ISC's Blog » web 2.0 http://isc.blog.fairport.org Reflections, discussions, and resources for educators interested in technology at Fairport Central Schools Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:48:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Students measure real radioactive matierial via the Internet2 http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2010/04/26/students-measure-real-radioactive-matierial-via-the-internet2/ http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2010/04/26/students-measure-real-radioactive-matierial-via-the-internet2/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:57:22 +0000 bapthorpe http://isc.blog.fairport.org/?p=925 “It finally is happening!”  This is was my feeling as I watched Dr. Jones from Northwestern University demonstrating ilabscentral.org where by students were accessing a real Geiger-counter to measure radioactive material located in a science lab at the University of Queensland, Australia.  Finally, an easy web based interface for students to access remote scientific devices in faraway places.

The Holocaust Museum showed a new research resource available to students called the the Children of the Lodz Ghetto Students have access to the real prisoner records of the Holocaust camps and research who these children were.  They get to hear interviews of the survivors.  Very powerful.

The National Science Foundation Digital Library (NSDL) showed us their use of Pathways to connect science content to science context.  This provides National Science Foundation resources to K-12 teachers.

]]> http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2010/04/26/students-measure-real-radioactive-matierial-via-the-internet2/feed/ 0 Cloud tools to help teaching and learning… http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/11/09/cloud-tools-to-help-teaching-and-learning/ http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/11/09/cloud-tools-to-help-teaching-and-learning/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:46:08 +0000 bapthorpe http://isc.blog.fairport.org/?p=669 clouds123456I was searching for a comprehensive list of Web 2.0 tools to share with our staff and students when I happened upon a matrix organized by Jane Hart.  This matrix presents a nicely organized array of tools that can be used by anyone with Internet access.  I am sharing this with the TVT group also as they filter out some of these tools which may be worthwhile to offer on an enterprise level.  This is important for us to offer such tools that are ad-free.  Almost all “free” tools comes with ads, and ad-free alternatives cane be offered for a fee.  Take a look and share on the ones that you feel are worthwhile for our district.

]]> http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/11/09/cloud-tools-to-help-teaching-and-learning/feed/ 0 WBER + Capital Project=Lots of 21st century learning tools http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/11/04/wber-capital-projectlots-of-21st-century-learning-tools/ http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/11/04/wber-capital-projectlots-of-21st-century-learning-tools/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:41:57 +0000 bapthorpe http://isc.blog.fairport.org/?p=651 Dr. Brigid Barron and Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University, in an article from the 2008 book Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching For Understanding, they compile research arguing of the positive impact of authentic real-world learning scenarios and projects upon student learning.   They contend that authentic learning is an essential ingredient in order for students to succeed in a world that is, and will continue to be, exponentially changing.  They write

…learning by doing” has a somewhat checkered track record, in part because teachers often lack the information, support, and tools necessary to fully integrate and support this alternative approach to teaching and learning.

sign-realitycheckAt Fairport, our students and teachers are becoming equipped with the resources to improve this track record.  A powerful group of tools to assist us has entered our district through the back door, if you will, via our participation in the WBER service.  WBER is a student run FM radio station of Monroe #1 BOCES.  Historically FCSD has had excellent media communications classes, but they never had an audience.  This year Fairport students are learning the techniques and skills required to broadcast in the 21st century by broadcasting both over the FM airwaves to listeners around Monroe County, but also to listeners around the world via Internet broadcasting.

Gets better….WBER engineers enabled us to broadcast over the web from any class… to any building… to anyone…to closed audiences….to open audiences….this is critically important because it provided a much more affordable vehicle to bring real audiences to all our students versus trying to fund having such solutions devised on a building by building basis.

They did this by helping set up our computer network with the capability to broadcast WBER from FHS...marry this to our new infrastructure, we can replicate this availability from any classroom in the district.

What I have for our admin group to examine is one of the following real world tools that the TVT is exploring for the 2010-11 school year.

Below are the links to the groups of technology I want you to check out:

digital books

  • Gutenberg

web broadcasting-Ustream

podcasts

  • Podium (Steve & Bret Demo)
  • 25 top educational podcasts
  • iTunes store search via iTunes on your laptop

peer to peer

And if your are interested in the presentation I did today on using Prezi, check out http://prezi.com/gbiochiedxlw/

Afterward post a comment on this blog as to what you think all this

]]> http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/11/04/wber-capital-projectlots-of-21st-century-learning-tools/feed/ 3 TVT 2009-10 has successful kickoff http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/10/25/tvt-2009-10-has-successful-kickoff/ http://isc.blog.fairport.org/2009/10/25/tvt-2009-10-has-successful-kickoff/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:23:52 +0000 bapthorpe http://isc.blog.fairport.org/?p=637 We had a great kickoff with the 2009-2010 Technology Vision Team (TVT).  This year the team is taking on web broadcasting, peer 2 peer video conferencing, eReaders, and more Web 2.0 tools.  They are looking at which tools will fall within the technology framework created by this group over the past three years.

The day was spent reviewing the tools and/or toys for the year.  Next they will spend 6 weeks applying them and digging deeper into the possibilities.  We had a lot of good laughs in our ice breaker activity.

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On Tuesday I had the privilege of watching a presentation made by foreign language teachers on web 2.0 technologies. I was very impressed by their demonstration of delicious, polleverywhere and glogster. This is exactly what our technology vision work is calling for and capital projects are enabling.

I also learned about possible limitations of Audacity and Voicethread. Supporting peripherals for this technology can be found on our standards page.

I would also share foreign language TV/News stations that can be watched on the web.

Skype will be on all our computers next year, enabling our staff/students to have real life audio/video conferences with their peers across the world.

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