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Welcome to the AzTEA NECC 2007 Wiki Space.

Hello everyone,

This space has been set up to record our learning here at NECC. I would like to compile our responses and share them with our fellow AzTEA members so if you choose to enter something in this Wiki, please include your name and e-mail so I can cite you. I am interested in what you found interesting here at NECC. How will you plan to use what you've learned when you return home? what should others know? What unanswered questions do you have? Did you learn any really neat links you'd like to share? What was really cool? Share!

Thanks, Chris

P.S. it will be helpful if you would place a horizontal rule in between each posting. If you haven't inserted one in a wiki before, it is to the right of the bulleted list button in the menu above.

NOTE: If you didn't get to attend NECC or if there were sessions you missed that you'd really like to see/hear, many of them can be downloaded from the Apple Learning Interchange (official NECC Conference Connections site for podcasts). http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/search.php?collectionID=1087 You'll find many of the keynotes and spotlight presentations in video format including the closing keynote with Dr. Tim Tyson. Shared by Peggy George

From Helen -- Suggestion from David Warlick

Take a look at Steve Hargadon's Website -

Stevehargadon.com/2007/06/necc-2007-session-tags-and-feeds.html

Steve Hargadon, the magician who breaths life into old technology with open source, spent a lot of hours and brain cells yesterday creating a list of NECC presenters. Along with their name is the title of the presentation they will deliver. Obviously, a lot of time — but the NECC web site already has this. What is huge is that beneath the session title is a link to coded searches for blog entries and Flickr photos from that presentation, as well as RSS feeds for people who want to include tagged references to the session in their aggregators — all based on session tags provided by NECC. This is enormous.

I think that we’re seeing one of the qualities of the new web here, where extremely valuable conference services are coming from outside the conference — from the audience. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ __Lillian - It is a shame more people didn't tag their blogs. :(__

Thoughts from the Affiliate meeting

Hello everyone,

Helen Padgett, Rick Baker, Kim Thomas, and I attended the affiliate meeting today. I'll be writing a bit more about it as I process what we learned but two thought immediately come to mind.

First, did you know that AzTEA has a sister affiliate in Western Australia? No? The board members do but we have not fully explored what this means for our members.

Some of the topics we discussed included developing
 * a shared Wiki space where we could share:
 * articles
 * resources
 * strategies
 * Travel buddy - Think Flat Stanley but with stuffed animals (Arizonan and Australian)
 * Conferences - virtual presentations
 * Webinars
 * student projects (Perhaps the most interesting - My initial thought is we could use the web page to coordinate schools here and in Australia - perhaps develop some lesson plans together?)
 * Second Life meetings (and no, this was not my idea - OK, I was thinking it I just didn't say it first)

We also talked about the possibility of finding another country to join the "sisterhood" and perhaps search for another state as well. This lead me to thinking about how we might be able to form some partnerships with Mexico.

I'll let Helen, Rick, and Kim talk about the Affiliate Toolkit breakout they went to as I went to a breakout on regional partnerships. The new England states have formed an ISTE regional affiliate. This group has banded together to see how they can share resources and provide joint services while providing uniques services to each of their states. The two interesting things for me were 1) they are currently sponsoring several ISTE Leadership Institutes. They are being offered in several locations but any of the regional members may attend.

2) Perhaps of more interest is that the Maine affiliate has developed a software program that brings software to members at reduced prices (think Mohave). They are now able to pass on these savings to the others in the regional affiliate (Also of interest - the Maine Affiliate runs with an annual revenue of 100K).

You can find more information at http://www.neiste.org/Pages/index

I'll let the others add their thoughts.

Chris

Affiliate Meeting - Breakout Session -- Affiliate Toolkit

The Affiliates will design an area on the ISTE Website to support affiliates. It will contain information, documents, Web links, etc. for affiliates. The main resource categories are: A. Membership Development; B. Conferences (with subtopics including: getting and keeping sponsors & exhibitors, speakers, organizing your workshops, conference “extras”); C. Governance; and D. Other Professional Development Offerings (besides conferences). Resource materials were gathered from affiliates before the affiliate meeting at NECC, materials were gathered and created at the affiliate meeting, and materials will be submitted after the Website is live.

Helen

Chris mentioned AzTEA's Sister Affiliate in Australia - Educational Computing Association of West Australia (ECAWA).

ECAWA is an association of volunteer educators committed to encouraging the use of computer technology in teaching and learning environments. Explore their website. http://www.ecawa.asn.au/

Their annual conference is scheduled for - Friday August 24th and Saturday August 25th, 2007. http://www.ecawa.asn.au/home/conference07/index.htm

We will be exploring ways our affiliates can collaborate on association and classroom projects.

Helen

From Helen -- Tagging NECC from David Warlick

June 19, 2007 at 5:28 am · Filed under education

I only have a few minutes to post this — early flight to Arkansas for a regional conference in Hot Springs. More about that later.

You know by now that NECC has its own tags: necc, necc07, and necc2007. Tagging your blogs with these strings will make your blog searchable through Technorati and other blog search engines, and available through Hitchhikr. You also, probably know that each session, at NECC, also has a unique tag, thanks to another NECC innovation. For instance, the tag for my session on Contemporary Literacy will be n07s705.

Actually applying tags can be quirky and dependent on the blogging engine that you use. This is why I made a little tool a couple of years ago to help. It’s called Blog Tag Generator (took me a long time to think that one up). To run BTG, go to the front page of my Landmarks for Schools web site, and then click [Blog Tag Generator] in the blog panel to the right. A small window will popout with three textboxes.

1. Type your blog tags in the top single line textbox: necc necc07 necc2007 n07s705 2. Click [Submit] 3. This will generate some HTML code in the larger multi-line textbox. Highlight and copy this code. 4. Go to your blog and switch it to Source or HTML mode. The method for doing this will depend on the blogging engine you are using. There will usually be a link or button either above or beneath the textbox where you type the blog article. 5. This will cause your blog article to appear in HTML format, probably with lots of &lt;br /&gt;s. Place the cursor at the bottom of your article and paste the code from BTG. 6. Switch back to standard view and your tags will appear at the bottom of your article, justified to the right. You can submit your blog now. 7. Finally, type the URL of you blog in the bottom textbox in BTG and click the [Ping!] button. This alerts Technorati that your blog has been posted to. It will then check your blog and index your recent article, making it available for searching.

See you at NECC, either in person or through your blog!

2¢ Worth

Hi Everyone - Cathy Poplin Just finished two days of SETDA activities! Lots of exciting new emerging technologies are coming out this year. Many new partnerships are being formed. Look for a new assessment and science component from Discovery Learning, additional 21st Centure resources through Nettrekker. I had the opportunity to be a part of a panel to support the use of the Microsoft Peer Coaching Model. We are on the right track by requiring this for this current round of EETT grants. I am sitting in the ISTE Leadership Symposium. He (David Warlick) is as great as ever! More later. This is a great way to share!

Just came from the Learning for Leaders.. One thought that I came away with is leaders are learners, mentors, and readers. http://nctp.com/ Dr. Larry Anderson has a series of podcasts on "Think Like A Leader". You will also find a "Tech Planning Podcast" link on the same site. nan;o)

Hi all- I am the new Communications Officer for the Teacher Education SIG...we are attempting to make assessment of technology use a priority. Yesterday we had a forum that was quite informative. Here's the wiki from that meeting. I'll keep you updated.

http://sigte.blogspot.com/

Travel home safely! Teresa Foulger, ASU.

ISTE has refreshed NETS for Students to prepare students for the 21st century! In 1998 the First NETS for students came and they focused on what students need to do with technology. Now we need add to that sentence with the new focus being - “What students should know and be able to do to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital world …”
 * NEW NETS S Refresh**

The process to revise the standards was impressive; input was received from all 50 states and 22 countries. Key people involved in the process spoke to the audience and shared their commitment to the process.
 * Creativity & Innovation
 * Communication & Collaboration
 * Research & Information Fluency
 * Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, & Decision-Making
 * Digital Citizenship
 * Technology Operations & Concepts

The focus in now on learning using the technology. The standards work best when they are implemented together and not in isolation. [|Adobe] has created curriculum materials that are aligned to the new standards. You can view the new [|**National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation**]**.** The potential for these new standards will not be realized until we put them into place and share what works effectively.

Peggy

The following is a list of links I collected from Kathy Schrock’s presentation on Web 2.0.

If you’d like to listen to it, try http://davidfutch.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/schrock.mp3

I saw several others of you there so feel free to add to this list

your life – and find others who want to do the same || wall || http://www.sonicwall.com/us/ || I think I have the right link here – this is the filtering application Kathy uses in her district. It allows a teacher to temporarily unblock a site. When the computer is restarted, the site is blocked again. || Creator || http://creator.zoho.com/ || Allows you to create an on-line database || video || http://video.google.com/ || Fairly self explanatory || Docs || [|http://docs.google.com] || If you’re not using these tools, you should be. Google Docs allows multiple users to edit either a document or spreadsheet || Chris
 * Kathy's web20 webpage || http://www.kathyschrock.net/web20 || Kathy’s website is marvelous. This page looks at Web 2.0 applications ||
 * Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory || http://www.go2web20.net/ || A list of many [many, many] web 2.0 tools ||
 * 43things || http://www.43things.com/ || a site where you can enter the 43 things you want to do with
 * del.icio.us || [|http://del.icio.us] || This site lets you collect URLs that you can access from any web browser. When you enter the link, you also “tag” it with words you would like to use to find the site again. Of more interest is when you search for a tag, you can look at other people who have tagged the site the same way. You can then go look at their tags to see what they find interesting. ||
 * Pageflakes || http://www.pageflakes.com/ || Allows you to personalize your webpage ||
 * Classroom 2.0 || http://classroom20.ning.com/ || “The social networking site devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development.” ||
 * Gliffy || http://www.gliffy.com/ || Let’s you and your students create online concept maps and flowcharts ||
 * Bubble || http://bubbl.us/ || Another online brainstorming tool ||
 * Sonic
 * zoho
 * Slideshare || http://www.slideshare.net/ || Site to host and share presentations ||
 * Furl || [|http://furl.net] || A free social bookmarking website that allows members to store searchable copies of web pages and share them with others. Every member receives 5 gigabytes of storage space. ||
 * Flickr || http://www.flickr.com/ || Flickr is a photo sharing site where you can post your photos and tag them so others can find them. I also like http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ that let’s you find flickr photos that use the Creative Commons License ||
 * Google
 * Mediamax || http://www.mediamax.com/ || Allows you to store up to 60Gb of video. You are limited to 1Gb of download a month ||
 * Voo2do || http://voo2do.com/ || This is a web-based to-do organizer. Your students can use it to coordinate their projects ||
 * Goowy || http://www.goowy.com/index.aspx || Goowy is a “webtop” application that allows you to create your own personal desktop through your browser. ||
 * YouOS || https://www.youos.com/ || A “web operating system” in Alpha version. “YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, mp3 players, and instant messaging. Even better, it's very easy to tweak an existing application or write your own.” ||
 * g.ho.st || http://g.ho.st/ || Seems to be similar to YouOS ||
 * getsparc || http://www.getsparc.com/ || A customizable internet dashboard that integrates a variety of Web 2.0 applications. ||
 * Zamzar || http://www.zamzar.com/ || A web page that allows you to take a file in one format, convert it to another, and email it to yourself ||
 * Google
 * Peepel || http://www.peepel.com/ || A collaborative online office tool ||
 * Writeboard || http://www.writeboard.com/ || Sharable web-based documents ||
 * Skype || [|http://www.skype.com] || Uses Voice Over IP to allow you to call any other Skype user in the world for free. ||
 * Skrbl || http://www.skrbl.com/ || An online white board ||
 * Allrss || http://allrss.com/rssfeeds.html || A compendium of RSS feeds ||
 * Netvibes || http://www.netvibes.com/ || Let’s you create a personalized RSS page ||
 * Bloglines || http://www.bloglines.com/ || Lets you create, search, and share a blog. ||
 * EPNweb || http://epnweb.org/ || A list of Educational Podcast sites ||
 * Letterpop || http://letterpop.com/ || Lets you create newsletters, flyers, announcements, etc, all within a browser ||
 * Scrapblog || http://www.scrapblog.com/ || Create a web-based scrap book that can be shared with family and friends ||

One of my favorite quotes - "**What is your 2020 vision?"** the kindergarten students of today will be graduating in the year 2020 and we must create a vision for our students and make it a reality now and help prepare them for their future. Peggy

Our world is rapidly changing but our schools and learning environments are not keeping pace. Will recommends reading the following books: [|Wikinomics] by Don Tapscott He shared that the idea of privacy is changing with a shift in intellectual property. Workers are expected to collaborate to produce work. This is a shift from schools where we tell students to “Do your own work.” He gave the example of sitting next to a person from Google who had 4 IM windows open along with a wiki where they were collaborating on an assignment that was due in less than an hour. They weren’t in the same state and yet they were working collaboratively to complete the assignment. He shared about the new copyright terms at [|CreativeCommons.] In schools he believes we do a lot of “cooperative” learning, but not “collaborative” learning. In cooperative learning, one student usually does most of the work, a few students help and there is usually one student who sits back and does very little. We need to provide more real world collaborative opportunities. The students need real work for real audiences, problems that are not contrived, where everyone must contribute and students must be passionate about the problem. He shared a quote from Marco Torres who tells his students “All of your work must have wings.” The work must go beyond our classroom and make an impact. We must provide real work, for the real world for real audiences. We live in a society where errors are everywhere. He said that he bet that in our encyclopedias that Pluto is still a planet and that the World Trade Center is still in the pictures of the New York skyline. We have to balance the use of Wikipedia and other onlien resources. One of the good things about Wikipedia is currency. He showed us the last 500 changes that have been made and did a mathematical computation that would mean that there are ¼ million changes a day. You are getting current information with Wikipedia. He said we must look at our classroom as the globe and not just the four walls of our physical room. He talks about the “Friday Folder” that his children bring home filled with worksheets and that isn’t preparing his children for their future. We are creating “Dependent Learners” where the teacher tells them what to learn and when to learn. The students are not passionate about their own learning in this type of environment. We need to change this in our schools. Will gave the example that at IBM they have 20,000 wikis with 100,000 users, 26,000 internal bloggers and 50 islands in Second Life, and he asked how we are preparing students for this world of work? We just need to think back to all of the technological advancements in the last 10 years and look at Web 2.0 and the changes and realize that literacy is more complex. Students need to be life long learners and they need to see their teachers modeling this every day in their classrooms. He shared that if teachers aren’t happy with Face Book and My Space then they need to help students and model effective ways to use social networking tools. He says he used to believe students were digital natives, but now believes that we must help them effectively use technology tools. They need to be self-selectors and determine who they can trust, who are the experts, and how can they build networks. The need to be self editors and get behind who writes web pages like the [|Martin Luther King] site. Students need to learn how to organize information. The Duodecimal system had its day, now we have [|folksonomies]. We need to help students with self-regulation skills to help them balance the amount of time playing videos, simulations, etc. Students need to be self protectors. If we block everything at school, where are they going to learn how to use the tools effectively? He shared the analogy that what we are doing by blocking all of the tools students use at home would be similar to teaching someone to drive in a simulator. We need to have conversations about safety and ethics with students and model acceptable and appropriate behavior.
 * From Hand it In to Publish It by Will Richardson**

All of our assessments are external – you got an “A” on this paper. Why are wee assessing this type of learning? We need help students reflect on their own learning and they need to internalize and push their own thinking and that of the group. He shared that Thomas Friedman said “If you’re not doing – someone else will,” it is a competitive work and we need self-motivated kids if we want them to compete.

We need to teach students to read and write in hypertext environments. The pedagogy hasn’t changed with the new technology. We are taking what we did on paper and now just doing the same thing digitally. We need to change the pedagogy and take advantage of the new technologies.

He shared about the challenges in doing this and one of the major complaints he hears is that “I don’t’ have the time.” His response was passionate and that we need to tell those teachers who give this complaint that they chose this profession and that they need to find a way to meet the needs of these kids. If you can’t figure out a way to make the time, then you should get out of the profession. When you truly care, you will find the time to do what matters most for kids.

You can view the Wiki for the presentation **From "Hand it In" to "Publish it": Re-envisioning our Classrooms.**

Peggy

The closing seesion at NECC 2007 was a moving experience for many reasons. Dr. Tim Tyson, principal of Mabry Middle School, shared the learning experiences of a number of his students. Dr. Tyson believes that the most beautiful thing in the world, which is closest to his heart, is helping children reach their highest potential. He challenges students to work hard and do their very best, to strive, to learn and to achieve, to create knowledge and solutions, and to rigorously pursue goals with the utmost integrity so that our world will be a better place for everyone.

The Mabry film festival was created as a means of propelling technology integration into engaging instructional activities for students. Every single movie is a shining testimony to the bright hope of tomorrow: the sincere desire of the children to make the world a better place!

Mabry Middle School: Home: http://mabryonline.org/index.html Podcasts: http://mabryonline.org/podcasts/ Film Festival: http://mabryonline.org/archives/2007/04/2007_film_festi.html

Enjoy exploring. Helen

Here is the link to Amphi's NECC 2007 site http://amphinecc.wikispaces.com/ Beth

Here is a picture of some of us at Gagglenet.

Beth