Comments on: Connection and Communities http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=connection-and-communities Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Learning On The Job » The Edu-Matrix http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3678 Learning On The Job » The Edu-Matrix Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:12:22 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3678 [...] Jeff Utecht dazzled the UNIS Middle School/High School staff with some pretty out-of-this-world stuff: wikis, podcasts, chatrooms used to take class notes, Chris Lehmann’s Ignite Philly presentation, interesting new brain research (and lots more) as well as, most importantly, a vision of what education can (must?) become in order to remain relevant. [...] [...] Jeff Utecht dazzled the UNIS Middle School/High School staff with some pretty out-of-this-world stuff: wikis, podcasts, chatrooms used to take class notes, Chris Lehmann’s Ignite Philly presentation, interesting new brain research (and lots more) as well as, most importantly, a vision of what education can (must?) become in order to remain relevant. [...]

]]> By: Reece http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3677 Reece Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:27:02 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3677 "How do we use the power of audience and communities to engage students? Students understand the power of communities, they’re the ones that created them, are creating them, and continue to create them" What is the average age of online community users for sites like facebook, twitter and myspace. I was under the impression it was the 20s and 30s age bracket. Are there statistics to support what you're saying? “How do we use the power of audience and communities to engage students? Students understand the power of communities, they’re the ones that created them, are creating them, and continue to create them”

What is the average age of online community users for sites like facebook, twitter and myspace. I was under the impression it was the 20s and 30s age bracket. Are there statistics to support what you’re saying?

]]> By: Communities and 21st Century Literacy | connect. create. question. http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3676 Communities and 21st Century Literacy | connect. create. question. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:09:44 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3676 [...] answer, I think, is complicated.  Jeff talked about how the community has to be built first, and how sometimes we as educators don’t get to choose where that community is — [...] [...] answer, I think, is complicated.  Jeff talked about how the community has to be built first, and how sometimes we as educators don’t get to choose where that community is — [...]

]]> By: Andrea_Law http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3675 Andrea_Law Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:49:46 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3675 HI Jeff, I wanted to thank you for the wonderful sessions yesterday. I think you were really successful in inspiring many of the staff at UNIS to try some new things with their tablet's and classrooms. I can't wait to try out the collaborative note taking idea and can already think of how many ways I can use this with my students when they get their tablets next school year. Thanks! HI Jeff,
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful sessions yesterday. I think you were really successful in inspiring many of the staff at UNIS to try some new things with their tablet’s and classrooms.
I can’t wait to try out the collaborative note taking idea and can already think of how many ways I can use this with my students when they get their tablets next school year. Thanks!

]]> By: Adrienne http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3674 Adrienne Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:30:35 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3674 Hi Jeff... Loved the sessions today, though I realize that the learning curve for me is probably much smaller than for many of my colleagues. "Why do Nings take time to develop? Why do kids not jump at the change to communicate and collaborate? Because the community has to be built first…then they will jump." This bit is starting to make me think that perhaps our school needs to work first on developing our school community... are we putting the cart before the horse? This might explain why some of the tools we use work better with one group of students than another. The community must be built. I guess, now that I think about it, this is the reason I didn't start my MS students off with blogs the first week of school. After we got a "feel" for what we were doing, it seemed more natural -- we were building something. Hi Jeff… Loved the sessions today, though I realize that the learning curve for me is probably much smaller than for many of my colleagues.

“Why do Nings take time to develop? Why do kids not jump at the change to communicate and collaborate? Because the community has to be built first…then they will jump.”

This bit is starting to make me think that perhaps our school needs to work first on developing our school community… are we putting the cart before the horse? This might explain why some of the tools we use work better with one group of students than another. The community must be built. I guess, now that I think about it, this is the reason I didn’t start my MS students off with blogs the first week of school. After we got a “feel” for what we were doing, it seemed more natural — we were building something.

]]> By: Joe http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3673 Joe Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:37:24 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3673 The conversation you had yesterday was in many ways identical to one occurring here in Sacramento, CA. Making the shift from a traditional classroom to a 1:1 environment can be more challenging than I ever realized. It sounds like your group developed some interesting ideas. I like the one about starting a lesson with the five best websites students bring into class and I've been fiddling with Etherpad this week. Thanks for sharing! The conversation you had yesterday was in many ways identical to one occurring here in Sacramento, CA. Making the shift from a traditional classroom to a 1:1 environment can be more challenging than I ever realized. It sounds like your group developed some interesting ideas. I like the one about starting a lesson with the five best websites students bring into class and I’ve been fiddling with Etherpad this week. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: AllanahK http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3672 AllanahK Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:31:49 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3672 We tried it out via Twitter for a shout out and we liked it- no log ins just a shared URL. Everyone can type into the document pad at the same time, you can save the text as a text file that you could copy into a paper document or share via its unique saved URL. It has a chat function so you can discuss but not record in main page and if you added Skype or a live presentation you could have a reasonably reliable tool for real time, on line collaboration. If it wasn't free I could take a commission for my advertisement of their product. LOL We tried it out via Twitter for a shout out and we liked it- no log ins just a shared URL.

Everyone can type into the document pad at the same time, you can save the text as a text file that you could copy into a paper document or share via its unique saved URL. It has a chat function so you can discuss but not record in main page and if you added Skype or a live presentation you could have a reasonably reliable tool for real time, on line collaboration.

If it wasn’t free I could take a commission for my advertisement of their product. LOL

]]> By: AllanahK http://www.thethinkingstick.com/connection-and-communities/#comment-3671 AllanahK Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:50:26 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=804#comment-3671 Maybe this would be useful another time. It just turned up in my RSS tonight http://etherpad.com/ep/about/screencast I like the idea of notes that we can all write at the same time that we can save as a single document. Now all I need is a couple of people to try it out with. Maybe this would be useful another time. It just turned up in my RSS tonight

http://etherpad.com/ep/about/screencast

I like the idea of notes that we can all write at the same time that we can save as a single document.

Now all I need is a couple of people to try it out with.

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