Kevin+Long's+Notes

__**SESSION 3**__
 * Podcasting Across the Curriculum**

-opened with a Podcast about podcasts. #haha

Free: Audacity - already use it

examples from middle school. cute...but i already know this. - hand-out to used MSWord to make a podcast...really?

Sharing Podcasts: - check with parents first...share with the class (enhances learning)

Getting Teachers Involved: -step by step instructions - give rubrics

__**SESSION 2**__
 * Leading the Revolution! - http://keeptheconversationgoing.wikispaces.com/**


 * http://www.journeytwentyone.org/**

How DO you bring about this change? It is INDEED a revolution!!! You have to have your Superintendent on-board to move anywhere! - -Super of Duxbury told the entire staff that you WILL use Web 2.0 tools....if they don't work, fine, but at least you tried!!! - Why wait for other people to tell us what to do...let's just do it now on our own.

-Force web 2.0 on teachers, but don't punish if it's done wrong (ie. not on evals)

Duxybury Example of Acceptable Use Policy...came from moving to 21st Century Learners...


 * "****However, no web filtering technology is 100% safe."**

- "//__Messaging__.// Teachers ** may ** incorporate: email, blogs, podcasts, video conferencing, online collaborations, PDAs , IMing , texting, Virtual Learning Environments and other forms of direct electronic communications (i.e. cell phones, PDAs, cameras) or Web 2.0 applications for educational purposes. Although teachers monitor student online activity, it is the direct responsibility of the user to comply with this acceptable use policy."

__**SESSION 1**__

__**The Evolution of the Mobile Learning Environment**__ Dr. Paul Facteau Experience Architect - Apple Inc.

Every company is willing to tae your money. You need to budget for long-term sustainability!!!!

- ePub - an opensource format for editing books/pdfs - example of how 9th grade students MADE an eBook for a lesson - on iBooks -eBooks that you make can have built-in media...and YOU make it.

Students expect a learning environment that: - ADAPTS to individual learning styles -PROVIDES personalized learning opportunities -INTEGRATES

Avg bookbag : 24-32lbs, Cost (of contents) $360 iPad - $499 ..... even have parents pay a Technology Fee amortized over 4 years (Hopkington charges a $125 fee to lease and can do a 1:1) - no flash on aby tablet....printing? Print to a dropbox on a computer in the room! Simple. -PRINTOPIA

GoodReader - $2.99 App - links to GoogleDocs, DropBox, and more...

__**Innovation in Learning**__ Mobility - connect your computers...to mobile...to each other Connecting Formal & Informal Learning - Access to Relevant Digital Content

[|THE CEO] - video - 13-yr old CEO Leanna Archer Reuben's Life Cycle of Tehnology Adoption

Pedagogy, Content, Technology --- don't just buy the technology...learn how to use it.