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Earth Virtual Academy - EVA - A Design Charrette
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Fred Bartels Nov 19.
Computer Use in 2013
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Demetri Orlando Nov 17.
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Brad,
Great site. Thanks for sharing. Lots of useful ideas for those thinking about online education.
Fred
Previous discussions about virtual schools that have take place here on ISEN. Lots of good posts which can help inform the discussion as we move forward.
Starting a Virtual Independent School
"Disrupting Class" Brainstorming
Please consider participating in a design charette to brainstorm a possible model for a virtual school that can harvest the opportunities of the Internet and transcend the limitations of our actual schools. Come explore, share ideas and participat...
Working on EVA
Fun to read through the predictions! Tangentially, the 2009 Horizon Report is out. It's format is pretty interesting. It's done in WordPress, but it uses the CommentPress plug-in to allow people to comment paragraph by paragraph on the document we...
I see it was one of those darker political days for me, and I am painfully reminded yet again of how long I have been waiting for the Apple tablet. Perhaps 2010 will bring relief, but I'm not too hopeful that the education market will be transform...
Back in 2003 there was an interesting discussion on the ISED ListServe in which a number of people, myself included, speculated about computer use in our schools in 2013. A summary of that discussion is attached.
2013 seemed a long way off in 200...
I've attached the rationale letter we send out every year to the families of students entering our laptop program.
I wrote a short book about 1:1 programs about 7 years ago. A lot of the information is dated but I think the material related to wh...
Jim,
Great surveys! Of the two the MS survey seems a little stronger. What I feel is missing from the HS survey is questions that capture the ubiquitous fluid use of computers that develops over time in 1:1 schools. For instance, I see a lot of s...
Jim,
Definitely interested. It would nice to do this really well, with a carefully developed set of questions, and taken by a reasonably random set of students at 1:1 and non 1:1 schools. Many independent schools have statistics courses. Perhaps ...
For most of the summer I participated in an online drawing course at Sessions Online School of Fine Arts. My motivation in taking the course was to have someone guide my drawing process, nudge me to draw more, and satisfy my curiosity to see what ...
I just completed taking my first online course a week ago. The course, Sustainable Design as a Way of Thinking, is one of a growing collection of online courses related to sustainability offered by theBoston Architecture College.
The teacher of t...
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I've always loved the wacky architecture in Dr. Seuss books. This movie is a walkthrough of a SketchUp model I made that trys to emulate some of that Seussian magic.
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TIAA/CREF Quarterly Statements, Frustration, and Accountability
<* warning, a political post *>
I received my TIAA/CREF quarterly statement yesterday. Yet another loss of value. I take a long term view and believe/hope that much of the value will return by the time I retire in 10 or so years.
However, if we don't handle the current financial mess well it might not. The Japanese stock market hasn't come close to recovering from its high during their real estate bubble 15 years ago.
The frustration is caused by my belief that this financial disaster d… Continue
I received my TIAA/CREF quarterly statement yesterday. Yet another loss of value. I take a long term view and believe/hope that much of the value will return by the time I retire in 10 or so years.
However, if we don't handle the current financial mess well it might not. The Japanese stock market hasn't come close to recovering from its high during their real estate bubble 15 years ago.
The frustration is caused by my belief that this financial disaster d… Continue
Posted on April 8, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments
Graphical Representation of the Power of Today's Computers
It is easy to forget how powerful computers have become. A video like the one linked below is a good reminder of the information processing power inherent in current information technology.
http://www.byhook.com/video/telematics.html
http://www.byhook.com/video/telematics.html
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 6:00am —
Very Interesting Article on Having Students Edit Wikipedia Entries
Seems like there might be quite a bit of potential using the approach discussed in the article referenced below, especially in AP Courses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness
and the site which this project produced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness
and the site which this project produced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMM
Posted on September 1, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments
Miro - A Great Tool for Managing Internet Video
Looking for a way to easily manage, organize and download all those great new video resources on the web? Take a look at Miro. An outstanding free open-source tool for working with Internet video. Thanks to Kerri Richardson for pointing out Miro on the NYCIST listserve!
Fred
Fred
Posted on January 31, 2008 at 6:51pm —
Comment Wall (58 comments)
- At 6:01pm on November 17, 2009,
Sandee Mirell said…
- I've already done that with one person I know is from a CA school, and I just sent an email to our PD Directors listserv telling them about this site.
sandee
- At 5:38pm on November 17, 2009,
- Hi,
Yes, of course I know Barbara. In fact, I was planning to email her and our PD colleagues (who get together every year at NAIS) to let them know about this network because we've been talking about starting one of our own. What we do in California that is somewhat like what you do is this. We sponsor two programs annually which alternate regions in alternate years. For instance, the Regional Meeting is in the South this year. This is a one day gathering of 2000+ teachers and middle level administrators who come together at one of our K-12 schools to present and attend workshops (in three sessions) that are put on largely by other CAIS teachers. One of the 14 subject/grade level areas is Technology. Additionally, we bring in a Featured Speaker who presents in all three sessions. This year that speaker will be Rob Evans.
What is happening in the North this year is what we call the Professional Days. A half-to-full day workshop in each of the same 14 categories is planned and hosted by members of the Professional Services Committee in the region. This year the tech person on our Northern Professional Services Committee is hosting a day on the use of the SmartBoard. While use is becoming more and more widespread in our schools there is still a gap in knowledge re: how to use it effectively in the majority of our schools and teachers.
Sandee Mirell
- At 8:06pm on October 21, 2009,
Laurie Bartels said… - Oh my goodness, we can give virtual gifts now! What HAS become of isenet.Ning!
- At 5:57am on June 25, 2009,
Dianne Schlosser said…
- Hi, Fred, I'm just now getting around to looking at Ning and its educational use. Two of my language teachers plan to use it for their teaching this year. Believe it or not, I was introduced to it first by the Jr. High School that I worked at in New Orleans at least 20 years ago. It was destroyed during Katrina and they have established a ning to reconnect.
- At 12:12pm on June 23, 2009,
Douglas Brophy said… - Thanks, Fred. I'll follow-up.
- At 11:13am on June 23, 2009,
Douglas Brophy said…
- Hi Fred,
I am new to the group and have a question: What would be the best way to identify a teacher interested in having her/his class collaborate with my Ninth Grade World Religions Class on a technology-based project?
Thanks,
Doug
- At 5:02pm on June 19, 2009,
Bonnie Roskes said… - Fred, I've been workign with Mike Lucey from SketchUcation and we're going to "open" soon a SketchUp forum for teachers and students, modified by yours truly. Are you interested in paricipating, or being one of the moderators? You'd only have to pop in from time to time. We're lookng for examples of student work, too, and I imagine you have tons of it. More info on my blog. http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/2009/06/bleg-calling-all-teachers-and-students.html
- At 11:29am on May 13, 2009,
Bonnie Roskes said…
- I've started up the discussion with Coen again, hopefully we can get something going soon. Maybe your students will be our first contributors ;-)
- At 10:02am on May 13, 2009,
Bonnie Roskes said…
- I discussed moderating a youth forum a while back with Coen and Mike from Sketchucation, but we sort of dropped the ball on it ;-) I'm still in touch with them often, so I'll bring up the issue again. I'm looking for kids' models for my own site, on my Case Studies page (which is currently empty because I haven't had the time for it). So if you or anyone else has some student SketchUp work to contribute, please send it my way! I'm also always looking for edu-related material for my blog: http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/
BTW Fred, I believe it was your (former?) student who gave a talk at last year's SketchUp Base Camp? I'm blanking on his name but he was extremely impressive!
- At 6:15am on May 3, 2009,
Susan Carter Morgan said… - Hi Fred,
I wanted to give you an update on my student who expressed interest in taking programming. It appears he is not returning to our school. So at this point, I do not have a student interested in participating. Thanks for being so willing to consider this. Perhaps another time...
Susan
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We are in year 2 of a 1:1 tablet program. Two of my 3 English teachers want to go back to paper for essays because they are not happy with either MS Word comments or using a stylus to grade in ink (Word or Journal). Has any one had any success wit...
Hey Cheryl! How's life at EFS??
You know we use Edline. This year my faculty tech development focus is on Google. Since I have to "walk my talk" I am going to put all of the resources and notes on Google Sites. So far it's pretty simple. I'll kee...
Liz,
I think you're right about large groups. Every time we consider large group activities, my inner voice keeps saying, "training is dead." Technology in the classroom has become both so pervasive and expansive, that's it's very hard to get a h...
Well the simple answer to "What are the students using?" is Facebook, and they're relying on their friends to cut and paste/redirect information.
I wonder how something like AlertThingy would work for teens?
But, for now we're supposed to be usi...
Our ad-hoc technology planning committee devised a five year plan. We started with the self assessment of basic competencies that we identified that all teachers should master in two years. Next, teachers self assess their student's use of technol...
This ISEnet group is for discussing issues and resources specific to upper school.
I wholeheartedly agree, Liz: we don't expect our students to sit there and be lectured to, and to come away transformed, why should our faculties? I love how you're putting time into planning ahead of time. At our school we're moving away from the...
Thanks Preston. I think a 6 to 1 ratio is a great suggestion. I don't know how many will take me up on the offer to work together on this project. So far I have 4 people interested.
Wow Barabara it sounds like you are doing great stuff at your school. How big is your population? How many people are on your staff? (I am the only tech integrator at my school.) Do you have any resources you can share? I would love to see the set...
Hi Cheryl,
Our teachers mostly use our hosted Moodle server for their course websites [our art teachers use Dreamweaver, and we have some legacy sites from FrontPage.] A few teachers use private nings and wikis. I like the integrated nature of Moo...
We are using Rapid Web Developer which runs on the First Class platform. It is OK. Has some quirks, but mostly does the job. Allows teachers to upload video and photos, will podcast (we haven't tried it yet--new this version), has a class calendar...
We are implementing a one-to-one PD approach this year. Last year, our technology planning committee (comprised of teachers of varying tech levels, instructional technology faculty, and division heads and school head, determined that teachers shou...
"If you want to improve instruction, what could be more obvious than collaborating with fellow teachers to plan, observe, and reflect on lessons." (Lewis, 2002)
We know how to improve teaching; we know what works. When we fail to have an impact i...
When the goal is implementation, you are correct when you say one-on-one support is required.
I applaud you for thinking of ways to individualize professional development and provide needed support. I teach instructional design, and this intense ...
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