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 **​ Cleveland Hill's Learning Showcase ** by: Danielle Bellman, Colin Miller, Mrs. McDougal-Domroes media type="custom" key="4942705" width="120" height="120"  [|**http://clevehill.glogster.com/clevehills-glog/**] 

**//The Blocked Website Phenomenon://** //Why do schools want to keep students from efficiently communicating and collaborating?//

//In conclusion...Why should we promote the use of digital learning that can be used for effective communcation and collaboration? //
 * **They're Uninformed.** If schools knew how effective tools such as FlipCams, Skype (for distance learning), and Glogster were, they could easily engage their students, and create the digital cirriculum to their level, and their advantage.
 * **Low Comfort Level**. This is exciting! This is new! If teachers want their students to be fast, efficient, hard workers who are creative in work in teams, digital learning is the way to go. This is new for schools and hard to accept--the fact that books and pen-on-paper assignments are the ways of the past. This is a new age.
 * **Internet Community Caution.** To use web 2.0 tools, 9 times out of 10 one has to join the tool's online community. How can we know it's safe? How can we trust it? This is very unsettling for educators. But kids are using the internet all the time and are being exposed to these dangers consantly. It's the educator's job to supervise and make sure the classroom is an effective, yet safe, environment to learn with.
 * **The Learning Factor.** Are my kids paying attention? How do I know? Teachers may ask themselves this while using the computers, but with such engaging and fun tools, it really is difficult not to pay attention. Putting students in their natural, digital, environment gives //them// the advantage. It gives them the ball to run with, and learn at their own pace, each with their own skills.
 * **It's free!** Students can access the information and interact with their teachers and fellow students...all for FREE. These are very tough economic times for a lot of us, and the with availability of such cool, innovative new techonologies, the fact that it's free almost seems too good to be true!
 * **It's fun!** Teachers - are you tired of seeing your kids texting, drawing, sleeping, and not paying attention in class? Get them on a computer and tell them to use THEIR element, their advantage, to learn, engage and teach others. For kids who are shy, they don't have to raise their hand in front of everyone. For more outgoing kids, they can do the same, everyone gets a fair amount of attention on a blog or a wiki!
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**There's so many possibilities!** Now with new mediums like Glogs and PhotoPeach and SmartBoard, there are many new ways students can present projects, learn from each other, communicate with their teachers, solve problems, do research and so much more.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**It's new!** These are the tools of the future that students are going to be using almost every day in the workplace. Networking is huge now and using the internet to get their name out there is a big deal.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**It's the future!** The future of past generations is being realized now, the world really is flat. We can now communicate from all different angles and mediums, to give back to the community and get our messages across. Businesses can now be faster and more efficient, information is shared and recieved by the one-second click of a button. Students should be exposed to this, because they need it, they can engage in it, and they enjoy it.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Cool Tools:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">1. Canon ZR900 Digital Camcorder 2. PhotoPeach 3. Glogster 4. WikiSpaces 5. Blogs 6. SchoolTube 7. CleveHill Website 8. Microsoft XP 9. Our Friends here at Cleveland Hill <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">...**All for free!**

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