It’s Elementary

Our next show, on Monday October 22nd at 23:00 GMT, will be our review of the K12Online Conference (which will still be in progress) and a preview of what is yet to be seen. The show will stream  on Ed Tech Talk Channel A. New teachers to Webcasting can get help here, help for newbies.Diigo links (includes all these links, plus more resources)

Please join us then!

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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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.

As part of Ed Tech Talk’s Autumnal Equinox Webcast-a-thon, we will be doing a special It’s Elementary. It’ll be a cozy round table with the show’s “stars” talking about what we’ve been doing in our classrooms.

Our next show, on Monday September 24th at 23:00 GMT, will be about using online social networks for professional development. The show will stream  on Ed Tech Talk Channel A. New teachers to Webcasting can get help here, help for newbies.

Diigo links (includes all these links, plus more resources)

Please join us then!

It was another great show with James Gates of Tipline – Gatesʼ 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:
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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 in Monday September 24th, 2007 at 4:00pm Pacific, 7:00pm Eastern for a discussion of social networks in Education with John Pederson.

Download Podcast and view Text Chat log at Edtechtalk

Join us Monday September 10th, 2007 at 4PM Pacific/7PM Eastern 23:00 GMT as we discuss the use of Moodle in the Elementary classroom. Our guest James Gates of Tipline - Gates’ Computer Tips talks about;

• obviously extends the classroom, but it also…
• provides a space where the KIDS can contribute
• will discuss my favorite features like:
  • the glossary and random glossary entry block and various examples of its use
  • the wikis and various uses
  • the automatic linking of glossary and wiki words throughout the class and what that does to motivate kids
  • the various assignment types (online text assignment has lots of potential for writing prompts, etc)
  • discussion forums
  • FAR more than the old frontpage-made teacher pages
  • podcasting module
  • ability to embed objects from various web 2.0 sites like slideshare and splashcast, etc
  • ability to include rss feeds in a block
  • a blog (still not very good for real blogging but good for note-taking, etc) has variety of visibility levels
  • Not keen on gradebook or quizzes
    • they promote true/false and m/c questions, for one
    • not a very friendly gradebook, for two
  • kids WANT to have something to do!!
  • Moodle is a playground for YOUR content!
  • Some teachers give kids fake names in moodle so they feel freer to contribute
  • traditional features such as ability to post links, give assignments where students must submit a file, etc
  • VERY easy to use!

To Particpate live:  To listen, go to http://worldbridges.net/listen and choose the player next to the session that  is currently streaming. To join in on the chat end of things so that you may ask questions, etc., go to http://edtechtalk.com/chat and you’ll know what to do from there. 

This was our Back to School Special. We discussed the following;

1. We explored the differences between a traditional classroom and a Web 2.0 Classroom.
2. We discussed the new NETS standards for technology. We looked at student profiles and what students are expected to do in the different grade levels.
3. We talked about how we use Web 2.0 tools in our classrooms.
4. We then opened up a round table discussion.

Other resources from the show:

• Our show outline can be viewed here

Listen or Download at edtechtalk.com

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. Join us then, at http://edtechtalk.com/chat!

The show will stream live on Monday, August 27th at 23:00 GMT on Ed Tech Talk Channel A. New teachers to Webcasting can get help here, help for newbies.

This week’s topic will be Essentials in the Web 2.0 Classroom, will feature Christopher Shively, and the It’s Elementary team.

Here are some links and slideshows we will refer to during the show:

Diigo links (includes all these links, plus more resources)

Download Podcast from Ms. Mercer's class

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Why use Web 2.0 tools in your classroom?

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This slideshow was used by team member Alice Mercer in a recent staff meeting to talk about using these tools in classroom.

We had a very information packed discussion full of insights and suggestions with our guest, Wes Fryer. Our show included discussion of the following:

1. We discussed what podcasting is and why you would want to podcast.
2. Examples from each of our classrooms (Kinder on up) of podcasting and our insights from that experience.
3. Wesley then shared resources on podcasting.
4. We then opened up a round table discussion.

Wes made his own podcast of the show, and has show notes on his blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity.

Other resources from the show:

• Our show outline can be viewed here
• 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.

Show 3 Chat Log

Listen or Download at edtechtalk.com

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!