New Berlin Technology

Pioneers
Trail Blazers in a Digital World
What Your Community Said
 Survey of Possibilities
 Hands-on Time to Play, develop curriculum

 Professional Learning Community as a Tool to

help us learn, share
 Collaboration is Important

 “We wish they’d put more stuff up

electronically.”
 Use tech to increase student engagement

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Objectives
 A Framework for Tech Integration
 Survey of some tools, largely through some
projects
 PLC and PLN
 Examine Providing Electronic Content
 Moodle
 Wiki
 Tools of Collaboration
 Google
 Social Bookmarks
 Wiki
 Student Engagement through Solid Projects
 Know the skills you value and teach them too
 Know the essential questions- they drive the project
design
 Design Backwards
Everything Online for Access later
 Wiki
http://newberlinplc.wikispaces.com
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/
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 Moodle
http://moodle.micds.org
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Survey
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 The Skills

NETS FOR STUDENTS

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 Inquiry, Research, and Information Literacy

 Digital Citizenship and Personal Learning

Networks
 Communication and Collaboration in a Global
World
 Creativity, Inventive and Critical Thinking, and
Design

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Student Framework for Learning
 Is the content I am teaching essential and
relevant?
 Am I addressing the skills my students need to
be successful in life?
 Am I effectively assessing the learning that is
taking place?
 Am I fostering the spirit of inquiry that will
sustain learning in my students for a
lifetime?

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 Technology must be like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
Chris Lehmann , Science Leadership Academy

http://www.slideshare.net/chrislehmann/where­does­it­live­building­systems­and­structures­around­what­you­believe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geeflex/3025253199/sizes/o/
TPCK Model

The 
Sweet 
Spot
 Shift in Teaching Theories/Defining
Documents

UbD Danielson’s 
Domains

Marzano’s
 Best Practices

Web 2.0 that Works

Image­ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32625013@N00/17135231/
Pancake Principal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/422
23852@N00/1347435508/
Collective Capacity
 Join the Wiki
 Share Bookmarks

 Space to Share Projects/Learning

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The Fun Quotient
Shift in Professional Development/Growth
PLC and PLN on a PLE
Professional Learning Communities
 Six Requirements
 All Things PLC
      Shared vision and values
 Collaborative culture
 Focus on examining outcomes to improve
student learning
 Supportive and shared leadershipShared
personal practice
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 Questions
 What knowledge, skills, and disposition must
each student acquire as a result of this
course, grade level, and/or unit of
instruction?
 What evidence will we gather to monitor
student learning on a timely basis?
 How will we provide students with additional
time and support in a timely, directive, and
systematic way when they experience
difficulty in their learning?
 How will we enrich the learning of students who
are already proficient?
 How can we use our SMART goals and evidence
of student learning to inform and improve our
practice?
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Resources
 English Companion Ning
 Math 24 x 7

 Classroom 2.0

 Library 2.0

 Global Collaborations Ning

 NCSS Ning

 Blogs by Discipline
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PLE
 Software
 Hardware

 Access

 Skill Set to Make use of it Properly

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Survey of Tools
 Tech Tool Kit by Level

“We want more stuff electronically”
 Moodle
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Sample Courses
 Moodle Course
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 Wiki
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 WetPaint Wiki Course

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 Squarespace Blog
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Social Bookmarking
Finding Information

Wolfram Alpha

Google Search

Mashpedia
Collaboration with Google
 Delivery of
Information
Scribe Blog
AP Calc Blog

Slideshare
Scribd
Ning Social Network
Teacher Blog

Deliver Assignments –
Diagnostic Assesment
Blog Comments
Polls
Textbooks or Online Courses
Research Process

Managing information
Finding it
Evaluating it
Citing it
Tracking it
Search Strategies
Google – Advanced, News, Blogs,Site,
Location, Custom

Other Engines-
Viewzi
SearchMe
Search Cube
Images
Flick Storm
Creative Commons
Bookmarking
Managing Information

SimplyBox
NoteStar
Zoho Notebook
Zotero
Evaluating Information

WebNotes

TrailFire
Citation
Citation Machine
EasyBib
Word
Tracking Changes - RSS

iGoogle

Google Reader

Feedbeater
Student Creation
WikiSpaces Weebly

Google Office and Forms

Glogster

Google Maps Blogs

Wikispaces links
Assessment

Polls

Blog Reflection

Video Comments (2)

Teaching Collaboration
WIKI BOOKS
WIKI LABS
Wiki Literature
WIKI Lesson Plans
GOOGLE Writing
Assignments
Google Spreadsheets
and Forms
Scribe Blogs
Embeddable and Shareable
Information Literacy
Evolution of Textbooks
Making Research 
Transparent

LiveBinders
Managing the Information Flow

iGoogle

Google Reader

Feedbeater
Basic Literacy/Habits of Mind
Visual Literacy
InterCultural Literacy

Student Video 
Networked Literacy
Facebook 1800s
Recognizing Audience
 ENGLISH 10 Blogs
 FREDERICK DOUGLAS
SPEAKER SERIES
 GLOBAL ISSUES
AWARENESS PROJECT
Project Based Learning
AP Museum

WikiBooks

Adv History Documentaries

Frederick Douglass Debates 

Global Climate Change