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Blogs, Pods, and Vods… What They Are and How to Use Them

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Teaching and Learning Conference August 11, 2008

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Blogs, Pods, and Vods…

What They Are and How to Use Them

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Leslie Noggle

3rd Grade TeacherTryon Elementary

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A few myths and a question…

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MYTH

It would be too expensive to use technology in the

classroom.

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MYTH

It takes too much time to integrate

technology.

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MYTH

I don’t think I know enough about technology to teach it or use it with my students.

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Question

Why do we need to teach

using technology at

all?

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A few things to think about…

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Web 2.0

• Access to information has changed

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Differentiated Instruction

• Technology creates the potential to reach students with all learning styles

• Use technology to evoke higher order thinking skills

• Authentic learning tasks

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21st Century Education

• Guiding mission of the State Board of Education“every public school student will graduate from

high school globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st century.”

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Using technology, students will...

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BLOGSTechnology Tools…

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Blogs

• A blog is a website, or web log, that contains regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or material such as graphics or video

Edublogs is the county approved blogging site

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Ways to Use Blogs

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Blogs to Check Out

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Podcasts

• A podcast is a collection of digital media files stored over the Internet

• If you subscribe to a podcast, feed automatically delivers new content when it is added

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• A video cast, or vodcast contains video as well as audio

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Ways to Use Podcasts

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Benefits

• Student engagement

• Collaboration

• Portable

• Accessible

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What You Need

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Examples

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Making Movies

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MovieMaker

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Photostory 3

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Animoto

http://animoto.com/

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VoiceThread

http://ed.voicethread.com

• Designed for and restricted to K-12 students and educators

• Teachers must use comment moderation

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Offers 5 ways to comment on 15 different types of content

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Ways to Use

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Resources

Grazing for Digital Nativeshttp://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling

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Skype

• Free, web based service that acts as a phone

• Chat using only audio or use a webcam to video chat

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Ways to Use Skype

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Nice Net

• Online discussion board made for and used by educators and students

• Free and secure for students

• Students join using class code given by teacher

http://www.nicenet.org

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Ways to use NiceNet

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What now?

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Next Steps

• Try one idea

• Contact your tech facilitator for help

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Technology is just a tool…

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Leslie Noggle

Contact:

[email protected]