Leah+Kihara,+KSK

ISTE was awesome, but overwhelming and I'm only now able to digest everything. But I don't want to forget anything so hopefully I'll have some time to check some of it out before we start school again!

Areas I found most interesting were: 1. Assessment through Digital Portfolios which students uploaded their papers and videos WITH their reflections on the project as well as their grades to show their overall learning. It would be awesome to have students culminate their high school career with a digital portfolio that reflected on all of their classes and how they meet the standards, but it can be done by individual classes as well.

2. Free Web 2.0 Tools

3. Starting a film festival to showcase video projects from all 3 KS campuses and creating a KS version of youtube to showcase and share the projects with our students

presented by a dynamic speaker who is from Discovery Educational Tools and he went through the following sites as examples to engage students. My favorite one was the first one, which can get a little messy but I think students would enjoy it and it's another way to do backchannelling as a way to give feedback to a discussion.
 * Extreme Make-over: Education Edition, Web 2.0**

http://goo.gl/pvzU http://prezi.com/g8audqwjinqe/extreme-makeover/

Steve Dembo - Online Community Manager Steve_denbo@discovery.com Teach42.com

www.wallwisher.com – let’s you add sticky notes to a wall A way to backchannel, can ask questions, students answer Put up photos, videos, links Review for tests Does not get into google search Remember wall name: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/wikioimua Can print up the wall 160 character limit

www.letmegooglethatforyou.com funny website that types in to google for the search

http://blabberize.com/ takes pictures in and animates them add in audio and makes the mouth move to the audio you added can download as a video, file save as a mpeg submitting work biographies famous speakers – have their own versions how to solve a math problem use for a rock to explain where it’s from let frog explain what part just dissected gets students engage “copuright yoda”

www. discoveryeducation.com for photos

www.zamzar.com converts files

BLOGS Simple & successful

www.edublogs.org

Podcasting www.ipadio.com make a podcast using your phone

use apps that don’t complicate and take away from teaching

www.vocaroo.com voice recording service

http://instructify.com/2010/04/15/vocaroo-podcasts-audio/

Workshop was interactive in that is was presented in a question/answer format where audience had a remote to push in their answer and it instantly showed the results of the audience opinion. Then a panel of 6 educators addressed the feedback and their own thoughts to the question as well. One of the panelists actually walked around with a microphone to get feedback from audience as well.
 * Dissecting the 21st Century Teacher**

Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher Integrate technology – may not always be a characteristic, not just use it bcuz have it Makes a conscious and deliberate effort to integrate technology into their curriculum. . . . False, not always conscious effort, contemporary teachers are a natural, it’s in your bank of tools so not always conscious Needs to be SEEMLESS, takes it to a new level, cant do it without the technology, Need a bag of tricks to be able to find something that works Curriculum should drive technology

Student centered learning Innovative Progressive

What’s the most important thing can do outside of the classroom? Collaborate with like-minded educators Expand curriculum beyond the textbook See out learning experiences Be an advocate/ambassador for the 21st century education in every classroom

Challenges – need to think around challenges Money Lack of resources Lack of professional/development Student aptitude/attitude Lack of Administrative Support Time Management Teacher aptitude/attitude

Transition curriculum to be more contemporary & progressive It should be easy, but it’s not always.


 * Skype an Author idea for Learning Centers