Agenda+-+Full+Day

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David Sherman, Principal
South Park Elementary School - Deerfield, Illinois =// Agenda //= 1. WELCOME! I hope today's workshop will be interesting, practical, and valuable to you in your work with teachers, staff, students, and parents. 2. 21st Century Learners – Why principals need to understand them. 3. Web 2.0 – What is it? How can we use it professionally and personally? 4. Blogging – The basics, examples of edublogs, how to use blogs with staff, students, and parents/community. 5. Create your own blog. 6. RSS – What is it? Why you need to use RSS feeds. 7. Create your own RSS aggregator and add some feeds. 8. Lunch Break 9. Wikis – The basics, examples of good wikis, how to use wikis in school. 10. Create your own wiki. 11. Use Dropbox.com and Delicious.com to learn ways to solve problems with infoclutter 12. Share and discuss other Web 2.0 tools that educators should be using. This would include Google apps, Twitter, Jing, Flickr and Slide, Vimeo, Schooltube, YouTube, Technorati, Voicethread, and Photostory. 13. Discuss challenges, roadblocks, and hurdles administrators will face when using technology. 14. Review the day, discuss Academy Credit and reflection.

__OBJECTIVES FOR THE WORKSHOP:__

 * ===To teach Web 2.0 tools that can be used professionally and personally; ===
 * ===To push participants past their technology "comfort zones" and to provoke them a little; ===
 * ===To make this workshop hands-on, meaningful, useful, and applicable to our work as educators; ===
 * ===To provide participants with 5 - 10 new internet tools to start using immediately; ===
 * ===To challenge participants to use these tools for: ===
 * ===Professional development ===
 * ===Communication and collaboration ===
 * ===Critical thinking ===
 * ===To challenge participants to consider the use of these tools with teachers, parents, students, etc. ===
 * ===To help participants become self-directed in the use of technology. ===