ustream.tv/channel/weblogg-ed-tv

Live streaming video

Can set up global synchronous video with chat interactive chat. Great resource for teaching and learning with real meaning.

You can create polls, and co-host can interview people and record the coversation and stream presnetations, embed into blogs, chat archives, send a notice to Twitter,
Schools have used the technology to perform plays and stream them out.

Mogulus.com can be transition between shots, multiple cameras, and can create storyboards. Can get a pro version which is almost like having a TV studio. Can set autopilot to have an auto image going when live TV is not happening.

How are schools using these technologies (this is very early in the use of this technology)
A system like this to purchase would cost about $15,000 but we get it for free online.

Students can create a visual report and stream it to the world, science project presentations, parents can connect with teachers.

Classroom walls can become more permeable

asynchronous v’s streaming Program called yeardot in the UK ww.myspace.com/yeardot when doing traditional video you have control of waht you want people to see. Live TV is very different. The chat is not reflective for the ustream, you can rewatch the video over and over but with live TV you can’t.

Motivating for students as student love TV

Disadvantages -  time zone issues, do people want live live TV

Alisa Miller TED talk You Tube

Streaming Advantages – unscripted discussions, reskew the media (see the Alisa Miller talk), it’s fun!!

Students don’t quite understand that when things go on the web that it is going out to the world, we need to teach this to the students, how to be responsible

comet now, qik are websites for mobile phone streaming.

To use something like this you need to make sure your AUP is up to date

Bandwidth is an issue, best not to use wireless.

GlobalSchoolNet

Presentation wiki

The documents for the presentation were created in google docs the two presenters worked on the documents in two different states and didn’t meet until half an hour before the presentation. Wikinomics can be downloaded from  itunes. There is a website for wikinomics

Openess, hearing , sharing and acting gloablly are the four premises that wikinomics is based upon. Technology (always connected, interactive), the net generation (always connected to each other and others away from them)

Used to be amazed when things were on the net now annoyed if not there.

Net gen ethics ; playfulness, openness, freedom, speed, balance, authenticity, innovation are what the net-gen values most.

We assume that students a re digital natives but can be limited in their use as they are only used to using it for social reasons not for higher level critical thinking skills. That is what school need to teach.

The world is flat Thomas L Friedman

Students should be involved in an appropriate collaborative project at each grade level. Gives ‘Student Voice’ collaborating for authentic audiences

Rotten Tomatoes and Snoaks???

Textbooks don’t work any more, they are out of date by the time that they are printed, they are too generic. There are textbooks available in wiki format which keeps them up to date called flexbooks.

Blending learning will occur more and more.

Twitter is huge and being used extensively by educators to share PD info some other twitter apps are twittervision which allows you to see where tweets are coming from. One teacher tweets the first line of a book each day and then you need to work out which book it is.

Notes for the session

Trained 25 facilitators a cross 5 states to be able to train staff in web 2.0 using Moodle. In less than a year they have reached 500 teachers. They do a 10 session online course, not self paced, facilitated move through the course one week at a time as a group. Use a facilitated lewarningn model which focusses on online discussion and interaction

Another type of classroom blog software www.21classes.com

Wikihow a how to guide wiki (including how to wiki!)

Connect Safely an online forum for Internet safety on web 2.0

Not a great session when the technology failed!! The Moodle server failed.

Handout for the session

A whole new mind. Why right brainers will rule the future Daniel Pink

Mark Taylor

eInstruction an electronic voting system, classroom performance system that uses a infra red remote. using this system students were more willing to take a risk and guess the answer. Lots of fun, important to train students to not react when they get the wrong answer to promote a safe learning environment

Jon Samuelson: online Project using wiki blog Video and Video conferencing. Project Lemonade. ( A lemonade stand started by a 4 year old girl who died of neuroblasphoma which has taken off around the country) projectlemonade.wikispaces.com

Kelly Manzano Digital Story Telling using Photo Story Grade 1 level 100th day of school story every student bought 100 of something to school e.g. rubber bands photos were taking and then the students all narrated their stories. Watermelon Story kids drew pictures using Kidspix. The teacher from the Black Lagoon children drew the pictures and they were then scanned in to the computer the children then narrated the story. Very cool! Kids, Cameras and the Curriculum: Focusing on Learning in the primary Grades Pat Barrett Dragan is a good resource

Again one o0f the themes coming through very strongly is that the schools that use Apples are doing really creative innovative things. In a session with Howard Levin from the Urban school in San Francisco. Amazing things across all subjects areas using 1:1 integration, multimedia and web 2.0 tools. As students have constant use of laptops the teachers don’t have to spend as much time teaching the software. Even giving examples of students work that looks like it had nothing to do with Tech (charcoal drawing) but the student used technology to research, to edit movies in imove to get the right look)  Tech can be used to record voice which is a powerful tool to give students a voice especially those that have writing based literacy issues.

The ultimate goal is the end product has meaning outside the classroom. Authentic audience. www.tellingstories.org 100 hours of videos all captured by students, people using it all over the world.

Great history website Calisphere Many digital Learning Objects

 Can’t wait for tomorrow as hopefully I will get to see what NECC is really like. As after today I think that Australia is leading the way in iCT education and that the group of people that I am travelling with and their collected wisdom is worth more to me than anything that the US can offer. Today’s leadership forum was not on leadership, as a classroom teacher it was very interesting seeing some teachers do some interesting activities with their students using web 2.0 technology but from a leadership point of view nothing was really spoken about.

We were welcomed by Don Knezek the CEO of ISTE and Trina Davis the President of ISTE which was an informative conversation and then we had an International delegates welcome reception in which we were by far the largest contingent…and the loudest hehehe.

The keynote was thought provoking about the wisdom of crowds, meaning that by collaborating we can achieve more very similar to 1+1=3 synergy theory with more scientific study to back it up. It was interesting and some excellent discussion was had  afterwards with some fellow study tour attendees.

Very geeky moment after the keynote there was a welcome hoe down over yonder. It had a band called one horse shy (quite good for country music) which was on stage and then on a big screen next to it was avatars of the band playing in Second Life with people in second life watching and dancing to the band. Really geeky but kind of cool none the less!! Definetlly at a Texas IT conference y’all. COuntry Hoe Down with an IT twist

I am really hoping that tomorrow when the workshops start that there will be some inspirational material and some good ideas to bring back.

Trina Davis President of ISTE

• Be an advocate
• Share your knowledge and passion
• Showcase your and your students work
• Dream Big
• Have high expectations of your students
• Use all of the resources aavailable to you to help effect change

James Surowiecki

Author of The Wisdom of Crowds

Under the right conditions groups pf people can actually be more intelligent than the individual

If you make a groupwork well together the range of opportunites that open up to you is tremendous

Technolgy helps this

Jelly Bean experiement

The groups guess is usually b/w 2-3% of JB’s in the jar. Usually better than 93% of individuals.

Usually find the group is better than the individual

Who wants to be a millionaire

Experts 2/3

Audience 91%

Predicition markets

Iowa elections market

Web 2.0

 Flickr, Google, Wikipedia

How does Google do it? Relys on the collective intelligence of the world wide web. Looks at the links between web pages and counts them as a vote to see what is most important.  Hidden order of the internet is what Google has tapped into to make a multi-million dollar business.

We can tap into the wisdom of crowds for our classrooms.

View of crowds -  they can be crazy, lowest common denominator, e.g. of meeting which you all become “dumber” after attending the meeting. What is it that makes a crowd wise?

1. Some method of aggregation of group results….e.g. wikipedia, google, Technology allows us to aggregate judgements much quicker and smarter.

2. Diversity. The fundamental thing for crowds. Diverse groups do better than homogenous group. Not solely diversity of background. Looking for cognitivr diverdity. People who look at probelms in different ways. Including different tools……..Need to think about diversity in hiring staff

Adding slow learners to groups makes them collectiviely smarter as they ask the obvious questions. Less likely that people will all make the same mistakes if their diversity in the group make up.

3. We like to work with people thsat are similar to us. The more they talk the dumber they become -  they succumb to group think

Ways around

Appoint a devils advocate – catch can’t have the same person be the devils advocate all the time.

3. Helps groups get around the problem of peer pressure

4. Independence -  want people to think for themselves, rely on their own knowledge

To tap collective wisdom you have to be willing to have arguments. Best group decisions arrive out of conflict.

As long as there is trust between group members

Groups are smartest when people are acting as individuals. Need to look out for talkative people. Essentially they shape the discussion. No problem if talkative people are smarter. Cast net widely and you will catch the info that you need. 

http://accetour2008.ning.com/photo More photos of the study Tour!

Very cool session on collaborative carbon footprint reducing using wiki’s and a carbon footprint website.

A collaborative lesson on blogging, voice thread, skype and google earth with Primary classes teaching each other about things that they know about e.g. North americans teaching Australian kids about maple syrup making and Aus kids teaching North American kids about little penguins

Students value connectiveness as their birthright, we power them down when we take off their mobiles. Second Life used in learning, students pick u the scripting really easily, they have a private island on the teen grid of second life. The students can only get onto their private area with their school accounts.  There is constant adult supervision adults who are invited onto the island such as NASA specialist they have to undergo a police check etc. This is used in a Health and wellness class, 8th grade, 4 55 minute lessons. www.campaignforrealbeauty.com Project is to make their avatar look much like they are in real life. Then like the media would say is beautiful, the third day is to make a oppoisite gender avatar, Students starting to really get angry about the media portrayal of beauty. The final day was to get the avatar to look how they would like them to look like then reflect on the experience. Teachers get transcript of all chat sessions held in Second Life.

Waves of technology in schools

1st wave purchasing ICT equipment

2nd Wave improving organisational efficiencies

3rd Wave Transformative education

Biggest challenge for Heads of ICT is that the school leaders don’t have a vision for ICT.

empowering the 21st century superintendant http://www.superintendentempower.org/index.html

We need new ways of assessing students, new ways of PD’ing staff

There is too many big promises that are being made with ICT that are currently not being fulfilled due to a number of reasons. You can use books to teach well or not teach well same with ICT. We need transformational change.

How do we assess what is successful in ICT? Many of the reasons we invest in ICT is intangible….21st century skills, student engagement

In Finland the top third of graduate apply to become teachers, can’t be a teacher without a Master’s, the teaching profession is highly esteemed they many applicants for each job