Wes Fryer presented the Keys to the 21st Century, Creating,Communicating, Collaborating
It was a morning of a great homemade breakfast, yummy fruit smoothies, bacon and sausage, an unbelievable French Toast, fruit and excitement..
Excitement about the unknown, excitement about sharing good ideas, excitement about accompanying others on the journey into the 21st Century Literacy Tool arena.
The cafeteria was transformed into a workshop full of educators listening to Sarah and Wes Fryer about how to use some new tools in teaching and learning. Sarah explained how easily some tools could be incorporated into any one of their existing lessons. Sarah shared how she used a Web 2.0 tool called Voice Thread to present her book report. Then in about 5 minutes she used some photos from her recent trip through NH and presented a slide show that could be published, not on her refrigerator, but on the web with the world as an audience. Sarah generated plenty of interest and engagement from the audience of educators, so much so that some teachers presented an application to the PTO for a school subscription to VoiceThread.
Wes modeled some great ways of using technology, he also modeled how smoothly he could use a backup plan when necessary and he persevered through a brief fire alarm.
Beth Goodwin, captured the moments with her camera phone and then within an hour put all the photos together and presented a musical slideshow sharing the workshop moments. This modeled how quickly a digital story could be put together, published and available for comments to the world. http://photopeach.com/album/7m19i3?ref=est
Then because the slideshow was shared, Wes wrote a story on his blog post, explicitly sharing how the workshop was prepared and run.
Here is a comment from Author: Isabelle Selak
I am so glad that you posted about these PD sessions here. It is a great model for every school. We should all have numerous days a year (with our school provided laptops, of course) that we are encouraged and guided through using exciting tools that will enhance our classroom skills and lessons. Thanks also for sharing some of the tools that you are using at these sessions. We can't all be at sessions like these, but we can learn from yours!
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2010/04/05/telling-the-story-of-last-fridays-pd-in-maine-with-photopeach/comment-page-1/#comment-128311
Why is this transparency and sharing important?
I am so glad that you posted about these PD sessions here. It is a great model for every school. We should all have numerous days a year (with our school provided laptops, of course) that we are encouraged and guided through using exciting tools that will enhance our classroom skills and lessons. Thanks also for sharing some of the tools that you are using at these sessions. We can't all be at sessions like these, but we can learn from yours!
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2010/04/05/telling-the-story-of-last-fridays-pd-in-maine-with-photopeach/comment-page-1/#comment-128311
Why is this transparency and sharing important?
We demonstrated how the WallWisher worked. Again, it was an explicit use of a Web 2.0 tool that can be used in your classroom. The WallWisher collected comments from our day. Please check them out we collected many great reflections about our day, the food and our learning. You will find the WallWisher comments at the end of this article.
The presenter, internationally known, frequently tweeted out to his followers, and previously had webcasted his schedule for the day. As a result, again, explicit modeling, the workshop was ustreamed and archived. The audience was told that the workshop would be ustreamed. There were 12 remote viewers throughout the morning. What a great opportunity for other educators to participate virtually in the workshop being held in our school. This all promotes the wisdom of crowds, open source learning, sharing with creative commons, share and share alike. We also captured the ustream http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5899688 and 5 days later, over 258 people have viewed the presentation.
Other things that were shared, Wes' slideshow presentation, http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ds7w6vt_363gv64ttpsThe presenter, internationally known, frequently tweeted out to his followers, and previously had webcasted his schedule for the day. As a result, again, explicit modeling, the workshop was ustreamed and archived. The audience was told that the workshop would be ustreamed. There were 12 remote viewers throughout the morning. What a great opportunity for other educators to participate virtually in the workshop being held in our school. This all promotes the wisdom of crowds, open source learning, sharing with creative commons, share and share alike. We also captured the ustream http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5899688 and 5 days later, over 258 people have viewed the presentation.
Can people at different comfort levels take away from this one presentation? How?
This is something that I have been thinking about since last Friday. After all the positive comments, the smiles, the engagement, something is still nagging at me. What next and how to provide support to all learners, participants and the naysayers?
Here is my feeble attempt to provide a supportive timeline with activities for the Journey using 21st Century Skills and Technology.
What is your purpose? This is the first question we all ask before we plan or use any technology. This is not a technology question, but rather this is good pedagogy!
Start reading a blog post a day. TechLearning.com is a great place since there are a dozen or so bloggers posting, you will get a great cross section of current bloggers.
Comment on someone else's post. Find one or two people that you enjoy reading.
This is a leap, register for Twitter and then begin following the two people you enjoy reading. Learn about Twitter here and here and with Liz B. Davis and her spreadsheet of Twitter users, I am sure you will find someone with similar interests to yours.
Join a face to face PLC or begin working with one partner.
If this is not enough to get started, begin your own class blog or professional blog. You have something to share with others and others have a lot to benefit from you.
I put this question, "How do I know what I don't know?" out to my personal learning network and this is what I got back:
Elaine Griffin Plybon commented on your status:
"I tell teachers there is no way they'll ever know everything so they need to let go of that. What they should focus on is 1. what do I want to accomplish 2. What type of technology might help me accomplish it, and 3. what tool has that feature. If more than one, which one meets my needs the best. We don't need to know it all, we just need to know what we need."
"I tell teachers there is no way they'll ever know everything so they need to let go of that. What they should focus on is 1. what do I want to accomplish 2. What type of technology might help me accomplish it, and 3. what tool has that feature. If more than one, which one meets my needs the best. We don't need to know it all, we just need to know what we need."
A couple things- with things changing so fast, it is understandable that you are overwhelmed. What can I do to that might help you? Technology should be something that "adds to your life". What would you like to learn- something small that might make life easier/better for you or your students?
Here are some other resources !
Wes FryerHow to assess 21st Century Skills , thanks to Nancy White from Aspen High School for this great Prezi! http://prezi.com/l8e1rzmtcs_l/assessing-21st-century-skills/
Bernajean Porter's Guidelines
Bernajean Porter's Guidelines
Check out the GA Spectrum Table and the Cadre Charting Instrument
WallWisher Comments
Comments from the WallWisher! again, modeling something that could be reproduced in a classroom.
Thanks for an excellent breakfast! I've enjoyed having Sarah be part of this presentation. Such great confidence and ease with an audience!
Our students create quite a bit with technology, but we are struggling with what are useful ways to SHARE and with whom?
Psyched to start doing some more things with the smart-board and the kids laptops - so much opportunity and potential!
Wonderful to be here with the Amazing Wes Fryer!
It is exciting to see and learn new things that can be brought into the classroom.
How do we know what we don't know?
Great ideas and a wonderful presentation!
So much to try! I am still working to understand my new promethean board! I will get there! Thank you for your sharing.
This presentation was the best!!! The book report presentation would work great for our kiddo's instead of hand writing and face to face presentation!!
What does anyone know about Tweentribune.com?
it is great to see technology in action. Terrific presentation!!
Lots of new things to try with kids.
As we develop ideas for 21st century literacy, we need to remember that all people will learn from the practice of story telling.
I hope some of this technology (the solar paneled $100 computers) make it to third world countries.
I can't wait to integrate some of these ideas into my class!
I'd like to have students present more in this fashion but I worry about the technology and tech support at home.
6th grade will be using Google Docs for the research project on 19th Century reformers and inventors, this year. I will let everyone know how it goes.
thanks for the breakfast and the inspiration. I loved this workshop.
I can't wait to try using voice thread with students! Thanks for a great presentation.
Eric L: Let's talk. Key words to remind me of the idea for collaboration: Chain of Love blog. THanks.
Great job Emily...thanks for coming and sharing your expertise.
Good luck creating folks!
My husband would love this! It is amazing.
If anyone would like to collaborate with a class in York, let me know. We'd love to connect classrooms with a project.
Technology is so fascinating but still very overwhelming!! I really hope to step further into this 'magical' world.
Voice thread is something that I might actually try
Overwhelmingly Wonderful! I can't wait to use these ideas with the students in our classroom.
My son would love this!
It has been a very informative morning!
The book report presentation looks like something that I would like to try.
It is great getting together with everyone to share and learn!
I really liked the the book recreation of the Black Eyed Peas song. I bet our students would enjoy watching it.
This was a great presentation! I can't wait for the kids to begin working and to see what they do!
I'm the school social worker. Sometimes technology is not so wonderful...in fact it has made my job more difficult.
Thanks for an excellent breakfast! I've enjoyed having Sarah be part of this presentation. Such great confidence and ease with an audience!
Our students create quite a bit with technology, but we are struggling with what are useful ways to SHARE and with whom?
Psyched to start doing some more things with the smart-board and the kids laptops - so much opportunity and potential!
Wonderful to be here with the Amazing Wes Fryer!
It is exciting to see and learn new things that can be brought into the classroom.
How do we know what we don't know?
Great ideas and a wonderful presentation!
So much to try! I am still working to understand my new promethean board! I will get there! Thank you for your sharing.
This presentation was the best!!! The book report presentation would work great for our kiddo's instead of hand writing and face to face presentation!!
What does anyone know about Tweentribune.com?
it is great to see technology in action. Terrific presentation!!
Lots of new things to try with kids.
As we develop ideas for 21st century literacy, we need to remember that all people will learn from the practice of story telling.
I hope some of this technology (the solar paneled $100 computers) make it to third world countries.
I can't wait to integrate some of these ideas into my class!
I'd like to have students present more in this fashion but I worry about the technology and tech support at home.
6th grade will be using Google Docs for the research project on 19th Century reformers and inventors, this year. I will let everyone know how it goes.
thanks for the breakfast and the inspiration. I loved this workshop.
I can't wait to try using voice thread with students! Thanks for a great presentation.
Eric L: Let's talk. Key words to remind me of the idea for collaboration: Chain of Love blog. THanks.
Great job Emily...thanks for coming and sharing your expertise.
Good luck creating folks!
My husband would love this! It is amazing.
If anyone would like to collaborate with a class in York, let me know. We'd love to connect classrooms with a project.
Technology is so fascinating but still very overwhelming!! I really hope to step further into this 'magical' world.
Voice thread is something that I might actually try
Overwhelmingly Wonderful! I can't wait to use these ideas with the students in our classroom.
My son would love this!
It has been a very informative morning!
The book report presentation looks like something that I would like to try.
It is great getting together with everyone to share and learn!
I really liked the the book recreation of the Black Eyed Peas song. I bet our students would enjoy watching it.
This was a great presentation! I can't wait for the kids to begin working and to see what they do!
I'm the school social worker. Sometimes technology is not so wonderful...in fact it has made my job more difficult.
Thanks for sharing . I hope to use the voice thread real soon.
My son is going to love the Stanza app on his iTouch.
Thanks to:
Wes Fryer
Sarah Fryer
Alice Barr
Beth Goodwin
Bob Sprankle
Eric Lawson
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