collaborative technologies, plns: new literacies for the 21st century teacher
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This is the presentation I offered at the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference at Montclair State University (March 2009).TRANSCRIPT
Collaborative Technologies and PLNs
New Literacies for the 21st Century Teacher
Laura Nicosia, PhDMontclair State University
English Department
Welcome to NJCTE @ MSU
Who is here today?K-5 Educator
6-8 Language Arts Educator
Secondary English Educator
Technology Coordinator
Supervisor & Administrator
Media Specialist
Higher Education Faculty
Please stand if you are:
Raise your hand if you use
Facebook/MySpace
Blogs
Linked-in
Microblogging Sites (Twitter/Plurk/Jaiku)
Second Life
Skype
Social Networking or Bookmarking sites (de.lici.ous/Stumbleupon/Furl/Flickr)
Wikis
Some sites I use regularly
Diigo
Google Docs
Ning
Plurk
Second Life
Slideshare
Wikispaces
In today’s sessionI’ll introduce you to a few of my favorite collaborative sites.
DiigoGoogle Docs
NingWikis
Diigohttp://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL
02A
With Diigo you can annotate & highlight articles as you read them. These notations will remain there now--and later. That’s pretty cool already. But...you can also SEND those articles as emails and/or as urls.
When you sign up with Diigo
you download a tool bar menu
You can bookmark textssave & organize them on a web-hosted site
Highlight & comment ON the text
Share the article with others--with your notes!
They share back
This is an effective tool for:
Writers
Researchers
Teachers
Students
How might YOU use such a tool?
Sometimes--you need to write
So, how could you go about doing
that?
with someone to collaborate on a report, a document or
an article.
I use Google Docs
Me
You
+
You’ll need to open a Google Account
Free
Easy
Loaded with functionality
Here’s your Google tool and menu bar
1. More
2. Google Books
3. Google Scholar
4. Google Documents
Create a new document with one clickShare it by inviting collaborators
Documents are stored on the web and appear as in “Page Layout”
This is a document I created for a summer NJCH Workshop
This is the Content Menu
It shows all items owned by or opened by me
It holds folders that I either create or upload
It indicates who I’m sharing documents with and how many documents for which we are collaborating.
Here’s a resource on “15 ways to Use Google Docs in Your
Class”, written by Tom Barrett: http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft
Sometimes, my colleagues and I want to upload videos,
collaborate and perhaps even have fun. What then?
Ning
With Ning you can:Upload profile pictures or avatars
Upload videos, documents or urls
Start & moderate discussion forums
Create groups
Create FAQ pages
Post & monitor blogs
Invite members
This is the site I created for our English Ed program
You invite people by email
You promote the site
Upload pictures from CCL sites
You can Delete your site
It’s easy to navigate and to manage:
Here’s my page I am the
Administrator & Creator of our network of over 150 members. I
communicate policies, job openings & events via
Ning.
My Methods of Teaching English students are using Ning for
“virtual fieldwork.”
My Methods classes are paired with 2 English classes at a public high school in Fredericksburg, VA.
They read the students’ writings (blogs, discussion forums & mini-essays) and leave feed-back.
They ask critical thinking questions and try to provoke the students to dig deeper for their responses.
They communicate with the classroom teacher—ask her questions and suggest resources for her to use.
These are the 2 sites my classes use:
My students read the HS students’ discussions
We respond with thoughtful questions or comments:
The teacher sets these reminder directions:
One of my graduate students responded with this thoughtful and constructive posting
My students offer “real time” responses
This pilot has been exciting!
It’s a work-in-progress & we intend to reflect and assess its benefits and
weaknesses at the end of the semester. I’ll keep you posted...
Sometimes, I want participants to be
site builders.
For instance, when I offer
Professional Development
courses & training,I usually
create a Wiki for
participants
Wikis
Here’s OUR wiki for this session:http://njctecollaborativetools.wikispaces.com/
Here’s what the Wiki looks like upon its creation:
First, you choose a name for your site.
Then you “Manage” your Wiki to personalize it
Invite Members
Change colors & images
Create your own icons
Create your page contents by this simple “Edit This Page” button. The act of
creating content on the page is a simple process of typing a Word document--as you
would with Word or Office
Creating content for your Wiki is EASY!
Here is the “Home” page
All you do is type...
Don’t forget to put “tags”
Members add content, too
Each member can add a “New Page” and “Edit Page” to contribute content
You can even include “Hot Links”
Use this button to insert a link
I want to insert a link to email me
What if you don’t like or want the changes
a member makes?
You can “revert” easily
Simply use this button to view recent changes, additions or modifications
Change using the Content Manager
Reject changes or revert to an earlier version
Participants can chat
using a basic and easy to
use Discussion
Board
I hope you enjoyed this introduction to some collaborative tools
Sites, urls & sources I used in this preso:
www.Diigo.com
www.flickr.com
www.google.com
www.ning.com
www.wikispaces.com
Here are sites you will enjoy exploring:
www.Plurk.com
www.Twitter.com
www.slideshare.com
www.teachertube.com
www.animoto.com