Cara Hagen
Presentation Materials Available:
http://www.edtechconnection.net/ed-5720-presentation/ (Cara's Web Site/Blog)
Electronic Grade Books
- Reality of education today in K-12
- Student Information Systems
- Communication is the key
- Easy Grade Pro by Orbis Software
- Personal Experience with EGP
- Why effective for ED 5750
- Limitations - twelve!
- Download Trial Software
- Tutorial or Just go for it
Technology and School Policy
- Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
- Acceptable Use Policy (3,650,000 hits on a Google search)
- Sample AUPs and Resources
- Acceptable Use Policy Handbook
- Minnesota Samples
- Highland Catholic School's AUP
- Oak-Land Junior High, Stillwater (includes many other policies and resources!)
- South Washington County Schools
- Minneapolis Public Schools (includes different policies for various ages and jobs)
- Related Issues
- Cell phones with and without cameras
- Blocking and Filtering
- Supervision
- Educational purpose
Teaching with Technology
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - a good place to start
What Is Web 2.0?
- Explanation
- Definition - Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")
- Cara's Three Cs of Web 2.0 - Collaboration, Connection, and Contribution
- RSS Feeds and Aggregators
Blogging
- Definition - An online journal or web-log kept for personal and/or professional purposes, often including contributions and conversations by readers.
- Blogs for Education
- Blogging for Professional Development
- General Education: Bud The Teacher, Kaffeeklatsch,
- Leadership: Principal Blogging Project, LeaderTalk, Lewis Elementary
- Curricular Areas/Teachers: EdBlogger, Math Forum,
- My Favorite Blogs (in no particular order): Higher Edison, 2 Cents Worth, Weblogg-ed, One-Trick Pony, Dangerously Irrelevant, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, Tech4Teaching, The Savvy Technologist,
- Blogging with Students
- Open, Closed, Preview, Policy
- Reading, Writing, and Responding: The Secret Life of Bees
- Blogging Tools
- Blogger, BlogMeister by David Warlick
- Technorati - tag searches
- Word Press, Type Pad, SquareSpace
Podcast
- Definition - An audio file, and more recently enhanced or video, distributed via the internet for playback on a computer or mp3 player. Term is a combination of iPod and broadcast!
- Podcasting for Education
- Podcasts for Professional Development
- General Education
- Leadership
- Curricular Areas
- Conversations in Education - Hamline's GSE podcasting project
- Podcasting with Students
- Open, Closed, Preview, Policy
- Listening and Learning: The Word Nerds
- Creating and Communicating: Radio WillowWeb
- Podcasting Tools
- GarageBand, iTunes, Audacity
- Podcast.net and Podcast.com,
Wikis
- Definition - A web site that allows readers to collaboratively create its content in a small closed setting or a large open setting.
- Wikis for Education
- Wikis with Students
- Open, Closed, Preview, Policy
- Public like Wikipedia - Will Richardson's son
- Create your own at pbwiki (peanut butter wiki) or WikiSpaces
Google
- Resource for working together - most likely for adults or older students with email access.
- Docs & Spreadsheets
- Maps
- Mashups like Chicago Crime
- Sharing Favorites/Bookmarks - Accessible from any internet accessible computer!
But what are the kids doing?
- PEW Studies: teens and technology, web 2.0, podcasting, blogging, more than you can imagine!
- Social Networking Sites
- Twitter - Tim's Twitter
- MySpace
- YouTube
- ClubPenguin
- Disney and Nickelodeon on board soon
- TeacherTube
- Philosophically different approach to publishing, privacy, access, communication, and even news