Technology in the

Classroom – Publish to
the World!

CASAS Summer Institute

June 23, 2009
Marian Thacher & Branka Marceta,
OTAN
mthacher@otan.us
bmarceta@otan.us
 Agenda
• Technology in Adult Ed Legislation
• Technology in the Future
• Mobile Instruction
• eWhiteboard
• Student Response Systems
• Document Camera
• Moodle
• Audio
• Video
• Blogs
• Wikis 2
 Your Role

• Teachers, Coordinators, Administrators?

• Not from California?
• Never heard of OTAN?
• Program area – ESL, ABE/ASE,
Corrections, Other?
• How many years in adult education?
• Came to this session last year?
• What are you hoping to get from this
workshop?
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 What is OTAN?
• Outreach and Technical Assistance
Network
• One of 4 adult education leadership
projects in California
• Providing electronic collaboration,
access to information, and technical
assistance to literacy and adult
education providers in California
• www.otan.us

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 Resources on OTAN
• Technology Planning
• Resources for Teachers
• Lesson Plan Builder
• Students Succeed Project
• PD Calendar
• TIMAC
• Online Document Collection
• Program directory, member directory
• Laws and Legislation
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 New Legislation,
Obama, and You!
• We will have new defining legislation
• There will be more emphasis on
technology
– For the classroom
– For delivery of instruction
– For program administration and
marketing
• Why?

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Workforce Investment
Act - Reauthorization

• WIA – waiting for reauthorization

• New Bill – Adult Education and
Economic Growth Act
• Currently being worked on in the
Senate
• Will determine shape and activities of
adult education
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Adult Education and
Economic Growth Act
• Requires the state adult education
plan to include “a description of
how the State will use
technology to expand access to
and improve the quality of adult
education, literacy, and workplace
skills services;”

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 Nat’l Institute for
Adult Ed, Literacy, and
Workplace Skills
• Describes one purpose of the
Institute as “providing national
leadership on the use of
technology for adult
education;”

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National Leadership
Activities
• One goal is to provide
“assistance in distance
learning and promoting and
improving the use of
technology in the
classroom.”
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Title III – 21 Century
st

Technology and Skills

for Adult Learners

• To expand access through

technology
• Provide PD re using technology
• Develop a modern delivery system
• Help adult learners get tech
literate
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Technology Literacy
• “The knowledge and skills in
using contemporary information,
communication and learning
technologies in a manner
necessary for successful lifelong
learning and citizenship in the
knowledge-based, digital, and
global 21st Century…”
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 Proposed Funding
• $250 million
• $7.5 million for National Tech Center
• $50 million for state level activities
• $187 million for local agency
activities – distributed through grants

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 Why is Technology
Important?
“Technology should be
used in all its forms to
make learning a
continuous process of
inquiry and
improvement that keeps
pace with the speed of
change in business and
society.”
p.24
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Where are we going??
• Web 2.0 is a
publishing
revolution

• A tidal wave of
information

• Everything is
becoming
participative
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Where are we going??
• We are pro-sumers

• The age of the

collaborator

• Social learning
moves to center
stage
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 More Thoughts from
Steve
• From consuming to producing
• From authority to transparency
• From the expert to the facilitator
• From the lecture to the hallway
• From "access to information" to "access to
people“
• From "learning about" to "learning to be“
• From passive to passionate learning
• From presentation to participation
• From publication to conversation
• From formal schooling to lifelong learning 20
 Horizon Report
• 1 Yr or Less
– Collaborative Environment
– Online Communication Tools
• 2 to 3 Years
– Mobile Devices
– Cloud Computing
• 4 to 5 Years
– Smart Objects
– The Personal Web

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf 21
Pick One!
 Horizon Report
• Significant challenges
– Need instruction on info lit,
visual lit, tech lit
– Students are different, but
curriculum is not
– Formal assessment strategies don’t
match needed learning
– Available data outstrips our ability
to manage it
– Delivery of content to mobile
devices
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Mobile Devices -
mLearning
Cell Phones for Adult
Learning?
• Basic features of the mobile phone
– Texting
– Photos
– Video
– Audio
– Calculator
– Calendar
– Browser
– GPS
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 Texting
• Question of the Day
– Are you practicing English?
– Did you complete the math homework?
– Please bring your math homework to class
tomorrow
– What does Information Literacy mean?
– How many centimeters are there in one
meter?
– Did you watch 60 Minutes last night? Text
me one thing you learned.
– ??? 26
 Text Me!

• What does
Information
Literacy mean?

• 619-787-7265

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 Photos
• Ask students to take a photo with
their phone (my best friend, my pet,
a flower, my street, a resource in my
neighborhood), and write a
description
• Send the photo to an album on
Photobucket, or to a Flickr or Picasa
account
• Ask students to visit the album and
write comments on each other’s
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 Flickr
• Create a Flickr account
• Go to
http://www.flickr.com/tools/mobile/
to get your unique email address
• Take a picture
• Send it to your unique email
• View photo online!

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 Using
Photobucket.com
• Requirements
– Cell phone with camera
– Send email from cell phone
• Take a picture and send it to
sgaer.76770@uploads.photobucket.com
• Go to photobucket.com online
• Log in – sgaer and 123456
• Edit and save your photo

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 Posting Audio Files
• GabCast
• Drop.io
• More later

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Interactive White
Boards
 What is it?
• A whiteboard that acts like your monitor
• You can click and double-click on the
whiteboard
• You can write notes on PowerPoint
slides or other documents and save
them
• You can take notes like on a flip chart
• Move pages around
• Convert handwriting to text
• Move words around 33
How many using them in
CA?

Number of agencies reporting the

use of electronic whiteboards, out of
approx. 185 34
What about you?
eWhiteboard in
Corrections

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eWhiteboard in
Corrections

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eWhiteboard in
Corrections

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eBoard in the ABE
Classroom

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 Internet for Whole
Group
• Project Internet sites such as
pictures or pronunciation

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 Software for Whole
Group
• Project instructional software and let
students work from board

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 Dragging Words or
Objects
Students can manipulate text and
objects with one finger

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 How Much?
• Promethean - $2500 - $4500
• Smart - $1,000 - $10,000

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 Some Web Sites
• More videos of ESL class
– www.otan.us/
– Ed Tech & Media > Video Gallery
• Videos of what you can do with an
interactive whiteboard
– http://www.smarttech.com/products/smartbo
– http://www.prometheanworld.com/server.php

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Talk to your partners
• Name 3 things you
can do with an
electronic
whiteboard that you
can’t do with a
regular one.

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Document Camera

• Contains a camera
• Show a workbook
page, medicine
label, or piece of
fruit
• No more
transparencies

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What can you do with
it?

• With a worksheet
• Showing an object
• Zooming in

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What can you do with
it?

• Project any page

or picture
• Students describe
or tell a story

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What can you do with
it?

• Only have to make

materials once
• Strip stories
• Matching activity

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 Document Camera
• What’s the difference
between a document
camera and an
overhead projector?
• Why use a document
camera?
• What lesson would you
like to have a
document camera for?
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Student Response
Systems
 What are they?
• A tool for instant formative
assessment
• A way to get feedback on the class
• Can save and export data
• A variety of question types – T/F,
Multiple Choice, Short Answer

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 What is the cost?
• Qwizdom – only works within
Powerpoint and other slide programs
- $1250
• ActiveExpression from Promethean -
$2500

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 More Info
• Description of clickers and how to
use them

http://dmc.umn.edu/technologies/srs.shtm
• 7 Things You Should Know About
Clickers -
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7
• More articles -
http://timac.wikispaces.com/Clickers

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BREAK
 How has the Web
changed in the last 5
years?
• Easy to create a Web site
• Anyone can have a blog
• Comment on each other’s blog
posts, photos, videos, bookmarks
• “Watch” what other people are doing,
thinking, reading, talking about
• Your network now includes
“strangers”! (and strangers are not
so strange)
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Audio
Online
 Podcasts

• Audio files posted on the Internet

• One can subscribe and listen on
personal device
• Examples of
Adult Ed
Podcasts (link)
• Your favorite Web
site (ex. NPR.com)

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 VoiceThread
• OTAN’s Web-based Activities (link)
• group
conversations
are collected
and shared in
one place
from
anywhere in
the world
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 Audio drop box by
CLEAR
• Michigan State University, Center for
Language Education and Research
• Rich Internet Application Software (link)

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 Drop.io
• Electronic drop-box
• Phone in, leave a message
• Converted to
an .mp3 file
you can
rename and
download

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Video
Online
YouTube for Education
• Teachertube, youtube, schooltube,
etc.

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 Streaming Video for
Education
• Need fast Internet Connection
• Numerous video services applicable
to education

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 OTAN Video Gallery
• Technology Integration
• Students Succeed Stories
• History of
California
Adult Ed

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Moodle
 What is Possible in
Moodle?

• Documents
• Slides
• Links to media
• Discussions
• Quizzes
• Examples
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 What is Moodle?

• Course management system

• Open source – free to download
• Some support issues
• Programmers are always developing
new “modules”

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 What Does OTAN
Offer?
• Get your own Moodle course shell
• Get trained – online or face-to-face
• Up to 2 active courses
• Up to 25 tech support calls for free
• Can request customized school
Moodle site
• More than 2 courses – need service
agreement

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Blogs
What’s your
experience
with blogs?
Blogs in the Classroom
• How
– Writing assignments
– Journaling
– Comment on each other’s blogs
• Why
– Publish
– Share
– Get feedback

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 Where to find
examples
• Webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com
• Overview and articles about blogs
• Teacher blogs and student blogs
• Examples from different program
areas

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 Free Blog Sites
• Edublogs (Word Press)
– http://edublogs.org/
• Blogger
– http://www.blogger.com/
• 21 Classes
– http://www.21classes.com/
• LiveJournal
– http://www.livejournal.com/

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Wikis
Wikis in the Classroom
• Use for collaborative projects
• Can collaborate across distance
• Can add graphics, slide shows,
videos, widgets
• Easy to add and link pages
• Can give each student a page, or
pages

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 Blogs vs Wikis
• Usually a single • Usually many
author authors
• Reverse • Stucture
chronological determined by
structure content
• Usually personal • Usually objective
• External links • Internal & external
• Compose online links
• Compose online

Courtesy of Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University 77

 Wikis

• Editable Web pages

• Wikipedia
– http://www.wikipedia.org/

• Adult Literacy Education

– http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page

• More examples
– http://webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com/Wikis

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 Social
Networking
 What is a Social
Networking Site?

• A Web site that

allows users to
connect,
communicate
and/or share
information with
each other
By Moonjazz,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonjazz/651498439/

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 Examples of Social
Networking
• Blogs, Vlogs, Miniblogs, Microblogs
• Del.icio.us, Magnolia, Diigo
• Facebook, MySpace
• Yahoo Groups, Ning
• Flickr, YouTube, TeacherTube
• RSS, Google Reader
• LibraryThing, Shelfari
• FriendFeed, SocialThing

From premiardeigo,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9119028@N05/591163479/
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 “Traditional” Social
Networking
• MySpace – OBT
example
• Facebook – Used
more by college
students
– 500 groups related to
ESL!
• Yahoo Groups
From mattkeefe - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/ 82
New Social Networking
• Ning
– A list of social network sites for education
– English teachers in Mexico
– Classroom 2.0
– Go to the wiki

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Keeping up with your
network
• Aggregators, Feeds
• My Yahoo
• Google Reader
• Jaiku, Friendfeed, SocialThing
• Go to the wiki

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 Social
Bookmarking
 Bookmarking and
Tagging
• How you save sites
now
• Bookmarking
• Tagging
• Tag clouds
• Go to the wiki

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 Del.icio.us
• Video
• Examples
• Tagging

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 Diigo
• Highlighting
• Sharing
• Groups and Lists

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Thank you!

mthacher@otan.us