A presentation I gave at the Building Learning Communities conference in Boston on July 19, 2007.

1. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? New Tools, New Pedagogies flickr and wikis in a classroom Darren Kuropatwa http://adifference.blogspot.com Building Learning Communities 2007

2. Smile!

3. Is it that easy? • What can I do now that I couldn't do before? Galleries of Thought • How can I get them to make their thinking transparent? • Watch it. Do it. Teach it.

4. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? links

5. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? links tags

6. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? links tags rss

7. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? K12 Online 2007: Liz Kolb K12 Online 2006: Steve Dembo

8. Smarties Probability

9. My Favourite Number

10. My Favourite Number

11. My Favourite Number

12. First(?) assignment ... trigonometry grade 12 results grade 11 results

13. Developing the rubric ...

14. Developing the rubric ...

15. Finding the focus ... descriptors

16. Finding the focus ... weighting descriptors

17. Finding the focus ... weighting descriptors creativity

18. Finding the focus ... weighting descriptors creativity

19. The rubric ...

20. The results ... the parabola sequence

21. The (post rubric) results ... the trigonometry sequence

22. The results ... the exponential functions sequence

23. The difficulties ... Chris, Graeme, Craig speak (56 sec)

24. The Red Hot Chili Peppers ... doing calculus

25. Look

26. See

27. Value Craig, Chris, Graeme (30 sec)

28. Tests Vincent, Craig (43 sec)

29. Push Me Pull You links

30. Push Me Pull You links tags

31. Push Me Pull You links tags rss

32. flickr your teaching ...

33. flickr their learning ...

34. Cell Phones? Not in the classroom ...

35. The future of digital photography ...

36. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? with a wiki ...

37. Wikis are used to collaborate There are two types of content creation on a wiki: i) A significant contribution original content creation ii) A constructive modification modification of pre-existing content

38. What Can I Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before? i) Have students create original content. ii) Have them modify (improve) another student's work.

39. The results ...

40. Assessment ...

41. Assessment ...

42. Assessment ...

43. Take away ... What does this tool do?

44. Take away ... How does it work?

45. Take away ... Think ...

46. Take away ... Think ... links

47. Take away ... Think ... links tags

48. Take away ... Think ... links tags rss

49. Take away ... What will you be able to do now that you couldn’t do before?

50. Take away ... a $250 wiki for free! i) Post a picture to flickr that you can use in your teaching. Tag it: blc07, wikigiveaway ii) Create a free wiki at pbwiki.com. Put your picture on the wiki too. Include a description of how you will use it in your classroom and a link to the photo flickr page. iii) On flickr, describe how you will use this picture in your classroom and leave a link to your pbwiki.

51. Photo Credits Bright eyes and a warm smile ... http://flickr.com/photos/lapidim/29893744/ six http://www.flickr.com/photos/sc0ttbeardsley/8951408/ probability project http://www.flickr.com/photos/7529692@N02/441624496 You are number six ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/csb13/221584057/ The number 9 is IN-TER-EST-TING!!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/94597307@N00/312125399 Leica IIIf http://www.flickr.com/photos/35237096015@N01/15216920 Gadget http://flickr.com/photos/davyrocket/82339986/ Obligatory Wiki Photo http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/ push-me pull-you http://flickr.com/photos/91772025@N00/444044158/ Wake Up by Holmes http://myspace.com/imholmes Masaccio http://flickr.com/photos/ha112/414146234/ module2 http://flickr.com/photos/ha112/234233755/ Curtain trigonometry!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/94597307@N00/312125395 Dialjupiter http://www.flickr.com/photos/61703609@N00/158825397 tree hugger http://www.flickr.com/photos/69842277@N00/282926763 Blaise Arguera y Arcas @ TED Talks http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 exponential function - "e" http://flickr.com/photos/26219483@N00/346257046/ Dentist's office http://flickr.com/photos/7421887@N03/432557147/ Related Rates #1 http://flickr.com/photos/85068725@N00/366758089/ My version of a quadratic ! http://flickr.com/photos/40256716@N00/316074893/ Music Video motion study experiment http://flickr.com/photos/monkeyc/112350059/ Cell Phone Tour http://flickr.com/photos/48318190@N00/520866159/ math http://flickr.com/photos/akash_k/125489887/ Dollar Store floor http://flickr.com/photos/telstar/313182873/