ACTEM presentation by Beth Goodwin and Cheryl Oakes

On Friday, October 17, 2008, Beth Goodwin and I presented at the ACTEM08 conference. It was a great opportunity to share some FREE webtools with other educators. The presentation can be viewed online. This is where you can follow the presentation by Beth Goodwin and Cheryl Oakes. You can listen to the audio and follow along with the website. Thanks to all the great participants. Thanks to Beth's students for giving us the photos and good information to share.
http://writingtools4all.pbwiki.com
Here is the link to the article by Bob Sprankle about Wordle one of the favorite tools of the students. http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=461

Somethings are meant to be shared!

Last summer, I went to an international conference called BLC, Building Learning Communities, in Newton, MA. It was a great conference in many respects. I met some bloggers from Manitoba,Canada,  Scotland, Australia, all over New England and many great places in the USA. It was amazing to have so many people coming together to share their school experiences and their technology uses.

One presenter was David Truss, Vancouver, CA. He was such an engaging speaker that I was thrilled to see him put some of his work on BlipTV right here.



David has such a nice clear way of presenting his message  and for engaging the viewers to put this message into practice. I love his challenge, I"ll take the laptop and you take the pen and paper.

If this is interesting to you, you can go to Bob Sprankle's site and listen to the keynotes and many of the presenters from the BLC08 conference.

Thanks to Liz Davis for this path I took to find David. Check out Liz's blog.

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Podcasting with Purpose BLC08

Check the links at www.bobsprankle.com. There is also a wiki.

YOU can view the presentation for this.

Bob shared the movie the students made explaining podcasting.

Students are writing their pieces before they record them. There are many edits, peer edits and many rehearsals, and editing.
It is a workshop of activity in the classroom.
Notice the music in the movie, makes the movie!
http://www.bobsprankle.com/blog/ Look for Room 208, presentations.

The Learning Pyramid, see the link on the website.

Creating purpose, points to the book by Richard Brattigan So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Podcasting with purpose, the students no longer publish for the refrigerator, but for the world.

Check out 21st Century Skills.
Great links. Presentation. http://spranklepodcastblc.wikispaces.com/Keynote+Presentation
Links:
http://spranklepodcastblc.wikispaces.com/Books+and+Articles

Michael Richards shared his CoveritLive for Darren's presentation, thanks Michael.
http://mrichme.edublogs.org/2008/07/16/bcl-session-2/