Questions for Extended Dialogue from VIta Learn NW Meeting

Submitted by Lucie deLaBruere on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 15:32.

  At Vita Learn NW Meetings we have added a component to our Sharing that ask people to share not only what's new, but also some questions they are seeking answers to.  We are encouraging participants to extend the conversations that are started at our meetings by going online to VTCITE to further discuss these issues.  Here are the questions that came up this time.  If you have some ideas and insights about these (or even further questions), why not reply in the comment area and extend the discussion.

        Q: How to do Linux in the classroom?

        Q: How to best network with other technology integration specialist.

        Q: How to best work with Web 2.0 tools with students under 13.

        Q Would like to talk about federal monitoring of teacher training?

        Q How are people are managing the support end of the Web 2.0 tool?

        Q What are folks doing re: netbooks;

        Q Curriculum mapping and DI focus at school -- How do other schools do it?

        Q: What about the state technology plan?

        Q: We are sharing, but not doing it very well. How do we do it better?

          Q What are your policies are personal devices?
           

          Q: How do you support increased activity when more teachers adopt technology?

          Q How to handle the fact that the high school kids damage laptops?

          Q: What are your experiences with netbooks? What are their place in our schools?

          Q: People who have my jobs have different standards of measurements

          how can we change the measurement to be we are all supporting “student learning”
          How do we assign level of priority to projects?

           

          Q how we dealing with reliance on outside services?

          i.e. Sketchcast is gone; How do we deal with reliable things that are going to be around Google Pages is now gone

          Who is maintaining their own blog and services?

          What about the competitors to Flip Videos?

           

          Q: What are your policies for using Web 2.0 tools? Does anyone differentiate protocols or policies for using web 2.0 tools for process work vs. publishing marketing quality final work?

           

          Q: How do we keep up

          What's good? How do we deal with “I don't have time

     

     

     

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    cool.....

    Submitted by londonmoon on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 20:21.

    These are some totally great suggestions on questions. Will be coming to the next meeting.

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    Submitted by lparren on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 18:16.

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    Great comments, Pam.  Thanks for taking the time to respond.  Lucie, I guess it feels as if there are too many questions here and no time to be thoughtful about responses.  I love the dialogue at the NW meetings and I guess that is one instance where f2f is more effective?  Perhaps we could limit the questions to one or two really compelling ones?  I'm not sure how to do that, but perhaps "we" (whomever that is) might look for trends or patterns in the questioning and narrow the questions that way...I feel like VTcite is a new source of guilt!

    Suggestions for using 2.0 tools with students under 13

    Submitted by Pam Burke on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 09:53.

    A few suggestions...

    • Don't use tools that requires a student to use a personal email address. (There are different ways to get around this, some sites like pbwiki now allow you to generate user logins for students. Edublogs will allow blog comments without email addresses, etc.)
    • Preview drafts of student work & engage them in editing.
    • The teacher should be the admin of the site and, depending on the project, require approval for posts.
    • With blog projects, require students comment on each other's posts. Encourage students to make comments brief, conversational and original.
    • Protect their privacy by having students use pseudonyms and develop their online voice by always using the same pseudonym.
    • Practice & teach respectful dialogue. (This does not come as easily as you would expect online. Tone is a challenge for new writers and kids love to use all caps and lots of exclamation points, they don't realize they're shouting.)
    • Make it an assignment, not a suggested activity.
    • Give students time in school to use the tool, do not expect kids to do it from home (remember the digital divide).
    • Also use it as a fun time-filler for kids who finish other tasks early.

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    Thanks for suggestion

    Submitted by Lucie deLaBruere on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 21:30.

    Thanks for the suggestions, Pam.
    If you were present at our next Vita Learn NW Meeting (I"d have a special prize for you) for contributing to this discussion online.  Hopefully others will join in.

    Lucie deLaBruere
    www.LearningWithLucie.com