Day 3- TCEA Convention

My third day of the convention started out with a hour and a half hands on wiki session. I created my own pbwiki page where I plan to post information for my training sessions. It's all so fun, but overwhelming at this point~ You want to go home and get started on so many projects... but there are so many!!

Session 1: Wiki Wisdom: Advanced Wiki Workshop:
This session was presented by David Byrum, a professor at Texas State University.
http://tcea2009.pbwiki.com/Wiki-Settings

They set up this entire session on a pbwiki to demonstrate how to create and use one. It is a great training site for anyone to use that I would recommend. It has links for instructions on how to set up your wiki and embed almost any type of object you want. The instructor says he prefers pb wikis over others because it has a 2.0 gig memory storage.

He uses this wiki to teach his Educational Technology coarses. He told me he created this under the Creative Commons license and anyone can go in and complete the assignments to learn how to use the applications listed at no cost.

Introduction to Educational Technology: The New Tools of Digital Learning- Instruction Modules
http://edtc5335.pbwiki.com/

-Project Based Learning
-Introduction to Web 2.0
-Social Bookmarking, Blogs and Wikis
-Copyright and Creative Commons
-Podcasting and RSS
-Photo Sharing and Digital Storytelling

A class that uses the modules and you can see the student pages
http://edtc5310campus.pbwiki.com/

To see examples of Educational Wikis
http://www.publicpbwikis.com/Educational/

Good examples of classroom wikis
http://edtc5335.pbwiki.com/Wikis%20-%20Classroom%20Examples

• I sat next to a 9th grade English teacher who came to the conference from her small school district to go back and present information to her superintendent. Here is her class wiki that she said she only started using 3 weeks ago. She said that it's so easy for her and her students to use. She posts assignments here and the students can discuss and post their assignments as well.
  http://english3.wikidot.com/

Session 2: "What's in it for me?" Dear Park ISD
They introduced Sail on- Acryonmn stand for: Subject Area Interactive Lessons Online.
http://www.pasadenaisd.org/sailon/
It lists all the TEKS- with interactive online activities that match each TEK. You can send in suggestions for websites to add or join this project.
Technology Set up:
1 Campus Technology Integration Specialist per campus (Masters Degree Required in IT)Classrooms have 1 teacher and 5 student computers
Use NComputing system to run the 5 student computers per classrooms and labs
History of Staff DevelopmentBaby steps - how does this work?
Intel - carrot dangling (look into Intel); 40 hour class; now 32 hours
Integration - its not AR and PPT
Web 2.0 - wiki what?
21st Century Skills
2 Full Staff Development Days - 1 elementary and 1 high school
Mini TCEA Conference trainings and vendors

Delivery RoutesAfter School
Evenings
Summer
Conference Period
Online
On-Demand

Campus Training Blogwww.dpisd.org/blogs/campustraining