76:48 minutes (17.58 MB)

It’s Elementary show # 27 was a discussion with Angela Maiers about
21st century literacies. Angela is located in Clive, Iowa and currently
works as an independent consultant with both schools and employers. She
explained the brain research that is the foundation for these literacy
strategies was first discussed in the literature five decades ago. 
Angela divides these literacies into several important categories
(quoting from her website):

 

 

46:10 minutes (10.57 MB)

Have a listen as the It's Elementary Team discusses the Connectivsm Course facilitated by Stephen Downes and George Siemens with our Guests Bradley Shoebottom, [ http://bradleyshoebottom.wordpress.com/ ] and Wendy Drexler [ http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/ ]With Dave Comier coming in to join the conversation.  Click on attachment to view the chat.

63:29 minutes (29.06 MB)

This week our guests were Kathy Cassidy from Moose Jaw SK , a grade 1 teacher, Leah Welch from Hamden Maine, a grade 1 teacher and formerly a kindergarten teacher, and Amanda Marrinan from Brisbane Australia who teaches 6 and 7 year olds. These teachers do amazing things with their students - blogging, video, moodle, google docs, and more. Kathy, Leah and Amanda sharedtheir practice and talked about the details in how they make things work. The time flew as we all listened to the stories of their work with young children.

60:33 minutes (13.86 MB)

In It's Elementary #24 we talked with Dean Shareski and Wesley Fryer, two of the conveners for the k12Online2008 Conference. Dean is a Digital Learning Consultant with a school in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Westley Fryer is the Director of the Olklahoma Heritage Association. The K12Online2008 conference is totally online, including both synchronous and asynchronous components. This year's pre-conference keynote will be given by Heppell Next week. (week of October 13th) The conferece contains four strands 1. Getting Started 2. Prove it. 3. Kicking it Up A Notch 4. Leading the Change Within each strand, there are many presentations that fit that theme. Several of the presenters prepared teasers, or short advertisements. of their presenations. These are available at http://k12onlineconference.org/?cat=27 More information can be found at http://k12onlineconference.org Join us for our next show on October 27th where we will discuss technology in the Early Childhood Classroom. To read Chat see attachment

60:46 minutes (27.82 MB)We were joined this week by Stephen Lewis, principal of Oak Ridge Elementary. Stephen shared his experiences as principal of a Title One school and how technology is present in the school. Alice Mercer is the tech integrator at the school. Stephen and Alice discussed the issues, joys and challenges of their work. We continued to stream for part of our post show.

Next show - October 6, 2008 where we will talk about the K12Online Conference with the conference conveners.
Chat Log

40:32 minutes (9.28 MB)

Come have a listen as we discuss Gaming in education with our guest, Tom Turner, we talked about why and how you can use online and computer games in education. The discussion points were:

1. Defining different types of computer games
2. Educational opportunities and learning objectives in these games
3. Barriers to using them in the classroom
4. Games that will likely never be in a classroom (first-person shooter games, e.g. Halo, GTA)

Our next show will be on September 8th, 2008 at our usual time 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern at Edtechtalk

52:17 minutes (23.94 MB)

This show featured Clif Mims, a professor at Memphis State University, and Bethany Smith, an Instructional Technologist at North Carolina State University. Both of them work with pre-service teachers to help them learn about how to effectively use technology in the classroom.

We started off with our backgrounds, and what we were required to do vis-a-vis technology in our pre-service. Then we looked at these essential questions:

• Are pre-service teachers being well prepared for entering k12 classrooms today.?
• Are pre-service teachers bored in college lectures? Does this affect entry into the field?
• What are your recommendations for best preparing pre-service teachers?

Bethany felt that teachers needed to have a PLN through Ning, or another service, to go to. Clif thought they needed to see examples of teacher who are using technology successfully. Alice felt that with the advent of more scripted/prescribed curriculum, teachers needed to see what project-based learning looked like. It was a great discussion, and the text chat log below includes comments from teachers who are taking a class on education technology.

20:19 minutes (9.3 MB)

Alice Mercer and Maria Knee, co-hosts of the show, were live from the Bloggers' Cafe at NECC and joined by Derrall Garrison. They interviewed several EduBloggerCon participants about their day and impressions of the event. Despite several connectivity issues they brought several people into the show including Gail Desler, Maggie Tsai, & Jo McLeay. You can find links we talked about in our diigo
Links:
The NECC Ning http://necc2008.ning.com/
NECC main site http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2008/
eduBloggerCon Wiki http://www.edubloggercon.com/NECC%202008
Bud Hunt's BackChannel https://www.chatterous.com/accounts/login/
Summize http://summize.com/
Plurk http://www.plurk.com/
Mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/

Leave comments and visit our blog at http://itslementary.edublogs.com Join us the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 4pm pacific, 7pm eastern, & 23:00GMT at www.edtechtalk.com/live

38:38 minutes (17.68 MB)

The It's Elementary team shares the successes and challenges of their year.

Points of interest:

• Technology is not a something separate, but an integral part of our teaching
• We use it to help kids make connections to the rest of the world
• Some issues were how to get kids used to writing, and not just playing on computers, how to plan and allocate time on the computers, and how much choice to give kids.
• How annoying, and brain-dead e-rate filtering programs are to deal with.

Leave us you comments and visit our blog http://itslementary.edublogs.com Our next show will be a live report from NECC 2008. Stay tuned for date and time.

53:01 minutes (12.13 MB)

We had a great discussion with James Sigler

1. James Sigler shared his background and how he started video-conferencing, including some pertinent points

• It involved serendipity and a willingness to try something new, rather than a technology plan...

2. Why do it?

• Our guest and host shared about the learning connections they've made, and students make using this
• We discussed the standards, like NETS Communication and Collaboration and looking on how our students are communicating with authentic audiences.

4. The It's Elementary team share their experiences

5. And shared barriers to effective implementation or sustainability, blocking and coordinating schedule/time zones came up as the big issues.

We then threw it open and had the audience join in.

Our Next show will be on Monday June 9th, Year in Review. What were your sucesses and challanges? What are your plans for 2008-09? Visit our Blog at http://itselementary.edublogs.org

Chat Below

61:49 minutes (14.15 MB)

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 Click on attachment to view Chat Log

40:20 minutes (18.46 MB)

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

Chat Log Below

48:41 minutes (22.28 MB)

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...

• Why to use video in the classroom
• How to structure projects for success
• Resources to help you with projects
• Problems we had, and how to deal with them

Links

Mathew's video work: http://www.videointheclassroom.com
Digital Storytelling by Room36 Jose:
http://ia340929.us.archive.org/2/items/JoseRodriguezADigitalStoryAboutStorytelling/HumphreysDigitalStory.mov

Royalty Free Images for projects
http://www.pics4learning.com
http://www.morguefile.com
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Content Links/Tutorials
http://www.flickschool.com, Marco Torres's site
http://www.videointheclassroom.com for monthly digital storytelling carnival
http:www.unitedstreaming.com for AFI's training films
Microsoft MovieMaker
Microsoft PhotoStory

Visit our blog at http://itselementary.edublogs.org

Chat Below

40:37 minutes (18.6 MB)

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.

 

Chat Log Below

60:24 minutes (27.65 MB)

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!

52:57 minutes (24.24 MB)

Our guest, Jennifer Dorman, gave lots of great information about using RSS in education.

1. We defined RSS feeds (sorta like a magazine subscription, but online);
2. We discussed why you would want to use it as a teacher, and in your classroom;
3. 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
4. We talked about opportunities and challenges.

You can find our planning wiki here.

Some featured bookmarks from the show are here:

• From Jennifer Dorman:
  RSS for Educators wiki page
  RSS Presentation file
• RSS in Plain English (from Lee LeFever at CommonCraft, examples it really simply)

A more extensive list of bookmark is here on Diigo.

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!

Chat Log Below

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46:21 minutes (21.22 MB)

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.

 

Chat Log

36:12 minutes (16.57 MB)

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.

Chat Log Below

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/

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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.

43:03 minutes (9.86 MB)

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!

Chat Log Below

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.

Jim started with a slideshare on Moodle in the classroom:
http://www.slideshare.net/jgates513/moodle-for-elementary-grades

1. He then talked us through the slides which highlighted the features in a moodle.
2. It's a great walled garden system that has a number of modules that you can pick and choose from.
3. There is even a great basic wiki, and word list/glossary builder feature.
4. There is a free moodle services available at http://globalclassroom.us/

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.

Chat Log Below

24:03 minutes (22.01 MB)

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