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A great session with Kim Cofino who shared with us some of the great work happenings at YIS.
Links Shared By Kim
http://kimcofino.com/blog/2012/04/29/digital-citizenship-week/
http://kimcofino.com/blog/2012/05/05/the-three-strike-rule/
http://blogs.yis.ac.jp/clc/developing-our-clc/
https://sites.google.com/a/yis.ac.jp/digitaldragons/events/digital-citizenship-week
Link Shared by Jeff
http://chrisbetcher.com/2012/05/in-none-we-trust/
Link Shared by Diana
As we wind down the school year we’re also winding down your first two courses! Congrats on making it through course 2!!
Some of you have asked about extensions and turning in late work. I totally get this time of year is very busy for everyone….myself included. So the official deadline was this past Sunday May 13th. Thank you to those of you who finished on time.
If you are running behind no worries. We’ll be grading over the next two weeks and getting the course finished up. So if you have not completed the work yet, just e-mail me when you have completed it to make sure we get it counted towards your final grade.
If you are really behind let me know and I’ll give you an Incomplete (INC) for this course. You will then have 10 weeks to make up the work with no grade penalty. This is a SUNY graduate policy.
This Thursday Kim Cofino will join us for a BigMarker session where she’ll talk about the cyber safety week she has helped to implement at her school. You can read about it on her blog. Come ready with questions and thoughts around cyber safety, bullying, and moving a school forward around these topics.
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A great conversation last night around some of the issues we’ve been learning about in Course 2. I think you’ll like listening to this one. We had 19 people join us. Some people listened and lurked while others discussed. No problem with that….sooner or later you’ll create….even if at some point I have to force you too. 
Just to add to our conversation last night. I took this screencast of those who turned on their video cameras. I didn’t ask their permission to take the screencast. I didn’t ask their permission to post the image here. Yet here it is. Now if I was really mean…or is that polite….I would tag them all with a link to their blog. But I won’t…this time anyway.
So what are your thought on this? As you can see I dressed up for the occasion. To be fair it was 90F at 9am this morning but felt like 110F (44c) on your skin. So I’m not apologizing….it’s freakin’ hot!
A great conversation that I think you’ll enjoy.
Our next conversation next week will be on Thursday with Kim Cofino joining us to talk about the cyber safety week they run at their school. We’ll be on at 5:30pm Bangkok time due to Kim being in Japan. Promise it will be a conversation you won’t want to miss. Emily this one is worth locking yourself in a closet for.
Just a reminder that we’ll be having a BigMarker session Tuesday at 9:30pm Bangkok time.
If you haven’t signed up for a bigmarker account you’ll have to do that first and then click on the link below.
Julie asked a great question about copyright and policies that belong to different countries. A good example. In the United States you are not allowed to collect data from children under the age of 13. Hence the reason why you can’t be 13 to sign up for a Facebook account. But does that rule apply to use overseas?
Kristi also wrote me with a great idea to discuss the user agreement behing the new Google product Google Drive. The user agreement has come under a lot of fire lately. How much power do we really want to give Google?
Come ready to discuss these and other issues on your mind. Hopefully with this new time we’ll get some more people to participate. 
This past weekend I was in Taipei finishing wrapping up the final course for the TAS Cohort. It was a great day of presenting and learning and reflecting . There were a a few projects I wanted to point out to you so that you have an idea of where this all ends in a years time.
You can watch all the recorded presentations here.
Nancy and Kathy put together this fantastic video. Your final project will be a video that you create similar to this. Breathe……we’re a long way from there…..but you’ll notice the aspects that we’ve already talked about integrated into this project.
Allison Nave has done a great job of sharing and reflecting as she flips her middle school math class….as well as sharing her thoughts on our bigmarker session last week.
Nyoli had her Algebra students create a Google Site for review purposes. Students don’t want the site public but she outlines the learning and the process.
Barb outlines making book trailers with elementary students in the library.
Scott and Laura reflects on using iPads with 1st graders.
Steve talks about using Google Docs with 2nd Graders.
Jennifer teaches music through creating a sound track for a movie trailer.
Just a couple of examples of how technology in playing a part in different classrooms. Exciting to see where you’ll end up in just about a years time!
I hope everyone is doing well as we head into the second half of course 2. Just a couple of things I want to share and point you to.
Plagiarism:
Some great blog posts on plagiarism, copyright, and creative commons that of course have all this in the front of my mind.
<beging rant>
A teacher comes in today and asks me to copy a copyright DVD for them. Can I? Sure. Should I? I have a hard time with this and get frustrated when teachers bust kids for coping from the Internet and then turn around and ask if we can copy a DVD.
“But it cost like $100!”
So if something is expensive we should be able to copy it? If it was $10 they wouldn’t ask me?
Where does this double standard come from? That if we steal written work it’s called plagiarism and if we steal media….well…they’ll never know.
I think my favorite thing about teaching students about copyright and creative commons is when students come to me and say “Yeah….but Mr. U teacher ????? takes photos all the time from the web and never cites them.” Now even under Fair Use you are still obligated to cite your sources….and then we yell at kids when they don’t.
….ug
</end rant>
Compfight WordPress Plugin:
It’s been great to see images popping up in your blog posts and adding that all so important visual element to the web. I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails asking if I would install the Compfight WordPress Plugin that keeps popping up on their site when you search for images.
My answer….no
Why? Because that takes the fun learning out of it. Part of adding images is learning how links work, how you can find the URL of anything on the web and how you can push and pull that in other places. It’s learning a little HTML that can go a long way. The same reason I want you to embed and not just link your Google Doc. Yeah that HTML code looks scary….but the more you look at it, read it, use it, the less scary it becomes….and that’s a good thing. What I love about code today is you can actually read it. Take some time to “read” some code and I bet in no time at all you’ll start to understand it like another language. p=paragraph div=divide img=image The new HTML language is pretty cool!
Final Projects:
Hopefully you’re all working on your Final Projects by now. It’s great to see some of you collaborating already and sharing your learning with us.
This is a great time to use the Group Forum built into the site. I’ve seen some of you tweeting out looking for a partner and yet others leaving comments on each others blogs. Keep at it, keep supporting each other and reflect on this process of finding a partner and that experience of collaborating online.
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A great conversation tonight with Allison Nave a TAS COETAILer and Middle School Math Teacher at Jakarta International School. Allison is working on her final course 5 project by flipping her classroom. A pedagogical approach to using technology in the classroom. We’ll spend a lot of time in course 4 talking about flipped instruction along with other pedagogical approaches to using technology in the classroom.
Next Tuesday we’ll be on late to allow others to join us. Our conversation will start at 9:30pm Bangkok time. That’s 2:30pm GMT. Hoping we can get more people to join us.
Show Notes:
Allison’s Handouts:
Flipping a Math Class
Technology Use in Math
Wikipedia Volunteer Editor Reaches 1 Million Edits
(Have you edited Wikipedia? If not give it a try!)
As COETAIL continues to expand with at least three more cohorts next year, we are looking to add some COETAIL Coaches to help us meet the needs of the growing numer of COETAILers out there.
Kim Cofino and I have talked about this at great length and want to make sure that new COETAIL Coaches understand the philosophy behind COETAIL, are leaders in the Educational Technology Field, are international teachers themselves, as well as being good presenters. The final requirement is that they must complete the COETAIL program themselves.
So with that we’ll have two COETAIL Coaches In Training for the remainder of this cohort. I’m excited to announce that Clint Hamada and Brandon Hoover will both be joining me in the journey of this cohort as coaches.
Clint is in his 14th year of teaching, working in schools in California, Japan, Tanzania and Vietnam. As the Technology Facilitator at UNIS Hanoi, Clint works with students and teachers to leverage technology to create innovative learning experiences. He has facilitated workshops at conferences across Asia, including the IB Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Learning 2.0 and ASB Unplugged. Clint is an IB MYP workshop leader and experienced MYP/DP Mathematics practitioner.
Professional Blog | COETAIL Blog | Twitter
Brandon is an American expat living in Manila, Philippines after 7 amazing years in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has been living in Asia since 2002.
Brandon is an IT Curriculum Director at International School Manila, an ADE, with a degree in Engineering and Industrial Design with a Fine Arts major. One of his strongest passions (as you may have guessed) is photography.
Keep up with him via:
twitter | flickr | 500px | COETAIL Blog
I do hope you do your own “Google Resume” search for these two so you can see for yourself just how qualified they are.
On a personal note…I’ve known both of these guys via the network for….it seems like forever. They have taught me a lot over the years and I’m excited that they’ve decided to join COETAIL as instructors. Clint actually did a presentation for the YIS COETAIL Cohort earlier this school year and is now part of the Learning 2.012 Conference Team.
Brandon is an amazing photographer. Do check out his flickr and 500px account above….I’m personally very excited to have him help us teach the third course that focuses on visual literacy.
Both of these gentlemen will have access to your Google Grade Sheet and you’ll see posts from them here from time to time as they learn the COETAIL Coaching system as well as take the COETAIL program at the same time. So they will be busy!
Also know if you have questions, need help with something they are here to support you!
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