Class+Notes

[|PA standards] Monday, July 9, 2012 EATC = eangage asess teach create Learning Focused: Essential Question, Bell Ringer to connect to prior knowledge, mini-lesson, assessment

OCW = open courseware for higher education

OERs = K-12

finding dependable, accurate websites

create your own or find others

openclassforall.com

ocw.mit.edu

oyc.yale.edu

www.ocwconsortium.org (higher ed)

www.oercommons.org (k-12)

web 2.0 definition from webopedia.com

Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from static [|HTML]Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized and is based on [|serving Web applications] to users.

There is an emphasis on Web-based communities of users, and more open sharing of information. Over time Web 2.0 has been used more as a marketing term than a computer-science-based term. [|Blogs], wikis, and [|Web services] are all seen as components of Web 2.0.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">viewed websites and critiqued them <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Questions: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Do open sources expand literacy? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Does it give other countries the advantages and the generosity of American education at the expense of the US taxpayer? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">WIll public funds benefit the American worker, or further displace them? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Immigrants have been seeking American higher ed for generations to be credentialed and able to attain professional status--does this change that?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The Obama Administration is determined to use public funds to help millions of displaced American workers needing re-training.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">good website for kids: www.neok12.com

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Personal Learning Environments: Facebook, Twitter, PaTTAN, podcasts, videos, games, interactive <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">resources + tools + teacher + learner + environment (lights, textbooks & materials, temperature, classroom, etc) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">managing learning: pace, process, materials

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">OERs may create superficial learning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Cloud Storage <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Survey Monkey <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Search, evaluate, organize, sequence <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Notetaking: evernote.com <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">teachingchannel.org (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday, July 11, 2012 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Web 2.0: blog, comment, upload, share--immediate interactivity--ability to alter content <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">evaluate tutorials, sources <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">educational resources <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Google, Apple (www.apple.com), Micorsoft

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Thursday, July 12, 2012 (my birthday!) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Vocaroo.com voice recording <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|http://jeopardylabs.com] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">thinkfinity <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">readwritethink <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|www.quizlet.com] [|www.voki.com] record with characters you create [|www.blabberize] voice recording with animals [|www.extranormal.com] animations <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Geography Quiz from [|www.surveymonkey.com]

[] <a href="[|http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SL6NPCM">Click] here to take survey</a> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Monday, July 16, 2012

[|www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=3467] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, July 17, 2012 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Google docs to create survey

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Wednesday, July 18, 2012 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Copyright/Protecting Work/Integrity of Sharing [|Creative Commons Licenses]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Thursday, July 19, 2012 [|Edutopia]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Sunday, July 22, 2012

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">I have been reflecting on the coursework information, the databases, tools and the enormous amount of potential resources availble for students and myself.