Mark Ahlness joined us to talk about his Earth Groceries Bag Project. Students decorate paper grocery bags to be used in grocery stores with messages about the Earth. To remind shoppers to take care of our environment and Earth. This project is now celebrating it’s 15th year with hundreds and thousands of participating students all over the world. Mark talked about the history and development of the project and plans for future years.You’ll find tons of resources to get you started at the project website at http://earthdaybags.org
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It was a great show (chat room was rocking) as
we shared what made Ed Tech Talk important to us, and where It's
Elementary fits into the Edtechtalk Community.
Here was what we covered:
Questions to ask:
What is Ed Tech Talk? What can it do for you?
Why It's Elementary? How does it help you?
Reasons to use this place...
Challenges -- Is if really for me?
Examples - ETT show favorites from the It's Elementary Team
We welcomed Mathew Needleman who discussed Video in the Classroom.
Maria was unable to join us due to her mother's birthday (happy
birthday to you!), Alice discussed attending Mathew's presentation at CUE last
week. Her blog post is here it includes links to his presentation. We touched on...
Have a listen as we discuss Conferences and what makes them 2.0.
What makes a face-to-face conference 2.0? Is it the conversations, how
they are organized (what are the topics, and how decided), lecture vs.
hands on.
Listen as we give our experiences with recent conferences and our
expectations as teachers using Web 2.0 tools. We gave examples and how
the bar is moving up with Web 2.0 tools like wikis, Skype, twitter and
Ustream and the like. We also spoke about the unconference format as
seen at educon at NECC and recently at SLA.
What can the presenter do to make it more 2.0?
Have a wiki for the presentation. Tags set up. Allow for and encourage
backchannel conversation. Reach out to virtual attendees and others out
on the web live with tools like Skype and Ustream.
What can the participants do to make it 2.0?
Adding notes to wiki presenter page. Live Blogging.
Blog and use session tag. Record and post as podcasts like David Warlick, Bob Sprankle and Wes Fryer.
Join us the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month. 4pm pacific, 7pm
eastern at www.edtechtalk.com/live Our next show will be on Monday
March 10th, 2008. We will be discussing Video in the Classroom with our
guest Mathew Needleman.
Lisa and Maria shared their EduCon 2.0 experience with several guests who were also in attendance. The post show conversation added to the overall discussion and the chat room was lively as well. It was a record breaker!
Our guest, Jennifer Dorman, gave lots of great information about using RSS in education.
We defined RSS feeds (sorta like a magazine subscription, but online);
We discussed why you would want to use it as a teacher, and in your classroom;
We shared examples of how we use it (sometimes for ourselves and
our professional development, sometimes to automate information given
to and from students); and
One issue that came up was the lack of RSS on content pages geared towards students. We've used feeds from Highlights, and Discovery Science.
If you have other elementary-age content that has an RSS feed, please
share it on in our Diigo group, or here as a comment. Thanks!
With our Guest Steve Hargadon. Steve shares his insights about tagging with us.
Our discussion included use of tagging in blogs, pictures, in social bookmarking, at conferences, and with our students.
Steve talked about the purpose and structure of tagging. We use
tags on content we produce so that it is useful to others on the net.
The use of tags in social bookmarking such as del.icio.us and diggo
are examples. We are able to see how others tag content on the web.
We can tag our own content using similar taxonomy or create our own.
Steve reminded us that there is tension between using standardized tags
versus a more independent free flowing tag system. We can use
technorati and or Blog search engines like google to make sense of all
the content.
At NECC 2007
session specific tags were proposed and adopted by the community. This
standardized form of tagging allowed for aggregation session specific
content. The same system is also used in classroom 2.0 to standardize the way blog posts and other content is tagged.
Our next show will be on January 14th, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific / 7:00 p.m. Eastern. at Edtechtalk
Our guest for this show is Aimee Bissonette whose legal practice
focuses on copyright and trademark law, as well as rights licensing
issues. Alice presents a case study to inform teachers about copyright
and how it affects multimedia projects that you post on the web.
We continue our conversation about the K12 Online Conference. The show includes Jose Rodriguez, third grade teacher in Los Angeles CA, Alice Mercer, an elementary computer lab teacher in Sacramento, CA, Maria Knee, a kindergarten teacher from Deerfield, NH. Lisa Durff, a K12 teacher in Maryland was unable to join us for this show. We share some impressions and reactions to the presentations and discuss what we look forward to viewing during the upcoming week.
36:44 minutes (16.82 MB)We preview the K12Online2007 Conference in this show. We give our picks for
Conference and get the inside news from the K12Online2007 organizers.
Join us and our guests Wes Fryer & Lani
Ritter-Hall, two of the conveners of the conference. The conference is at http://k12onlineconference.org/
Click to play 64:06 minutes (7.34 MB)Getting Connected: plug into the network with
our guest: John Pederson. We streamed on the EdTechTalk
Channel of the Worldbridges network. The show includes Lisa Durff, a
K12 teacher in Maryland, Jose Rodriguez, third grade teacher in Los Angeles CA,
Alice Mercer, an elementary computer lab teacher in Sacramento, CA,
Maria Knee, a kindergarten teacher from Deerfield, NH. We discussed
social networking with our guest John Pederson, including ning, the
worldbridges communities, twitter, blogs, and Flickr.
Come and listen as we talk about our projects. This is our Back to School Special. The It's Elementary Team; Lisa Durff, Maria Knee, Alice Mercer and Jose Rodriguez. As the Webcastathon begins to wind down the Chat Room was buzzing. We had some of our regulars and special visitors from New Zealand. Hope you enjoy the show!
46:22 minutes (21.23 MB)It was another great show with James Gates of Tipline - Gates? Computer Tips
taking us through Moodle, and it's features. Jim was excited and
passionate about this subject as you'll be able to tell from the show
audio.
Our Diigo links
for this show include some school sites using moodle. Many have guest
sign-in that will let you look at pages without editing privileges.
Please join us on September 24th, 2007 for a discussion of social networks in Education with John Pederson.
Our next show will be on Monday September 10 at 4 p.m. PDT/6 p.m.
CDT/8 p.m. EDT, on the subject of the use of Moodle in the elementary
classroom with our guest, James Gates of http://eduspaces.net/jamesg/weblog Join us then, at http://edtechtalk.com/chat!
Our Diigo links which include more podcasting resources than we could cover in a 30 minute show. Check them out if you'd like more information.
Our next show will be on Monday August 27 at 4 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. CDT/8
p.m. EDT, on the subject of essentials for Web 2.0 in the elementary
classroom with our guest, Christopher Shively, from On the Trails to Teaching and Learning. Join us then, at http://edtechtalk.com/chat!
We had a great show discussing Webquests in the elementary classroom.
First, we shared the wiki that we used to plan this show. Then we defined what a Webquest is and talked about Bernie Dodge, who is the "father" of Webquests.
Lisa shared a Webquest template and Jose Rodriguez, shared the Webquest he is using with his summer school class. We then went through some resources, which can be found on our Diigo list.
Here is a great slideshow on Webquests:
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We were then joined by Lisa Parisi who discussed work she had done with her students using the internet for inquiry based research.
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