“Electronic Constructivism 2010: Innovative Tools, Virtual Travels, and Great Teaching”

2. Monday, May 24, 1:45 - 3:15 p.m.Parallel Session #3Enhanced Teaching through the Use of New Educational Technologies (Room W20-306) Session Chair: Kathleen Vandiver “Electronic Constructivism 2010: Innovative Tools, Virtual Travels, and Great Teaching” RL:Dr. Maureen Yoder SL: Aby Rhode Lesley University Cambridge, MA myoder@lesley.edu

3. A Quick Trip Through the Buffet

4. Bus Ride through Cambridge

5. Fasten your seatbelts!

6. Identifying the Essence of a Successful Lesson

7. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

8. Questions A Tale of Two Explorers Experiences Flying through the Sistine Chapel Connections Connecting With the World Tools Multi-dimensional data analysis

9. History, Art, News, Statistics . . . with a few detours along the way

10. HISTORY

11. TEACHER: Write a report on Ferdinand Magellan.

12. What I Did The Encyclopedia Americana

13. HISTORY Who led the first exploration around the world? Who was the first person to orbit the earth?

14. Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese Explorer 1480 – 1521 ….. Captained the first circumnavigation expedition 10 August 1519- 6 Sept 1522 1079 days Flagship Trinidad Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Russian Cosmonaut 1934 – 1968 ….. First Person to orbit the earth 12 April 1961 108 minutes Vostok 1 Around the World in a Few Years; Around the World in a Few Hours

15. Teacher: “Imagine Magellan and Gagarin discussing the shape of the world and issues of fund raising, risk taking, and potential celebrity. Create a conversation the two may have had across the centuries using a contemporary technology”. http://www.dailypress.com/extras/solutions/images/SOL100901.gif http://nat.truemesh.com/archives/article-images/gemini.jpg

16. The End of My Days I never made it to the Spice Islands. I was caught in a war in the Philippine islands. A group of natives killed me with a poisoned arrow in my foot and a spear through my heart. After I died, my crew burned my ship. My body was left behind. Out of the five ships that began the journey, only one ship [The Victoria] made the voyage around the world. Out of 250 men, only 18 survived… I was not one of them. http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/magellan.htm

17. Gagarin became deputy director of the cosmonaut training base and began to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. In 1968, while on a routine training flight, he and his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square. Monument of Yuri Gagarin on Cosmonauts Alley in Moscow http://www.russianarchives.com

18. ART

19. ART “Write a report about the Sistine Chapel.”

21. http://www.secondlife.com Second Life is a 3d on-line virtual world. It is not a game, but a virtual space where any sorts of social activities can take place. There is a special “island” in SL for educators, at educational discount prices.

23. With one of my students as we journey through educational possibilities.

24. Who are these people?? I looked back at the educational philosophers who were ahead of their times to imagine what they might think about the new technologies, and to a couple of current visionaries…

25. 3D portals, avatar representation, … MUVEs, … all media flows in and out of virtual web worlds http://tinyurl.com/2trk75

26. A visit to the Sistene Chapel

27. http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/sistine-chapel.html

28. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vassar%20Island/128/128/0/?title=The%20Sistine%20Chapelhttp://slurl.com/secondlife/Vassar%20Island/128/128/0/?title=The%20Sistine%20Chapel

32. NEWS STATISTICS

33. Earthquake in Haiti January, 2010 Technology and its role in communicating the news, connecting people, and providing assistance

34. blogs podcasts RSS feeds texting cell phone apps

35. CNN iReport is working to put together a database to help try to connect people with family, friends and loved ones in Haiti. The response has been tremendous – more than 4,000 iReports since Wednesday – and we're happy to report that some people on the list have been found. CNN.com/haitimissing

36. Missing: 460 pages as of 1/18/10

37. Podcasts

38. Available as a new downloadable layer on Google Earth, the new images give a bird's eye view of the destruction, showing sites like the National Palace . . . strewn with debris. Google said that it was working with its satellite partners to continually update the images of Haiti. March, 2008 January 13, 2010

39. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk

40. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLd_5LFKPUQ&feature=yva-video-displayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLd_5LFKPUQ&feature=yva-video-display

41. Data Display Application

42. www.gapminder.org/

43. www.gapminder.org/

44. The End myoder@lesley.edu “Electronic Constructivism 2010: Innovative Tools, Virtual Travels, and Great Teaching” RL:Dr. Maureen Yoder SL: Aby Rhode Lesley University Cambridge, MA