{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"39794154","dateCreated":"1306933267","smartDate":"Jun 1, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"lkelly4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lkelly4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/39794154"},"dateDigested":1532129329,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 4","description":"Working with preschool children, it kept coming to me as I worked through this course that we have the perfect "platform" to begin teaching the foundation of effective technology and collaboration skills at a very young age, and that if we do our jobs well, it can form the basis for students as they move into more formal educational settings. To do this, however, we need to kindof "reframe" our thinking and begin to brainstorm ways to include technology and collaboration in our day to day activities with students.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38963726","dateCreated":"1305242432","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"lkelly4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lkelly4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38963726"},"dateDigested":1532129329,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 3 Reflection","description":"Honestly, I'm overwhelmed at all the tools that are out there that I don't know about!! It's been exciting for me to explore such a variety of collaborative tools. I'm intersted in exploring the use of Skype more as a means of connecting my speech and language students with older students or UMD students who can help them with daily practice of their skills.
\nI'm also interested in learning more about voice overs. I work alot with preschool students, and it would be awesome to use the pictures they draw around the vocabulary themes we present, have them describe their pictures using the language structures we're working on, and then be able to share them with their classmates with a projector and to be able to e-mail them to parents, post them on my website, etc.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38850558","dateCreated":"1305080617","smartDate":"May 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"petjod","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/petjod","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38850558"},"dateDigested":1532129329,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module3","description":"There are lots of different tools I'm excited to dig into more deeply and try wiht students. The two I am most interested in sharng with kids are Bibme an even easier online bibliography tool.. (almost too easy..) and 4Shared Free File sharing. I have kids in the library every day that are struggling sending files back and forth between home and school via e-mail and there seem to be more probelms than successes. This seems like a tool that could really help with that issue and could also help students share files for collaborative projects.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38942520","body":"I think all of us could benefit from using a tool like 4shared. How many times are you working at home and realize that the file you need is on your school computer, at school. And it eliminates having to always load things onto a jump drive. Great idea.","dateCreated":"1305218547","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38830198","dateCreated":"1305053863","smartDate":"May 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"morka","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/morka","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38830198"},"dateDigested":1532129330,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 2 reflection","description":"I really enjoyed the two teachers' dialogue about what they are thinking about and how to implement technology, collaboration, and higher level thinking skills. Next year our building is focusing on writing for our literacy goal and as an art teacher I have been trying to think of an authentic way to incorporate writing. This module gave me an idea.
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\nPurpose: To connect students with artists in the community and to incorporate writing in the art course.
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\nType: A dialogue connecting the class and an artist through a wiki.
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\nScope: One artist\/person working in the art field per month for the year.
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\nCollaboration: Students will work by groups of 4 to brainstorm questions for the artist\/individual and will be entered by class.
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\nTools: Wiki to be set up by teacher.
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\nAssessment: Individual assessments for group and question participation.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38678204","dateCreated":"1304710813","smartDate":"May 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38678204"},"dateDigested":1532129330,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 3: Select one or two of the Online Collaborative Tools and share how the tool(s) could be used with your students. Offer feedback to your peers responses.","description":"I want my students to be able to collaboratively create an on line graphical representation of a "process", linking documents, pictures, webpages, etc. I think from what I have seen webspiration will be the most approprite. It is students friendly, secure, they can do peer reviews, and even submit their presentation on line. It can be posted to a URL and viewed on line. The specific project I am focusing on is tracing energy pathways in a system as a summative project in my energy unit.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38828378","body":"I have two things that I'm hoping to use next year: collaborative documents and microblogging. I've been looking at Twitter (or maybe a Facebook fan page?? I don't know how many kids are on Twitter) as a means to give updates and reminders to my students who do not regularly check email.
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\nI am an avid Google user, and I personally use GoogleDocs and Dropbox to store files that I need to either share with others or use at home and work, so I think I could find ways to instruct students on how to use them.
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\nI wonder, though, about requiring students to sign up for accounts like gmail or twitter.... Most of them already have Facebook accounts, and having them "like" a Ms. Holden fan page would not allow them to see any of my own personal information nor me to see theirs, so that may be my best bet.","dateCreated":"1305051970","smartDate":"May 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"rgrace33","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/rgrace33","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38838508","body":"@rgrace33 - I have an FBLA facebook page and it really helps out. I like that I can put something important on there and all my kids know right away! I think that once SchoolFusion is going that might be a good alternative too! I think that we can't turn a blind eye to the technology the kids are using though and facebook doesn't seem to be going anywhere right now!","dateCreated":"1305064390","smartDate":"May 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"danovt","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/danovt","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38850686","body":"I'm with Tracy.. hoping that the auto update features in Schoolfusion will help with that communication issue.. if not, I'd like to explore some of the education based tools. I'm never sure if we should use the mainstream tools liek facebook or twitter in te classroom becuase that's where the kids are, or use similar tools that are more education based tht include additioanl safeguards???","dateCreated":"1305080803","smartDate":"May 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"petjod","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/petjod","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38880458","body":"I created a classroom facebook page that doesn't have any personal information on it. I don't get much student traffic as I have not encouraged students to use it yet, but I was curious whether how much student searching of my name there is, and searching by my name would turn up the classroom page.","dateCreated":"1305129751","smartDate":"May 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"morka","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/morka","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38949296","body":"The nice thing about school fusion will be that both the students and the parents will be getting daily activity logs from all of the classroom pages that the student is a member of. You're right Jodie, hopefully schoolfusion will make communication streamlined and safe.","dateCreated":"1305224305","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38565666","dateCreated":"1304548973","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"lkelly4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lkelly4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38565666"},"dateDigested":1532129330,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 2 Reflection","description":"This is an interesting process for me, as I'm a speech pathologist, not a classroom teacher, and I work mainly with preschool students. However, I see many ways that I can introduce and teach the process of collaboration to my students at a very early age. My initial thoughts for a project include the following:
\nPurpose: to increase student's intelligibility
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\nType: collaborate with UMD communication sciences (speech path) students for practice and feedback on school days when they don't have therapy. This gives students more practice time in the hopes of more rapid progess with their intelligiblity, and also gives the UMD students a different learning experience.
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\nScope: I think I would try this for a two week period, with the understanding that, if it works well, we would continue over a 6 week period.
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\nCollaborators: preschool students and UMD communication science students.
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\nDigital tools: skype?
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\nAs far as assessments, I would do a simple baseline of correct vs. incorrect sound productions prior to beginning this "experiment" and then at the half way point and the end of the six weeks to assess progress. Students could also use a simple check mark in a correct\/incorrect column to assess their own accuracy. Picture symbols could be used to represent the words they're producing. Because I work with small groups, a collaborative approach could be used as they learn how each sound is made and give each other feedback on sound production. A very simplified version of the communication checklist could be developed with the children's help to help them learn about the characteristics of a good collaborator and could then be used for self assessment and assessment by peers or therapist.
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\nIt's fun to see how each of you are thinking through ways to use this information in your own settings. It's certainly opening my eyes to new possibilities in the various roles that I play here in the district with students.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38598358","body":"What a great novel way to introduce collaboration at a young age. I especially like that you are thinking of using skype. Your students will feel like they are on TV or are movie stars or something. It will probably really motivate them and maybe even make the situation more comfortable because they aren't sitting in the same room with a big stranger. I'll be interested in seeing how this works out.","dateCreated":"1304606334","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38556240","dateCreated":"1304538447","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38556240"},"dateDigested":1532129330,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 2 Reflection","description":"I am planning on having my students present the results of their group project detailing the energy pathways and transfers in a system in a digital format
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\nCollaboration skills: As a team, students will trace the energy pathways in a system and summarize the scenario in a graphic format and present it to the class
\nScope: Long-term
\nType: Group Project
\nCollaborators: Small peer group
\nDigital tools: (Digital product sharing) Collaborative presentation software, animation\/cartoon software?
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\nPeer assessment: Group work checklist, Project timeline checklist.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38530408","dateCreated":"1304515277","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"walshjb","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/walshjb","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38530408"},"dateDigested":1532129331,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"re: Module 2 Reflection","description":"I'd like to see a collaboration among elementary schools collecting weather data, within a small geographic area, comparing temperatures and conditions. This could start with 4th grade classes in Superior.
\nType: Large group project, using small teams of students from each school to collect and share data; everyone would takes turns as a samll team member.
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\nScope: To be determined by participating classes. It would take a month or so, but could be repeated seasonally.I could envision small teams doing daily data collection;posting data to a shared document. Weekly video calls thru Skype or Oovoo to give a weaterh report, discuss findings.
\nPerhaps Skype with a meteorologist.
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\nCollaborators: student to student
\n classroom to classroom
\n students with expert
\nDigital tools: Shared online documents for data collection; Skype or Oovoo (allows multiple participants); shared photo site
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\nThis is a starting proposal for a multiple classroom collaboration; I'm sure the finished project will look different as we share ideas and possible obstacles to overcome.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38552714","body":"With our new webpages through Schoolfusion, we could do that with GRADE LEVEL pages. We aren't quite there yet, but this is a super goal! They could even compare temps between classes at different buildings (is it colder by the lake or in the country?)","dateCreated":"1304534391","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"terriharings","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/terriharings","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1302026964\/terriharings-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38556374","body":"What a great project. Their is even potential to take this globally. Find a sister city in another country and compare. Especially if it was a city in the southern hemisphere with opposite seasons..","dateCreated":"1304538580","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38809430","body":"EXACTLY! The sister city would give us lots of information---time zone work, other cultural pieces. Aren't you in Japan this semester?","dateCreated":"1305034600","smartDate":"May 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"terriharings","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/terriharings","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1302026964\/terriharings-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38211314","dateCreated":"1303925040","smartDate":"Apr 27, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mley","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mley","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38211314"},"dateDigested":1532129331,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Module 4","description":"\u2022Module 4: Discuss your students strengths and needs inhe following areas: Sharing Ideas, Giving and Receiving Fedback and Mentoring Peers. How can you assist your students to be more effective collaborators?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"39168172","body":"My findings echo those already said. My students share ideas well. It varies class-by-class and by time of day. Some sections are better in whole group settings while others find success in pairs or small groups.
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\nThe feedback issue is a critical one. I often require peer review and despite having to phyiscally check yes\/no and comment, I still have students turn in checklists with smiley faces and "good job" written overtop the heinous errors. And, like others have mentioned, the student then gets frustrated because they've already had someone look over their work. Sometimes I require an adult review, and I get similar results--moms and dads saying their favorite part was "The whole thing, honey" or the constructive criticism is on something silly like, "I wish you would have chosen a more wholesome topic" (that's a true one), rather than getting to structure, spelling, organization, etc.
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\nWe have different kinds of peer mentoring in existence at the high school, but I have not made use of any them in my classroom. I do like Terri's idea of having student "experts", though.","dateCreated":"1305653522","smartDate":"May 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"rgrace33","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/rgrace33","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39172418","body":"Discuss your student\u2019s strengths and needs in the following areas: Sharing Ideas, Giving and Receiving Feedback and Mentoring Peers. How can you assist your students to be more effective collaborators?
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\nStudents have had a lot of practice with collaborative work. Many students seem to have a good idea of how to share ideas and give feedback, but other students can\u2019t seem to find ways to be effective and end up wasting any collaborative work time given during class. For all students, giving feedback seems to be the most challenging task. When students understand the work, they still struggle to give feedback that is useful for other students (other than the feedback of just giving answers, which isn\u2019t useful feedback at all).
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\nTo improve students\u2019 abilities to collaborate effectively, they need to think explicitly about what good feedback is, and how to decide what feedback to give for any task. I think the teacher needs to spend some time modeling how to think about what feedback to give and how to give it, and then student checklists can be made and used to help.
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\nIn math, the biggest challenge may be to get students to think critically about a problem after it has been solved, which was discussed in one of the problem solving articles attached in the Intel module 4 section. This requires examining a problem that has been answered correctly and deciding what was done along the way that helped to come up with the solution. When students learn how to think critically and problem solve, they will be more able to provide feedback in collaborative work.","dateCreated":"1305657501","smartDate":"May 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39172702","body":"To hurins and tbynum:
\nThe parts about learning from mistakes is a big idea. I remember a teacher who routinely made math mistakes and waited for students to correct his work, and he added humor every time. It did make a point. From this kind of starting point, a teacher can talk about how to learn from mistakes and point out that this can be an important part of collaborative work.","dateCreated":"1305657734","smartDate":"May 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39211762","body":"@bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us
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\nYes, the learning from mistakes has been a huge part of our classroom community this year. I recognized right away in September that students were placing "perfection expectations" on themselves and there were a lot of tears (3rd grade). We've had many conversations and revisited the topic often that this is the time in their lives to make mistakes and that when they get old like me, people aren't perhaps as forgiving! This began a tally sheet by a few students of how many mistakes I made in a day (I told them that I probably made at least 10 a day). It was entertaining and proved my point. They are much more comfortable giving ideas and feedback now that they know , even if they make a mistake, it will be a learning moment.","dateCreated":"1305724706","smartDate":"May 18, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hurins","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hurins","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1304565457\/hurins-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39213364","body":"To hurins, tbynum & Bruce
\nI must echo the sentiment re learning from mistakes. In science I try and emphasize how many discoveries have been made through making mistakes and learning from them. Serendipity plays a big part in science. Even having an experiment not go the way they expect it to can be used as a learning experience. The hardest part for me as a teacher is to teach the students to do the problem solving, critical thinking around a situation like that though and learn from it.","dateCreated":"1305725928","smartDate":"May 18, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39236548","body":"Sharing: In my classroom we spend a great amount of time sharing. In order to do this, we have spent an even greater amount of time working on building community and becoming comfortablw with each other. I teach a 2\/3 multi-age, so this was an extremely important step to ensure the second graders wouldn't be intimidated. I truly feel that the students in my class are great at sharing, with the exception of two young men who are terribly shy. I have worked with them and they are getting better- at the beginning of the year, they wouldn't even share something they did over the summer. It is my hope that by being the "older, wiser" students next year, they will begin to blossom and feel free to share.
\nGiving and receiving Feedback: This is an area where I know I have room for growth as a teacher. This is something we do in a very informal setting. I know the students feel comfortable enough to offer advice, support and ideas to each other. However, it is not something that I have facilitated in a formal manner. I think that the use of rubrics to evaluate each other would be a great way to teach students to offer constructive opprotunities for growth to one another. This is something I will try to get better at next year.
\nMentoring: This is somthing that my students are fantastic at. Due to the fact that I teach a multi-age we spend a great amount of time working with a buddy. Most of my third graders act as mentors for the second graders, this is the true beauty of a multi-age. In a few situations, I will have a second grader mentor a third grader as well. It has been both fun and rewarding to see the growth that happens with both groups of kids.","dateCreated":"1305746904","smartDate":"May 18, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hippt","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hippt","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39255356","body":"As I reflected on these topics for 5th graders, I was trying to envision how technology would play into them. I went back to the course work and looked at the suggested activities for moving kids along and thought about next year's incoming students.
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\nSharing thoughts and ideas:
\nStrengths: Most of my students are pretty vocal about their thoughts. Using a student response system does give voice to all and is a great tool for fostering discussions. I'm sure the same will be true for upcoming students. Ensuring that the classroom is a safe place for sharing is critical.
\nNeeds-I'd like to try blogging with my students next year or presenting info on a wiki. Effectively monitoring that will be my challenge.
\nGiving and Getting Feedback:
\nStrengths-Overall my students are polite to each other and are usually receptive to the ideas of their classmates. They are not good at giving constructive feedback. Usually the responses are the vague type-"Good job."
\nNeeds-Modeling the giving and receiving of quality feedback with the help of an age-appropriate rubric or checklist is the way to go. I want to focus on this early on next year and then try having the kids post a piece of work where others can offer suggestions, corrections, etc. Opening up their work to a wider audience with the use of something like Voicethread would be something 5th graders could handle.
\nPeer Mentoring:
\nStrengths-My current students are great at helping each other. They work together frequently to compare work and discuss what they are doing.
\nNeeds-My goal is to be more purposeful about promoting the "experts" in my classroom, especially when it comes to technology. I noticed a significant difference in skill level this year just using a word processor. The kids that use the computer at home were far above the ones who do not. Strategic partnering will be helpful.","dateCreated":"1305768153","smartDate":"May 18, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"debjones2","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/debjones2","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39258650","body":"When I think about a variety of activities I have done with studnets that involve Sharing Ideas, Giving and Receiving Fedback or Mentoring Peers.. no matter which kind of collaboration I ahv had kids doing, the more structure and specific direction I give the more effective those studnet conversations become. I think that giving and recieving peer feedback is proabbaly the most difficult becuase the students either feeel they are 'judging' someone else or being judged. If I can find ways to take the judgemet out of the conversation and direct the collaboration with specific noon-judgmental protocols for kids I think they would be more effective.","dateCreated":"1305772304","smartDate":"May 18, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"petjod","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/petjod","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39260450","body":"I believe my students strengths deals with sharing ideas. Every unit we ask extending questions to lead discussions and the students get better as the year goes on about the information they share, and the clarity that they share it in. The students are very open to feedback by both teacher and peers. They are hestitant at the beginning of the year, but again, as time passes they become more comfortable in their reflections and of my expectations of them. To make them more effective I need to continue to model what I expect of them and make them aware that they are accountable not only of themselves, but also their classmates.","dateCreated":"1305775041","smartDate":"May 18, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"conleyp23","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/conleyp23","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39319658","body":"The students I work with in the LMC seem very comfortable when they are asked to share ideas. I like giving them opportunities to share in small groups or with the whole class. We have done some peer editing, but I notice they more change each others grammatical and spelling errors. I think using check lists or rubrics might help them go more in depth on giving feedback. The peer editing also allows the students to do some mentoring with one another.","dateCreated":"1305856257","smartDate":"May 19, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nmoon2009","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nmoon2009","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39322142","body":"Most students are willing to share ideas, under one condition, it's in a small group. Only about 1\/2 are willing to share to the large group. We continually need go over the ediquette of listening and not just saying, "I liked the details" (vague answering). I think I'd like to try a mini-lesson on, "What good feedback is". Show them what is good feedback then what isn't. Maybe have them provide an example of each. Mentoring Peers can go great as it is closely monitored. I love the critical friend idea Terri mentioned. I would want to match up students so they balance each other. I'd provide a rubric of expectations and again model what is good mentoring skills in a mini-lesson.","dateCreated":"1305859320","smartDate":"May 19, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mollywarring","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mollywarring","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39745458","body":"Sharing Ideas: Our students have no problem sharing ideas, keeping them on topic is not always easy. Giving and Receiving Feedback: Giving feedback is not as easy for our students and staying positive is a struggle for some. Mentoring Peers: Some of our students are very good at helping other students. Our students enjoy helping other students and are quick to volunteer. To assist our students to be more effective collaborators I need to give the students more opportunities, modeling and tools to use(checklist, rubric).","dateCreated":"1306845137","smartDate":"May 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"willid","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/willid","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1235580931\/willid-lg.jpg"}}],"more":8}]},{"id":"38211212","dateCreated":"1303924957","smartDate":"Apr 27, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mley","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mley","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/wiintel.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38211212"},"dateDigested":1532129332,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"\u2022Module 3: Reflection","description":"\u2022Module 3: Select one or two of the Online Collaborative Tools and share how the tool(s) could be used with your students. Offer feedback to your peers responses.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38898904","body":"I used Skype this year with 2 groups of 2nd graders to chat with their Pen Pals in England. The kids seemed to really enjoy it and I would love to be able to do it again. The only thing that's difficult is using Skype with a whole group. It gets very noisy and hard to hear. I would love to use it to collaborate on a project being done in a different part of the country or state to compare information based on our location.
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\nI would also like to try Social bookmarking. I like the idea of being able to highlight or bookmark information for students. I think it would make searching for information much easier at the intermediate level. The only draw back I've noticed is that most sites require a username and password, which is linked to an email address. Has anyone used something that doesn't require a username or email?","dateCreated":"1305145052","smartDate":"May 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nmoon2009","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nmoon2009","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38908208","body":"@hippt
\nI'm in on the podcasting, if you are. Hopefully, our new block scheduling will make it manageable. It will definitely be a plus for my kids since we see the other 2\/3 classes so infrequently with the different commons. I think it would be a great thing to integrate into our writing and reading. I like the news idea, and would like to extend it to other ideas too!","dateCreated":"1305157338","smartDate":"May 11, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hurins","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hurins","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1304565457\/hurins-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38944022","body":"To hurins and hippt: Do you know that we all have audacity on our computers now? It will save as a .wav file but not an mp3. In order to save your recording as an mp3, you have to ask IT to get Lame loaded on your computer and export your file as an mp3.","dateCreated":"1305219905","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"peterj4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/peterj4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38949956","body":"I would like to use a vodcast. I have math software that can be used to model steps in solving a single variable algebra equation. I would use this in conjunction with a screencast recording tool like Jing.
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\nStudents would follow a checklist of elements they need to include as they show how to solve the equation by manipulations (a visual element with the math software on a computer) and explain (by talking). The explanation would include justification of the steps. The screencast recording would take only about 1-2 minutes. Each student group would have a different problem so the class could cover different types. All the screencasts could also be put on a classwebsite as vodcasts.
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\nI have already done this in class but with only one class computer, only one group at a time can use the software. This way, students could be working in groups on other work and one group at a time can make a screencast.","dateCreated":"1305225017","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38950348","body":"To hurins and hippt: I think the "performance" element of making the podcast will have a great impact of giving students a genuine desire to be more polished. Their work with reader's theater and poems would have to help them with reading practice.","dateCreated":"1305225400","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bruce.baueratsuperior.k12.wi.us","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38964132","body":"As I'm reading about a number of you thinking about how you can use podcasts and vodcasts, I'm thinking that it would be great fun to try this with some of my preschool speech and language students! They could do vodcasts\/podcasts based on the theme based language units we do. It would be a hoot if I can figure out how to do it! Also, our CD classes use a curriculum entitled Star Reporter. They often do interviews with people in their school community using voice output devices. Doing podcasts or vodcasts of these interviews would allow us to share them with parents, etc. so that they have a better understanding of what their children are doing and learning during their school day.","dateCreated":"1305242918","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"lkelly4","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lkelly4","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38971470","body":"There were so many tools to explore, it took forever for me to get through this module!! I would like to try Diigo as a place for my students to organize web resources on a research project. It would be nice to find a collaborative document site that is appropriate for elementary kids. I briefly looked at j2e.com, but as Jean said, it looks like there is a cost. I'd really like to explore having my students do a monthly podcast for our school webpage next year.
\nI spent some time exploring NGAkids- The Art Zone sponsored by the National Gallary of Art! Awesome site to foster creativity for elementary kids through adults : )! If you haven't gone here, try it out. Very engaging.","dateCreated":"1305251358","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"debjones2","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/debjones2","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38971592","body":"To Trish and Jean and Suzy???,
\nWould you be willing to work together to figure out the podcasting business for next year on our Fusion pages?
\nDeb","dateCreated":"1305251494","smartDate":"May 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"debjones2","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/debjones2","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39049836","body":"Bruce,
\n The Jing idea sounds good. That's part of my plan too. You have to have IT install it, but that wasn't a problem. Maybe we should get it put on all of the machines in every lab?","dateCreated":"1305461158","smartDate":"May 15, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbynum","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbynum","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39049852","body":"It did take quite a while to get through this module. I have to agree with both Dave and Eva\u2014there\u2019s a ton of information here, and I\u2019ll be using it again and again. Potential problems: finding time to explore the various tools, but more importantly, finding ways around the roadblocks to using them\u2014student email addresses, registration, network blockage, etc. And I have the same question Eva had--what if the students ask me a question I can't answer? I know I'm not supposed to be an expert and have all the answers, but that goes against the grain!!","dateCreated":"1305461280","smartDate":"May 15, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbynum","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbynum","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39049866","body":"And BTW, the tool I want to use is Jing, doing a screencast of the features of a subscription database.","dateCreated":"1305461362","smartDate":"May 15, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbynum","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbynum","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"39724290","body":"I have explored many tools over time. They are improving, but not always up to speed with installed apps. Keeping up with what is new takes time to play.","dateCreated":"1306784834","smartDate":"May 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"willid","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/willid","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1235580931\/willid-lg.jpg"}}],"more":13}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}