Finding Inspiration: Real Teachers and Students Transforming Teaching and Learning

Finding Inspiration: Real Teachers and Students Transforming Teaching and Learning
Lucy Gray

Where Do I Start ?!?!?

Enlist Help
Consult on a regular basis with your building tech coach, tech coordinator, or curriculum specialist
Find an online community or mentor.
Illinois Computing Educators
Classroom 2.0
Classroom 2.0 Live
Webinar Calendar on Classroom 2.0 Live Site
EdTechTalk
Women of the Web 2.0

Examine Your Curriculum: Integration vs. Decoration *
What concepts are difficult to teach?
What are you most confident teaching? Least confident?
What concepts need to presented in a more compelling way?
What do you already doing that might fit well with technology?
What can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time?
How can you address both state standards and NETS standards?
* Credit to Tom Woodward for this phrase!

Focus on One Project, One Tool
Pick one thing and do it well.
Gain confidence
Consider using a tool that you can build on.
Wikis, blogs
Let kids see work of others who came before them.
Expect kids to help.
Create tech oriented jobs in your daily classroom job assignments.
A student who maps geographic locations mentioned in class in Google Earth
Create routines where technology is used on a daily basis.
Interactive whiteboard calendar

Join a Project in Progress
Consider a joining a project run by another teacher.
Classroom 2.0
Global Education Collaborative
ThinkQuest.org
Rock Our World
Around the World with 80 Schools

Engage in Online Communities
Visit blogs of people in the know
Silvia Tolisano – Langwitches
Kim Cofino – Always Learning
Lisa Harrison – Passionately Curious
José Picardo – Box of Tricks
Will Richardson - Weblogged
Explore the Classroom 2.0 community
See the Enlist Help slide
Start following people in Twitter. Click here to get started.
Participate in the K12 Online Conference

Starting Points

Technology Integration Matrix

K12 Horizon Report

The School at Columbia
Google Apps
Social Network
Constructivist

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Lisa Parisi & Christine Southard
“I have moved from a teacher-directed classroom to a project-based learning classroom. My students are much more connected outside of the classroom and are much more willing to step outside their comfort zone to collaborate with others.” – Lisa Parisi

Wikis
Time Zone Experiences
Classroom Book Talk
Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Comparing Hemispheres
Poetry Collaboration

Valerie Becker

Global Collaborations
Global Learning Partners
Where Are We? Who Are We?
Laura Jernegan
Whaling
What a Wonderful World
Learning About Whales

Karl Fisch

A Whole New Mind

This I Believe

Contact Information
Email: elemenous@gmail.com
Blog: http://lucygray.org
Skype: elemenous
iChat/AIM: elemenous
Flickr/Delicious/Twitter etc: elemenous

Presentation Resources
Slides can be found at: http://lucygray.org
Links to resources mentioned can be found at: http://delicious.com/elemenous/teachernet09

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Finding Inspiration: Real Teachers and Students Transforming Teaching and Learning

by Lucy Gray on Oct 21, 2009

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