The document discusses using blogs, wikis and podcasts in the classroom to meet language arts standards and technology standards. It provides examples of how teachers at Bauer Elementary School in Michigan have incorporated these tools into their classroom including showcasing student work, learning specialists sharing expertise, creating persuasive podcasts and using a wiki to assess student understanding and allow collaboration. It encourages finding ways to collaborate across grades and with other tech-savvy teachers.

1. The World is our Audience Using Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts in the Classroom

2. Presented by: Julie Myrmel and Diane Rich 3rd grade teachers Bauer Elementary School Hudsonville, MI 49426 email: [email_address] [email_address]

3. Our Journey

4. Michigan Curriculum Framework Language Arts Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE’s) reading writing speaking listening viewing National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts can be used to meet the...

5. Power of an authentic audience for the students

6. What is a blog? Web Log A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. (Wikipedia)

7. A Peek into the Classroom

14. Showcasing Student Work

17. Learning

21. Specialists Share

25. Blog Hosts www.edublogs.org www.typepad.com www.blogspot.com

26. Podcasting

27. Persuasive Podcast

28. How to make it work in your classroom

29. A Podcast From Our Class

30. A Video Podcast

31. Wikis

32. What’s a Wiki? WICK-ee or WEE-kee, Hawaiian for quick. It’s a webpage that lets contributors easily add, remove, edit, and change what is at the site. A wiki can be password protected or open to any user. Ours is hosted by our Intermediate School District (our friend Dan again!)

33. http://www.wikispaces.com http://pbwiki.com http:// mediawiki.com Other Wiki Hosts

34. What We’ve Tried--Our Wiki http://blogs.oaisd.org/wiki/doku.php

35. Allows us to assess the level of understanding of all of the students food chains A food chain is what some thing eats anather and eats anather.food comes from the sun.Dead things grow on things are called decomposers what brake things down.Consumer is a plant what gets eaten by a producer .A producer is what eats plants. YUK!Energy comes from ,trees,plants,flowers bees take the neckter for hunny. Here is What i know About Black History \\Michael Jordan Was not Always realley tall \\and the slaves Fought in the REV. WAR but not for the U.S.A. Hi, My name is Thomas A full grown man can fit sideways in a whale sharks mouth. Hi My name is Janelle! I have 12 cows. They are boy cows. They have 4 stomachs. Janelle, Do all cows have 4 stomachs, or just your 12 boy cows? Maybe you could make that clearer. Mrs. Rich Yes all cows have four stomachs Janelle, how about rewriting your original sentences to make it clearer. After you do that, you can delete all of these messages from me. Don’t forget to save the changes. Hi My name is Janelle! I have 12 cows. They are beef cows. All cows have 4 stomachs. Some are black & white. Some are red.The cows get tall when they are butchered. Hi, my name is Thomas a foll gron man can fitt side wase in a whale sharks maoth Thomas, I have made the spelling errors bold . Please use the tools you have to fix them. Don’t forget capitals and periods too. Thanks,Mrs. Rich

36. Allows parents to compare their child’s work to classmates. hi my name is kassie i am 8 yers old. i like hores a lot i have whun of my one his name is moon i love him a lot.My best frindse are mrith Enya and madilin. hi my name is Colton i am eight years old i love soccer and football and baseball and i have six people my family i have pets their dogs their names are bailey shes a germenshepard myother dogsname is parker but i dont no what kind it is Hi my name is Natalie. Pink is my favorite color. I love gymnatics. The bunny is my favorite animal. Christmas is my favorite holiday. Chapter books are my favorite books. I have 5 people in my family. Carrie Underwood is my favorite singer. When I grow up I want to be a teacher. I like skateboarding. and I like football. I like werasleing. Shows teachers the skills that need to be targeted for individual and small groups of students.

37. Social Networking please put a date next to your comment Hey Em!I love your wiki. It’s very cool that you guys get the chance to do this!I never got to when I was in Mrs.Myrmel’s class!Much luv! I like your wiki! FROM SARA 2-21-07 Hey Emily! Im sending this beacuse it was your wish your my vvvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrrryyyyyyy good friend! Maddie2/22/07 Em! your vvvvvvvveeeeeerrrrryyy vvvvvveeerrryyy vvvveeeerrrryyy Nice!2/22/07

38. Wow! I can’t beleve that it is almost my moms wedding. She is geting married on March 3rd. I am going to be the Maid of Honnor. [which is the first brids maid] :-D The color of my dress is perreywincle. I am so iksited!LOL They Are Excited to Share My Addition! My mom decided to add an addtion to our house and then I came up to my mom and I said, “mom I would like to move downstairs and have my own bedroom”. And so my mom said, " would you like to have your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. And so my mom said she will think about it. So I said, “ok”. The next day I woke up and I saw mom talking to the builder and then my mom came in and said to me, " would you really really want your own bedroom?”. I said, “yes”. So she went back outside and they both came in and went downstairs and into my new bedroom and then I followed them down the stairs and I peeked in and I heard the builder say “I will get started on it today”. I thought “Yipy!!LOL“. I was so excited to have my new bedroom because I used to sleep with my sister when I was about 5 years old and she would kick me like crazy. I could not go to sleep. Now I have my own bedroom!!! It was so much fun that I have my own bedroom. Thank you for listening to my page about my new bedroom!!!^_^ We just got done reading a book called Silver.It is about a girl named Rachel and her dog named Ruf and she has a liter of puppies and Rachel takes a dog for her self and names it Silver and Silver runns away and Rachel finds him. It was a good book. If you want to get it go to the libray and check it out. Trust me you will like it.

39. Homework

40. The Missing Piece.... Collaboration The power of the wiki lies in the authentic audience that allows interaction with people other than the teacher. Questions to ponder: What grades to go to for collaboration? How to find tech savvy teachers to collaborate with?

41. Other Ideas ABCs of your town Cooperative stories Teaching others Book clubs-at home or with other classes Edit other people’s work for no-excuse words for proofreading practice For Students to Try

42. Connect with experts in the field county/city government scientists writers Volunteer mentors from school/community to read and respond to students’ work Teacher collaboration-lessons, ideas ...For Teachers to Try

43. http://connectingkids.wikispaces.com / Start Collaborating Now!