3 Conference Session Recordings

I'm sharing the love from ISTE 2012 in San Diego so you don't have to walk 6 miles per day to learn something. 

• Textbook Deathwatch   (http://soundcloud.com/simkathy/textbook-deathwatch)
• Student Contributions to Curriculums GREAT!  (http://soundcloud.com/simkathy/students-as-contributors-alan)
• Grey Area: Ethics of Fair Use and the Process to Evaluate Use  (http://soundcloud.com/simkathy/ethics-of-fair-use-copyright)

More on Student's as Contributors:

Purpose & Objectives
Participants will be able to design "learning jobs" for their students. These jobs challenge students to create content to help other children learn. For example, students can use screen casting software to contribute to a library of math tutorials (as our own David Johns already does).

Outline
Six learning jobs will be outlined:
* Tutorial Designers
* Official Scribes
* Researchers
* Global Communicators
* Learning Documentary Producers
* Solvers of Real Problems

Supporting Research
Article: Digital Learning Farm: Students as Contributors, Alan November
http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/digital-learning-farm/

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3 Design ideas

The best event I attended today: http://acelearning.wikispaces.com/.  Hey SAAS Arts Dept, I know you're reading this blog!!!  How about a few master classes for other SAAS teachers who want to design (and help kids design) their own sites, workshops, Prezis, power points, and e-portfolios?  

3 Dimensional education

You will be a science geek after this whether you like it or not:  http://www.designmate.com/.  It's the toooootally future, just today, AND complete with 3D glasses.  

3 Dizillion

# hours combined per year that 20,000 ISTE people must take up in their endless searches for the coolest, usefullest, engagiest, and superffectiveexpialidociousist websites and apps.  For example, bit.ly/iste12web20 or http://anappforthat.yolasite.com should start you off.  

Birds of a Feather!!

Is it Monday? What is Weebly?

In a "Birds-of-a-feather" session with Helen Barrett the passionate portfolio advocate. I love the fact that it is the ownership of work - artifacts - reflections on learning by the student allow that ownership.  We have Mahara linked to our Moodle 2.0+ that is coming on line in July.  I love Google Sites - but not sure as a portfolio platform though her idea of a student creating the goals for learning, posting an artifact representing the learning, and then reflecting upon the learning is very doable. She also talked about blogs as a porfolio frame. They could use the same protocol.

Evernote as a portfolio frame? I can see that working and it works well with the ipad.  Here is the blog Helen suggested: http://blog.evernote.com/2012/02/28/how-to-create-a-portfolio-with-evernote-education-series/

Porfolios for student led conference - love these ideas! Our kids (our personal ones) participated in such practices and they were very proud of what they had learned and what was shared. The model she is showcasing looks like a Google Site - it is a Google Site!! Multi-media added the personal touches and interactivity.

Also love the idea of reflection for both students and teachers in their learning! She has recipes for reflections. This is such an essential part of learning (and teaching) that we often skip because of the 'time' factor.

Hmmm. Doesn't this blog serve as a reflection piece for our ISTE adventures?

Splashing!!!
Vicki

Helen's site is https://sites.google.com/site/iste12eportfolios/ 
Image from: http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/detail_PEA0333__633__peanutssplashaj.html

Gamification

I love this concept...how do we make it happen more often? Gamification is the application of game theory and gaming mechanics to common tasks or experiences. When you play a video/computer game, 80% of your time is spent failing but you fail so spectacularly that you just keep coming back for more. We need to bring play and a sense of risk into curriculum and assessment. 

Mapping is Fun

I stopped by the table today, of these presenters....this is a class worth checking out.  Mapping, interactive mapping, free tools to do it.

Mapping is Fun