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Teacher/Librarian Role: acts as community builder to construct purposeful learning for a group
Learner: shares, constructs, creates and thoughtfully contributes (potential for all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy)
Software: combines static, flexible and interactive components
Assessment: can be dynamic, flexible and complex
Real-world assessment includes ongoing and interactive feedback and critiques, valuing (blogroll,
trackback), changing a working product, developing an idea.
Retrospective evaluation of archived discussions, processes and
products.
| Example | Purpose | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| example
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Group's
ideas and consensus gathered through response to
leader's question on a single topic
|
QuickTopic bulletin board archived discussion. Quick Doc Review and comment by paragraph on HTML or Word document and display, sort and print comments separately. |
| Andrew
Sullivan Shifted Librarian |
Pundits
self-publishing
with reader responses archived
Student has full sense of ownership conducive to analysis and commentary |
Blogger, MoveableType |
|
|
Weblogs
report events, explain lessons, post assignments. Pings, trackback,
permalink allow authority
assessment
Teacher's diary blog on homeless curriculum replicated in other classrooms; responses from homeless people, student work. Lots of suggestions. |
Manila (no titles required) with option for questions |
|
Creating
Two Species (Rick Effland)
|
Groups meet
face-to-face and online to develop a response
to instructor's blogged questions based on class work and Web
text. Responses posted by the
instructor as a way to read all.
|
Blogwave
Studio (Mac)
de.licio.us social bookmark manager, blog with news aggregator, video and audio archives of class |
| Intranet supports (mainly asynchronous) information distribution and interaction among members of school community. |
Think.com offers a
"free protected
environment for a community of teachers and students to interact and is a
philanthropic service of the Oracle corporation." *
Site@School |
|
| Knowledge Quest | Build collaborative community of editors, regular contributors and Board members on bulletin board by archiving threaded discussions and brainstormed ideas on planning magazine's themes and topics. | Threaded
open-source bulletin board (phpBB);
e-mail
notification of new postings
Google Groups (beta)
|
| News Media Literacy | Design and share curricula in Harvard's "Learning Web" based on "Teaching for Understanding" framework | Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool (CCDT) |
| Library Instruction Wiki | Share and discuss library instruction resources, readings, and teaching tips. | MediaWiki is an example of open-source Wiki software that allows for collaborative development of collective knowledge on a topic of common interest by an expert community. |
| Literature
Circles
Blogger
Book Club |
Small groups (4-5) discuss literature fed by Individual journal entries. Archive allows teacher to see areas in their students' writing and thinking that could be improved; "sort of a window to peek into the thought processes of a teacher-to-be as she/he is reading and learning."* Site includes teacher's reflections | Manila
blog
|
| Stick With It | Culminating master's project for a learning, design, and technology program. A teen decision-making support system. | Combination of online, mobile, and blogging technologies |
| MooseCrossing | Multi-User Virtual Environment to promote imaginative writing and building characters (coding) and then collaborating with other children 13 and under. | Georgia Institute of Technology hosted software with teacher support. |
| Tapped
In
Community
Center
|
Supports (mainly real-time) virtual learning
opportunities as a form of professional development for educators.
Supports real-time and asynchronous collaboration for students working on individual projects. |
Metaphor of classrooms and common areas; text chat with transcripts; threaded discussions; file and link storage and sharing; sticky notes; whiteboard Manhattan - open source content management system Nicenet classroom |
| Visible Knowledge Project | Supports faculty inquiry to improve teaching in technology-enhanced environments | Web environment with templates and resource kits, Quick Time video |
|
North
Chadderton School and their Global
Community Zone (open source school)
|
Supports asynchronous and real-time classroom or
community learning in a Virtual Learning Environment
(VLE) or Learning
Management Systems (LMS)
Moving toward community of practice? |
Virtual
school and classrooms using open source software
Virtual rooms; asynchronous and synchronous communication (e-mail, chat, discussions); grassroots student content; teacher handouts (assignments, lectures), quizzes, grades e.g. Caddie.net (MIT) Manhattan Virtual Classroom, Moodle, LearningOnline Network with CAPA, CHEF, Fle3: Future Learning Environment (accessibility designed), Caroline, ATutor (see Learning to Learn demo) |
Effective teaching with technology matches the teacher's goals and the learner's characteristics and needs, with tools that enhance understanding.