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Flick: Make a Badge http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne October 13 From conzemius@sartell.k12.mn.us  , @http://www.commoncore.org/p21.php "Our Picks" NEH’s Picturing America allows people of all ages to learn about our nation�s heritage through some of our greatest works of art. http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/index.php?sec=home

End of an era http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Zmuda2010-v27n1p5.html

**AASL-SIGMS Virtual Learning Community: Multi-Dimensional Learning Spaces** Tuesday, Oct 26th at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT Guest facilitator: David Jakes __Description__: In this session, we'll discuss the importance of space to learning, and how schools must rethink how space is designed and allocated to support new dimensions of learning. Specifically, a model for a multi-dimensional learning space that blends both physical and digital elements will be presented. Our collaborative discussion will then consider and assess the role that the library and librarians have in creating and sustaining such a space. __Location__: @http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Island/127/102/29 in 2nd Life. See @http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/Second+Life for more information on how to connect in Second Life.

September 24 Sites to get TV programs http://www.tvduck.com http://www.yidio.com

September 13 from email : SIGMS Fantastic site with many published resources in print form sample: http://issuu.com/richardbyrne/docs/how_to_do_11_techy_things/1

AASL-SIGMS Virtual Learning Community: Free Technology for Teachers Tuesday, Sept 21st at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT Guest facilitator: Richard Byrne Description: Attend this meeting to meet the popular blogger, Richard Byrne, as he introduces resources cited in his blog "Free Technology for Teachers" (http://www.freetech4teachers.com) Come and share your free technology resources, too.

September 7: ISTE INNOVATION AND LEARNING WIKI: http://sigilt.iste.wikispaces.net/innovative+learning

Because we wanted a professionally published final product and we were just plain curious, we decided to use the Book Smart software that is available from www.Blurb.com.

The use of Flip cameras http://www.iste-community.org/group/sigms

email received: video conference site for teachers and info HEC-TV Live! is pleased to invite you to join us for **"The Science Behind Flight: Soaring the Sky."** Tim Gore Interactive Coordinator HEC-TV Live Phone: 314 531 4455 Email: live@hectv.org

http://www.cilc.org/program_detail_new.aspx?id=3352 Sample: http://mobridge.more.net/ http://150.199.24.201/wmsdownloads/mobridge/04170910am.wmv
 * Date: September 23, 2010 **
 * Times: 10 to 11 a.m. CDT and 1 to 2 p.m. CDT **
 * Grade Levels: 7-12 **
 * Cost: No Fee **

http://kc3.cilc.org/ Students in grades 6 - 12 create an engaging and dynamic videoconference content program about their community to be offered to classrooms internationally.

inspire video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnczBr-5FTs

ISTE Convention Denver Resources http://www.edubloggercon.com/ Political Stuff: http://www.smartmobs.com/

http://www.teachers.tv/

Critical Thinking Howard Rheingold Blogger About: http://web20classroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/edchat-special-conversation-with-howard.html http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/ Short Video: http://www.socialmedia.biz/2009/07/18/howard-rheingold-on-essential-media-literacies/ Crap Detection 101 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?blogid=108&entry_id=42805

more ISTE 6/21/10 http://learninginhand.com/pdas/ Schools have been using Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs for a number of years. Devices running the Palm Operating System or Windows Mobile are called PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). PDAs made for great learning tools. There are dozens of educational applications for these devices and lots of resources for teachers. Nowadays it's difficult to find PDAs that are not also phones. [|iPod touch] and [|iPad] are now the handhelds of choice.

5/26/10 Media Specialists Organizations with access to blogs for information

[| http://mnlearningcommons.org/]

MnLC Mission
The mission of the Minnesota Learning Commons is to provide access to effective and efficient online learning provided by Minnesota public education partners. [| http://memotech.ning.com/] Welcome to the Minnesota Educational Media Organization web site. MEMO is an organization serving school media and information technology professionals.

[| http://memotech.ning.com/] Welcome to the Minnesota Educational Media Organization web site. MEMO is an organization serving school media and information technology professionals

Upcoming Conferences TCSTG will Attend:

Twelfth-Annual Minnesota Catholic Home Education Conference and Curriculum Fair
=== May 28-29, 2010 Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota=== [| http://www.mnconference.org/index.html]

The next Education Minnesota [| Professional Conference] takes place Oct. 21 and 22. If you want to reach Minnesota educators, the 2010 Education Minnesota Professional Conference is the place to do it. The annual conference attracts 10,000-plus teachers, student teachers and other educators. It’s the only two-day comprehensive professional development opportunity in the state. For booth information, call Jennie Howard at 651-767-1283.  Jennie.Howard@educationminnesota.org Hello Thomas – Thank you for contacting us regarding presenting a workshop at the Education Minnesota Professional Conference in October. Attached is a workshop Request for Proposal (RFP) form for you to fill out and mail back to me when you can. If I can help you further, contact me anytime. Have a good day! Wendy M. Nelson Education Issues Office Assistant Education Minnesota 41 Sherburne Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55103 651-292-4834; wendy.nelson@ educationminnesota.org

=== 2010 MEMO Fall Conference Thriving in Adversity: Finding Balance in Challenging Times Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2010 St. Cloud Civic Center - St. Cloud, MN=== on line registration [| http://www.tfaforms.com/158109]

Registration for the MEMO Fall Conference is now available. Sign up now! Our keynote speakers will be Buffy Hamilton, "The Unquiet Librarian" and Cathy Nelson, from Paul M. Dorman High School in Roebuck, South Carolina. Both of these speakers will demonstrate how technology and school libraries naturally fit together to help students achieve.


 * CALL FOR PRESENTERS FOR MEMO FALL CONFERENCE 2010**

MEMO is now seeking presenters for the 2010 Fall Conference, which will be held at the Kelly Inn and St. Cloud Civic Center in St. Cloud on September 30-October 2, 2010. Please complete the Presenter Application Form at this link [| Fall Conference 2010 Presenter (2).doc] and email to Gina Light at gmlight@chaska.net. The deadline for applying to present is June 15, 2010. Thank you!

[| http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/glance/schedule.php]

ISTE 2010 Conference June 27-30 Colorado Convention Center Now in its 31st year, ISTE's Annual Conference & Exposition features an amazing array of professional learning and collaborative networking opportunities. As part of your [| conference registration], you can choose from more than ** 600 sessions ** — ,135 additional workshops, and informal learning environments everywhere you turn, ISTE 2010 provides ** leadership and professional development for the entire education team. ** [| http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/]

Technology in Education Colorado "It is our mission to provide a platform and forum, for classroom teachers in Colorado and surrounding states, to improve, expand and share knowledge on best practices in classroom technology integration." [| http://www.tiecolorado.org/]

2010 Annual Conference, Washington, DC: June 24–29, 2010 [| http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/hall-erickson/ala_2010conference/]

MORE STUFF:

 Directory of Charter Schools [| http://www.mncharterschools.org/page/1/directory.jsp]
 * Call 800.624.5669 to Speak with a D&B Representative. **

Great Photographs and video teaching tools resource [| http://www.learnnc.org]

Here are some sample from this site
 * 55 records tagged with [| African Americans]
 * 172 records tagged with [| American Indians]
 * 60 records tagged with [| American Revolution]
 * 103 records tagged with [| animals]
 * 79 records tagged with [| archaeology]
 * 363 records tagged with [| history]
 * 182 records tagged with [| maps]
 * 56 records tagged with [| National Monument]
 * 96 records tagged with [| religion]
 * 170 records tagged with [| women]
 * 139 records tagged with [| World War II]

5/4/10 Partnership for 21st Century skills framework by Jody Ouradnik Hopkins School District Video Training [| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2oIesRQGbE&feature=channel] Sites used in this training: [| http://www.p21.org/route21/] [| http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS] www.atomiclearning.com/uk/en/download/la_staff-dev-guide.pdf [| http://www.p21.org/]

series of youtube tutorial from Atomic Learning, click on 31 videos to see all This one in on planetfesto - Making a slideshow "your thought on saving the earth with slides" [| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uL8tFhNQb8]

voicethread Ning [| http://voicethread.ning.com/]

4/21/10 Career curriculum resource [| http://msn.careerbuilder.com/MSN/Category.aspx?categoryid=CL] [| http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/gettingthejob/a/Interviewing.htm]

4/19/10

What is ThinkQuest?
ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills.

It includes:
 * [| ThinkQuest Projects] (formerly Think.com): A project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning
 * [| ThinkQuest Competition] : A competition space where students participate in technology contests
 * [| ThinkQuest Library] : The world's largest online repository of student-developed learning projects, visited by millions of web learners each month
 * [| ThinkQuest Professional Development] : A comprehensive training offering for educators

http://www.thinkquest.org/en/

Discovery has both paid service and free on-line resources [| http://www.discoveryeducation.com/]

Using Cel Phones in Education [| http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech248.shtml]

"Cel Phone Part of much larger site [| http://www.educationworld.com]

4/14/10 PBS Video: Digital Nation: Frontline producers have collected stories about our online world, asking parents, grandparents, young adults and children how they use technology. [| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/]

PBS Video: How to educate kids in the digital age. [| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/concentration/?utm_campaign=videoplayer&utm_medium=fullplayer&utm_source=relatedlink]

Grant application ttp://foundation.verizon.com/

4/13/10 Added resources http://cooltoolsforschools. wikispaces.com/

Tom and others, Glad to see you put cooltoolsforschools to use and shared it with everyone. Wanted to also let you know about www.thinkfinity.org  Another pretty good resource for teachers and a source with some lesson plans. A final resource I have looked into and was referred to me is www.21stcenturyskills.org/ route2. Don't know much about it and haven't really had the time to dive into it. Good luck!!Brad

[| http://www.voki.com/] [| http://earth.google.com/]
 * Alena Behr ** [| http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm]
 * Kari Klocke-Salminen ** [| artinthepicture.com]
 * Penny Koets ** [| http://www.kodalychaptermn.org]
 * Mark Petersen ** [| http://voicethread.com/#home]

Fun site with lots of information: ** To empower teachers with meaningful relevant professional development. ** [| http://www.weteachwelearn.org/]

[| http://www.pandora.com/] [| http://free.napster.com/] [| http://freeplaymusic.com/index.php]
 * Where can I get free music?**

 Lets start by learning what a wiki is: [| wikis in plan english] create your own wiki [| http://www.wikispaces.com] sample wikis http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

Create your own blog [| http://www.blogger.com] Sample blog Blog: [| http://mrayer.blogspot.com/]
 * Next** lets learn what a Blog is: [| Blogs in plan english]

Great Resources: A) Internet resources for digital lesson materials http://www.teachersdomain.org/  Perhaps the most interesting resource for me is this one because it has K -12 lesson plans, flash interactive: students watch slide show, and can take their own notes and or watch quick time movies on the subject.  http://www.edutopia.org/  George Lucas Foundation. Edutopia has lots of good links to check out. Lesson plans with videos, teacher webinars  http://www.hippocampus.org/  Secondary and College level course content, nicely indexed into small bit size lesson units.  http://educationalwikis. wikispaces.com/Examples+of+ educational+wikis  The educational wikis on this page are listed in alphabetical order.  http://www.mnlearningcommons. org/ Has career search tools.

[| http://www.teachersdomain.org/collection/k12/la.rv/]

BBC teacher resource sites [| http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/] [| http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse.html] [| http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/] [| http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/] [| http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/]

[| http://www.hippocampus.org/]
 * ||  || [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Algebra;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Algebra] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Algebra%20%28Spanish%29;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Algebra (Spanish)] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/American%20Government;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| American Government] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Biology;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Biology] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Calculus;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Calculus] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Calculus%20%28Spanish%29;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Calculus (Spanish)] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Environmental%20Science;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Environmental Science] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Physics;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Physics] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Psychology;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Psychology] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Religion;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Religion] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/Statistics;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| Statistics] ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/US%20History;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| US History] ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default/navigation/arrow_right_n.jpg caption="external image arrow_right_n.jpg" link="http://www.hippocampus.org/US%20History;jsessionid=1AD652CCADCDF312FD753920F6AA3EFC"]] [| US History] ||  ||

[| The ascent of Learning 2.0.pdf] [| At Michigan LearnPort, Teachers Tap Social Networking.pdf] [| Baby Steps in Web 2.0 Education.pdf] [| Becoming Network Wise.pdf] [| Best of Both Literacies.pdf] [| Beyond Technology for Technology's Sake - Advancing Multiliteracies in the Twenty-First Century.pdf] [| Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts - Chapter 4.pdf] [| Blog On - Building Communication and Collaboration among Staff and Students.pdf] [| Building an e-Portfolio.pdf] [| Can Web 2.0 Improve Our Collaboration.pdf] [| Children and Their Digital Dossiers - Lessons in Privacy Rights in the Digital Age.pdf] [| Choice Theory and Student Success.pdf] [| Courtside - MySpace.pdf] [| Cybersullying and You.pdf] [| David Warlick's Web 2.0 Handouts.pdf] [| Digital Literacy.pdf] [| Digital spaces and young people's online authoring - Challenges for teachers.pdf] [| Do-It-Yourself Broadcasting - Writing Weblogs in a Knowledge Society.pdf] [| Don't Be Afraid to Explore Web 2.0.pdf] [| Educational applications of Web 2.0 - Using blogs to support teaching and learning.pdf] [| Educational Uses of Blogs and Wikis.pdf] [| The emerging Web 2.0 social software - an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education.pdf] [| Enrichment 2.0 - Giftend and Talented Education for the 21st Century.pdf] [| Facebook Fracas.pdf] [| Five Steps to Developing a Powerful Social Networking Strategy.pdf] [| Footprints in the Digital Age.pdf] [| Four Web 2.0 Collaborative Writing Tools.doc] [| Gaga for Google in the Twenty-First Century Advanced Placement Language Classroom.pdf] [| Go With the Flow - Do your peers run the other way when you mention blogs and wikis - These talking points can help turn the tide.pdf] [| The Grades That Vanished and Some Other Threats That Happened to Students Data.doc] [| Information Literacy 2.0 - Empowering Students Through Personal Engagement.pdf] [| Joy of Blogging.pdf] [| Learning with Blogs.pdf] [| Learning With Wikis PowerPoint.pdf] [| Learning with Wikis.pdf] [| Learning with Wikis Powerpoint - Orech.pdf] [| Let's Talk 2.0.pdf] [| The Medium - Sepia No More.doc] [| Mining the Internet - A Space for Writing without Writing.pdf] [| A New Face for Schools - Harnessing the power of social networks can be a key to student - and district - success.pdf] [| New Literacies - Enrichment or Essential.pdf] [| The Next Wave Now - Web 2.0.pdf] [| Podcasting 101.doc] [| Preserve the Child in Every Learner.pdf] [| Privacy and Social Networking Sites.pdf] [| Radical change and wikis - teaching new literacies.pdf] [| The Reinvented Net.pdf] [| Research on Writing Conventions - U R What U Write.pdf] [| Rethinking Online Reading.pdf] [| Skills 2.0 - Web 2.0 gives learning professionals an aptitude adjustment.pdf] [| Social Networking Services.pdf] [| Social Networking Technologies as Vehicles of Support for Women in Learning Communities.pdf] [| Social Scholarship - Applying Social Networknig Technologies to Research Practices.pdf] [| Supporting Dialogic Literacy Through Mashing and Modding of Places and Spaces.pdf] [| Teacher's Pal - Should You 'Friend' Your Teacher.pdf] [| Teaching Business in a Web 2.0 World.pdf] [| Tecktalk - Wikis and Collaborative Knowledge Construction.pdf] [| 10 Twitter Tips for Higher Education.pdf] [| Think Outside the Blog.doc] [| Three Challenges of Web 2.0.pdf] [| 21st Century Booktalks.pdf] [| Twittering Dante - New Models for Student Writing in the Digital Age.pdf] [| Unlock the Web with Open Source.pdf] [| Ways to Wiki.pdf] [| Web, Library, and Teen Services 2.0.pdf] [| Web Tools - The Second Generation.pdf] [| Web 2.0 & You.pdf] [| Web 2.0 and Emergent Multiliteracies.pdf] [| Web 2.0 - Does It Really Matter.pdf] [| Web 2.0 Literacy Tools.pdf] [| Web 2.0 Meets the New-Age Professional.pdf] [| Web 2.0 tools and processes in higher education - quality perspectives.pdf] [| Welcome to Our Virtual Worlds.pdf] [| Welcome to the Blogosphere - The educational use of blogs.pdf] [| What You Need to Know About Web 2.0.pdf] [| Wikis Make Learning Wicked Fun.doc] || ||
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