Learning on a stick Minnesota style
May 12th, 2008 | by Tim Wilson |At the most recent meeting of the Minnesota Education Media Organization Technology Special Interest Division (I couldn’t resist writing that out) I learned about a cool professional development opportunity called 23 Things On a Stick. Curious about the name? If you’ve visited the Minnesota State Fair you’d know how we in Minnesota love things on a stick.
The 23 Things… program is a largely self-paced set of tutorials intended for teachers and library folks in Minnesota who want to learn more about Web 2.0 tools. The “Things” include RSS, photosharing, collaboration, social media, online productivity, online gaming, podcasts, video, and social networking. Each participant is required to maintain a blog for the duration of the project to foster reflection and interaction with other participants.
I’d like to see someone turn the 23 Things program into a Moodle course that can be distributed to any school that is using Moodle for professional development. (”23 Things On a Stick” is made available under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons license.) Any takers?
Tags: 23 things on a stick, moodle, Professional Development, web 2.0
4 Responses to “Learning on a stick Minnesota style”
By M. Walker on May 12, 2008 | Reply
Tim,
I’m running a 23 Things group this summer in Edina.
I was trying to decide between using the official site, or making a wiki, with a place for people to enter info about each topic.
I’ve got 7 people signed up so far.
I might be up for moving it to Moodle.
It’s registered in our Keep Certified site now, and if TIES finalizes purchase, maybe Osseo or Buffalo folks could sign up there.
Let me know…
By Tim Wilson on May 12, 2008 | Reply
Mike,
What I like about the Moodle idea is that it would be possible to export the course and redistribute to anyone who’s running Moodle.
-Tim
By Marla Hall on May 19, 2008 | Reply
My teachers and students are bored and no longer challenged with all our favorite websites. Web 2.0 is exactly what we need to make the next leap - that shot in the arm - to engage us and excite us to learn and contribute. Next is the shift our technology dept. has to make to support us as we strive to move ahead. 23 Things is an awesome opportunity for teachers to come to understand all the new possibilities.
By Laurie on Jun 16, 2008 | Reply
Hi Tim,
I did 23 things on a stick this spring and loved it! We are working on a way to use it with students in one of our 6th grade classrooms in Osseo this year. I’m also moodling this summer (getting training on it that is)I’d love to try the idea of moving something like it to Moodle - good topic for my training next week.
Laurie