The creation and use of graphs is a crucial component of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, as well as of the recently completed Framework for K-12 Science Education. While work on the Social Sciences Framework is still in progress, it is expected that graphs will also play a key role in these standards. Teachers in all of these areas will find this seminar useful in designing and implementing their curriculum.

I hope you can join us on Thursday, February 9 at 3:15pm or 7:15pm. Please click on the Webcasts tab to register. We have upgraded to a new registration system, allowing you to register directly in Adobe Connect, making the whole webinar process smoother and easier! If you have any questions, please contact Juanita Dickson. Click on the time you wish to participate in and you will be directed to an online registration form. Please type your email address carefully as all information will be sent to that address. After registering you will receive a confirmation email with a log in link – please use that link to log into the webinar prior to the start time.

Students are increasingly turning to a wealth of online resources to answer their information needs and according to Amazon, ebooks are outselling print books.    Join me as we look at how this change necessitates the way we need to teach literacy.   What does it mean to be a digitally literate person and how can you guide your students to find excellent information?  We will also learn how to evaluate these sources and explore some of the unique features of digital information that enable students to be successful in school.

This webinar will be offered twice, once at 3:15pm, and once at 7:15pm. Please visit the Webcasts Page for pre-registration and additional information about participating in our webinars.

Follow up to Digital Literacy Webinar

According to the Pew Statistics, 85% of teens ages 12-17 engage in some form of electronic personal communication including text messaging, e-mail or posting comments on social networking sites.  MLTI survey results from last year found that students communicate on their homework most often through texting and the second communication vehicle was Facebook!

Much of the research I discovered while researching Digital Literacy pointed to a lack of advancement of Digital Literacy instruction in education.

Scale of information:
Students can download books from Project Gutenberg, they can create videos and share them around the world and join blog conversations to bring real world excitement to their learning.
Advantages of Digital Information:
Digital resources have many advantages to the printed text.   The ability to enlarge the print, use text to speech and add visuals enable digital literacy development and supports diverse student learning.

A lot of discussion on the chat during this webinar focused on the need to teach better searching skills.   If students use Google to search they might do better using Google Advanced to limit their searches.

Many of the traditional literacy skills are transferable to Digital Literacy.   Teachers need to help students find and evaluate information from digital print sources and to become producers in this digital world we are living.    Online encyclopedias are perfect way to begin a search for information often with several reading levels, visuals and timelines.   Magazine and Newspaper databases such as Marvel have information that is preselected and reputable and searchable.    Web pages provide a wealth of information but need to be evaluated as to authority and reliability and point of view.

There were a few participants who did not know of the State Marvel databases.    You can get directly in from any school or public library.  From home you have to register (once) and you can just log in with your user name and password or a library bar code.  I have my bar code on a sticky and cut and paste.  If you have an MLTI MacBook there is a spring icon on the dock.

MLTI has partnered with Common Sense Media and has easy lesson plans for K-12 on Digital Literacy that can be adapted as needed for your school.  Visit Common Sense Media and register as an educator.    Look for the lessons under Research and Evaluation.   They come with a creative commons license so you may adapt them as needed.
Digital Literacy Lessons from Common Sense Media:

www.commonsense.org/educator

Ted Talk video:
The Filter Bubble by Ed Pariser

Online Citation Sources:
Easy Bid
Son of Citation Machine

Online Web Evaluation Sources:
Five W’s of Website Evaluation

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

Evaluating Webpages: How and Why

“Education Needs a Digital Age Upgrade” Virginia Heffernan NY Times

Learning to Read and Write on the Web Teachervision website

Take a Giant Step: a Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age

Writing, Technology and Teens Pew Research

The Uses of Digital Literacy by John Hartley Google Book

“Books and Literacy in the Digital Age” by Ralph Raab    American Libraries, Aug2010, Vol 41 Issue 8, p34-37

“From Print to Pixel” by Kevin Kelly    Smithsonian Jul/Aug2010, Vol 41, P122-128, 6p

“Teaching Two Literacies” by Joanne Rooney    Educational Leadership, Mar2009, Vol. 66 Issue 6

Deconstructed TPCK Diagram

Now that folks have been introduced to SAMR and TPACK, its time to talk about how practitioners can apply what we know. The question might be, “How can I look at my curriculum and put SAMR and TPCK into practice in my classroom?” And, of course, we will ponder how technology can aid in the improvement of teaching and learning by giving a closer look at the tools that MLTI and the web have to offer. Finally, we will check out one more example of “building a ladder” of classroom practice and discuss how it might be applied to revamping lessons or units you already use.

This webinar will be offered twice, once at 3:15pm, and once at 7:15pm. You may find it useful to read some additional information about participating in our webinars; you can click here right before the start of the webinar for quick access.

When designing teaching projects using technology, it is important to employ frameworks that enable the best selection, planning, and use of the tools available. The SAMR and TPCK models have proven themselves in use in Maine’s classrooms and around the world. In 2010, over two thirds of Maine teachers familiar with the models found that they played a crucial or important role in their work.

In this webinar we will review the basics of the SAMR and TPCK models, using new examples that reflect evolving priorities and projects in Maine schools. We will also see how to use them in practice, introducing the concept of the “SAMR Ladder” — a concept that we will extend and develop further at our October 27 webinar.

This webinar will be offered twice, once at 3:15pm, and once at 7:15pm. You may find it useful to read some additional information about participating in our webinars; you can click here right before the start of the webinar for quick access.

Knowing that school, public and academic libraries may face numerous requests for information and resources as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, ebrary developed a collection of 15 full text e-books. The collection is available at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/september11/home.action. This site is fully functional and also provides free access to ebrary’s research tools for the month.

Libraries are welcome to include this link on their homepages and to assist patrons with Internet access to download and read the titles at no cost anytime during the month of September. Titles included are Reclaiming the Sky: 9/11 and The Untold Story of the Men and Women Who Kept America Flying, by Tom Murphy; The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11 by Brian Monahan; Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11, by Damon DiMarco and Thomas Kean; and We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11, by Tram Nguyen.

Today’s Agenda
Wednesday July 27

Hannah inspires the audience

Chris wows the audience

More photos from the day…

Del and John discuss the uses of Sketchup Pro

Geogebra helps to stretch your mathematical muscles

Susie discusses digital citizenship

Today’s Agenda

Tuesday July 26
8:30 – 9:45 Check in at Coles Tower
10:00 – 11:30 Meet your cohort
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch at Thorne Hall
1:00 – 4:00 Cohorts meet
2:30 – Soda/Water/Cookie break
4:30 – 5:00 Large Group Gathering – Welcome! at Morrell Lounge in the Smith Union
Student Keynotes

• Hannah Potter – Yarmouth High School – How I Took Advantage of the MLTI to Connect Young People from Around the World
• Chris Jones - Oak Hill High School – How I Took Advantage of the MLTI to Become an Internationally Collaborative Programmer

6:00 – 7:00 Dinner at Thorne Hall

Maine DOE Newsroom

• 1,100-plus celebrate MLTI at UMaine
• Sharing a ‘new view’ through MLTI
• From MLTI student to international programmer
• Using MLTI to learn through video

Mark your calendars! The date has been set for next year, the 9th Annual MLTI Student Conference Thursday May 24, 2012

MARVELous May is a joint project of the Maine State Library and the Association of Computer Technology Educators of Maine (ACTEM). Please visit www.actem.org/Marvel for full details.

Just because students can find out the natural resources of a country does not mean they know how to search and research.  Teachers need to quide them.  Help them internalize their research by adding that higher level research question.

Use the MLTI minutes for additional help in using noteshare.  http://minute.maine121.org/

From the chat box discussion in the second webinar several people concluded that schools who use noteshare frequently should get a noteshare server.

Links to sites or pdfs can be added to the noteshare.

Note cards can be created and sorted right in the noteshare.   Students can record information or teachers and record comments.   The material can be recorded for students with difficulty reading the material.

Here is a list of resources you might wish to use.

Pam Goucher included this link from School Library Journal in the chat box on the changes in student researching that is very interesting.

See Sally Research: An Environmental Scan by Joyce Valenza

http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/08/02/see-sally-research-an- environmental-scan       (Copy and paste into browser
Isearch steps
http://virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/isearch.htm

Corrnel University Analyzing information sources
http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill26.htm

Cambridge and Latin School Basic Steps of the research process
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/

Graphic Organizers:

Omnigraffle is a tool on the mlti devices that can also be used to create a graphic organizer.
Teachervision Graphic Organizer
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html
Education Place Graphic Organizer
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
Research topic triangle
http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/loc/restri.html
https://bubbl.us/
http://www.text2mindmap.com/
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

Kathy Schrock’s Guide to evaluating web sites
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Citation Souces:

Easy Bib

http://www.easybib.com/

Son of citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/