Graduation speech from Ms. Lewia

I asked Ms. Lewia if I could refer to her speech for those of you who may not have been at graduation. She presented this speech with great polish!



Good Afternoon, Administrators, Senator Collins, School Board Members, Faculty, Staff, Parents, Family members and the Wells High School Class of 2008.

When I was asked to give the graduation inspirational speech, I said, “Are you kidding”… For those of you out there that know me this is not my forte. But this is a special group of graduates! I have enjoyed following all of you over the past four years and look forward to hearing about your new adventures.

I want to share with you today an inspirational story that I read many years ago from the book of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. This story is one of my favorites.

It is titled TRUE HEIGHT.

See the passage True Height.

Today I would ask you to be brave. Explore the great big world out there. Open your hearts and your minds to new ideas and fresh suggestions. If I could give you one bit of advice it would be to try something new every day of your lives, even if it only means taking a different route to work or school. That way, whatever else that journey of life brings, it won't bring boredom.

I’ll leave you today with An Irish blessing that goes like this…
May the sun shine, all the day long, everything go right, and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you and may all the wishes you wish come true.
I wish you all the best in your futures, I love you all and always remember…



YES YOU CAN!!!( At this point a banner dropped from the podium Yes You Can!)

Thanks Ms. Lewia

Permission to post this has been requested from Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises.

My favorite quote, as soon as graduation was over, a student was heard saying, "I can't believe my text box is full!"

Professional Development Meme

It seems that a Meme kicks off my jump into summer! So, I am happy to oblige Michael Richards with  my entrance into this meme.  Especially since he was tagged by Skip Zalneraitis (twitter=skipz), who considers himself a newbie in this world of social web tools. So, Welcome Skip!

Here are the directions:

Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s technical skills, work on that advanced degree or certification, pick up a new hobby, and finish many of the other items on our ever-growing To Do Lists. Let’s make Summer 2008 a time when we actually get to accomplish a few of those things and enjoy the thrill of marking them off our lists.

Here are the rules:

1. Pick 3 professional development goals and commit to achieving them this summer.
2. For the purposes of this activity the end of summer will be Labor Day (09/01/08).
3. Post the above directions along with your 3 goals on your blog.
4. Title your post Professional Development Meme and link back/trackback to http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/353.
5. Use the following tag/ keyword/ category on your post: pdmeme.
6. Tag 8 others to participate in the meme.
7. Achieve your goals and “develop professionally.”
8. Commit to sharing your results on your blog during early or mid-September.

Here are my goals:

1. Learn how to use Podcast Capture on my macbook for instant podcast or videocast publishing.

2. Make some face to face connections with my virtual cohorts while at NECC and BLC .

3. Make my 4 summer professional development courses available online!

Tagging!!!

Carla Arena

Leah Welch

Jo McLeay

Jen Wagner

Sharon Peters

Vicki Davis

Kathy Shields

Ernie Easter

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Dear Teacher Redux

Dear Teacher, ( substitute your name here)

This was posted originally at http://speedofcreativity.org as a guest blogger!

Thanks Wes for allowing me to be a guest blogger. With a 3 day span I am really challenged to produce a daily post. Well, here goes. These ideas and opinions are mine and do not reflect Wes’ thinking on these subjects.

Dear Teacher, (substitute your name here)

I have heard recently that teachers don’t get much thanks from their students until sometimes years later when you notice that we have become productive members of society. But, I want to thank you for this year and perhaps….. well, read on.
Thank you for knowing your content area. That is really important for you to know your content so the administration, parents and students have trust in you to transfer that knowledge to us. I want to especially thank my World After 1945 teacher for having assignments from our book and for making sure that I learned the dates of important world events and the impact of those same events (from the textbook author’s perspective) and for having assignments where I just had to fill in the blank.
I want to thank my literature teacher for having assignments from Beowulf ( Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem composed in the later Early Middle Ages (in the 8th, 9th or 10th century), and for making sure that we read the old English version and translate it into modern day meaning. I am sure I will use that knowledge when I am writing a technical manual about how to navigate the website of my future business.

I want to thank my math teacher for having assignments from the textbook and for making sure that we learned how to answer the questions at the end of the chapters on our own, as that is the sure way to determine if the students understand the process.
I want to thank you for keeping the school day short enough not to interfere with my most important and significant learning which happens as soon as I leave the building. After all, I am easily able to finish my fill in the blank answers, reading assignments and predictable answers to your questions. Which leaves me enormous amounts of time to pretend to my parents that I am researching a topic for my World After 1945 class, Mom, I can’t come do my chores just yet. (Translate I am adding some photos to my Facebook and tagging my friends to see what they are doing, I’ll do chores at the last minute.) I want to thank you for keeping my assignments short so as not to interfere with my (MMORPG) Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
where I meet up with friends from all time zones and like it is my job to take on a role in this game. Oh Dad, I can’t come and move the trash yet, I am finishing up my math problems, it is a little difficult tonight I can’t solve for x in this really long equation.

Last but not least, I want to thank you for keeping cell phones and mp3 players out of the school day, you can’t imagine how distracting it is for me to have to answer all those text messages during school and keep in touch with my circle of friends including calls and messages from my parents when there have been changes in our family plans.

But, I was wondering if maybe next year we could add just a few social networking tools to your content? I was thinking it would be interesting to chat with some students in India to find out what kind of information they are learning in their classes since I will be competing with them when I go for a job or enrolling for college. I wonder if they learn about mathematics the same way we do. I wonder how long their school day is, how long their school year is? Then I am wondering if the kids in the UK are still reading Beowulf, and how their teachers teach them about the purpose of Beowulf in today’s world and wouldn’t it be interesting to have a dialogue or chat with some kids in school in the UK. Finally, I was wondering if there was a way we could work on an environmental problem with some kids from around the world to see if there is something that we have in common and if some of us have ideas that might just help the environment now rather than waiting 5-9 more years when we finish high school.
You see, teacher, I am curious, I want to learn, I want to be challenged, I want to be engaged in my learning. To be honest, your curriculum doesn’t always provide for the connections I need to make my learning purposeful. But, I do want to thank you for trying to deliver the content and knowledge. Please add one technology tool, social networking, let us work collaboratively like we already are when we are outside of school. Hey, give us great assignments and we will work longer and harder. You will see.

Fondly,
Your 21st century student.( substitute one of your student’s names)
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Here are some great blogs and wikis designed for the 21st century learner.

Thanks to Clarence Fischer for the Clarence Fisher Project, SnowLake Manitoba, Canada

Darren Kuropatwa Winnepeg Manitoba, Canada

Susan Ettenheim, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, NYC, Youth Voices

Alice Barr, Yarmouth High School, ME

Here is a collaborative science program, worldwide connections.Globe

Over and Out,

Cheryl Oakes, guest blogger

Redux=is a Latin word that means "brought back", "revisited". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Redux

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Dear Student Redux

June 2007

Dear Student, (fill in your name)

This was posted originally at http://speedofcreativity.org as a guest blogger!

Thanks to Wes for this opportunity. Thanks to students everywhere for this inspiration. Thanks to teachers and administrators for all you do.

Dear student,

Thank you for kicking off this series of letters. I must say you have given me pause for thought. However, your questions are really unsettling and puzzling to me. Your questions don’t have just one answer! Your questions can not be answered by me reading a book or an article. Your questions can NOT be googled. Your questions have to do with me collaborating with others and having conversations.

Hey student, will you show me, will you share with me?

I remember playing monopoly and someone, usually the banker held the money and the rules, well now think of monopoly as a 3D version with you trying to make money by buying up property and others trying to get around the board without landing on property with too many hotels, with helicopters zooming in with vacationing guests, travel agents bidding their clients to stay on Boardwalk, it is the best and you trying to watch behind your back for the next new guest, real estate broker, banker etc. who is sneaking up behind you! Monopoly could not be played in a hurried fashion. However in todays online games the pace is frenzied, hurried, yet the time flies by!

Different realms appear in online games,there are so many rules, rules, rules, there is NO WAY most of the players read many of the rules. If you don’t read the rules, then how do you play the game? Trial and error, collaborating with friends and enemies! Multi tasking, chatting, collaborating! Even if you read some of the rules there would be many exceptions and cheats to get by the roadblocks. If you read the rules you would never get to play the game.

So, what are you learning student? That although there are rules, and explanations about the games you are engaged in, the reading you do is not fill in the blank! There isn’t much that is static, there isn’t much that is historical about what you are playing. By this I mean, the games haven’t been around for a long time so you are constantly learning how to do things, new learning. However, it looks like to me that the most important things to do in these games is that you learn how to collaborate, chat with others, find the right time zone to enter the game and be aware!

Hey student, will you show me, will you share with me?

Blizzard Oates ,
avatar name in SL,
aka Cheryl Oakes

Here are some of the few resources I found about online gaming. Take a risk and read further.

Beth Ritter Guth, is a college professor who has designed her college literacy classes in Second Life. Read some of her students work, you will be amazed at the depth of their writing! Students here are NOT just writing for their teacher, they are writing for the world.

Ex Paine , is a secondary teacher, check out this site for great conversations about gaming, Second Life and how it all impacts education.

Teen Grid in Second Life, here are some resources for examining Second Life for a teen grid and how Teen Second Life could be used for educational purposes.

Here are fascinating essays on MMORPG’s and economics and education. There is even an online conference in fall 2007.

The reason the army has taken the challenge to develop one of the most popular online games is this is where they are spreading the word and marketing. Look at their success. Look at the changes they have made in the past FEW years. Has education even made a stab at these kinds of changes? Have you?

Beginners guide in World of Warcraft 2. Teachers and administrators check out the reading level in this online manual. Check out the comprehension if you think these games are dumb. Better yet, read a few paragraphs and check your own comprehension. I don’t mean see if you can answer questions about your reading either. Go to the game and see how long you survive!

PS
Or you can be like me and check out an easier version of an online game Webkinz.
When I was researching for this story my niece popped up online and asked if I wanted to play a game in Webkinz. She is 500 miles away, and I only see her a few times a year. However, through Webkinz I get to play games with her and watch her strategies grow and sometimes I even talk to her on the phone and she explains the games to me. She is 8 and I am 55. I am learning so much from her and I know I will be able to apply this to other games as I mature in my gaming profession. BTW, she beat me in the game! I, for one, am glad I have some summertime to perfect my game image. Now if I can only learn how to land gracefully in SL, I would meet my standard!

Redux=is a Latin word that means "brought back", "revisited". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Redux

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Dear Administrator Redux

Dear administrator,

This was posted originally at http://speedofcreativity.org as a guest blogger!

Guest blogger, Cheryl Oakes, reporting for duty! I wrote this a year ago. See how much has changed.

Dear administrator,

I am writing after an exhausting year of instructing my students. I want to thank you for hiring me and keeping me in this position. I have been teaching this same content for the past 5, 10, 15 years ( you choose). Each year it gets harder and harder to teach these kids. They come to school tired from all the activities they are involved in. They are tired from staying up late watching TV, I don’t even have time to watch TV! I don’t understand why they are not doing well on their tests. I know my content, I know my students from 5, 10, 15( again you choose) years ago did much better on these tests. I don’t think the tests are testing what I have been teaching, but rather testing students who are not interested in learning the way they have in the past.

You say maybe I should change the way I am presenting information to my students? What do you mean? I have a new whiteboard, I use colored markers, I have the latest maps to show the changes in the world. Well, last week I even borrowed a projector from the teacher next door and I showed a powerpoint presentation I found on the Internet. Oh, I haven’t had time to learn how to make a powerpoint presentation, the kids all know how to do it, and well, if I had time I would, but it is not important, it will take too much time out of the content I need to deliver before we have the next testing dates.

You say maybe I should engage my students more using technology? You can’t be serious, that would be giving in to them, they spend way too much time on Facebook, Ning and Myspace as it is. What, you say even the presidential candidates have a myspace page? Well, that is..., that is.... not education that is politics.

Oh, another thing, parents, those parents just are not as involved as they were before. I finally gave out my email address to parents but I told them that it is easier for me to answer their questions with a phone call, but I can’t always get a phone line out of the building, so I just wait for them to call me. What, you say, I could have conversations with parents by email or a blog. It is just not as personal, you can lose the meaning of some conversations through email and blogs, well, that is just way too public to have conversations in a blog. You can’t possibly think I will publish what we are doing in my class on the Internet for all to see anytime they want. Well, maybe next year I will try using email more with my parents. Only if I find the time.

Exhausted and looking forward to summer,

Your 20th century teacher trying hard to find the time to move to the 21st century.

PS
You know if I knew how to use a blog, or saw some examples of how a blog could work for me I might give it a try next year. What, you say, you will blog with me? You’ve been thinking of having a blog for the past few months?Well, I guess if you had time in your busy administrator schedule to have a blog, I too could find a little time to try out posting to a blog.

Here are a few examples that may just jumpstart your journey into the 21st Century. There are many people online who will support you! Just start reading a blog a day, you will be hooked. You will find the best staff development and encouragement online!

EdTechTalk.com - a great place to listen to some good conversations about 21st Century Literacy.

K12Online Conference

Melinda Miller- an elementary principal who just started blogging and podcasting

Mark Alhness- an elementary teacher who blogs and podcasts with his students

Tim Lauer- an elementary principal who blogs about his school

Bob Sprankle- an elementary technology integrator who just finished podcasting with whole grades of students!

Vicki Davis- a middle school teacher who began blogging a little over 2 years ago

Jen Wagner- the absolute best at collaborative online learning projects

Sharon Peters- a high school technology teacher who gets her students collaborating worldwide and is on her way to Africa with Teachers Teaching without Borders.

Dr. Cheri Toledo- an education professor who believes that requiring her students to use Web 2.0 tools will have far reaching implications.

Be on vacation, be cool and learn new tools.

Since I wrote this last year I changed very little in this post. Hm, what does that tell us?

Leave me a message in twitter @cheryloakes50

Redux=is a Latin word that means "brought back", "revisited". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Redux

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Open Ended Technology Survey March 2008

The open ended survey was designed by the District Technology Committee as a way to get different information than has been offered in the past. 16  people responded to the survey. We appreciate the information you shared. I will summarize the results. If you want to view all the results you can go to this URL and see the results. Part of the reason for using this format is to make the information transparent.
http://moourl.com/openendsurvey

What are the positive aspects/strengths of the technology currently available at your school?
The people who answered the survey commented:
Every thing from great technology support, computer lab lessons, Internet access is seamless at the high school, the macbooks, technology available to students and one response nothing positive .
Thanks for this information. coakes
What are the negative aspects of the technology currently available at your school?
The people who answered the survey commented:
Student laptops are in various states of disrepair, only one computer lab, major lack of support and personnel that know what to do when a problem arises, not always the tech support/help/time/for professional development, lack of coordinated approach to promoting the use of technology. Lots of emphasis on blogging and Web 2.0 social applications; not much practical instruction on how to use and troubleshoot classroom/teacher computers. Too much reliance on inferior open source software which doesn't prepare students for the "real world", Connectability issues, Not enough people using computers?,The community of teachers needs more education and requirements for using technology. The digital divide is keeping those who use technology from fully integrating because everyone isn't on board. There are a variety of reasons such as time to learn skills, perceived access to support, (I've always felt supported) and fear of the technology and lack of interest, We could use more of the projectors that go with the computers, Not all students have access to computers as often or as easily as would be desirable.
This is where we have the job to make things better. There are written work orders to notify the techs when something is not working. Please see your principal for a copy of the work order.
If your building would like more professional development, please work with your building based professional development committee. We can provide trainings on workshop days.
Blogging and web 2.0 tools are emphasized to engage and motivate students as well as improved instruction based on brain research.
A workshop on troubleshooting classroom and teacher computers is a great idea for a workshop.
Connectivity at WES has been an issue most of the year. New wireless access points have been installed and are being fine tuned by a local company.
Open Source software is the wave of county offices as well as large companies.
We could use more projectors and SMART boards.- coakes

If technology in Wells could do almost anything to make your job easier and /or more efficient, what would you like it to help you do? 
The people who answered the survey commented:
Snap Grades, I already make my job more efficient through technology, Most of the problem is with me, myself. I need to learn more skills so I can pass them on to the kids. We have been offered many opportunities but time is an issue and there is a learning curve. But I know that Cheryl and others are trying hard to help us get up to speed. I am pretty good at many things but there is more I need to learn, More power points...more LCD projectors, I'd like to be more knowledgeable about the "nuts and bolts" of technology so I wouldn't be afraid to rely on it for my educational needs, that's up to me....report out all the great things that happen in the lives of all our kids each day!
Snap Grades is coming to WHS next year, thanks to positive promotion.
There is a summer workshop for each building with the emphasis on building level needs and instruction with technology.
More Projectors!- coakes

Are there tasks you currently do manually that you would like to be able to do electronically (in one way or another)?
The people who answered the survey commented:
No, the things I am doing manually pretty much need to be done manually such as grading papers. I just need better software (or maybe a smart board) to help make things that I do with technology or online easier, I think I would like to get into snap grades. I'd love to put more assignments on the web or email but I can't rely on having access to reliable computers or internet makes every tech lesson a crap shoot. The filtering software is a joke. (The filtering software is to keep us compliant with Children's Online Protection Act and No Child Left Behind. from coakes)
Perhaps organizing more records electronically, Keep my computer healthy and up-to-date more easily so I don't have to worry about it, Drop boxes for assignments.
Moodle has the capacity to electronically accept student assignments and grade assignments. Moodle is also designed to be used as an electronic portfolio.  These activities will be shared this summer. coakes

Summary
Thanks for answering the open ended survey. This helps the committee to address the areas identified here. I hope that we will collect enough information that we will be able to define an updated teaching with technology vision for our district. The updated plan is due in June of 2009. If anyone is interested in joining the District Technology Committee, we meet on the 2nd Thursdays of the month. The next meeting is June 5, 2008 at Central Office at 3:15 pm. See you there.

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Internet Safety at WJHS

For the past 6 weeks I've been involved teaching an internet safety class at WJHS. The class time included some instruction and conversations about cyberbullying as well. Ask a 5th grader to tell you what they learned. The class was so engaging for me that I added a post to the TechLearning.com/blog for my entry this month. You can find the information and class activities at my Moodle page at WJHS called Internet Safety.
 Join in the conversation.

TechnortiProfile

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How to get free text message for school closings.

Here are some free online resources you can sign up for to hear about schools closings.

WCSH6- this one requires your cell phone to accept text messages, it took me less than 5 mins. to sign up.

WMTW- this one requires an email address to get the alert, it took my less than 5 mins. to sign up.

MaineToday.com-this is the Maine newspapers and you need to sign up to be a member first, then select to be notified about storm closings, this took about 10 min. to sign up.

Technology changes our perspective all the time.

This is an image taken onboard Kaguya, a Japanese probe, on our moon. The rest of the details are from NASA. " The Moon's surface is a region near its south pole. On Earth, you can see Australia (center) and Asia (low right). The upper side of the Earth is the Southern Hemispher, thus Australia looks "upside down". Credit: JAXA/NHK.

Latest Links for Teachers!

Here are my site suggestions for this week!

A collection of great teacher/student resources from Eduhound and Time Magazine.



Great resources by the teacher for the teachers.



Register and join Teacher Domain, sponsored by WGBH



There are a wealth of free video resources. This one caught my eye! Metals in Hydrochloric Acid


If you have heard of the 1-1 laptop for third world countries, for the next 12 days there is an opportunity for anyone to purchase one for themselves and donate one to a third world country( this means it is a 200.00 donation) as part of the 399.00 price. You can read more details here. I've ordered mine and can't wait to find out which country will get my donated one.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving break and I will have more ideas after that.

Route 21, which way?

Are you looking for Route 21? If not, then you should be, check this link and see what you think.
More later.

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Technology in the Classrooms WOCSD

Presentation to the School Committee Nov. 7, 2007

This was my presentation to the school committee Nov. 7, 2007. Click to view.

District Technology Fall Newsletter 2007

Check this link for the district technology newsletter.

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November a Giving Month

November for our family is a giving month. I would like to promote these giving ideas.

Click here to help feed the world. What happens at this website, you have a chance to click the click here to give free food button. Then 100% of the sponsor money goes to charity. How do they do this? Well, the site also promotes some sales of items that they are hoping you will stop by and purchase. However, the beginning for all of us can be click and someone will be getting some food.

The next giving idea
This one I particularly like. You can read about how this works in detail.  Basically,  I am going to purchase a laptop and when I do, a laptop will also be purchased and given to a student in a designated country.  I will have a laptop that my students can use and I will feel good about providing for another.

The final idea, not as magnanimous however, it is important to our community. Take part in this online survey as a student, parent or teacher. This survey gives our community a voice and some very good data which will go a long way to improving how we use technology in our district. Thanks for giving back.

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New Tools for Adding a blog post.

All I do it type my message and edit, then post.
Here is a great website. WOCSD District

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Big news October 15, 2007

You can take part in a FreeOnline workshop this week and next. K12OnlineConference
Take part in the national SpeakUP Netday survey. This gives our district great information about how we are using technology compared to our answers from last year and compared to the USA. It is very helpful in planning.
Click here SpeakupSurvey 2007
Our password is wocsd

First snow of the Sugarloaf 07-08 Season! One more month until skiing!

ACTEM07 Will Richardson's Opening

This is the 20th year for the ACTEM technology educators workshop.

Listening to Will Richardson's keynote.

Technology:

changes in politics with YouTube, myspace, blogs as social networks

changes in journalism, the world has instant connection with their cell phone and cameras.

75% of media is shared peer to peer

Prince gave out 100,000 copies of his new CD.

Read Wikinomics!

Not about competition in business about collaboration and cooperation.

Looking at Clustr map, and why do all these folks come and visit Will's blog. All have some connection to the thoughts, the conversations and the thinking. Humbled by the fact that after 18 years in a high school, and then looking at the map, why?

The past 6 years of blogging has provided more growth, than all his course work in all the years.Kids are figuring this out. Look at the size of their classroom.

TakingITGlobal- online community for youth about world issues.

Fanfiction- you can add to the book.

Where kids write and have reviews and connections. doing this on their own. Kids make networks of people who are passionate about their favorite topic.

Who is teaching kids myspace?

Someone needs to model and teach myspace/online presence.

We need to build social spaces and model how to do this.

Clarance Fischer is building spaces for his students.

He has them start at Nata Village in South Africa, ravaged by AIDS and HIV. Clarance has his students blog about this. Nnow they are having students from Nata Village commenting on her blog, one of Clarance's students.

44645, text for google, way to get an answer to every question you need an answer to.

MIT Opencourseware- http://ocw.mit.edu

Need to find the information when you need it, need to know the ways to find the information, all information.

Go to Wikipedia and spend a couple hours digging deep.

How many teach Wikipedia? We have to think differently about what if we need kids to memorize the content.

If we as educators, can not find who owns a website and publishes it, then we are illiterate. We need to teach students how to do this, we need to do this.

How to get teachers to connect to experts from outside the the classroom.

Will's project with Secret Life Of Bees. http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees

Sue Monks Kidd, joined his clasroom blog and she answered questions. She taught Will's class more about SLB than he ever could.

YesIcanscience.com Great science project where kids interact with scientists.

Vicki's Flat Classroom Project, exceptional Flat Classroom project.



Radio WillowWeb elementary kids podcasting the classroom news.

Our kids are not waiting for us to catch up. We need to go there with the students.

We need to learn to model the safe, ethical ways to use these tools.Most teachers haven't put the new tools in their own practice. Teachers are just digitizing the old worksheets and putting into the same ole same ole into technology. We need to support teachers in finding new ways for students to collaborate creatively and safely.

Getting Ready for K12online conference

Usually, when I go to a conference I blog my notes and reflections. Seems funny to be sitting in my home office, participating in an online keynote for the k12online conference.(Follow the previous link to learn how you can get credit for participating in this online conference.) However, since I am so used to backchanneling during a presentation, or blogging, I decided that this should be the same even though I am home and participating in this. Why am I not backchanneling or skype chatting while viewing this? (Although I am watching the twitter comments to see what others are saying about David's keynote.) Well, since it is an asynchronous presentation, others who are viewing this could be at a different spot in the presentation, so I will blog, and post and reflect with others later.This certainly captures David Warlick's whole premise, we need to create our own boundaries, our own rules. I can no longer just sit and git. I need to be actively participating and creating even when I am listening.
-are we are parent's future?
-are our students their parent's future, their teacher's future?
-loved David's son video, gotta know the territory!
-do we know our territory?
-we cut off our students when they enter our classrooms, we chop their tentacles, their network
-are we over-managing our environment in our classrooms, are we cutting our students off from their networks?
-ouch an encyclopedia with outdated material compared to wikipedia constant updates and  new content
-I am waiting for the little ladies! too!
-our info-savvy students,  are without the benefit of gravity!, they always have a neighborhood at their fingertips
-new information landscape-we educators need to learn how to harness this-in our content areas
-unpredictable future- we educators are preparing students for an unpredictable future, teach them to teach themselves
Oh, the little old lady!
Outtakes!
Thanks David for kicking off the k12online conference!
If you would like to view the keynote, follow the URL.
http://k12online.wm.edu/davidw.mp4

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