Yesterday, I presented a short session on Web 2.0 to school and district administrators from eastern North Carolina. Today is the general conference, and I will be presenting a session on Blogging in the classroom and one on Podcasting.Both sessions are basically survey courses that introduce what blogging and podcasting are, some of the resources to help in blogging and podcasting, and some of the related applications.
Here are links to the wiki handouts for each session.
You will find online handouts here:
I’ve really been looking forward to this conference. The organizers are some friends I have made at Michigan’s MACUL conference and at other events across the county. The lineup of presentations is fantastic, and I’ll actually have time to attend some of them. I wish I could attend all of them.Another reason I have been looking forward to this conference is the nature of my assignment. I begin the conference with “Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century”. This is a good way to start a technology conference, because I designed the address to try to take the emphasis off of the technology, and put it onto the information — literacy. I close the conference with a closing keynote that I developed out of continuing questions that I have received for years after the “Redefining Literacy…” address. “Telling the New Story”, my closing address, seeks to create a context for the new stories that we need to take out into our communities and tell at every opportunity, a story that points to exciting new classrooms and teaching a learning that is relevant to todays changing environment and to a future that we can not even describe.
Here are links to the wiki handouts for each session:
I’m back in one of my favorite places to work, Kansas. OK, it’s usually not at the top of people’s lists for places to go on vacation, but no matter where I am, in Kansas, I feel at home.
The keynote for this symposium is Riding the Edge of the Wave: Teaching on the Edge of Change. It’s a good presentation and a fun one to deliver. The earliest incarnations of this presentation were about emerging and bleeding-edge technologies, including nano-technology, electronic paper, genetic engineering, and the approaching “Singularity”.
The presentation has fairly quickly (over the years) evolved into considerations of technologies and applications that are much closer to use as educations, many of them as close what many of our students are doing in their bedrooms, sitting at their computers.
Here are the wiki handouts for this presentation and other breakout sessions I will be delivering.
The very nature of information is changing. It is becoming increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming. These three prevailing characteristics of the emerging information environment demand that we expand our notions of what it means to be a reader, a processor of information, and a communicator, and they call for a new emparative that we make the ethical use of information an explicit part of the literacy that we teach our children.
Considering the future that we are preparing our children for, a future of continually retooling for new jobs and challenges, we should be teaching literacy, not so much as a basic skill (though it is), but as learning literacy.
Here is a link to the wiki handouts:
On Saturday morning I am delivering a presentation about blogging in education. The focus of this session will be what blogging is, it’s impact on society and culture, and it’s potential as an instructional tool. I will probably also plug in some podcasting and perhaps, some information on RSS.
Here is a link to the wiki handouts:
I’m in Tarrytown, New York, the home of Washington Irving and the occasional sightings of a headless horseman. I’m also with a group of superintendents and technology directors (nearly as scary) to talk about telling the new story.
In brief, leading education into a new century, a time of rapid change, a new information environment, with students who are walking into our classrooms with new learning skills, will require us to tell a compelling new story about the world, our kids, and what needs to be happening in our classrooms to prepare our kids for this world.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that I have straddled two conferences, almost simultaneously, starting in Charlotte with this conference, then flying to Orlando for the FETC conference, and then back to Charlotte. I’m glad to be finishing up the week at home.By all accounts, at the Gala, which I returned in time for, this conference has been a huge success, and the last day promises to be a blast. I’m certainly starting the day with Tony Brewers session. But then I’m working, presenting three ending sessions.
This is a formal style, big picture, presentation that seeks to help us all learn to go out into our communities and to tell new stories about what teacher and learning should look like in the 21st century.
— Telling the New Story wiki handouts
This is actually a much bigger topic than can be done justice in 45 minutes. But, I promise, magic will be seen during these 45 minutes
— Web 2.0 wiki handouts
Again, a difficult topic to cover in 45 minutes. However, all participants will leave believing that they can do this.
— Podcasting wiki handouts
FETC, once again, promises to exceed expectation, of only for the people you get to network with. I met world-class blogger, Will Richardson at the airport, had lunch with Steve Dembo, and met Savvy Technologist podcaster, Tim Wilson at the Podcast Palooza last night.
Today, it’s about the new web and the new shape of information. A range of web applications have emerged over the past two-dozen months that are so changing the way that we think about information, that people are calling it Web 2.0. This presentation seeks to characterize this new web — in only an hour. Good luck, Dave.
I have been looking forward to this event, because I will be able to see some old friends and to share some important messages, beginning with the keynote address, Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. There has been much said, recently, about telling a new story about education. Part of that story is a new sense of the basic skills that students should be learning. This address seeks to defining basic literacy, out of the three Rs, Reading, Riting, & Rithmatic.
The New Shape of Information
The shape of information has changed in the past 10 years, and that transition has excellerated in just the past 18 months. This session will cover some of the emerging technologys (blogging, podcasting, wikis, RSS, social bookmarks, social media, etc.) and how they are changing how we think about information.
