Wizard of Apps

Cute use of students to get message across - intellectual property.. VERY LONG!

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=443

Probing the Possibilities of Paperless Pedagogy

Interesting hearing about making a classroom as paperless as possible - using Google Apps, a flip cam (I wonder if we have one in school). I love his quote about classrooms become a tree eating machine! I like the way Jason goes through to describe how he has made his social studies class paperless, assigning the classroom in the computer lab. His focus is Moodles - touting the flexibility of the program. Teacher tube, Bubbless, ODO, Bubblemaps, xtimeline, igoogle, voicethread. Am going to have to investigate all of these. Scribed, slideshare - use for Office docs - puts into pdf.
Moodle, igoogle rss feeds, delicious social bookmarking, voicethread
Assessment tools - traditional and whizzler & studio

Paperless
Accountability - teacher & student
Increased engagement

Results, success and failures
Criticisms - access to technology - both in school and at home - each with his own
Implementation speed of tools - too fast and too slow

Lessons learned -
Don't do it all at once! Don't use all tools at once.
Partnerships with students.
Embracing failure

Definitely worth viewing
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=438

Building a Web 2.0 Culture

"PROFESSIONAL CULTURE OF TRUST, RESPECT, AND RESPONSIBILITY"
New Tech High - Culture empowers, project based learning, technology... I'm not sure this would work in a middle school setting.
Trust: Students are trusted to "do the right thing." Are our students mature enough to handle this?

I find it amusing that this presenter is talking at the camera the whole time while describing the New Tech High and its building of a Web 2.0 culture. The beginning of the talk spoke about old fashion learning where the teacher lectured at the class... funny, that's kind of what he did! Don't check this one out... not worth visiting!

K12Online09 Day 5 Presentations: 11 December 2009-
Just finished viewing "Building Analog Success with Web 2.0 Technology. Found it interesting that this success was at a private school using a wiki as a place to post information only (not a webpage..still not sure why you'd use the wiki over the webpage), Noodle tools, a flip cam and voicethreads as the reflection tool. According to the teachers, the students were engaged more because of the opportunity to research online and have immediate feedback for the 6 week project. I found it interesting that the lead teacher for the project was still having the final piece be a hard copy of a book!
Link: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=545