THWT Workshop 2010

Integrating Technology in the 21st Century Classroom (Day 1)

Workshop Introduction
• Personal introductions • sign up for EdTechTeacher Community Network (Ning) • respond to PollEverywhere.com poll (instant response system) • backchannel with Todaysmeet.com (chat room)

Conceptual Framework:

“Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher” Presentation
• Prezi: http://prezi.com/-5pcbuekooam/nurturing-cais-2010/
• Richard Murnane on “new divisions of labor” – expert thinking & complex communication tasks • Digital equivalency and multimodal text; “literacy redefined” • Henry Jenkins on youth, media & “participatory culture” • Daniel Pink, others on creativity, innovation and essential 21st century skills • Blooms Taxonomy & Dale’s Cone of Experience
• Student-centered tech-integration examples in history and social studies
examples:
1. “A day in the life of a Hobo” 2. Great Debate of 2008 3. Student News Action Network

“Collect-Relate-Create-Donate” – Professor Ben Schneiderman
student-centered tech-integration projects: students research information, collaborative to solve problems, create content and understanding, and contribute to a community.

Collect Phase:

Online research:
• Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change: harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/gutenberg-2-0 • "Stanford Ushers in the Age of Bookless Libraries" (NPR) • "Digital Challenges for U.S. Public Libraries"(NPR)

Open Research and Guided Inquiry
Internet Searching Strategies & Custom Search Engine
• Google Wonder Wheel; Google Historical Timeline; Google Advanced strategies; Google Books - Google Tips and Strategies (EdTechTeacher video tutorials) • http://bingle.nu - Bingle: Bing and Google • Sweet Search: Search Engine for students • Refseek - strips away non-academic; non-scientific results • Wolfram Alpha (computational search engine)

Internet History directories
• Best of History Web Sites • THWT • Center for History and New Media: History Matters • Library of Congress (American Memory) • PBS History
• others
• Internet History Sourcebook

Select History/Primary Source directories & activities:
• National Archives & Records Administration - see Web 2.0 research collection: Digital Vaults • Library of Congress -Using Primary Sources • Internet History Sourcebooks • Gutenburg Project • The Avalon Project • • University of Virginia Etext Center • Art History (Museums & online resources)

Internet Searching Strategies & Custom Search Engine
• Google algorithms; Google Wonder Wheel; Google Historical Timeline; Google Advanced strategies; Google Books

Relate – Create

Wikis and their classroom uses
• Presentation on wikis; free wikispaces account • class completes wiki challenges:
• Beginner challenge: wiki1.pdfbeginners do challenge #1 4-20. (format text, add links, images, files)
• Advanced challenge: wiki2.pdfmore advanced jump to #3#4 (embed video, embed audio, embed poll, embed map, edit navigation)
• related tools to embed in wiki: Google Docs - Forms, Google Books, polldaddy, vocaroo, Google Maps • managing your wiki: privacy, notifications and moderation, etc.

Classroom wiki examples:
• Great Debate 2008 wiki • Flat Classroom wiki • Henry IV wiki • Horizon Project wiki • "History Facebook" wiki • AP Worldipedia • Ben Davis U.S. History wiki

• Tom's wikispaces video tutorials

Integrating Technology in the 21st Century Classroom (Day 2 )

Collaborative Brainstorming, Writing, & Editing
• #1 Google Docs – Documents and Presentation • participants work in small groups synchronously on same document
• 1. Google Docs Challenge: Documents: Google Docs Doc Challenge.pdf
- Work on this Document: http://tinyurl.com/2dg5ses
• 2. Google Docs Challenge: Presentation: Google Presentation Challenge.pdf
- Work on this Presentation: http://tinyurl.com/294kvv9
• 3. Google Docs Challenge: Forms Google Forms Challenge.pdf
• Go to Google Docs and create your own Form
Google Docs summary notes in Etherpad by Andrew: http://ietherpad.com/Ywst4KeZoR

-Geomapping Spreadsheet

Blogs and Classroom blogging
• presentation on blogs with examples
• “A day in the life of a Hobo”; Interview a Boomer blogging assignment • Middle East Blog
other history teachers: • History 2.0 Classroom • Glen Wiebe • Paul Bogush • Beth Still
• register teachers with Blogger
• Blog challenge (both novice and advanced): blog challenge.pdf
• advanced: gadgets: blogroll, lists, poll • Blogger v. Edublogs v. WordPress
Blog Administration
• blog settings: privacy, moderation • blog management and tips

EdTechTeacher Blogger video tutorials



Copyright, Fair Use and the Creative Commons

Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Educators
Renne Hobbs- Media Education Lab: Fair Use Teaching Materials
Copyright Confusion- Teaching materials
Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons Search

Teaching With New & Emerging Technologies (Day 3)

Podcasting & Digital Storytelling
• presentation on podcasting and digital storytelling: A Day in the Life of a Hobo • Civil Rights Struggle • Who am I?
• hands-on with vocaroo
• hands-on with VoiceThread
audio recording possibilities
- VoiceThread Digital Library
• Gabcastbeta (via cell phone); mp3 recorder; iPod with mic; others


Small Group Jigsaw Activity
Break into small groups and explore new tools for 60 minutes; then present “elevator speech” to class on tools.
Choices:
• Diigo ex: NCSS History Group on Diigo and NCSS History Group
• Twitter or Edmodo
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Jing project
• Glogsterr
• Google Reader
• Wix
• Animoto (for education)
• Capzles or BeeDocs or Xtimeline
• Bubbl.us or Gliffy or MyWebspiration


Building a Professional Learning Community (Network) - PLC (PLN) • John Diamond & “peer-driven” Professional Development model • Build a PLN: 1. Participate 2. Evaluate 3. Prioritize 4. Balance • Tools: Ning; Twitter, Blogs, Wikis, Diigo or Delicious, Google Reader (RSS), Skype, Slideshare.net, TeachTube, and others • 10 History teachers to follow on Twitter: Paul Bogush, Beth Still, Angela Cunningham, , Russel Tarr, Matt Montagne, Glen Weibe, Eric Langhorst, Michelle DeSilva, Suzy Nesticos, Jason Flom.
• partial list of history teachers on Twitter at twitter4teachers
• National Council of Social Studies Community Network Ning
• Classroom 2.0

Writing & Editing with Microsoft Word “Hidden” Features • Word Grammar.pdf • Word grammar preferences • file readability statistics • insert comments • AutoCorrect tutorial.pdf • auto-correct Assessment & Classroom Management - criteria and strategies

• Please fill out the workshop survey: http://fs12.formsite.com/thwt/form95350160/