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PLN: What Is It, Why I should Have One and Building A Community
Alt title: PLN: Building Your Global Connection Network
What is a PLN, anyway? PLN is an acronym for Personal Learning Network. Find out how to get stated, how to create the PLN, software to use and who to invite. Participants will learn how to meet and communicate with people in a PLN that you will create.
You walk into the room and they are all there. The greatest resource people in the world, educational professionals, lecturer's, visionaries, innovators, and authors. You start conversations with them and they can be as long or as short as you want, and as in-depth as you have time for. Then you discuss ways to teach various concepts, learn about resources that others are using, or maybe even have conversations that challenge the way you think about education and teaching.
This is what a P.L.N. (Personal Learning Network) is all about.
Join our session and find out how to get stated, how to create the PLN, software to use and who to invite. How to learn from others and share. Participants will learn how to meet and communicate with people in a PLN that you will create. Discover why Ning's are like subject area resource rooms in a large school. They're social networks connecting teachers with common interests. Connect to discussion forums, utilize a blog, share resources, and plan group activities. Learn how to attend a conference Virtually. Online sessions and summaries allow you to be there in spirit even when it's impossible to be there in body. You can locate conference sessions and then view archived the videos available on the website.
Workshop participants can share updates with teachers not at the conference, to ask questions during panel discussions. We will join 5 PLN's that include, Classroom 2.0, Educators PLN, ProTeacher, Teachers.net, Global Education Network.
Discover how educators around the world are willing to share their ideas/information back and forth, provide creative and refreshing new ideas; get advice from a very supportive group. and a great place to meet teachers from all over the country.
Discover how to share resources. lesson plans , bookmarking and social networking sites. Come and join us and get started on many ways to develop a PLN.
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50 Ways To Integrate Social Media Into Your Classroom
Explore Social Media as the foundation of learning.Understand perspectives on how to foster deep, critical, understanding through effective implementation of learning networks. Explore the elements of Connections, Bookmarking and Networking and how it integrates into your classroom. How it works, how to develop instructional strategies and how educators utilize it for teaching and learning. Learn the best practices for connecting you classroom and observe applications and connections.
Explore networks and connections as the foundation of learning - and present new perspectives on how to foster deep, critical, understanding through effective implementation of learning networks.
To bring our wired classrooms to life, we must equip all students with the technology they are using outside of school into our classrooms. Social media, connections, and networking will accomplish this. The presentation will assist you in understanding the power of these tools and will increase your productivity as a teacher; it will also help you redesign assignments in ways that increases and assesses critical thinking skills in your students.
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Cool Web 2 Tools: Integrating Math-Science-Language Arts-Social Studies
Our interactive workshop will explore a host of Web 2.0 tools in specific content areas. Learn to use teaching and learning strategies, Thematic unit lesson plans that will focus on a specific Web 2.0 tools in the content area of Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies.
K-12 educators will discover over 100 resources they can use in 4 content areas. . Examine a glossary; description of the particular tool; examples of its use in the content specific curriculum; how to get started, and a unit plan focused on learning strategies. Exercises will reinforce the concepts, plus access to a Web site for exercises, new URLs, and more.
The Internet is becoming a platform for unparalleled creativity, and our students are creating the new content of the Web. Technology is ubiquitous, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, and our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true potential tech offers for teaching and learning. Properly used, technology will help students acquire the skills they need to survive in a complex, highly technological knowledge-based economy.
This session is dedicated to examples of how the Web 2.0 tools can be used in the classroom.
Integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class. It must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. It must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts. Effective technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent and when technology supports curricular goals.
Technology also changes the way teachers teach, offering educators effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple means. With Web 2.0 tools, students are more likely to stay engaged and on task, reducing behavioral problems in the classroom.
The myriad resources of the online world also provide each classroom with more interesting, diverse, and current learning materials. When technology is effectively integrated into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach.
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Creating Global Stories With Twitter : Choose Your Own Adventure
What if you could see and hear a historical event or story as it unfolds using Social Media. How about using Twitter to write short stories and creating your voice to make a "Global Connection"
Learn how to create "Global Stories" including Earthquakes, Disasters, Elections, Politics, and World Events. Utilize different forms of media.
Learn how to use "Twitter" to connect using new methods to challenge the 21st Century Educator and implement the primary resources of the 21st century.
Learn how to deploy Twitter storytelling in 5 ways; Understand how storytelling evolves; Utilize 10 Ideas in Twitter Digital Storytelling; See how you can collect your own stories that can be told through digital threads.
Society, information, knowledge, and learning all share a critical foundational element: CONNECTIONS. The new "Digital Generation" has a multitude of technology tools at their fingertips, and the ability to reach everyone in the world. Explore the elements of bringing your wired classrooms to life. Learn how to equip all students with the technology they are using outside of school into our classrooms.
The presentation will assist you in understanding the power of these tools and will increase your productivity as a teacher or administrator; it will also help you redesign assignments in ways that increases and assesses critical thinking skills in your students. Find out what it is, how it works, how to develop instructional strategies and how educators utilize it for teaching and learning.
With these amazing new tools, how will we tell our stories? How will you tell yours?
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Web 2.0: New Tools for Schools
(Session introduces concepts of Web 2.0 and provides hands-on and demonstrations of 15 sample applications- can be interactive, demonstration, or workshop)
Web 2.0--it is colorful and thrilling. It has created enthusiasm and an audience never before imagined. Web 2.0 tools are the emerging communication tools of the 21st century. Our students are the new generation using the tools and you need to learn how to use the new tools.
Let us take the mystery out of Web 2.0 and instruct you how to communicate, collaborate, and create content. You will discover Web 2.0 applications that include: Screencasting, e-pals communication projects, digital stories, Podcasts, Blogs, Wikis, handheld devices, and annotation software provide more engaging and collaborative personal computing environments for students and teachers, with emerging Web 2.0 development tools.
This session has as its main objective to increase the awareness of educators with regard to Web 2.0 options and successful uses in classrooms. Come and discover how to build an infrastructure for continual professional development using Web 2.0 tools.
Examples will include: Social Media, Immersive learning; Augmented Reality Del.icio.us ; Bloglines ; Picnik; Picasa ; Pixamo; GCast ; Google Docs and Spreadsheets ; Voicethread ; e-Pals; Jing ; Scratch; Flickr; voo2do; Zamzar; Ning ; Blogs ; UStream; Animoto ;Memories on Web ; i-Google ;Alice; Zamzar; Audacity ;Audio Grabber; QuantumShift; Imbee;Google SketchUp;
Discover:
Top 10 Free software applications for the 21st Century Classroom
Top 10 Web 2.0 applications
Best collaboration software
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7 Secrets of Student Motivation: Creativity-Innovative K-12 Tech Projects
Discover ideas, concepts and projects about creativity, problem solving and critical thinking. Projects for K-12 will be examined in the area of innovation, critical thinking, problem solving and creative thinking skills will be investigated. Explore original lessons in several content areas. Lessons using the Creative Process will be introduced for classroom instruction and educators will learn how to structure creative problem solving lessons on a daily and yearly basis. Participants will also learn how to be more creative themselves. This sessions is for all grade levels. Projects will be demonstrated and explored.
Learn how to create an interactive exercise with Web 2 tools for the classroom. Participants will discuss plans that will allow them to design assignments that promote critical thought and reflection..
10 projects will be evaluated and explored utilizing Web 2.0 resources. Learn methods for meeting those challenges and offer practical exercises for teachers to take back with them to the classroom.
Create 5 interactive projects for the classroom. Create plans that allow educators to design assignments that promote critical thought and reflection. Participants will have the chance to design critical thinking exercise both in teams and individually
The problem solving session includes a synthesis of several problem-solving models: Effective teachers and students need to be able to solve problems and address their problems correctly and efficiently.
Examine the challenges that face K-12 teachers and learn methods for meeting those challenges and offer practical exercises for teachers to take back with them to the classroom. Learn new approaches to teaching critical thinking.
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Hands Around The World : Curriculum Projects To Explore-Engage -Enrich-Empower
Create 6 "Global" projects using "FREE" software to connect school communities. Integrate projects into curriculum areas and support teaching and learning while improving digital literacy to make a "Global Connection".
Learn about 6 "Global" projects using "FREE" software to connect school communities with "Hands Around The World". Projects can be integrated into several curriculum areas and support teaching and learning while improving digital literacy to make a "Global Connection". Projects allow students to learn 21st Century skills and prepare them to meet the demands of the global community and master core curriculum skills. You can transforming educational institutions into model learning environments.
Prepare your students for living and working in the 21st century with free, accessible software and Web sites, and learn how to use these resources to support teaching and learning while improving digital literacy.
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