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1. Quotable "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher in-spires." - William Arthur Ward Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

2. Quotable "I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning." - Plato Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

3. Quotable "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." - Jane Howard (journalist/writer) Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

4. Quotable "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -  Aristotle Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

5. Quotable "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Mahatma Gandhi Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

6. Quotable "Wherever they go and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing." - A.A. Milne Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

7. Extreme Technology Makeovers Teacher Technology Tools for the Classroom Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

8. Agenda • What do we remember? • Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) • Scaffolding • Collaborative Scaffolding tools • E-Mail Scaffolding Tools • Ethnography, Reflection, and Dialogue Scaffolding Tools Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

9. We Remember…. 100% …95% of what we teach someone …80% of what we experience personally …70% of what is discussed with others …50% of what we both see and hear …30% of what we see …20% of what we hear …10% of what we read Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi Glasser, 1990

10. Extreme Makeover Material • www.journalscape.com/fish (group name: ETM, password: loti Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

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12. Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) Lev Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory • Vygotsky (1978) maintained the child follows the adult's example and gradually develops the ability to do certain tasks without help or assistance. He called the difference between what a child can do with help and what he or she can do without guidance the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD). Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

13. Excerpted from R.G. Tharp and R. Gallimore (1988). Rousing minds to life (p.35).Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

14. Tech. Tools to support “fossilization”: collaborative websites, search engines, Internet, blogs, wikis, web publishing, surveys, e-mail, software (PowerPoint, word processing, databases, et cetera), handhelds… Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

15. Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) • What does this mean to me? • Students are exposed to technology tools to support them in their learning endeavors • They choose the tools to meet their needs without an adult telling them what tools to use • “Nudging” Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

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17. Scaffolding • Scaffolding is an instructional technique whereby the teacher models the desired learning strategy or task, then gradually shifts responsibility to the students. • Scaffolding supports ZPD as learning tools, people, and resources Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

18. Modeling Guided practice It’s temporary Negative scaffolding Safe environment People (classmates, parents, teachers, ETC) Research Web page evaluation PowerPoint Multi-media ethics Visual Literacy 21st Century Technology Publishing Feedback Scaffolding Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

19. Online Collaborative Projects Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

20. Online Collaborative Projects • Global School House at www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/ - connects classrooms across the world so that they can collaborate on a wide range of projects or issues • Virtual Architecture athttp://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/divides the sites into the separate components you would need to carry out a project • www.kids-learn.org/ - lists projects that are already in progress and ones that are still accepting applications Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

21. Email accounts for students Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

22. Email accounts for students • Many districts have long debated the necessity vs the potential dangers of email accounts for students. Two products that have held up to testing by one of our national trainers are listed below. Each has a free component as well as a paid component. • ePals www.epals.com • language translation • database of online email projects • management tools • Gaggle http://www.gaggle.net • management tools • locker to hold files • Discussion boards/guided discussion Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

23. Ethnography, Reflection, and Dialogue Tools Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

24. Ethnography, Reflection, and Dialogue Tools • Blogs Tools • Wiki Tools • Extreme Technology Makeovers Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

25. Blogging Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

26. Blogging • Implementing Blogging in the classroom • Think about…..Your standards • Think about…..Higher-Level strategies • Think about…..LoTi • Think about…..Access issues • Think about…..Blogetiquette Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

27. Blogging • Monitor postings • Set expectations • Anonymous names (teacher keeps a list) • Time lines for postings • No personal information • Use password protected blogs Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

28. How to use blogs? Computer lab Outside of class assignment (access concerns) “Few Computer” classroom Laptops Media center When to use blogs? Morning arrival daily/weekly schedule Cooperative groups SSR Creative scheduling Outside of class Blogging Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

29. Blogging • Podcasting – posting audio files • Photo Blogs • VBlogs • “Blogging is still in its early days. It’s analogous to where the Web was in 1995. It’s not clear how it will turn out. – Kevin Werbach, Wharton Legal Studies Professor Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

30. Blogging • Classroom blog • www.huffenglish.com/class/ • www.mpressiv.com/clhs_blogs/bio_blog1.htm - current events • www.clhs-chawks.org/courses/comapp_web/ - classroom website • http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/secretlifeofbees/ - literature discussion Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

31. Blog Sites • www.journalscape.com • www.journalscape.com/fish (group name: ETM, password: loti • www.bloglines.com • www.blogger.com • http://wordpress.org • www.typepad.com • www.seaford.k12.de.us/it/blogging.htm Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

32. Classroom Ethnographer • Reports on the daily, weekly, monthly progress of the group (small groups, entire class, grade, school….) • Overall progress instead of individual Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

33. Communities of Mutual Learners • Within the classroom • Outside the classroom • Learning communities • We are the only species to “teach deliberately out of the context of use” • Peer coaching – C3B4Me • Turn work in “works” • Cooperative groups • Jigsaws Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

34. Wiki Tools • A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term Wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website (see wiki software). • Wikipedia at www.wikipedia.org • Wikispaces at www.wikispaces.com • Extreme Technology Makeovers™ Wiki - http://etm.wikispaces.com/ Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

35. Communities of Mutual Learners • Classroom wikis • http://huffenglish.pbwiki.com/ • http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsandwiki.pl?Entry_Point • www.ahistoryteacher.com/holocaust/tiki-index.php - holocaust wiki • www.mpressiv.com/wiki/index.php/Chemistry/ChemMain - chemistry wiki • http://westwood.wikispaces.com/ • http://bjordan.wikispaces.com/ • http://kyliandpalmer.wikispaces.com/ • www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers - create your own Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

36. www.npsoft.org/ • is a directory of software that provides discounts to non-profits and schools. The directory is divided into several different sections, including assistive technology, business, educational, programming tools, and Internet. Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

37. Bonus Materials • www.blogpoll.com/ - custom blog poll • www.pollhost.com/ - free polls for your website or blog • www.tag-board.com/ - real time discussion boards for your web site, blog, or wiki Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

38. Bonus Materials • www.ikeepbookmarks.com/lotischools • www.songsforteaching.com/ • www.blinkx.com/ - Search over 1,000,000 hours of audio, video, podcast, vlog and television content • www.open-video.org/project_info.php - The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities • www.stumbleupon.com/sign_up.php • www.cosmeo.com/ - Cosmeo is the new online homework help service from the Discovery Channel • www.thataway.org/resources/index.html - Resources for Understanding, Practicing & Exploring D&D Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

39. Bonus Materials • Furl • http://www.wayfaring.com/ • http://www.zillow.com/ • Googlealert • Google earth • Zoomerang • http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ Extreme Technology Makeovers™ - LoTi

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