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meetsJuicing Up
the Online Experience
Jane Perzykwww.protopage.com/janeperzyk
What is ?
Twitter is a web-interface social networking application where a community of friends from around the world sends updates about moments in their lives.
Updates are limited to 140 characters with simple text – no HTML code.
Updates are sent via Twitter website, mobile phone SMS, or IM on Jabber or Gtalk.
Facilitating a workshop on Twitter and Protopage at the Macomb ISD.
What is Protopage ?
Protopage is your own personal or shared webpage created with drag and drop widgets
RSS FeedsCalendarsBookmarksPhotosTextTo-do lists
Learning Community
Professional Organization
Family Page
What is the Michigan Online Learning Requirement?
“A structured learning activity that utilizes technology with intranet or Internet-based tools and resources as the delivery method for instruction, research, assessment, and communication.
State Board of Education Guidelines, 2006
What are the DifferentOptions?
1.Enroll in an online course2.Participate in a hybrid face-
to-face/online course3.Be involved in a teacher
facilitated activity4.Complete a self-paced
program
What is a Teacher-Facilitated Activity?• Teacher works with one or more students to
provide coach-like assistance with their online learning activities.
• Teacher facilitates student learning through a combination of face-to-face interactions and exchanges using communication tools commonly found in most Internet-based course management systems. This form of delivery places an expectation on students to take significant responsibility for their own learning.
• Teacher ensures that students are engaged and making progress in their online activity.
• Teacher provides content-related instructional assistance to students.
Quality Characteristics of a Teacher-Facilitated Activity
• Collaboration• Integration• Sustainability• Life-long skills• Teacher involvement• Online ethics and
safety
A structured learning activity
that utilizes technology with intranet or Internet-based tools and resources as the delivery method for• Instruction
• Research
• Assessment
• Communication
Can This Be Juiced?
Why the Michigan Online Learning Requirement?
“It will prepare them for the demands they will encounter in higher education, the workplace, and personal lifelong learning.”
State Board of Education Guidelines, 2006
TrendsThe Horizon Report
Increasing globalization is changing the way we work,
collaborate, and communicate
The Horizon Report 2007 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf
#1
http://worldprocessor.com/catalog/world/
Gardner’s Five Mindsfor the Future
“We have now embarked on what may be the ultimate, all-encompassing, episode of globalization.”
The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital
around the globe
The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital
around the globe• Movement of human
beings across borders
The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital
around the globe• Movement of human
beings across borders• Movement of
information through cyberspace
Czech Republic 10-25-07
The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital
around the globe• Movement of human
beings across borders• Movement of
information through cyberspace
• Movement of popular culture across borders
Opening of Palladium Indoor Mall, Prague, Czech Republic – 10-27-07
Prague Castle, 10-26-07
TrendsThe Horizon Report
Students’ views of what is and what is not technology are increasingly
different from those of their teachers.
The Horizon Report 2007 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf
#2
Ouch!
“Some teachers make a PowerPoint and they think they’re so awesome,” says a student. “But it’s just like writing on the blackboard,” says another.
Differing Views of Technology
Pew Internet Report
• 44% of 10 - 18-year-olds own a wireless phone
• 55% of all online teenagers use social networking sites.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-12-2007/0004525779&EDATE
http:///www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp
TrendsThe Horizon Report
Notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are
pushing the boundaries of scholarship.
The Horizon Report 2007 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf
#3
http://www.slideshare.net/adunne/what-is-web-20-157107
The Landscape Has Changed!
Educators have slid into the 21st century—and into the digital age—still doing a great many things the old way.
Marc Prensky
Our Digital Landscape
Our schools have some serious competition, and it’s not from other schools!
What Might They Need?
1. ___________________2. ___________________3. ___________________4. ___________________5. ___________________6. ___________________7. ___________________8. ___________________
What Might You Need?
1. ___________________2. ___________________3. ___________________4. ___________________5. ___________________6. ___________________7. ___________________8. ___________________
For the first time in history, our job as
educators is to prepare our children for a future that we
cannot clearly describe.
David Warlick
Teachers today need to know how to teach
using tools that are unfamiliar that they can’t fully master!
Marc Prensky
Which Brings Us To. . .
Twitterand Protopage
and the Online Course Requirement
Go to twitter.com
Learning how to set up a Twitter account
Now Let’s Find & Invite
Find MBAmom
Finding Your Partner in Twitter
• Enter your partner’s name in the Search box
• Click on the FOLLOW button on his/her Twitter page
Enrolling Students in Twitter
• May want to create special group names
• Avoid using student’s real names
Creating Groups in Twitter
Twitter “in” the Classroom
1. Twitterlit.com– Twits the first lines of books, along with a link
to Amazon
2. Post homework assignments or send reminders
3. Ask questions during lecture4. Ask for help outside of the classroom5. Communicate via Twitter groups and
have record of the “conversation”6. Explore collaborative writing
Twitter “in” the Classroom
7. Microblogging impressions after a chapter of reading
8. Practice foreign language phrases 9. Use in lieu of audience response
systems
Evolution of Communication
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php
Instant broadcast PLUS feedback
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php
We are witnessing a breathtaking evolution of new forms of digital communication. More than witnessing, we are facilitating it. All of this is unfolding so quickly thatwe do not have time to pause and reflect on what is happening. But if email is becoming an endangered species, then we need to pay attention.
Go to www.protopage.com
Some Protopage Examples
• www.protopage.com/janeperzyk• www.protopage.com/jimwenz• www.protopage.com/perzyks• www.protopage.com/letstalk• http://www.protopage.com/boston200
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Using Twitter with Protopage
• Assign Twitter accounts to group members
• Allow students to Twitter concerning the project they are working on in their Protopage site.
• Include a Twitter badge in the Protopage site for tracking tweets.
Quality Characteristics of a Teacher-Facilitated Activity
• Collaboration• Integration• Sustainability• Life-long skills• Teacher involvement• Online ethics and
safety
Questions?Write me at [email protected]
Evaluation
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www.protopage.com/janeperzyk