Matt+Oswald

== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =My NECC Notes - 2008=

Create and expand your personal learning network using Second Life. Use SL as your portal to meet, collaborate, and communicate with educators around the world. (contains Commercial Content) (Exhibitor-Sponsored) || Good Stuff - I have to take the time to set up an account and visit the ISTE site and Discovery Educators Network Site to see the professional development opportunities.
 * **Creating a Personal Learning Network in Second Life** ||
 * //Fred Delventhal, Arlington Public Schools with Lori Abrahams, Beth Knittle, Elaine Plybon, Nancy Sharoff and Anne Truger//
 * Monday, 6/30/2008, 8:30am–9:30am; HGCC 211**

Here is the wiki for the presentation:

http://deninsl-necc2008.wikispaces.com/Resources

11:00 - Noon


 * Breathing Life Into Your Curriculum: Google Earth Advanced Placemarks**

Curriculum Activites and Assessments built into Google Earth - Outstanding Resource / Tool

http://www.scrapblog.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/ http://www.curriculummagic.com/ http://www.pics4learning.com/

Our Students : Our World**
 * 12:30 - 1:30 David Warlick

http://handouts.davidwarlick.com
 * http://landmark-project.com**

RIchard Florida - "The Creative Class" Daniel Pink - "The Whole New Mind"

http://www.ustream.tv/ http://www.mogulus.com/******


 * =**Grassroots Creativity: Helping Everyone Become a Creative Thinker**= ||
 * =**//Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab// Wednesday, 7/2/2008, 8:30am–9:30am; HGCC 001 A**  **In today’s fast-changing society, everyone needs to think creatively. I will discuss new technologies from MIT Media Lab that help students develop as creative thinkers.**  ****= ||

MIT Media Lab - Research Team - Lifelong Kindergarten Learning Group We must value creative thinking - Creativity - creating, sharing, collaborating

How does our environment promote creative thinking?

School - Hallways, Schedule, Rooms, Curriculum

Kindergarten - great environment

Creative Learning Spiral - Imagine, Create, Play, Share, Reflect, Imagine

Lego Mindstorms - Elementary Schools - a program for all, not a team or club?

Lgeo's new project - WE-Do

Media on Screen - manipulate media

Kids need to create media/interaction on the screen - SCRATCH

Demonstration of SCRATCH projects.

Do we use SCRATCH in the district?

Newscasts, TV Shows-episodes, birthday cards, get well cards, contests for characters Collaboration is growing - feedback

Computer Science is required for all girls 3 years of middle school.
 * =**Python for Fun Introductory Programming**= ||
 * =**//Michelle Hutton, The Girls' Middle School// Wednesday, 7/2/2008, 12:00pm–1:00pm; HGCC 102 B  Learn a modern, creative, classroom-tested approach to introducing programming with Python. Hook reluctant and inexperienced students from middle school through college.**= ||

Software HTML Python** JAVA C++ C Machine Language Hardware

No compiler - Source to Interpreter to Output Python, Editor -IDLE

=Tuesday Keynote=

ISTE Keynote Tuesday

Lester Holt

We do Content - Digital Network (not a TV network) - “I will be seen everywhere.”

Journalist - Inform and Enlighten - Like an educator

NBC Learn

Jim Carleton And Mali Bickley ￼

Tuesday, July 1, 8:30–9:45 am, Convention Center Add to Planner

Jim Carleton and Mali Bickley are Canadian educators leveraging the collaborative power of technology to help their students help others worldwide.

Aided by the generous support of NBC's education division, Jim and Mali offer a multimedia-rich, onstage dialogue featuring their inspirational experiences and can-do insights on how they have transcended traditions in education to create dynamic, engaging learning environments. Jim and Mali will be interviewed by by prominent NBC journalist Lester Holt. Holt is the weekend anchor for NBC Nightly News, and is also co-anchor of the weekend edition of TODAY.

Lost the Passion - colleague suggested collaboration project - beginning

http://www.iearn.org/ http://takingitglobal.org/

Projects were visible to the parents, community, and world - Integrated across the curriculum

ICT - It’s the “C” Collaboration - community, collective intelligence, connect

My Hero Project - myhero.com

Obstacles - the results help you get through the obstacles

Global Information Society / Not Industrial Age - Learn for Lif, Not School Quote: “We like to go, where we do not no where you are going.”

synchronous communication “live”

embedded in curriculum - current events / student interest drives the direction of the lesson

Administrative Support - crucial

IRON

student engagement was immediate

Projects are organic, student led, take on a life of their own,

High School Vision:

Technology Integration Specialist Technical Support Specialists

Instructional Equipment Mac vs. PC

Goal and Timeframe: 1 : 1 Computing Devices

Professional Development Plans Ongoing Face to Face Ongoing Online

Group Individualized

Unexpected Results:

Collaboration grew locally (in the building) as a result of the global collaboration. 20% increase in math and reading scores

iEARN - Carbon Footprint Project

Quote “Not the tools - What we are doing with the tools - Goals drive the tools”

Visibilty - Community, Parents, State, Country, World

Commit to Character - Action words - projects are connected to words

Technology is not dehumanizing.

Final Points Take Risk Follow your passion Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate Ready Aim Fire - Don’t Wait - Never will happen DREAM BIG