1. Using Technology to Create Awareness about Youth and Problem Gambling Susan McLaughlin, Meryl Menon, Rosemary Nichols CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

2. Technologies Addressed Webinar: Web-based seminar http://www.gotomeeting.com/fec Wiki: a web site for collaboration http://choosetherightpath.wikispaces.com VoiceThread: Conversations around Media http://voicethread.com/?#u409843.b631817.i3354593 Course Management System http://moodle.org Participant Feedback https://www.surveymonkey.com Audience Response http://www.polleverywhere.com CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

3. These tools are changing how people, including our students, interact with the world. The changing nature of information and the new ways our students understand and make sense of the world signal that we need new strategies and new tools for teaching and learning. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools, Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum, ISTE, 2007

4. CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010 Technology- if it isn’t frustrating you, you are not using it properly. Quotation from participant in a “chat” during a Global Conference on Classroom Connections Amidst Political Change, presenters in USA, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt, April 20, 2011

5. Webinar Sites Go To Meeting http://www.gotomeeting.com Web Ex http://www.webex.com/ Elluminate http://www.elluminate.com/ http://www.learncentral.org/ Join Me https://join.me/ CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

6. Integrating Problem Gambling Awareness into the Curriculum

7. Some Tech Issues Showing and Hiding the Control Panel Raising hands Writing in the Question/Chat area CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

8. Project Team: Our Presenters CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010 Meryl B. Menon, M.A.T., M.Ed Education Consultant merylbm@gmail.com Susan D. McLaughlin, M.P.A., CPP Prevention Services Coordinator, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), Problem Gambling Services susan.mclaughlin@po.state.ct.us 860-262-5983 Rosemary Nichols, B.S. Education Service Specialist & Health Educator, Capitol Region Education Council (CREC), Technical Assistance and Brokering Service (TABS) Division ronichols@crec.org 860-524-4040 Webinar and wiki photos courtesy of GAMES (Gambling Awareness in Monroe through Educating Our Students). Special thanks to students and staff at Jockey Hollow Middle School and Masuk High School, Monroe Connecticut.

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10. Objectives 1.To create an awareness in educators of gambling and problem gambling; 2.To empower educators to embed gambling as a risky behavior in lessons on addiction; 3.To provide feedback and support to educators as they incorporate these concepts in their teaching. CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

11. What caption would you give this photo? Please use the chat area for your response. CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010 AP Photo/The Forum, Britta Trvgsted

12. Objective 1: To create an awareness in educators of gambling and problem gambling CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

13. How does gambling relate to what we now know about adolescent brain development? Visit this website to view a 5-minute film by psychologist Ken Winters: www.drugfree.org/teenbrain www.drugfree.org/teenbrain 1. Register with name/email. 2. Click on “enter site”. 3. View video in lower right corner of screen. CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

14. Objective 2: To empower educators to embed gambling as a risky behavior in lessons on addiction CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

15. Objective 3: To provide feedback and support to educators as they incorporate these concepts in their teaching. CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

16. Resources and Collaborative Opportunities Wiki : a web site for collaboration Choose the Right Path wiki http://choosetherightpath.wikispaces.co m/ http://choosetherightpath.wikispaces.co m/ where participants can access information and contribute to discussions the link in a follow-up email message that participants will receive one day after the presentation. instructions for required work for CEUs on one page CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

18. Table of Contents: Choose the Right Path Wiki

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28. To Explore the Wiki Explore the wiki for resources and activities: http://choosetherightpath.wikispaces.com/ To enter the discussion forum, click on Adolescent Brain on the right of the screen under Prevention See handout for further instructions. CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

29. Course Management Systems Blackboard Blackboard Learn technology helps you make learning more effective in and beyond the traditional walls. http://www.blackboard.com/ http://www.blackboard.com/ Moodle Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites http://moodle.org/ CT DMHAS Problem Gambling Services, Choose the Right Path, 2010

31. We are still at the beginning of a radically different relationship with the Internet, one that has long-standing implications for educators and students. The coming years will be marked by a flood of new innovation and ideas in teaching, most born from the idea that we can now publish and interact in ways never before possible. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, Will Richardson, Corwin Press, 2009