Cross posted from: Tech @ HKIS

Thanks for Reading:
From the 14th 8 high school teachers and a few upper primary teachers arrived in Shanghai for the Learning 2.0 conference.
It was a fantastic experience for all those that attended, with lots of inspiration from leading educational technology thinkers as well as tons of practical ideas and tools that any teacher can start using right now. All of us found something useful and presented what we are going to use in our classrooms when we got back from Shanghai - pasted below is a summary with links. This is also available as a PowerPoint
All of the notes from the conference as well as an ongoing discussion are available. Please join the conversation!
What was it?

  • Organized by local schools
  • Hosted at Concordia
  • Excellent line up of speakers
  • A non-paper conference
  • Using the tools
    • Twitter
    • Ning – Social Notetaking
Big Themes
  • It is about Learning not Schooling
  • Teachers need to model and lead in their use of Web 2.0 tools for learning.

Students need to:

  • Deal with massive amount of information and reveal underlying patters
  • Possess global communication skills
  • Be self-directed; life-long learners (students should and can organize THEIR personal learning environment)
  • Have both their left and right brain engaged
Justin

  • Ongoing work with Concordia (myConcordia)
  • Collaboration Wiki (coming soon!)
  • Blogging (this blog!)
Ian

What is a RSS?
An RSS document, which is called a “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”, contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that’s easier than checking them manually.
What is a Blog?
a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.


  • How to Start a Film Festival at YOUR School – Richard Friedericks (Presentation)
  • HKIS sponsored online film festival
  • Started a blog
  • Promoting wiki program for writing – Broadcast Journalism, Film, Advanced Video Production:
  • Use del.icio.us for social bookmarking (tags)
What is a Wiki?
online collaboration model and tool that allows any user to edit some content of webpages through a simple browser.

Ana

  • Skype for language learning - building global connections
Rob Ferrin (Bodhi Shepherd)

What is Second Life?
user-defined world of general use in which people can interact, play, do business, and otherwise communicate
What isn’t Second Life?

Linda and Shumin

What is a Podcast?
a digital media file, or a series of such files, that
is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds
What is Voicethread?

picture/audio presentations can be commented upon via voice or written messages to the creator. So it is a powerful tool for languages