Scott Adams

Notes and Links for VA Elearning presentation

• Notes for blogging class
• Edtech 2.0
• Economist survey of New Media
  
• Educause article on Educational Blogging - Stephen Downes
• Blogging      in Education
• Blogs      for Learning: A Case Study
• Educational      Bloggers Network
• Blogging      and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of      Powerful New Web Tools for Educators

The disconnect between how students learn and how teachers teach is easy to understand when one considers that the current school system was designed for an agrarian and manufacturing world. However, the world has changed and continues to change in a fast-paced manner.

Today’s multitasking students are better equipped for this change than many adults. In fact researchers Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj refer to this disconnect as the result of poor communication between “digital natives,” today’s students, and “digital immigrants,” many adults.* These parents and educators, the digital immigrants, speak DSL, digital as a second language. Look at the problems caused by the differences between how digital students learn and how nondigital teachers teach.

The differences between digital native learners and digital immigrant teachers.

Digital Native Learners	Digital Immigrant Teachers
Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.	Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources.
Prefer parallel processing and multitasking.	Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking.
Prefer processing pictures, sounds, and video before text.	Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds, and video.
Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.	Prefer to provide information linearly, logically, and sequentially.
Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.	Prefer students to work independently rather than network and interact.
Prefer to learn “just-in-time.”	Prefer to teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the exam).
Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards.	Prefer deferred gratification and deferred rewards.
Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful, and fun.	Prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests.

Blogging and Librarians

This is the post for my presentation on August 1, 2005 for the Arkansas Association of School Librarians.

What is a weblog?

• “A weblog, or blog, is a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first (see temporal ordering). Typically, weblogs are published by individuals and their style is personal and informal. Weblogs first appeared in the mid-1990s, becoming popular as simple and free publishing tools became available towards the turn of the century. Since anybody with a net connection can publish their own weblog, there is great variety in the quality, content, and ambition of weblogs, and a weblog may have anywhere from a handful to tens of thousands of daily readers.”

What did the first weblog look like?

• The first weblog was the first website, http://info.cern.ch/, the site built by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. From this page TBL pointed to all the new sites as they came online. Luckily, the content of this site has been archived at the World Wide Web Consortium.
• The first use of the term weblog was in 1997.

What library resources are out there for bloggers?

• Blog/Bib

What can a librarian do with a blog?

• inform clients of changes, additions and news
• let clients comment on service
• Easy, Easy, Easy, Easy, Easy to publish

Advantages

• No need to download software (if you don't want to)
• Open source, open access feeling
• Interactive
• No Rules

Disadvantages

• Information Overload?!
• Have to continuously update them
• Takes time
• Crossposting
• Subjective
• Reliability of content

Growth

• Sep/Oct 2003 - 57 Library weblogs
• July 2004 - 198 Library weblogs

Professional Library weblogs

• Library stuff
• LIS News
• Resource Shelf
• The Shifted Librarian
• Librarian.net
• Tame the web

Libraries that are blogging

• Hennepin Co. Public Library, MN

 

What is an aggregator?

• Bloglines
• Newsgator
• Google's Personalized Home Page

Other library/blogging resources

How many types of weblog software are out there?

What is a podcast?

•   if time

 

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HSTI Acceptance 2005

I have been accepted to HSTI 2005. I am going to do an introductory session on blogging for Arkansas Educators.

Integrating Instructional Technology Using Taskstream

Arkansas ATE 2004 Fall Presentation
Ouachita Baptist University
September 24 2004
Arkadelphia AR

NCLB - AAIM Session - Charles Watson

Charles Watson
Session at AAIM 4.6.04

Not a new piece of legislation
Reauthorization of elementary/secondary funding act

Support for students
Title 1
Supplimental services
Privatizing education
External providers
For profit
Focused on improving student learning
Choice options
For schools that don't meet the standard
Safe and drug free schools
Title IV
Technology
Professional development
Materials
Equipment

Support for teachers
Professional development
Going to 60 hours of professional development
Suppliment versus supplant
Instructional materials
Materials supporting instruction
Better
Print
Electronic
Links to sip
Equipment
Links to improving school improvement

Schools
Additional funds
53 million
Instructional materials
Technology
Flexibility
High amount

Whats new
Flexibility
Accountability

NCLB At a glance
Title 1 Programs for disadvantaged children
Title 2 Teacher quality and technology
Formula graph
Discretionary grant program
Class size reduction
Supporting teachers for professional development
Half of the money from Title 2 down can be transferred
Title 3 ESL / English Language Learners
Title 4 Safe and Drug Free Schools
21st Century Grants / Afterschool grants / Before school grants
Title 5 Innovative Programs
Title 6 Rural Initatives and Flexibility

Accountability
Expanded assessment
Definition of Adequate Yearly Progress

NCLB = All children
Subgroups
Economically disadvantaged
Disabilities
English language learners
Ethnic groups
African americans
Hispanics
Caucasians

Comprehensive School Plan
One plan
Data driven
Annual application - amendments

Role of media specialists
Partner in school improvement
Professional development
Providers
Participants
Identification of research based materials and programs
Instructional partner

AAIM 2004 Presentation 2

Getting in the Flow with Taskstream

Presenter: Scott Adams

TaskStream’s web-based tools enable educators to design lessons and units, map and track standards, create rubrics, develop electronic portfolios, and compile and distribute shared curriculum resources. Come and see how you can incorporate these tools into your classroom.

Sunday 4.4.04 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Scott Adams
Crabaugh 104
Arkansas Tech University
Russellville AR 72801
[email protected]
479-968-0203

AAIM 2004 Presentation 1

Learning About Handhelds with Scott Adams

Presenter: Scott Adams

Do you have a handheld but never use it? Have you wondered what a handheld computer can do? Participants will get an understanding of the operation of the palmOne Operations System and basic functions of the palmOne handheld. We will learn about date book management and organization, phone books, to-do lists and notepads on handheld instructional technology.

Scott Adams
Curriculum & Instruction
School of Education
Arkansas Tech University
Russellville AR 72801
479-968-0203
[email protected]

Tuesday 4.6.04 9:30 am Salon A

Arkansas ASCD Presentation 2004

Invited Presentation

ARKANSAS ASCD
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
23rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON ASSESSMENT AND INSTRUCTION
JUNE 21st – 23rd, 2004

“Blazing Pathways Together”

Handheld Instructional Technology: Bring your Palms and your questions.

June 22 2003 - Presentation date
Participants will get an understanding of the operation of the palmOne Operating System and its basic functions. We will learn about date book management and organization, phone books, to-do lists and notepads on handheld instructional technology. Questions from audience members will be addressed about the future of assessment and instruction with handheld technology. Instructional Methods = Hands on

AECT/UNT Summer 04 Conference

I will be presenting at the AECT/UNT Summer 2004 Professional Development Conference.
The theme is 'Emerging Technologies and Theories for Teaching and Learning'
June 17th-19th, 2004 - Denton, Texas

One session will be:
Handheld Computers
- Scott Adams
If you have a Palm Handheld, but only put dates and phone numbers into it, you should come to this session. We will cover: How to link your Palm to Microsoft Office, How to use your Palm to play video and multimedia, internet connectivity and tests and the testing capacity of the Palm.

The other will be:
What to do with handheld computers.
- Scott Adams
Participants will get an understanding of the operation of the palmOne Operating System and its basic functions. We will learn about date book management and organization, phone books, to-do lists and notepads on handheld instructional technology.

AECT Proposal Accepted on Electronic Portfolios

My proposal for "Implementation of electronic portfolios with student interns" at the 2004 AECT conference has been accepted.
Theme 'All That Jazz'
AECT's Annual International ConventionChicago, Illinois October 20-24, 2004

This paper will describe the work that we are doing at Arkansas Tech implementing electronic portfolios for student teacher interns. We are working with a company called Taskstream. They have been very good to work with in terms of implementation.