A workshop by Wesley Fryer. Content licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution: 3.0) License (US).

Our schedule on 18 January 2010 in Frontier PS, Oklahoma:

8:30 am - 10:00 am  Grades PK - 4 Certified Staff  (17 people)
10:00 - 11:30 am   Grades 9-12 Certified Staff  (14 people)
11:30 - 12:00  Lunch
12:00 - 1:30   Grades 5-8  Certified Staff  (12 people)

Overview

The term "quick victories" is one I've heard Marco Torres use to describe things teachers can readily learn and immediately apply in their classrooms to support student learning. The goal of this presentation and workshop is to share a variety of "quick victories" for secondary as well as elementary teachers in 1:1 classrooms. All the ideas and resources shared in this presentation are FREE to use.

Framework

This presentation is based on the "Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning" framework by Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer. This is currently available in draft form as an eBook, and is being utilized in Spring 2010 in the "Technology 4 Teachers" course at the University of Central Oklahoma. The PI framework uses the following four stages for technology integration by educators:

1. Awareness
2. Personal Use
3. Educational Replication (Professional Use: Copy an existing learning recipe)
4. Educational Invention (Professional Use: Invent a new learning recipe)

Today we will focus on the AWARENESS stage or level.

Why should we do any of this?

1. Increase student engagement by increasing motivation and time-on-task
2. Increase parent involvement in their child's education
3. Provide differentiated ways for students to access/learn content and demonstrate their mastery of content and skills.
   

10 Quick Victories for 1:1 Settings

1. Quickly direct students to a website

• URL shorteners: TinyURL, Bit.ly
• ShareTabs (Examples: My links for the Calgary Science School on 3 Dec 2009, Carolyn Thompson's links from her "Models of Contemporary Learning" presentation at the Oklahoma 1:1 Conference on 30 Nov 2009.
• Contxts (wfryer example)
• Create and maintain your own classroom learning portal
• Example: Room 9 Nelson's Central's Learning Hub (by Rachel Boyd)
• Example: Flat Classroom Project from 2007
• Free sites: Google Sites, WikiSpaces for Educators, PBworks for your Classroom
  

2. Access and Use Videos Created by Oklahoma Teachers and Students

• Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Videos (541 available as of 17 Jan 2010)
  

3. Create and Share an Interactive Poll

• PollEverywhere
• Google Forms
• Google Moderator
  
• Create a Wordle word cloud with some of your results!

4. Record and Share Audio Online

• Phonecast
• Drop.io Phonecast (Example: wesfryer)
  

5. Find Copyright-Friendly Images to use in Student Projects

• Tell a Story in 5 Pictures for Educators (Examples: Great Pumpkin, It's a Dog's Life, Getting a New Haircut, From Deer Leg to Hook
  
• Compfight
• Flickr Storm
• More from Celebrate Oklahoma Voices
  

6. Integrate Geographic Literacy

• Google Lit Trips
• Geo-Education Resources from Google
  

7. Streamline Bibliographic Citations