Teachers Teaching Teachers 05.16.07

New York City Writing Project Teachers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2007-05-15T13:12:20.623Z

This photo of a map has notes. Click on the link above, then move your mouse over the photo in Flickr to see the links.

This is a map of the area around the Coalition school where we met on Thursdays in 2005 - 2006. We asked teachers in a New York City Writing Project study group, "Tech Thursdays" to add their memories to this map.

Tools for tonight's show: Yugma, Skypecast +99001110012546850, TeachersTeachi...

2007-05-15T12:34:28.248Z

Tools for tonight's show: Yugma, Skypecast +99001110012546850, TeachersTeachingTeachers.org, EdTechTalk.com

Mapping :: Weblog :: Quickmaps

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August 04, 2006

Paul Allison @ Mapping

Quickmaps

Here's an example of Quickmaps. We need to test how easy it is to post on a quickmap like this collaboratively, but so far I'm liking this mashup best.

What I can imgine is that students could create tours of different places in their hometowns (not where they live). Jon Udell's work like this has been a model for Susan Ettenheim and me in thinking about such projects.

Keywords: google maps, mapping, mashups, projects, quickmaps

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Hi Paul,
I love Quickmaps. I created a quick tour of my town and it was great. I look forward to watching this project grow.
Cheers.
- Alex

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alex ragone on Friday, 4 August 2006, 20:18 UTC #
Good idea Paul. Would you start a Quickmap for us to test? I like that we can have the students expand on the map with videos and photos or audio as they become familiar with using the tools. Telling stories like Jon Udell did would make it so easy to bring in the interest of parents and communities as the kids tell their hometown stories.
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Lee Baber on Saturday, 5 August 2006, 03:13 UTC #

Lee Barber's Reflections on using Google Maps Mapping online as an aid to ou...

2007-05-16T10:38:50.545Z

Lee Barber's Reflections on using Google Maps

Mapping online as an aid to our collaborative projects IS a good idea. Having students link back and forth from the maps to their writing space (in this case our Personal Learning Space) is no problem. The problem lies in the teachers finding enough teaching time to make that connection come to life and be a vivid part of our learning environments. Having automatic connections made for us would be the answer to this problem. Anything that takes time or bandwidth to travel back and forth will inevitably become a bit of a burden.

Ways I am using maps now are with a pushpin like you might use to mark a map on a wall with a flag so students can show others the places that are special to each them. This is a nicer way to introduce themselves than the usual "Hi, my name is Jane. What's your favorite color?". They can put videos, photographs, and other media on their pushpin flag and a story with a link back to their blogs.

Ways I would like to start using maps is to show a route from one place to another with a story. Summer vacations, Christmas stories, or local area folk stories as told by student's family members, neighbors and communities. Also as a timeline for students to learn history. For example I could have a group show where the Abacus was invented and have them show the progression of the computer's history like a route through time only it will be on a map with a picture or video explaining the details. Each group can then share that story live for us or record the "trip" to share as a video or audio on the map.

I suppose the more I think about this subject, the more I can imagine things to do with mapping software! The strength will lie in the use of writing along with using the software. Crossing curriculum lines with core subjects and the ability to share the results instantly online with the other teachers on my team will be part of my plans for next year. Now, I have to ask the question once again. What is the best application to use? We used CommunityWalks last year and I thank the developer of that software for his time spent working to make it better for educational purposes. As always, I think it is time to look at all the options again. Learning to use each available app will help us reassess those options. ~Lee Baber

Susan Ettenheim's class 902 responds to the 1995 Transit Strike in NYC - Phot...

2007-05-16T18:02:13.447Z

This photo of a map has notes. Click on the link above, then move the mouse over the photo in Flicker to see these links.

How did a place on this map change for you this week because of the NYC Trasit strike in December 1995?

Chris Sloan's Examples Here's a couple of Google Earth maps Chris Sloan has ...

2007-05-15T15:37:41.015Z

Chris Sloan's Examples

Here's a couple of Google Earth maps Chris Sloan has done that could work in most classrooms. The main one on the page, My Personal History Tour, could work as a memoir writing sequence in any classroom. In the links tab on the right, there's a map Chris Sloan made to accompany his students' reading of Down the River by Edward Abbey. This could work for any lesson where the geography of a work being studied is better understood by seeing its place in the world.

Paul Allison at ESCHS, NYC :: Weblog :: Where I love to run

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This is an example of a personal use of Google Maps. I wonder how much is gained with a collaborative map.

Youth Voices

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Entry Points - Our bloggers' special places

There are hundreds of markers on this map. The different colors represent the different schools attended by the Youth Voices bloggers.

Find Markers Near a School:
Baccalaureate School for Global Education (BSGE), NYC (Brown)
East Side Community High School (ESCHS), NYC (Green)
Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS), NYC (Blue)
J. Frank Hillyard Middle School (JFH), Shenandoah Valley, VA (Yellow)
Judge Memorial High School (JM or JMHS), Salt Lake City, UT (Red)

Left-click anywhere on the map to zoom in. Right-click to zoom out. Use links under the titles to find each student's profile and personal blog.

http://www.communitywalk.com/entrypoints

Teachers Teaching Teachers » Blog Archive » A Teacher Considers Jumping into ...

2007-05-15T16:50:39.431Z

A Teacher Considers Jumping into the Elgg

Posted by Paul Allison on September 21st, 2006

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Listen to the podcast of our visit with Kevin Hodgson, a sixth grade teacher and Writing Project Tech Liaison in Western Massachusetts. He is considering joining the middle school student elgg at personallearningspace.com. Susan Ettenheim (who webcast this show with her usual tact and ability, and edited it) and Paul Allison talk their early work the new elgg for high school students at youthvoices.net. We talked about all of this with another elementary school teacher, Teb Locke, who has some pretty exciting ideas for his Neighborhood School students. Somewhere in here you’ll hear Paul talking about an article he sent to his principal that argued for CEO’s to be bloggers. This is what Paul wrote to Mark Federman, his principal this summer in an email titled “Ready to blog?”

Here’s an article about C.E.O’s that I thought would be of interest to you. All you have to do is replace “Capital markets” with “Schools” and “C.E.O’s” with “Principals.” All the Internet’s a Stage. Why Don’t C.E.O.’s Use It? by Randall Stross (NY Times, Published July 30, 2006).

About a month ago David Warlick asked for some examples of elggs, and Dave Cormier and others had some quick answers then. We think that our students’ work at youthvoices.net is beginning to add to this discourse (personallearningspace.com too, but that’s a closed site).

Finally, we did talk about a map project that many of the students in these elggs will be doing. Follow our progress at Personal Learning Map: Entry Points.

Join us in all these discussions by commenting here.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 21st, 2006 at 6:50 am and is filed under Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Technology Plans, Thomas (Teb) Locke, Blogging, Podcasting, Community, David Cormier, elgg, David Warlick, mapping, google maps, collaboration, Kevin Hodgson. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “A Teacher Considers Jumping into the Elgg”

Kevin’s Meandering Mind » Considering Elgg Says:
September 24th, 2006 at 5:37 am
[…] Lasst week, I joined an online conversation with folks through Teachers Teaching Teachers that explores the convergence of technology and teaching in its many varied forms. I have been curious about the concept of Elgg communities and jumped into the conversation with some questions (for my own benefit and for my wife, who is a high school teacher). As far as I can tell, Elgg offers the possibility of a safe online community that links members together through shared interested and through related “tags” that they create in their profile. It mirrors Facebook and MySpace, but without the advertising and mess of those sites. Dave Tosh provides a good overview of Elgg at his site. You can listen to the podcast of that conference through the Teachers Teaching Teachers site. Or you can find that link here: Listen to the podcast […]
A.R. Linder Says:
September 26th, 2006 at 12:27 am
All the Internet’s a Stage and I’m a parent with a great song and dance routine when it comes to my child’s education. I’ve had a really successful run on Broadway! Please see my show at http://youthplay-org.blogspot.com. The tickets are free!

Personal Learning Maps - Entry Points - CommunityWalk

2007-05-15T16:34:09.961Z