Colette Cassinelli’s edtech VISION

Speaking of History – Eric Langhorst
South Valley Junior High
speakingofhistory@gmail.com

Here are some of my notes from Eric’s presentation: Microsoft and Web 2.0 tools

Books:

• A Whole New Mind – Daniel Pink
• The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman

Students are different. Information is everywhere – understanding how to use it is critical. Learning can take place anyplace anytime. We have the ability to reach students with multiple learning styles; Reaching higher order thinking skills, creative

Eric has created a network with other educators around the world with his podcast. He records his podcasts with Audacity (cross platform audio recording). Here are some of the things he has podcasting:

• Interviews with authors
• Lessons plans from classroom
• Break up letter lesson – Declaration of Independence
• Museum visits
• Interview curator
• Student projects
• Comments on Ed tech topics
• Reflections on teaching
• Review of online resources

Other Ideas:

• StudyCasts – Record audio interview for upcoming test
• Post MP3 file on Internet
• Students listen at home on Internet, MP3 player or CD
• Record test for students who have modifications for taking tests
• Books have been read and recorded (with permission)
• Record young student reading for fluency
• Currently part of pilot using Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player
• Transfer pictures and audio with wireless connections – StudyCasts, presentation notes
• Students are conducting family history interviews – give copies for family and local museum
• AT&T grant to create historical information about Liberty using Guide by cell technology
• Students will narrate museum artifact information

Hints:

• Keep content for student simple – no background music
• Allow students to use this tool for other projects
• Use USB microphone – $20-30
• Create a folder of medial elements in advance for your students to use
• Good source of images from Flickr
• Keep projects short

Allow students to become producers of the content they use not just consumers.

• Microsoft PhotoStory3 – create video from still pictures
• Microsoft MovieMaker2 – create video from video

More Ideas

• Do a family videos first – interviews of how parent’s met
• Boston Massacre LIVE! Newscast (imagine CNN was there and do a broadcast from Colonial and English perspective. Interview: Colonists, King, Paul Revere) then that leads to discussion of the historical perspective and power of media POV. Citizen media – record with cell phone.
• Create a 30 second TV ad for historical election – 1860 Lincoln Election
• Create a TV commercial supports either the Federalist of Anti-Federalist in the ratification of the Constitution
• Liberty Minutes – 3-5 videos on local historical topics – show to local historical society

WEB 2.0 ideas:

 

• Book Blog Project – 350 copies of book – student and parent’s blog with home school students in CA & Author participates in project
• Donner Party Debate – record class debate. Send experts MP3 of debate and they respond with comments; Email questions to experts – teacher sends 10 questions from class
• Online assessment – Quia and quiz star (Immediate data and feedback) Include a pretest of the next information after the chapter test

It’s great to see the good people of Seattle have so much wisdom to share with tech-loving educators this year. I have already been to several excellent sessions:

Karen Fasimpaur – Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning For All

 

Karen discussed the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement. She first addressed copyright and the creative commons licensing (www.creativecommons.org). She shared several open source tools that I was already familiar with, like: (MediaWiki, WordPress, Moodle, Open Office, The Open CD, GIMP, Audacity, and CamStudio).

The focus of her presentation, though, was on open CONTENT that can be used for educational purposes. She gave permission for all of us to share her resources so here I go:

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Open Licenses You Can Use

Creative Commons – www.creativecommons.org

(The CC BY-SA or CC BY are recommended licenses for education.)

GFDL – www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Tools

MediaWiki (wikis) – www.mediawiki.org

WordPress (blogs) – www.wordpress.org

www.wordpress.com will host your blog as well.

Moodle (course management) – www.moodle.org

OpenOffice (productivity) – www.openoffice.org

The Open CD (various) – www.theopencd.org

GIMP (image editing) – www.gimp.org

Audacity (sound editing) – http://audacity.sourceforge.net

CamStudio (screen recording) – www.camstudio.org

Content

Freely Usable Audio Content*

ccMixter – www.ccmixter.org

Wikimedia Commons music – http://commons.wikimedia.org

Spoken Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles

The Freesound Project – http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

Common Content - www.commoncontent.org

Internet Archive – www.archive.org/details/audio

Freely Usable Photo and Video Content*

Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org

flickr – www.flickr.com/

creativecommons/ Common Content – www.commoncontent.org

Morguefile – www.morguefile.com/

Stock.XCHNG – www.sxc.hu

* Make sure to read license terms for individual content sources.

Educational Content/Curriculum

Wikibooks and Wikijunior – www.wikibooks.org

Free-Reading – www.free-reading.net

Curriki – www.curriki.org

WikiEducator – www.wikieducator.org

OER Commons – www.oercommomns.org

Learn NC - www.learnnc.org

MIT OpenCourseware – http://ocw.mit.edu

Audio Books and Ebooks

LibriVox – www.librivox.org

Spoken Alexandria Project – www.spokenalex.org

Telltale Weekly – www.telltaleweekly.org

Project Gutenberg – www.gutenberg.org

LoudLit.org – www.loudlit.org

Lit2Go – http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

How You Can Share with the World

• Post photos to Flickr with an open license
• If you see a mistake or opportunity for clarification in Wikipedia or another wiki, do it!
• Add something to a topic you know about in Wikipedia
• Create a new article in Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikitravel, or elsewhere
• License your content (web site, lesson plans, photos, PPTs, etc.) with a CC license (We recommend CC BY SA for education.)
• Contribute to Wikibooks, Curriki, WikiEducator, or other OER sites
• Teach your students about open content
• Tell your friends about OER

Engaging Students with Authentic Technology Projects – Colette Cassinelli
Computer Teacher, Valley Catholic School

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Do you want to learn how to redesign your curriculum to include 21st century skills? Come learn how a HS teacher utilizes thematic units to engage students in authentic technology projects. You will come away with new ideas that showcase Web 2.0 tools and innovative projects based on standards. http://edtechvision.wikispaces.com/NCCE

I’ll be twittering (ccassinelli) and on skype. Look me up if you are there!

I will be presenting the same workshop at two conferences next year. My topic is “Engaging Students with Authentic Technology Projects.”

Embrace 21st century strategies to create an instructional learning environment that moves away from teaching isolated computer skills towards an integrated thematic approach. Come lean how you can combine everyday productivity tools with Web 2.0 to support curriculum integration and collaboration.

I will first hold a hands-on workshop at Instructional Technology Strategies Conference (ITSC) sponsored by OETC next February 17-19 in Portland, Oregon. My program description is at http://itsc.oetc.org/program.php#s20 .

The following week I will present the same information at the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) in Seattle, Washington on Thursday, February 28th.

I am looking forward to hearing Wesley Fryer speak at the conference.  Patrick Crispin (Pepperdine Alum!) is also an entertaining and informative speaker.  Visit the NCCE website for more information about conference speakers.

Please send me a note if you will be attending either conference.  See ya there.