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__ **Welcome!** __ // **From Theory to Practice:** // ** Using Web 2.0 Tools for Professional Development ** David Sherman, Principal, South Park Elementary School - Deerfield, Illinois April 12, 2012

principalsherman.wikispaces.com

__You will need the following:__

1. Access to an email account 2. A Google Account (You don't have one? Then sign up at [|Google.com])

Agenda

1. WELCOME! I hope today's __**WORKSHOP**__ will be interesting, practical, and valuable to you in your own professional development. 2. 21st Century Learners – Why principals need to understand them. 3. Web 2.0 – What is it? How can we use it professionally? 4. Blogs, RSS, and RSS Aggregators

Lunch Break

5. Why Social Networking for Administrators 6. Twitter 7. Social Bookmarking 8. Google Apps 9. Wikis – The basics, examples of good wikis, how to use wikis in school 10. Discuss challenges, roadblocks, and hurdles administrators will face when using technology. 11. Review the day, discuss Academy Credit and reflection.

__OBJECTIVES FOR THE WORKSHOP:__
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 * ===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 ===
 * ===Modeling for staff and students ===
 * ===To challenge participants to consider the use of these tools with teachers, parents, students, etc. ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24px;">To help participants become self-directed in the use of technology. ===