Welcome!

• "Revolution in the Classroom and in Social Lives"
  • Growing Up Online and Digital Nation
    • Discussion
    • "Bored?"
• "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Or Not?
• Online vs. In Person learning
• Pros and Cons?
  • More Students Learning Online
  • "Can Young Students Learn From Online Classes?"
  • "Blended" Learning
  • "Who’s Best Suited to Teach and Learn in Virtual Schools?"
  • Highs and Lows of "Virtual" School
• Digital Learning, Applied
  • "Justice" with Michael Sandel
  • Music lessons online
  • Local school goes online
  • Bar Mitzvah Studies Take to the Web
  • "Getting An Education In Learning Over the Internet"
  • Academic classes online?
    • Popular local math teacher (Best Math Videos website)
      • Khan Academy
    • School-wide class "flipping"(video)

• Teacher/student based instruction (techno constructivist) vs. "program"/textbook based instruction (traditional workbook and multiple choice questions)
  • "The big picture" - where to go in one year or five?
    • How Long?
      • "...switching from textbooks to all-digital learning materials."
    • "End of the Textbook?"
    • "Digital Textbook Initiative"
      • Beyond the textbook
    • The "Cloud"
      • Photoshop Online
      • Zoho and Google Docs
      • Dropbox
  • Rise of the Wiki:
    • Wikipedia
      • "Wiki Woman: How a Web Tool Saved My Career" -- and Mrs. Maine's class wiki site.
    • Fthswiki.org
    • EduWikis:
      • A list of articles and resources that describe how to use wikis in education.
      • A comprehensive list of existing educational wikis that we can learn from.
      • General Discussion of Wikis in Education.
    • Outliers:
      • Goals and Introductions
      • Romeo and Juliet benchmark
      • to Chelsea Zimmerman
      • to Professor Lee Silver
  • Create your own wiki
    • One simple lesson...
    • Simple instrctions, a few links, a place for student writing... all standards-based.

• Explain HW

Homework

• One Model Lesson!
  • Please be ready to present next week one awesome, web 2.0 model lesson plan/project!
• Online Learning?
  • Complete blogsite posting

Student Work

STUDENT BLOGS STUDENT WIKIS: Betsy Betsy Javier Javier Jessica Jessica Sarah Sarah   Jennifer Jennifer Michelle Michelle Kimberly Kimberly   Brenda Brenda Daniel Daniel Joe Joe Jose Jose Nick Nick Mary Mary Meaghann Meghann Morgan Morgan Mario Mario Tara Tara Teresa Teresa     Aimee Aimee Amber Amber Carmen Carmen Danielle Danielle Michelle Michelle Mojdeh Mojdeh Lindsey Lindsey Jessica Jessica Jesus Jesus Meg Meg Ryan Ryan   Angie Angie Guadalupe Guadalupe Jeff Jeff Robert Robert Rosa Rosa Steve Steve   Lisa D Lisa D. Lisa H. Lisa H. Kristen Kristen Christina Christina Rich Rich Rosie Rosie Tracie Tracie