Week of September 19-25, 2009
Welcome to the newsletter for the entire EdTechTalk community! This week we enjoyed the K12Online2009conference LAN Party, which featured four presentations from previous k12Online Conferences followed by a discussion period in the chat room. The original presenters participated as well. More information about the k12Online Conference is available at http://k12onlineconference.org/
Also at EdTechTalk this week, Curtis Bonk paid us a visit. This professor, speaker, and author (just a few of the many hats he wears) spoke about his new book, The World is Open, How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education.
His book is available at several bookdealers and for the Kindle. A list is available at Wiley & Sons.
It's Elementary Equinox 2009
Have a listen to a special edition of It's Elementary Webcast / Earthcast09 Echo / 350.org promo show. This is a call to the Edtechtalk community to global action to save our planet. Please join our sister site Puente Al Mundo in putting together 350 podcast of up to 350 seconds each on message to world leaders on saving the Earth. All interested please twitter @coordinatortwo.
SEEDLings 2009-9-24 Quest Atlantis
Teachers Teaching Teachers #165 - 08.26.09 - Meet Lisa Dick and George Haines: Talking about research and diigo
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we had a conversation about Diigo and annotations with Lisa Dick, Computer Education a teacher Northern Louisiana @tidertechie. I had put out a call for teachers who use Diigo with their students, and Lisa answered that call.
We also talked with George Haines @oline73. George teaches 7th Graders out on Long Island. One of his sites, by the way is a Google Site, so there’s more to talk about there, since I’ve been building a prototype of what I want students to do. Anyway… George and I connected on Twitter because I was wondering about how to keep my up-coming curriculum focused on self-initiated, self-interested, self-sustaining inquiries.
At Youth Voices, we do a lot of work around this question. We’ve borrowed James A. Beane’s beginning point in his Curriculum Integration work. It’s from Beane that we got the idea to have students write “10 self and 10 world questions“ There’s been a lot of — “Well, maybe we need to do this or that instead.” — And I’m open to some of this, but I still find this simple beginning place to be incredibly powerful.
Getting back to George Haines, he had some ideas that he said were too long to put into 140 characters, ideas about how to kick off self-directed projects. So we invited him onto TTT.
In short, we talked about research, annotating resources, sharing them in diigo, and we talked about why we do this self-motivated, “I-search” in the first place… and we’ll be meeting two new teachers. That’s the most wonderful part of this story. I had never met Lisa Dick or George Hines or the others that joined us on this webcast. We hope you enjoy meeting them too.
Larry shared his experiences in engaging parent using home visits and community partnerships.
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