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Title: Its Not About the Blog: with apologies to Lance Armstrong Computers and the Collaborative Classroom


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Its Not About the Blog(with apologies to Lance
Armstrong)Computers and the Collaborative
Classroom
  • Justin Reich
  • EdTechTeacher.org (coming soon!)

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Framing Questions
  • What are the best reasons for integrating
    academic technology?
  • Where does academic technology fit into the
    mission of the Chewonki Foundation?
  • How can we most effectively integrate technology?
  • How can technology enhance the best practices in
    our classrooms?

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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

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Why Teach with Technology at Chewonki?
  • The power of focused, collective effort

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A Framework for Teaching with Technology
  • Collect
  • Create
  • Relate
  • Donate
  • From Ben Schneidermans Leonardos Laptop

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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

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Collect
  • Searching with Advanced Google
  • Creating PowerPoint lessons (not presentations!)
  • Teaching with BrowserPoint, or tabbed browsing

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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
Other Sections
Outside Experts
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Hypothesized Benefits to teaching with Web 2.0
Improve Student Engagement
New Ways to Develop Fundamental Skills
Rehearse for 21st Century Situations/ Environments
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Motivate Students
Include More Students
Hypothesized Benefits to teaching with Web 2.0
Improve Student Engagement
New Ways to Develop Fundamental Skills
Rehearse for 21st Century Situations/ Environments
Train for Writing under Real World Conditions
Improve Writing Skills
Practice Deeper and Richer Discussion
Engage in New Global Dialogue
Learn New Media Literacies
Enlighten the critique of current education
Engage in New Civic Dialogue
Train for Web 2.0 Applications in Business
Enable Rich Collaboration
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Examples of Web 2.0 Experimentation in the Work
Place (from research literature)
  • Banking
  • Education
  • Marketing
  • Federal, State, Local Government
  • Intelligence
  • Law
  • Software Engineering
  • Health Care
  • Health Education
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Human Resources
  • Higher Education Administration
  • All Fortune 500 companies?

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

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Anatomy of a Blog (r u a blogger?)
POSTS
SIDE BAR
Comments
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Two Basic Blog Types
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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

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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 others 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
    students work
  • Have students post discussion questions for
    tomorrows class
  • This is great when you know you wont have time
    to plan
  • If you know that youve flubbed a class and
    students are confused, have them post questions
    about things they dont understand
  • Post your lecture notes or a summary of the days
    class
  • You can even record a podcast and post an audio
    summary of the days class on your blog.

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Ten Ideas for Blogging (cont.)
  • 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 others 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
    weeks work before our weekly meeting

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Some Exemplar Blogs
  • Professor Cooper's Fundamentals of Writing Blog
  • Comparative Religions
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • Middle East Studies
  • Daisy
  • Nobles goes to Tanzania
  • Chriss American Literature 11
  • Stephanie (U.S. History)
  • Extreme Biology
  • Sargent Park Math Zone
  • HHC Collaboration Blog

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

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Assessment
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BLOG REFLECTION RUBRIC
From http//edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec296/assig
nments/blog_rubric.html
 
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In-Class Chatting
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  • The leader from each group should invite the
    other members into a chat. From this point
    forward NO TALKING, ONLY TYPING.
  • Each person will then in turn ask one of their
    discussion questions. You will be given 15
    minutes to discuss. The goal is to discuss
    questions as deeply and thoroughly as possible.
    I'd rather read an in-depth examination of two
    questions than brief discussions of six. GO DEEP!
  • You will get a 5 point grade for this exercise.
    While I will raise the standards later, for now
    the grade will be mostly based on the following
  • 1) Do you stay on topic?
  • 2) Do you carefully read and respond to each
    other?
  • 3) Do you ensure that you finish each question
    before moving on?
  • In the future, I will also expect you to actively
    challenge one another and to incorporate evidence
    from the source material.
  • When you are finished, the leader should copy and
    paste the chat into an email and send it to
    turninreich.

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  • Pablo Toribio-09101131 AM Why is Arjuna is
    reluctant to fight?
  • Jess Lippincott-09101154 AM because he
    doesn't want to kill all of those people
  • Pablo Toribio-09101155 AM Arjuna is
    reluctant to fight because he believes those
    people are his family.
  • Jess Lippincott-09101202 AM and his teachers
  • Vinesha Collymore-09101207 AM yeah
  • Jess Lippincott-09101209 AM and his great
    uncles
  • Vinesha Collymore-09101222 AM his family, he
    didnt want to kill them
  • Jess Lippincott-09101229 AM right
  • Vinesha Collymore-09101239 AM he felt like
    he was close to these people
  • Jess Lippincott-09101312 AM yeah, and he
    thought it would be cruel and unnecesary to kill
    them
  • Vinesha Collymore-09101317 AM yeah
  • Jess Lippincott-09101328 AM , he says he
    doesnt want a kingdom
  • Jess Lippincott-09101330 AM right
  • Vinesha Collymore-09101332 AM he became
    overcome with grief
  • Pablo Toribio-09101404 AM "Then Arjuna saw
    in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons,
    grandsons father of wives, uncles,
    mastersbrothers companions, and friends. When
    Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face i both
    lines of the battle, he was overcome by grief and
    despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart. "
  • Jess Lippincott-09101420 AM right
  • Vinesha Collymore-09101444 AM so that's our
    conclusion for number 1
  • Jess Lippincott-09101449 AM then "I have no
    wish for victory Krishna, nor for a kingdom, nor
    for its pleasures"

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Wikis
  • Wikis, like Wikipedia, are Web sites written by
    groups of people
  • In a true wiki, anyone can edit anything at any
    time
  • Excellent venue for project collaboration within
    classes, between classes, amongst schools, and
    across the world

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Anatomy of a Wiki
Navigation links to sections of the wiki
Tabs to the article, discussion page, editing
tools, and history of the page.
A form to search the wiki
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Examples
  • Flat Classroom Project
  • Reich Chemistry Wiki
  • Freshman Composition Wiki
  • APWorld History Exam Review
  • Fishman.wikispaces.com
  • Dclc.wikispaces.com
  • http//edforunknown.pbwiki.com/
  • Curriki
  • Bering Strait School District Open Content

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Email
  • Many university sites have search directories for
    their faculty. MITs is right on the homepage.
  • New York Times articles now have links to
    authors emails right at the top of the article.
    David Sanger may not write you back, but that
    shouldnt stop you from trying.

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Email
  • Send book reviews to authors
  • Write letters to the editor
  • Respond directly to authors
  • Ask questions of experts (and invite them over,
    you never know!)
  • Converse across continents

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Skype and Video-Conferencing
  • Guest Speakers from anywhere in the world- free
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