New Berlin Technology

Pioneers
Trail Blazers in a Digital World
What Your Community Said
 Survey of Possibilities
 Hands-on Time to Play, develop curriculum

 Professional Learning Community as a Tool to

help us learn, share
 Collaboration is Important

 “We wish they’d put more stuff up

electronically.”
 Use tech to increase student engagement

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Objectives
 A Framework for Tech Integration
 Survey of some tools, largely through some
projects
 PLC and PLN
 Examine Providing Electronic Content
 Moodle
 Wiki
 Tools of Collaboration
 Google
 Student Engagement through Solid Projects
 Know the skills you value and teach them too
 Know the essential questions- they drive the
project design
 Design Backwards
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Everything Online for Access later
 Go to wiki-
http://newberlinplc.wikispaces.co
m/
 Survey Question – make a google form – (one thing
you want to learn)

The Skills

 Inquiry, Research, and Information Literacy

 Digital Citizenship and Personal Learning
Networks
 Communication and Collaboration in a Global
World
 Creativity, Inventive and Critical Thinking, and
Design


Student Framework for Learning
 Is the content I am teaching essential and
relevant?
 Am I addressing the skills my students need to
be successful in life?
 Am I effectively assessing the learning that is
taking place?
 Am I fostering the spirit of inquiry that will
sustain learning in my students for a
lifetime?

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 Technology must be like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
Chris Lehmann , Science Leadership Academy

http://www.slideshare.net/chrislehmann/where­does­it­live­building­systems­and­structures­around­what­you­believe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geeflex/3025253199/sizes/o/
Ignite Philly
TPCK Model

The 
Sweet 
Spot
 Shift in Teaching Theories/Defining
Documents

Ub Danielson’s 
Domains
D
Marzano’s
 Best Practices

Web 2.0 that Works

Image­ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32625013@N00/17135231/
Shift in Professional Development/Growth
Pancake Principal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/422
23852@N00/1347435508/
Collective Capacity
The Fun Quotient
PLC and PLN on a PLE
Professional Learning Communities
 Six Requirements
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 Four Questions
 What are the Essential Questions?
 How will we Assess this?
 How we will Intervene?
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Resources
 English Companion Ning
 Math 24 x 7

 Classroom 2.0

 Library 2.0

 Global Collaborations Ning

 NCSS Ning

 Blogs by Discipline
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
PLE
 Software
 Hardware

 Access

 Skill Set to Make use of it Properly

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Survey of Tools
 Moodle Course
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 Wiki



“We want more stuff electronically”
 Moodle

Social Bookmarking
 Delivery of
Information
Scribe Blog
AP Calc Blog

Slideshare
Scribd
Ning Social Network
Teacher Blog

Deliver Assignments –
Diagnostic Assesment
Blog Comments
Polls
Textbooks or Online Courses
Research Process

Managing information
Finding it
Evaluating it
Citing it
Tracking it
Search Strategies
Google – Advanced, News, Blogs,Site,
Location, Custom

Other Engines-
Viewzi
SearchMe
Search Cube
Images
Flick Storm
Creative Commons
Bookmarking
Managing Information

SimplyBox
NoteStar
Zoho Notebook
Zotero
Evaluating Information

WebNotes

TrailFire
Citation
Citation Machine
EasyBib
Word
Tracking Changes - RSS

iGoogle

Google Reader

Feedbeater
Student Creation
WikiSpaces Weebly

Google Office and Forms

Glogster

Google Maps Blogs

Wikispaces links
Assessment

Polls

Blog Reflection

Video Comments (2)

Teaching Collaboration
WIKI BOOKS
WIKI LABS
Wiki Literature
WIKI Lesson Plans
GOOGLE Writing
Assignments
Google Spreadsheets
and Forms
Scribe Blogs
Embeddable and Shareable
Information Literacy
Evolution of Textbooks
Making Research 
Transparent

LiveBinders
Managing the Information Flow

iGo o gle

Go o gle  Re ade r

Fe e dbe ate r
Basic Literacy/Habits of Mind
Visual Literacy
InterCultural Literacy

Student Video 
Networked Literacy
Facebook 1800s
Recognizing Audience
 ENGLISH 10 Blogs
 FREDERICK DOUGLAS
SPEAKER SERIES
 GLOBAL ISSUES
AWARENESS PROJECT
Project Based Learning
AP Muse um

WikiBo o ks
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Adv Histo ry Do c ume ntarie s
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Fre de ric k Do uglass De bate s 
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Glo bal Climate  Change  
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