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Discussion in Room: Action Research
Folder: This Week in Tapped In
Subject: [AR_Grp][BjB] This Week In Tapped In (October 16-22, 2011)
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This Week In Tapped In (October 16-22, 2011)
Sunday, October 16
Webheads in Action
8am EDT/5am PDT/12:00-14:00 GMT
The focus of Webheads in Action is on teacher professional development for teachers and teacher trainers and forming communities of practice with CMC tools.
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm Join Vance Stevens every Sunday in Reception at noon GMT (for two hours).
Learning Hub Tips & Tricks VFT of Tapped In
3pm EDT/12 noon PDT (1.5 hours)
Join Dianne Allen to learn how you can use TI as a hub for learning in your classroom and for your own professional development.
TI: Learning Hub is an extended Calendar Event series. The purpose of the series is: Using TI as a learning hub to build a professional learning community.
Participants will learn how to use the basic tools available in Tapped In. The Learning Hub Series will empower educators to be more flexible and knowledgeable in helping their students to be independent learners who use a variety of formats and resources to communicate ideas and construct learning.
Tuesday, October 18
Learning Hub Tips & Tricks VFT of Tapped In
5:30pm EDT/2:30pm PDT
Join one of the Tapped In HelpDesk volunteers to learn how you can use TI as a hub for learning in your classroom and for your own professional development.
TI: Learning Hub is an extended Calendar Event series. The purpose of the series is: Using TI as a learning hub to build a professional learning community.
Participants will learn how to use the basic tools available in Tapped In. The Learning Hub Series will empower educators to be more flexible and knowledgeable in helping their students to be independent learners who use a variety of formats and resources to communicate ideas and construct learning.
Math Transformers – MUSIC & Math
7pm EDT/4pm PDT/23:00 GMT
Tired of hearing how boring math is? Tired of teaching concepts and having the students complain about not understanding or ask when do we use it? Join Patricia Chen for the Math Transformers chat in October to get your middle school students moving to the beat of math.
Learning From Lyrics
9pm EDT, 6pm PDT//next day, 01:00 GMT
This media literacy curriculum involves the use of popular song lyrics as a flexible teaching tool to engage, motivate and inspire students, grades 5-12. Join John Chase in the Learning With Lyrics group room in October to learn about an interdisciplinary instructional strategy that is suitable for all students and is particularly useful and effective for at-risk and disengaged students who may be struggling with the new learning standards and standardized assessment.
http://www.learningfromlyrics.org/
Thursday, October 20
Action Research-Building Community
7pm EST/4pm PST/24:00GMT
Diane Painter offers an Action Research discussion about what action research is and how it differs from traditional ed research. The topic for October is building community.
Students in university/college classes who are engaging in action research are invited to join us here in TI’s Action Research room to share what we are doing. Please join us- and invite someone to join, too!
ISTE-MS – iPads and eBooks
8pm EDT/5pm PDT/
Dr. Lesley Farmer, facilitator of this discussion, coordinates the Library Media Teacher Services Credential Program at California State University. Join the ISTE Media Specialists SIG in the Cybrarians group room where we will look at the Join Lesley in the Cybrarians Group Room where we will look at the international aspects/factors of eBooks and iPads for the October discussion.
Saturday, October 22
K-12 Campus Tour and Classroom Support
2pm EDT/11am PDT/18:00 GMT
Second and Fourth Saturday
Join Jeff Cooper, one of the Tapped In HelpDesk volunteers, for K-12 Campus Tour and Classroom Support. Topics will include 1) Getting started with Tapped In Special Interest Groups or K-12 Student Groups and accounts, and 2) Questions and Answers regarding creating a K-12 Student Group or Tapped In Special Interest Group. Jeff will share ideas for getting your online classroom better equipped to work with students during the school year. These tours will start in the Reception room of Tapped In.
Learning Hub Tips & Tricks VFT – Extended Skills
7pm EDT/4pm PDT/23:00 GMT (1.5 hours)
Join one of the Tapped In HelpDesk volunteers to learn how you can use TI as a hub for learning in your classroom and for your own professional development.
TI: Learning Hub is an extended Calendar Event series. The purpose of the series is: Using TI as a learning hub to build a professional learning community.
Participants will learn how to use the extended skills/tools available in Tapped In. The Learning Hub Series will empower educators to be more flexible and knowledgeable in helping their students to be independent learners who use a variety of formats and resources to communicate ideas and construct learning.
Extended Capabilities
#Office and Group Room formation and outfitting capabilities
#Operating private messages
#Form a private office
#Own a group [this can be a K-12 Student Classroom]
#Post links in office or group room
#Writing notes for office or group room
#Starting a discussion in a group room
#Responding to a discussion in a group room
#Using the Whiteboard
#Featuring Notes, Links, Whiteboard, Passageways, etc
#Establish passageways from Learning Hub to office and/or group room and vice versa
Posted by BJ Berquist
bjb@tappedin.org
Notice of this session (in about two hours), just came through my inbox this afternoon from my subscription to the Tapped In “Online Teaching and Learning.”
