Robin+Bashor

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 * Monday **

Classes: Resources:
 * Big Idea:** It is important for me, as Library and Tech teacher to promote, create, display, and preserve student projects based upon N.E.T.S.S. (Natn'l Educ Tech Stndrds for Students). I should take being professionally, globally connected more seriously and attach myself to others blogs and wikis and share my resources, use other's ideas, and encourage my collegues contribute to my profession through social networking. We can and should capture learning through audio, video, cell phone, emailing, posting, linking, synching. We should allow students (and encourage teachers) to collaborate, share files, reflect, etc. in real time. And we need to remember that our exit plan for everything we do should include leaving a valuable "mark" so that all of our work can be preserved with forever in mind.
 * BYOL-Interactive NETS: free resources and projects for digital-aged learning (standards and NETS embedded into cross-curriular projects)
 * BYOL-Design With Forever in Mind (capture and preserve learning with Web 2.0)
 * http://interactivenets.wikispaces.com/ (Excellent breakdown of each standard and it's bullets using various Web 2.0 tools to complete projects for various grade levels. Very organized and thorough. It has links that will take you way beyond what you thought you knew!)
 * [] (Download the power point and play. From there you'll be able to go to links that provide resources)
 * [] (From NETS in Action BYOL - many are familiar, they have new look: search the INTERACTIVE lessons!, plethora of standards-based projects. You can also join, submit lessons and get paid!)


 * Tuesday **

Classes: Resources:
 * Big Idea:** It's important for teachers to allow students to be the teachers (because Web 2.0 maybe too confusing for teacher's to use, and that's okay). We are there to provide content and curriculum and they should be free to use Web 2.0 (the Cloud) to teach, share, collaborate, and reflect.
 * BYOL-Getting Your Message Across: exploring new online website editors
 * Spotlight-Oh! The things you can do with Google Forms!
 * [] (links to sites); [] (link to slideshow).
 * [] (explore all of Tammy Worcester's website! She is great)


 * Wednesday **

Classes:
 * Big Idea:** My big idea from Tuesday about letting the students become the teachers gets more reinforcement after today's sessions which poses my new big idea. How can we ensure our low income, English language learners within D.P.S. are given this opportunity and equal access to all of these resources? Also, students teaching others is not just to share their work online. It's to help others who don't understand a concept or skill. It's within the classroom, school, community, district, state, country, world.
 * BYOL-GeoTagging: An Introduction to Spatially Enabling Your Digital Media
 * Lectures & Panels-Kids teaching Kids: Empowering Students through Screencasting

Resources:
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 * Keynote and other Special Sessions **


 * Big Idea:** Content used to rule the web, but now the web is all about communcation (networking). With so much data and so many tools we must focus on making knowledge (metadata), not more data for the archives. How do we really guide our students to really drill down content from the web? And as Jeff Pionteck and Judy O'Connell both would agree, once we get knowledge, we must share it and stay linked, and spread the word to other students and educators about our process.

Sessions: Resources
 * Today's Global Learners = Tomorrow's Global Leaders Dr. Jeff Piontek (Hawaii)
 * Content Used to be King, Now What? Judy O'Connell (Australia)
 * [] Below are some of engine/tools to help drill down content:
 * [] (crap detection)
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 * [], http://springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com/
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Final / overall reflections on how you plan to integrate what you learned at ISTE into your classroom )
 * Implications for your Classroom ** (DRAFT)

With an endless amount of free Web 2.0 tools available, which ones will we use and why? I will really focus on N.E.T.S. for students next year. I will use the examples from Interactive N.E.T.S. (my first session) since they did all of the work and were generous to share their lessons with us! Also, our school recently added laptops/doc cams/mimio's for teachers, and so I will continue to promote N.E.T.S. for teachers. I.S.T.E. really helped me ground myself to the foundation of teaching in the tech lab/library. Now that I've worked in the lab for a year, I feel better able to combine all of the standards to produce quality work (knowledge) using Web 2.0.

Google is really amazing and I think that most teachers and students only using a very small portion of what they have to offer (basic search by keyword or asking a question and for images, and maybe iGoogle for customizing homepage & RSS feeds/gmail). Working within an ECE-5th grade setting, I see using Google as a valuable to for me to stay organized, collect student data through the use of quick assessments in the lab and surveys, etc. more for my use as a professional. I really need to focus on improving the way students search for information using Google, and other sites like, QuinturaKids. I want to show them Google Wonder Wheel and search Cube. I want to experiment with using Prezi.com so that students can collaborate, publish, and share their work with others. Also, I love using my wiki for the library/tech lab homepage, but I now want to explore using another website editor, or at least reorganize/upgrade my wiki. My plan is to share, share, share using my wiki.