Web 2.0 & Connectivist Learning - Session 2 November 23rd

It has been quite a long time since the kick-off session for Web 2.0 & Connectivist Learning last May. Our next session is scheduled for November 23rd 8:00am-noon (Central Standard Time). In our first session we examined Blogs, Blogging, RSS, and Microblogging. In this next session, titled Cloud Computing & Web 2.0 Tools we will explore social bookmarking tools, social networking tools and web applications. Please visit our course wiki for instructions on how attend this session, how to view the recording of our "kick-off" session, and for links to resources related to the course.

Web 2.0 & Connectivist Learning is a combination online open course and traditional face-to-face professional development cohort. Our sessions may be attended online by anyone for free. Online participation in this cohort may also be applied to one semester continuing education credit from Hamline University.

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Thanks,

Carl Anderson
Hamline University School of Education

SEMTEC - Techspo - Web 2.0 - a roundtable discussion: What is it and how is it working in your schools?

This session started with the Machine is Us/ing Us video by Mike Wesch. Most of those in attendance are tech coordinators from area schools (9 people total), two of us deal specifically with instructional technology.

Jen shared with us her del.icio.us account.

We then watched Lee Lefever's, RSS in Plain English.

Thunderbird will aggregate RSS feeds as well as handle email.

Discussed blogging.

Looked at Ning. -You can have a private network.

Gary Prest: What It Takes (closing session keynote) - notes

TIES Wiki
It is more important to put the student needs fist and empower the student than just manage the situation.

MPLS - lets idenity the students we don't know, put a sticker by the names of students they knew, those students who had no stickers the teachers focused on and made an effort to meet and get to know

There is no way a single teacher by themselves can get a child to achieve their full potential. We need collaboration. People working together achieve a lot more.

Teaching is a public activity. Students learn early how to draw lessons from a teacher's character.

There is very little literature on what motivates teachers.

Teaching is intensly personal.

It is our responsibility to act as tallent scouts with our students and identify their strengths.