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Southeast North Carolina Technology Directors
Acacia Dixon, of the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction (my old employer), invited me to her monthly meeting of technology directors in Southeastern North Carolina, asking me to present on Web 2.0 technologies, one of my favorite subjects right now. The site is one of my favorite cities, Wilmington, NC.
I’m looking forward to talking about some of the connections between read/write web concepts and the desire of most of us to move toward more student-directed, inquiry style learning. Again, thanks to Ewan McIntosh for opening my eyes.
Here are the interactive wiki handouts for this Web 2.0 presentation.
The Changing Shape of Information
Flat World Symposium
MacWorld 2006 — K-12 Market Symposium
The Keynote
PodcasterCon 2006
- My standard podcasting session wiki
- The PodcasterCon wiki page on the session
- And the work session wiki, which I hope will expand into something valuable during the session
Also, our hope is to record the entire sessions so that it can be podcasted. If we are successful, I’ll provide a link here.
The Flattening of the Web
New Literacy & New Web Workshop for ESC Region 10 Staff in Richardson Texas
- Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century
- An Educator’s Guide to Web 2.0
It is important to acknowledge the supreme importance of reading, arithmetic, and writing. They are more important today than at any point in our history. However, it is equally important that we expand our notions of what it means to be a reader, a processor of information and a communicator, when information is increasingly networked, digital, and overwhelming, and to understand the new ethical implications of the new information environment.
There are a series of new technologies that have emerged in recent months that have so changed the way that we use information and the Internet, that they are increasingly being called Web 2.0. The new effect is that people are beginning to connect with each other in new ways, through their content.
Emerging Technologies Conference
- Riding the Edge of the Wave
- A Teacher’s Guide to RSS
- A Teacher’s Guide to Weblogs, Wikis, & Podcasting
The one thing that is constant in this day and time… is Change. Compare your life as a child and the technologies that we took for granted, to those of our students, and think about how different their world is from the one we were taught in 10, 20, or 30 years ago.
The nature of information has changed !!!!!in just the last 10 years, much of it in recent months. This enlightening presentation will help educators to understand how contemporary information is affecting our world and how we might tap into the new information environments in order to better prepare children for their information-driven, technology-rich future.
At the turn of the century, teachers in classrooms across the U.S. and many other parts of the world were becoming acquainted with newly arrived multimedia computers and broadband* access to the Internet. We were exploring new techniques for utilizing these seemingly magical tools to facilitate better teaching and learning. We also recognized the importance of these technologies in preparing our children for what will surely be a future that is heavily influenced by computers and global networks. We explored a wide variety of new web-based instructional services and learned to build webquests* for our students, to provide rich inquiry activities to help students learn to use the Net to teach themselves and to use their growing knowledge and skills to produce new knowledge and valuable information products.
Traditions at the Glen
- Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century
- Blogs, Wikis, & Podcasting: And the Emerging Web 2.0
As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.
Carrol Middle School
Anaheim, CA