{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"55291512","dateCreated":"1341508091","smartDate":"Jul 5, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"taguest1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/taguest1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/edu528.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/55291512"},"dateDigested":1532174356,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Day 2 Webinar Experience","description":"What webinar did you experience? What did you learn? How did you feel about learning via a webinar?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"55348064","body":"I viewed the webinar on using Primary Source Documents 2.0. It was very interesting because there were a number of sites that have a number of great primary sources. While you could easily go to some of the sites (the Library of Congress, Stanford's history site, National Archives, among many more). The nice thing about this webinar was that the presenter navigated through the site as he spoke to show you how you can use and find primary sources. He also gives you the information from the perspective of a social studies teacher and showed where lesson plans are linked to the information being presented. There was a great link he showed on how to create your own history activity through the national archives site and how you can have your students go to the activity and actually go through the steps you created. These activities were outstanding and varied from connecting concepts, geography and chronology. I thought this was a very interesting way to learn. There was an interactive chat room so you had the opportunity to ask questions to the other people viewing the webinar. This was really helpful and is a great way to share ideas relevant to the topic being discussed, there were some sites added by others watching the webinar that also look to be useful. The only problem was the moderator got kicked out of the room twice and lost his connection which interrupted the process. I was very impressed with this particular webinar and it was definitely worth my time.","dateCreated":"1341943686","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"derekhouser","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/derekhouser","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55348596","body":"The webinar that I watched was iPads in the Classroom: Part 1 - Creating & Reading. One of the things this webinar talked about what using Animoto to create a 30 second advertisement for a book that a student read silently. It shows you the steps that you need to take in order to create this advertisement. It's easy to do his on an ipad because you can download the app and use the ipad to take pictures to include in your advertisement. No camera is needed since one is built into the ipad. Therefore, everything you need to create this video can all be accessed through the ipad. Very convenient! Also, animoto comes with songs so you can pick a song to play during your video :) This is very quick and basic to create a video but I think this would be great for younger students because they do not have to do all the editing of the video and sounds. And it's free!
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\nAnother thing this webinar talked about was imovie, which has more advanced editing which would be great for the older students. The pictures and videos that a student may want to use in a project can all be taken with the camera on the ipad. So everything you need is at your fingertips.
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\nAlso mentioned in this webinar is an app called Fotobabble. With fotobabble you can select an image as a background and they record audio to play while the photo is up. For their example they put a photo of Mount Washington and then the audio talkied about Mount Washington. They mentioned several ways that fotobabble could be used in the elementary grades. Good app that is free!
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\nA more advanced app that is similiar to fotobabble is sound cloud, however it does not have a photo in the background. The webinar allowed you to hear a podcast that students created themselves. It is a free app as well!
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\nThe next application they discussed was garage band. This is recommended for the high school level.
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\nThe apps mentioned above all pertain to audio. The apps below all pertain to screencasting.
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\nThe apps they mentioned are Educreation, Explain Everything, Show me, and Screen Chomp. They showed an example of Explain Everything made by a student. I think this would be great to use in the classroom. Two thumbs up!
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\nI think this webinar was amazing. I have never heard of any of these apps before and most of them are free! I learned a lot of ways that these apps could be incorporated into a classroom. I can't wait to be able to use these. You should check this webinar out!
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\nKristen Finch","dateCreated":"1341946636","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"finc2073","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/finc2073","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55349100","body":"I watched a webinar about teaching elementary grades with technology. The speaker was Suzy Brooks. She was a very good speaker and very knowledgeable about technology. She is an actual teacher which makes a big difference because you don't know what its like using technology in the classroom unless you have good experience actually doing it. She worked with AOL and taught computers also. She said technology should be invisible because you don't need to announce that you are using it. You need to be smart about when to use it, and when not to. She uses blogs to communicate with students, and parents as well as other teachers. The blog is used as a tool for parents to know what their children are doing at school. Awesome! She doesn't use papers for reminders. She uses her blog for assignments, reminders! She said the glamour shouldn't be on the technology, it should be on the content! I love this statement. This webinar was a great experience because this is an awesome way to communicate in and out of the classroom!","dateCreated":"1341949912","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"brus9056","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/brus9056","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55349238","body":"I experienced the webinar titled "A Conversation with Kenneth C. Davis Author of Don't Know."
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\nI learned that often we don't think or students can handle the truth, so we modify what we teach to shelter them. This webinar focused on teaching history so the examples it covered were things like teachers teaching about Nixon without mentioning Watergate, glorifying the pilgrims, and the Spanish's anhilation of the Hugenots in colonial America.
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\nBesides talking about sheltering students, the author also talked about keeping students engaged in learning and taking the focus more off of learning dates and focusing more on learning about the stories and perspectives of the people involved. It was in this portion of the webinar that Kenneth C. Davis said (and I paraphrase) that education is not about the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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\nI liked learning by webinar, especially because when I felt my attention drifting I could pause it to go do something and come back to it later. I also liked that I could rewind and repaly things I missed the first time. Being a tactile learner, I found it hard to pay attention for the whole 50 minute session and though I listened to it, in a few hours I'm pretty sure that I will have forgotten most of what I had learned.
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\nLynne Wahlstrom","dateCreated":"1341950806","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"wahl8805","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/wahl8805","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55349740","body":"I chose to view "Ten Years of Teaching Technology to Teachers" hosted by Tom Daccard and Justin Reich.
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\nNot surprisingly, a majority of teachers today do have an interest in utilizing technology, however they are skeptical of either using it or the effectiveness of using it with their students.
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\nConveyed in the seminar was the importance of remembering ones teaching fundamentals and not losing sight of learning goals. Not all technology will be useful, so assessing effectiveness is important. It is also key to allow oneself to become familiar with perhaps just one new technology before trying to introduce another to help prevent becoming overwhelmed and discouraged.
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\nSome schools are now designing a school wide rubric focused on what they want to get out of technology in their classrooms, thereby streamlining the overall technological goals.
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\nBoth edTechTeacher and thwt.org have numerous recommendations for ideas on integrating technology based on learning goals, useful ratings as well as ease of use ratings.
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\niPads (or tablets) are the hottest trend currently in classroom tools; edtechteacher.org has added a special section to their site that talks to uses for iPads as a technology integration tool.
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\nIf the webinar is well designed and remains focused on the topic, it is a great learning tool. I have viewed more than one that have little value in relaying new information or that are not as useful as the title would suggest, however I do like the ability to stop and take breaks if I find I have lost focus or just need to stretch for a minute.","dateCreated":"1341953209","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"BJo644","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/BJo644","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55349774","body":"-Bobbi Jo Gibbons","dateCreated":"1341953428","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"BJo644","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/BJo644","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55349796","body":"Dawn,
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\nThat made me laugh. I do agree, a wondering mind is a danger for sure.
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\n-Bobbi Jo","dateCreated":"1341953625","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"BJo644","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/BJo644","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55349936","body":"For the webinar activity, I chose to view "Building a Community of Readers" with Carla Beard. This webinar provided information on Carla's successful implementation of strategies geared towards encouraging students to read. As an English teacher, Carla included a \u201cBook Club\u201d in her curriculum. The books were chosen by the students\u2014choices did not come from a teacher or recommended list\u2014but the students were given a strict list of criteria that the book choice must meet before it could be read in the club. Carla found this strategy to be successful, as it held the students accountable to their peers, and they were more likely to do the reading. Also discussed in the webinar was \u201cDigital Booktalks\u201d a website that allows students to make and view book trailers\u2014the new form of advertising books. In the last portion, Carla discussed Pecha Kucha, a Japanese concept that forces presenters to be concise yet creative at the same time. The presentation can only have 20 slides, with 20 seconds on each slide. All visual elements must be consistent, and students learn how to get their point across within these limitations.
\nOverall, I rate this webinar as mediocre. While some good information was delivered, the information was not \u201cnew.\u201d Instead of acting as an expert in the field, Carla came across as simply sharing her teaching strategies. As a result, the information presented in this webinar may be more suited to a different medium\u2014such as a blog or other social networking tool.
\nI have participated in many webinars , and I have never found a webinar experience to be enlightening. From the sessions I have experienced, they have been too generalized, poorly organized with many technology issues, or in one instance far too complicated to begin understanding.
\nAshley Zengerski","dateCreated":"1341954477","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ashleyzen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ashleyzen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55351706","body":"I watched the webinar called "Teaching K-4 with Technology" hosted by Suzy Brooks. I really enjoyed my experience with this webinar. Although it was a recorded version she definitely put time into it in order to be interactive and engaging by pulling up resources and prompting polls. She gave the listeners choices of topics in order to gauge what they were most interested in talking about. Getting advice on incorporating technology into an early childhood setting is important to me; Although I was hoping the classroom she teaches in would have had younger students because they are a little bit beyond my certification range at grade three.
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\nSuzy brooks refers to her technology usage as "technology invisible" because she uses it in the background as an option for students in most cases, rather than using technology as a focal point for a lesson. Some of the main topics she focused on were classroom blogging for organizing projects, pinterest as a way to gain ideas and resources for the classroom, smart-boards as a literacy center, and making virtual connections.
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\nThe idea that I enjoyed the most in this webinar was to enhance student voices by blogging. I also find it commendable that she admits she was terrified to have her students blog at first, but dove into the idea anyways in order to give it a try. She keeps the blogs open to public so that families can communicate on the blog as well (which makes me nervous), but this gives even the shyest children in the class a huge voice which is a great way to get to know each child and their interests.
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\nI definitely recommend checking out this webinar!
\n Teaching K-4 with Technology with Suzy Brooks
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\n-Sara Baker","dateCreated":"1341961859","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"bake2778","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bake2778","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55353650","body":"The webinar I watched was called, "Ten Years of Teaching Technology to Teachers" hosted by Tom Daccard and Justin Reich. I found this one interesting because it showed how important it is to remember what your goal\/outcome is and how the technology will help with the lesson. It also explained the importance of not using a piece of technology just to use it, but to use it for effectiveness. I often hear that it isn\u2019t so much about the amount of technology you use in your classroom or learning a little about a lot of different things, but more importantly to learn a lot about ONE or two tools so you don\u2019t get all overwhelmed. When a teacher feels more comfortable and relaxed, then no matter what she\/he is using to teach her lesson she teach a more thorough lesson. I also thought the idea of schools forming their own technology \u201crubric\u201d was a great idea so they aren\u2019t just purchasing items that may not necessarily be the best tools for their students. Last it stated how iPads are the big ticket item right now and I couldn\u2019t help but to agree with everything I\u2019ve been reading and hearing about them too. I\u2019d really love a class set or at least a small set of iPads that I could use, with a small group, during center time.
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\nIpads are what I\u2019m most interested in learning more about, and why I went back to the webinar that Kristen watched and referred to in her blog called, \u201ciPads in the Classroom: Part 1 - Creating & Reading\u201d. This webinar passed along a lot of great information on how to get FREE apps, like animoto, for the iPads. We all know that teachers LOVE FREE STUFF, so this really interested me. I\u2019ve noted these so hopefully if I can get some iPads to use in my classroom I might be able to try out a few of these with my students. This webinar was very informative and well worth watching! As with anything, some webinars are better than others\u2026just as some conferences\/workshops are better than others. The good thing with webinars is that there is so much great information out there that if there\u2019s something you want to learn more about than you don\u2019t even need to leave your home or pay a cent for it either! J Now time to watch iPads in the Classroom Pt.2...
\nBy Tammy Meyer","dateCreated":"1341970927","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"TLMeyer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/TLMeyer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55354636","body":"I experienced the archived webinar called \u201cNurturing the 21st Century Classroom with Technology\u201d. In this webinar, Princeton graduates, Sean Hammer and Tom Daccord, discuss how they engage and motivate students by integrating technology into their instruction in meaningful ways. Their discussion primarily focuses on the use of Wikis and Google Docs. My experience with these tools is limited. Consequently, I found the information that they shared to be quite valuable because we are using the tools in class.
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\nI learned the following basic information about Wikis:
\n\u2022Free
\n\u2022Easy to use, setup, and monitor
\n\u2022Run all platforms
\n\u2022Facilitate online communication and collaboration among students
\n\u2022Protected or private wikis recommended for classroom
\n\u2022Features
\n Discussion tab \u2013 allows visitors to comment
\n History tab \u2013 shows all previous versions and who modified the page and when
\n Notify me tab \u2013 email when modifications are made
\n\u2022Example - Glossary
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\nI also learned the following about Google Docs:
\n\u2022Can create surveys
\n\u2022Can be used in collaboration with wikis for interdisciplinary projects
\n\u2022Example - Historiography using Advanced News Archive
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\nThis webinar made me realize the importance of human connectivity. I hope that, with this new information, I can help to nurture my students\u2019 essential skills for living and learning (communication, online collaboration, critical thinking).
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\nThis is my first webinar experience. At first I was skeptical of this method of information sharing, but I had a positive experience. I took notes in a Word document as I listened. One benefit of participating in an archived webinar was that I was able to rewind and replay things that I missed the first time. I also liked how the presenters shared their desktops and made their explanations more visual (better than a podcast). Although I am not ready to lead a webinar, I am interested in participating in a live webinar. I like the idea of interacting with the presenters and asking questions of my own.","dateCreated":"1341977363","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"kaitlinlandy","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kaitlinlandy","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"55355038","body":"The Webinar I chose to view was titled "Teaching Physics With Technology" and the speaker was David Strasburger. He seemed knowledgeable on the subject matter and raised three big questions as the core of his talk. They were: "What resources do the students have available to them?" "How do students process what is available to them?" and "What can students create?" Strasburger went through each question in depth and answered it from a technology standpoint.
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\n"What resources do students have available to them?" - Students have an abundant amount of raw information at their fingertips with SmartPhones, iPads and iPods, and just the internet. These are things that were not around even 5-10 years ago to the extent they are today. The way in which information is delivered is changing at a rapid pace, and it is up to us as educators to adapt to society's way of doing things, or be relegated to the stone age. There are also many different types of digital probes and data collection apparatus now available to the science classroom that makes the mundane task of data collection fast and easy, and instead allows students to spend that previously wasted time focusing on what the data means instead of simply collecting it.
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\n"How do students process what is available to them?" - Technology gives the students a chance to visualize concepts that otherwise could only be explained in an imaginative way. It also allows students to easily aggregate and analyze data in an efficient manner. Also, technology makes it possible for students to collaborate with each in a digital manner, creating a work (like a wiki or blog) that can then be referred back to in order to remind them of their learning.
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\n"What can students create?" - Students have an abundance of creation devices at their disposal and can pick one that best fits their audience.
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\nOverall I found the Webinar experience interesting, but also difficult to pay attention to for a whole hour. I think it could be better utilized as a way to deliver short, 10-15 minute chunks of information about a topic for students. I could see using it in a flipped classroom, where the students' homework is to go home and watch the webinar and complete a blank guided notes that follows along with the webinar.
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\n- Dan Bittinger","dateCreated":"1341980469","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"bittingerdl1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bittingerdl1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":8}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}