14 DECEMBER 2015
Week 7 - LDC - Leading Online Discussions
Overview
The teacher plays a key role in leading the learning environment and even when conducting activities that are largely student led and student regulated, such as online discussions, requires active direction by the teacher.
As I begin to do this week's reading I'm already doubting the relevance for me at this stage of my teaching. I am only able to relate to the leadership ideas as a leader to my students or how others are leading within our school. I'll be interested in my thinking after these readings and articles.
Some Basic Terms You Should Know as You Start Your Twitter Journey
Tweet
Each of your Twitter posts or updates is known as a tweet. Some people refer to them as "twits," but the official term is "tweet."
@
The @ symbol is a way of referring to another Twitter user. For example, @SandeSaimond means you're either sending a message to Sande Saimond or you're talking about her in your message. On your Twitter home page, you'll see a linked search where you can find people mentioning your username with an @ before it. This is how you find other people's replies to you.
Retweet
A retweet - or RT - is when you share the tweet of one user with all of your Twitter followers. If you happen to follow a Twitter news feed and they post a link to a story that you feel should be shared, you can "retweet" it. If you see a beautiful quote or a funny saying that you like, you can also retweet it. For instance, if I (SandeSaimond) tweeted, "Twitter Tips - How To Tweet in 140 Characters or Less http://ow.ly/5ntl" you could retweet that as: "RT @SandeSaimond: Twitter Tips - How To Tweet in 140 Characters or Less http://ow.ly/5ntl." Something to be aware of - it's considered rude or just plain not nice to take someone else's Tweet and send it back out as your own. Give credit for the tweet where it's due. You will more than likely be thanked for the Retweet and you may gain new followers at the same time. Retweets are usually prefaced with "RT @username."
Reply
Reply is when you respond to a tweet from a particular user. To reply to any given Twitter community member where it's placed in the public feed (everyone can see what you are saying) is called a Reply. Most Twitter clients (and Twitter itself) prefaces your tweet with "@username." If you wanted to send a message to me, for example, you would tweet, "@SandeSaimond How are you today, Sande? Hear any good tweets?"
Direct Message
Whereas replies are completely public, a direct message is akin to a private message that you send through a discussion board. You can only send a direct message to someone that is following your account. Send a direct message by prefacing your tweet with "DM username."
Follower
While Facebook requires that all relationships be reciprocal, Twitter allows for one-way relationships. If you find Twitter users who are interesting, you can "follow them" to subscribe to their tweets. They do not necessarily have to follow you back, though the more social users will want to follow you back.
Tweeple or Twerson
Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.
Tweeps
Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
Twitterverse
The Twitter Universe ... it's big and it's expanding at a great rate!
Hash Tags or #
Hash tags are words or acronyms that begin with the number sign. They are used when many people are tweeting about the same topic or from the same event. At least one hash tag is often atop Twitter's trending topics list. The granddaddy of tracking what the different hashtags means is http://www.Hashtags.org, which tracks tags by popularity over time. Before Twitter's search feature was useful, Hashtags provided a means to search tags. A popular hashtag is #FollowFriday. You'll see every Friday posts from different tweople suggesting who they think you should follow. "#FollowFriday @SandeSaimond."
Each of your Twitter posts or updates is known as a tweet. Some people refer to them as "twits," but the official term is "tweet."
@
The @ symbol is a way of referring to another Twitter user. For example, @SandeSaimond means you're either sending a message to Sande Saimond or you're talking about her in your message. On your Twitter home page, you'll see a linked search where you can find people mentioning your username with an @ before it. This is how you find other people's replies to you.
Retweet
A retweet - or RT - is when you share the tweet of one user with all of your Twitter followers. If you happen to follow a Twitter news feed and they post a link to a story that you feel should be shared, you can "retweet" it. If you see a beautiful quote or a funny saying that you like, you can also retweet it. For instance, if I (SandeSaimond) tweeted, "Twitter Tips - How To Tweet in 140 Characters or Less http://ow.ly/5ntl" you could retweet that as: "RT @SandeSaimond: Twitter Tips - How To Tweet in 140 Characters or Less http://ow.ly/5ntl." Something to be aware of - it's considered rude or just plain not nice to take someone else's Tweet and send it back out as your own. Give credit for the tweet where it's due. You will more than likely be thanked for the Retweet and you may gain new followers at the same time. Retweets are usually prefaced with "RT @username."
Reply
Reply is when you respond to a tweet from a particular user. To reply to any given Twitter community member where it's placed in the public feed (everyone can see what you are saying) is called a Reply. Most Twitter clients (and Twitter itself) prefaces your tweet with "@username." If you wanted to send a message to me, for example, you would tweet, "@SandeSaimond How are you today, Sande? Hear any good tweets?"
Direct Message
Whereas replies are completely public, a direct message is akin to a private message that you send through a discussion board. You can only send a direct message to someone that is following your account. Send a direct message by prefacing your tweet with "DM username."
Follower
While Facebook requires that all relationships be reciprocal, Twitter allows for one-way relationships. If you find Twitter users who are interesting, you can "follow them" to subscribe to their tweets. They do not necessarily have to follow you back, though the more social users will want to follow you back.
Tweeple or Twerson
Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.
Tweeps
Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
Twitterverse
The Twitter Universe ... it's big and it's expanding at a great rate!
Hash Tags or #
Hash tags are words or acronyms that begin with the number sign. They are used when many people are tweeting about the same topic or from the same event. At least one hash tag is often atop Twitter's trending topics list. The granddaddy of tracking what the different hashtags means is http://www.Hashtags.org, which tracks tags by popularity over time. Before Twitter's search feature was useful, Hashtags provided a means to search tags. A popular hashtag is #FollowFriday. You'll see every Friday posts from different tweople suggesting who they think you should follow. "#FollowFriday @SandeSaimond."
Twitter Tips for Teachers
- Use TweetDeck
- The power of the hashtag
- Join the #edchatNZ club
- Make use of lists
- Saving tweets for a rainy day
- Teaching with Twitter
Leading Online Discussions
- Establish the parameters
- Connect topic material but challenge students to think critically
- Encourage all learners to participate with incentives
- Praise learner posts that contribute to a discussion
- Guide off-topic conversations back to the question at hand
- Ask students to describe appropriate real world experiences
- Don’t overly interject - pick your spots judiciously
DCL - Blending Learning (Flipped Classroom)
Overview
Blended Learning:
Within a formal programme of learning, students study using a mix of on-site face to face learning and some degree of online learning, which may take place on site and/or remotely.
Flipped Learning
The flipped classroom is a form of blended learning that brings together advances in education and technology to deliver instruction online, outside of class, via video, and moving 'homework' into the classroom. The end result is a personalized, engaging learning experience for every student — whatever their learning style, pace, or ability.
Four Pillars of Flipped Learning
Flipped learning requires
- Flexible environments
- a shift in Learning culture
- Intentional content
- Professional educators
Tips for a better flipped classroom http://tinyurl.com/tml9tipsflip
- Devise a flipped strategy
- Start small
- Get student buy-in
- Teach parents, too
- Teach students how to watch videos (Really!)
- Encourage (don't punish) students
- Don't use videos as the only engagement tool
- Make videos short and interactive
- Find fellow flippers
In-Class Flipping http://tinyurl.com/tmlflip
Besides the fact that it avoids the home-related problems of a traditional flip, the In-Class Flip has other advantages as well:
- The teacher can observe whether students are really watching.
- The initial exposure to the video content has a better chance to sink in.
- Hardware is (presumably) safer.
In-Class Flipping is not without its own challenges:
- It doesn't make for tidy one-period lesson plans.
- More preparation is required at the beginning. .
- Technically, you don’t "gain" more class time.
Blended Models http://tinyurl.com/tmlblended
These blended learning models come from the Clayton Christensen Institute
- Rotation model
- Station Rotation Te
- Lab Rotation
- Flipped Classroom
- Flex model
- A La Carte model
- Enriched Virtual model
Chris Clay - Flipped Classrooms - video
- sought solution to bored students - year 13s
- created mini wiki space and videos. Students discussed on forum and collaborated on notes
- Christchurch earthquakes - linked with them and then overseas and joined community.
- other teachers began to use the videos to teach their own students
- He used the videos in a constructivist way
TEDED website tour
The TED-Ed website allows you to engage in or create dynamic lessons around the hundreds of thousands of educational videos on YouTube. In this video, the familiar illustration assembled at the beginning of each TED-Ed video finds his [computer generated] voice and gives viewers a tour of ed.ted.com. The features explored include the ability to add multiple choice questions, open answer questions, "dig deeper" materials, and custom discussion topics to any video on YouTube.
- use it to create a lesson using videos from youtube
- TED-ED enhances the video with:
- Let's begin section to set the context for interpreting the video or to define a learning objective for your students
- Think section to add multiple choice questions with time-coded hints or open answer questions.
- Dig deep section to expand upon the video with articles, references or links to an application or maybe even your blog.
- Students can engage with lessons independently. The site will save your notes and ideas and track your learning overtime.
- Teachers can track single students or entire class.
https://app.themindlab.com/media/13607/view
Flipping the Classroom - simply speaking
https://app.themindlab.com/media/13606/view
- Some universities are finding ways to increase student engagement and improve learning by flipping the usual design.
- In the new model, students watch, listen to, and interact with content on their own time.
- use class time for engaging activities
- Interactive media used such as youtube, voicethread, audio podcasts.
- Main idea is to capture your presence, thoughts and guidance that you would usually take place in the classroom.
- In the classroom - work in groups, discussions, research.
- Can share innovative ideas as they come up.
- This creates a much more active environment
The Basics of Blended Learning
- WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING?
- Leveraging digital content to provide students with skills and practise.
- teacher focuses on depth and application concepts to teach higher order thinking skills
- create an environment:
- students get individualised, self-paced instructions
- teachers can provide differentiated small group instruction based upon weekly or daily data
- schools can operate at most lower cost per pupil
- BLENDED LEARNING MODELS
- Lab rotation
- data from the computer lab informs the instruction
- Class rotation - usual small group rotation
- Flex - block of computers in the middle with small groups on outside and teacher working with groups or individuals
- Pod - school within a school
- WHAT ARE SOME OF THE RESULTS
- students are more engaged using online content vs paper and pen practise work
- get real time feedback and where they stand at anytime
- students can control how fast or slow they need to go through a lesson.
EDpuzzle is a site that allows users to select a video and customize it by editing, cropping, recording audio, and adding questions to make an engaging presentation or lesson.
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