Last night I experienced my first successful blackboard collaborate session. I logged in half an hour early just to tinker around, I was a bit nervous… but once Alec prompted me (using my first name what a powerful tool) I felt that I could try some things out. Within 2 minutes of feeling safe in my environment I was able to talk, sing on-line (la la la la la la la) ,have fun, use emoticons interact with others, change my profile. I really became connected to that learning community… I was engaged and I wanted to learn more.

I often hear a few of my colleagues reminiscing on the good old days a time when one “Lesson Plan” fit for years at a time. There also seems to be a lot of concern around “authorship” with some of my colleagues.  I know in my heart that this is no longer possible, that children today cannot be molded into a one size fits all model, but I wasn’t entirely clear on what was causing that shift… and then I participated in the discussion last night (images were copied from the blackboard)….

                       

I’d never really reflected on the changes in technology all in one place before

 

 

 

Older teachers grew up in the age of the television. http://youtu.be/e–nitVjLoQ

And therefore need to make the paradigm shift from sole expert to guide of the educational experience.

Traditional Teaching

 

21^st Century Learning Teaching/PLE- new teaching environments

#edchat, #ipaded, #schoolcounseling

 

 

 

 

Part of what I need to do to both become and model being a 21^st century learner is to always be willing to explore, morph and change….. and also allow my students/ colleagues to become my teachers. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz5kgDF1TyZCq1a5Wusvw0g3u09w-5Xy0OFXHL3I5dg/edit

http://dmlhub.net/ – networking documents

 

We also need to convince our parents and educational partners that it education is more than controlling the environment… but it’s about teaching and modeling responsible Digital Citizenship

 

Sometimes when I counsel in a school I feel like a small fish swimming in a big bowl….

However links and groups like the following, he me to realize that I am actually one of a “school of fish”

http://oracleofbacon.org/

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=610

http://sociology.stanford.edu/people/mgranovetter/documents/granstrengthweakties.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU where do good ideas come from

http://globalclassroom2012-13.wikispaces.com/Mystery+skype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuFsDN8dsJU&feature=youtu.be

 

That’s What Friends Are For- January 21, 2013

One of the first things I need to do tonight is send a big shout out to my #etmooc pals from work @HeatherEnzie and @SSpellmanCann.  These ladies not only provide me with feedback on my learning, but they also encourage me to continue to take risks and have fun in the process. We all teach in the same building and so we had arranged an actual face to face for Monday morning to regroup after our first week of #etmooc, to share our experiences and to give each other a bit of advice around WordPress (as none of us had tried this format before).

Discoveries I learned from my “teachers” during that session included:

Things to try:

Popcorn maker (tools)

Photostory 3

Print a screen

Control shift 3- on my mac: to iphoto and then crop

Upshift PrtSc – on my PC: use the snip it tool from the start menu

Word Press

To put in a Haiku deck, take a picture of the first screen, put in blog and then add the link after

Snip it Tool (PC)

Use it as a screen shot

Google Hang Out

Added effects both visual and auditory (the random face creator was a hoot)

3 of us logged in today

Appears with faces at the bottom

Priceless information that I wouldn’t have had time to look up in a book.