Here's where we are inviting the presenters of this particular session, from all three shows, to come and share their examples of applications or types of technologies that are changing education.
Agenda for Florida
Agenda for Chicago
Agenda for California
Blogging [David Warlick]
Description: Blogging is an entirely unimpressive technology. You fill in a web form, press the submit button, and you have updated a web page. We've been doing that for years. What has made blogging so phenomenally special is what people have done with it. What has emerged on the Internet, over the past handful of years is a growing layer of content that can best be described as conversation.
It's benefits to education are both obvious and subtle. Come to the New Technologies that are Changing Education for more.
URLS for learning more:
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE BLOGS.
Social Bookmarking
Description: xxxxxx
URLS for learning more:
- Bloglines
- xvdfsfj
- jlfsdjksdjf
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TOOLS, LIKE del.icio.us and FURL
Wikis
Description: xxxxxx
URLS for learning more:
- Bloglines
- xvdfsfj
- jlfsdjksdjf
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE WIKIS.
Podcasting
Description: xxxxxx
URLS for learning more:
- Bloglines
- xvdfsfj
- jlfsdjksdjf
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE PODCASTING.
Flickr
Description: With over 400 million photographs, Flickr is the largest photo sharing site on the Web. The applications of Flickr imagery to visual literacy instruction in education is wide-ranging, from single image writing projects to mulitple image digital storytelling events. As a Web 2.0 tool, Flickr supports social networking tools such as groups, commenting, and RSS. Flickr users also have the capability to apply Creative Commons licensing to the photos they upload, providing students with the opportunity to understand how online intellectual property rights are applied to original works. Finally, Flickr's open API infrastructure has enabled programmers to tap into the Flickr database of imagery, and develop a huge number of third-party online applications for the creative use of Flickr photograph, further increasing the site's value to educators.
URL for learning more: flickr.com
The Top 10 Flickr Resources at the TechForum Wiki
RSS
Description: RSS
URL for learning more: flickr.com
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE RSS.
Video Games
Description: Until recently, video games have been viewed as little more than a distraction. Some games have been used in education, but more during the early years of instructional technology than recently. But while we were not watching, a video game culture has emerged -- a way of life and a brand new story- and myth-base for a generation of youngsters. We are starting to pay attention now, and starting to wonder if this video game experience might be a golden opportunity. Are video games learning engines?
URL for learning more:
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE RSS.
What's Next? [started by whom?]
Description: xxxxxx
URLS for learning more:
OTHERS, PLEASE CHIME IN RE. HOW YOU OR OTHERS IN YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT USE THIS TECHNOLOGY.
MP3 Players
Description: This is one of the coolest technologies out there with huge impact for education. Most students already know the technology, it's just a matter of making it work fof us. On the average, 28% of your students are audio learners and the benefit to them is direct and quick. We also know that the research shows us the more ways we can deliver content, the better the chance of it sticking. How are they being used in your district?
URLs for learning more:
Digilang Webcast
Ian Jukes' Blog
Apple's iPod News
Others please chime in
Digital Texts
Description: In an age where we are digitizing anything and everything, that last bastion of the publishing world is trying to hold fast to its traditional ways. As computing becomes cheaper, and access therefore more ubiquitous, the next logical step will be to obtain digital rather than paper texts. University publishers seem to be more amenable to this idea, with a little over a quarter of the market share being in the digital realm. K-12 is a little slower. There are several issues in play here. (Feel free to add to this list)
- The current pricing structure in K-12 is to offer the digital text as an "add-on" dependent upon the purchase of the paper text.
- The definition of a digital text is variable and open to interpretation.
- Sometimes a text in the hands of every child is a political decision based on what adults want rather than an instructional decision based on what students need.
URLs for learning more:
Student Perceptions of Digital Textbooks
LiveInk or what you could do with a digital text if you had one
Social "Noteworking"
My Web 2.0 Up and Coming App of the Year- 
www.notecentric.com - A "Social Noteworking Site". Developed by an actual student at the University of New Mexico using Ruby on Rails. The site uses a login/network similiar to that of facebook, where networks are created solely based on the end of an educational email system such as .edu, or .k12.wi.us, etc... Students use the application to add courses, take notes, and share notes with others in the network. There is an RSS on courses, so if a fellow student in Biology 120 just added some new notes and chose to share them, you will be up to date. The system also allows you to create discussion forums within the courses. An extensive search funtion, recently created notes page, and the ability to browse by year, subject, course, semester, will allow students to access notes from past years/courses quickly.
Oh Snap! Snap.com
Description: image preview site
URLS for learning more: www.snap.com, Our school links site using snap, Bethune Student Links 4th-8th Grade
This is nice snippet of code that has enabled our younger web surfers to correctly identify the sites they want to go to. So many time on school web pages, TC, teachers, and librarians list "useful" links upon links using only text. This leads to students "blind clicking" until the wanted site is found. With a snip of code from snap.com, webmasters can help students get a visual of the sites they might go to before the actually go. Snap was used to add the previews to the links on this site. If for some reason it is bothersome, please let me know, and we can remove the code.
YackPack [Tom]
Description: Site for sharing casts, conferencing, leaving messages, lots of uses
URLS for learning more: http://www.yackpack.com To Join the Tech Forum Pack Click this Link
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