Category Archives: 2007-Prof-Learning-Networks

Derek Wenmoth
Christchurch, New Zealand
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.net/derek
Bio Derek has a background as a teacher, principal and teacher educator, and is currently the eLearning Director for CORE Education in New Zealand. CORE is responsible for the national professional development programme for teachers using technology in schools and early childhood centres. He spends most of his time now working on a variety of projects relating to eLearning and the use of ICT in education, and has a particular interest in the emergence of virtual schooling around the world, and in the ways in which we can understand the value of what we are doing with ICT in the classroom.
Bio Page https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Derek_wenmoth
Twitter: @dwenmoth

Presentation Title “Holding a Mirror to our Professional Practice”

DescriptionDerek will challenge us to hold a mirror to our professional practice and begin reflecting critically on what we are doing with technology in our classrooms, using examples from New Zealand to illustrate the use of reflective practice both at an individual level, and at a whole school and systemic level. He’ll also describe an online tool that’s been developed as a result of the New Zealand research which seeks to assist teachers in their self-research.

Presentation:

iPod ready http://k12online.wm.edu/K12_Keynote_3web.mp4
Original http://k12online.wm.edu/K12_Keynote_3web.mov
Audio only http://k12online.wm.edu/K12_Keynote_Derek_Wenmoth.mp3

Supporting Links

• website of CORE Education in New Zealand http://www.core-ed.net
• Derek’s personal blog where he muses on the use of ICT in education and the future of education in generalhttp://blog.core-ed.net/derek
• the Education Positioning System, an online tool designed to promote reflection about the integration of ICTs into classroom practice http://www.media3.co.nz/eps
• the blog site of the NZ e-fellows http://www.efellows.org.nz
• background information about the NZ e-fellows http://www.tki.org.nz/r/ict/efellows/index_e.html
• background information about the NZ ICT Professional Development Clusters http://www.tki.org.nz/r/ict/pedagogy/schools_new/index_e.php
• FAQ page relating to the ICT cluster programme in NZ http://www.minedu.govt.nz/index.cfm?layout=document&documentid=11143&data=l
• backgrounder on Donald Schon, considered to be one of the pioneers theorists about reflecting on action http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-schon.htm
• dozens of links to blogs and wikis of NZ teachers who are reflecting on their practice http://nzedublogs.wikispaces.com/
• entry from Rachel’s Blog (NZ teacher) describing her approach to reflecting on action in a NZ ICT PD cluster http://rachelboyd.blogspot.com/2007/08/action-research-reflection-and-our-ict.html

 

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Kevin Hodgson Leeds, Massachusetts, USA Blog: http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/ Bio Kevin Hodgson is the technology liaison with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project and he also teaches writing to sixth graders at the Norris Elementary School in Southampton, Massachusetts. When he is not teaching, or thinking about teaching, he can be found with his wife and three young sons during the day and with his rock and roll band — The Sofa Kings — late at night. Somewhere in between all that, he writes poetry and stories and explores/shares through his Weblog experiment called Kevin’s Meandering Mind. Bio Page Click here

Bonnie Kaplan Nyack, New York, USA Blog: http://blk1.edublogs.org./ Bio Bonnie Kaplan is the Co-Director and Technology Liaison with the Hudson Valley Writing Project and for 30 years she taught high school English and Drama at Pearl River High School, New York. For the last three years she has moved on to a new life chapter and spends more time working with the HVWP and developing her digital passion and skills. She loves playing classical guitar to a audience of two loyal fans. She spends lots of time in dark movie theaters and traveling to exotic places. She shares everything on her blog: http://blk1.edublogs.org. Bio Page Click here

Presentation Title
“The Collaborative ABC Project: Using Technology To Tell Stories”

Description
Our presentation (which will be a collaborative effort led by at least two presenters) will focus in on a collaborative digital storytelling project that brought together about a dozen teachers from the USA (and one from New Zealand) who used video technology to create a collaborative online ABC movie project. We intend to discuss how our project came to being from an inquiry approach and also to have participants take part in a smaller scale version of our ABC movie-book adventure. We will produce our presentation using a mixture of a blog, video examples, screencasts and podcasts. Our presentation will be online due to the nature of collaboration and may not have offline downloadable aspects to it.

Presentation
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/TheCollaborativeABCMovie_Project.htm
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/ABC.mp3

Supporting Links
Edublogs
http://techstories.edublogs.org/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/

Google Video
http://video.google.com/

Jumpcut
http://www.jumpcut.com/

Wikispaces
http://dogwritingideas.wikispaces.com/ABCstory

Community Mapping
http://www.communitywalk.com/the_collaborative_abc_movie_project/abc_movie/map/8999

Spresent
https://k12onlineconference.org

Gliffy
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1201479/

Toon Doo
http://www.toondoo.com/Home.do

VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/

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