Introductory WorkshopOct. 10, 2008

Morning session

Find a seat, but don’t get out your computers yet. We’ll rearrange seating in about a half an hour.

Welcome

Chris Lehman from the

Science Leadership Academy

Project Goals

• Implement strategies in Classroom Instruction That Works

• Focus on curriculum, not technology– Setting objectives– Critical thinking – 21st century skills – Activities with high cognitive level – Formative assessment

• Goals for today– Exposure to lots of tools, not detailed

training or mastery (will follow-up after today)

– Thinking about instructional goals and strategies and how/if various tools support them

• The project wikihttp://c3e3.wikispaces.com– Using tabbed browsing

Agenda

• Time keeper

• Morning– Core tools– Hands-on activities

• Afternoon– Implementation details– More hands-on activities– Feedback and requests from you

Classroom Instruction That Works

1. Identifying similarities and differences

2. Summarizing and note taking

3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition

4. Homework and practice

5. Nonlinguistic representations

6. Cooperative learning

7. Setting objectives and providing feedback

8. Generating and testing hypotheses

9. Cues, questions,and advance organizers

Break into two groups

Core stays in LGI.Encore goes to library.

Assessing and Activating Prior Knowledge

• Online polls are one easy way to do this

• Go to “Take this survey” link on the wiki (under Oct. 10 workshop) and answer the questions.

Core Tools

• Google Apps – customized start page

• Google Docs – Word, Excel, and PPT online

• Blogs – web log; online journal– Reading (Google Reader)– Writing (WordPress)

• Wikis – Fast, easy-to-edit web pages

Core Tools (cont.)

• Moodle – online courses

• Other tools– del.icio.us – online social bookmarks– Google Calendar – online group calendar– Remember the Milk – online to do list– Online graphic organizers– Digital storytelling– ….and more

Blogs

• Blog = web logOnline journalTime sequenced, one primary author

• Main posts and comments• C3E3 blogs

– Will all be on WordPress hosted at Derry– Project blog – for teachers– Teacher blogs – for students and parents;

students can comment (moderated)

• Safety and security

Examples of Classroom Blogs

• Parent talk online

• Literature class

• AP Calculus

Posting to a blog

• Go to http://teachers.c3e3.k12handhelds.com(Note: Domain will be changed in a couple weeks.)

• Read the first post and add a comment.

Setting up your start page

• Go to the Google for Education Derry page http://partnerpage.google.com/hershey.k12.pa.us

• Sign in – Regular user name (e.g. sking) and password hershey

• Make this your home page• Click Add stuff and add the following

gadget:– Remember the Milk

• Rearrange your page • See Core Tools page for more information

Set up Google Reader and subscribe to some blogs

• Go to www.google.com/reader

• Sign up for a user account and log in

• Go to C3E3 project blog and subscribe

• Find some other blogs to subscribe to (see list on wiki under Oct. 10 workshop)

Wikis

• Web pages that are quick and easy to edit

• Many authors

• Highly collaborative

• Organized how you choose

• Tracking and revision control

Examples of Classroom Wikis

• AP World History Review wiki

• Canterbury Tales (with character MySpace pages)

• E-Portfolios

• Study guides

• Project-based learning

Using wikis

• Go to the wiki.• If you’re not already a member, click

Join (upper right corner) and sign up. • Click Join this space (on left side).• Click on Teacher pages and find your

page.– Click Edit this page.– Complete the information about yourself.– Save.

Assignments with cognitive challenge give students opportunities to:• Apply complex thinking skills – predict,

interpret, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize• Construct and transform knowledge, as

opposed to only recalling or comprehending• Engage with substantive content with

appreciation of its significance and nuances• Write extensively while providing evidence

and support

Source: CRESST, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. “CLASSROOM ASSIGNMENT SCORING MANUAL: Middle School”

Election example

• Objective with low level of cognitive challenge:– Record each candidate’s position on key issues in the

debate. • Objective with medium lvl. of cognitive challenge:

– Summarize each candidate’s main points on three key issues in the debate. Create a PowerPoint summarizing this.

• Objective with high level of cognitive challenge:– Choose one issue from the debate and predict how

each candidate’s position might be viewed by different constituencies that you identify. Write a 5-paragraph essay including evidence and support for your points.

Setting objectives with appropriate cognitive

challenge using Google Docs

• Go to Derry domain start page (your home page).

• Log into Google Docs.

• Click Google Docs to see it full screen.

• Create a new document (word processing).

Topic:

Lesson objective with low level of cognitive challenge:

Lesson objective with high level of cognitive challenge:

Ideas for how one or more of the core tools could contribute to this lesson:

Google Docs• Lets you create and collaborate on Word,

Excel,and PowerPoint docs• Advantages

– Documents are accessible from anywhere

• Limitations– Limited features– Requires network connection

• Sharing means you are working on the same document. (If you want to distribute a template, put it on the network.)

Responsible Use

• District acceptable use policy applies

• Need to TEACH responsible use to students

• Assume that EVERYTHING you post on any of these sites is PUBLIC.

• It is the teacher’s responsibility to monitor student work online.

Student Email

• Students are not to:– Access personal email at school– Use anyone else’s email or log-ons

• Gmail workaround– Set up your own gmail account, for

example ksmith@gmail.com– Teachers can use your name + theirs

ksmith+bemerson@gmail.com– All email sent to this address will go to

ksmith.

• Students should post under first name and last initial only– On tools other than the blog, watch for user

names that appear publicly

– Suggested format for student user names:

14HSKarenF

Graduating class

First name Last initial

HS (for all)

LUNCH

We’ll all reconvene in LGI after lunch at 1:30.