Talked about how another project compared 2000 election data and 2004 data…students assume the role of a political consultant and draw conclusions
Students generally use the java application Thevirginiaexperiment.comhttp://www.virginiaexperiment.com/ website
Virginia Open Education Foundation
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Virginia Open Education Foundation
Mark Burnett
Many laws that inhibit the introduction of open …
Virginia Open Education Foundation
Mark Burnett
Many laws that inhibit the introduction of open source textbooks
Looking where a locality could produce locally
Provides flexibility
Can then customize textbooks around your instruction
http://jcotsopeneducation.blogspot.com
May get a change iin the definition of what is a textbook
Workbooks and CDs would be more than supplements
What can do?
Promote the creation open resources - 21st century concept
Awareness of the Creative Commons license
Support efforts to expand the definistions of textbooks
Promote the state of shareable resources
http://voef.org
"eletronic" books from publishers are nothing more than a pdf of the textbook…interactivity is lost
SOL questions are owned by Pearson not by the state..
Can only get them on paper
Bad Blog
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Bad Blog
Suffolk Schools
Staff blogs
Three areas of concern
Risk - afraid of what people say
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Bad Blog
Suffolk Schools
Staff blogs
Three areas of concern
Risk - afraid of what people say
Easty to use and cheap to manage
Productivity _people wasting time
Safety and controls
We don't see the instructional value
Need to develop a clear instructional focus
Foundational policies and behavior
Safe practices for students
Bobbie eisenstocks's rules of the road
AUP in place - special permission
Have a bullet in the AUP regarding when you blog you speak for the district
Infrastructure and system config
Wordpress
Run on a linux server and Apache and SQL and PHP
Simple to install
No unauthorized blogs
Tie blog to staff accounts with active directory
Plugin that points to active directory
Active staff members have blogs
No web warehouses
Set allowed file-types and 50 MB quotas
Currently, biggest blogs have some videos, etc. - 16 mb
Quota is only for files other than the text part of the blog
Blog owner's manual - setup
Emphasizes a professional presence
Reviewed themes for appropriateness
Some themes required linking back to the creator's site…took some of those off
Need to screen the themes
Enable commnet moderation
Anon or not?
All comments require approval
Early Apdopters established techniques
ITRTs develop welcome workshops
Posting Do's and don’t's
Clearly identify yourself
No numbers
Student information
No promotional endorsements
Professional rapport
Invisibility of sarcasm
Discomfort of familiarity
Monitor
Developed stie-wide RSS feeds
Is a plug-in that provides the ability for system monitoring of the blog entries
http://blogs.spsk12.net
Presentation handouts are on Chris's site
Chris Blaug
Technology Advances in Distance Education
Tandberg
Check the Connections Program from the brochure or site
Media Plus cart….can it be the DL network equipment??
Where industry is going
Have a grants program
Part of a blended technology approach
From DL classes, to accessing content providers (experts), to collaborative student projects, to content creation in the classroom
Tandberg site looks like it has a search feature for sites
Tandberg/CILC
Collaboration resources
Connections Program
20 programs per month are put out there by Tandberg
Not designed to build a course around, but are available
Looking to have a satellite arrangement
Everything is moving to IP
Convergence of voice, data, and video
Network stability has improved as well as tools to traverse firewalls
Doing high definition
But takes a lot of bandwidth
Connected with a Pelentolgy Museum in Canada - Drumheller, Alberta
Various programs available
Programs are about 45 minutes in length
$125 Canadian charge, max of 35 students
www.tyrriellmuseum.com
Can also find them on the CILC site
Connected to small school district in Oklahoma
How School District - 480 students K-12
Look for content providers that align with their state tests
Tnadberg T4 Training
Building a Geospatial Partnership -Using GIS to Support Historical Thinking
Charlottesville Schools
"The Virginia Experiment" TAH Grant
Grant to work with teachers to incorporate GIS in history
Went through an activity about VA counties
Can use as a jumping off point to talk about VA history
Uses ArcGIS for the project
Used ArcGIS to demo in this session
Used ArcGis to show how Virginia counties, etc. developed
When shown over time see that counties started large, sub-divided as population grew (example of how large Augusta county was)
Created a dataset of how counties were named -- who named after --- shows what was important in VA at the time the counties were created
Showed the distribution of slaves in 1860
Students see patterns based upon the thematic maps created
Teaching American History Grant
One third of a million dollar grant is being spend creating the dataset
Not many for historical data
Is a dataset of Virginia county boundaries from the Chicago library
Entered much of the data they use iwas created by them and entered manually
Have 10 teachers are in the program
Doint historical research and creating data
Will have about 10 projects ready to use out of the box
The Virgnia Experiment
Speaker series
Summer filed experione
Teachn fellows
Use GIS in the american history classroom
Deals with spatial intelligen e
Develops it
Benefits
Students see the link between history and geography
Fun visual interactive way to engage students in geography
Allos students to see how geography affects polictics and economics
Example --- took Ohio river and then started laying in cities according to timeline
Need to provide ongoing training for this type of program to be effective
Students interact with maps
Maps tailored to SOLs
Rivers
Gegraphic regions
Smart board enhances GIS
Students "see" the SOLs
Some of the spatial themes working on
Slavery and civil war
Regiosn, waterways, and settlement patterns
Today reflects yesterday: virginia counties
Constitutional convention and sectionalism
Civil war
Underground railroad
Civil rights
Challenges
Rpviding technical support and having GIS installed in all the schools
Historical gis data - can't create it fast enough
Having students use gis as an analysis tool, and instructional/visualization tool
Standards based curriculum
Time!!! Teachers have a hard time justifying the time needed when they look at their pacing guides
Showed a demo of one with westward expansion
Students can see why cities developed where they did over time
Students could see that the Ohio River really was the gateway to the west
Talked about how another project compared 2000 election data and 2004 data…students assume the role of a political consultant and draw conclusions
Students generally use the java application
Thevirginiaexperiment.com website
