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Agenda:

9:00-9:10 Finding the time
Ii is not easy keeping up with everything ... think big and start small!

9:10-10:15 Discovery Education Streaming
//What is it?//

An online Film Library for all Grades/Subjects. It includes some teacher tools, guides and lesson ideas. Login at http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ (video repository requires a username and password)

Things to do:
 * 1) Make sure your account works!
 * 2) Download a video to you common folder and invite a colleague to view it (bandwidth!)
 * 3) Add a video to your own favorites list.
 * 4) Choose a lesson/topic you are planning to teach in the near future and select a video segment that you can use. If at all possible try to use Discovery Education at least twice before the year end!

10:30-11:30 Atomic Learning
//What is it?//

An online collection of tutorials for building new media literacy school in a large variety of software applications. Atomic learning also has a collection of lesson accelerators designed to kickstart learning technology use within your subjects. These are more project based and support infusion! Login at http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home (tutorial repository requires a username and password)
 * 1) Make sure you account works!
 * 2) Look at the software skills tutorials available. Smartboard teachers might consider taking a look at the smartboard notebook 10 and others mught like to look at the inspiration 8!
 * 3) Under resources check out the lesson accelerators. These curriculum based technoilogy projects are a quick start to using technology in a given lesson and subject.

1:00-2:15 Collaboration on the web using wikis!
My fav! Wikispaces.com!

What is a wiki? What are the parts of a wiki? http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/web20
 * 1) Creating a wikispace account.
 * 2) Joining a wiki. Ubershare.wikispaces.com.
 * 3) Creating a wiki! Requesting is to be a educational wiki and getting better service.
 * 4) Adding pages. (* handy tip - jot down pages as you make them so you remember how to link them!)
 * 5) Making links and editing navigation!
 * 6) Embeding widgets.

How to spice up a wiki!
 * 1) Creating page logos. http://cooltext.com/
 * 2) Creating a logo for main page. (to get a dandy some knowledge of an image editor such as paint.net is very handy!

Now that you have seen how a wiki works ...

Go to [|google] and see how teachers are using wikis in their classrooms and then go the the "**discussion**" for this page and answer the following question.


 * How could you use a wiki as a teacher to support learning?**

Fun wiki ideas ... have the students add entries into wikipedia! More to read .. here is a good article ... http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/issue/column.php?date=September2008&departmentid=professional&columnid=professional!technology

Other real good wikis are wetpaint.com, wikiwiki.com and mediawiki.com.

2:30-3:15 Teacher Exploration time.

 * Possible topic for elementary teachers is destination reading and math ... have you used it ... can I help get you started?