tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36759346028935218322024-02-21T00:57:35.596-08:00Embracing 21st Century EducationSo many needles to find and use; so many haystacks. But I am loving every minute of it.Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-7829285690818253662014-05-29T20:18:00.000-07:002014-05-29T20:18:49.377-07:00<iframe src='http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=0AqMAATXSVYJLdHdLeHRXWlJ0NVlwbXQwdHlzSDFlMFE&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&height=650' width='100%' height='650' frameborder='0'></iframe>Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-58075582131625475132014-03-12T23:09:00.000-07:002014-03-12T23:09:18.109-07:00Move More, Talk LessI've been teaching Math for two weeks in an elementary school. It was very fulfilling. I find when I supply teach I have more time to reflect than I did as a regular teacher. I enjoy the natural reflecting that occurs in my mind. I feel better about myself if I follow through in that reflection. <br />
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I always seem to have issues with getting students to refocus after down time. I'm always saying 'GRADE 4!! SETTLE DOWN!", in my big teacher voice, from the front if the room. It takes them at least 30seconds to respond. I have found that if I just start walking around the room, telling the little groupings it's time to move on, they respond immediately. I like the instant reaction and I like that I am saving my voice! <br />
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When i call from the front, they aren't ignoring me or being disrespectful. Students just don't hear us when we call to the big group. They are busy with each other and they are in the middle of conversations. I know when I'm in a big group i do the same thing. It's actually annoying to have the person at the front interrupting my conversation!! <br />
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That's led me to another thought- if I'm going to interrupt the little groups, I should have something important and useful to say that will add to the work being done. <br />
<br />Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-3674286700650118422012-02-14T08:14:00.000-08:002012-02-14T08:14:30.219-08:00Another great find today:<br />
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I love Edmonton Public Library. I love how on top they are with the latest technology. I just get so excited playing around on their website.Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-79961467130581631272012-01-31T20:53:00.001-08:002012-02-14T08:13:39.466-08:00Animating NotesToday I caught a student drawing pictures instead of taking notes. He was really upset that I caught him. In fact, he was quite distressed. <br />
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I'm really glad I didn't just yell at him and throw his work away. I took the page and looked at it. There I found the notes we'd taken in comic form. Ingenious!!! He had not only taken the notes, but he'd internalized them and then spit them out in the form of a comic! His characters were explaining why you should deal with stress and talked about strategies for coping. It was just hilarious!<br />
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Boy am I ever glad I didn't throw that work away. I would have missed out on a huge 'teaching' moment. <br />
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<br />Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-172512771745522642012-01-13T11:29:00.001-08:002012-01-13T11:29:26.982-08:00YouTube Access!!Yahoo! <br />
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I just found today that Edmonton Public Schools is no longer filtering YouTube and other such sites. Yeah! <br />
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Thank you to all of you who pushed this along. I didn't know if I'd ever see this day! Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-54405745362770252082011-12-02T21:41:00.000-08:002011-12-02T21:41:27.115-08:00Blogging<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Humility. Yes. Though I am not a marketer, blogging has taught me humility. It's not like I ever thought I was a great writer, because I'm not, but when I read fantastic blog posts it puts my writing to shame! Why are some people just natural with their words?? </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">But here I am assuming that others just come up with ideas, start writing about it and viola, they have a great blog post. Or are they like me:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">3) Start writing post online in between changing diapers and cleaning house (or whatever you do in your stage of life).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">4) Stop writing because you need to change another diaper.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">5) Go back to blog post when baby is napping and you wonder what on earth you've written about and why there are a bunch of incoherent thoughts all over your draft. Couldn't you have written in complete sentences??</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">6) Sort through the jumble and try and make it organized, clean and concise. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">7) Take two hours <i>at least t</i>o get it where you want. Have no idea if your even close to where it should be. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">8) Start cheering every time you finish a section.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">9) Hit the darn publish button b/c your sick of reading your own words. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Right at this moment I am at step 5. Kids are asleep as it's 6:16am.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">B<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">logging has been hard for me (did the above rant clue you in to that?) thanks to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=CArG5bfUy-sC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=richardson's+blogging+spectrum&source=bl&ots=s2i5_zKsCt&sig=qPLMVlUSQaXrypX_Ly25xuSlBgA&hl=en&ei=rXrXTr7lLoKg2gXk3uy9Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false">Richardson's spectrum.</a> I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">f I had never learned about his spectrum I'd happily be blogging like a journal. But no, I'm supposed to be </span><i>analyzing</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">synthesizing</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">. Come on Will! Give us all a break! We're tired! :-) But alas, I did what I always do when I'm trying to figure things out. I made a visual. Check out the second page in my document because that is where I put the </span>definitions<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> of all the words that were confusing me. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I wrote some thoughts about the blogging </span>spectrum in<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> a class </span>discussion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> for my EDES 501 class. Here are my thoughts:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>A recent blogger I have found is Angela Watson (<a href="http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/blog" style="color: #007c41; text-decoration: underline;">The Cornerstone</a>) and the things she writes about just speak to me. From what I have read so far, her blog is at level 6. She is very reflective, but it's mostly just her ideas. Mind you she does spent time on comments and her discussions do go on over time putting her at Level 8.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I guess what I am saying is that great bloggers aren't all complex bloggers. Do they need to become complex bloggers or is sitting at levels 4-7 good enough? Maybe the answer is that bloggers go up and down the spectrum depending on what they want to share (and how busy their lives are, and the purpose for their blog.)</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>On pg. 31 of Richardson's book, the page this spectrum is on, there is a quote from Ken Smith. There is one line in the quote that jumped out at me last night:</i></span></div>
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<i>So I guess blogging is my opinion about someone else's opinion and it goes on and on like that. I guess through that process we learn about different view points and we start to synthesis our ideas to create an even better idea. Maybe that is why we have the cliche "Two heads are better than one" and maybe the cliche "Great minds think alike" is false:-)</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Although my personal blog is a Level 2 on Will's spectrum, I still think that there is great value to journaling on a blog. First of all, there is an audience and interaction with others. I went a little overboard when I first started blogging in 2005. I LOVED having conversations with my friends and their friends and their friends about motherhood. I had a community at my fingertips and it was wonderful. It was so </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">therapeutic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> to read and write about how we felt, our insecurities, perceived failures and frustrations. I didn't feel alone in motherhood any more which is strange because I am around mother's all the time. But I think people are more honest when they write for an audience they don't </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">necessarily</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> know. Through that honesty we were able to work through problems and be better women and mothers and actually feel like weren't as bad as we were imagining. As my daughter grew I no longer needed that community and I slowly drifted away from those </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">conversations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> and stopped for awhile.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Then my sister-in-laws started to blog and I joined on the bandwagon again. This time I wrote about the happenings of our family. It was so much fun to read about the lives of our extended family and see pictures. We looked forward to their posts and still do! One of the best parts of keeping this blog though is the record of our lives that we are keeping. It is really fun to go back and read our posts. And with companies like <a href="http://www.blurb.com/" target="_blank">Blurb</a> we can print out our "family journal".</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">What's most exciting about blogging as a family is that the nieces have started their own blogs and it is fascinating to read what they have to say. I especially love reading my daughters blog. I learn a lot about her through it. Here is my favourite post so far:</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I also think my blog has helped me improve my writing which is a sentiment I share with <a href="http://pedagogy.cwrl.utexas.edu/content/technology-and-pedagogy-forum-and-form-blog-posting" target="_blank">mreilly</a>. He feels that writing in certain style (blogging) can strengthen your other writing in styles (academic). He writes:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">There were a few things that stood out to me in this post. The first is that she mentions teaching students <i>how to</i> blog, <i>how to</i> be safe and<i> how to</i> comment. I guess these skills don't come innately to these supposed digital natives. I also thought it was interesting that she strongly encourages not to mark the blogs. In my grades-based mind I would have to give them a mark because I need marks for progress reports! It would be hard for me to spend so much time on something with my class and not be able to formally evaluate them on it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Lastly, I really liked that the students connected with other student bloggers and that they mapped where the bloggers were from.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To end this post, I want to discuss the use of blogs outside of the classroom <i>for </i>the classroom. In the schools I have taught, there were students who have taken extended trips to see family or just to travel, during all seasons of the year. If we want our classrooms to be as big as the world (Kist 2011, p. 2) wouldn’t it be terrific if the students could bring the world to their classroom while they were away? <a href="http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/1881" target="_blank">Couros</a> believes that some of the best learning can happen when families travel because they are being exposed to their (or another) culture and they are bonding with each other. He is opposed to sending homework with students as he does not feel that it provides meaningful learning for them: it is out of context and they have other things to explore. He provided an example of what could be done while students were done and calls it authentic learning.</span><br />
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It is an audio editor program that has been integrated into Google apps that the students at Edmonton Public Schools can access. I went home and tried to play with it because I am a curious person. I couldn't figure it out AT ALL. I was so confused that I just gave up!<br />
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Jump to September of this year: I was trying to decide what tools to play with for this inquiry when I read about a great idea in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="http://mindywara.wikispaces.com/file/view/Podcast+Time.pdf">Neufeld and Smythe’s article</a>. In Ms. L’s middle grade classroom, 20 of her 25 students were ELL. Ms. L encouraged her students to write a story, make it into an illustrated book, record the story as an audio file and upload it to the server for younger students to listen to as they read the book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">An idea instantly popped into my head: how about I create a story using Blurb and then narrate it using an audio editor?? I was so excited! I then had to decide which audio editor to use. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Both Richardson (2010) and Berger and Trexler (2010) recommend using Audacity to make audio recordings. I have used Audacity for simple audio recordings and have found it quite intuitive to use. <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/ten-common-challenges-well-face-this_17.html">Byrne recommends using Aviary</a> as it is completely web based, while Audacity has to be downloaded to the computer. Aviary allows teachers to create and supervise their students’ accounts. Students’ work is then saved in their accounts which can be accessed from any device that is connected to the internet. Because of my previous five minutes experience with Aviary I had to talk myself into using it. I kept telling myself that this was the time to play and investigate something difficult. </span><br />
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3) I really enjoy making audio recordings.</div>
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5) Though not as chatty as I once was, I still like to talk. And I enjoy not being interrupted. That is why audio recordings are perfect for me:-)<br />
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6)I LOVE adding music to stories. It made my initial audio recording come to life.</div>
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8) There is so much more I need to learn about audio editors. I just scratched the surface of audio mixing.</div>
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9) I can honestly say that the entire process was so much fun. Talk about getting a high!</div>
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As a parent, I would encourage my daughter to make voice recordings. I think I'll use it to help her memorize her recitations that she is required to do monthly at school. Recording her poem would give her a chance to hear herself and make any changes that were necessary. My daughter has lots of personality and is a little dramatic and she loves to hear her own voice, so she would really enjoy using Aviary.<br />
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I also think it would be a great idea to record my son, who is only 17 months. His grandparents would love to hear him! I could just have him speak into my iPhone and send a quick message off, but I'd like to get some good quality recordings over the next few years and them put them all together into one recording for a great keepsake.<br />
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I really enjoy listening to podcasts when I exercise. My goal for the month of December is to exercise more and therefore listen to some podcasts. The way I decide which podcasts to listen to isn't very scientific. <strong style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">If a podcast has some music and is of good sound quality I am hooked and I listen to it. If there is only voice or the sound quality is poor, I won't listen to it. It takes too much effort! I only like listening to them on my iPhone or on the computer while I am working on something else. Staring at a screen with just voice is not appealing to me. </span></span></strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Found this podcast from <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/11/ed-tech-crew-podcast.html">Richard Byrne</a></td></tr>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Connecting it back to my experience, in hindsight I would have written the story, recorded the audio, edited the story and re-recorded parts of it, because as I read I could tell where the story didn't flow well, or were my wording was awkward. But since I had already ordered the book, I couldn't go back and change it. If I were to do this again, or with students, I wouldn't finalize the writing of my story until after the first recording was complete. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">- Technology benefits- wider audience added authenticity </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and the recording process made the performance permanent thus motivating the students to produce their best work. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Students evaluated their work and re-did their recordings until they were satisfied with them - didn't t just doing it once and forgot about it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I found this article fascinating and so exciting! To be able to engage students in this way is the whole point of technology in education. We can have technology in our classes and yet it can be meaningless (<a href="http://brightideas08.wikispaces.com/file/view/beyond.pdf">Beyond Technology for Technology's Sake</a>). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I wish I had a class to do this with! </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> Well to end this off, I loved Aviary! I expected the least from this Web 2.0 tool but I got the most from it - or maybe I just had the most fun. Not sure if those two are the same thing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Berger, P., & Trexler, S. (2010). <i>Choosing web
2.0 tools for learning and teaching in a digital world.</i> Santa Barbara, CA:
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Richardson, W. (2010).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(3rd ed.). </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.</span></span></div>
<br />Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-86005022972574017182011-11-26T21:43:00.001-08:002011-11-26T21:44:16.854-08:00Current Events: Technology kicked out of the classroom?<br />
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<span class="mceItemHidden">This week a commercial on TV caught my attention. Discovery Channel Canada was congratulating Lester B Pearson School Board in Toronto for "transforming learning" by having access to </span><a _mce_href="http://www.discoveryeducation.com/Canada/administrators/curricular-resources/streaming-plus/index.cfm" href="http://www.discoveryeducation.com/Canada/administrators/curricular-resources/streaming-plus/index.cfm">Discovery Education STREAMING Canada Plus</a>. The streaming provides "high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts and boards, large and small, rural and suburban, and everything in between."<br />
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This reminded me of an article that Lisa Saunder posted in Coffee talk earlier this week. Her article was of the <a _mce_href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/children+need+computers+school+school+Edmonton+keeps+technology/5741439/story.html" href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/children+need+computers+school+school+Edmonton+keeps+technology/5741439/story.html"><span class="mceItemHidden"><span class="mceItemHiddenSpellWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/lib/editor/tinymce/tiny_mce/3.3.9.2/plugins/spellchecker/img/wline.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; cursor: default;">Wardof</span> School</span></a><span class="mceItemHidden"> in Edmonton that uses no technology in it's Gr.1/2 class - on purpose.</span><br />
<span class="mceItemHidden">I didn't know what to think of it. It just seems so counter intuitive to exclude technology. I really liked the activities that they had for the students to use and think it would be fantastic if all classrooms could have a mix of Wardof and technology. </span></div>Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-40937748409434397832011-11-24T13:28:00.000-08:002011-11-24T11:09:00.799-08:00Tweet Tweet, Twitter Twitter Twitter, Tweet Tweet<br />
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I can't help but sing Rockin' Robin when I think of Twitter. I had no idea the Jackson 5 sang it. I learn something new every day:)<br />
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EDES 501 is coming to a close so it's time for me to finish writing about Twitter. I have written five posts about Twitter so far:<br />
I've written about:<br />
- the <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/do-i-really-need-to-be-part-of-twitter.html" target="_blank">Ocean of Twitter</a><br />
- where to put all my good finds from Twitter (<a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-on-role.html" target="_blank">Evernote</a>, <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/where-am-i-supposed-to-put-all-good.html" target="_blank">Diigo</a>)<br />
- the <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/embracing-swallowing-leaves.html" target="_blank">feeling of 'this is too much info'</a> when I go to Twitter<br />
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- how excited I was when I started to <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-just-get-so-darn-excited-when-i.html" target="_blank">figure things out</a><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Reflections on the Process:</span></u></b><br />
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<b>Going back to the beginning:</b><br />
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<i>What I knew:</i><br />
- that I could use Twitter on my desktop, laptop, iPhone and iPad<br />
- could follow people<br />
- find some interesting information<br />
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<i>What I know now:</i><br />
- prefer using it on iPhone and iPad<br />
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- can create lists from saved searches<br />
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- I can save my good finds to <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/where-am-i-supposed-to-put-all-good.html" target="_blank">Diigo and Evernote</a><br />
- They have made it much easier to <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-just-get-so-darn-excited-when-i.html" target="_blank">read</a> and <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-on-role.html" target="_blank">save</a> tweets on mobile devices<br />
- I can <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-just-get-so-darn-excited-when-i.html" target="_blank">follow conversations</a><br />
- I really like tweeting with people I know from class<br />
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- I'm not afraid of commenting and I love getting feedback!! (I commented on this Tweet because I know the MP he was talking about. Familiarity makes all the difference for me.)<br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Twitter for <i>my own </i>Learning:</span></u></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> am really glad that I chose to play with Twitter this term. It's so easy to avoid things that are difficult. I guess I just felt like I didn't belong. But as I have made an effort to reach out and be a part of Twitter, I have had a warm reception. It's such a great feeling to be a part of something that is so big. </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I found that Twitter was one of the best ways to communicate with other class members. Though we have Moodle, emails and our blogs, Twitter is just more convenient. Once the Moodle site closes and email addresses change, Twitter will still be there, (mind you Web 2.0 is constantly changing) and I will easily be able to keep in touch with classmates. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I love getting to know new people. I love hearing what other people have to say. Twitter is great because I can get to know so many new people all at once! Here are some people I really enjoy following:</span></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">- <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ProfessorNana" target="_blank">@ProfessorNana</a></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/gcouros" target="_blank">@gcouros</a></span></span></b><br />
- <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/buffyjhamilton" target="_blank">@buffyjhamilton</a><br />
- <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/joannedegroot" target="_blank">joannedegroot</a><br />
- <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/joycevalenza" target="_blank">joycevalenza</a><br />
- <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/heyjudeonline" target="_blank">@heyjudeonline</a><br />
- <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/LanceStrate" target="_blank">@lancestrate</a><br />
I just find that I have learned a lot from them. They tweet things that are pertinent in my life right now.<br />
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I try to go on Twitter once a day. I just start at the top, scroll through the tweets and click on anything that stands out to me. Here are a few of the things that I have found through Twitter:<br />
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Saying "It's not about the technology" is a little like telling Yo Yo Ma, "It's not about the cello".<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/8rinaldi/status/124500924914864128" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">11-10-13 9:05 AM</a><br />
6th gr scary stories in 300words or less. Students would love comments. <a href="http://t.co/py7MpWi4" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://t.co/py7MpWi4" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">http://t.co/py7MpWi4</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#comments4kids" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#comments4kids</a><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#ebshare" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#ebshare</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#edchat" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#edchat</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#6thchat" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#6thchat</a></td></tr>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/simbeckhampson/status/125877448431779840" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">11-10-17 4:14 AM</a><br />
Excellent article on Content Anaylsis by Jan Wyllie <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#curation" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#curation</a> Like Minds |<a href="http://t.co/0pXsivI4" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://t.co/0pXsivI4" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">http://t.co/0pXsivI4</a><br />
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Student teacher looking for some help defining what it means to be a good teacher! Please take my Survey<a href="http://t.co/nn8UaJKo" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://t.co/nn8UaJKo" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">http://t.co/nn8UaJKo</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#edchat" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#edchat</a><br />
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Awesome! RT <a href="https://twitter.com/@Luke_English" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">@Luke_English</a>: New blog post on.... blogging! <a href="http://t.co/ueipgARq" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">lukeenglish.tumblr.com/post/<wbr></wbr>115006387…</a><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#psd70" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#psd70</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#edchat" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">#edchat</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/anitasilvey/status/127334034589220864" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">11-10-21 4:42 AM</a><br />
On its birthday, the story behind Harriet the Spy.<a href="http://t.co/pO3dPdBh" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://t.co/pO3dPdBh" style="color: #074d8f;" target="_blank">http://t.co/pO3dPdBh</a></td></tr>
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As I have have gone through my findings, it has occurred to me that my change of heart has come because it is now easier for me to reference the information I find on Twitter. I emailed the tweets above to myself and they were easy to find when I searched them in my email. Another thing that has happened is that I no longer feel the need to keep up with every tweet. When I get the chance, I go to Twitter, I learn what I can in the time I have and I move on with my life. I no longer feel this constant feeling that I am missing something. I'm just letting it all go over me like a gentle wave:-)<br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Twitter for PD:</span></u></b><br />
When I began teacher training 12 years ago I preferred to work on my own. I would have been happy teaching in a one-room school house where very few people would ever see me teach. I disliked group work - I suspect I was scarred in Jr High and High School! But as I continued in my training I met fabulous men and women who had so much to teach me. There was no way I was going to be able to become a great teacher on my own. I needed all the help I could get. Since that time I have gone out of my way to learn from any teacher I can - watching them teach, using their resources or just listening to their stories.<br />
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Now a days we have this amazing opportunity to learn from teachers all over the world. What a gift! And yet many of the best social media sites are prohibited in our schools and classrooms. <a href="http://pearsoncpl.com/">Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning</a>, in the UK, recently published a research paper entitled <a href="http://pearsoncpl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tweeting-for-teachers.pdf">Tweeting for teachers: how can social media support teacher professional development?</a> Their recommendations for policy makers include the following which I think are very valuable:<br />
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Now, there is one thing I fear with social media - other people's opinions. Pearson Centre's report ended with this declaration:<br />
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I have to say I am becoming less faint-hearted, but it is hard work. I am afraid to tweet things that I think I know something about, but in reality I know nothing about. But I have seen differences of opinion on Twitter and especially on blogs, and things seem to work out. Most people are quite respectful and those who aren't aren't worth battling with. Most people seem to appreciate that others may not support <i>their </i>opinion but they support their right to <i>an</i> opinion. I hope that as I continue to participate in Twitter that I will have the courage to say what I want to say and not worry about how others might view me. <br />
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A couple of months ago Alec Couros tweeted, "<a href="http://storify.com/courosa/why-use-twitter-in-education" target="_blank">Why use Twitter in Education</a>?" He received many responses. As I read through the responses most people mentioned two things:<br />
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This tweet alone shows me the power of Twitter and other social media. Couros puts out a question, he gets MANY responses. I somehow found a blogpost on it and I have the opportunity to read all the comments and learn from everyone.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">As I stay current and connected I am learning something new every day, many times a day. I am confident in my teaching more than I ever have been because I am constantly learning. Though I am only supply teaching currently, this learning still helps me. </span></span></b></span></span></b></div>
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In October while supply teaching, I really wished I'd been connected to Twitter in the classroom. I wrote about my experience <a href="http://embracing21stcenturywithmykids.blogspot.com/2011/10/clerihew-poem.html">here.</a> The overview of the post is that I had an amazing teaching experience with my students and I wanted instant feedback from others. Not having technology in the classroom nor knowing the technology policy of the school, I decided not to twitter from my iPad. But I've never felt such a need to connect students with other students. We were having such a great experience that I wanted others to join us. I also wanted the students to feel the trill of having others tell them what a great job they'd done and for others to learn from them.<br />
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This leads me to a debate on using Twitter in the classroom for those under 13. I read a blog post from back in February by <a href="http://missnightmutters.blogspot.com/2011/02/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet.html">Miss Night</a> on how she was using Twitter in her kindergarten classroom. She has an account for her class and they follow 12 other classes. A few times a week they check in to their Twitter account and connect with the other classes. The reason she twitters with her class is this:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I knew what Twitter had done for me as professional. With my fellow kinderchatters, I feel part of a professional network that far exceeds the bounds of my own school, city, country. And THAT is what I wanted for my students...Our school, being an international and UNESCO school, commits to graduating "active, global citizens" and that begins with an awareness that there are children! in other places! who go to school! just like us! That, to me, is a powerful understanding.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: normal;"><i>...at times we do need to stand on a foundation of thoughts, beliefs, and — dare I say it — policy!! (And not a personal policy but a school policy. )</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: normal;"><i>What I would wish for in my kindergarten classroom would never include a social media presence. They are still working on social skills within the classroom, playground, and with their peers. There is time later to be introduced to social media…..I would concentrate much more on social interaction within the classroom and their cognitive development.</i></span></span></span></div>
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I really try to follow "the rules" in life so Jen's post struck a cord with me. I could see her point. I initially didn't look at the policy because I just trusted what Jen said, but the skeptic side of my brain reminded me that it is always best to look things up for myself.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">Our Services are not directed to people under 13. If you become aware that your </span>child has provided us with personal information without your consent<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:%70%72%69%76%61%63%79@%74%77%69%74%74%65%72.%63%6f%6d" style="color: #2d76b9; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">privacy@twitter.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">I find this line </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To me Twitter is leaving the final decision to the parents. As a parent I would not allow my daughter her own account until she was AT LEAST 13, but I would not oppose her being apart of Twitter within her classroom as directed by her teacher. As a teacher, I think I would feel the need to get parental consent before I used Twitter in the classroom (I wonder if Miss Night uses her student's names in the tweets), but it would really frustrate me if just a few parents wouldn't find it acceptable and we'd miss on this great opportunity!</span></span><br />
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I also had never thought of the idea that Jen points out: using social media adds a new dimension to social interaction. Are we really teaching our students different skills: face-to-face vs. online social skills? I don't know. That is something I will have to ponder.<br />
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Well those are some of my thoughts on Twitter. Again, I am glad that I persevered because I love Twitter. I am just learning so much, so quickly and it's just so much fun!Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-39910051296071815582011-11-21T10:56:00.001-08:002011-11-24T09:17:18.024-08:00Some audio for my bookOh my. Was this ever a thrilling process. I had so much fun making an audio recording of my story. <br />
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<a href="http://www.aviary.com/artists/oinorton/creations/part_2_bslb">Part 2 BSLB.egg</a> on <a href="http://aviary.com/">Aviary.</a></div>Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-4876687430696775462011-11-21T08:39:00.001-08:002011-11-21T08:41:35.280-08:00Apps for Education - Current Events #9<br />
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I love Apple! I love apps! I especially love my iPad. I am always looking for good apps and this website is great. As I've gone through the website, I am amazed at all the apps there are that I've been ignorant of! If I am looking for a specific tool, I search the app store but I haven't ever gotten this kind of selection from my searches.<br />
It's always so nice to have others so some of the work for you:-)<br />
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I was supposed to report back on Twitter last week, but my other Web2.0 tools have kept me busy.<br />
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There were two things I really wanted to figure out with Twitter:<br />
1) How do I follow a conversation?? I'm getting only bits and pieces of what people are saying to each other. Maybe I shouldn't be eavesdropping, but hey, this is Twitter. <br />
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2) Like I said in <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/where-am-i-supposed-to-put-all-good.html" target="_blank">this post</a>, I really want a good way to store things I find on Twitter.<br />
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And this is where I get so darn excited!! I figured out BOTH!! So here are my findings:<br />
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So, in this tweet, @ProfessorNana wrote a comment to @donalynbooks. When you see it in the Timeline you don't get this button:<br />
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I just discovered though that on the iPad, once I click on the tweet the whole conversation comes up. I don't need to press on any 'in reply to'button. Sweet. Another reason to be excited.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">NOW, </span>why do I need to be <s>eavesdropping, </s>I mean, following conversations? Well because I <i>need </i>to be able to understand what's happening in lives of @gcouros, @couros and @shareski. Their tweets to each other are just so funny. I've got to keep on top of it.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">2) Storing (hoarding??) my Twitter Finds</span><br />
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You ready for my discovery?? Here we go!<br />
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This is a TedTalk that I found on iTunes while I was working
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Cameron, an entrepreneur, gives an interesting talk on
how schools preparing students for professional occupations like lawyers,
doctors, nurses, teachers and are discouraging students to be entrepreneurs. He
feels that it is in entrepreneurship that all the worlds needs are answered -
if there is a problem, an entrepreneurial minded person will think of a
solution. He doesn't say that everyone should be trained to be entrepreneurs;
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I chose this because I could relate to Cameron's
experiences. My dad is an entreprenuer. He started is own machine shop back in
the 1980's and we were raised working in that shop. The whole time I listened
to this talk, I kept thinking of my dad who told us he wished he'd gotten an
engineering degree along with this machining ticket. Though he has been
successful, he feels the education he would have received as an engineer would
have greatly assisted him in his work. So 'book education' and 'hands-on
education' might be what we really need.<o:p></o:p></div>Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-69343344587324989922011-11-14T08:34:00.000-08:002011-11-15T23:43:21.524-08:00Storytelling Everywhere<div style="text-align: center;">
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Easy Button http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbcastro/253777065/sizes/m/in/photostream/<br />
Alphabet blocks http://www.flickr.com/photos/indiana-shutterbug/4822593306/sizes/m/in/photostream/<br />
Kids walking outside http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8973<br />
Handwritten story http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggunson/4595917/sizes/m/in/photostream/<br />
iPhone http://capl.washjeff.edu/browseresults.php?langID=2&photoID=4118&size=m<br />
Classroom http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayorgavinnewsom/4899241255/sizes/m/in/photostream/<br />
Empty book http://dimland.blogspot.com/2011/04/dimland-radio-4-16-11-show-notes.html<br />
Library http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowercolumbiacollege/2885549741/sizes/m/in/photostream/<br />
Thank you!http://www.flickr.com/photos/27282406@N03/4134661728/sizes/m/in/photostream/<br />
World http://satellite.ehabich.info/changelog01.html<br />
Amy Poftak http://www.techlearning.com/article/book-smart/43463<br />
Kist, W. (2010). The Socially Networked Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.<br />
George Couros http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/1881<br />
Pandora’s box – Katelynn Whitehead; my nieceOrtensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-54980041031147827702011-11-07T09:20:00.000-08:002011-11-07T09:21:16.897-08:00Discussion and Reflections of Jing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I think I love Jing. I loved creating my screencasts. It's just such a great way to provide information to others. I love that only my voice and screen were recorded. That's so much better than having video footage of me. In my <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/11/process-of-jing.html" target="_blank">Process of Jing post</a> I went through the process of <i>how</i> to record a screencast. You can find the screencasts I made in my <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-i-was-jinging-all-week.html" target="_blank">What I was Jinging all Week</a> post.<br />
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I wanted to create videos for the youth, parents and leaders that I work with in my church. The girls that I work with have an extensive goal setting program that they can work through from ages 12-18. The program was just recently put online and I really think that the girls would love using the website. The videos I made provide the basic information that the girls, their parents and leaders need in order to start the online process.<br />
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As I explained in <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/11/jing-ling-ling-ling.html" target="_blank">this post</a>, I just randomly starting making videos and soon realized that I needed to stop what I was doing and start over again. It didn't take near as much time to create the videos the second time. I had a much better idea of how the information would flow and what information would be in each video.<br />
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It took some time to decide what exactly I would include in each video. They could only be five minutes long and I wanted to be clear and concise. I could have made hours worth of video, but who wants to watch that? I had to decide what were the basic things that needed to know in order to become familiar with the website. After doing my first round of videos, I had a pretty good idea of what would be most beneficial to demonstrate. Ideally, I would have had one of my girls or another leader watch my videos and see if they wanted any more information than I provided. (I'll ask for feedback when they actually use them because it's fairly easy to edit and upload to YouTube)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The hardest part of working with Jing this week was the constant feeling I had that I needed to edit my screencasts. I'd change what I was saying mid-sentence and then my whole sentence wouldn't make sense! I wasn't able to edit all of my ungrammatical sentences but I am satisfied with the results. I also wanted to cut out some of my sentences because they just added time but no value. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I used the 30 day trial of <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html" target="_blank">Camtasia</a> to do some editing. The time FLEW by. I couldn't believe I spent 4-5 hours editing. This project wasn't about <i>editing</i> jing. It was about <i>using</i> Jing. I don't think one NEEDS to edit when creating a screencast. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">You just have to accept the imperfections. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6632973.html">Ellyssa Kroski</a> says "being "real" and unscripted can be charming" and I am hoping others agree! But in my case there were names and birth dates that I needed to block out. After spending all of my sons nap-time blocking names out and feeling a little annoyed with myself over it, I made two decisions:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: inherit;">2) I had to quit being paranoid about the information others could see about me. The info about me that I was blocking out could be accessed in other places besides my video, so it wasn't really a security issue. But I am paranoid </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">by nature. Of course I'm going to worry that my middle name will show up everywhere. But really? What other Ortensia Norton (I am still getting used to having my full name out there!) is there in this world to be confused with? Having my middle name on the screen isn't going to differentiate me from another Ortensia Norton!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As a parent, I could create screencasts for my daughter. I could have created some for her when she wanted me to teach her how to create a blog post, how to bookmark webpages, write an email to her cousin, or comment on her cousins blog posts. Not only would have she had a reference to fall back on, but she would have thought the videos were so cool and would probably want to create some herself. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">As part of a family I could make </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">screencasts</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> for my dad whenever he needed something explained to him. I just signed him up for Gmail and he'll probably have some questions. I just discovered that I can make screencasts on my iPad! Since it it </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">similar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> to the iPhone, I could make a screencast for my dad </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">demonstrating</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> how to use the apps he'd like. In the near future (once this class is over!), I am going to start doing Family History via the web. As it will be a collaborative effort, I can learn the website first and then make screencasts for my family, showing them how they can help out. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">The other week a friend was asking me how to create a blog because she wanted to start some for her sons. If I'd time I would have made a quick screencast showing her how to do it, instead of just sending her to blogger.com. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I think this is so true! I usually can't remember things with only one exposure to it, and I know my students usually needed a few exposures to just about everything I taught them. That is why I think Jing could be so useful in the classroom with students, and in the library with students <i>and </i>teachers. As a classroom teacher or librarian I could make all sorts of screencasts. I could make some on Google Apps for Education, how to access the internet and specific websites that were pertinent, how to use a SMART Board, how to start a blog or keep up a classroom webpage. Any videos that I thought would be useful to my PLN, I could upload to YouTube. </span><br />
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have some great opinions and suggestions on how to use screencasts in education.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">One of the best resources I found on how to use screencasts in schools was a publication by TechSmith, owner of Jing. I already but this resource on my blog. You can see it in my </span><br />
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</div>Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-37648761575616096112011-11-07T07:00:00.000-08:002011-11-05T22:44:05.862-07:00Congratulations to the following Educators!! You bet I'll be adding you to me PLN. Current Events #7<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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While I was working with Jing this week, I came across this document created by TechSmith - the company that owns Jing. The title made me really interested:</div>
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The document is AMAZING!! It profiles 21 educators. You are told why you should follow this person and all the information you need to add them to your PLN. Two key components in each profile is the technology that the educator uses and their goals. Each educator is quoted and obviously they've picked something profound for each of them:-)</div>
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I can't wait to start following as many of them as I can.</div>
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<br />Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3675934602893521832.post-35687697916839457342011-11-05T14:00:00.000-07:002011-11-05T22:45:56.238-07:00The Process of JingI swear it has taken longer to describe what I have learned this week, than it actually took to learn it! But I guess by being able to capture what I learned about Jing, I have solidified my learning.<br />
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I wanted to make a flowchart of the steps I took to create my screencasts. I used my Print screen button, Word, Picasa, Picnik, and Scribed to get it done. I am happy with the results.<br />
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Now I need to spent time discussing the tool. That'll be another post.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>his week<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>I am playing with <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html">Jing</a>. I started playing with it last week (check out <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-ive-learned-on-diigo-this-week.html">this post</a> and <a href="http://embracing21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-it-possible-to-have-1000-bookmarks.html">this post, at the very end</a>) which was great because I was able to get some of the troubleshooting out of the way. I didn't get it all out of the way though because I have already learned some new things in just the short time I've played with it this week:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">- When you are making a screencast for YouTube, your perfectionist self is going to make you edit it. You are then going to have to learn another tool to be able to edit it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">- If you are making a screencast with instructions, you have to go slow enough for people to follow along but not so slow that they are bored and decide to figure it out on their own. </span><br />
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at a conference, Fontichiaro (2011) had a <a href="http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2011/08/17/light-bulb-moments/">‘light-bulb’ moment</a> with regards to
screencasting. </span></span><span class="entry-author-name"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Up to
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projects were overshadowing her students’ learning. In a conference presentation
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Richardson (2010) provides tips on how to make an effective screencast: prepare what you will show on screen, have at least an outline of a script and keep it short (p.124). Jing allows for five minute screencasts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif;">I am an impulsive person. I just like to start projects without any guidance. I figure that in the end, I'll learn more that way. I spent a couple of hours today making screencasts and after the forth, I realized that I should have looked at the 'big picture' BEFORE I started. My screencasts were confusing! It was no big deal though because I was able to quickly make up an outline and start making screencasts that made sense!</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The many screencasts I created that I am hoping will be stepping stones to my final screencasts.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The reason I chose to play with screencasting was because I don't like repeating things too often. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">n my church, I work with some fantastic young women. They are 12-17 years old and they are FULL OF LIFE!! Back in April, I showed them how to use a website that our <a href="http://lds.org/?lang=eng">church</a> created <a href="https://lds.org/young-women/personal-progress?lang=eng">just for them</a>. We set up user names and passwords. I walked them through the website so that they could work on it on their own. A week later, I got a phone call from one of my girls. She couldn't remember her user name or password or even <i>how to find</i> the website!! That is when I had the idea to make a screencast that the girls could go to when they needed help with the website. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It just took me six months to get around to making it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Berger, P., and Trexler, S. (2010). <i>Choosing web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching in a digital world.</i> Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></div>
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A. (2009).</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
2.0 tech i can't live without. </span></span><span class="italic"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Knowledge Quest,</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></span><span class="italic"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">37</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">(4), 34-35. </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/knowledgequest.cfm">http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/knowledgequest.cfm</a></span></div>
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This is an RSA Animate video of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U" style="color: #007c41; text-decoration: underline;">Sir Ken Robinson's talk</a> on changing education paradigms.<br />
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I really enjoyed this video for a couple of reasons. First of all I am a visual learner so having Ken's words presented in pictures helped me understand his message. If I had just listened to the video I wouldn't have gotten near as much out of it. Second, his message is very powerful. I have heard bits and pieces of Ken's talk but I've never heard it all pieced together. I emailed it off to a couple of friends who have been asking about the changes they are seeing in Education.</div>
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About 4 minutes into the presentation Ken talks about ADHD. I was fascinated by what he had to say. The more I teach, the more I realize that we need to do a better job engaging our students in their work instead of blaming them for being bored.</div>
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I just feel inspired to be a better teacher.</div>Ortensia Nortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13888979935528129588noreply@blogger.com0