Virginia Department of Education's Leadership Conference

lee - Tue, 2006-11-28 13:57

Lee Baber presented a two-hour workshop on Mapping a Course in New Literacy Skills at the VDOE EdTech Leadership Conference Participants in the workshop were joined by Dave Cormier, Jeff Lebow, Paul Allison, Alex Ragone, Sharon Peters and Brad Hicks. Students learning new literacy skills using mapping and Elggs to find a Personal Learning Space in an online global community, webcasting, drupals, Google docs, wikis, podcasting, social networking, aggregators, and new media were some topics discussed.

Chat Log Below

new2mac	good evening
new2mac	am i in the right chat room for the onigoing skypecas
new2mac	I love apple too :)
new2mac	iLife06
new2mac	what is the software prefered for mapping?
new2mac	nicecast
new2mac	de_li_ciuos
Alex Ragone	Sounds great, Lee.
dave	yo yo Aman.
Alex Ragone	Hello, Mr. Cormier, Co-Founter of Worldbridges!
dave	actually... I'm the REAL founder
dave	And I invented beer.
dave	It was just a multinational super organization before i got here
Alex Ragone	ha!
Alex Ragone	Jeff --- are you ok with that?
dave	yes he is.
Alex Ragone	Who do I call to test audio?
Brad Hicks	Hi Guys
dave	the delicious lee baber
dave	that's funny
dave	funny how language changes
Brad Hicks	I think we should register that domain name!
dave	lol
Brad Hicks	would probably get blocked at most schools but
Brad Hicks	*)
Brad Hicks	don't you just love it when you get tech glitches in a presentation?
Jeff	slideshare = ohp backup
Brad Hicks	yeah looks very cool, i must have a play with it, does it work with keynote as well as PPT?
dave	not sure.
dave	yes. i love the glitches
Jeff	is Lee's volume Ok for you all?
Brad Hicks	yes very good here or hear;)
Brad Hicks	Planning to bring about 20 student teachers into educationbridges in january - going to start a group for them there and hopefully encourage them to get involved in the community
Brad Hicks	for a summer school class i'll be running
Brad Hicks	at the local university
Alex Ragone	Brad -- me to --- I'm doing a pd day on the 18th of Jan -- Maybe we can coordinatoe.
Alex Ragone	It'll be teachers here in New York.
Alex Ragone	I feel a international collaboration group coming on.
Brad Hicks	Unfortunately no access to Skype on our Uni network, but actaully thinking of bringing students to my house to do a webcast
Brad Hicks	my course runs from 15th to 19th of jan
Brad Hicks	would be great to see what we can do Alex
Brad Hicks	BTW for all those with small children, I'm taking my 2 year old daughter to see the Wiggles live in cocert tomorrow!
Brad Hicks	concert*
Jeff	hello Debbieh
Alex Ragone	Here they come --- greetings!
Brad Hicks	Hello from Bunbury, Western Australia
lee	hello
Brad Hicks	get Susan in here too!
lee	hi susan
lee	are you in skypecast?
lee	would you like to introduce yourself afer Dave is finished?
dave	founding father!
Alex Ragone	love that!
Ernie Cox	can anyone share examples of how school librarians/media specialists have collaborated on these projects? or how might they?
dave	oh. i like that too.
dave	sure... i've been working very closely on my archival project with local librarians
dave	and certainly the work done by joyce valenza...
Ernie Cox	yes, joyce is my professional idol
Brad Hicks	picturing Jeff with a long beard, tall black hat and a pitch fork!
dave	http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/
dave	she rocks
dave	we love joyce here.
dave	too
Ernie Cox	thanks for the email alex, i started using the mac mini and everything (chat, etc) is working much better
Alex Ragone	Our Technology Coordinators in new york collaborate here: I'm running my seminar on the 16th -- so may we can post on the
Alex Ragone	Sorry --- here's that link:
Alex Ragone	http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com
Alex Ragone	The school computing wiki is a great edtech resource.
Ernie Cox	i'll take a look
dave	the master teacher trap
Jeff	http://addonchat.com/
Sharon Peters	at last my school has unblocked this chat room!
dave	sharon
dave	CALL THE MAIN OFFICE
Jeff	did you want to chime in Sharon?
Sharon Peters	not sure my mic is working - we can try --
Sharon Peters	am here with about 18 students
Jeff	OK unmuting now
Sharon Peters	who are being incredibly well behaved
Ernie Cox	great question!
dave	synchronously and in real time. wow.
dave	:)
Ernie Cox	nice intercom
dave	I'd like to address teh teacher uptake issue...
Ernie Cox	right now i am attempting to introduce tech/info resources to teachers one on one and they are mostly overwhelmed - the school wide look makes better sense to me
dave	The most important thing to consider for integration is that the technology needs to be responding to a need.
dave	panic.
dave	that's my regular response actually. panic.
Ernie Cox	what if this is a need of the students (in terms of preferred mediums of expression etc) and not that of the teachers?
Brad Hicks	I can speak to that too Lee
Sharon Peters	I teach about netiquette first - before taking the students into a social communication space
Sharon Peters	and take inappropriate comments VERY seriously in terms of handling as quickly as possible and removing the offensive material
Brad Hicks	My wife started out with commenting just within each class, then had her other classes all comment on each other, then went to outside audience
dave	thanks worldbridges
Ernie Cox	good to chat with everyone - looking forward to more!
Sharon Peters	good point
Sharon Peters	instructional need drives design and choice of tools used
Brad Hicks	Thanks Lee - well done
Ernie Cox	thank you lee
Ernie Cox	we have just begun a debate elective here http://www.sttimothys.org, i think it would be great for our students to debate with students outside of our walls, town, state
Brad Hicks	would be great to set something up next yearon the debating front
Sharon Peters	Yes - would love that - about debating
Ernie Cox	i think our debate faculty would be interested -
Ernie Cox	these are 7th & 8th graders
Brad Hicks	well our school year is about to finish, will start again start of Feb 2007
Brad Hicks	you can contact me on [email protected] when you want to set something up for next year
Brad Hicks	some of our debate students are a bit older 15-17 years old
Brad Hicks	but sure i could find a teacher interested for lower grades
Ernie Cox	i'll talk to our teachers and see what the spring plan is - will email w/ f/u
Ernie Cox	where is your school brad
Ernie Cox	and sharon
Ernie Cox	my email [email protected]
Brad Hicks	Bunbury, Western Australia
Brad Hicks	http://www.bunburyshs.wa.edu.au
Brad Hicks	my wife is full time, i currently relief teach there when my daughter is in daycare, still at the school quite a bit even though not employed full time
Brad Hicks	used to teach intercative media and business full time there
Ernie Cox	what are some of the interactive media you teach? what grades?
Brad Hicks	again, no full time classes at the moment, only substituting in all areas. Used to teach all levels of high school computing, now have my own consulting business and completing Masters in Ed too, as well as being home dad!
Brad Hicks	may have some part-time classes next year - still waiting for the school to work out its staffing formula for next year tho
Brad Hicks	has to fit around my parenting responsibilities
Sharon Peters	Sorry, was distracted by students
Brad Hicks	np
Sharon Peters	Lower Canada College - K-12 school in Montreal - http://www.lcc.ca/
Sharon Peters	we have awesome debaters and programme at this school - do you dare to take us on??!!:)
Sharon Peters	provincial, national and international level winners
Brad Hicks	I'll have to sign off shortly, taking my 2 year old to our capital city, Perth, tomorrow to see the Wiggles in concert, a 2 hour drive each way.
Brad Hicks	I will see if the debate teacher is game!
Sharon Peters	the gauntlet has been dropped!
Brad Hicks	what is you email sharon/
Brad Hicks	?
Sharon Peters	[email protected]
Sharon Peters	or [email protected]
Brad Hicks	will be in touch when school resumes at the start of Feb for us, Bye for now guys
Sharon Peters	bye - enjoy your summer - I am envious
Brad Hicks	yes a nice long one - and my wife has long service leave until April too
Brad Hicks	so a good family summer holiday planned!
Sharon Peters	end of class folks - take care!
Brad Hicks	bye