2. Common Foundations:
Our schools are what they should be.
Preserving traditional schools = Serving students responsibly.
Technological tools are available that were available so a
single decade ago.
We understand and make best use of these new tools in our
teaching practice and in our own learning?
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Do you agree or disagree?
3. New Tools are for:
Collaboration
Community
Creativity
Communication
and they’re all in the cloud
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5. Try this:
Begin with Twitter
Educators on Twitter Googledoc
25 Important Guides and Apps for
Teachers
Twitter4Teachers
and, of course, Twitter!
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And here’s a bonus download for you: Mastering Twitter .pdf
6. What’s the big deal about
Facebook?
• http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
7. Try this:
“Educize”your Facebook
Read “Establishing a PLN on Fb”
Look at “Best Practices for
Educators Using Facebook”
Read “Social Media in Education:
The Power of Facebook”
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8. Are your charges “students” or are they “learners?”
• (David Warlick’s blog post on the topic)
An important ?:
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9. Want more? Try these:
Blogger.com
Blog posts at Classroom20.com (48,801 members)
Huffpost Education
The Bloggers Hut in Second Life (requires override)
The ReadWriteWeb
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10. What’s the big deal about
Immersive Environments?
• KZero Q3 slideshow about the current state of 3D worlds
11. Common Foundations:
I hardly have time for my “first life.” Why would I want a
Second Life?
Immersion is for a bath or a swimming pool, not for a
classroom.
I can’t get to these things in my school.
I get it.
I don’t get it.
Do you agree or disagree?
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14. and these:
ISTE Special Interest Group for Virtual
Environments (SIGVE)
SIGVE walkthrough at ISTE 2010 in Denver, CO
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15. What have YOU learned today?
microblogging?
Google Apps?
Ning?
social
bookmarking?
whiteboards?
chat?
screencasting?
Glogster?
Plurk?
YouTube?
Flickr?
RSS?
VOIP?
what...?