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Creating a pln cape town
This document discusses using technology tools like Twitter, Skype, and blogging to shift classroom focus from teachers to active learning among students. It provides examples of students using these tools to solve problems, discuss topics, and share work in and outside of class. Benefits mentioned include cultivating collaboration among students across states and countries through sharing ideas on education. The document also discusses replacing traditional essays with blogs, social media, and multimedia to allow students to more persuasively argue and communicate ideas.
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- 2. • Can transformyour classroom
- 3. shift the focusof activity from the teacher to the learners. These methods include active learning, in which students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions of their own, discuss, explain, debate, or brainstorm during class;
- 4. • Twitter •Skype • Blogging –Clustermaps –RSS
- 5. • Seek –Go, Explore, Discover! Twitter, Facebook, Skype and Scoop-it. • Sense – Understand, Do, Create, Remix Share it back on Twitter or Facebook.. • Share – Pay It Forward share slides on Dropbox or Slideshare. That way you take part of the sharing culture.
- 6. • @schink10 Twitter= the ultimate collaboration tool. I now have friends in every state & internationally who share a passion for education #digileadwv
- 7. • What arethe benefits of using this with students • Talk with your shoulder parner
- 11. • Show websitehere.
- 14. Shelley Wright‘ “Iused to think the essay was the Holy Grail of the English classroom. Now I honestly believe it’s one of the least useful forms of communication I teach, at least in the 5-paragraph essay format. I still believe it’s important for my students to be able to persuasively argue, but now they learn how to do it via blogging, social media, and using visual and audio formats.
- 15. 1. Spelling mistakesuse spell-checker options in their Browser. I now use Google Chrome and the built in spell-checker extension 2. Peer review. Not only for content but helping each other with language structure, grammar and spelling. 3. Sources, images and videos. Teach students. Wikimedia commons is a great place to find images, sounds and video you can use in your blog. Flickr: creative commons is one, Google Advanced Search
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- #4 Connected teachers see what needs to be changed in the classroom and start learning with others. When they see what they can learn online they will see how their students can do the same.
- #5 Just to get a feeling of How many of you are on twitter? Skype? How many have your own blog? Know what clustermaps are and how to use it? Know what RSS is and how to use it?
- #6 Creating and sharing are connected and the point is to give back to the community If you like comments on your blog, you should be sure to comment back and thank those who provide the information.
- #8 Easy way to reach student
- #9 Interaction with educators wold wide. How do you find them?
- #10 How do we get more teachers online? Who’s responsible for making this happen? CaOpens opportunities to interact with a global audience
- #11 Norway will be participating in this event this year. Stay tuned and follow our web-page!
- #13 Please try not to be to distracted by the enthisiasme of the front seated students! Skype is great Google hangouts might be even better?
- #14 Ulrik Bett i London i Januar og der var BBC tilstede og hørte på lærer og to elever holdt foredrag. Vårt prosjekt får internasjonal oppmerksomhet
- #16 When writing for a publication or reports at work, you usually have someone look over your work?
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- #25 Ulrik I år jobber vi også på denne måten