1. Feb. 2-4 2009

2. Technology that our students use Technology that our students use Free technology tools and applications Free technology tools and applications How our students learn How our students learn What we might want to include in Computer Apps and PC Concepts What we might want to include in Computer Apps and PC Concepts Most ETech sessions are posted on the Etech website Most ETech sessions are posted on the Etech website

3. Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants Collaborative Collaborative Visually stimulated Visually stimulated Multi tasking Multi tasking Non linear (6 degrees of separation lesson idea) Non linear (6 degrees of separation lesson idea)

4. Cell Phone Cell Phone Internet Internet Ipod and other Mp3 players Ipod and other Mp3 players Video game platforms Video game platforms Social networks (blogs) Social networks (blogs) Twitter Twitter YouTube YouTube

5. Read Write Web Read Write Web – Network – Collaborate – Publish – Improve upon – Publish again Mash ups Mash ups

6. Morphing into mini computing devices Morphing into mini computing devices Texting is slowly replacing emails Texting is slowly replacing emails Record podcasts Record podcasts Student response systems Student response systems Digital photography Digital photography Video recording Video recording Calculating Calculating

8. Enable to create collaborative websites Enable to create collaborative websites Easy to create Easy to create Great for collaboration – long distance, own time, project based learning Great for collaboration – long distance, own time, project based learning Reversable Reversable Wikis can be private Wikis can be private Comments can be previewed Comments can be previewed PB Wiki (email, password, name your wiki) PB Wiki (email, password, name your wiki)

9. Document sharing -Google Reader, etc Document sharing -Google Reader, etc Blogging - Google Blogger aka blogspot Blogging - Google Blogger aka blogspot Wikis - PB Wiki and Others Wikis - PB Wiki and Others Polling - Poll anywhere Polling - Poll anywhere Podcasting – Gcasting, vocaroo Podcasting – Gcasting, vocaroo Productivity – Dial2do Productivity – Dial2do Virtual reality – second life Virtual reality – second life Social Networking – NING Social Networking – NING Plurk – twitter like app Plurk – twitter like app TeacherTube – educational Utube TeacherTube – educational Utube Flickr – can be set up for a class Flickr – can be set up for a class

10. OurClassSpace ($35 per year) OurClassSpace ($35 per year) Merlot Merlot ITunesU ITunesU Alice Alice AMD game toolkit4 social change ****** AMD game toolkit4 social change ****** Ohio Resource center Ohio Resource center Google SketchUp Google SketchUp Delicious Delicious Animation Site Pal (fee site) Animation Site Pal (fee site) Slideshare.net Slideshare.net

12. Safety concerns Safety concerns Trust and responsibility Trust and responsibility Blocked sites Blocked sites Legitimacy Legitimacy Bandwidth Bandwidth Copywrite Copywrite

13. Incorporate websites, wikis, blogs and/or social networks in our classes Incorporate websites, wikis, blogs and/or social networks in our classes – PLC time can be spent developing expertise in a piece of the conversation web and then sharing with each other Redesign PC Concepts as Web 2.0 (or 3.0 by the time we get there) as a project based collaborative class Redesign PC Concepts as Web 2.0 (or 3.0 by the time we get there) as a project based collaborative class – Students have majority of responsibility for designing and interacting with content