C4T Summary (#3)

Summaries of C4T #3

Silvia Tolisano

 

    On 10/26- 

My teacher for the past couple of weeks has been Ms. Silvia Tolisano. To say that I learned a lot from her blog in just two short weeks, would be an understatement. Ms. Tolisano is an avid blogger and uses technology every way possible in the class. Ms. Tolisano is now in Brazil and focuses on "globally connected learning" and coaching teachers and anyone who wants to know, how to use technology effectively. Collaboration and sketchnoting were two of the biggest things in her recent posts. 

On her first post I commented on, "Crowdsourcing Answers To: What is Your Reason for Not Sharing as an Educator?", I learned what Paper, Mix, and sketchnoting meant. Paper is an app available in the app store (AND ITS AMAZING!) that allows you to free flow ideas and drawings in a web based journal that anyone can edit or change. It is known as mixing or re-mixing. These two tools allow the user to slowly ease into peer editing. Just because someone edits something doesn't mean it is bad or that your original was not worthy, they just wanted to mix it up a bit. Its about sharing and getting your ideas out there to the world and collaborating. There are so many different ways to use Paper in the classroom that I will definitely be using it in my class. For instance, Silvia put out a simple question to the Paper world... "What is your reason for not sharing as an educator?" and the results were drastically different, and yet interesting because you see a side of reflection coming from them.


   You can see that this student chose to fill in some of the bubbles and say "handwriting, fear, spelling errors", etc. That is just one of the many responses received. The problem is SHARING is not a bad thing any more. Many of us are too afraid to share because we have always been taught not to share as it is seen as cheating or bragging and that's not the case any more!




Tonight (11/6)-
 The blog post I read today was more about sketchnoting. In the previous photos you can see how Ms. Tolisano used the app Paper to sketchnote and crowdource a question. But this post is more about the actual usefulness of sketchnoting in the classroom. The article is Sketchnoting FOR Learning. This post is really more of an introduction to her sketchnoting 101 seminar that is coming up but she does give a great slide show on all the ways that sketchnoting can be used in the classroom.  For those of you that don't know, to "sketchnote" means to doodle your notes or to add little pictures drawn to help remember things and use them again. It is a tool used to train your brain to remember more easily. I know for a fact this works because I have been doing that in my science classes since I was younger, except back then it was frowned upon because it was "doodling". This is the actual slide show below, and it really does have some great work in it. The biggest idea that I understood from the doodling was that sketching brings animation to an otherwise boring lesson. You can liven up your lessons and you can have students enjoy interacting with them. It brings the material to life. You can view Ms. Tolisano's slideshow HERE. And I HIGHLY recommend watching the five minute video on doodling and its perks by Sunni Brown, HERE.

In both comments I explained what I learned, I thanked her for the information and gave her ways to contact me.

Ms. Tolisano, My name is Jennifer Flowers. I am currently a student in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. Part of our classwork is to comment on other teacher’s blogs to educate ourselves better on not only blogging with others, but how collaboration and blogging has changed the education program. I LOVE this blog post. I have never heard of Paper, or Mix. I’m Very interested in learning about both of these! I have never heard of sketchnoting, but we can just add that to the list of things I will have to familiarize myself with. Your blog has shown me so many different things in just one post, that I know for sure I am going to spend a lot of time looking over the others. I know for me sharing and collaboration is becoming more of a slow process for me to dabble in. When I was in school we were all taught “sharing work means cheating….” or “…you can work in groups, but everyone has to write their own papers otherwise I don’t know what you did..” Sharing has become a new part of education that needs to be elaborated on more so that we don’t have students so scared to share! (Teachers too!) Sharing work

Read more at: http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/10/14/crowdsourcing-answers-to-what-is-your-reason-for-not-sharing-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-309760 | Langwitches Blog

Hi Ms. Tolisano, My name is Jennifer Flowers. I am currently a student in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. Part of our classwork is to comment on other teacher’s blogs to educate ourselves better on not only blogging with others, but how collaboration and blogging has changed the education program. I LOVE this blog post. I have never heard of Paper, or Mix. I’m Very interested in learning about both of these! I have never heard of sketchnoting, but we can just add that to the list of things I will have to familiarize myself with. Your blog has shown me so many different things in just one post, that I know for sure I am going to spend a lot of time looking over the others. I know for me sharing and collaboration is becoming more of a slow process for me to dabble in. When I was in school we were all taught “sharing work means cheating….” or “…you can work in groups, but everyone has to write their own papers otherwise I don’t know what you did..” Sharing has become a new part of education that needs to be elaborated on more so that we don’t have students so scared to share! (Teachers too!) Sharing work can only go up from here because we can use past shared experiences for better future experiences!! Absolutely thrilled to have you as my assigned teacher this week. Thank you, Jennifer Flowers

Read more at: http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/10/14/crowdsourcing-answers-to-what-is-your-reason-for-not-sharing-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-309760 | Langwitches Blog

Hi Ms. Tolisano, My name is Jennifer Flowers. I am currently a student in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. Part of our classwork is to comment on other teacher’s blogs to educate ourselves better on not only blogging with others, but how collaboration and blogging has changed the education program. I LOVE this blog post. I have never heard of Paper, or Mix. I’m Very interested in learning about both of these! I have never heard of sketchnoting, but we can just add that to the list of things I will have to familiarize myself with. Your blog has shown me so many different things in just one post, that I know for sure I am going to spend a lot of time looking over the others. I know for me sharing and collaboration is becoming more of a slow process for me to dabble in. When I was in school we were all taught “sharing work means cheating….” or “…you can work in groups, but everyone has to write their own papers otherwise I don’t know what you did..” Sharing has become a new part of education that needs to be elaborated on more so that we don’t have students so scared to share! (Teachers too!) Sharing work can only go up from here because we can use past shared experiences for better future experiences!! Absolutely thrilled to have you as my assigned teacher this week. Thank you, Jennifer Flowers

Read more at: http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/10/14/crowdsourcing-answers-to-what-is-your-reason-for-not-sharing-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-309760 | Langwitches Blog

Hi Ms. Tolisano, My name is Jennifer Flowers. I am currently a student in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. Part of our classwork is to comment on other teacher’s blogs to educate ourselves better on not only blogging with others, but how collaboration and blogging has changed the education program. I LOVE this blog post. I have never heard of Paper, or Mix. I’m Very interested in learning about both of these! I have never heard of sketchnoting, but we can just add that to the list of things I will have to familiarize myself with. Your blog has shown me so many different things in just one post, that I know for sure I am going to spend a lot of time looking over the others. I know for me sharing and collaboration is becoming more of a slow process for me to dabble in. When I was in school we were all taught “sharing work means cheating….” or “…you can work in groups, but everyone has to write their own papers otherwise I don’t know what you did..” Sharing has become a new part of education that needs to be elaborated on more so that we don’t have students so scared to share! (Teachers too!) Sharing work can only go up from here because we can use past shared experiences for better future experiences!! Absolutely thrilled to have you as my assigned teacher this week. Thank you, Jennifer Flowers

Read more at: http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/10/14/crowdsourcing-answers-to-what-is-your-reason-for-not-sharing-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-309760 | Langwitches Blog