Technology in the Classroom – Publish to the World!

1. Technology in the Classroom – Publish to the World! CASAS Summer Institute June 23, 2009 Marian Thacher & Branka Marceta, OTAN mthacher@otan.us bmarceta@otan.us

2. Agenda • Technology in Adult Ed Legislation • Technology in the Future • Mobile Instruction • eWhiteboard • Student Response Systems • Document Camera • Moodle • Audio • Video • Blogs • Wikis

3. Your Role • Teachers, Coordinators, Administrators? • Not from California? • Never heard of OTAN? • Program area – ESL, ABE/ASE, Corrections, Other? • How many years in adult education? • Came to this session last year? • What are you hoping to get from this workshop?

4. What is OTAN? • Outreach and Technical Assistance Network • One of 4 adult education leadership projects in California • Providing electronic collaboration, access to information, and technical assistance to literacy and adult education providers in California • www.otan.us

5. Resources on OTAN • Technology Planning • Resources for Teachers • Lesson Plan Builder • Students Succeed Project • PD Calendar • TIMAC • Online Document Collection • Program directory, member directory • Laws and Legislation

6. New Legislation, Obama, and You! • We will have new defining legislation • There will be more emphasis on technology • For the classroom • For delivery of instruction • For program administration and marketing • Why?

7. Workforce Investment Act - Reauthorization • WIA – waiting for reauthorization • New Bill – Adult Education and Economic Growth Act • Currently being worked on in the Senate • Will determine shape and activities of adult education

8. Adult Education and Economic Growth Act • Requires the state adult education plan to include “a description of how the State will use technology to expand access to and improve the quality of adult education, literacy, and workplace skills services;”

9. Nat’l Institute for Adult Ed, Literacy, and Workplace Skills • Describes one purpose of the Institute as “providing national leadership on the use of technology for adult education;”

10. National Leadership Activities • One goal is to provide “assistance in distance learning and promoting and improving the use of technology in the classroom.”

11. Title III – 21st Century Technology and Skills for Adult Learners • To expand access through technology • Provide PD re using technology • Develop a modern delivery system • Help adult learners get tech literate

12. Technology Literacy • “The knowledge and skills in using contemporary information, communication and learning technologies in a manner necessary for successful lifelong learning and citizenship in the knowledge-based, digital, and global 21st Century…”

13. Proposed Funding • $250 million • $7.5 million for National Tech Center • $50 million for state level activities • $187 million for local agency activities – distributed through grants

14. Why is Technology Important? “Technology should be used in all its forms to make learning a continuous process of inquiry and improvement that keeps pace with the speed of change in business and society.” p.24

18. Where are we going?? • Web 2.0 is a publishing revolution • A tidal wave of information • Everything is becoming participative

19. Where are we going?? • We are pro-sumers • The age of the collaborator • Social learning moves to center stage

20. More Thoughts from Steve • From consuming to producing • From authority to transparency • From the expert to the facilitator • From the lecture to the hallway • From "access to information" to "access to people“ • From "learning about" to "learning to be“ • From passive to passionate learning • From presentation to participation • From publication to conversation • From formal schooling to lifelong learning

21. Horizon Report • 1 Yr or Less • Collaborative Environment • Online Communication Tools • 2 to 3 Years • Mobile Devices • Cloud Computing • 4 to 5 Years • Smart Objects • The Personal Web http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf

22. Pick One!

23. Horizon Report • Significant challenges • Need instruction on info lit, visual lit, tech lit • Students are different, but curriculum is not • Formal assessment strategies don’t match needed learning • Available data outstrips our ability to manage it • Delivery of content to mobile devices

24. Mobile Devices - mLearning

25. Cell Phones for Adult Learning? • Basic features of the mobile phone • Texting • Photos • Video • Audio • Calculator • Calendar • Browser • GPS

26. Texting • Question of the Day • Are you practicing English? • Did you complete the math homework? • Please bring your math homework to class tomorrow • What does Information Literacy mean? • How many centimeters are there in one meter? • Did you watch 60 Minutes last night? Text me one thing you learned. • ???

27. Text Me! • What does Information Literacy mean? • 619-787-7265

28. Photos • Ask students to take a photo with their phone (my best friend, my pet, a flower, my street, a resource in my neighborhood), and write a description • Send the photo to an album on Photobucket, or to a Flickr or Picasa account • Ask students to visit the album and write comments on each other’s photos

29. Flickr • Create a Flickr account • Go to http://www.flickr.com/tools/mobile/ to get your unique email address • Take a picture • Send it to your unique email • View photo online!

30. Using Photobucket.com • Requirements • Cell phone with camera • Send email from cell phone • Take a picture and send it to sgaer.76770@uploads.photobucket.com • Go to photobucket.com online • Log in – sgaer and 123456 • Edit and save your photo

31. Posting Audio Files • GabCast • Drop.io • More later

32. Interactive White Boards

33. What is it? • A whiteboard that acts like your monitor • You can click and double-click on the whiteboard • You can write notes on PowerPoint slides or other documents and save them • You can take notes like on a flip chart • Move pages around • Convert handwriting to text • Move words around

34. How many using them in CA? Number of agencies reporting the use of electronic whiteboards, out of approx. 185

35. What about you?

36. eWhiteboard in Corrections

37. eWhiteboard in Corrections

38. eWhiteboard in Corrections

39. eBoard in the ABE Classroom

40. Internet for Whole Group • Project Internet sites such as pictures or pronunciation

41. Software for Whole Group • Project instructional software and let students work from board

42. Dragging Words or Objects Students can manipulate text and objects with one finger

43. How Much? • Promethean - $2500 - $4500 • Smart - $1,000 - $10,000

44. Some Web Sites • More videos of ESL class • www.otan.us/ • Ed Tech & Media > Video Gallery • Videos of what you can do with an interactive whiteboard • http://www.smarttech.com/products/smartboard/media.asp • http://www.prometheanworld.com/server.php?show=nav.16900

45. Talk to your partners • Name 3 things you can do with an electronic whiteboard that you can’t do with a regular one.

46. Document Camera • Contains a camera • Show a workbook page, medicine label, or piece of fruit • No more transparencies

47. What can you do with it? • With a worksheet • Showing an object • Zooming in

48. What can you do with it? • Project any page or picture • Students describe or tell a story

49. What can you do with it? • Only have to make materials once • Strip stories • Matching activity

50. Document Camera • What’s the difference between a document camera and an overhead projector? • Why use a document camera? • What lesson would you like to have a document camera for?