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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
Leslie Noggle
3rd Grade TeacherTryon Elementary
A few myths and a question…
MYTH
It would be too expensive to use technology in the
classroom.
MYTH
It takes too much time to integrate
technology.
MYTH
I don’t think I know enough about technology to teach it or use it with my students.
Question
Why do we need to teach
using technology at
all?
A few things to think about…
Web 2.0
• Access to information has changed
Differentiated Instruction
• Technology creates the potential to reach students with all learning styles
• Use technology to evoke higher order thinking skills
• Authentic learning tasks
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.”
Using technology, students will...
BLOGSTechnology Tools…
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
Ways to Use Blogs
Blogs to Check Out
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
• A video cast, or vodcast contains video as well as audio
Ways to Use Podcasts
Benefits
• Student engagement
• Collaboration
• Portable
• Accessible
What You Need
Examples
Making Movies
MovieMaker
Photostory 3
Animoto
http://animoto.com/
VoiceThread
http://ed.voicethread.com
• Designed for and restricted to K-12 students and educators
• Teachers must use comment moderation
Offers 5 ways to comment on 15 different types of content
Ways to Use
Resources
Grazing for Digital Nativeshttp://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling
Skype
• Free, web based service that acts as a phone
• Chat using only audio or use a webcam to video chat
Ways to Use Skype
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
Ways to use NiceNet
What now?
Next Steps
• Try one idea
• Contact your tech facilitator for help
Technology is just a tool…