Transformative Curricular Technology

Thanks to my wonderful sophomore students, I had an opportunity to present, discuss, and solicit feedback regarding my take on Nicholas Carr's book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Because in the future, I am only allotted 50 minutes to present and respond to questions, I've taken my students' feedback and eliminated about 1/3 of the slides. Below appears the unabridged slide deck, including the 2 videos I played when I presented. Enjoy.

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Thanks to all who attended my breakout sessions at the District 219 Tech Conference, which was conducted under the themes of "1:1 and Web 2.0" on April 9th, 2011 at Niles North High School in Skokie, Illinois.

As promised, here are the slides from my four presentations. Please feel free to contact me for further information (located in the right sidebar):

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For those of you who attended my Blogging session, here is a link that features some of the best student- and teacher-related blog information I have found on the web.

I tried to keep the amount of links to a minimum to encourage usage. However, if these are not enough, I have tagged over 200 web pages with the term, "blog", on this site.

The main blogs I author are also linked below:

"An American Studies" — co-authored with John S. O'Connor, my English teaching partner. It features links to all (40+) of our students' individual blogs.

"Modern World History": a class I taught last year which used a different blogging platform called Posterous, somewhat similar to Tumblr. It allows you to post just about anything via email.

"US History": a class I currently teach in an experimental classroom, it also uses the Posterous platform instead of Blogger, my traditional favorite.

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For those of you who attended my Copyright and Fair Use session here are some more resources:

• Fair Use Music Videos
• Fair Use Case Studies
• Even more resources at the Media Education Lab at Temple University, including a link to Renee Hobb's book, Copyright Clarity.

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Thanks for visiting!

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If you are interested in this timely topic and might not be able to attend the national (ed-tech) ISTE Conference this year, two free webinars (online conference sessions) are scheduled soon:

1. "Copyright Clarity" on learncentral, presented by Kristin Hokanson and myself. Created by Gwyneth Jones, this is a free Elluminate web event, sponsored by Blackboard. It is intended for ISTE SIGMS members (library/media specialists), but anyone is welcome to attend. If you have a computer with a microphone, you should be able to participate on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 7:00 pm, CDT. Join us now by clicking on this link.
2. "Copyright Clarity and Fair Use for Digital Learning", presented by Renee Hobbs, author of Copyright Clarity, Kristin Hokanson and myself. It is intended for ISTE SIGTC members (technology coordinators), but anyone is welcome to attend. Sign up here to attend online on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm CDT.

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As promised, these are the presentation slides from the 2011 CASE Conference at the Chicago History Museum, co-presented with John S. O'Connor. Our classroom blog is called An American Studies, and can be found at www.anamericanstudies.com.

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As promised, these are the presentation slides from the 2011 CASE Conference at the Chicago History Museum, co-presented with John S. O'Connor. Our classroom blog is called An American Studies, and can be found at www.anamericanstudies.com.

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