Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/
11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern
Location: Blackboard Collaborate (Formerly Elluminate)
Special Guests: Paul Allison, Christina Cantrill, Karen Fasimpaur and Paul OH
The team of presenters will discuss the use writing and technology to make connections and collaborate including the global projects, “Youth Voices” and the “National Writing Project" (NWP)
About Summer of Making and Connecting:
This summer, you will have a chance to make and connect through a series of events linked by a powerful shared interest. Come learn about two Summer of Making and Connecting events, supported by National Writing Project’s Educator Innovator initiative, including the Making Learning Connected MOOC (#clmooc) and the Youth Voices Summer Program. The Summer of Making and Connecting organizes hundreds of events, projects and programs in communities across the nation, around the world, and online to help youth connect learning to their interests and to enable teachers to learn from and network with their innovative peers. Come join us to explore and put Connected Learning into practice.
About Paul Allison:
Paul is an English teacher in the Bronx, New York, NY, United States. He is the Tech Liaison and Connected Learning Ambassador for the New York City Writing Project. Co-founder of Youth Voices and co-producer of the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast.
About Christina: Christina is a senior program associate for national programs and and she co-directs the NWP Digital Is initiative (digitalis.nwp.org)
About Karen: Currently runs a small educational technology company. She has worked in education including software and textbook publishing for over 15 years and has taught over seas in Africa.
About Paul OH: Senior Program Associate at the National Writing Project interested in all things digital living in Oakland, CA.
About the National Writing Project:
NWP is a network of sites anchored at colleges and universities and serving teachers across disciplines and at all levels, early childhood through university. They provide professional development, develop resources, generate research, and act on knowledge to improve the teaching of writing and learning in schools and communities.
Recording (full):
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2013-06-15.0603.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350
Tiny URL for Recording:
http://hnyctt.me/cr20live-SummerMakingConnecting-6-15-13
Recording Chat: http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR20LIVE+JUN152013
Audio Recording (mp3)
Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions: (links shared by participants during the session have been added to this list and also to the Livebinder)
LiveBinder Link: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=894102
(Note: Click on tab for "Summer of Making & Connecting" in the LiveBinder)
National Writing Project - http://www.nwp.org/
Digital Is - http://digitalis.nwp.org/
http://www.makesummer.org/ (Summer of Making and Connecting website)
http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/ (Educator Innovator Blog post about Summer of Making and Connecting)
http://youthvoices.net (Youth Voices website)
http://youthvoices.net/about (About Youth Voices)
https://p2pu.org/ (P2PU-Peer to Peer University: At P2PU, people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio (NWP Radio)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio/2013/06/13/nwp-and-the-summer-of-making-and-connecting (NWP Radio show on June 13, 2013: NWP and the Summer of Making and Connecting)
https://vimeo.com/65937164 (Youth Voices Summer Program Promo Video)
http://www.youthvoices.net/summer2013 (Youth Voices Summer Program Information)
Youth Voices Summer Program fundrasing campaign: http://incited.org/projects/youth-voices-summer-program-connected-learning-with-the-nyc-writing-project
http://dmlcompetition.net/project/youth-designed-open-badges-for-youth-voices (Youth Voices DML Badge Competition entry)
https://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-do-i-make-a-badge/ (P2PU Badge Maker)
http://dmlcompetition.net/project/making-equity-a-day-long-pop-up-makerspace-for-elementary-youth-in-northern-colorado (Making Equity: A Day Long Pop-Up Makerspace for Elementary Youth in Northern Colorado-Planned and co-facilitated with a diverse group of fourth-graders and co-sponsored by the CSU Writing Project and the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery)
http://edtechtalk.com/node/5194 (Teachers Teaching Teachers/EdTechTalk recording, May 15, 2013. TTT#349 Crowdfunding to Rethink Ed- IncitED's Campaigns: Open Road, Imagining Learning, Youth Voices - Plus: Spokes 5.15.13)
http://blog.nwp.org/clmooc (Making Learning Connected MOOC-starts June 15)
http://blog.nwp.org/clmooc/guide/ (Guide to Social Tools in #clmooc)
http://www.connectedlearning.tv/ (Connected Learning TV)
http://connectedlearning.tv/writers-work-making-and-connected-learning (July, 2013 Tuesdays, 1:00pm ET, Google Hangouts with chat: In our “Writers at Work” series, we will tap into a variety of ways that these principles are being explored and embodied in schools, after-school programs, and informal learning situations.)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113655426574061601680 (Connected Learning Google+ Network)
http://connectedlearning.tv/infographic (Connected Learning Infographic)
Links to IncitED crowdfunding campaign planning documents
1. Overview document covering pre-planning to post-campaign follow up-Elements of Successful Crowdfunding
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-cTh2N0d1UDA0RHc/edit?usp=sharing
2. Document with tips for making an effective campaign video
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-bHhBdlRBWEpYQ1U/edit?usp=sharing
3. Document with tips for creating effective campaign perks
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-RDA2bUpkME5BclE/edit?usp=sharing
4. Document with tips for writing a basic campaign story
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-UC1FQUtRVlFmWUk/edit?usp=sharing
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=896388 (Livebinder 2013 Top Ten Contest-Vote NOW through June 16th)
Vote for the Top Ten LiveBinder for 2013. This can be a binder
- that you used throughout the year
- you found really useful for a project or that the students really liked
- that was recommended to you
- that really impressed you
- that is a public binder
- has not been a Top 10 before
Link to webinar is here: http://tinyurl.com/KnowledgeSharingPlace
Links shared by participants in the chat log during the session:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc (@jackiegerstein: What is a Mooc by Dave Cormier)
http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/home (@jackiegerstein: Doing From Puppets to Robots workshop for Santa Fe Maker kids)
http://vimeo.com/49645115 (The Global One-Room Schoolhouse-John Seely Brown)
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/connect-learning-a-new-research-driven-initiative/ ( @jackiegerstein: Connected Learning: A New Research-Driven Initiative )
http://youmedia.org/node/120/research/homago-essentials @jackiegerstein: HOMAGO Essentials)
http://www.teachingquality.org/content/teachers-and-principals-should-be-allies-transformation-schools Susie @shighley: Great post from a friend of mine on "shared leadership" in schools and school transformation)
http://www.ncte.org/ (NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English-not just for writing teachers--everyone welcome!)
http://www.sjawp.org/ (@Dotty: San Jose Area Writing Project)
http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/4419 (Joe Dillon: Some of the related work with ELLs from Cindy 0'Donnell Allen and CSUWP-Colorado State University Writing Project)
http://www.amazon.com/Because-Digital-Writing-Matters-Environments/dp/0470407727 (Because Digital Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Online and Multimedia Environments by National Writing Project, Danielle DeVoss, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, and Troy Hicks--available on Kindle too)
http://edtechtalk.com/TeachersTeachingTeachers (Paul Allison: Join us on Wednesdays at 9PM ET/6PM PT! A good way to connect. We love when regular listeners find their local National Writing Project f2f sites.)
https://webmaker.org/en-US/party/ (Mozilla WebMaker 2013 Party beginning June 15 through the summer: make something, teach others, party)
http://www.moocs.co/ (MOOC Directory)
http://bit.ly/ZP3Z3d (@shamblesguru: There is a free iPad/iPhone App "Map of the Internet" which is visually very stunning …could be considered a visual interactive metaphor for connected learning … closer study may even reveal a geographic correlation … where might connections be most dense … which countries/continents)
http://digitalis.nwp.org/post/keyword/connected-learning (Christina Cantrill: discussion about "connected learning" at NWP Digital Is)
www.nanowrimo.org (NanoWrimo: National Novel Writing Month)
http://digitalwritingworkshop.wikispaces.com/2013+Summer+Book+Club (Troy Hicks link (mentioned by Paul Oh)
http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/teacher-discoveries-and-connected-learni/4588 (Teacher Discoveries and Connected Learning by Joe Dillon)
http://invisiblecityaudiotours.org/ (Invisible City Audio Tours are fictional self-guided walking audio tours. Each tour will lead you through liminal neighborhoods and forgotten or unknown histories, creating unseen realities through fiction, poetry, music, sound, and visual art.)
http://moocnewsandreviews.com/ultimate-guide-to-xmoocs-and-cmoocso/#ixzz2WIuWSqD8 (@jackiegerstein: The Ultimate Student Guide to xMOOCs and cMOOCs)
https://twitter.com/chadsansing/status/345912408637841408/photo/1 (chadsansing: #clmooc = cookie learning mooc)
http://dmlcompetition.net/competition-category/summer-youth-programming (Christina Cantrill: These Project:Connect proposals are in a response stage and you can review and vote on a range of them)
http://shambles.net/pages/staff/FundRaise/ (@shamblesguru: There are now some crowd funding websites just for education)
http://youtu.be/v6h33hUP8Og (MakerFaire Rome Tour-Dale Dougherty - OuiShare Fest)
http://digitalis.nwp.org/community/maintainer-blog/feed (RSS Feed for Digital Is blog-use this link to add it to Feedly.com)
www.twitter.com/writingproject (NWP Writing Project on Twitter)
https://popcorn.webmaker.org/ (Christina Cantrill: Mozilla Popcorn Maker for making and remixing media while they learn about the underlying work of how to create on the web)
http://www.youthvoices.net/questions (10 self/10 world Mission-Write 10 questions that you have about self and 10 questions that you have about the world)
https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/ (Christina Cantrill:
Mozilla also has this tool called Thimble for learning about making webpages too)
http://youthvoices.net/swallows (Paul Allison: Tree Swallows Breeding Project on YouthVoices)