A Summer Of Professional Learning Choices for Educators! Where Should I Start?
In the 20th century, professional educators often had to rely on formal, face-to-face professional development opportunities to learn new knowledge and skills to expand professional comptence. In the flat world of the 21st century, connected educators (those with access to high speed Internet connections) have an amazing array of digital learning choices. Given the vast array of web 2.0 tools and options that are availlable, where should teachers and librarians start when planning summer digital learning activites? In this session we will explore some of the best places to start.
A 1 page PDF flyer of these options is also available. (This is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Only license, so PLEASE feel free to make copies and share this!)
Join our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” Learning Community
http://celebrateoklahoma.ning.com
Wikis
Check out Pam Lowe’s collaborative wikis for her elementary students:
http://collaborative-learning.wikispaces.com
Read articles about topics of interest on WikiPedia and EDIT (contribute) to an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org
Create your own wiki and make a class project hotlist / learning portal for next year:
www.pbwiki.com
www.wikispaces.com
Digital Storytelling
VoiceThread: voicethread.com
VoiceThread: New Federal Holidays (Proposals by 5th graders in New York)
50 Ways to Tell a Web 2.0 Story by Alan Levine:
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
Social Bookmarking
Register for a free account on del.icio.us or Diigo:
http://delicious.com
www.diigo.com
My social bookmarks are on:
Professional Learning Communities
Join Classroom 2.0! (Connect with other educators around the world, learn together, and collaborate!)
http://www.classroom20.com/
Attend the K-12 Online Conference:
http://k12onlineconference.org
http://k12online07.wikispaces.com/First+Time+Attendee
Share Photos with Family
Join Flickr and create a free account, share your photos with family and friends:
http://flickr.com
My Flickr photos: http://flickr.com/photos/wfryer/
http://bighugelabs.com
Watch & Share Great Web Videos
A wealth of outstanding, free videos are available online for professional development and learning.
www.speedofcreativity.org/resources/videos-for-pd/
www.teachertube.com
Videoconference with Skype or iChat
Use a computer microphone and webcam (optional) to make FREE video phone calls to family and friends.
www.skype.com
www.apple.com/ichat
Create & Read a Personalized Digital Newspaper
www.google.com/reader
Some of the "web feeds" to which I subscribe using Google Reader are shared on my blog: Education blogs (authored by educators) and Classroom blogs (co-authored by students and teachers.)
Learn to text message!
Get out your cell phone, find a friendly and helpful teenager, and ask them to teach you how to send and receive text messages!
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More websites by Wesley!
Visit my blog, "Moving at the Speed of Creativity," at www.speedofcreativity.org. All my public Google Notebooks are available. A fairly comprehensive list of websites I maintain and to which I contribute is on claimid.com/wfryer.
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