Gwen+Bailey

NECC 2007 Innovative Classroom Ideas: 1. RadioWeb - great use as a final project for students. Radio broadcast produced by kids for kids. 2. ESOL - Using ipods for student learning: download United streaming videos, provide students with text. Also put powerpoints on ipods for student review. (jodix.com - converts video to ipod) (camstudio.org - captures audio, screen) Copyright free media at archive.org. . 3. And video creation for ESOL students. Use teachertube to publish student videos. Put movies into movie maker - take out audio - let students narrate.

For Radioweb - would need training on how to set up the radio broadcast and putting it on the school website. For ipods - would need to purchase ipods and help learning how to put video onto the ipods.

Product most impressed with: AWE Early Literacy Station - Self contained computer station with preloaded educational software. No outside drives. Prefect for pre-k and k classrooms. Machines used with little adult supervision. I would like to see the "regular" computer in these grade levels replaced with this system.

Most interesting concept or idea: Web 2.0 - I didn't really understand what this meant before. Now I see that there is a whole world of "free" web based programs that allow users to interact and work together on projects. Great potential for student use - especially at the high school level but also at lower levels. For example: Pageflakes is your personalized startpage on the Internet. Your address book, local weather information, to-do-list, news, blogs and much more – all on one page that you can access from anywhere. Pages can be shared and edited by others. Draw and share diagrams (flowcharts, floorplans, etc) on the web. Diagrams can be placed in Wikis and Blogs. Share through email. Brainstorming on the web. Free Interactive whiteboard to share with others.
 * Page Flakes:** [|http://pageflakes.com]
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 * bubbl.us** http://bubbl.us/
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Reinvent CCSD: Replace computers in prek and k with Early Literacy Station. Provide a document reader for all classrooms - to go with Smartboards. Determine how to train teachers to use more video with students (student creation and production) and as a more productive learning tool (United streaming and Montage). Support for teachers to use video in a time effective manner. All students in Middle and High School would work from a real work desk with a computer on each desk. Have all of us become more comfortable with the technology we have and use it more effectively. Students only take one standardized test a year. Do away with MAP testing. Scheduling is a real problem - the way we block in our time ( for ex. 50 minutes of math) doesn't allow for creativity or the integration of subjects. Limits student learning in "real" way.