Post 35- Rethinking our K-12 Schools (using Web2.0 tools)

Hood River School District (Janice Patton, Curriculum/Instruction)
West Sylvan Middle School (Allison Couch, Principal).
George Fox MAT students (Kathy Sansone, instructor for student teachers)

1. Welcome (do cell phones belong in a classroom?).
   
   
2. 1-Page Handout for Goals and Hands-on Activities
   Presentation | Gmail | Blogging | Adv. Blogging
   
   
3. Reasons to rethink our K-12 schools
   


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• Hood River and Sylvan Slideshow | GFU MAT Slideshow
  
• Shift Happens, so Pay Attention (engaging with todays kids)
• Relationships -> Relevance -> Rigor = Results
• Web2.0 to the rescue
  
  
4. Web2.0 Tools --- Quick Overview
   
• Post 12: Jott (cell phone Posting to Blog)
• Post 14: Del.icio.us - social bookmarking in 3 minutes)
• Post 17: OSLIS - (MLA cite referencing)
• Google Sites (KISS web design)
  Dale's Site (for staff development. Tons of examples)
  Barry's Site (integrating emerging technologies into education)
  
  ACTIVITY (Task 1)
  
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• Gmail (Tutorial) opens the doors. Let's Get Started!
  Create a school-based gMail account.
  Example: hr-mrjones@gmail.com
  Email your partner -> reply -> attach file -> reply
  
  
5. Blogging Demonstrations
   
• Blogging in Plain English (3 min)
• Blogging for Educators (teachers/students)
  
• School-blogging Interview video (3 minutes)
• Blog-ology
• Ed-556: Teacher Blog and Student Blog
  
• Dale (Freshman Science) _and_ Doug (blogging wksp and Mr A's blog)
  
• Fresh Start (alternative HS)
• Janet's Powerpoint in Google Presentation (Nat'l Parks)
  
• Willamette MAT group Blog to post their Community Service experiences (rather than the original plan of passing around emails). Another MAT blog where students uploaded and Posted their Powerpoint presentations titled "Our Dream School."
  
  
• Building a Blog (post #21) | Create, Post, Modify
• ACTIVITY (Task 2) Create a school-based blog titled Welcome to my Blog using the criteria in our Goals and Hands-on Activities
  Tutorial (Post 27 is step-by-step)
  
  
6. Google Docs --- Word, Sheets, Presentations
• Google Docs in 3 minutes! My Google Doc Examples (share/publish/post)
• Post 27: Tutorials for Gmail, Google Docs, Blogging
• ACTIVITY (Task 3) Create a Google Doc titled My Classroom Rules following the criteria in our Goals and Hands-on Activities