21st Century Learning #98
Designing an Open Online Teacher Academy  -- Part 2
March 19, 2009

Week 2 of figuring out how to design an online teacher academy. 

We're starting to nail down a goal for this academy: 

The goal of this experience is to:
1. Teach online tools in the context of teaching and learning
2. Creating online community to model and sustain this learning

 *Please not that these are in draft form.

This online teacher academy starts by walking its participants through some basic online tools while building a community, and creates a structure for the participants to create and document new work thus leaving a legacy for the next generation of learners. 

With these goals and constructs, where do you see this going?  Leave us a comment here or over at the isenet.ning.com/forum/topics/call-for-a-conversation-onlineISENet ning.

 

Photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/405736372/

25:46 minutes (23.64 MB)

Barbara Bray shares http://my-ecoach.com/ with us and describes its history and rich resources for educators. Special thanks to Jeff Lebow for helping Sharon with the streaming and archiving! 

 

Chat Log

66:24 minutes (15.4 MB)

A lively discussion with Lucy Gray who introduces us to  Don Buckley, Karen Blumberg, Andrew Gardner of the innovative school, THE School at Columbia.

Chat Log:

 

63:21 minutes (57.99 MB)

21st Century Learning #82 Tom Daccord

October 30, 2008

Tom Daccord joined us this week to discuss "The Great Debate of
2008" project.  An interesting coversation about using Wikis and NINGs
to facilitate online interactions between students at schools around
the country.  

Next Thursday, November 6th. 2008 at 2:30 EST we'll be doing a NEIT 2008 preview show.   See you there.

 

Click Here for the Chat Transcript

22:35 minutes (10.37 MB)

Week 44, WoW 2.0, Cheryl, Jen, Vicki and Sharon are joined by Dianne Hammond, from yesican-science.ca for an evening of online collaboration that is out of this world! Why? Because it is a project where you and your class can blog with an astronaut from the Internation Space Station.

SKYPE gave us a little echo at the beginning of the show, for FREE!

Come learn some more.

Chat, and all the great links.

62:54 minutes (21.59 MB)

We are having a week-long tech institute at our school - the opeing day will provide  frame wiht a focus on Web 2.0 - the importance of students having opportunites to use 21st skills for learning - because of the extrodinary value of the skills themselves. I am looking for a perfect web 2.0 opening - to hook and energize the teachers attending and to give them a sense of what Web 2.0 means - I need ideas !!!!!!