New Ed Tech Standards and Requirements

Take a few minutes to scan through the technology standards and requirements addressed in in the NETS*S, NETS*T, new Oregon Diploma and new Oregon Edu. Technology Standards (OETS).

• How might you explain the big picture to a fellow educator or parent what these standards are trying to accomplish?
  
• Describe some strategies you could implement at your grade level(s) and/or subject matter in order to accomplish this huge task. Please relate your strategies/activites to specific ed tech Standards.

Blogging in Education

• Start-up videos:
1. Blogging in Plain English (3 min)
2. Why let students Blog? (1 min. 50 sec)
3. Blogging for educators and students (3 min)
4. Creating your first Blog (2 minutes)

• Blogs and Blogging by Emerging Ed-Tech
• Why Should I Blog (by a Willamette MAT student)
  
  
• Blogging Demonstrations (teachers and students)
1. Blogging for Teachers & Students
   
2. Blog-ology (Post open ended questions. All kids Comment)
3. Ed-556: Instructor Blog and Student Blog
4. Dale (Freshman Science)
5. Fresh Start (alternative HS)
6. Janet's (4th grade) Powerpoint uploaded to Google Presentation (Nat'l Parks)

• Customizing Blogger Lesson/Tutorial
• Editing the Profile
• Inserting images, videos, docs, sheets, presentations and more.

Excel Tutorial: the basics

Spreadsheeting, Part 1:
Quick review for entering formulas and basic formatting.

• Note: To ENLARGE the following videos, simply hit the button in the bottom right corner (right of the Volume/Speaker button and looks like a target).

• Or, view it here. Or, view it on Youtube.

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Spreadsheeting, Part 2: 
Data Manipulation and Charting/Graphing.
(The last sentence ends abruptly at 5-minutes, so don't be concerned if it seems to be chopped off.)

• Link to above video (on Screenr), or view it on Youtube

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Spreadsheet, Part 3: 
Calculating the % of Increase (to measure improvement from Pre-Test to Post-Test). Piece of cake!

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Spreadsheeting Part 3: 
Embedding your Data and Chart into a Blog post.

• Or view it on Screenr;  or on Youtube

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1- Illustrations: Share and Publish as a web page

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2- Get a link to the published data -> select HTML to embed in a page

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3- Experiment with the frame width and height (as desired)

• The Default: width =500 may be too narrow. Try 800 or 900.
• The Default: height=300 may be to short. Try 700 or 800.
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NOTE 1: You don't have to publish All Sheets. In the above illustration, one could select the drop-down menu that says All-Sheets and select just the sheet they desire.


NOTE 2: If embedding in a Blog Post -> select the EditHTML tab to paste your embedded coding.


NOTE 3: one can edit the height="300" to a larger number to prevent vertical scrolling.

Google Form demonstration

Demonstration of Google Forms (one of the Google Docs options).
Type in some questions (T/F, Mult Choice, Short answer, Open ended, etc.)
Post Form in a Blog or web site or email to participants.

Students enter and submit their responses.
Google Sheets/Forms instantly updates to master data sheet, including tons of statistical analysis. One can post the results, also.

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Yodio - Strand1- Shift Happens

VoiceThread demo for fun with Acute Angles

Tech Literacy required for Students & Teachers

Following the short presentation on "The State of Oregon has a specific set of technology requirements for both students and teachers", briefly describe some strategies you could implement at your grade level(s) in order to accomplish this huge task. Suggestions include:

• Reivew slides #7 - #10 on the Redmond Presentation.
• One of the richest resources I've found is titled "Wonderful Web2.0 connection to NETS*S by COSN."