students follow their passions - let students tell us how they are going to achieve the goals and objectives. Include formal learning, and gaming It is not so much about a 'laptop initiative' or a 'whiteboard initiative' but more about a 'learning initiative'. We need to rethink Teaching and Learning Call it Passion based learning - interest based learning...how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners. Knowledge is doubling every 72 hours. Text books will be outdated before they are published, before they are written.

Attending - Ariel,Kalian and Heather**
 * Cultivating your Personal Learning Network-David Warlick

Go to David’s blog andthere will be the handouts http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/ - If you will be blogging a review or simply sharing your insights about the ideas of this session, please include the words //personal//, //learning//, //network// and //warlick// in the text of the article then the blog will show on David's site

Password – teacher for editing david’s wiki to edit (David encourages people to participate in his wiki)

Andy Carven www.**andycarvin**.com/ Will Richardson - blog out of what other people say – it is a conversation weblogg-ed.com/ Joho the Blog - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/

Edublog Insites http://anne.teachesme.com/

connecting myself to people and resources that help me do my job

George Siemens - connectiveism - he describes this as a valid method of learning (The following is taken from Wikipedia) //**George Siemens** is a well-known theorist on the changing nature of learning in a digitally-based society. He is the author of a widely cited article [|Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age] and the book// //Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of the impact of the changed context and characteristics of knowledge.// //Born in Mexico and currently living and working in Canada, Siemens is the Associate Director in the Learning Technologies Centre at the [|University of Manitoba].//  Blogging is the way to have conversations

What does a PLN look like?

Will Richardson - comments on the future of his children's education and he starts a conversation with people from all over the world <[|http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/what-do-we-know-about-our-kids-futures-really/>]. then Miguel Guhlin compiled the contributed comments into a single wiki site for future reference. Guhlin, Miguel. "Skills Students' Futures Require Them to Have." Future Requires Kids to.... 18 Feb 2008. 8 Jul 2008 . it is now a conversation that can be edited by everyone.

For a PLN to work you need to hook into someone else's PLN

A tool to track conversations Webpages as Graphs - to get an idea of how it works check out Will Richardson's blog - it is pretty but not very useful

You must cultivate your own PLN

> How do you have all of this content come to you? How do you connect to your Network? The most commonly used method is the use of [|RSS Aggregators].
 * 1) Finding Network Nodes
 * 2) Finding Bloggers
 * 3) Blogging Educators Wiki -- http://socialnetworking4teachers.wikispaces.com/Bloggers+to+Learn+From
 * 4) List of Bloggers from Support Blogging -- http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
 * 5) Technorati Blog Search Engine -- http://technorati.com/
 * 6) Google Blog Search -- http://blogsearch.google.com/
 * 7) Twitter: [|Twitter] is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want instant mobile updates—for others, you can just check the web. Invite your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be -- http://twitter.com/
 * 8) News
 * 9) Most News Sources [|NY Times], [|CNN], [|BBC], & [|PBS]
 * 10) News Searchers [|Google News],
 * 11) Other Sources of [|Social Content]
 * 12) Flickr: Photo Album site -- http://flickr.com/
 * 13) YouTube : Video sharing sites -- http://youtube.com/
 * 14) Del.icio.us: Social bookmarking -- http://del.icio.us/
 * 15) Spinning Your Web
 * 1) Aggregators -- [|Wikipedia Article]
 * 2) Bloglines -- http://bloglines.com/
 * 3) Google Reader -- http://google.com/reader/
 * 4) Netvibes -- http://netvibes.com/
 * 5) Pageflakes -- http://pageflakes.com/
 * 6) Cultivating your Personal Learning Network
 * 7) [|10 Ways to keep your Personal Learning Network from Running Amok]
 * 8) Mining Your Network -- Tools for mining the information landscape and for mining your network.
 * 9) Blogpulse -- http://blogpulse.com/
 * 10) Tag Clouds -- Wikipedia Article
 * 11) [|Wikipedia Article]
 * 12) [|Tag Crowd] for generating Tag Clouds
 * 13) Summize -- http://summize.com/
 * 14) Twist Flaptor -- http://twist.flaptor.com/
 * 15) Other Tools
 * 16) Collaborative Content
 * 17) Google Docs -- http://docs.google.com/
 * 18) VoiceThread -- http://voicethread.com/
 * 19) Diigo -- http://diigo.com/
 * 20) Moodle -- http://moodle.com/
 * 21) Direct/Indirect Collaboration
 * 22) Skype -- http://skype.com/
 * 23) Ustream TV -- http://ustream.tv/
 * 24) Second Life -- http://secondlife.com/
 * 25) Mashups
 * 26) Programmable Web -- http://www.programmableweb.com/
 * 27) Buzztracker -- http://buzztracker.com/
 * 28) Cloudalicious -- http://cloudalicious.com/
 * 29) Hitchhikr -- http://hitchhikr.com/
 * 30) Twittervision -- http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d
 * 31) Flickrvision -- http://flickrvision.com/
 * 32) Social Networks
 * 33) MySpace -- http://myspace.com/
 * 34) Facebook -- http://facebook.com/
 * 35) bebo -- http://bebo.com/
 * 36) Linked[in] -- http://linkedin.com/
 * 37) Ning -- http://ning.com/

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