Technology Leadership Forum

(07/02/2008)

8:12

Ferdi Serim: Things we really need to know:
How has "X" helped learning?
What is the local reality? (infrastructure, students, etc.)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:12

8:17

Camilla Gagliolo: Participant survey

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:17

8:22

Participants asked meaning of emerming technology: "Items that have just hit the marketplace" (14.1%) just beat out "Items that have been around awhile but educators are just starting to document their potential" (13.1%)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:22

8:23

Keynote: Richard Baraniuk: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:23

8:30

Open Education/ Open Courseware
Motivation (1999): Problems with textbook dev. process:
-Difficult to connect across concepts, courses, grades, curricula; students not adequately prepared
-difficult to build communities, collaborations among experts, faculty, students; potential authors shut out; glacial time scale
-High cost and limited access

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:30

8:32

Inspiration from music world (create, rip, mix, burn)
Decided to create online platform to create connections among educators/writers

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:32

8:33

1. Liberate course materials: open source, free, fast, connected

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:33

8:34

Connexions repository: 5-6000 deconstructed texts, other resources, connected with meta data; personalized courses

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:34

8:36

Reuse materials: How to we use what is already there, rather than reinventing it?
Creative Commons: authors retain control, but open access

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:36

8:37

2. Invite participation (anyone, any language who wants to contribute)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:37

8:37

Open education ecosystem
authoring--editing--quality control--publishing--distribution

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:37

8:38

MIT Open Courseware
Connexions (cnx.org)
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
Wikipedia

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:38

8:44

Create
Example: NSF and IEEE creating "super textbook" for electrical engineering
Catherine Schmidt-Jones: music theory group creator; 8.5 mill page views; used by teachers, faculty around world
Sunil Singh: Bombay, India--created physics materials in Connexions now used by millions

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:44

8:46

Rip
Students at UTEP decided to translate EE materials into Spanish; made top 10 in Connexions in first week.

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:46

8:48

Mix
Create own customized course or book
Minh Do--creating short course in Vietnam; created entire course in a weekend, using Connexions materials (only wrote preface)
National Instruments--building suite of free, interactive simulations and tools in Connexions

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:48

8:51

Burn
"Print" texts; burn to Kindle, iPod
modular; authored by community; updated continuously; on demand; low cost
(Free online)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:51

8:53

Mathematics Markup Language (MathML): allows formulas to be active, useable, interactive
Music XML

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:53

8:55

Open Education Resources 1.0 (broadcast; access)
OER 2.0 (remix, community)
OER 3.0 (feedback, intelligence; active problem solving/learning style recognition)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 8:55

9:01

Business of ed. publishing?
Increasing openness (mirrored by music world)
Radiohead example; David Byrne/Thom Yorke article--Wired magazine--changing business model in music industry
Money in educ. is going to be less and less in texts/content
As the power of the technology grows, the dollar value of the information/text will shrink
Publishers as redhats--adding value to open materials

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:01

9:04

Print on demad...
Qoop
Lulu

University presses closed, downsized, restructured--about 60 have been closed in last 20 years
-Rice reopened as all digital press within Connexions (2007); books free on web or available much more affordably in print (sales higher than before)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:04

9:05

Community colleges are uniting to develop free textbooks for most popular courses; first will be statistics course in California.
(Implications for k-12 schools? Why can't we do this?)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:05

9:07

Siyavula--developing free curriculum for South Africa

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:07

9:07

(Obviously, we can!)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:07

9:09

capetowndeclaration.org --declaration of principles re: open courseware development

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:09

9:10

richb cnx org

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:10

9:15

Question asked: Where is ISTE in this? When can we expect open access to ISTE publications, authors, members? Richard strongly advises it--says revenue will be surprising, but, most importantly, usage will increase by magnitudes. (Is the mission of an organization such as ISTE to be profitable, or to get as many people on board as possible?)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:15

9:29

(Certainly, it is the latter, but do we put our money where our collective mouths are? Question generated an interesting response.)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:29

9:32

Kurt Madden: Classroom laptops and digital portfolios
-Observed classes
-Students had to get out of seats to use technology at back of class
-Laptops were too impractical (size, availability); wanted 7x10" max

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:32

9:37

Chose Asus eeePC; Did pilot k-12; wanted to capture students' best work
Photos, videos of student work
Text
Scans/photos of assessments
PowerPoint presentations
Blogs/Wikis

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:37

9:41

16 schools, 1000 laptops, 1per 2 students
57 classrooms (4 per school--took teacher applications for deployment)
Wireless; 160 mb storage after imaging; additional storage on Sharepoint server
Powerstrips
Professional dev.
Student sign in (tricky for younger kids)
Tracking device/software, in case of theft (very little)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:41

9:42

Question: What is purpose/application of portfolios in the district?

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:42

9:45

Some reflection/metacognition; developing rubric for assessment

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:45

9:49

Lee Keller: Online Synchronous Professional Development
Early synchronous tools: chat, AIM, Yahoo! instant Messaging, NetMeeting
Today: Yugma, DimDim, Adobe ConnectNow, Oovoo, WebConferencingZone

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:49

9:51

Must have buy-in from district/campus admins.
-Online Video Conferencing
-Voice over IP
-Bandwidth issues
-Desktop sharing
-Ownership vs. ASP
-Cost
-Support

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:51

9:53

Adobe Presenter
Powerpoint interface (need to know how to use PP, talk, and click)
Publish to Breeze or Connect

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:53

9:56

Applications:
Did half hour weekly show (Palm Breeze Cafe Live)
10x viewership of recorded over live shows.
Online training (involved universities, DOE)
Recorded classes
Informal meeting structure
Teacher-led subject reviews

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:56

9:57

Advantages:
-Convenient
-Saves Time (presenter control)
-Money Saving (no travel)
-Viewable later

Wednesday July 2, 2008 9:57

10:03

Kathy Schrock: Portable Apps for USB drives
Used as a solution to issues of student access to software apps at home (PPT and Excel particularly)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:03

10:03

(What are critical apps for our district's students? What would be cost to equip them this way?)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:03

10:06

Apps
Web browser/bookmarks
Calendar/appointments
IM app/buddy list
Office suite/docs
AV program/utilities
Password/account information

http://portableapps.com/

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:06

10:07

Problem with U3 apps (Sandisk Cruzer)--Kathy's district wipes clean and starts from scratch

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:07

10:13

Talking about Kindle: 6 devices can access one account (buy books 1 time, use on all 6)
-Used gift cert. for school devices--no credit card info available to kids
-Kindle NowNow
-Browser
Mp3s

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:13

10:18

Camilla Gagliolo: Nintendo DS and Collaborative Activities
Innovative, relatively inexpensive, unique use of existing technologies
Widely available, kids are already familiar with how to use, motivated to use

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:18

10:20

Started with Nintendo DS
-wifi
-built-in chat rooms
-software: Brain Boost; Big Brain; Brain Age (math, problem solving); My Word Coach, Word Safari (Language Arts); My Spanish Coach (foreign language)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:20

10:23

Morning warmup
Stations
Discussion groups
Practice
Tutoring
Shared learning/instant network

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:23

10:24

(Are school programs/pricing available from Nintendo or other distributor?)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:24

10:32

Leigh Zeitz: Sugar on Flash Drives
http://tinyurl.com/3shd5w

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:32

10:36

(Subject change!)
Jing--allows screen capture/recording, saving, sharing

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:36

10:38

(What are advantages/disadvantages vs. software apps such as Camtasia, Captivate?)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:38

10:38

Can be emailed, saved, embedded.

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:38

10:43

Discussing Google Apps form tool
-Instant survey, feedback
-Create quick link in wik

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:43

10:46

MeBeam--ULTRA simple, multiple user videoconferences

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:46

10:49

Connection can't handle MeBeam right now (no surprise)

Wednesday July 2, 2008 10:49

11:36

Group discussion of implementation ideas/observations:
-Portable Apps as supplement to computer recycling program
-DS program to use students' equipment, district apps (1 software piece can be shared by 16 DS machines)
-DS also has a web browser ($50) available
-Safe environment of chat feature of DS
-Asus apps and size factor

Wednesday July 2, 2008 11:36

11:43

Writer: Randy Rodgers

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