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==Our next steps==
==Our next steps==


In Somerville in 2011-12, we'll continue to test texting "groups," pilot and tweak our dashboard views with principal, teachers and families, and continue to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network and the broader schoolwide communication toolkit. We also want to learn what happens when the ePortfolio seeds across Somerville High School!
The OneVille Project’s pilot phase is ending, with specific efforts now seeded and living on. The effort at creating Parent Connector Networks may live on as OneVille, or maybe nothing literally titled "OneVille" will live on as such -- but all the work we seeded will grow.


In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine (itself funded by the MacArthur Foundation), we'll be inviting OneVille participants to share their work and ideas in person and online with Boston-area folks concerned with how youth and adults in public schools can innovate such uses of everyday tech. One goal for the year will be to keep honing online documentation like this wiki's. What online reporting would best link diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities? Uche will be leading the Boston-area coordination, Jedd will keep helping with gluing documentation together, and the authors of the main working group pages on this website, with some additions, will be reporting out on their ongoing work!
Everyone on the project is continuing work on the specific tools and strategies we worked on in 2009-11/12. Many of us now hope to work with people in other communities to share communication tools and strategies that support collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.


Mica will be starting a West Coast effort to improve the communication infrastructure of partnership in public education and working to link San Diego innovators to Somerville innovators! She has moved to direct CREATE (the Center for Research on Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://www.create.ucsd.edu). There, with new colleagues and community, she'll be focused particularly on developing communication infrastructure for partnership between people in a university and local K-12 teachers, families, and young people. CREATE also particularly hosts professional development programs and youth development efforts, so Mica will be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network local teachers to each other, youth to teachers, and mentors to youth.
In Somerville in 2011-12, The OneVille Project continued to do the following:


So, we'll now be working bicoastally to improve the communication infrastructure of public education. Starting this year, we hope to work with many people toward a "toolkit" for public education in multiple communities, by creating and testing free/low cost tools and strategies for supporting communication and collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.
:-Test texting with students and teachers at Full Circle/Next Wave. We will wrap up the OneVille texting pilot by sharing our ¡Ahas! about texting with youth-serving organizations in the Somerville community. We're also now working with partners at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to produce a teacher guide to safetly navigating the legal issues raised for those pioneering texting and other social media in schools.
:-Parents and staff continued to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network at the Healey School.
:-A pro bono developer in San Diego helped us complete the administrator and teacher dashboard views.
:-Students and teachers who began their work in the OneVille eportfolio pilot now are seeding ePortfolios across Somerville High School. Their Somerville High eportfolio website also helps next teachers and students exploring eportfolios: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.
 
In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub of the MacArthur Foundation, based at UC Irvine, and in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, we all hosted a small "working group" of OneVille participants and local researchers thinking about how youth and adults can innovate new uses of commonplace technologies in diverse communities. OneVille participants of all ages came to share their work and ideas with local colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, and Tufts. A key goal for the Working Group was to keep honing our online documentation -- this wiki's. What online reporting would best support other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities?
 
All of the coauthors on this wiki continue to work on related work and will continue to write and speak publicly about what they have learned.
 
Mica, the original OneVille PI, has moved to San Diego for a new job as Professor of Education Studies and Director of CREATE (the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://create.ucsd.edu). There, with her new colleagues and community, she's extending the collaborative agenda sparked in the OneVille Project, testing next communication tools and strategies for enabling partnership between local K-12 teachers, families, young people, and university supporters. CREATE has particular strength in teacher professional development and youth mentoring/outreach, so Mica will now be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network supporters to youth and local teachers to each other. While working to build next ¡Ahas! in San Diego, she will remain a remote ally to Somerville.
 
We know various OneVille participants will hone, over time and in collaboration with folks in multiple communities, free/low-cost communication tools and strategies enabling diverse supporters to collaborate in student success.


== The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.==
== The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.==


We'd love to spark a lively exchange on this website between people working on similar things. It takes a local network to raise a child; it takes a national network to brainstorm the infrastructure for doing it. So, we've tried to create a lot of places where people could add comments.
We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things.  


===Want to talk further?===
===Want to talk further?===


Our goal with this website has been to connect to, inform, and support people doing related work elsewhere.
Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?


Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?
Contact point people directly at:
 
:'''Dashboard''': Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Josh Wairi (jwairi@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
 
:'''Eportfolio''': Susan Klimczak (klimczaksusan@gmail.com); Michelle Li (mli@k12.somerville.ma.us); Chris Glynn (cglynn@k12.somerville.ma.us) (extra questions can also go to Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)


Contact us directly at xxxxx [someone's email? or cut this?].
:'''Texting''': Uche Amaechi (amaechi@gmail.com); Maureen Robichaux (mrobichaux@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)


:'''Parent Connector Network''': Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Tona DelMonico (tona_d@comcast.net) Ana Maria Nieto (amn956@mail.harvard.edu); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)


===How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?===
===How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?===
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We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!
We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!


Tell us:  
Tell us (contact the point people above or, mica.pollock@gmail.com):  


*Did we format our examples in useful ways?  
*Did we format our examples in useful ways?  
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Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our [[Vision for OneVille documentation]]) and haven't resolved:
Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our [[Vision for OneVille documentation]]) and haven't resolved:


*  Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here.)
*  Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here. Eportfolio teachers made their own teacher-to-teacher videos as well on the Someville High School website: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.)
*  How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?
*  How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?


==Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?==
==Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?==


Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online? Innovating solutions for public education is fun -- and it pulls people together. In an era where lots of people are criticizing public schools' teachers, parents, and students, we need to connect to others who believe that there’s no limit to what these partners can do.
Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online?
 
We've been collecting some examples of information-sharing that we'll leave here to prompt thinking:
 
'''JEDD, I'M NOT SURE THIS NEXT SECTION FITS HERE; SORT OF A TANGENT TO THE BRAIN NOW. I SUGGEST WE DELETE IT FROM HERE.'''
 
* Teachers communicating informally w/ teachers in other schools. Twitter?
 
** general network of teachers talking on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23edchat
 
** subgroups, chatting on Twitter: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/twitter-expanding-pln?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=howtousetwittergrowyourpLN
 
** explicitly progressive ed networks on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/EdEquality  and individuals: y http://twitter.com/#!/TeacherReality
 
** Twitter hashtags: possibility of rapid collaboration? (for future thinking on this: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2011/05/02/why-twitter-can-be-the-next-big-thing-in-scientific-collaboration/
 
* Official documentation of innovation, but supporting educators to seek/advocate for reforms themselves? http://www.edutopia.org/stw-replicating-pbl
 
* "Expert" teachers, communicating via official sites, with teachers. http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=100051&sciId=1482
 
* Formal sites where “experts” try to communicate complicated ideas verbally
 
Teaching Diverse Students’ Initative: core ideas that are hard to explain?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQePuaUqtUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19e48qBIQTw
 
A whole lecture: http://www.gse.upenn.edu/pcel/programs/dvmsac/videos
 
* random videos posted by all? type “good multicultural teaching” on YouTube.
 
 
Here are some other examples of info-sharing models we’ve been looking at:
 
Peer 2 Peer University.
 
Connexions: http://cnx.org/content/m37276/latest/?collection=col11292/latest
 
IBM’s Reinventing Education initative (see Kanter’s “Change Toolkit.”).
 
Open Learning Initiative  (“Learn how to do xxx” videos –http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/visual-communication-design
 
MIT Open Software program
 
Lesley: e learning
 
Flossmanuals: simple, somewhat visual documentation: http://en.flossmanuals.net/audacity/
 
http://learn2teach.pbworks.com/w/page/15779288/Learn-2-Teach,-Teach-2-Learn
 
ADD MORE E.G.S HERE.

Latest revision as of 09:45, 11 July 2012

Our next steps

The OneVille Project’s pilot phase is ending, with specific efforts now seeded and living on. The effort at creating Parent Connector Networks may live on as OneVille, or maybe nothing literally titled "OneVille" will live on as such -- but all the work we seeded will grow.

Everyone on the project is continuing work on the specific tools and strategies we worked on in 2009-11/12. Many of us now hope to work with people in other communities to share communication tools and strategies that support collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.

In Somerville in 2011-12, The OneVille Project continued to do the following:

-Test texting with students and teachers at Full Circle/Next Wave. We will wrap up the OneVille texting pilot by sharing our ¡Ahas! about texting with youth-serving organizations in the Somerville community. We're also now working with partners at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to produce a teacher guide to safetly navigating the legal issues raised for those pioneering texting and other social media in schools.
-Parents and staff continued to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network at the Healey School.
-A pro bono developer in San Diego helped us complete the administrator and teacher dashboard views.
-Students and teachers who began their work in the OneVille eportfolio pilot now are seeding ePortfolios across Somerville High School. Their Somerville High eportfolio website also helps next teachers and students exploring eportfolios: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.

In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub of the MacArthur Foundation, based at UC Irvine, and in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, we all hosted a small "working group" of OneVille participants and local researchers thinking about how youth and adults can innovate new uses of commonplace technologies in diverse communities. OneVille participants of all ages came to share their work and ideas with local colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, and Tufts. A key goal for the Working Group was to keep honing our online documentation -- this wiki's. What online reporting would best support other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities?

All of the coauthors on this wiki continue to work on related work and will continue to write and speak publicly about what they have learned.

Mica, the original OneVille PI, has moved to San Diego for a new job as Professor of Education Studies and Director of CREATE (the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://create.ucsd.edu). There, with her new colleagues and community, she's extending the collaborative agenda sparked in the OneVille Project, testing next communication tools and strategies for enabling partnership between local K-12 teachers, families, young people, and university supporters. CREATE has particular strength in teacher professional development and youth mentoring/outreach, so Mica will now be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network supporters to youth and local teachers to each other. While working to build next ¡Ahas! in San Diego, she will remain a remote ally to Somerville.

We know various OneVille participants will hone, over time and in collaboration with folks in multiple communities, free/low-cost communication tools and strategies enabling diverse supporters to collaborate in student success.

The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.

We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things.

Want to talk further?

Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?

Contact point people directly at:

Dashboard: Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Josh Wairi (jwairi@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
Eportfolio: Susan Klimczak (klimczaksusan@gmail.com); Michelle Li (mli@k12.somerville.ma.us); Chris Glynn (cglynn@k12.somerville.ma.us) (extra questions can also go to Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
Texting: Uche Amaechi (amaechi@gmail.com); Maureen Robichaux (mrobichaux@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
Parent Connector Network: Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Tona DelMonico (tona_d@comcast.net) Ana Maria Nieto (amn956@mail.harvard.edu); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)

How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?

We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!

Tell us (contact the point people above or, mica.pollock@gmail.com):

  • Did we format our examples in useful ways?
  • Did we offer too much information on what we did, or not enough?
  • Do you want to know more about what we've been doing?
  • Would you contact us to share what you've been doing?

Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our Vision for OneVille documentation) and haven't resolved:

  • Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here. Eportfolio teachers made their own teacher-to-teacher videos as well on the Someville High School website: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.)
  • How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?

Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?

Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online?

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