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Learning Luaus
 
Learning Luaus bring teachers, students, and resources together in an exciting learning environment. Learning in isolation lacks meaning and isn't much fun. Join others for fun, authenticity, and synergy! This workshop helps teacher teams create interdisciplinary. technology-rich thematic units. Turn a lonely luau into a learning luau!
 
Technology means tools, resources, and opportunities, but it also means teachers, administrators, and students. Learning luaus bring all these together.
Learning Luaus
Learning Luaus
Sharing tacit knowledge - "experience"
Beyond show-and-tell
Share Expertise
Books
Videos
Graphics
Websites
Real Objects
http://www.indyzoo.com/facts/fact.asp?animal=emerald%20tree%20boa
http://www.thematzats.com/snakes/webquest.htm
http://www.quia.com/custom/39818main.html
http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story/snakeman.htm
Find Intangibles
Fun/easy/hard/boring/difficult?
Strengths & weaknesses?
Worked well & poorly?
Helpful people, resources?
What undermines?
How did students react?
Learning Luaus
Bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap
How do you share "tacit knowledge"
about technology in your schools?
What else could you do?
Learners As …
Consumers
Collaborators
Creators
Communicators
Learners As Consumers
Learners As Consumers
Technology-Rich, Thematic, Inquiry-based Learning
Reading
Interpreting
Evaluating
Synthesizing
World War II
Books
Videos
Websites
Interviews
Documents
Maps
The Good Fight, Stephen Ambrose
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/topic.htm
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/worldwar2.htm
http://webpub.alleg.edu/student/p/paynes/war.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/index.shtml
http://www.thedropzone.org/
http://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/ww2battles.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guts/
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/ww2bios.htm
http://www.combinedfleet.com/officer.htm
Get the Facts Online
Evaluating Websites
Checking Facts
Building Timelines
Making Comparisons
Surviving Hitler, Andrea Warren
http://www.memoriesofwar.com/
Simple Consumer Activities
Online Quiz
Question & Answer Activities
Retelling Projects
http://www.quia.com/tq/101184.html
http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/sampler/fall99/WW12999/default.html
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2-loss.htm
Visual Literacy
Reading
Interpreting
Evaluating
Organizing
Synthesizing
Use Visuals
Photographs
Maps
Diagrams
Chart
Videos
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/women.html
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html
Visual Literacy
Pick the photo that…
best represents your technology program now
best represents where you'd like to be
Learners As Collaborators
Learners as Collaborators
Working & Sharing Together
Questioning
Information Gathering
Synthesis
What do you have to contribute?
Internet Sharing
Lit Circles
Online Discussions
Experts
Interviews
Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki, Houston & James Houston
The Moved-Out, Florence Crannell Means
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/oralhst.htm
Collaborative
Writing Activities
Beyond Reports & Worksheets
Persuasive Letters
Speeches
Debates
Short Stories
Poetry
http://bytor.com/canrem/particip.htm
Authentic Experiences
Oral History Collection
Email Interview Activities
Online Debate
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
Project Considerations
Size - partner, 1 + schools
Length - short, long, ongoing
Background - like, different
Content area focus
Relevant Activities
Appropriate Technology
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic1.htm
http://www.iecc.org/
http://www.eduplace.com/projects/keypals.html
http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/currichome.html
http://www.lightspan.com/teacher/pages/projects/default.asp?_prod=LS&_nav=T2_proj
http://gsh.lightspan.com/pr/index.cfm
http://www.chino.k12.ca.us/chinosch/litel/rice.htm
http://www.epals.com/
Project Size
Teacher to Teacher
Class to Class
Group to Group
Individual to Individual
Few & many participants
What's the best project size?
http://www.clark.net/pub/cve/99cveteeth.html
Learners as Collaborators
Reach out!
Design an activity:
Vertical alignment - crosses grade levels
Horizontal alignment - crosses curriculum
Learners As Creators
Learners as Creators
Software
Word Processor
Database
Inspiration
Timeliner
Mapmaker
Video Camera
http://www.portsmouth.k12.oh.us/WEB2/Pep%20Web%20Page/ABrandel.htm
Higher Level Activities
Cause/Effect, Comparisons
What If's
Provide 3-4 sites
Compare information
Create a chart or graph
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/wwstart.html
Barriers to Technology Projects
TEARS
Time, Expertise, Access, Resources, Support
Create a TEARS Skirt
Pick the TEARS that are your biggest obstacles.
Create a grass skirt that shows the things you will do to address this issue.

Learners As Communicators
Learners as Communicators
Real-world audiences
Individual differences
Alternative assessment
Web Development
Class Pages
Student Projects
ThinkQuest, Cyberfair
http://mclane.fresno.k12.ca.us/wilson98/main.html
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/worldwar2.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110055/
Communicators
Remember Gilligan's Island?
Do you sometimes feel isolated like the castaways? Reach out!
Why Technology
There are those who would like to slash the technology budget.

Communicate!

Learners as Communicators
As a group, use your "leis technology" to show the role of technology in schools.

Put It All Together
Put It All Together
Build Learning Environments
Make Learning
Exciting!
WebQuests
Introduction
Task
Process & Procedures
Resources
Guidance
Evaluation & Conclusion
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/wwii/bomb.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webworldwamr.html
http://www.fsu.edu/~CandI/ENGLISH/fsuwebquest3/bloodredsun.htm
http://corydon.shcsc.k12.in.us/academic/al/Anne/anne.htm
Teacher Resources
Teacher Resources
Units
Lesson Plans
Activity Ideas
Worksheets
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/worldwar2.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/index.htm
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/fdr/infamy.html
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/ww2/index.html
http://webcenter.netscape.teachervision.com/tv/lpsearch/theme=World%20War%20II&grade=high
Think "Best Use"
Text, Graphic, Audio Resources
Low vs High Level Activities
Authentic Projects
WebQuests
Teacher Resources
Student Projects
Times Have Changed!? The 70s The 00s
http://eduscapes.com/mm/
Learners As…
Consumers
Collaborators
Creators
Communicators
Learners As …
Wide-eyed kids!
Build the environment
Focus on Kids
Give them the tools
Focus on learning!
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Developed for hands-on workshop participants by
Annette Lamb, 5/00. Updated 8/01.