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Keynote Address - Part three

Time to Learn: What it looks like in the classroom

Description
A passionate student is a learning student
When collaborating with my friend, Darren Kuropatwa, I often ask him how he makes time for using Web 2.0 tools with his AP mathematics students. I mean- with so much content to cover, shouldn't he be teaching math? I love his passionate response, " I don't have time NOT to be using it!" You will find out why by watching the clips below.

To close my keynote, I interviewed three teachers: elementary, middle, and secondary, that are all using Web 2.0 tools with their students. Lisa Durff, a middle school teacher in the US and Allanah King, a primary teacher in New Zealand with year four and five students, and Darren Kuropatwa, a secondary advanced mathematics teacher in Canada.

Their 30-minute Elluminate presentations are each chalked full of examples on how they are using these tools with their students. View the interviews by clicking on the following Elluminate links. (Note: Elluminate is web-conferencing software that downloads from the Internet onto your computer.)

Presentation

Interview 1: Lisa Durff and Allanah King (Audio and slideshow)

Interview 2: Darren Kuropatwa (Audio and slideshow)

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About Lisa Durff

Lisa Durff, middle and secondary teacher (students aged 12-18 years), Maryland, VA, USA

Description
I chose to interview Lisa Durff because of how impressed I am with the creative ways she uses Web 2.0 tools across the curriculum with such a wide range of students. In addition to being an articulate, accomplished educator, Lisa is an overcomer! She teaches effectively everyday while working through a debilitating illness.

Lisa's supporting links
Lisas_blog
Durff's blog Study Skills blog
Secondary English blog Webpage

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About Allanah King

Allanah King, teaches year four and five, Nelson, New Zealand

Description
I chose to interview Allanah because she is the teacher I wish I had and the teacher I wish all children could have. She is as strong in technical skills as she is pedogogy. She understands the power of Web 2.0 in making connections. Allanah is the perfect 21st Century educator and quite the role model.
Supporting Links
Allanah's blog		Allanah_Sheryl
Class blog - a public showcase blog that she and students author
Class Podcasts
Class Blogmeister blog - expressive blog (where students blog)
Class Waterways wiki
How-to Podcast wiki
Class Del.icio.us site - online bookmarks
Class Flickr - for Tiny Ted photos

Allanah had a significant birthday recently! I surprised her with a collaborative birthday greeting online - tied to a Flickr picture from her childhood with HM Queen Elizabeth II. Check it out here

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About Daren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa, AP Secondary Math teacher (Ages 14-18), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Darren_Kuropatwa
 Description
Darren Kuropatwa and I have been working together for over two years now and have yet to meet face-to-face. He lives in Canada and I live in Virginia. He Skypes (Voice over protocol tool) into my inservices and classroom and I Skype into his inservices and classroom. Together we were the original braintrust behind K-12 Online06 and regularly plan together online using Web 2.0 tools.
Darren has been blogging with his students for three years now. He encourages his students to make use of a full range of collaborative tools in their learning of higher mathematics.
In this interview, he will walk you through how he uses a blogging model he has termed "the Scribe Post" to help deepen the retention of math concepts with his students. As he talks about his blog, please scroll with him in the Elluminate environment. You may also click on the forward and backward tabs on the embedded slides from his Smartboard notes about his classroom discussion.
Supporting Links
Darren's Professional Blog (links to all his other resources)

Introduction | Bio | Keynote address - Part one, two | Participation | Support material