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 * Monday **


 * Big Idea:** "To somebody with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." How do I find the tools that are really going to effect change to my students??
 * Changing the Climate: How Teaching Social Networks Might Save the World
 * What Is Engagement, Really, and Where Can I Get Some?
 * Let Your Voice Be Heard: Student Curriculum Collaboration Using VoiceThread

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 * Resources
 * Twitter - [|Will Richardson], [|Bernie Dodge]
 * [|25 Days To Make a Difference]
 * [|Working Together 2 Make a Difference]
 * [|Good Guide] - Shows environmental impact of various products
 * [|Sprout]
 * [|VoiceThread]
 * [|TrackStar]
 * [|360 cities]
 * [|News Dots]
 * Books
 * Books: [|Blessed Unrest], Hawken; [|Ecological Intelligence], Goleman; [|Here Comes Everybody], Sharesky; [|Tribes], Godin
 * Esquire Magazine's augmented reality issue, December 2009
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 * Video
 * The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See
 * The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See
 * The Machine is (Changing) Us
 * Engagement video
 * Exhibitors
 * [|BrainPop]
 * [|Learning.com]


 * Tuesday **


 * Big Idea:** Creating a Global Classroom, How?
 * [|BrainPop] and Active Expressions
 * Will begin in the fall of 2010.
 * All quizzes will work with Active Expressions and Activote Systems. Hub needs to be hooked up to access the quizzes.
 * Empathy: The 21st Century Skill
 * How to build a network w/ students.
 * Who is working harder, students or teachers? If students, then technology may not be worth it.
 * Michael Wesch - The Machine is (Changing) Us
 * #1 skill = empathy - a skill Americans don't possess
 * Classroom = Global Communication Center
 * [|search.twitter.com]
 * [|Novemberlearning.com]
 * [|Google] - searching skills (country codes to access articles from a given country. "sch" to access school sites
 * Pod Cooking
 * Blogs: Creative Content Analysis for 21st Century Classrooms
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 * Famous Americans in a Digital Age
 * table session outlining a project students did using iMovie, Powerpoint, GoogleEarth etc.
 * Google Apps Education
 * Need custom domain
 * All free
 * Provides more safety for your students. Teacher is able to be administrator on their accounts.
 * [|Epals LearningSpace]
 * Platform for blogs, wikis and email.
 * Searchable engine for connecting and collaborating with classes around the world.
 * Goomoodleikiog
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 * [|Moodle]
 * Wikis
 * Blogs - comment of the week. Post a picture, video etc. Students comment on that and engage in a discussion about blogging/commenting etiquette.
 * Google
 * [|Google Voice] - embed codes from student recordings
 * Google Forms - great way to collaborate/communicat with students and parents. Great for beginning of year - email, contact information, interests etc.
 * Resources
 * Books
 * Video


 * Wednesday **


 * Big Idea:** Now What??
 * 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
 * [|Flat Classrooms Project]
 * Horizon Project
 * [|Eracism Project]
 * [|Coolcatteacher blog]
 * Crap Detection 101
 * [|socialmediaclassroom.com]
 * LiveScribe
 * PBS Newshour

The ISTE experience was completely overwhelming! I think the key is thinking about the tool that I can best implement immediately that will boost student achievement, and forget the rest for some future time. I am interested in using a few tools well, rather than implementing many tools in a mediocre way. The other big take-away was the quote I heard on the first day, "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I need to make sure that I am using the tools that will best work for my students and for my teaching of math and science. I may really think a tool like Presi, but I am not so sure that it is a tool that will enhance the learning in my classroom this year. Here are the tools I am going to focus on this year in my 3/4 math science class:
 * Implications for your Classroom **


 * 1) Blogger - I have had a class blog the last 3 years. Blogger has just included the ability to have stand-alone pages tabbed at the top of the blog. This allow me to have a section that outlines class expectations, instructions for using the blog, how to compose a reading response etc. This is a feature that my partner and I wanted last year. I was considering changing to another blog provider because of this feature so I am pleased that Blogger has added it. I am always interested in the class blog being student centered and a forum for showcasing student work. I will continue to do that this year.
 * 2) Wikispaces - Wikis are hands-down my favorite tools! They are a blank slate and you can use them for almost anything. I would like to improve my class wiki so that it is a place for math and science resources, a "go to" website when students and parents are looking for games, activities and resources for math and science.
 * 3) VoiceThread - I began using VoiceThread last year as a way to create "mathcasts". These were voicethreads that had a single slide with a math question for students to answer. We would go to the lab and all my third and fourth graders would create a mathcast answering the question. Naturally there were lots of ways to answer the same question. This was also a way to create "exemplars" where students could show their math thinking. I did this with about 3 math units last year. I want to create a question for all third and fourth grade units this year.
 * 4) BrainPop w/ActiveExpressions - I used BrainPop a lot last year. This year they have a feature so that all of the quizzes are available for use with ActiveExpressions. Cool!
 * 5) Epals - I tried Epals many years ago and it was slow and difficult to use. They assure me that a lot has changed and that I should come back. I would like to expore Epals as a place to connect with other teachers around the world and find a project where my students really feel like they are changing the world and communicating with people from other cultures.