Creating+a+New+Culture

__**Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning**__

A powerful new culture of empowered teaching and fearless learning is emerging. Access to more timely information and communication tools can empower educators to focus on the individual learning needs of their students. These same tools can lead to more collegiality, build stronger community relationships and empower students to be more self-directed.

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**http://tinyurl.com/millville**

How would using Polls such as this be helpful to building inquisitive learners in the classroom?


 * What is the unit, lesson, skill you want to teach? Don't start with the tool! **

Remember Student Motivators and life skills:
 * 1) Giving choice
 * 2) Having purpose
 * 3) Remembering one's audience

Keys: Student-centered, Facilitating not controlling, collaboration

**The Digital Farm**
 * Article by Alan November
 * Jennifer Beine's Wiki - Digital Farm

__ Assignment Creation & Digital Storytelling Presentation Tools __
[|Glogster EDU] [|Prezi] [|VoiceThread]  - [|Great Sample] by a 5th grade class OR this one created by a student all about [|Global Warming] [|Animoto] [|Xtranormal for educators] [|Photopeach] THERE are many others and they change all the time. Do not ask children to "make a Glogster". Allow them the choice in selecting their tool for presentation even if it's a poster board. Your rubric is their guide.

Pics you can use in projects

 * [|Pics 4 Learning]**
 * [|Flickr pics under a creative commons license]**

**Rubrics**

[|Kathy Shrock's Guide for Rubrics]- Most are teacher made <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|RCampus] - Create rubrics and search through hundreds already made. Easy to post to your website too. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|Recipes4Success] - Create your own Rubrics and then edit with standard suggestions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">~Create these as a whole class with your kids on the Smartboard

__Other Web 2.0 Tools__
[|Quizlet] - Terrific for making quizzes and practicing vocabulary [|Study Stack] - Another Vocabulary tool [|Spelling City] - You can create an account, set up your spelling units, and then have the kids take quizzes and play games ~Any of the above three could be created by a student for extra credit or you could just have it be a job for every unit

[|Polleverywhere] - Terrific for gathering questions on an assignment or engaging students in a thoughtful discussion [|ietherpad] - Interactive, synchronous tool for collaboration [|Wallwisher] - Like an online bulletin board for ideas [|KidBlog] - You can set it so kids' comments are immediately up without your moderating their comments first. Just make it private.

[|Skype a Teacher] - Check out this great list of other teachers who will Skype with you - Check out the Directory and then the comments at the bottom. Think school to school debate!

[|Skype an Author]- Reach out to book authors