Diane

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 = __//Thursday//__ =

Use your noodle - Learn to Moodle!
11:30 - 12:25 Michelle Moore, Moodle Partner Company - [|Remote Learner]


 * Learning Management System (LMS)
 * Social constructionist pedagogy
 * Worldwide deployed

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 * Have legal access to source code and can modify it.
 * If Moodle does not work for you, you can tweak it on your own. You can customize it for your school. All school people can work together to improve it.
 * Community development and community support.
 * Free support
 * http://moodle.org
 * http://docs.moodle.org
 * http://tracker.moodle.org

** Assignment features - **
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 * Offline assignment
 * Online text assignment
 * Chat features between teacher/student


 * No shared drives needed anymore
 * Messaging - cheating can take place, but you as an instructor have full control
 * Chat allows you to print out transcript of the conversation between students and you can limit this
 * General discussion forums - you can limit how many times kids post, set up so that students must do their post before reading other student posts, you can allow redoing of work and students can also rate each other's posts.
 * You can use groups in Moodle so that you aren't duplicating many courses at different times.

//What if schools do not have the technology to run this?//
 * Other questions to think about:**
 * Extend the school day with Moodle for those who can
 * Work toward technology in the schools
 * Parents could visit it from work

//Took quick poll about who has a Moodle server and has tweaked the site?//
 * About 5 people in a room of about 100 raised their hands
 * One gentleman said that he had it customized within 1/2 hour without a lot of experience with moodle
 * The moodle.org is very helpful with skins and such

=Make your students the star on your local education TV Channel 12:55 - 1:50= David Cook

You can find samples of their work at: http://www.wpds.tv

Things to think about:
 * Legal services said that all schools must have signed consent forms for posting students onilne, no opt-out
 * This is an after school activity and uses building based technicians with the help of comp time and revised schedules
 * You need reliable students, sometimes it is generated from the student and their wilingness to work
 * Video editing software used is Avid Video
 * Using licensed music (takes a lot of the budget)
 * Teleprompters are used (portable teleprompters that are screwed onto the top of the lense --> mirror and inverted script $300)
 * Jumpbacks and [|Digital Juice] are used
 * Music and graphics are the easiest way to elevate the quality of your product
 * This is used as a public relations tool, the community loves it. They track the viewers online and have a very good viewership.
 * Lunchtime Jam - Something students introduce, positive and educational, to be played during lunchtime at elementary schools
 * See handout for Pinellas County Schools' Going Super @ the 2009 SuperBowl
 * Sorry, didn't get a handout! One is going to be emailed to me so I can add more facts to this section!

=Professional Development - Creating a Personal Learning Network with Web 2.0 Tools 2:15 - 3:10= Michelle Bourgeois, Colleen Glaude, Katie Morrow

http://budurl.com/buildapln

Michelle Bourgeois - Faculty professional growth specialist Colleen Gluade - Instructional technology specialist Katie Morrow - Classroom teacher

ProfDev + Web 2.0 = Professional Learning Network (PLN)

//Appetizers// //- Small portion that gets you interested// [|Twitter] & [|Plurk] - MicroBlogs, find out what's going on with your network, visit their favorite sites they've posted.
 * Allows connection with others
 * Helps user stay current
 * Helps user keep learning

//Main Course - Survive on it, nourish and sustain throughout the day// Blogs (Reading, Subscribing, Blogging yourself) Del.icio.us (A social bookmarking site to collect resources for yourself and for other people) iChat or Skype
 * A way to connect to others through sharing ideas
 * Post
 * Add comments
 * Aggregators - Puts all your blog feeds into one place
 * Bloglines
 * Google Reader
 * NetVibes
 * PageFlakes
 * Helps Organize
 * Diversifies
 * iChat allows you to share your screen
 * Saves time
 * Saves money
 * Preserves sanity

//Side dishes - could make a whole meal out of them, but a great part// Podcasts and Webinars Online Communities Ning Wikis Apple Learning Interchange
 * Podcasts are asynchronous
 * Webinars, actively participating
 * iTunesU
 * EPN - education podcast network
 * K12 Online
 * USTREAM.tv
 * Anytime
 * Anywhere
 * Anything
 * Build your own social network
 * http://www.classroom20.com
 * http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com
 * Discussion
 * History
 * Interaction
 * Great Content
 * Meet others
 * Collaborate Online (my groups)

Meet others
Begin with a bit or IRL (in real life) Become part of the crowd Things to remember Find free curriculum at: http://www.apple.com/education/go/curriculum http://www.apple.com/education/go/highschool
 * Move to friends of friends
 * Add famous folk
 * Become part of the crowd
 * Eat at the buffet
 * Observe and lurk
 * Comment
 * Ask questions
 * Reflect and share
 * Try new things
 * Make room for others
 * Mind your manners

http://budurl.com/BuildaPLN

=__**// Friday //**__= =Is your district's technology department ready for student e-mail?= =9:15 - 10:10 A.M.= Jeff Patterson

Gaggle - Hotmail/mySpace-like email in which the teachers are in control.

=State standards are including email into Standards= National Net Day Findings (2004 surcey of 210,000 k-12 students and their teachers found:
 * 20% of K-3 students have email accounts
 * 79% of students have email
 * 70% have at least one IM account
 * IM/Email is essential to their daily lives
 * Students are frustrated that they cannot use these technologies at school

Larger districts are using student email accounts
 * Dept of Defense Schools
 * Memphis City Schools
 * Washing DC Schools

Many Initiatives will bring student email
 * one to one laptop programs
 * distance learning
 * web portals
 * home to school communication

Solutions
 * Host is on Exchange, Group Wise, or First Class
 * Build your own system (squirrelmail, postfix)
 * ASP vendors are around as well: Epals, eChalk, Google Apps, Microsoft Live @ EDU, Gaggle.net

Emails is not the only communication tool that's coming
 * Message boards
 * Chat rooms
 * Blogging
 * Online File Storage
 * Web Page publishing
 * Podcasting
 * Wikis

CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act)
 * Required for E-rate compliance
 * Schools must "adopt a policy addressing teh safety and security for minors when using electronic mail, chat rooms, and other forms of direct online communication."
 * CIPA also states that schools must have technology measures in place to protect against visual depictions that are obscene or pornographic.

Virus Control
 * You can't tell students not to click on attachments - they will
 * Students are more prone to computer virus attacks and infections
 * Virus libraries should be updated at least every 6 hours

Spam control
 * Students will give our their email address to any web site that promises a free gift
 * Expect active students to get three times as much spam as teachers.

Acceptable Use Issues
 * Content monitoring of message bodies
 * Image scanning for pron
 * URL monitoring
 * Who are students allowed to email with?
 * Inside the school or district only
 * Teachers only
 * Class only
 * The whole internet less some domains
 * Who will monitor these accounts? Teachers? IT staff?


 * Controlling Student Abuse**
 * Mail Bombs
 * Mass Mailings to the Entire School
 * Time based restrictions
 * Over Use
 * Harassment - Congress has passed a cyberbullying law regarding this
 * Directory Access - think about how many people in the system they have access to
 * Tracking messages: Bomb threats, violence and suicides, access to headers, IP stamp and time stamps
 * Good hints on how to handle email abuse and use student examples. Let students know privileges have been taken away.

Addressing Schemes
 * One domain name for the entire district
 * Usernames can be based on student ID#
 * First and last name combinations
 * Best solution is both: John Smith = johns4581@mydistrict.net

Account generation and sychronization
 * Link your accounts with your student info system
 * Tie into active directory
 * SIF Integration

Integration with other systems
 * Integration with your web portal, sharepoint, balckboard, etc.
 * Direct Login link from these systems
 * Single sign-on with one username and password

E-Rate is a funding source
 * email is E-rate priority one eligible
 * The Category is Internet Access
 * Applicants are eligible for discounts up to 90%
 * All districts and schools are eligible
 * No impact upon other E-rate funding

Classroom teacher issues
 * Fear - I don't want to get email from my students, monitoring students can be a burden
 * Solutions - forwarding of blocked mail to outside accounts and involve human monitoring system from gaggle

Benefits Curriculum projects
 * Social Aspects: Allows student to comminicate without stigmas and it provides a new medium of communication
 * Increased technology integration
 * Going virtual
 * better student safety
 * Email as a literacy tool, reading, writing and typing skills, teach students to convey thoughts in writing
 * Peer review of work
 * Mentoring Programs: adopts a grandparent, career mentoring, adult mentoring, student mentors
 * Student Pen Pals
 * Contact with scientific experts and politicians

=How not to convert a traditional class to an online format 10:35 - 11:30= Richard Repp, Ph.D, Full Sail University

Media design and implementation Research design Statistical findings Conclusions

Background
 * Enrollment goals
 * Teaching load limitation
 * Limited size of lab
 * Need to teach advanced courses

Conversion to Distance Learning
 * Began with grades on WebCT
 * Students did not have to ask what their grade was
 * Started tests
 * difficult to produce
 * automatic grading
 * Added podcasts with video screen captures (uncompressed 500 MB vid was clear but optimized for web 16.3 MB)
 * Recordings of lectures
 * [|ScreenRecord]
 * iSight for show and tell
 * Challenges in recording
 * Awkwardness
 * Who is the target audience, the class or the recording? Instructor found that target audience ended up being video and then his students in classroom got neglected
 * Microphone does not pick up students' questions
 * Tethered to teacher station
 * iSight poor for whiteboard
 * Technical challenges
 * Audio dropouts
 * Used another computer to record glitches
 * Quicktime would not convert large files
 * broke into segments for web
 * placed segments in WebCT
 * Keep podcast to less than 20 minutes


 * The move to online**
 * Live lectures
 * Podcasts projected
 * akward for instructor
 * ability to observe students' reactions
 * ability to help in real time
 * great self-evaluation
 * Podcasts on individual computers
 * Evaluation surveys
 * Anonymous
 * Given at end of semester
 * Having extra time in class to work on proj 5.5
 * Reviewing lectures from missed classes 5.4
 * material available to study for test 6.5
 * ability to pause and rewind movies 6.5
 * ability to take lectures home 4.4
 * Problems
 * technical
 * difficulties in asking questions
 * feeling of isolation
 * Liked the live lectures more 62%, "recorded" 38%

**initial conclusions**

 * Recording lectures was feasible, not optimal
 * Prerecorded lectures would have produced a better result
 * students were accepting of the recorded lectures

**More evolution**

 * All lectures given in podcast format
 * Attendance required
 * Students worked at their own pace
 * Instructor available for questions

**Comparison groups: All live lectures, hybrid, all podcast**

 * 82 all lecture
 * 81 mixed
 * 76 all podcast


 * Conclusions**
 * Podcasts of live lectures do not lead to the same student success as live lectures
 * The chief weakness of podasts is preparing students for tests
 * Student attitude seemed more gnegative
 * The main reason for failure was that students were skipping parts
 * Putting live lectures on the web was not helpful


 * Distance Learning necessities**
 * Distance learnings courses need more feedback than traditional courses, students need sense of community
 * Live lectures are too chaotic to make a good podcast
 * You will need a script
 * Advisable to reduce course load because it takes more time to teach a course online
 * Buy a good microphone, do not use camcorder, record in a quiet room, use a tripod, limit talking heads

=Being a Technology Leader: What to do First, Second...Millionith= 1:50 - 2:45 Eric Willard


 * Prioritize Projects**
 * Get something done quickly
 * Make a list of things you need to do, talk to stake holders
 * Determine Primary goals
 * Technology Plan - reassess goals
 * Important VS. Urgent
 * Rank Projects/Activities
 * Create a schedule
 * Review goals
 * Purge/reprioritize


 * Should instruction drive technology?**
 * Maslow's/Willard's Hierachy of needs
 * Instructional Initiatives
 * Administrative Needs - Principals, what you do in those others buildings really works out well.
 * Technology Plan
 * Leadership - Technology savvy teachers/Techs
 * Community
 * Equity - Many issues here
 * Money - Funding is important
 * User needs according to Willard
 * Funding and Leadership (this needs to be first)
 * Tech Planning and Support (get the people first, who reports to you? What does support organization look like? block off $5,000 in training every year)
 * Standards & Infrastructure (equipment, software direction, wireless, wired) "You can make anything work with anything else if you throw enough $ work at it."
 * Hardware & Software
 * Self-Actualized
 * //**Professional Development wraps the whole thing!**//

=**How to budget for success**= Annual/Project
 * Proposal spreadsheet in Excel
 * Example SMARTBoards:
 * List schools, phase, Order, Installation, Accessories, Total
 * Each school is listed out and you can follow each board install through time
 * Provide that level of detail, people will respect what you've done
 * Equity
 * Track each school and show the equity issue
 * Credibility carries us a long way, be organized. "It's tough to be perfect, but everybody expects us to be. So give it a try."
 * Annual Budget
 * Account description, 2006-07 Actual, 2007-08 Budget, 2007 - 08 Priority Items, 2007 - 08 Budget Total
 * His school district has 5 million dollar tech budget! He started out at $750,000. (27 buildings)
 * One to one initiatives for teachers (added wireless)
 * Establish policies**
 * Create plan and have people buy into it. Policies help drive it. Access issues with Web 2.0. Administrative procedures.


 * Hire and Retain Staff**
 * Promote
 * Create new job descriptions
 * Maintain Board and Admin Support**
 * Example: Family Parent/Teacher conferencing
 * supt/principal support - Atta girl folder

eric.willard@d300.org


 * This session rocked!**