Week 14 - Technology & Teaching - What's Next?

What do you think your classroom will look like in 5 years? In 10 years?

International Collaboration
Student Exchange, Without the Jet Lag: Educational Collaboration in a Virtual World
Global Education on a Dime: A Low Cost Way to Connect
Flat Classroom Project Launch Today

High Tech High Schools
High Tech High
Microsoft's High-Tech High
Three Cities, One New High-Tech High School

Online Schools
Insight School of Washington See Press Release 8/29/2007
Internet Academy/K-12 Online Education

Virtual Teachers & Friends
Virtual Teacher Could Change Distance Learning
Toddlers Embarce Our (Giggling) Robotic Overlords

Cell Phones
From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Schools
Cell Phones for Learning

Technology
eBeam - alternative for Interactive White Board - Any white board or surface turns into an interactive board

One Laptop Per Child XO Computer
Give One Get One Program
Explore the XO

Can technology have a role in reducing student drop out rates?
"'Dropout Factory' at Some State Schools" Seattle PI 10/27/2007
22 High Schools Labeled 'Dropout Factories'
"...no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year."

Access to Technology and Educational Blogs using Bloglines

Week 14th - Technology Leftovers

United Streaming
- See Discovery for user name and password

Google for Educators includes Tools for Your Classroom, Classroom Activities, Classroom Posters and Teacher Community

Google Docs in Plain English (YouTube)
Comparison of Using Google Docs and Conventional Wordprocessing (or Things to do with Google Docs)
Teacher Crib Sheet for Docs
Collaborative Revisions with Google Docs
Article: "Getting Good with Google Docs" (TechLearning, 10/07)
Google Earth Blog

Library Resources
Books, Print Journals & Curriculum Materials
Online Databases - ERIC & Education Research Complete

Other Resources
PowerPoint Templates - See links in Week 13 under Presentation Software Tools
Creating a podcast using Freecorder - Download Freecorder Toolbar - User Guide
Password Safe - create a secure name/password database on your computer

Good Books
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
- About building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
- Room for Books program
A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and more miserable than Ever Before by Jean Twenge

Educating the First Digital Generation by Paul Harwood and Victor Asal
"Don't Bother me Mom -- I'm Learning": How Computer and Video Games are Preparing Your Kids for 21st Century Success -- and How You Can Help by Marc Prensky

Teacher Standards - How are you doing?
Professional Preparation Performance Profile

Please take a survey using Zoomerang Survey Software

Remember to sign up for your Final Presentation day & order

Week 13 - Presentation Software & Google For Educators

Presentation Software Tools:

PowerPoint (Microsoft)
Keynote (Apple)
Google Docs

Some Resources:
Article: Create Great Classroom Presentations
Article: Google Docs Presentations
Teacher Templates: PowerPoint
Brainy Betty PowerPoint Menu
PowerPoint Games
Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 Command Reference Guide

Keynote (Apple) Tutorial

Article: Adding Voice Narration to PowerPoint: Microsoft: “Voice Narration”

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2 Office Applications

Google for Educators
includes: Tools for Your Classroom, Classroom Activities, Classroom Posters and Teacher Community

Google Docs in Plain English (YouTube)
Comparison of Using Google Docs and Conventional Wordprocessing (or Things to do with Google Docs)
Teacher Crib Sheet for Docs
Collaborative Revisions with Google Docs
Article: "Getting Good with Google Docs" (TechLearning, 10/07)

Google Earth Blog

Week 13 - Evaluating Web Sites

Web Page Evaluation
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask from UC Berkley Library
Evaluation Criteria (Susan Beck, New Mexico State U.)

Class Activity: Look at one of the following web site and evaluate it using the Evaluation Criteria list. Is the web site a credible source of information? Why or why not?

Group 1 Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Group 2 Moonbeam Enterprises
Group 3 Faked Moon Landings
Group 4 Google Technology
Group 5 History of Fisher Price Airplane

Web-Based Activities

WebQuests
Defined: "A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet..." B. Dodge
The WebQuest Page
Best WebQuests.com
Example: Voices from the Past: An Oral History WebQuest

Virtual Field Trips
Examples: Bodie, California, A Gold Mining Boomtown in the 1800s
Colonial House, A Tour of Life in the Colonial Era

Week 12 - NU Alumni Panel

Class will be held in HSC 200

Our special guests will be:
Jeremy Kowalski, Technician, Information Management Services, Renton School District
Laurie Sween, Education Coordinator, Hope Heart Institute, Seattle
Casey Ward, Science Teacher, Redmond Middle School

Pizza, beverage and dessert will be provided

Bring your questions and be ready for a great time as we dialogue with NU grads who have a great passion for teaching.