Agenda+for+TTL+Workshop

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> Leu, D. J. - Keynote delivered to Pearson Education’s Instructional Leadership Council. Rancho Bernardo Inn. San Diego, CA.
 * Background Reading**
 * [|Web 2.0 is the Future of Education] A blog bost by Steve Hargadon
 * **The New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension: Preparing ALL Students for Their Reading Future**
 * To view the PowerPoint presentation, [|click here] (large file).

Examples and resources for Blogging Concept of a global professional learning network **-Work Time: focus on aggregators**
 * Intros**- Who we are and why we are here, gizmos intro and message that tool training will be interspersed throughout the day.
 * Watch Videos**- watch 1 together and then 1 or 2 in pairs so group gets a view of the whole
 * Blog about Videos**- summarize, were you provoked? implications for teaching and learning?
 * Discuss** content entered, and blogging as an engaging and worthwhile classroom practice
 * Good Educational Technology blogs**: http://kathyschrock.net/edtechblogs.htm for starters
 * -Explore**
 * Google Reader and iGoogle** -Use of RSS, create accounts,how to subscribe

**Social Bookmarking**- intro, set-up accounts, hunt for and/or transfer bookmarks, share bookmarks in network; use http://del.icio.us/groton.ttl
 * -Work time:** Focus on delicious


 * Podcast into TTL Blog**: Use a cell phone and Gcast (if Groton has reception...) : How may you use Social bookmarking- a sentence from 3 or 4 people


 * Photos**: Camera use, take pics, download to computer, upload to Picasa Web Album, demo flickr storm and share other photo sites
 * -Work time:** Focus on photos

Creating and using wikis examples, -get a wiki, make something with it... reflect: how to use it in the classroom


 * Webcams and Skype**

We will keep refocusing on classroom uses!