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Web 2.0 for School Administrators Dr. Richard Voltz Associate Director Illinois Association of School Administrators

Email me at [email_address] to receive invitations for my Ning, Wikispace and Google Documents

Webpage for technology for administrators is http://iasa4u.ning.com Webpage containing tutorial for various technology functions is http://iasa.wikispaces.com

My goal is to develop a School Administrator Professional Learning Community On-Line so we all can learn from each other.

Goal for this workshop is for you to use one Web 2.0 skill next year as a school administrator

How many of these terms do you know?

Wiki

Blog

Ning

Jing

delicious

ProfCast

Podcast

Gcast

Backchanneling

Wikipedia

Forum

Tinyurl or bit.ly

AudiBoo

14. Classroom20.com

15. iTunesU

16. Web 2.0

17. Posterous

18. Ustream

19. Friendfeed

20. TED Talks

21. FaceBook

22. Elluminate

23. RSS

24. Twitter

25. Lit2Go

Extra Credit

Chacha

Wiimote

Jott

Doodle

And the winner… Karen Rose and her 3rd grade class from the Melissa, Texas, school district, singing a parody of a Madonna song “Living in a Digital World.”

Teacher is key!

Virtual Book Study

Infrastructure & Connectivity

If I were you…

Make a Video Podcast

Start Your Own Blog

Start a discussion in your district about 1:1 computing

Modernize your webpage with flash pictures, video and easy to navigate webpages

Start an audio Podcast and update regularly To staff To students To community

Start discussing “ What is the future computer for classroom use?”

Encourage teachers to engage students in their own learning

Add Twitter On Your Webpages (District, School, Administrator, Teacher)

What is Web 2.0?

When I was growing up, my parents told me, “Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.” I tell my daughters, “Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.” ---Thomas Friedman, 2005

Did You Know V.5

What does it mean to be a student in the digital age?

Techno boomers: In some families, the elders are the ones pushing Facebook, Texting and Skype. Chicago Tribune; July 12, 2009

The Old Web

The New Web

Record Lecture Using ProfCast Save to GarageBand Embed in iWeb Upload to WebPage

Google Documents

Make a Video Podcast

Carmel Clay IN Superintendent

School District Dashboard

Start Your Own Blog

Modernize your webpage with flash pictures, video and easy to navigate webpages

Start an audio Podcast and update regularly To staff To students To community

Gcast

Can make audio recording via your phone

Set up a Gcast account

Call your own account from cell phone, record conversation

Send as a digital file where you want it to go

Now costs $99/yr for cell phone, free if upload digital file

Made with iWeb

Saved on MobileMe

Link to Gcast (embed)

Start discussing: “ What is the future computer for classroom use?”

“ Laptops are very ’90s,” says University of Michigan researcher Elliot Soloway. “They are your daddy’s computers.”

http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/

Virtual Textbooks

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?_r=2&ref=education

At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers’ science lectures.

In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this summer announced an initiative that would replace some high school science and math texts with free, “open source” digital versions.

“ In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,” said William M. Habermehl, superintendent of the 500,000-student Orange County schools. “They can be better than traditional textbooks.”

English Via Cell Phone

Will educators let students use mobile devices?

Smart phone penetration will hit 82% by 2013

Text to screen

In-class polling

The App Store is producing an explosion of educational mobile content

Translation tools, musical instruments, learning games, mobile books

Existing pilots of mobile education are demonstrating success

Preliminary research from both Australia and the US is finding that when using iPod Touches as part of their class activities, school attendance increases, students are more willing to come to school, and they do more homework

Further quantitative research is needed, but it seems obvious that kids will learn more if they are engaged in the process -- and cutting-edge mobile devices like the iPod Touch are brilliant at driving engagement.

Mobile devices offer access to the internet in places where the traditional web doesn't reach

Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?iPhone-Education---4-Reasons-Why-Mobile-Devices-Will-Transform-How-Our-Kids-Learn&id=2662128

Encourage teachers to engage students in their own learning

“ We should instead use technology funding to bolster new learning models and innovations, such as online-learning environments, to level the playing field and allow students from all walks of life -- from small, rural communities to budget-strapped urban schools -- to access the rich variety that is now available only to children in wealthy suburban districts.”

Backchanneling

Using networked computers to maintain…an online conversation alongside a live presentation

Backchanneling Avenues

Chatmaker.net

Chatzy.com

Coverltlive.com

Backnoise.com

Screenshots

Inspiring Idea

Add Twitter On Your Webpages (District, School, Administrator, Teacher)

Follow me on Twitter at rvoltz and IllinoisASA

Do you think students are more engaged outside of school than in school?

What are you doing about it?

How young professionals say they learn.

“ I can look it up on-line, find an expert and then collaborate with that person on a solution.”

“ If I had to learn something new today the first place I would go is Google, then forum sites, then video sources.”

“ I would ask professionals and see if they would share their information with me.”

“ I would first go to Google, then Wikipedia, then my address book to see who I know that I could contact and leverage their knowledge to help me.”

“ Consult with peers, look on the Internet to search and learn information about the topic I am interested in.”

http://rayfelt.wordpress.com/

Poll By Texting

1:1 Source: Gary Stager

Start a discussion in your district about 1:1 computing

1. Write a novel

2. Share your knowledge

3. Answer tough questions

Who should I vote for? Who really was Martin Luther King?

4. Make sense of data

5. Design a video game

6. Build a killer robot

7. Lose weight

8. Direct a blockbuster video

9. Compose a symphony

10. Change the world

1. Write a novel 2. Share your knowledge 3. Answer tough questions 4. Make sense of data 5. Design a video game 6. Build a killer robot 7. Lose weight 8. Direct a blockbuster video 9. Compose a symphony 10. Change the world Source: Gary Stager