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 * //Session 1//-** This will be a "getting to know you" session where students will introduce themselves and talk about ways they use technology in their personal and academic lives. We will have an informal conversation about social networks, and digital safety just to get a feel for where students are and how, if at all, technology is being used in their classrooms.

Then we give a short orientation to our EETT project and intro/overview of the wiki we will be using with them over the course of the school year. As part of a follow-up to Session 1 there will be grade appropriate discussion prompts for them to review and a discuss. There will also be a short online survey.
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**Agenda**
I. Welcome 2. Introductions and Elluminate Overvijew 3. How do you use computers and other technology gadgets at home? 4. How do you use computers and technology at school? 5. How do you use technology to learn? 6. Bowdrill Video and discussion 7. Did you attend the Summer workshop and create a video? Do tell. 8. Project and Project Ideas 7. Student Wiki and Follow-up Assignments 8. Close

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Homework
After today's session take a moment to look over and read the material on this page. Then go up to the discussion tab at the top of this page and reply with your answer to the question. You may also start a discussion of your own related to your reading.

**Read and think about these quotes. Then go to discussion and respond with your ideas to one or more of these ideas.**
A. "It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" – **Charles Darwin** B. "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- **Alvin Toffler** C. "Sometimes traveling to a new place leads to great transformation" --**Fortune Cookie from PF Chang's, Austin, TX** D. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists” — **Eric Hoffer** E. "The kind of questioning, collaborative, active, lateral rather than hierarchical pedagogy that participatory media both forces and enables is not the kind of change that takes place quickly or at all in public schools." -- **Howard Rheingold** F. "For any given organization, the important questions are 'When will the change happen?" and "What will change?" The only two answers we can rule out are never, and nothing." --[|Clay Shirky] G. "This isn't the time to use technology to refine the model we had before; this is a time to harness technology to let children go as far and as fast as they want." **--Stephen Heppel**

Survey
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I have kids for one hour online 4th-12th what would you show them? What examples of kids using Web 2.0 to create and learn would you show?

 * 1) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/140401170/Chamberlin_Head_Shot_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Lisa Chamberlin" link="http://twitter.com/chambo_online"]] **[|chambo_online]** @[|snbeach] @http://bit.ly/QsVls - create comic strips that are socially networked - share, comment on each other's, co-create - lots of optns  [|34 minutes ago] from [|TweetDeck]
 * 2) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/372475420/K_headshot_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Kay Lehmann" link="http://twitter.com/kay_lehmann"]] **[|kay_lehmann]** @[|snbeach] Or... have them begin writing a serial on @http://www.textnovel.com/ also can comment on writings of fellow students and others  [|about 2 hours ago] from web
 * 3) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/372475420/K_headshot_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Kay Lehmann" link="http://twitter.com/kay_lehmann"]] **[|kay_lehmann]** @[|snbeach] Have students use Wordle.net to create image for discussion on VoiceThread. Their choice of text for Wordle, shud b interesting!  [|about 2 hours ago] from web
 * 4) [[image:http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/435758957/ning2_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Denise Allen" link="http://twitter.com/DAhernAllen"]] **[|DAhernAllen]** @[|snbeach] I've used animoto.com. Cool site to show kids how to make pictures/videos, music, and words into a story. Really easy to use.  [|about 2 hours ago] from [|Power Twitter] [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 5) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/286377610/zimmieme_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Jeffrey Mason" link="http://twitter.com/jeffmason"]] **[|jeffmason]** @[|snbeach] Extreme Biology http://missbakersbiologycla...  [|about 2 hours ago] from [|Mobile Tweete] [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 6) [[image:http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/346003315/kiker_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Rich Kiker" link="http://twitter.com/rkiker"]] **[|rkiker]** @[|snbeach] google docs and aviary, great tools to match MS Office and some Adobe editing stuff for free and effectively @http://bit.ly/LVgs  [|about 2 hours ago] from [|TweetDeck] [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 7) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/269504704/green_7581_newspaper_photo_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="debwhite" link="http://twitter.com/debwhite"]] **[|debwhite]** @[|snbeach] I'd show them Scratch at: @http://scratch.mit.edu/  [|about 2 hours ago] from web [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 8) [[image:http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/60483289/picture_08_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Mark Clemente" link="http://twitter.com/mcleme4419"]] **[|mcleme4419]** @[|snbeach] Voicethread and Animoto  [|about 2 hours ago] from [|Seesmic] [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 9) [[image:http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/58477387/hemomi_gmail.com_1e924c96_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="Liana Honda" link="http://twitter.com/lihonda"]] **[|lihonda]** @[|snbeach] for kids 13 yrs old on up I would show them the wonders of google...docs, etc. and diigo or delicious.  [|about 2 hours ago] from web [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 10) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/377509846/Kitchener_normal.jpg width="48" height="48" caption="kiTchenerd" link="http://twitter.com/kiTchenerd"]] **[|kiTchenerd]** @[|snbeach] Voicethreads or animoto as digital story telling.  [|about 2 hours ago] from [|TwitterGadget] [|in reply to snbeach]
 * 11) [[image:http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/421642026/DSC02392aa_normal.JPG width="48" height="48" caption="Mike" link="http://twitter.com/fisher1000"]] **[|fisher1000]** @[|snbeach] Show them Delicious and how to find resources! (Focused searching, tagged lists, using tags, etc.)  [|about 2 hours ago] from [|iTweet] [|in reply to snbeach]