What makes learning compelling?
21st Century Teaching and Learning
Toni Theisen
Loveland High School
Thompson School District
Loveland, CO
970-482-2606
dakar95@verinet.com
http://lhsfrenchclasses.wikispaces.com
http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com
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Notes and Reflection
My knowledge about 21st
century learners
Key words from
today’s presentation
21st century
teaching and
learning
What tools do I want to try soon.
Other thoughts
Some things I learned today
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What makes learning compelling?
21st Century Teaching and Learning:
Useful websites for teachers and students
Educational Origami: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of technology into the classroom.
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Mark Prensky: http://www.marcprensky.com/
This site contains many articles by the person (Marc Prensky) who coined the phrase about digital natives.
Globalization 101: http://www.globalization101.org/
A free website for teaching about globalization.
Resources for podcasting
GCast: http://www.gcast.com/
These free sites lets the user upload audio files or make a podcast using a cell phone and a toll free numbers.
Podcasts can be stored on the site or a widget can be embedded on a website, wikispace or blog.
Gabcast: http://www.gabcast.com
Record a podcast with a cell phone and a toll free number.
Odeo: http://odeo.com/
This site has variety of audio files including audio books and podcasts in many languages on many subjects.
Odeo studio: http://studio.odeo.com/create
This site provides a free service to make podcasts that can be embedded on a website, a wikispace and blogs.
Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com/index.html
This site provides a free seervice to make podcasts.
Utterz: http://www.utterz.com/welcome.php
Post voice, video, picture and text mashups.
Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/#home
Group discussion around images, documents and videos. Great for digital storytelling. Excellent tool for Social
Studies.
Blog sites, Videos sites
Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/
This online blogging tool is an easy tool to use to start blogging.
Class Blogmeister: http://classblogmeister.com/
This online blogging tool is designed with teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate,
evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students' blog articles in a controlled environment.
21Classes Cooperative Learning Blog site: http://www.21classes.com
Blog site with lots a student safety features
Daily Motion: http://www.dailymotion.com
Daily Motion is a free online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have
been uploaded by members of the site.
Google Video: http://video.google.com
Google Video is a free online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have been
uploaded by members of the site.
Revver: http://one.revver.com/revver
Revver is a free online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have been
uploaded by members of the site.
TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/
The goal of this site to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload lesson plan
videos or watch student videos. There are also instructional videos to help teacher learn more about using
technology.
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Viddler: http://www.viddler.com/
Viddler is a free online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have
been
uploaded by members of the site.
YouTube: http://youtube.com/
YouTube is a free online video streaming service that allows anyone to view and share videos that have
been
uploaded by members of the site.
Voki: http://www.voki.com/
Make your own talking avatar in many languages for your blog or wikispace,
Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com/
This is an online free video conversion site. Here videos from sites like YouTube can be converted
and
downloaded.
TubeSock: http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/
This is an online video conversion site. Here videos from sites like YouTube can be converted and downloaded.
There is a $15 yearly fee.
Online Photo Galleries.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
This is a digital photo sharing website. It is also a great site to find pictures of many places in the world.
Digital Storytelling
Center for Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
The Center for Digital Storytelling is an arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. They assist
people of all ages in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and
communities.
Educational uses of digital Storytelling: http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling
This is a website devoted to the educational uses of digital storytelling with guidelines to create digital stories.
Project-based Learning
Project-based learning: http://www.edutopia.org/projectbasedlearning
In project-based learning, students work in teams to explore real-world problems and create presentations to share
what they have learned. Sample projects and directions are included.
Comic strips to synthesize ideas or write
Comic strips and comic books: http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon
Check out an easy way for students to write or create. Look at the mini books on the Amendements, see how
students synthesize science projects.
Comic strips: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
Students can make comic strips.
Read, Write, Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html
Students can make comic strips.
Teacher Resources
ITunesU: www.apple.com/itunesu/
This site gives higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to the world.
Want to hear conversations with contemporary artists, listen to a lecture from a professor from Stanford
University, science and engineering courses from MIT, a movie clip on how to protect civil liberties from Penn
State or see a music clip from the world on the Smithsonian Global Sound Project.
Bubbleshare: http://www.bubbleshare.com/
Make a slideshow of your pictures and add captions and comments with sound.
Copyright-friendly: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/
This site has Copyright-Friendly Images and Sound for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.
Differentiated Instruction: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
List of resources to use when differentiating instruction.
GoToQuiz: http://www.gotoquiz.com/create.html
Create quizzes, surveys and polls.
OneTrueMedia: http://www.onetruemedia.com/
Mix photos, video and sound to create a new slideshow.
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Read, Write, Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
This site has an interactive map to help students to begin to write a persuasive essay.
Slide Show: http://www.slide.com/
Make your own slide show by uploading your pictures.
Searchcrystal: http://www.searchcrystal.com/home.html
It is a search visualization tool that lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place.
Google educators:http://www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html Great resources, support and infomation for teachers.
Project Poster: http://poster.4teachers.org/
Project Poster allows students to make online school projects and short reports quickly and easily. Students can
include one image (.gif or .jpg format), four links to other Web pages, and a report of up to 3,500 characters.
SchoolTube: http://www.schooltube.com/
This is a site where students and teacher can upload their videos for sharing.
TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/
TeacherTube is an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or
have students load up video projects. There are also many tutorials for teachers to learning technology skills.
Bubbl.us: http://bubbl.us/
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Wikispaces
Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com
This site shows how to make and use wikispaces. The is also a search in order to look for other wikis.
LHS French classes: http://lhsfrenchclasses.wikispaces.com
This wikispace shows how to use a wiki as a course management system and collaborative workspace for a French
class.
Collaboration Nation: http://collaborationnation.wikispaces.com/
This is a collaborative wiki integrating many different digital tools.
World Languages websites
Learn French in Boston Podcasts: http://www.learnfrenchinboston.com
Podcasts including explanations of French poetry and practice sessions.
Bookbox: http://www.bookbox.com/
BookBox is a web-based jukebox of digital books in languages from around the world. BookBox aims to not
only enhance children's basic literacy, but also facilitate their proficiency in foreign languages. The mission of
BookBox is to create outstanding audio-visual "books" in a variety of languages. One story is free.
Lit Gloss: http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts.shtml
This site has a connection to original selections of literature in many different languages. Also included is the
context of the piece and additional resources to better understand it.
BBC French: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/
This sites has many French resources and activities that students can do on their own.
BBC Spanish: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
This sites has many Spanish resources and activities that students can do on their own.
Digital Media Archive: http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/
Language Acquisition Resource Center-Digital Media resources for many languages.
Picasso webquest: http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/36507-061002164745/t-index.htm
Webquest and activities about Picasso
Math websites
Online resources for high school math: http://www.homeschoolmath.net/math_resources_4.php
Resources for algebra, graphing and calculus.
Math videos online: http://www.math-videos-online.com/
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Science websites
Globe Center: http://www.globe.gov/r?lang=en&nav=1
This site is a worldwide hands-on interactive science program in English with navigation available in Dutch,
English, French, German, Russian, & Spanish.
Free resources for Science teachers: http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/freestuff
Full list of links to free resources for science teachers online.
La Cité: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/web_cite_fs.htm
Lots of science activities in French.
Social Studies websites
Teaching and Learning historical thinking: http://historicalthinking.wikispaces.com/
Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/#home
Group discussion around images, documents and videos. Great for digital storytelling. Excellent tool for Social
Studies.
Language Arts websites
Literacy Tools: http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom.
These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to
use technology while developing their literacy skills.
Read, Write, Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
This site has an interactive map to help students to begin to write a persuasive essay.
Online Reading Strategies:
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/readstrat/readingstrategies_files/v3_document.html
This fantastic PowerPoint offers a rationale for teaching online reading strategies, identifies student behaviors that
are indicators of poor reading strategies, and offers multiple suggestions for things teachers can do to teach online
reading strategies that will help students to become more successful readers of both print and online text.
Thesis Generator: http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/thesisgenerator.html
Ideas for helping students develop better thesis statements.
Tools for Media Analysis: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/media.html
MEDIA ANALYSIS TOOLS or worksheets guide students into deeper analysis of primary sources.
Music websites
Music education resources: http://musiceduwikius.wikispaces.com/9-12+Music
Art websites
Olga’s Gallery: http://www.abcgallery.com/
An online art museum.
Business
Business and Career Education Resources: http://business-careerededuwikius.wikispaces.com/
Using Web 2.0
Language Learning and web http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=272bb05c490d790b6da5
Working with wikispaces: http://umtechresources.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces
Top digital tools of 2007: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/
3 Steps Video: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d29b62a286909165517b
People to research: Marc Prensky, David Warlick, William Richardson, Vicki Davis “Cool Cat”
Presentation information will be on:
http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/
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