Su


 * Su's Page (Lesanne and I visited these breakout sessions)**

=Dr. Michael Wesch "Keynote and Follow-Up" =

Books to read:

 * Metaphors We Live By** by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
 * The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less** by Barry Schwartz

Purpose Driven Course

 * exploration stage
 * guided introduction to the filed
 * self-guided research
 * publish research paper
 * share with world (video, website, etc.)

=Lucy Gray "Going Global: Preparing Students to be Citizens of the World" = lucygray.org

Websites to visit for "going global" ideas. Google them.

 * [|Arlington Heights School District 25]
 * [|Apple Distinguished Educators]
 * [|EF Tours]
 * [|Apple Learning Interchange]
 * [|Classroom 2.0]
 * ning great tool for building your own website
 * [|The Global Education Collaborative]--Lucy Gray's site
 * you can join
 * 1500 members right now
 * up since 2007
 * cluster map, free to embed in your website

Examples of global projects

 * [|Around the World in 80 schools]
 * Conversation with 80 schools over 6 months
 * [|SKYPE]
 * [|Thar She Blows]
 * TakingITGlobal project
 * whaling community--whaling around the world project
 * uses google earth
 * movies and slide shows
 * website as a collection spot
 * primary source documents
 * PhotoBooth (photos, video, green-screening)
 * green-screening means removing regular background and replacing with an image
 * Mac software
 * iChat AV
 * Garageband
 * iWeb
 * iPod and iPod Touch
 * [|huckleberry by eCam]
 * mirror that lets you film out into the audience not just you to use with iSight camera
 * Digital recording device or web site-Gcast
 * [|think.com] (Thinkquest) is a collaborative workspace
 * can publish things within your school
 * can publish out into the world
 * Blogs and wikis
 * blogs--linear
 * wikis--nonlinear

Project partner sites

 * [|iEarn]
 * [|ePals]
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Global Ed Collaborative]
 * [|YouTube]--Dance by Matt Harding

=Jen Wagner "Your Classroom, Your Tools" = jwagner.pbwiki.com

Tools:
 * [|blogmeister]--free blog cite for teachers
 * wikispaces.com
 * [|voicethread]
 * add image, add voice, save
 * becomes a webpage you can put on your webpage or whatever
 * Read: //VoiceThreads: Extending the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums//
 * //[]//
 * [|wetpaint]--create a free website about anything you like
 * [|pbwiki]
 * [|delicious]
 * [|edublogs]
 * 2nd grade ning--[|second-grade-teachers.ning.com]
 * [|secondgradeclub.ning.com]
 * Classroom 2.0--[|www.classrom20.com]
 * many, many users
 * [|EdTech Mailing List]
 * [|www.h-net.org/~edweb/]
 * email comes to you
 * Find a scientist--[|www.sciencechicago.com/content/find-a-scientist]
 * Books and Authors in your classroom--[|www2.scholastic.com/browse/read.jsp]
 * Follow and Learn--[|iditarodblogs.com/teachers/]
 * What is a ning?
 * an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks
 * a social community
 * chat and messages
 * more specific to a topic