Debbie Diller- Title One Conference Kalahari

• Use kid's writing to see how they understand how words work. How they spell, lets you know what areas they need assistance with in terms of literacy and reading.
• For posting rules and modelling behavior and expections, create posters with the rules and pictures of the students DOING what the rules say. Example: what great independent reading looks like- have them model the behavior. Concentrating, looking at the book, using a book mark, etc. The mind thinks in pictures not in words
• The Power of Focus= How to hit your business, personal adn financial targets with absolute certainty. by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt. Recommended book
• Goals notebook-keep one
• Don't do for a child what they can do for themselves

Global Education perspective - IRA

900 Tuesday

Andrew Scleissinger OECD

Literacy is the currency of the 21st century

Literacy, like currency is subject to inflation (more and more is required)

The demand for skills is changing, schools must take a global perspective and learn from each other.

Global talent pool has changed with the flattening of the world.  The job goes to the most effective produce, no matter where they are at in the world.

The US started strong.  Did not get worse, but did not keep up pace with many other nations, the rate of change is not at pace with them.  The US is lagging severely.

Demand for skills have changed, types of skills used changed (Levy and Murnane), routine cognitive skills are most underthreat (middle class, white collar).  This is what most of our education and training is aimed at.  The nonroutine interactive skills are the ones that are now most dramatically necessary

OECD concept or literacy:  reading, analyze, compose, evaluate and think imaginatively (reading, math, science, etc).  

PISA- 3 year global assessment study, 90% of the world economy in included (very little of Africa), 

Literacy- Finland far on top (Japan and Canada also good overall).  US performance- large discrepancy.  Individual parent background and socioeconomic does not explain worldwide individual discrepancies.  Higher achieving countries moderate this socioeconomic difference so there is little discrepancy.  Virtually every school in Finland succeeds.

Countries have increase expenditures by 39% with little positive result.  Poland is an exception to this in reading and pulling up the struggling readers which also effectively pulled up the  better readers.  up 3/4 of a school year.

Reading scores at age 15% are predictive of future success.

HOw did the most successful systems get where they did?  (Finland, Japan, Canada)

• Sympathy does not raise standards, aspiration does
• high morale, highly qualified, high expectations, rigorous national standards, high level of support, access to best practice, getting right people to become teachers, quality professional development, incentives
• decision making- high school involvement in school decision making with strict national standards.  NOt prescriptive so much, school responsible for action, accountability and interaction
• CREATE A KNOWLEDGE RICH ENVIRONMENT (education environment tends to be knowledge poor).

One additional year of education for a nation is equivalent to a 3-6% increase in GDP.

PROGRESS FAIRNESS and VALUE FOR MONEY

IRA- Special Interest Group Session: Technology in Literacy

11:00 Tuesday

Join- SIG TILE:  green form, need IRA membership number

Read See hear connect create.  A universal design multimedia approach to building vocabulary.  Bridget Dalton, Vanderbilt University

• Academic language is key to achievement
• Vocabulary gap begins early.  Hart and Risley 1995
• Read wide, read deep
• ICON software program (project)
• Language alerts each day
• Must have language resources:  online dictionaries, thesaurus and encyclopedias. language translators like babelfish, voycabulary (makes words on webpages link to the definition)!, visualthesaurus (web of other words appear and then reconfigures as you click on other words), wikiwords (words in a map with visuals and animations), sound it (drag words to matching sounds), trackstar4teachers, action it (webcam with scratch MIT, utube), UDL Bookbuilder (create a book)

Mike Putman  Sounding out:  Using Podcasting in the classroom

• Ask a Ninja's definition askaninjabook.com
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Lightspeed Training, pm session

Stevens Point
Sleep Inn and Suites
American Drive

Update known program- can go to specific things like itunes to use but kill its applications (no store, no streaming) REports>Programs>Executed Known Program can click on them to limit specific access and control

Can limit how much CPU security agent scan can take. Security Agent>Security Agent Properties set can reduce this so it does nto take 100% CPU

Security Agent Property Set- local admin of the machine can modify security agent properties unless the Properties>Secutiry agent>default security agent property set> make sure to enable disallow security agent properties. Donm't make changes to the individual agent because it will stop taking updates.

Can shut things down. Security Agents>Network Domains>Lightspeed can go to computer and then can make changes and kill applications in use

Can change individual people's access by going to policies>policy management>tiered admin policies then go to policy assignments to assign, you can browse active directory then

Lightspeed Training-am session

databases>shared tables>content filter categoriesto see local block and local allow, other descriptions of categories. Must search for a specific site to see why it is blocked.

parked- pages without content on there

Students can currently change the names of sites they go to for the reports

New release- can have individual teachers and staff block and allow sites on specific computers

Desktop content filtering set to servers and other servers (basic CIPA compliance) Properties>Security Agent>Default properties set

content guide- reports on websites when they are off network- currently no charge, not necessarily in the future

Block non-Http is good for secured proxy sites. This will enable looking at the IP address and getting it to work. properties>content filter>default content filter category property set

Can't use the challenge request and the grey listing

Beysian aggression may be to high. 50 is most common, should not be above 65

Whitelist only whitelists for you, you have to go into the admin to do it for the whole network
Properties>spam mail blocker> whitelist you can add things there, senderemailaddress*cccp.com

Refreshing page- check your internet options, temp internet files, settings, make sure it is set to automatically, this is so you don't have to refresh the page in the reports session

Spam mail pattern- spam, virus, or ham (good mail), give it a name, can have it analyze the message itself or do one mannually, can do up to 4 conditions, can block external IPs to block from specific countries. This would be good to look into!

We have message journal to archive the emails

Reports> Message Journaling>Search MEssage Journal> they all have a doc id, once it is archived it cannot be deleted, stays in 7 years, space may be an issue. Go to proerties to see where it is stored. You can move directories to some other archive to deal with space issues. Find out if we are archiving attachemnts, a backup server needs to ba a lightspeed server with the client and SQL on it. Spam is not archived.

WEMA Session 3- The New Tools of School

John Pederson- The New Tools of School presentation
Currirulum and Technology Coordinator- taking over for David Jakes who is unable to be here
jpederson@cesa3.k12.wi.us
http://Pedersondesigns.com

RSS- Really Simple Syndication

1. Del.icio.us: social bookmarking
del.icio.us/pedersoj/wema07
Can subscribe to other people's del.icio.us accounts
huskycloud.com- creating clouds

2. Flickr: sharing and saving digital photos and content
Creative Commons- alternative to full copyright. (attribution, noncommercial, no derivative, share alike) basic tenets. The people have indicated the level of their own photos.
Dumpr- can black and white them and make them as a coloring book! Makes great presents for kids. bighugelabs.com are ways to edit your photos. Zazzle- another Flickr link. pick a picture, order prints, then zazzle. You can then get it printed on a real US photostamp. This is an actual working stamp. They have some other really cool options as well. The interestingness.

3. tumblr. : blogging platform to use
class blogmeister- David Warlick
edublogs
eduspaces.net- kind of like myspace for education. They will give you the software for free to load on your own server.
yackpack- voice messaging software

4. wikispaces:
Wolrd is flat project on Vicky Davis' blog

WEMA Session 2 Podcasting

http://www.tylerschroeder.net/keith/

Keith Schroeder- Podcasting in the Library

Exemplary podcasts-
1. Willow Web
2. Bob Sprangle Resources, esp Room 208
3. EPN- Educational Podcast Network
4. Mr. Mayo Podcasts -has some great songs for learning

Internet safety is a huge concern for students. Should get the school on the same page. isafe is a good free curriculum. Netsmartz and cybersmart. His district is focusing on different dates for it next year. Needs to be a whole curriculum.

Need to spend time on copyright and appropriate usage for kids. EFF: Bloggers and Intellectual Property
Medford Copyright kiosk

Equipment needed:
1. good microphone- USB microphone is good, can have more than one microphone if you get an inexpensive mixingboard.
2. Microphone filter (some free on the Internet) can put a nylon over a net in front of the microphone.
3. Editing Software
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Garageband- better software, but is Mac based
4. Music www.music.podshow.com podsafe music network, can use it specifically for podcasts, listed by genre and is copyright free to use
5. Recordable MP3Player/Digital Voice Recorder
6. RSS feed- RSS feedburner to push the information out the subscribers.
Don't have to go out to the webpages. RSS feed turns in the assignments to you. Works iwth blogs and podcasting. They don't have to turn anything in then, teacher goes out to access it.

TeacherTube- educational videos and also reviewed

How do we make a podcast?
-room 208 has a kids talking about how to make a podcast.
- use the music people for sound resources because they know

Need to then convert the file to mp3. This is important. Audacity will do this. It is the one he prefers.





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