EDUCATION CONTINUITY
&
SWINE-FLU FREE
Classroom Environments
Ed Pimentel
ed@agileco.net
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THE CURRENT
SITUATION
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As worse as it gets?
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Who
are our
STUDENTS?
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Grown up digitally
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increasingly digital

dangerouslyirrelevant.org
Our kids have tasted the INTERNET honey.
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Learned collabora8on with ONLINE GAMES…
able to lead or follow
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WHAT do they
LEARN OUTSIDE
the
CLASSROOM?
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life
outside
the classroom
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always on
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interac8on is expected
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social
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highly customized experiences
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constantly
connected
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instant access
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89% USE EMAIL
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67%
GET NEWS ONLINE
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70% RESEARCH FOR
SCHOOL ONLINE
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64%
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SEND IMs

74%
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WATCH VIDEOS
ONLINE

43%
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PLAY ONLINE
GAMES

56%
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DOWNLOAD
MUSIC

91%
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INTERNET
SEARCH FOR
ANSWERS

52%
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READ BLOGS

60% SEND/RECEIVE
TEXT MESSAGES
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57%
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SEARCHED FOR
INFO ABOUT
COLLEGE

Traditional
Wikipedia Encyclopedia
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Existing Teaching Methods
vs
21st Century Educator Tools
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what do 21st century learners experience
in your classroom?
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their average classroom
experience
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WHERE WE TEACH THEM
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21st Century
Educators METHODS
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What 21st Century Educators
Need
✓Reliable content
✓A trusted guide
✓Safe spaces
✓Understanding of VLEs in context of other
technologies
VLE=”Virtual Learning Environment”
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Implications
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Implications
✓Appeal to today’s student
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Implications
✓Appeal to today’s student
✓Collaboration between campuses, disciplines,
students / non-students
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Implications
✓Appeal to today’s student
✓Collaboration between campuses, disciplines,
students / non-students
✓Distributed learning
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Implications
✓Appeal to today’s student
✓Collaboration between campuses, disciplines,
students / non-students
✓Distributed learning
✓Authenticity
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Implications
✓Appeal to today’s student
✓Collaboration between campuses, disciplines,
students / non-students
✓Distributed learning
✓Authenticity
✓Seamless integration from school to work
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Blended Teaching Tools for
21st Century Educators
&
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21st Century Networked Teacher
Are YOU in this Picture?
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Agile
VLE
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It’s not about the tech
It’s about the teach
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Sharing Photos
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Sharing Photos
Higher Education Uses
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Sharing Photos
Higher Education Uses
Admissions – advertise campus
Alumni reunions
Portfolio
School events
Embed in blogs, Powerpoint, program Web sites
Other uses?
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Sharing Videos
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Sharing Videos
Jan. 2008 - 48% of online adults have visited video Web sites, according to a Pew
Internet & American Life Project report.
A year ago, it was 33% -- a 45% year-to-year growth.
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/report_display.asp
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Sharing PowerPoints
“free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint.
Create & edit Flash presentations online.
Send presentations via e-mail or publish on
your Web site or blog”
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Sharing Documents
24/7 anytime, anywhere access
to projects or assignments –
extends class time
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Social Networks
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Blogs
Audio blogs/conversations
blogging engine created
specifically for classroom use
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Podcasts
“Record your podcast via a
toll-free call from any
phone. Never even touch a
computer!”
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Collaboration
Wiki – online software that lets
users modify any content, plus
everything (formatting included)
about the wiki
Social bookmarking – store,
organize, search, and manage
bookmarks of Web sites using
metadata & tagging
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Education Online
Coursecast: Podcast/VideoCast Lecture (Like TIVO
for courses)
Partial List of school using Open source courseware
Harvard
MIT
Carnegie Mellon
Duke
UC Berkeley
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Miscellaneous
Messagr.US Emergency alert messaging to students, parents, teachers, schools officials via opted-in
Email, SMS, twitter, IM, bluetooth,
Mobiquity.ws Private Label Secured Mobile Social Network for SChools, Enterprise, Media, and
Brands
DatR.ws Secured Collaboration/Conferencing Services, Share Docs,
PPT, Files, Media with Teachers and Classmates
No Charge GREEN Ride-Share Services for Local, Long Distance and Commuters,
TwitRide.com leveraging Social-Networks, IM, Twitter and Mobile SMS
Jing
VoiceThread
ed@gpro.ws
Monday, August 24, 2009

Miscellaneous
Messagr.US Emergency alert messaging to students, parents, teachers, schools officials via opted-in
Email, SMS, twitter, IM, bluetooth,
Mobiquity.ws Private Label Secured Mobile Social Network for SChools, Enterprise, Media, and
Brands
DatR.ws Secured Collaboration/Conferencing Services, Share Docs,
PPT, Files, Media with Teachers and Classmates
No Charge GREEN Ride-Share Services for Local, Long Distance and Commuters,
TwitRide.com leveraging Social-Networks, IM, Twitter and Mobile SMS
Jing “captures and shares images and video…from your computer to
anywhere”
VoiceThread
“online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows
people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio
file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish.
ed@gpro.ws
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WHAT SUBJECTS
ARE SUITABLE TO
VLE?
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Geography
Communications
Math Psychology Architecture
Programming English
Design SEL
Journalism
Modern Language
Arithmetics
Biology Health History
Spanish Group Debates
Sociology Business
ArtTheatre Physics
Reading
Virtual Education
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What Next?
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What Next?
Baby steps…one new app at a time.
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What Next?
Baby steps…one new app at a time.
“Not everything that is faced can
be changed.
But nothing can be changed until
it is faced.”
- James Baldwin
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DCSS USE CASE
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DCSS
Progressive School System
Successfully meeting the
challenge of 21st Century
Students
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DCSS Virtual Classroom
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DCSS Virtual Classroom
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Gpro.ws Virtual Classroom
A 3D multi-user Virtual Learning platform and authoring tools for
[ classroom interactive whiteboard ] though equally powerful on the students laptop or desktop
computers !. Leveraging Web2.0 and MobileWeb.
Customized to work out of the box with Smartboard, Activeboard, Mimio, eBeam, and even the Wiimote
Whiteboard.
Extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning
session.
ed@gpro.ws
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Ed Pimentel
twitter.com/edpimentl
Ed@Gpro.ws
Ed@Agileco.net
Monday, August 24, 2009