Thinking Big as the World Gets Small

(03/07/2008)

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Good afternoon - welcome to the closing keynote of MACUL 2008 in Grand Rapids, MI.

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Clapping for the conference

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Mike Porter, president of MACUL is on the stage.

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Thanking the people behind the conference.
More clapping.

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Thanking corporate sponsors.

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Hi anon. person - it is really easy to use! And free!

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in a box on the side, Kelly.

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haha

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Okay, Hall Davidson is being introduced.

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Hall works for Discovery Ed Network, but was a MS teacher.

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Clapping for Hall.

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Hall is thanking Grand Rapids

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He's still thanking people.

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Okay, Thinking Big as the World Gets Small

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This is also being filmed - I'm thinking that maybe it will be posted on school.tv or something similar - schooltube maybe? If I get confirmation, I will let you know.

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There is geographic shrinking - places, people, parents, schools, etc. - H. D.

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His example is referencing long distance, and how that has evolved in the recent past.

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Sounds

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Sounds like there is a channel for MACUL on schooltube. Check there. Thanks!

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Referencing working remotely - as well as Twitter.

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Didn't

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know that Hall was on Twitter. trying to see his Twitter ID.

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Talking about how meetings are changing - from face to face to more than one at a time

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Once when he was snowed in, he was able to give a keynote from a different state.

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Talking about a time while he was webcam-ing in with another class - it was both like and un-like traditional teaching.

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He is saying that with one class, they weren't engaged right away, until he was able to tap into their interests.

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Referencing Vicki Davis - Horizonprojectnmc.org/wiki

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"Rock Our World" - connecting classes in 6 countries, over 5 continents, in 6 time zones over 2 different days.

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talking about http://www.googlelittrips.com cool site

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moving on to second life

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application of SL for K-12? Chaperoning parties? much easier. heh.

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In a real-life party on second life, girls still dance with each other in groups - interesting.

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Cherice just made a good point: "As teachers, we often think a lot about the "product," but not so much about the concept of "contributions" and adding value to the community that he just mentioned."

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"The distance b/n imagination and reality is shrinking" - H.D.

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Example: he thought about it being neat to choose the person sitting next to you like you choose your seat on an airline
airtroductions actually does that.

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Second example: Google language tools - translating podcasts, and searched for pages in those languages to see who was podcasting. He made a chart in the millions to show which languages are spoken in podcasts.

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Top was Chinese, then English, then Spanish. Then, the LA Times did something similar with technorati and Katie Couric.

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His technology Challenge: Google Ogle - where singles text to find each other. Within six months, there were several different services that could do this, and even narrow single people down within a radius.

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His point, in short, is that everything is happening so quickly from dream to reality.

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Innovation at this speed is necessary.

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How do you teach this way? Start with what they have in their pockets.

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iPods in education: "Young doctors are losing their stethoscope skills." - Dr. Michael Barrett said to download mp3 heart murmurs to iPods.

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After 3 hours their ability to diagnose murmurs rose from 39-89% - 30 years in 3 hours

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Now talking about an ESL group called the "pod people".d

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Giving other examples of other schools - pk-post-high - using iPods in ed.

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@jdblack64 Thanks - let me know if i am not giving enough detail - I haven't done this before.

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Talking about iTunes U - downloads used to be 15,000 hits before they moved the link to the front page - then was 50,000

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So, the first way to use what students already have is to invade their pods. Newly released iPod Classic will hold the entire DE streaming library of 40,000 clips....so much memory.

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96% of online kids from 9-17 are social networking
most of that is about school.
myspace has 2.5 times more hits than google.

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@jdblack64 says, "I agree - I think we are not producing enough for the ipods for students - I'm pretty sure Camtasia and Flash would be good tools to use. Lots of online converters to take existing movies and making them ipod-patible." Totally true - Camtasia has that capability built right in! Even audio, though, kids are happy to have, IMHO.

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Can there be meaningful blogs from students? Yes - HD says think about what could have happened if Anne Frank had had a blog

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A school district heard a rumor of a bomb threat. District knew the kids use xanga, so they searched "bomb" and the schools' name, and found pics of the kid and the bomb.

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Note to future users of this idea: it is difficult to live-blog people who talk very quickly. :)

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Talking about sketch-up from Google.

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Since kids are thinking 3-dimensionally, why not use tools like sketch-up with students? Think of what they could invent.

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www.ESPgame.org - log on, match you with someone else in the world, and you label images and win points. Addictive game, but gathering data on search terms for images. Neat.
www.images.Google.com/imagelabeler - their version.

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search engines are moving toward video

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http://youngscientist.discoveryeducation.com (or maybe .org - missed the slide) a contest for MS kids and teachers.

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in a shrinking world, use a community to help your teaching with technollogy.

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technology

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showing some nice pics of Steve Dembo right now...

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2 curricula, 2 technologies, 2 sides of the brain, 2 modalities

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science challenge - verbal, knowledge, problem solving
la - written, creative, count to 6

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Why is winter colder than summer? - gcast.

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post your answer: Dial:888-654-2278
original # 301-785-0719 enter: 8534 Follow directions, when you're done press ##

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That is the science challenge.

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Hint: Why is it hot right now in Buenos Aires?

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LA Q: Text me a story in six words. Anything.

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Text to 301-785-0719

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More on lit in six words: Not quite what I was planning - amazon search it.

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Bloggers Note: Interesting idea - room was all engaged with their phones.

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we are image-based people. Since we have the ability to make images come alive, we should do it. he is showing a picture of a cave drawing that he has literally made come to life.

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We need to use more media with kids - radio commercials are shorter, as are tv commercials

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if we have a minute and a half clip of media, that can teach an awful lot!
2 second video clip - on Warren G. Harding.

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all it was was a trumpet and the words "Twenty-nine"

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You show a picture, and then that clip, and you have taught students in only two seconds.

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another one - just the word handsome...that was actually how he was elected - he looked like a president.

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Considered, by many scholars "worst president in history" according to last 6 second clip.

If 5 seconds is good enough for mcdonald's to tell a story, don't we have time for this, too?

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He is showing his grandmother's grave - 1903-2005. He says it doesn't matter what the dates are, it's what you do with the hypen.

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Science challenge answer: the earth tilts away from the sun.

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LA questions: Still have lots of GS cookies. Steve rocks, needs pay raise. I need more than six words. etc.

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Thanks for interacting, and reading! The keynote is finished. Go make something great with the hypen that you have. Thanks.