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Digitally Interactive Assessment and Learning: The Road Show!

These are links and resources for DIAL 2006-2007: Digitally Interactive Assessment and Learning. These resources are being utilized by Wesley Fryer and others (including Tulsa Public Schools) to promote awareness and support for innovative, engaging uses of educational technologies in K-12 classrooms!

  1. Digitally Interactive Assessment and Learning: The Road Show!
    1. Podcasting
      1. Course Description:
      2. Learner Outcomes:
      3. Requirements:
      4. Examples
      5. Follow-up activity
      6. Resources:
    2. Digital Storytelling
      1. Course Description:
      2. Learner Outcomes:
      3. Requirements
      4. Resources
    3. Interactive Videoconferencing
      1. Virtual Field Trips
      2. Classroom Collaborations with Videoconferencing
    4. Electronic Whiteboards
      1. ELA
      2. Math and Science
    5. WebQuesting
    6. Course Description:
      1. Learner Outcomes:
      2. Requirements
      3. Resources
    7. Tulsa Public Schools

Podcasting

Course Description:

Podcasting can be used in powerful ways to motivate students to develop their traditional as well as digital literacy skills. It can be done safely, is relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to learn with any Internet-connected computer and a basic microphone. This session explores examples of successful classroom podcasts and demonstrates how teachers can start their own classroom podcast.

Learner Outcomes:

  1. Understanding and exploring podcasting in educational contexts
  2. Resources and Strategies for Planning a Podcast
  3. Resources and Strategies for Creating a Podcast

Requirements:

  • Internet-connected computer
  • Audacity software installed (free)
  • Computer microphone
  • File publishing procedures
    • Local procedures (published to district webserver via ftp or file sharing)
    • Published free to Internet Archive via OurMedia or CCPublisher
    • Published to teacher website like Bluehost or POWWEB

Examples

Follow-up activity

Participants will create a podcast with students and share it with other teachers in their building at a staff meeting, and send a copy to the district instructional technology department.

Resources:

Digital Storytelling

Course Description:

Storytelling is an activity that goes back to the cave, and it can be used effectively across grade levels and content areas to help students demonstrate their understandings of concepts and processes, as well as create electronic artifacts that serve as tangible evidences of student learning.

Learner Outcomes:

  1. Understanding and exploring digital storytelling in educational contexts
  2. Resources and Strategies for Planning a digital storytelling project
  3. Resources and Strategies for Creating a digital story (using voice-over narration, background music and still images)

Requirements

  • Internet-connected computer
  • PhotoStory or iPhoto software installed (free)
  • Computer microphone
  • Access to photo websites like Flickr Creative Commons
  • File publishing procedures
    • Local procedures (published to district webserver via ftp or file sharing)
    • Published free to Internet Archive via OurMedia or CCPublisher
    • Published to teacher website like Bluehost or POWWEB

Resources

  1. Kitzu: Multimedia project resources (searchable by content area)
  2. Digital Storytelling social bookmarks

 

Interactive Videoconferencing

Virtual Field Trips

Interactive videoconferencing provides out outstanding modality for engaging students in the learning process and permitting them to experience new learning opportunities that might otherwise be impossible. In this session, we will explore different options for K-12 virtual field trips using videoconferencing and discuss the requirements for setting up the videoconference and actually connecting. We'll discuss ways to activate student schema with pre-conference activities, and learn how to use searchable databases to locate content providers offering videoconference sessions aligned to specific curriculum.

Classroom Collaborations with Videoconferencing

Educational research and experience demonstrates that student engagement is a key ingredient for learning. A wealth of possiblities for classroom collaborative projects are now available because of web 2.0 resources, as well as videoconferencing. This session explores project examples, ideas, and resources teachers can access to get started collaborating with students!

Resources

  • ProjectCam: Developed by Cable in the Classroom, Project Cam is an online environment with video, chat and file sharing capabilities. It allows educators, students, and experts to make live connections to other learners and experts via webcams and high-speed internet.
  • Skype Free VOIP (voice over IP) audio conferencing and video conferencing software

Electronic Whiteboards

ELA

Math and Science

This workshop is for math and science educators already familiar with the basics of using an interactive whiteboard. We'll explore a wide variety of digital curriculum resources directly correlated to math and science curriculum objectives, and learn how these resources can be effectively utilized in INTERACTIVE ways to engage students and boost their achievement.

WebQuesting

Course Description:

With just a computer and Internet access you can Webquest. Since early in 1995, teachers everywhere have learned how to use the web well by adopting the WebQuest format to create inquiry-oriented lessons. But what exactly is a WebQuest? What does it feel like to do one? How do you know a good one when you see it? In this workshop you're going to address with these questions and more.

Learner Outcomes:

  1. Participant will be able to define and identify components of a webquest
  2. Participant will be able to analyze and discuss aspects of high quality and low quality Webquest design
  3. Participants will be able to search for existing Webquest
  4. Participants will be able to use tools to create thier own Webquest

Requirements

  • Internet-connected computer

Resources

  1. http://webquest.org
  2. http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/webquest

 

Tulsa Public Schools

  1. Tentative PD Dates (Time 4:15 - 7:15)
    1. Oct 24: Podcasting
    2. Nov 14: Digital Storytelling
    3. Nov 28: Classroom Collaborations with Videoconferencing
    4. Dec 12: Virtual Field Trips
    5. Dec 12?: Interactive Whiteboarding with ELA (English/Language Arts)
    6. Dec 14?: Interactive Whiteboarding with Math & Science
    7. Jan 23: Webquesting
  2. Web Resources
  3. Professional Development Forms
  4. Professional Development Workshop Form (PDF)
  5. Fair Use Documents and Information

 

WesTo Dos

Please get the information from your uncles district for free desktop video conferencing solutions

  • ProjectCam: Developed by Cable in the Classroom, Project Cam is an online environment with video, chat and file sharing capabilities. It allows educators, students, and experts to make live connections to other learners and experts via webcams and high-speed internet.
  • Marratech Commercial, cross-platform desktop videoconferencing software used by ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas
  • Vyew is free web conferencing and collaboration tool (does not currently support videoconferencing, however)
  • Skype is the best FREE desktop videoconferencing solution I know of that is cross-platform
  • iChat AV is free, Macintosh-only videoconferencing software
  • Trillian Pro software (commercial but not expensive) supports videoconferencing with other Trillian as well as iChat users (cross-platform)
  • Ekiga (formerly Gnomemeeting) is an open-source H.323 based videoconferencing solution for Linux distributions. A Windows port is apprarently under development but not available yet.
  • XMeeting is an open-source H.323 videoconferencing software program for Macintosh OS X.

 

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