To Learn Twice

Here are the materials for 21st Century Learning with the 3 V's: Visual, Virtual and Verbal A workshop at ICE2010 that Aida Awad and I ran. Presentation is below and the wiki is here: http://3vs.wikispaces.com/

This is the slidedeck for a presentation I am giving to the HSMLA tomorrow at Maine South High School on Web 2.0. The idea is to make sure Web 2.0 tools are introduced and we chat about how they can be used to improve instruction.

About halfway through. Trying to finish as much as possible tonight. http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/public/hthiele/book/14152000000016069

I am working on next week's admin academy that I am teaching. It is on Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works . My plan is to introduce the strategies and then share some tools that might be align with the strategy, are useful, and are mostly free. You can see how I am grouping them in this diagram. I am going to use Zoho Notebook as the presentation platform because I can easily embed the online resources, videos, and images I want to use into the presentation. I have it mapped out, but this piece is under construction. You can see it develop over the next week. Please share any ideas or feedback you might have. Hank

I just finished up preparing for a presentation at Stevenson High School that I will be doing this coming Friday. I posted it to Google Docs and you can see it here: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=df7x739z_122mwhrkh6t I find it really interested that I am getting a kick out of visual learning, because I have not always been the best at learning visually. I have always had a knack at pulling from text, not images. Yet I am having a blast figuring out ways to go the other way with this. I am interested in any feedback you might have on this slide deck.

After a lot of planning yesterday's presentation went real well. I got some great feedback from the participant's evaluations, and have several things to adapt, but it went well. I still want to add podcasting resources, more on google groups, make mention to second live and VLE's, and some other things I left out. It is amazing how fast 8 hours can go. It was great to be in front of a class again. I really miss that everyday.

Following up on my Web 2.0 presentation using Zoho Notebook I have collated together a collection of my favorite Digital Storytelling resources in a new notebook for a presentation later this week. The challenge of this presentation is that I am running it in 2 labs at the same time. So here is the plan: Intro about the power of storytelling and follow it up with the added advantages that telling it digitally does. Demo the basics of how photostory works Individuals work on their own story for about an hour. Quick Q&A - share successes. More playtime Close by letting people circulate and show off their work in progress. What do you think? Is there anything I am missing?

I am working on a presentation on Web 2.0 Tools and how to use them in education. I am trying something new and using Zoho notebook as the presentation tool. I have really liked how easy it is to insert video and webpages directly into the pages. Once I got more comfortable with the UI and where to click I was able to put stuff together quite quickly. Of course I am borrowing and stealing from across the web. You can see the presentation here I am open for suggestions or stuff I missed. I am going to start one on digital storytelling next.

I was trying something new with VoiceThread (well new to me anyway). I tried to uploaded my presentation on increasing student achievement through online communication. I was hoping my PLN might be interesting in viewing it and providing some feedback. For some reason I can't get this presentation to work on VT. I have the piece of it up that discusses student journaling . So instead, embedded here is my presentation with my voice comments over the top. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. A pdf of the presentation is posted as well.

I am preparing a presentation for the AzTEA conference on May 3rd. I will be presenting on the connection between communicating among students, parents, and teachers and the impact on student achievement. Well it appears that for once I was ahead of my time. I did this little thing called a dissertation back in 2003-2004 when I was still in the science classroom. At the time nobody thought much of my topic. Probably because it was geeky and nobody really cares about dissertations. What I looked at was how communication with parents and students through my website impacted instruction. Big deal right? Here is the big deal (and I am still beginning to truly understand pieces of this myself) I was using Web 2.0 technologies from 2001-2004. OK I know according to Wikipedia web 2.0 didn't get coined until 2004. Yet check this out as I go back and look at my dissertation I was writing in it about the 2-way communication I was having with my students through my website. Get it - 2...

Just finished the announcement for our district wide institute focusing on technology. It is the same day as tech forum Chicago, but let me know if you would like to attend. Maine 207 District Wide Institute “Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning” April 25 th 2008 – Maine South High School “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Keynote Speakers David Thornburg : David is an award-winning futurist, author and consultant whose clients range across the public and private sector, both in the United States and in Brazil . His razor-sharp focus on the fast-paced world of modern computing and communication media, project-based learning, 21 st century skills, and open source software has placed him in constant demand as a keynote speaker and workshop leader for schools, foundations, and governments. As the founder and Director of Gl...