Web 2.0 Guru - home. Learn WordPress.com. Browse fonts. Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Change Agent. Published Online: October 11, 2010 Published in Print: October 12, 2010, as Change Agent Interview Will Richardson was a high school English and journalism teacher in New Jersey for nearly 20 years. During the early part of this decade, he began experimenting with the use of interactive Web tools in the classroom and was soon transfixed by their potential for increasing students’ engagement and exposing them to new resources and outlets for expression. His experiences led him to write Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin). Richardson is now an educational-technology consultant and co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice , a professional development provider devoted to fostering online community for teachers.
You’ve written that too many teachers are “un-Googleable.” What I mean is that too few teachers have a visible presence on the Web. Why do you think many teachers are not out there on the Web? I think it’s a huge culture shift. —Emile Wamsteker. Curriculum 21 - Clearinghouse. E-Newsletter SignUp Show all resources sorted by most popular most recent most popular first containing Join to rate and submit resources ← Previous Page 1 of 58 Next → (1 ratings) interactive programs for making and analyzing art.
Posted by cweihe, last updated on July 21, 2012 Categories: Art (3 ratings) Digital Mavericks. Damn Good Education Daily. 8 Great Online Presentation Tools. Here are 8 alternatives to giving a presentation with PowerPoint.
As well as standard presentations, some of these tools create slideshows from sets of images. They are all free, or at least have a free option. Prezi Prezi lets you create very engaging presentations that pan and zoom from page to page. You can create non-linear presentations quite easily. Here’s a Prezi I produced to introduce the Science course on the PGCE orientation day. PhotoPeach With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds. Animoto Animoto lets you create photo slideshows and put them to music.
It’s very simple to produce cool-looking presentations quickly, like this: Zoho Show Zoho Show allows you to create presentations from scratch or upload existing ones created in PowerPoint. Empressr Empressr is a free online storytelling tool that allows you to create, manage and share rich media presentations online. Image Loop. Exploring Technologies for School Use. My philosophy in life is go with the "tried and true".
That way you know what results you can expect. Now, you might argue that this makes things boring...but I say "better safe than sorry". So I definitely would not go for some brand new, cutting-edge, elective, cosmetic surgery....unless it was tested and done on millions. Who knows how many things can go wrong....and it's your looks and life on the line. So why risk it. That said, experimenting with new stuff, say a new recipe for Pâte à Choux (cream puff pastry), will certainly improve your life.
To bring this balanced approach to education technology, I would suggest that schools implement new methods that have proven track records. Things like scheduling parent teacher conferences can be a huge task for K-12 administrators, teachers...and even parents. On the other hand, bringing wireless technology into the classroom or offering students the option of taking courses online, should be researched very carefully. The Cool Cat Teacher Daily Tweetpaper. 8 Guiding Questions for Conversations about Becoming a School of the Future. I highly recommend a brand new online publication, A Guide to Becoming a School of the Future.
The 60 page document, prepared by Robert Witt and Jean Orvis as lead authors, is an attractive, appealing guide and deserves reading by every principal, connected or not. (Its intended audience is independent schools, but I think, and Eric Juli, who directs secondary education in Lawrence Public Schools, agrees, that its thinking is applicable broadly). I was pleased to be able to contribute to the Guide the Guiding Questions (Appendix A), which are intended for the purpose of “stimulating discourse within your community about the changes we face in our world and the implications of those changes for education.” Perhaps these questions will be of use to administrators in their work facilitating such conversations: 21st Century Life: How has the world changed and what are the implications for education?
21st Century Instruction: How must it change, and how can we accomplish this?