The+UN-Conference

Set up Edublogcon type of inservice / lesson Have teachers/ students talk about what they want to learn Have teachers/students volunteer to “teach”/facilitate

Twitter to share resources

Blogging: Tim Holt blog used iweb. TimHolt.net

21classes.com/epals/getting kids blogging blogger.com free may be problems with explicit blogs (may be blocked)

Could host Wordpress – download open to whoever

Ground rules: No saying “stupid” response or “flaming” Bloglines.com (to see what you view as far)

DropBox.com? Look for woscholar Stephanie S--- web 2.0 tools

Designing Spaces: The major question should be: What are being well-educated mean in the 21st century? We teach in 6 x 5 grid of chairs facing front with a Promethean board with a projector and a teacher desk What do we want kids to know? How do we use the spaces to support them? Look at all the public and classroom spaces in a different light as to use 2) What type of teaching/learning needs to be done? Try to get flexible/moveable comfortable furniture. Whiteboard walls, light columns that you can write on.  Read Johnson & Johnson collaborative learning  Set up common space/library/student center, etc and use it for a model and see how teachers use the space.  Be sure to think about critical & upper level thinking skills  What % of school is used for control and movement of students?  Could we use part of this space for gathering spaces for kids?

Google “learning street/ design share” Look at coffee houses – college common spaces, bookstores, church lobbies

Flickr – learning commons Google – the 3rd teacher Learning spaces by educause.com

Making non-traditional space into a non-traditional learning Mimi Ito Move away from supervising/management/controlling environment

How do we build the digital space we need?

Give them a digital space of their own. Use 1 blog, not 8 blogs (1 for each subject) Teach them “tagging” Google Ap? Accounts Virtual portfolio that they could take with them

Create Knowledge Conference (committees – sessions to discuss and learn)

Open wireless? To support all the kids’ mobile devices (White Oak) Google sites TCEA youtube video (on spaces)

Crayon Physics

White Oak : Some using SD card to store & download. ESL kids and parent using Rosetta Stone at home Allowed kids to bring their mobile devices, then they would survey and get the kids who don’t have them a “loaner” to use. When the schools like White Oak opened up and only filtered Spam and porno, Facebook was open, they actually has caused less bandwidth problems – less proxy-circumnavigator problems.

AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) needs to be wider to cover more territory – doesn’t need to itemize everything because of continual change in policy and technology changing all the time. Look at woisd.net AUP example either under resources or student (Google Doc)

Epals /gmail kids email Tutorial setup available for gmail setup

Web 2.0 tools Made a Moodle Digital Citizenship course. Teachers started it with a facilitator and finished on Moodle.

How do we learn : 5000 Year TimeLine of Learning Theory

Ustream

Google Bud the Teacher (Bud Hunter from Colorado) “Would you please Respond” blog

“Don’t just jump on a bike/ or in a car & drive off” – argument for teaching kids how to use computers/internet safely (when filtering is reducing)

Expect High Level of behavior and you’ll get that behavior

FERPA laws (what has to be blocked?) Form committee to determine what needs to be blocked. Usually includes superintendent, assist. superintendent, principal(s), teachers, possibly student, usually network administrator is included in committee, but doesn’t have a vote. This takes stress of network admin, but allows district/school to do what is needed for their school(s).