Inspiration - NETS I, II, & III

This is a graphic organizer made through the Inspiration 8 program. The main idea is the NETS standards for teachers. Under each standard are two sub-standards with assignments listed that illustrates each sub-standard.

PowerPoint Presentation - NETS I, II, III, & IV

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This is a slide show presentation created on PowerPoint displaying different activities that can be done in the classroom that will meet the NETS for students.

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Journal 7 - NETS I & III

"Mining for Gold" - Chris Bigenho

Bigenho, Chris (March 2009). Mining for Gold. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37, Retrieved March 9, 2009, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200904/

This article is about RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and how educators can use this new technology in the classroom. RSS is a new technology that enables information on the web to come to you instead of you going to different websites to see if there is an update of information on the website. The way that RSS works is through two tools called feeds and aggregators. Feeds contain channel tags and have specific information for each individual item on a website. Aggregators read these feeds, track updated information, and allows you to see any available updated information. Aggregators are basically a webpage where all these websites that you like to use can be displayed in. There are two types of aggregators. One is internet hosted, which are basically readers on the web such as Bloglines, iGoogle, and Net Vibe. The other is client-based which are incorported into browsers and operating systems such as Safari for Macs and Vista for PCs. With internet hosted aggregators, you can access your feeds from any computer. Client-based aggregators limits you to your personal computer only.

Bigenho suggests several ways for educators to use RSS in the classroom. One way would be to subscribe to student blogs. RSS makes it extremely easy to track new postings on individual student's blogs. Instead of having to go to each student's blog to check if they had posted anything new, RSS brings all the blogs to you on one website such as Blogline or iGoogle. Blogline is especially made to subscribe to a number of blogs and there is a notifier which notifies you whenever a new posting on any of the blogs have been updated. This is a great way to bring technology into the classroom without being overwhelmed with keeping tract of everyone's blogs. Another way to use RSS in your classroom would be to subscribe to social bookmarks. One social bookmarking website is Delicious.com. Delicious allows you to "bookmark" your favorite websites under more than just one tag or topic name. You can even create a tag name specifically for your class. You can then subscribe to the tag and feed it to an aggregator that will allow all the students to view the resources that you are collecting for them. I think that RSS is a great tool to know how to use. It can make following information so easy because everything is being brought to you.

Question 1: What are the two different types of aggregators?

One type of aggregator is internet hosted. These are web-based readers such as Bloglines, iGoogle, and Net Vibe. These are hosts that can be accessed from any computer that is connected to the internet. The other type of aggregator is client-based. These are aggregators incorported into browers and operating systems. For example, Safari is an aggregator for Macs and Vista and Windows Live are aggregators for PCs.

Question 2: How can educators incoporate the use of RSS into their classroom?

Blogs are a great technology to have students create. Blogs are a great tool to get students to be creative and to communicate their thoughts in a different way. There are usually around 20 to 25 students in a classroom. To try to keep up with all the student's blogs can be overwhelming and difficult. RSS can turn keeping up with student's blogs from stressful to extremely easy. You can create a feed from each student's blogs into one aggregator such as Blogline. Everytime a student creates a new post, you are notified of this. RSS can save you a lot of time because you do not have to check on each student's blog to see if they have a new posting or not, the updates come to you.

Journal 6 - NETS III & V

"Grow Your Personal Learning Network" -David Warlick

Warlick, David (March 2009). Grow Your Own Personal Learning Network . Learning and Leading with Technology, 37, Retrieved March 5, 2009, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200904/

Personal learning networks (PLNs) are tools to help you stay connected with people and new information. There are three main different types of PLNs. The first is the "personally maintained synchronous connections," which is how you would traditionally keep in touch with people and get new information. New tools such as chat, instant and text messaging, and teleconferencing websites are a more sofisicated way of keeping in contact and staying up-to-date on this type of PLN. The second type of PLN is the "personally and socially maintained semisynchronous connections." This type of PLN is more broad than the first. Questions that you have are posted by you onto tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and other networking tools. Not only can people who are in your community answer your question but also people from all over the world who sees your post can answer your question. There are not limitations to who can answer your questions. People who answer your posted questions are usually those who are interested in the same topic.

The third type of PLN is the "dynamically maintained asynchronous connections". This type of PLN is different from the others in that it connects you with the information that you are interested in. The main tool used to gather up all these information and to bring it to you is the aggregator RSS. RSS is also known as really simple syndication. Syndication is a process in which a part of a website is brought to you through another network such as Google, Blogline, or Yahoo. Many websites now have the RSS icon. To get updates from these websites brought to you instead of you going to the website, you simply click on the RSS icon and connect the web page to another webpage such as Google. So now when you are on your Google account, all the websites that you are interested in are loaded and ready for you to check for updates.

All these PLNs are really helpful in keeping you connected with not only people who you do not get to see on a daily basis but also new information of interest to you. I think that PLNs are extremely helpful for educators since the world is continuously developing new technologies and there are always new tools that can help you do a certain job better than before. As educators, you need to be in the network with all the new tools because you are teaching the next generations tools that they can use to be successful in life. It would not be fair to your students if you are not up-to-date with the new tools. You would be doing them a disservice by not being connected with the new tools available out there.

Question 1: What is one of main types of PLN?

One of the main type of PLNs is called the "dynamically maintained asynchronous
connections." This type of PLN connects you with information of interest to you through a tool called RSS feeds. RSS feeds take parts of a website and make the information on that website available onto another website such as Blogline and Google. Through websites such as Google, you can have access to any updates on the websites that you choose to place an RSS feed through to Google. Without having to go through a list of websites to check for new information, the information is being brought to you.

Question 2: What are some useful PLN tools?

One really useful PLN tool is social bookmarking websites such as Delicious. Delicious is a tool used to help you organize all your resources, research resources that others have found useful for a specific topic, and keep you connected with new information through networking with other people's bookmarks. Delicious helps you to get the most useful resources available instead of having to sift through handfuls of websites. Another useful PLN tool is the RSS aggregator. This tool allows for information to be brought to you instead of the other way around. Facebook is also another useful tool to keep in contact with people that you do not see on a daily basis. It allows for you to keep in touch with distant friends without running up your phone bill.

Journal 5 - NETS V

"Collaboration in a Web 2.0 Environment" -Glen Bull

Bull, Glen (April 2006). Collaboration in a Web 2.0 Environment. Learning and Leading with Technology, 33, Retrieved February 26, 2009, from www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/EducatorResources/YourLearningJourney/Web20/collaboration-in-web-20-environment.pdf

This article is about the use of syndication in the web 2.0 environment. Syndication is the process in which certain parts of a Web site is made available to other Web sites. For example, the Google account can be personalized to an individual's desires. From there users can use the RSS feed, available on majority of websites, to link that website to their personal Google account. Any time there is an update of information on that particular website, the information will also be updated on your Google account. Now, there are RSS feeds for every major newspaper such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. You can use an RSS feed to get updates on a specific topic of interest from these newspaper. RSS feeds are very useful in that you do not have to directly go to each of the website of interest to see if there is any updated information, the information comes to you through websites such as Google, Bloglines, and Netvibes. Educators who want to incorporate using a blog into their classroom will be better able to manage the individual student's blogs by using the RSS feeds. Teachers will not have to go to each individual student's blogs, instead they will be updated of their student's blog entries through the RSS feeds onto one site such as Google. The web 2.0 environment is very interactive with its users. You can not only view information but also manipulate the resources available on the web to your desire. Instead of the users searching for information and jumping from one website to the next, information will be updated and brought to the user's attention from these RSS feeds.

Question 1: What are RSS feeds?

RSS stands for "really simple syndication." Syndication is the process of taking parts of one website and making its information available onto another website. RSS feeds are used to follow multiple websites. The majority of websites have RSS feeds available. You can use RSS feeds to display websites of interest onto other websites such as Google, Bloglines, Netvibes, and Yahoo.

Question 2: How can educators use RSS feeds in their classrooms?

Educators can use RSS feeds to stay connected and to get updated information daily on specific websites. They can also use RSS feeds to organize student blogs if they incorporate blogs into their classroom. RSS feeds will allow for educators to get updates on their student's blogs without having to go to each individual student's blogs.

Classroom Newsletter - NETS I & II

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Journal 4 - NETS I, II, & IV

"Create, Collaborate, Communicate: Empowering Student with 21st Century Skills" -Chris Riedel

Riedel, Chris (January 2009). Create, Collaborate, Communicate: Empowering Students with 21st Century Skills. T-H-E Journal, Retrieved February 20, 2009, from http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23872

This article is based on Howie DiBiasi's speech at the FETC meeting in Orlando, Florida. FETC is a conference held for educators and administrators to learn how to integrate educational technologies into the school environment. Howie DiBiasi placed an emphasis on the importance of teaching our students skills that are relevant to the 21st century. DiBiasi suggests that educators change the way we are teaching our students because they are utilizing one set of skills in the school environment and another set of skills when they are away from the school environment. DiBiasi suggests that we teach students skills for the 21st centuray, not just for the school setting. DiBiasi gives several tips to educators and administrators so that they will be better able to integrate technology into the curriculum and to motivate student learning. One way to learn more about the different technology tools available would be to talk to someone who is knowledgeable in the digital world. Talking to experts can teach you a lot about things that you did not know before. Another way to learn more about technology would be to create a social network. Social Networking can increase your knowledge about technology by providing a large database of knowledge from your peers. You are basically sharing with each other the different tools you are discovering; everyone participating benefits.

One way to motivate students is to help them develop problem-solving skills. This can be done on a daily basis just by giving the students something as simple as a Sudoku puzzle to solve. When students solve their own problems, they will feel more able to be successful which in turn will motivate them to learn. Educators can motivate student learning by creating project-based activities where students are actively participating in the lessons. I think that DiBiasi made a really good point in stating that we need to modify our curriculum so that we are teaching our students skills that they can use in the real world.

Question 1: How can educators increase one-on-one computer time for students in the classroom?

Although there is a budget and most classrooms can only afford so many computers, teachers can increase one-on-one computer time for students by using refurbished computers. These computers might not look as nice and run as efficient as the new computers but they would give more students the opportunity to get on the computers and learn.

Question 2: What are some ways that educators can learn more about how to use technology in the classroom.

One way for educators to learn more about technology is to get together and talk to someone who knows technology. Another way to learn more about technology is to start a social network where you can get ideas from other educators and administrators on how to incorporate different technology tools into the classroom. Another great way to learn more about technology is to start social bookmarking. This is a great way to save websites that you have discovered that you like to use in your classroom. This is also a great way to share and get ideas from others who are social bookmarking.