Tod Baker

Tod Baker 41, Male Tianjin, China, mainland: todbaker; Share

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Creating Community: An Exhibition Experience

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Watch Your Bobber

USB Mic, originally uploaded by todbaker. The Snowball, a USB microphone by Blue Microphones, stands on my table. I bought it to improve the sound quality of my voice recordings. Notice the echo coming from the recorded voice in this video. Time to Make a Difference from Tod Baker on Vimeo. That was recorded with a MacBook built-in mic. [...]

Learning Experiences that Lead Us

Sometimes, standardized tests will tell us, we arrive at the wrong answer. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports today that 933 of 1,947 Minnesota schools were put on the danger list for not making ‘adequate progress’. Sometimes the learning experiences that lead us to the wrong answer trump the circles that students shade. In her [...]

Empty Inbox

An empty inbox feels so gtd good. And look at that spam count. I hope it’s the same for you — spam rarely reaches me these days.

Animoto Mash-up

The Animoto team is highlighting our video “Time to Make a Difference”. They wrote, “Using Animoto, GarageBand & iMovie, this web 2.0 mash-up video utilizes the internet’s resources in a very clever way.” Visit their Education Program to see Time to Make a Difference and their full showcase of Animoto videos in education. Animoto is scorned [...]

Tagging in Beijing and the Fail Whale: The Value of Open Content

Why should we put our work on the Web? Give it a Creative Commons license so people can share it and remix it? Why? What’s the use? Attribution? What for? I’ve struggled with questions like these for years. Whether asking myself or responding to a colleague, my answers struggled to establish the value of sharing creative [...]

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School:: International School of Tianjin

Position:: PreK-12 IT Coordinator

Website:: http://www.watchyourbobber.com/

About Me

I have a variety of experience in elementary and secondary schools as both a mainstream and specialist teacher in Colombia, the United States, Venezuela and China. Most recently, I taught grade five in the Primary Years Program at International School of Tianjin (IST), an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. Now the PreK-12 IT Coordinator, I teach elementary technology classes and coordinate school-wide technology integration at IST. I advocate using technology to support inquiry and action in otherwise unobtainable ways.

In July, my son Gabo and I attended a presentation about wolves in Minnesota, USA.

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At 9:52am on August 19th, 2008, Dianne Baasch said…: Great to hear back from you! Have you been in Shanghai before It's an interesting and very modern city with a variety of contemporary art at galleries and museums. I can't wait to be in Shanghai again and the conference sounds electrifiying. I hope to meet you live there.

At 10:10am on August 15th, 2008, Dianne Baasch said…: I like the painted portrait of you.

At 8:10am on September 16th, 2007, Tod Baker said…: Thanks for the help with the projector problem. The notes below are comprehensive. Well done. I'll post the product wheel and upload the slide show to my SlideShare soon.

Have a great conference.

At 9:53am on September 15th, 2007, Susan Souza said…: Notes from Sesson: Schoolwide culminating event before going into middle school-energy resources and responsible choice-Teachers facilitate, provide and guide- enquiry cycle-Students connect, create, collaborate. Community characterized by communication (not really the tools, but what they had to say) pull system, distribution (all teachers and learners)-Traditional media pushed information at you, now the students are contributors of information, Digital Natives-give them something that they couldn't get other places. Tools- del.icio.us account for exhibition of information-got community to tag related information with their tag/flickr-documented the process, took photos and uploaded them to flickr. tagged istx, share with school community-YouTube for documentation with videos, pull in other resources on YouTube related to videos-Edublogs-pulls in all of the resources from the other sources (China blocked it) and combines them at one place/wikispaces-Twitter-progress updates-Basecamp a project management software that teachers used to manage and coordinate the project (free-for $9 mo get file sharing) Wanted the tools to help students in the inquiry mode. Each student could grab their own interests and go with that (video, reports, photography, etc) Children were incomfortable with the process at first. Success Factors-Students needed skills to delve further-needed to participate, not only leechers, but also seeders-communicate what you have learned. Just because you CAN publish something doesn't mean you SHOULD. It has to communicate your idea. Today using Ning, Skype, Podcasting, RSS, Encouraging, Collaborating. Expanding out past their grade level. Issues-privacy, information literacy, contributing (by law must be 13 to register for YouTube). Sign a model release form and get permission for that. Will put the slide show on slide share. The product that they produced had to be related to the central idea. Will put the Wheel on the webpage. (Librarian is a critical success factor-teaching information literacy in the library lessons starting in early grades.)

At 8:09am on September 12th, 2007, Gary Stager said…: So, who is going to discover this magic PD formula?

How do you explain that we're still dealing with this issue, including with teachers young and old, 25+ years after microcomputers arrived in schools?

The issues involved are complex and are much bigger than using the latest software tool.

I recommend that you take a look at the data in Sylvia Martinez' work here:

http://tinyurl.com/2vkyau

http://blog.genyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/eurologo-paper2007.pdf

At 5:35am on September 12th, 2007, beth gourley said…: It looks as if you were up early
My connection from home is very slow for this site. the first time I sent through, I received an error page.
You will also have to show me some of the finer points to this site. When I view "MY Page" I see

You have 5 friend requests!

Click here to view your friend requests.
but nothing happens when I "click here" The same thing happened when I viewed from the 5th grade site also.