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meetsJuicing Up

the Online Experience

Jane Perzykwww.protopage.com/janeperzyk

What is ?

Twitter is a web-interface social networking application where a community of friends from around the world sends updates about moments in their lives. 

Updates are limited to 140 characters with simple text – no HTML code.

Updates are sent via Twitter website, mobile phone SMS, or IM on Jabber or Gtalk.

Facilitating a workshop on Twitter and Protopage at the Macomb ISD.

What is Protopage ?

Protopage is your own personal or shared webpage created with drag and drop widgets

RSS FeedsCalendarsBookmarksPhotosTextTo-do lists

Learning Community

Professional Organization

Family Page

What is the Michigan Online Learning Requirement?

“A structured learning activity that utilizes technology with intranet or Internet-based tools and resources as the delivery method for instruction, research, assessment, and communication.

State Board of Education Guidelines, 2006

What are the DifferentOptions?

1.Enroll in an online course2.Participate in a hybrid face-

to-face/online course3.Be involved in a teacher

facilitated activity4.Complete a self-paced

program

What is a Teacher-Facilitated Activity?• Teacher works with one or more students to

provide coach-like assistance with their online learning activities.

• Teacher facilitates student learning through a combination of face-to-face interactions and exchanges using communication tools commonly found in most Internet-based course management systems. This form of delivery places an expectation on students to take significant responsibility for their own learning.

• Teacher ensures that students are engaged and making progress in their online activity.

• Teacher provides content-related instructional assistance to students.

Quality Characteristics of a Teacher-Facilitated Activity

• Collaboration• Integration• Sustainability• Life-long skills• Teacher involvement• Online ethics and

safety

A structured learning activity

that utilizes technology with intranet or Internet-based tools and resources as the delivery method for• Instruction

• Research

• Assessment

• Communication

Can This Be Juiced?

Why the Michigan Online Learning Requirement?

“It will prepare them for the demands they will encounter in higher education, the workplace, and personal lifelong learning.”

State Board of Education Guidelines, 2006

TrendsThe Horizon Report

Increasing globalization is changing the way we work,

collaborate, and communicate

The Horizon Report 2007 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

#1

http://worldprocessor.com/catalog/world/

Gardner’s Five Mindsfor the Future

“We have now embarked on what may be the ultimate, all-encompassing, episode of globalization.”

The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital

around the globe

The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital

around the globe• Movement of human

beings across borders

The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital

around the globe• Movement of human

beings across borders• Movement of

information through cyberspace

Czech Republic 10-25-07

The Globalization of “Movement”• Movement of capital

around the globe• Movement of human

beings across borders• Movement of

information through cyberspace

• Movement of popular culture across borders

Opening of Palladium Indoor Mall, Prague, Czech Republic – 10-27-07

Prague Castle, 10-26-07

TrendsThe Horizon Report

Students’ views of what is and what is not technology are increasingly

different from those of their teachers.

The Horizon Report 2007 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

#2

Ouch!

“Some teachers make a PowerPoint and they think they’re so awesome,” says a student. “But it’s just like writing on the blackboard,” says another.

Differing Views of Technology

Pew Internet Report

• 44% of 10 - 18-year-olds own a wireless phone

• 55% of all online teenagers use social networking sites.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-12-2007/0004525779&EDATE

http:///www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp

TrendsThe Horizon Report

Notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are

pushing the boundaries of scholarship.

The Horizon Report 2007 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

#3

http://www.slideshare.net/adunne/what-is-web-20-157107

The Landscape Has Changed!

Educators have slid into the 21st century—and into the digital age—still doing a great many things the old way.

Marc Prensky

Our Digital Landscape

Our schools have some serious competition, and it’s not from other schools!

What Might They Need?

1. ___________________2. ___________________3. ___________________4. ___________________5. ___________________6. ___________________7. ___________________8. ___________________

What Might You Need?

1. ___________________2. ___________________3. ___________________4. ___________________5. ___________________6. ___________________7. ___________________8. ___________________

For the first time in history, our job as

educators is to prepare our children for a future that we

cannot clearly describe.

David Warlick

Teachers today need to know how to teach

using tools that are unfamiliar that they can’t fully master!

Marc Prensky

Which Brings Us To. . .

Twitterand Protopage

and the Online Course Requirement

Twitter

Go to twitter.com

Learning how to set up a Twitter account

Now Let’s Find & Invite

Find MBAmom

Finding Your Partner in Twitter

• Enter your partner’s name in the Search box

• Click on the FOLLOW button on his/her Twitter page

Enrolling Students in Twitter

• May want to create special group names

• Avoid using student’s real names

Creating Groups in Twitter

Twitter “in” the Classroom

1. Twitterlit.com– Twits the first lines of books, along with a link

to Amazon

2. Post homework assignments or send reminders

3. Ask questions during lecture4. Ask for help outside of the classroom5. Communicate via Twitter groups and

have record of the “conversation”6. Explore collaborative writing

Twitter “in” the Classroom

7. Microblogging impressions after a chapter of reading

8. Practice foreign language phrases 9. Use in lieu of audience response

systems

Evolution of Communication

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php

Instant broadcast PLUS feedback

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php

We are witnessing a breathtaking evolution of new forms of digital communication. More than witnessing, we are facilitating it. All of this is unfolding so quickly thatwe do not have time to pause and reflect on what is happening. But if email is becoming an endangered species, then we need to pay attention.

Go to www.protopage.com

Some Protopage Examples

• www.protopage.com/janeperzyk• www.protopage.com/jimwenz• www.protopage.com/perzyks• www.protopage.com/letstalk• http://www.protopage.com/boston200

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Using Twitter with Protopage

• Assign Twitter accounts to group members

• Allow students to Twitter concerning the project they are working on in their Protopage site.

• Include a Twitter badge in the Protopage site for tracking tweets.

Quality Characteristics of a Teacher-Facilitated Activity

• Collaboration• Integration• Sustainability• Life-long skills• Teacher involvement• Online ethics and

safety

Questions?Write me at japerzyk@mi-life.org

Evaluation

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