Transcript Connecting Your Classroom with Modern Education Tools

Connecting Your
Classroom with
Modern Education
Tools
Presented by
Mark McLendon
Introduction: What We will
Learn
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What does it mean to have a Connected
Classroom?.
What are modern Internet tools?
How Does Using Modern Media tools benefit
you and your students?.
Better Teaching and time management
through Technology.
Modern Tools for a Connected
Classroom…. What’s that?
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Connected Learning is an educational
approach designed for our ever-changing
world. It makes learning relevant to all
populations, to real life and real work, and to
the realities of the digital age, where the
demand for learning never stops.
https://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.co
m/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
What is Web 2.0 I just figured
out how to Program Tivo!
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Web 2.0 at Dictionary.com. Web 2.0. Web
2.0. is a second generation in the
development of the World Wide Web,
conceived as a combination of concepts,
trends, and technologies that focus on user
collaboration, sharing of user-generated
content, and social networking
Web Tools 2.0 for your
Classroom
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Diigo: One Tech On the Web to Find them all.
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Diigo is a powerful online collaborative research
platform that integrates web technologies; social
bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and
group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new
process of online knowledge management and
participatory learning in the 21st century.
Web 2.0 Tools for your
Classroom
Scoop-It One tech to bind them all
Scoop-It : A Curated Collecting Website What is a curated
Website? Curate:
Twitter: 140 Characters Of Communication and Education
Power. What is a Micro-Blogger
Finding and Using Technology for Your Class and For You.
What is Diigo?:
Now we will :
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Define Diigo
What is Diigo and how does it work?
How do you get started with Diigo?
Discuss, and highlight how to utilize Diigo For
personal and professional Research,
Educational practice and Planning,
Exploration and as a learning tool for
Students and Educators.
Lesson 1: Setting up and
Using Diigo
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The name "Diigo" is an
acronym from "Digest
of Internet Information,
Groups and Other
stuff".
Please watch this Video
and then set up a Diigo
Account using the
school’s Email Account.
Why Use:
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Why Diigo?
Diigo is a powerful online research tool and
collaborative research platform that
integrates several key technologies, including
social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging,
and group-based collaboration, to enable a
whole new process of online knowledge
management and participatory learning in the
21st century.
GETTING STARTED WITH
Getting Started with Diigo
1.Go to the website, Diigo.com http://www.diigo.com/)
2.Select “join Diigo” At the top left on the page
3.Complete and submit “Create your account”
4.A message will appear stating “Hi, _________, your Diigo account has
been activated. Welcome to the Diigo community!” You now have access to
your Diigo account.
5.As an educator, you have the wonderful opportunity to use the Diigo.com
site for education. It is located at http://www.diigo.com/education.
GETTING STARTED WITH
6.Complete and submit the form. The education site allows
use of Diigo with your students in the future. It will take 24-48
hours to receive a response back from Diigo (It is important
that you use your school email for the Diigo education form)
7.Download the Diigo toolbar
(http://www.diigo.com/tools/toolbar) for your web browser. This
can be downloaded on multiple computers (If you do not like
toolbars, Diigo offers the Digolet which does not require a
toolbar, http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet)
8.Begin testing out Diigo by bookmarking and enjoy your
experience.
With Diigo you can Collect
Everything
Bookmark and archive webpages - Annotate webpages
with highlights & sticky notes - Save notes or to-dos using
our slick Quick Note app - Capture and Annotate
Screenshot
Find Fast
- Organize your digital items by types, tags, and lists Search by tags, titles or full-text
Easily Share
- Share one item or a whole collection as a list - Form
groups of people to collaboratively pool resources - Share
your findings, complete with your annotations, by email,
RSS feed, twitter, permalink, widget, etc.
Using Diigo to Create, Research, Plan and
Grow your practice. And one Web Tool to rule
them all!
For You as an Educator or Researcher Collect Everything-Find it all
- Bookmark and archive webpages - Annotate webpages with highlights & sticky
notes - Save notes or to-dos using Quick Note app - Capture and Annotate
Screenshots
Find Fast
- Organize your digital items by types, tags, and lists - Search by tags, titles or fulltext
Easily Share
- Share one item or a whole collection as a list - Form groups of people to
collaboratively pool resources - Share your findings, complete with your
annotations, by email, RSS feed, twitter, permalink, widget, etc.
Access Anywhere
-your digital library can be accessed and searched from any computer,
You can also access your bookmarks and favorites from free downloadable apps
on iPhone, iPad (http://bit.ly/e2ujpL), and Android (http://goo.gl/tvbuq)
Using Diigo Every Day in the
Classroom
For Students and Classrooms
Diigo is a great enabler for active reading, project-based learning, and better
collaboration, particularly with respect to:
•how students and teachers acquire, research and organize information;
•how students can engage in active and critical reading online;
•how teachers and students can engage each other collaboratively in reading,
researching, interpreting, and critiquing information;
• students can work effectively as a team, in project-based learning, that
requires the team to acquire, analyze and synthesize information from a
variety of resources;
GETTING STARTED WITH
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To learn more how Diigo is being used in classroom
and to get some lesson ideas, please check out:
Using Diigo in classroom >>
https://sites.google.com/site/team8project9440/
using-diigo-in-the-classroom-2
These are just a few of the possible uses of Diigo in the classroom. To
learn more about using Diigo with students, visit these pages:
•Diigo Educator Accounts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkrHFM3s8Bc
•Lesson Plans
•Video Training
Video* below is from Learn it in 5 - Diigo Groups
(http://www.learnitin5.com/Diigo-Groups).
Diigo V5.0: Collect, Highlight and Remember!
http://youtu.be/nkrHFM3s8Bc
Diigo: Wrap-up
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Diigolet Tool.
Using Bookmark
Using Highlight
Now is the time for More questions.
Scoop-It: Learn To Scoop-It
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Learn to set up and utilize a Scoop-it account
for Education
Define and understand the meaning of
Curation as it applies to Curating websites
and Your Scoop-it Magazines
*Curate: to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as
music or website content: “We curate our merchandise with a sharp
eye for trending fashion,” the store manager explained.
*http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Curation?&o=100074&s=t
Curate? What is That?
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*Content curation is when an individual (or
team) consistently finds, organizes,
annotates and shares the most relevant and
highest quality digital content on a specific
topic for their target market. Curation is a
great way to support your created content
strategy, publish content consistently and
keep track of your favorite information
sources.
http://www.curata.com/blog/content-curation-tools-the-ultimate-list/
Scoop-It: Getting Started!
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Getting Started with
Scoop-it For Teachers
Please watch this Video
and set up a Scoop-It
Account.
Questions
What is Scoop-It?:
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Now we will :
Define Scoop-it
What is Scoop-it and how does it work?
Discuss, and highlight how to utilize Scoop-It
For personal and professional Research,
Educational practice and Planning,
Exploration and as a learning tool for
Students and Educators. (Video)
What is Scoop-It
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Scoop-it is a Online Curation and Data
Compilation tool that allows you to Share
Data and Collaborate Information almost like
Facebook.
Scoop-it is a web based information
management system. It was initially
designed to process business information
from the World Wide Web.
Scoop-It How Does it Work?
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How scoop-it works for me is as a targeted
meta-search engine that allows me to locate,
learn about, collect and then publish
information from a variety of Data sources.
As an information tool it allows the user to
develop a collection of information sources
that relate to topics of interest.
Scoop-It… For What?
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For my students and for myself as an educator Scoop-it
gives immediate access to information sources that have
already been “vetted” or examined by someone who may
already have expertise in the area that I am researching.
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I have used Scoop-it to create a “Utilizing Technology in
the Classroom collection. Based solely on going through
the suggestions and then following those suggestions
back to their source through either the curator or the
resource they were citing.
Scoop-It: Wrap-up
Review of the Video
 What does it mean to Curate?
 How Do You Find Groups?
 What is a Digital Magazine?
 Questions About Scoop-It?
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Scoop it Is not Free But You should use the Free
Version!
Classrooms All A-Twitter
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Do you currently or have you ever Tweeted?
If you have never Tweeted Why?
Oh…You Tweet Everyday Why not to your
students?
Getting Tweety with it!
Twitter: 140 Characters for
Learning!
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How Can You Use
Twitter For Your
Practice?
How to use Twitter
with your students,
Parents and Other
Teachers across the
world!
Twitter: To Tweet or
Not to Tweet
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How could You Use Twitter?
time for questions.
Micro-Blogging Can you Say anything useful
in 140 characters?
http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-usetwitter-classroom
Why Connect Your Classroom
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Curating Websites and Using Web tools is
applied Critical Thinking.
Digital Citizenship is the New Black
Teaching students to use critical thinking and
safe practices with Social Media Is a Benefit
to them regardless of other outcomes
Other Resources.
Assessment and Evaluation
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Have you gotten your Response Emails yet?
How would you define Curation?
Are you more or less confident in your ability
to use Tech in your Practice?
What can you and will you use tomorrow?
Do you want to build a Lesson Plan