SWAP presentation for MNPS Teacher Inservice Tuesday, October 19, 2010

1. Scott Merrick
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MNPS SWAP
October 19, Martin Center

2. What do you want to learn today?
microblogging?
Google Apps?
Ning?
social
bookmarking?
whiteboards?
chat?
screencasting?
Glogster?
Plurk?
YouTube?
Flickr?
RSS?
VOIP?
what...?

3. Probable Schedule
8:30 to 8:45 – Introductions and “On Task Distraction” backchat setup
http://chatterous.com/web20forus/
8:45 to 9:00 -- Sir Ken Robinson: Why Education Kills Divergent Learning Skills
9 to 10:30 - Build your PLN with Web 2.0 tools (Twitter, Facebook, and such)
10:30 to 10:45 - Bio-break
10:45 to 11:30 - Navigate the ReadWriteWeb (Blogs, wikis, and more)
11:30 to 12:45 - Lunch on your own
12:45 to 2:00 Online Webinar, Learning in Today’s World: Blending the Best of Formal and Social
Approaches--Implementing the New Blended Model
2:00 to 2:15 Bio-break
2:15 to 3:15 - Virtual Worlds—3D Immersive Environments (Second Life, OpenSimulator, and beyond)
3:15-3:30 - Wrap up: “Where to from here?”

4. Web 2.0 for US--Nurture Your PLN!
Scott Merrick
scottmerrickdotnet
MNPS SWAP

5. Common Foundations:
Our schools are what they should be.
Preserving traditional schools = Serving students responsibly.
Technological tools are available that were available so a
single decade ago.
We understand and make best use of these new tools in our
teaching practice and in our own learning?
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Do you agree or disagree?

6. New Tools are for:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
allinthecloud
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7. Incorporating New Tools:
Steps to build your PLN:
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8. Try this:
Begin with Twitter
Educators on Twitter Googledoc
Twitter4Teachers
and, of course, Twitter!
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9. Try this:
“Educize”your Facebook
Read “Establishing a PLN on Fb”
Look at
“Best Practices for Educators Using Facebook”
Read “Social Media in Education: The Power of F
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10. Are your charges “students” or are they “learners?”
(David Warlick’s blog post on the topic)
An important ?:
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11. Web 2.0 for US--The ReadWrite Web!
Scott Merrick
scottmerrickdotnet
MNPS SWAP

12. Common Foundations:
Blogs are in my radar for my own personal learning.
I am interested in keeping up with the global dialog about
learning and teaching.
Blogs are dead. Long live the Blog.
Blogging is a waste of my time. Who cares what I think?
Do you agree or disagree?
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13. New Tools:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
allinthecloud
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14. Blogs in Plain English
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15. Incorporating New Tools:
Steps to build your
Blogging Know-how:
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16. Try these:
Blogger.com
Blog posts at Classroom20.com (48,801 members)
Huffpost Education
The Bloggers Hut in Second Life (requires
override)
The ReadWriteWeb
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17. Web 2.0 for US--Virtual
Worlds!
Scott Merrick
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MNPS SWAP scottmerrickdotnet

18. Common Foundations:
I hardly have time for my “first life.” Why would I want a
Second Life?
Immersion is for a bath or a swimming pool, not for a
classroom.
I can’t get to these things in my school.
I get it.
I don’t get it.
Do you agree or disagree?
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19. New Tools are for:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
allinthecloud
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20. Incorporating New Tools:
Steps toward your 3D
immersive experience:
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21. Try these:
Second Life
Virtual Environments Education Videos
Open Simulator
ReactionGrid
VenueGen
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22. and these:
KZero Q3 slideshow
ISTE Special Interest Group for Virtual
Environments (SIGVE)
SIGVE walkthrough at ISTE 2010 in Denver, CO
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23. What have YOU learned today?
microblogging?
Google Apps?
Ning?
social
bookmarking?
whiteboards?
chat?
screencasting?
Glogster?
Plurk?
YouTube?
Flickr?
RSS?
VOIP?
what...?