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Here is the transcript of your backchannel conversation for . This is a wiki page. As such, you can edit this page and insert text into the transcript, contining the conversation, as I have done. To edit, click the EDIT link at the top of the page. The password is ''teacher''. You can indent your comments by inserting '''-->''' at the beginning text. Many HTML codes can also be inserted. Other formatting features can also be found at the bottom of the edit page. ---- <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David I look forward to reading your conversation! 28 Feb 2013 - 16:11:35 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst I look forward to joining the conversation. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:11:40 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Whitney I look forward to joining the conversation 28 Feb 2013 - 16:12:26 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Laura Knitter chat. Who knew! 28 Feb 2013 - 16:12:50 -><span style="color: #900;">''Hey, I use to be able to come up with such cool names. Now it's the obvious. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Maribel Wow 28 Feb 2013 - 16:13:09 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d322c49cd852e992e7560ffcba39f809' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>amber gladding I am awesome! 28 Feb 2013 - 16:13:24 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Justin knitter chat for the win! 28 Feb 2013 - 16:13:27 -><span style="color: #900;">''It's important to note that Knitter Chat is a personal experiment and not publicly available. A lot of schools, however, are using a similar web site called Today's Meet. That's at http://todaysmeet.com/ '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Maritza seems interesting 28 Feb 2013 - 16:13:37 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst How can we use Knitterchat in the classroom? 28 Feb 2013 - 16:13:41 -><span style="color: #900;">''Very much the same way that I did. Other than that, it would be useful as students are doing presentations or the class is critiquing other materials or events. It might be a good tool to you and participate with (the teacher) during videos or other third-party materials. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori @Brittany maybe have a discussion that helps with kids who are afraid of actually speaking in class. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:14:24 -><span style="color: #900;">''Yes! But this is a special value of blogging or other student publishing tool. Some students are not quick to come up with the ideas they are willing to share. But if they have time to process their ideas and polish them, then you might be surprised at exactly who has the most insightful thoughts. Another publishing opportunity to consider is publishing a book. I mentioned Lulu (http://lulu.com) during the talk. You file in a form and upload the text (PDF or Word.doc) and they print the book on demand. You buy a single copy for your classroom or for the school library (imagine your students contributing to the school library) and then provide a link on your classroom web site for other to buy the book. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst @Tori, that's a great idea. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:14:42 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Amber Do we all have to be on the same wifi network for this to work? 28 Feb 2013 - 16:15:08 -><span style="color: #900;">''If you're talking about Knitter Chat, the answer is, "No!" You can be anywhere as long as you have access to the Web. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Justin @Tori and Brittany, it would be great for a discussion board for homework as well. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:15:17 -><span style="color: #900;">''This is true. But I would be inclined to let them pick the facility for their out-side conversations. It is a critical skill to be able to shape available technologies for personal needs. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>M @brittany probst I worry about students not having smart phones :/. Or available tech in class/home 28 Feb 2013 - 16:16:10 -><span style="color: #900;">''This is worth the worry. At the same time, a lot more kids have smartphones today than we might think. I know of instances where the school established a student network for a BYOD arrangement, and a large number of the families bought netbooks for their children shortly before the network was opened. Parents saw that access to the networks was going to be part of the learning culture of the school, and they didn't want their children left out. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori @ concerns me as well. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:16:26 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst @M, I worry about that too. I don't know how to incorporate this in a tech-lacking environment. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:16:54 -><span style="color: #900;">''This is a problem that will be solved in the near future -- next few/couple years. There is a growing since that classrooms without contemporary information and communication technologies will house students who are being left behind. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst I like all of this technology, but I don't know how to use it in my classroom, where we don't even have a smartboard. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:20:31 -><span style="color: #900;">''I provided in the online hands a list of bloggers to read and Twitter users to follow. There is a huge conversation going on out there where teachers are sharing ideas with each other -- what's working and what's not working. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Carla I know some classrooms have access to iPods and iPads so many if you use this in class you could let the students that are more shy use them 28 Feb 2013 - 16:20:36 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>M .....we just got a white board in December. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:21:17 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Justin @Brittany, I think this website is geared toward the fact that the classrooms are beginning to change and have more technology in them. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:22:11 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Justin It may not be readily used by everyone right away, but there are pushes for more technology in the classrooms. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:22:41 -><span style="color: #900;">''..and I don't think that you have to wait until all the students have it at home. When I was young and in school, far fewer families had encyclopedias in their homes than have access to the Internet today. We didn't avoid giving research assignments back then. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst @Justin, I agree. I'd love to figure out how to use this stuff, though! 28 Feb 2013 - 16:23:23 -><span style="color: #900;">''Here's an article I wrote a number of years ago for Learning & Leading with Technology Magazine (http://goo.gl/Vzzzx). It talks about what we're calling, "Personal learning networks." or "PLNs." '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori Fortunately the concepts behind involving students more in learning can be used without fancy gadgets :) 28 Feb 2013 - 16:24:19 -><span style="color: #900;">''True! True! True. It's about responsiveness, conversation, value and playfulness. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Lindsay Rusche I have enough trouble with PowerPoint. My brain can't handle all this 28 Feb 2013 - 16:26:24 -><span style="color: #900;">''You need to learn. You need to recondition your brain. You are moving into education 2.0. Textbooks as we know them will be gone in just a few short years. It's all changing, and you have to be a master learner in order to teach. That said, I believe wholeheartedly, that teaching is going to be the most exciting profession on the planet. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>M I loathed math blaster. #:marioteachestyping 28 Feb 2013 - 16:27:58 -><span style="color: #900;">''Most of us did. It has it's place and that sort of drill and kill actually helped some students under some circumstances. But there were/are much more potent ways to use a computer and the Internet. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Blake Who is Margaret Meade? 28 Feb 2013 - 16:39:29 -><span style="color: #900;">''Duh! Look her up. I guess that the Reagan Administration is history to you guys ;-) '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Amber I don't know. But I will found out for next class dear student. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:40:13 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori @ was an Americal cultural anthropologist. Just looked up with Google hahaha :P 28 Feb 2013 - 16:41:30 -><span style="color: #900;">''Good for you. How would you feel about students looking stuff up during classroom conversations. I think it's great. The tech becomes an extension of their brains. I believe that when students are walking in to take a test, with Google in their pockets, we'll be asking much better questions on those tests. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Blake Thanks 28 Feb 2013 - 16:42:06 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Blake How do we implement this technology in the classroom? There is barely enough time to teach content. Much less all of this technology... 28 Feb 2013 - 16:49:29 -><span style="color: #900;">''It's not about doing something extra. It's about doing things differently. Most of the time, teaching and learning with networked, digital and abundant information takes less time and it should be less work for the teacher and more work for the learner. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst How do we have these students do things like this if most of the don't have computers? 28 Feb 2013 - 16:51:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori @Brittany if you wanted to assign something like that your school would have an accessible lab. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:53:22 -><span style="color: #900;">''The trend now is away from computer labs and at least having laptop or table carts, if not 1:1 school-wide. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst The only problem is that it would take up a lot of class/content time like Blake said. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:54:27 -><span style="color: #900;">''Actually not. It's about doing things different, not doing more things. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Laura Not only having computers but even though we have computers, they are so slow. Pointless and frustrating 28 Feb 2013 - 16:54:42 -><span style="color: #900;">''Does the school know. What's the school or district policy concerning replacement of computers. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori @Brittany , it would take a lot of time. @Laura you also make a good point. 28 Feb 2013 - 16:55:57 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst Ooh! The note blog idea is a really good one! 28 Feb 2013 - 16:58:06 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tori The idea of having students take responsibility for teaching and sharing information with each other is great in general. 28 Feb 2013 - 17:00:34 -><span style="color: #900;">''You will find, and it is universally true, that you will learn what you teach better, after you start teaching it, than you did as a student in university. Students will learn well when they have opportunities to teach it. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>M Is this from 4-5 or 5:30? 28 Feb 2013 - 17:05:56 -><span style="color: #900;">''He gave me permission to indulge a few questions. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst I understand that we have a problem when kids don't have access to technology, but how do we fix it NOW? 28 Feb 2013 - 17:12:57 -><span style="color: #900;">''Well, you can't fix it now. But it will be fixed in the next couple of years. It's not a student or school problem. This is a national problem. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Brittany Probst I don't really want to wait 5 years to give my students access to this type of learning. That's almost 1,000 students from now. 28 Feb 2013 - 17:13:23 -><span style="color: #900;">''You go girl! That's the kind of conversation that will speed things up. You learners deserve to be using contemporary information and communication technologies as they are being prepared for their future. '' </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>emily hi 28 Feb 2013 - 19:27:36 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Christina How do you make sure that students use the technology wisely, and don't just use it as a "free time" activity? 28 Feb 2013 - 20:51:02 -><span style="color: #900;">''YOu make sure that they have compelling activities to engage them, that provoke wise use. Thanks! Great conversation. 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