Digital Introduction

Digital Timeline Please view my digital introduction I created using Web 2.0 tool dipity.com. It is a timeline but can also be viewed as a flip book by clicking on this option in the top left corner. A caption will appear when you scroll over the picture. Enjoy!

Social Networking & Professional Learning Networks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6WVEFE-oZA

This short video is a wonderful introduction on how to use technological tools most efficiently as an educator. I am very passionate about this topic and continuously encourage teachers to use social networking tools to their advantage to help with professional networking and teacher development.

Should we privatize schools or have charter schools?

I went to an educational documentary that was a response to the educational documentary "Waiting for Superman." I discussed this documentary last fall on my blog so I wanted to now share a response from the other side.

The Blueberry Story

Explains why education is NOT a business. We cannot make such broad comparisons. It is like comparing apples and oranges. This also explains why we cannot make international comparisons in education.

It is s short story. Does not take long to read but totally worth your time:

The Blueberry Story

Educational Documentary: Welcome to Shelbyville

I went to the following program last month. I highly enjoyed it and wanted to share.


The College of Education is teaming up with Welcoming America and the Georgia chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (GA NAME) to screen “Welcome to Shelbyville,” a film about a small Southern town that grapples with a rising immigrant population.

The film tells the story of Shelbyville, Tenn., and how its residents face “rapid demographic change and issues of immigrant integration” during the 2008 presidential election, according to the film’s website.

The event, entitled Changing Landscapes: Immigration and Education, will begin at 5 p.m. today in the Georgia State University Speakers Auditorium (44 Courtland St., Atlanta) with a reception, and the film will begin at 6:15 p.m.

Following the screening, COE Clinical Assistant Professor Alyssa Hadley Dunn will moderate a panel discussion on the film. The panelists include Erica Dotson, Clayton State University assistant professor; Rachel Steinhardt, Welcoming America lead consultant; Carole Hahn, Emory University Candler Professor of Educational Studies; and Vera Stenhouse, president of GA NAME  and project director for GSU’s Community Opportunities that Motivate People and Enhance Learning and Service (COMPELS) Grant, among others.

Creating a Professional Dossier in Maymester "How to be a doctoral student" Course

Reflection that goes with assignment:

I am a full time student so I generally take more courses than part-time students. I started the program less than a year ago in August 2010 but will have thirty hours by this August. I wondered if this course would have been more beneficial at the very beginning or if it was better after two semesters of courses. I think I may have been overwhelmed if this was my very first course. However, I greatly enjoyed this course because it taught me how to develop the road map of guidance I will need for this program. It allowed me the freedom to choose my path but the doctoral documents helped me have the structure and planning support that I need. I often felt completely inadequate when designing the items that went into the professional dossier, but it ended up being a great source of motivation. I am now confident knowing what needs to be done and driven to improve these documents by overall enhancing myself throughout this program. In the 2011-2012 school year, I plan to complete my research and teaching internships with Dr. Feinberg and to complete my research coursework. I hope to take my comprehensive exams by the end of 2012. I plan to attend conferences in 2011 and present at conferences in 2012. I also hope to have at least two-three papers submitted for publication by this time. I am thankful I had the opportunity in this class to create the professional dossier that I will continue to update and use to evaluate my progress. I am also thankful for the guest speakers, the interviews I conducted, and the readings on mentoring. The wealth of knowledge I have gained in the short three weeks of Maymester is pretty amazing! I am eager to start my reading from my annotated reading list.

Let me know if you are interested in seeing the professional dossier and I can email you the word attachment.

New Month of May

April was a busy month with spring semester coming to a close and I did not have too many posts. I am hoping to deliver a new post once a week.

I wanted to share a list of education websites I have been putting together for educators. I am designing the list specifically for history educators but many of the websites apply to teachers within all fields. Please take the opportunity to go through the list and possibly visit some of the links. I encourage people to offer suggestions of worthy sites I do not already have on the list. I would like this list to grow and be continually updated. You can also see my contact information provided on the top so you have numerous ways to reach me. Check out my technology blog I created for a class this past spring where you can find course readings and reflections.

Jean O’Keefe – twitter: jeanoke16 – jeanoneducation@bogger.com – jeanonteched@blogger.com – jeanoke@gmail.com – (312) 259-5576

http://www.khanacademy.org/ Learn the flipped classroom approach and access educational teaching videos

http://zinnedproject.org/ Howard Zinn: A People’s History - Resources, Activities, Lessons

http://docsteach.org/ : National archives of documents/primary sources with some with accompanying lessons

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ : radio, television, podcast archive

http://www.choices.edu/ : history and current news for the classroom

http://www.icivics.org/ : The Democracy Lab

Lessons and interactive games (students can award the points they are in games to service learning projects who then get funded by organization)

http://www.antiprejudice.org/: Prejudice. Discrimination. Stereotypes.That’s what we fight.Students. Schools. Community.

www.donorschoose.org: award teachers money needed for classroom projects

www.rethinkingschool.org : organization with great publications and resources on how to reform schooling

www.prezi.com: create presentations similar to power point
http://www.evernote.com/: online note taking system

www.carbonite.com: backup everything online for a price per year

http://hootsuite.com/about organize all your social and professional networks here so you have one spot to view them all

http://www.zotero.org/ tool to help you collect, organize, site, and share you research sources

http://www.xtranormal.com/ if you can type you can make a movie with animated characters

http://www.socialstudies.org/cufa College and University Faculty Assembly

http://www.go2web20.net/ web 2.0 tools

http://education.washington.edu/cme/ Center for Multicultural Education (Seattle, Washington)

http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=253340431943588608 Summer Seminars: Professional Development NEH

http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html Workshops: Professional Development NEH

http://www.fpri.org/education/historyinstitutes.html Foreign Policy Research Institute: History Institute for Teachers