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Justin Reich Thomas Daccord Falmouth High School, 1/18/2008

It’s Not About the Blog: (with apologies to Lance Armstrong) Computers and the Collaborative Classroom. Justin Reich Thomas Daccord Falmouth High School, 1/18/2008. A Brief Survey Please!. Center for Teaching History with Technology. Summer Workshops Teaching History with Technology

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Justin Reich Thomas Daccord Falmouth High School, 1/18/2008

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  1. It’s Not About the Blog:(with apologies to Lance Armstrong)Computers and the Collaborative Classroom Justin Reich Thomas Daccord Falmouth High School, 1/18/2008

  2. A Brief Survey Please!

  3. Center for Teaching History with Technology • Summer Workshops • Teaching History with Technology • Teaching English with Technology • Teaching with New and Emerging Technologies • Web Sites • Best of History Web Sites: www.besthistorysites.net • Teaching History with Technology: www.thwt.org • www.EdTechTeacher.org • Books • Best of History Web Sites (Neal-Schuman) • Classroom Tested Ideas for Teaching History with Technology

  4. Why Teach with Technology? • #1- “Whoever is doing most of the talking, or most of the typing, is doing most of the learning (and the more people listening the better).” • #2- “The more different ways we put things in our brain, the more likely we are to learn and remember.” • #3- “We can reach out to the world, and we can bring the world into our classroom- including all of the sources that helped us fall in love with our disciplines in the first place. ” • #4- Sometimes technology makes things easier, sometimes…

  5. Taking risks and failing • Experimenting with computers models the kind of risk taking we ask students to do • Students need to see us try and fail and try again • Start small- simple applications of a tool harness many of the benefits • Plan a back-up • Practice as teachers and students • Put a colleague on call • The more you do it, the more things work

  6. Computers and the Collaborative Classroom • #1- “Whoever is doing most of the talking, or most of the typing, is doing most of the learning (and the more people listening the better).” #3- “We can reach out to the world, and we can bring the world into our classroom” Teachers Classmates Other Schools Students Outside Experts Other Sections

  7. Tools for the Collaborative Classroom • Wikis- Empowering students to publish their collaborative work • Blogs- Persistent conversations amongst students- where it’s easy to invite the world • Chatting- Inviting reluctant speakers into the conversations • Email- Turning assignments into real-world conversations

  8. Anatomy of a Blog (r u a blogger?) POSTS SIDE BAR Comments

  9. Two Basic Blog Types

  10. Two Basic Blog Safety Rules • Require students to follow the school Acceptable Use Policy or other computing guidelines • Enforce that students not reveal personal information publicly

  11. Ten Ideas for Blogging • Post a homework question • Each student writes a one paragraph response • Read a few before class to see what your students think about the reading • You can require students to respond not only to the reading, but to each other’s responses as well. • Start a discussion • Pose a question and require that students post at least three contributions to a discussion over the course of a week, or more contributions over the course of a unit. • Invite outsiders to comment on student work • If you know the author of a book you are reading, have students write feedback and have the author respond • Have students from another school comment on your student’s work • Have students post discussion questions for tomorrow’s class • This is great when you know you won’t have time to plan • If you know that you’ve flubbed a class and students are confused, have them post questions about things they don’t understand • Post your lecture notes or a summary of the day’s class • You can even record a podcast and post an audio summary of the days class on your blog.

  12. Have students post their notes for the day • Assign one student per day to be the scribe for the class. This is great for discussion based classes where you want students to focus on the discussion and not have to worry about taking notes. • Post the daily homework assignment • Post links to supplementary materials from the internet • Author bios or websites • Links to book reviews • Links to relevant news articles • Post progress reports on team projects • Students can post their work to the blog so that others can see what they are doing. They can also comment on each other’s work. • If faculty are trying to work as a team or core group, use a blog to communicate with each other about lessons, etc. • For an independent study- have students create their own blog • I have my students post an outline of their week’s work before our weekly meeting

  13. Extending the Conversation • Once you start collaborating online, be on the lookout for unexpected benefits… Temporally Geographically

  14. Assessment

  15. BLOG REFLECTION RUBRIC From: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec296/assignments/blog_rubric.html

  16. Teaching with Old and Established Technologies: Word Processors • Improving Writing and Grading with Word • Editing with a Twist • Historical Newspaper Projects

  17. Improving Writing and Grading through Microsoft Word • Set your grammar preferences • Use the find command • Setting auto-correct preferences

  18. Editing with a twist • Students come in with a piece of writing and need to change: • The Author • The Audience • The Context • The Argument • The Length • ???

  19. The Original Assignment • 1) Write a 2 page sermon, drawing on the New Testament readings we have read for homework and in-class. The sermon will be delivered on September 16th, 1963 in Birmingham. This is several weeks after the successful March on Washington, and right in the middle of the heroic and brutal Birmingham Campaign for Civil Rights. Your sermon should use Christianity to inspire, console and motivate your congregation • 2) Please use Times New Roman 12 point font, 1.5 spacing • 3) Save it somehow to NoblesNet. If you use a program other than Word or Appleworks, you should copy and paste the text into an email or a document. • 4) At the beginning of class i will give you instructions, and then I'll give you about 30 minutes to revise the sermon.

  20. The In-Class Twist… • After successfully presenting your sermon at the morning service, you retire to your quarters to rest before the 11:00 service.. At 10:30, one of the church members rushes in and tells you that something horrible has happened: the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was bombed, 4 little girls at Sunday School have been killed. • As an important leader in your community, it will be your job to console your community, and to help them understand how these deaths fit into your struggle for civil rights. • The second service starts in 1/2 hour. You probably don't have time to write a whole new sermon. Your challenge then, is to adapt what you have written to take into account this shattering loss of innocent lives.

  21. Newspaper Projects • Editorials • Cartoons • Cover Art • Articles • Classifieds • Advertisements • And more!

  22. Don’t worry about fancy publishing, learn Columns and the Text Box Image from Microsoft Word

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