Sharon

=Podcasting with Purpose Workshop - Dan Schmit WEMTA March 22, 2009= Dan's website is [] At his website you will find a blog post on March 22nd with his handouts from this workshop as well as his session on Podcasting for success. In addition you will find excellent resources on podcasting. Some of his main points at the workshop: There is a democratization of communication and publishing. It used to be from one source to many and now is participation of all -- many to many. It gives power to individuals, publishing power and they know someone is listening. Therefore, students need to think "who would want to listen to this, who is my audience." Assess podcasts with the class before you let them do one to understand what makes a good podcast. Keep things in balance, content should be 80 per cent of the work and production 20. This is true for grading the process also. Suggestions: Use ipods for students who need a test read to them. Students can listen to the test on an ipod and work at their own pace. Have a cart of ipods similar to a mobile computer lab. Sync them to the teachers computer. Students can use them at their own speed and have something to do on their own as they listen to a preselected podcast. Ipods can help with differentiated instruction.
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21st Century Skills, Tools and Assessments - Laura Gleisner & Mary Lou Ley WEMTA March 23,2009
Rather than produce a brochure or powerpoint repeating information, have students analyze and come up with something new. Students need to become problem solvers, communicators, work in real world, self assess, self direct, take ownership, creat, inoovate, and compete globally. Assessment must have feedback along during the process, not just the end product. Suggest looking at Grapplings technology and Learning Spectrum. How does the assignment actively engage students in constructing their own knowledge? Have checklists of quality indicators, feedback through on how to make it better, share outside of the classroom. Critical friends: Teachers present a lesson to each other in small groups and get feedback. Student work shows what students learned; compare with what you inteded to teach. Resources: [|www.icue.com] iCue is a fun, innovative learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives. Videos, games, and activities correlated to courses in U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, and English Language and Composition, and more. A community of friends and learners engaged in discussion around academics, current events, and important issues. [] This site was designed by teachers to assist colleagues in planning and delivering effective 21st century instruction in West Virginia Classrooms. It enables educators to quickly access 21st Century Content Standards, Learning Skills and Technology Tools for WV Schools, as well as other resources that exemplify rigorous and relevant instructional design and delivery. [] The **Thinkfinity** Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the **Thinkfinity** Partners, [] Lesson plans and information on podcasting. [] **Curriki**, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12.

Assessing Information Fluency - Carl Heine WEMTA March 23, 2009
The 21st century skills information that used to be hosted by IMSA is now under [|http://21cif.com] The entire workshop is located at [] Information on hoax sites includes: www.malepregnancy.com British Stick Insect Foundation Sorting Hat Test: There are several. The question to ask students is who is behind the site and why. Someone is building a population personality profile. who? why? Is it a scientific study?

Blogs or Wikis: How do you Choose - Annette Smith WEMTA March 23,2009
[|**http://smithan.edublogs.org/**] Her presentation is at this site. Look at the side bar under presentations; blogs and wikis. Suggestions: Google.docs where everyone can edit at the same time. It is a document, not a web page. Blog for to parents. The teacher, at the end of class or of the day, would have the students collaborate on what they did today in class. What do they want to tell the parents about today. Parents can then go online and find out "What did you do at school today?" Library blog. newsletter on library events Use wiki to have everone share what they know about a subject then add to it as they discover more information. Computer lab sign up wiki Department wiki to post minutes, notes, announcements Use wiki posts in place of a face-to-face meeting when applicable. Have a video competition with the best one going on the website one per year, curriculum related.

Infinity and Beyond: Books and the Changing World - Karen Gibson & Annette Smith WEMTA March 24, 2009
[|*http://smithan.edublogs.org/**] The presentation is at this site. Look at the side bar under presentations. Interesting discussions during the presentation. Prompts for discussion are on the website. Resources mentioned included Big Universe where you can create your own book or see others, and International Children's Digital Library where authors post their books and there is a choice of language in which the book may appear.

Weaving Web 2.0 Tools - Jennifer Casper & Sheri Ebert WEMTA March 24, 2009
The presentation is at: [|http://weavingwebtools.pbwiki.com] and discusses the professional development program to increase student academic achievement in ITLS skills and content curriculum through participation in consortium activities related to the use and integration of new digital tools. It provides opportunities for teachers and library media specialists to develop, implement, and assess technology-rich learning activities. As part of this teachers across the curriculum would meet in small groups. Teachers get the opportunity to present a lesson to their group and the group evaluates the lesson, offers suggestions or questions what is unclear. All to the improvement of the lesson. Sometimes teachers would bring back the same lesson, new and imporved for further comment. Sometimes another teacher would take the idea, adapt it, and share their version of the lesson. Resources: They are listed at the websites and include Big Huge Labs, BHL (trading cards) and VoiceThreads among others.

Creative Commons: Everything You Need to Know - Sue Houkom & Mary Maderich WEMTA March 24, 2009
[] [|http://search.creativecommons.org] [|http://creativecommons.org] Anything put in tangible form is copyrighted for the life of the author plus 70 years automatically. If you want to share your creations you may create a Creative Commons license for it that will give attribution, and other stipulations on it's use that you determine. These include share alike, noncommercial use, or allowing derivative works. In addition to creating a license for your work, you can search other peoples work that you and students may use in the stipulated manner in their own work.

Screencasting: Creating and using - Louis Loeffler WEMTA March 24, 2009
[|**http://wemta-2009.pbwiki.com/**] is where this presentation is available. A myriad of programs are listed and linked that you can use to create videos among other things. Useful introduction to a plethora of tools including which platform is needed. If you need videos explaining how to use various tools, CreativeCow.net has some. Also try Teacher Tube.

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