November 1st, 2007 at ESD 113
Notes
Achieve 3000 Presentation
We watch a very impressive presentation of non-fiction reading material being adapted to appropriate reading levels, www.achieve3000.comQwest Grants
9 $10,000 Qwest grants for teachers using techology in the classroom. Look for this in December. Contact Julia Fallon at OSPI for more information.IT Summit
During the NCCE Conference there will be an IT Summit. The theme will be, 'how do we get to 21st century skills in the classroom from the administrative and IT perspective.John Kuglin - 21st Century Skills
Building blocks to 21st century skills- CIO Eagle County Schools
- S.W.I.M. - Need to understand the following:
- Space
- Sputnik 1957
- Force through changes in education
- Chinese in space
- Web 2.0
- Zamzar - media converstion tool
- Ning -
- Jing - screencasting
- Teacher Tube - videos for education
- Picasa photo
- Answer.com - creates context for any term
- Wizig - online classroom
- eBoard - teacher web sites
- Common Craft videos
- Infrastructure
- Have Hi-def and other networked material
- Media
- Design to deliver information that can be recalled later
- Discovery Education, www.discoveryeducation.com and One Place, single log on for educational resources
- Knowledge works foundation, www.kwfdn.org/
- Marc Prensky - Digital natives and immigrants
- World is Flat, Friedman leveling of the competition
- BusinessWeek, China and India, Aug 22, 2005 Pie Chart
- Did You Know video demonstrates the world of a knowledge society
- Visualization of data, by putting information into layers to see relationships
- Google earth is a platform for advance 21st century teaching
- Check out the featured content page at Google earth page