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How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution?
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K12 Online Conference 2008 Amplifying Possibilities GETTING STARTED: KEYNOTE Alice Barr Maine, USA Blog: http://alicebarr.org Cheryl Oakes Maine, USA Blog: http://www.cheryloakes.com Bob Sprankle Maine, USA Blog: http://bobsprankle.com Originally published: 20 October 2008 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=268
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- Getting Started
- And we are glad that you can join us because, oh, we can't have the cameras in our faces.
- We are glad that you can join us because we have just reviewed the movie and
- we have talked about what old classrooms looked like and old things looked like
- and we want our classrooms to be as exciting as homecoming and I don't feel like
- my classrooms have always been as exciting as home coming so I want to change that.
- ..So what's the... the big piece in that is how do you make it so engaging for students
- as learners and how does the teacher make it engaging? That's a big question.
- It is a big question and I think one of the things that we are going from .....
- Learning to read, learning to use numbers, learning to write and now we have
- and now we have our students who are digital students.... yeah...
- and that brings a whole new kind of literacy to us....
- And so our literacies now include.. you are going to have to help me out, cause I'm..
- media literacy, which we learnt about in the Jenkins White Paper, which is really good.
- The Horizon Report gives us a lot of really good information and visionary things
- that we need to be doing and um..... I think communication, collaboration. When you look
- at things like Net Standards, where students and teachers, um... innovatation.
- is something.... Information literacy. Information literacy, digital citizenship is a huge thing.
- Ethics, um, civics. All of those things are, are sort of new 21st century literacies that
- we, in the past we sort of took.. you hear about the three Rs.. reading, writing, arithmetic.
- This, this is a new kind of skill learning. It's, it's... It is. It is a new skill set
- and, as teachers we are expected to know how to teach this skill set and we may not
- have been taught that ourselves. That's right, So, and I think that's really hard because
- one of the things that people like Thomas Freedman speak about in his book is
- how if we are going to succeed as a country, we need to help kids learn how to
- invent things and innovate and think for themselves. Be self directed.
- That's very different than what we learnt to, what we learnt to teach as teachers.
- So, how do we do that when you are stuck in a classroom with, ahh, so many tasks that you
- gotta accomplish and.. and CLB and assessments and all. And our, our vision is
- you don't do it alone. And so we wanna.. you know this, this keynote, um, is, hopefully
- gonna help you find a community that you can do this with others and after we talk
- we're actually going to show you how to join a Skype chat or a chat room that is ongoing
- never closes. Um, sounds like, um, what was that old show with everybody knows your name
- ... Cheers. Cheers, yes, yes. So this, this, this the Skype Cheers. The Seedling
- Skype Cheers and you can, um, stop by at any time and get support and we're gonna
- show you how you actually sign up for that and any time you go to Skype there'll be a
- running, ah.. list of questions and support from people and you don't have to go, go it alone.
- And I think, um, what you're seeing now is really interesting because the three of us
- normally are not together and, um, when we tried to do a collaborative online, um, movie
- of this keynote, we decided we needed to do a conversation and have it in a cafe
- and so we're in an outdoor cafe right now and having this conversation, recording it and
- making this to engage you and then hopefully motivate you to join our network that we have.
- You don't have to go it alone. Ah, so should we.. do we want to talk anymore about how you
- can join the revolution. Because it is a revolution. Well, I think we probably oughta
- introduce ourselves.... That would be a great idea Alice.... and then we'll start the revolution.
- How does that sound. So, with that being said, I'm Alice Barr and I'm the Instructional
- Technology Integrator at Yarmouth High School, Yarmouth, Maine and I work with high
- school students in a 1 to 1 laptop setting..... Thanks. And I am Cheryl Oaks and I work in
- the Wells Ogunquit School system and I'm a K-12 collaborative content coach which means
- I get to work with all teachers and students k to 12 and supporting them, coaching them on
- using technology tools with the content and the curriculum that they are working on.
- And I'm Bob Sprankle, a technology integrator at a K-4 school in the same district with Cheryl
- and, ah, it's called Wells Community.. Wells Ogunquit Community School District and
- I was just thinking the revolution will not be televised but it will be preserved on Flip video.
- So.. Yes, yes. We're using Flip videos to get different perspectives here in case your
- wondering what, why we're holding these little things. Right. In front of our faces. Yes, and as
- always we have a purpose for doing that. We're demonstrating some technologies
- that we hope you will be able to use in your classrooms. Some of the technologies
- that we will be demonstrating are the Flip video and the ease at which you can use them.
- Um, Skype, which is Internet telephony and we'll learn how to be engaged in a Skype
- chat that is ongoing. We'll also reference our Seedlings ning and, um, that is ongoing where
- you can get, um, support, join groups and post questions or post reflections that you have
- about what you're working on in your classroom. And the interesting thing about the
- Seedlings ning is that we started it as our, um, one of our sessions last year and we have a
- great community already started there so right away should you choose to join that you'd
- have a lot of support right from the beginning. It's a really nice group of people who answer
- questions or post questions, often. Right. So that's a lot of fun... I think our most pressing
- question that we've, that we've been talking about for a while, for a while and I think it's
- really with some reading that we've done, um, is how can Web2.0 and using these tools help
- you allow for your students to be, to be co-collaborate, collaborators or co-creators of the
- learning in there. Would you guys like to talk about that at all. Well I think of the, the
- latest and greatest thing that most people will have been using in the past year, almost
- 18 months, um, was Voicethread and it's such a great thing for beginners to use because
- first of all it allows you really easy access to publish whatever you are doing in your
- classroom. If you wanted to publish about a fieldtrip or you wanted to publish about
- students answering a Math problem, um, you can post that information and students
- and anyone else viewing that can type a message, record a message with their audio
- and now, with the advent of a lot of built in cameras, they can give you a video recording
- of their messages or comments about whatever you're sharing in the Voicethread, so
- I think that, um, you know that's one of the greatest tools that has brought many beginners
- using the web technology, Web2 tecnologies into the arena and then through that
- they've made great connections with other kindergarden teachers, or other 6th grade
- teachers or other maths teachers and then that growth, that journey continues.
- And we really believe that it doesn't matter what the tool is. The tool's not important at all
- and that's why we're using Skype as our support this time because we're thinking a lot
- of people have at least heard of Skype or a lot of people have been using it to make long
- distance calls from their computer so, so we hope that it's got a familiar feeling, um, and
- you know, one thing that, that bringing in these technologies is that it has a transformative
- effect that can get us out of these patterns of what we've been doing and if you think about
- these Flip video cameras, ah, you can't help but lose control of some of the things you've
- been doing and being the only person controlling the learning. When you hand these
- out to your students, they're gonna, they're gonna take over and they're gonna start to
- contribute. And so that's, that's how we see technology with that trans formative effect.
- And what I think's really interesting, when you hand kids something, a tool like this, they will
- think of things that you would never use. We would never think of using them and it's
- amazing what they, what they create or what they think of to create. It's pretty, pretty neat.
- Pretty exciting. And, I think along those lines, it, it, um, shares the ownership for the learning
- so that no longer do we have to come to school with our whole bag of tricks ready to entertain
- for the day. You know, we can pass out some of these tools and students will find appropriate
- ways to use them and they will find innovative ways and that's really one of the tools that we
- want. I mean skills that we want students to have. Is to be able to create and to have
- innovative things to share with other people and to collaborate. And you know we really believe
- that people want to make meaning out of their lives and part of using these tools to create
- satisfies that human need and um, definitely helps preserve, we believe, preserve the work
- that they've done so that it doesn't all just blow away, so students are archiving their learning
- with flip videos or something like voicethread or ahh, or what not, then it makes it much more
- meaningful.... How about differentiation? How does, how does jumping into the revolution
- help with differentiation? It, these tools help all kids... no matter what. It's very simple.
- There, there is a tool or a technology for every learner... And the engagement part really, really
- has a lot to do with that. One of the books said, um, we will offer up and we have a couple of
- articles we should mention too. New book out by Clayton Christensen called Disrupting Class
- and, um, what he's talking about is that differentiation is really almost impossible for a
- school to do in a factory model that we've had for the past hundred so years, um, and that
- the software choices are what's gonna make this be more possible where we can
- differentiate for different learning styles. It's an excellent book to read and he talks about
- like the software that's emerging. Some of whats in place. Some of, certainly these
- Web2.0 tools that is gonna make this possible. So it's very exciting. Highly recommend that
- book. And we already talked about the Jenkins White Paper. Um, another.. Did you, did you
- say the title of that. Um, the.. No. Challenge, what, what is it? The Challenges of
- participatory culture. So that whole vibe, you know. We live in a society now where people
- don't want to just injest. They want to be part of the, of the creation.... And the other article that
- we had, um, that we'd really like to promote is Pow Wham. The Power of Pow! Wham!
- by Dr Shore, coming out of the Cooney Institute and again about the skills necessary for, um
- this new future and how to engage students in this participatory culture. And I think, I think
- the kids naturally participate and so it makes, I mean this makes perfect sense how, how
- some of these tools have developed. How some of these tools are used in the classroom
- I, I watch students often at the end of the day. They're all working together in small groups
- at tables. They all have a computer with them but they're having a conversation. They're
- doing work. And very often they're also talking to people who are not in the room, all at once.
- And they're, they feel strongly that they're all, they're able to learn that way. They learn better
- that way. And they'll tell you that. And yet in our classrooms we're on a very one to one
- teacher-student, you know, two way street and that's really it. Um, and it's very interesting to
- see it happening before our eyes. Yet, when they walk in the classroom door, they're in
- those nice straight rows in their, in their desks... I was thinking about, um, using
- specifically a flip video camera and we have, um, a young student who just, was a
- kindergarden student and he's not very verbal and I thought what a great tool this would be
- for him to take a flip video, walking down the hall or into his class or into a therapy that he is
- going to and then take that home and share it at home, because, um, that would certainly
- be his window, if he was filming, that would be his window on his day and not an adult
- transcribing what his day looked like. And, think of the power in that, um, you know, for a little
- guy who's not verbal to be able to quote, unquote, verbalize or visualize what his day is
- like. So that's where we need to get out of the business of collecting and keeping up
- that bag of tricks to ourselves and making that available as communicatin tools to our
- students. And, you know, we're in the, sort of the beginning strand so, you know, welcome
- to the, all the new people that are really taking this plunge and, and we salute you and
- really in doing this, in starting your own community of learners, joining a skype group,
- like we've set up or a ning or any of those other things. Well then you really, you really, um,
- showing your students the skills that are necessary for their future careers cause
- this is how it's gonna happen, where people are going to collaborate. Thats, thats the place
- to me that Web2.0 has in our classroom. If we leave it out, if we leave some of the social
- networking tools out, because we're afraid of them, then we're not helping to prepare
- students at all for some of what you were saying earlier, the ethics and responsibilities
- and things like that. So you've done a great thing for your students already by....
- climbing aboard the K12 Online revolution. Right. Magical mystery tour. And don't just
- take our word for it. Real, you know. Argue with us. Come up with a reason why you shouldn't
- be doing something. But, um, you know, really look at your students and look at that
- homecoming message. Is your class, is your classroom a journey and an adventure that
- elicits that excitement, not only of your students, but remembering the, um, in the
- video, you know, the message is from the people in town who were on the route to the
- basketball tournament. You know, for the students to have the power to continue on and
- that's what we want. We want our whole community. We want our parents, our
- students, our community members to really support what's happening and in order to do
- that, we have to start putting that.. publishing what the students are creating in a responsible
- fashion.... Good... Any summary that we can offer? Well we will have, um, an opportunity in
- Elluminate for participation with anyone whose, um, been part of the video or even hasn't been
- part of the video. Just wants to be part of that, um, Elluminate session, so you would have
- an opportunity to talk to anyone of us and any of the group of people who will be
- participating in this, um, K12Online event. And of course that's the synchronous part of the
- presen, of the conference. But, K12 lives on many years after. So if you are discovering this
- sometime in the future. Um, please by any, by, by all, you know, please come and get in touch
- with us. And we do a, we do a Seedlings show and we'll have our seedling ning as we said
- and it, it's ongoing. It just doesn't stop. So don't feel like you've missed it because you
- didn't get to the Eluminate. Right. For sure. Right.... I think... Welcome aboard. Yeah.
- And have a great time, it's so, it's so amazing to be, to be a learner and just taking it all in.
- Take it in. Check it out. Go slow, but do it because it's so worth it.. That's basically it
- the Nike slogan, 'just do it'. There's lots of support and, you know what, I think, when you,
- when you tell people to 'just do it' and they're just really scared about that, um... there's no
- road map for this. You know, we are the new frontier and our students are the new frontier
- and we have to support the successes and the failures and, you know, the mistakes are all
- things that you won't do again or you'll modify and, um, you know, we don't know what our
- students are gonna be doing in 5 years much less 10 years. We don't know what we'll be
- doing. But this is the journey that we're on so 'fasten your seat belts' and we're off.
- Thanks for listening and we'll have an explanation, a little screencast of how to sign
- up for the Skype chatroom and we look forward to talking with you there... Take care.
- Over and out. Bye. Bye.
- OK, the first thing you're gonna do to join the Seedlings chat is to go to Skype and
- download Skype, if you don't already have it. It is a free download. And once you've
- downloaded Skype, you're gonna go to this address here. I made a tinyurl of the address
- cos the Skype address for Seedlings chat is quite large. So, so this is it right here
- tinyurl.com/562nm4. So go ahead and go to that and it should bring you to a window that
- looks like this and you'll see open public chat and when I do that a little popup will come up
- and have me go choose the Skype application so you'll just click there and drill down to your
- application folder and finally find Skype. Now this is Macintosh but I assume it'll be pretty
- similar for Windows as well. And, so if you don't already have Skype open that will open
- up Skype and you'll see that, a chat window, ah, comes up and right now I have webcast
- academy megachat and so this shows, you know, that a lot of people leave a lot of
- messages in these chats in such a group as webcast academy and here I am looking at the
- last year that I belonged to the chat for webcast and there's quite a lot of messages in there.
- Now over here. This is the Seedlings one and I'll click on that and, ah, again I can look at all
- the messages. I'm looking at, um, the recent ones. I can look at six months there and so
- there your in the chat and like any chat you would just leave a comment here and, um,
- people would respond. If I open up the Seedlings chat over here in the window you'll
- see all the members that are currently signed up for... the Seedlings chat. Now here's the
- important thing. Up here, where it says Seedlings, you'll notice a little book like a
- bookmark, and what you want to do is either click that or go up to, let's see, um, set
- bookmark under chat and that will keep this set within your chat bookmarks. Now you want
- to do this so that you don't have to go through and sign up again to get back into the chat or
- find the link. And let's say this was closed. If I close all my chats. I have my bookmarked chat
- chats up in the window here. Bookmark chats and then I just can open up Seedlings again
- and I haven't lost that link. So that's how you sign up and we can't wait to see you in the
- chatroom. Thanks a lot.


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