Mister Mak's Learning 2.0

This workshop was a great opportunity for me personally to meet, face to face, many of the folks I converse with online. One of the ideas that came from it that I'd like to see happen in the future is for Houston-area ed tech (and non-ed tech) folks to gather face-to-face periodically to extend the conversations about all things tech and more Texas and Houston specific topics. This idea was originally put out there by Chris Duke and I hope it will take fruition soon.

Steve shared one site of note that I thought was interesting. It is Weebly, a really cool and easy way to create websites by dragging and dropping embeddable components. My eight year old took an immediate liking to it and started dropping all sorts of media to create his first page. I think this tool could be a great way to introduce younger children to creating content that is dynamic and fun.

See many of you at NECC next week! I am SO looking forward to the conversations and the networking and ways to better implement technology for my teachers and students.

Eat more ribs! ;-)

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1. Google Earth - Ideas for the Classroom (3 hr.)
2. GarageBand in the Classroom (3 hr.)

Now, I have some work to do.

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How did this panel discussion originate?

On Monday, September 17, 2007, Google launched the Google Presentation web application to their suite of services. News of this new service spread quickly through the blogosphere and Twitter and soon more than fifty different people made over 500 edits in a twenty-four hour period to one Google presentation. Since introduced, this presentation has been used by hundreds of people to begin conversations centered on free online tools used to weave a web of connections between people around the world.

As a result of this transformational experience, educators begin discussing the importance of sharing the changing nature of professional development and documentation of best practices in VIRAL professional development. The proposal was written in Google Docs and since acceptance, an expanded group of educators around the world has used a wiki, elluminate, and a variety of tools to bring a collaborative, immersive viral PD experience to NECC and to people around the world.

Presenters

• Vicki Davis, moderator
• Darren Draper
• Kelly Dumont
• Kristen Hokanson
• Robin Ellis
• Ryan Bretag
• Beth Ritter-Guth
• Carolyn Foote

• John Maklary
• Stephanie Sandifer

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We will be streaming the presentation live on the Open PD Ustream channel at 1:30 pm CDT on July 2nd. You may watch here and participate in the conversation (and even ask the panelists questions).

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• How do you use these tools? How are they important to your professional development? Please add your voice.

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Tags: necc08, neccprep, global, ustream, twitter, googledocs

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