Thursdaya

=[|Movie Time]=

Homework-
Use this- [|Pageflakes] page created by Adrian Bruce to find 2-3 blogs that interest you. Leave a comment. Then go to our [|workshop blog] and share the link with us of the blog you commented on. Be sure and add the blog to your Google Reader. Then check out the blogs that others went to (by reading the comments) and either add them to your aggregator (if they interest you) or add to the conversation on the blog they linked to or both! Be sure and add Adrian's Pageflake's page to your delicious bookmarks.

//Outcomes for this activity:// - you are finding, vetting, and reading blogs - you are using blogs for scholarly practice and personal growth - you are a producer of information and not just a consumer - you are learning some basic html - you are using your RSS aggregator - you are gaining an awareness of Pageflakes as a RSS reader and content organizer - you are becoming skilled at using delicious as a bookmarking tool.

9:15-10:30
=Cool Tools- Let's Get Started Thinking about the Tools of the 21st Century Classroom=

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=Resources=

//**BLOGS**//
[|Blogging Clip] Places to Blog http://www.blogger.com/start http://www.edublogs.org/ http://classblogmeister.com/index.php http://www.takingitglobal.org https://www.imbee.com/ http://www.think.com

User Roles in Edublog [|Explanation of User Roles in Edublogs]

Elementary Kids and Blogs http://www.mamkschools.org/mas/class/grade4/brune/2005/mr.brune/commenting.mov http://anne.teachesme.com/2006/09/19/webquest-on-blogging/ http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/34308060831081120/ http://concepts.pbwiki.com/Read http://itc.blogs.com/podcast/files/Zachary32bit.mp3 http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/georgia/ http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 http://wilsonwhiskers.blogspot.com/

Secondary Kids and Blogs http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/ http://room613talk05.edublogs.org/ http://sphsdigital2.blogspot.com/ http://abpc.wikispaces.com/Darren http://www.oldeschoolspace.org/_weblog/everyone.php http://sherylnb.suprglu.com/

**Want to Know More?**** Want to Know More about Blogs and Wikis?**
//**examples**// http://delicious.com/abpcjohn

//**ask..**// http://www.classroom20.com/ http://www.tappedin.org http://supportblogging.com/

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/03/ten-habits-of-bloggers-that-win.html http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/03/power-of-newbie.html http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-do-i-easily-add-tags-to-my-blog.html http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-set-up-classroom-blog-using.html http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/ http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/teaching_with_blogs/teaching_with_blogs?save=true#Blogging%20in%20Secondary%20School http://maythetechbewithyou.wikispaces.com/blogs http://abpc.wikispaces.com/
 * //how To//**

//**policies and safety**// http://budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.blogsafety.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1200000037

Other Tools
//**FLICKR**// http://flickr.com/ http://www.mappr.com/ http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection/http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980/

Alex Ragone tackles this tough question on his [|"Learning Blog"] and many other deep thinkers responded. Jeff Utecht reflects on how his teacher's use of blogs and wikis in purposeful ways makes them [|Teacher 2.0.] I interview NECC07 attendees on what they call Teacher 2.0 and capture their responses as text posts and podcasts [|here] [|here] [|here] and [|here].

This week we have talked about how the world has changed, how students have changed, how schools should change - now let's focus on how teachers should change. After you create your blog, create a **short** post on what it means or doesn't mean to be a 21st Century teacher. What are the characteristics of a successful 21st Century teacher? What does a 21st Century teacher need to be able to do with their students that a 20th Century teacher did not have to do?

photo credit: Mark Treadwell

2:25- 2:30- Debrief
=//Worth Thinking About//=

//We should be thinking from the ground up. That's different from changing everything. However, we first have to understand how we got the education system that we now have. Teachers are wonderful, and there are hundreds of thousands of them who are creative and terrific, but they are operating in a system that is completely out of time. It is a system designed to produce industrial workers.//

Alvin Toffler
I//'m a wordsmith. I write books. I love books. So I don't want to be an accomplice to their death. But clearly, they're not enough. The textbooks are the same for every child; every child gets the same textbook. Why should that be? Why shouldn't some kids get a textbook -- and you can do this online a lot more easily than you can in print -- why shouldn't a kid who's interested in one particular thing, whether it's painting or drama, or this or that, get a different version of the textbook than the kid sitting in the next seat, who is interested in engineering?//