Pre-Keynote Session

A Technology Shoot-Out
Hall Davidson, Leslie Fisher and John Kuglin


*Links will not automatically be hot

Edmodo info
Backchanneling and evaluation support
Safe social networking


Full room should be a great session

FETC side notes
Android tablet giveaways
Tweetup tonight in exhibit hall 
Tech solution seminars
Then Opening General Session 


Since it's a shootout I'll try to reference who is saying what. 
We start with Hall
Director of Global Learning Initiatives for Discovery Education
Broken Camcorder can be turned into a webcam
Pre-Flip 
Showing the audience - lot's of ooo's and aaaaa's
Amazing that he's talking about a technology that's only a few years old - it's not a VHS camcorder
--This works best via firewire

Here's Leslie!
Lesliefisher.com
If your a fan of sharing - www.coveritlive.com
(May need to switch to this for my live blogging instead of Opines!)
Creates an event room - also good for backchanneling

Now John
John Kuglin
John is showing us a 5 1/4 inch floppy disc
Some people don't know what it is
Storage is a critical piece
Dropbox at getdropbox.com
"Thumb Drives are so 2000"
2 Gb of space when you sign up for dropbox and it's available everywhere and automatically synchs with all devices
Dropbox will automaticall open it even on Macs and IPADS
Each time someone you recommend signs up you get an extra 250 Mb for free up to 8 Gb

Back to Hall
Showing Paper.li
Works with Twitter and now with Facebook
To build out an online newspaper


Now Leslie
Showing Rockmelt.com
A browser that allows you to watch your Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds
Based on Google chrome
Facebook chat is integrated into Rockmelt
It was invite only until a few days ago - If you friend her she will send you and invite
I have some available as well for those of you who are my Facebook friend

John's Turn
Build your own cloud with Pogoplug
Device with a 500 Gb Hard Drive or more makes an external storage device into a cloud hard drive
Shares files as well as printing
Runs $85 dollars at Amazon
Will stream video as well (I think I just found my Birthday present to myself!)

Back to Hall
Talking about Vizio
They make flat screens with wi-fi in it with widgits that are always on the side
But what he really wanted to show us is Jamendo.com (one of my favorite sites)
Completely, royalty free music (the majority)
You must of course provide attribution


Leslie's Turn
Leslie is saying hello to people outside of the room
The restricted viewing ticket
Google was originally supposed to be Googol but domain name was taken
Origin of the Google image that changes at holidays and so forth
They changed the image to burning man because they were going to be gone for a weekend
Google map has been done with cars bikes and snowmobiles
Now showing "When Google goes bad"
Showing Google City Tours (I  just got chills - didn't know about this one)
Leslie is now sharing Google Voice - open for everyone
You get a Google number that you can attach your numbers too
Can specify what numbers are able to reach different numbers
Google earth is now being used to fine you if you have a dirty pool
Google Goats?

Here's John
Camtasia - you can download this from techsmith
Used to create online tutorials
Screencast-O-Matic is free and in the cloud
Showing how to use it and using a voiceover instead of narrating live.
Can save as mp4 or flash to create online tutorials in the cloud

Hall
Camstudio.org
Epson is making a projector less than 500 that turns any wall into a projector

Leslie
Square Reader 
Use the headphone port of your device to read credit cards
Currently works with IOS
Fees 2.5% with card 3.5% without

John
Google Apps Marketplace EDU
launched January 25th
Embedded programs
Check them out at the Brainpop booth
Embedding content with google earth = stratalogica.com
Controlling google earth on a touch screen with layers over the top containing data


Hall 
Showing the IPAD via Elmo
Gain full functionality of your computer via logmein.com Log me in ignition
So now you can make photostories on your PC from your IPAD

Leslie
Talking a bit about cms (content management system)
She's now showing Hall's
She's showing Weebly.com (how ironic)!
Makes it very easy to create a wbpage
(You may also want to check out wetpaint.com as an alternative)
You can add you own domain name to port it too, but also can offload it and host it on your own equipment

John
"Desktop Connect" also allows you to run your computer from your IPAD

Hall
cmd - ctrl - shift - 4 on your mac will paste the image into memory which you can then paste elsewhere.
camera to computer and web instantly with Eye-Fi (an SD card that sends images over wi-fi to PC or Flickr)
If you have a camera that auto turns off - make sure it stays on for at least 2 minutes so it can upload
It is slow
And you need to practice - so that it sends the image properly

You can also set up Youtube for Mobile Setup to send directly to Youtube
Good for video assignments
There is copyright notices that you need to pay attention too
You can also embed 

Leslie
More expensive sd card with wi-fi and GPS!
She's also sharing smugmug.com as a photo sharing service where you can add prices to photos, password protect them - decide who can see them.

Leslie
Orange Power - converts body heat into current
12 hours of walking for one hour of walking

John

(Now showing my favorite utility ever) - Sliderocket.com
(all of my presentations are done in Sliderocket)
Powerpoint on steroids in the cloud
Can embed presentations and get a link to share it 
He's showing how you can embed sliderocket into wikispaces

Hall
Discoveryedspeakersbureau.com
Product design team working on tech book for Florida - looking for feedback

Binural Sound
Our brains triangulate sound
reverse condenser mics

John
Showing his embeded sliderocket preso on Kuglin.com
Unveiling a dual usb document camera - can act as a document camera or a webcam
Spoon.net - find old games emulated online

Hall
45x microscope with your cell phone
portable microscope available at Amazon

Finally Leslie
With a mind-blowing application for IPhone called WordLens
Translates languages on the fly

And that's it...next up Opening Keynote with Reed Timmer


No wifi at the opening Keynote = no live blog #FAIL #FETC on that one

Presented during Session one - You can view the slides at Tinyurl.com/untanglingfetc

Decompressed and walked the floor during session 2

So....

Day 2
Session 3

Are Students in District Alternative Education Programs Disconnected?
Jennifer Kent
12:30-1:25 S310E

Really hoping to get something out of the session.  One of the schools I support is an "Alternative Education Center"

Juan Diego Cruz - Director of Instructional Technology

Kingsville - midsize district 4000 students 7 campuses one high school
Just passed $40 million dollar bond for new high school

Typical DAEP Student
Mandatory and discretionary placements
No shows and late arrivals
Disconnected from unfamiliar staff and setting
No access to core teachers
Poor transition back into regular school settings

Made the students feel disconnected

82% free and reduced lunch - but few ESL (only about 28)
Summer 2009
84 students withdrawn prior year for "home school"
Low achievement in Special Education
Declining Enrollment
Elementary schools recognized with secondary schools struggling to be acceptable
Low family involvement with neediest families
Low attendance Rates
Acadmically unacceptable for completion rates in economically disadvantage  (due to completion rate)
Completion rate = 5 years to complete

KSD New Vision Statement
To be the best district in the US
New Mission
Graduate responsible ans productive citizens who are college and career ready

Typical DAEP Student
Mandatory and discretionary placements
No shows and late arrivals
Disconnected from unfamiliar staff and setting
No access to core teachers
Poor transition back into regular school settings


Made the students feel disconnected
Facilitation was happening via CBT
Stand alone campus - cameras for surveilance
Closed the campus and sent the students back to home campuses
Paid core teachers to tutor DAEP during planning
Absorbed positions saving ($190,000)
-Principal, counseler, teacher, etc.)
DAEP cut in half

Using computers but no curriculum instruction a camera installed in english classroom and had headphones - to watch the regular classroom

Alyssa Lozano
Edward Gonzales
Sagrario Jaimes

Materials not sent to DAEP in a timely manner
Students working together - learn to talk to them


Alyssa Lozano
Edward Gonzales
Sagrario Jaimes


Materials not sent to DAEP in a timely manner
Students working together - learn to talk to them


Get students to "open up"
Making connections - Every student has a story


Phase II Restructure
AXIS P33343-V can deliver high speed video and audio
POE (Power over Ethernet)
Have to be careful about approaching teachers about adding camera and mics - building trust
They built a VLAN for security


Cameras for instuction vs surveillance
Audio: Students can hear but cannot be heard
Phase III includes creating a selection of lesson that students will be able to select
Focus on ELA, Math Science and History
Students need
Counseling
Self Discipline
Social Skills
Tutoring
Recover Credit
Guest Speakers
Partnerships with core content teachers

First group of students back in regular setting
attendance has improved
feeling of belonging
Students learn from mistakes
-rebuild self-esteem
-rebuild personal character

Question and Comment section


Session 4
How to Market Professional Development to Your Teachers
Lisa Greathouse

Backchannel: tinyurl.com/LisaFETC

PD needs to be collaborative
Simple K12
Member of tech integration team
Works on marketing team
We're not alone everyone struggles with getting people excited about Professional Development
PD is not a one way street and needs to be ongoing

Product, Price, Place and Promotion (we have control over product and promotion)


Product
What are roadblocks that prevent teachers from actively participating and engaging in PD
-Time
-Think they know it 
-Doesn't apply not relevant

Time, relevancy, apathy, outcomes, value

#Edchat
Every Tuesday Twitter conversation at 12 and 7
80 pages when pasted in Word with one example
Themes begin to develop

How do we overcome roadblocks?
#1 Embrace Social Media
-Someone is doing book studies on Facebook
-Teachers are on Facebook
-Another person makes videos that are 3 minutes or less and then create own pd by evaluating information
-Someone uses Edmodo for book studies that include parents
-Try to backchannel inservice
You can connect with people you would have never had conversations with before

#2 Be Teacher-to-Teacher
-Stopped looking outside and had teachers volunteer
-Collaborative sites with Moodle
-Having mini conferences (mostly in house)
-Creating Co-hort groups

Skype, paper.li, moodle

#3 Be self-directed by the teacher
-Curriculum challenge
-Professional Development days and they choose the programs that best fit them
-Federal Government came to PBS to have people ask questions of Arnie Duncan - They used Google Moderator

The information doesn't need to come from you instead become a community manager

-Teachers training teachers by training after sessions

#4 Be Ongoing and Supportive
-Tech integration includes fear of technology
-Can't just give them info and walk away
-Tech teams within subject areas and mentoring program
-Can facilitate creating mentoring with Social Networking


TeachMeet and EdCamp KC
Edchat.pbworks.com - An online resource for reading #Edchat

Jerry Swiatek taliking about Edcamp Citrus - free professional development conference that focused on classroom management 
Event scheduled - people show up and everything is set that day
Covered many different topics (16 seperate sessions)
Big leap of faith for a lot of teachers

Don't make professional development mandatory - c/o Adam Taylor
Keep it simple

How do we promote once we have it?
Flyers with marketing themes
Email, Website, Blog
-PD over email
-Announcements
-Commitment
-Relationship Building

Types of information to "drip" to your teachers

-ebooks
-Interviews: Wetoku
-Video: Screen Cast-o-matic
-Visual Word Cloud: Wordle
-Survey: Google Forms - get them engaged
-Write a Poem
-Write an article
-Tell a story
-Showcase teacher work
-Ask your teachers to share

Use a social proof aspect to engage people.

Social Media how to use Facebook and Soical media

Contests, Awards & Incentives
-Incentives do not need to be costly
-Teacher of the month parking spot
-Get out of school early passes
-Teacher of the month State Conference - Teacher of the year = National Conference

www.edtechUnconference.com/details


Kathy Schrock
Cure What Ails You: A Dose of Twitter for Everday of the Year

linkyy.com/twitter
The Twitter Book
Twitter for Dummies
Get Aquainted in 140 characters or less
What is Twitter
Online Messaging Service
One-to-many
Messages are Pu blic
140 Characters
Follow or not to follow
Not truly synchronous
Twitter in 60 seconds video explaining why educators may wish to use Twitter

Follow famous people or just your friends
Find out abou companies and causes
Get instant feedback
Part of goal of social network is giving back

Participate in the Twitter experience

Talk to friend/family, form a PLN, Share Information, Receive information

Sign up for an account @ twitter.com
Choose a good username
See what friends use Twitter

Twitter Vocabulary
Tweet=A Twitter post
Retweet=reposting a tweet
Follow=Follow someones feed
Direct Message=Send private messages Can't DM uless they follow you
Hashtag=# followed by the keyword

@stephenveliz and @Luke1946

Failwhale=Twitter over capacity
Tweetup=When people meet in real life

Showing the old profiles on Twitter
You can aggregate feeds via RSS

Now showing New Twitter

Twitterized=word that now include twitter: tweachers, twitterverse, tweet-cred, tweetend, twiving

Now showing various clients for desktops and mobile
Can also post via txt messages or via email

Twitterbox - Twitter in second life

How to find others
Click on friend and click follow
Search Twitter by Keyword
Button on Webpages
WeFollow - use edtech as your tag to choose
Follow Finder
Twiangulate

Twiter and your PLN
Right Tool for certain things
Keeping up with trends
Asking for help or advice
Offering your expertise
Lends to Deeper connections


Be helpful
Be patient
Be social
Share the Love
Pay it Forward

Now she's stating that teenagers are not on Twitter?!

Twitter and your classroom
Tweet as a historical figure
Student summaries of reading
Students share a hyperlink a week
Collaborative writing (#)
Post a question after hours
Have students follow news

Tom Barrack? series called interesting ways

Acadmic Excellence in 140 characters - out of time to share the video

Live Twitter streams running during class

ReadWriteWeb 5 Unexpected Twitterers

Assess Twitter in the classroom Rubric
Search
Skim
Read
Categorize
Send
Include
Add
Clarify
Analyze
Abbreviate
Embed Links
Explain Links
Respond to Others
Respond to Groups
Repost

Twittersheep

List of Search Operators shared
Twubs - making hastags useful

Use link shorteners linkyy.com - written by Kathy's son
You can share photos, share videos, follow famous, TwitterParade?

Mistakes
Tweeting at event
Survey Request
Not knowing they are watching

I'm Leading, Is Anyone Following? Preparing Students for the Future
Howie DiBlasi
Session 6
4:30-5:25 pm
Twitter: hdiblasi
[email protected]

www.drhowie.com

Presentations available at the web site
Everything he does is licensed under Creative Commons Share and Share Alike License

5 easy ways to Introduce Essential Skills with Web 2.0 Tools
Creating a Digital-rich Classroom

We haven't really changed a lot
What are 21st Century Learning Skills - Look to ISTE's NETS standards
But what do businesses want?

Make it, share it, find it, solve it, protect it, use it

Skills for success
So what core skills do employers seek.
Concern about people not knowing how to do research on the internet
Literacy - being able to present
Work in a team

How has the world change since you graduated?
Have we changed our classrooms in the last 20-30 years
Churches have certainly changed.
They know how to engage people and get them excited.

Focus on standardized tests and learning core curriculum does not leave a lot of room in curriculum for exploration

Questions to ask for leadership
How do you bring out creative and innovation

Reflect on your classroom

Korea and Finland are ahead of us in education - PISA 2009
America is way behind
Denmark values knowledge and learning

Trying to prepare for jobs that don't exist yet
Team of STudents
Research team - screencasts
Tutorial team
Curriculum team - recording
scribes team - collaboration pieces
Global team - teamwork
contributions to society

#2 Hug a Geek - grow a PLN (Personal Learning Network)
Broaden your horizens to the world
Recomends Classroom 2.0 from Steve Hardigon

#3 Start collaborating (google docs - type with me (etherpad)
Google bought etherpad and killed it,  but because the code was open source there are a ton of alternatives

Whiteboard evaluation project
Using Scriblink and Dabbleboard

#4 Give kids a Global Voice: Globalize the Curriculum
Epals has free email for your students that is monitored (safe and protected and 10 additional projects)

Global Nomads - Video conference
Global issues for youth
Interactive Technologies
Live video conferencing - have teams that go to locations so your students can connect with them

#5 Develop Problem Solving Skills
Brainstorming

#6 Project Based Learnng
There's a small group that understands what it's all about
Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities

#7 Searching the Net
The good, the bad and the ugly
Check content, information and resources
Using the Wonderwheel
Showing how to get specific documents from Google
filetype: another google hack!
Factbites.com

#9 Critical thinking

#13 Community connection

Leslie Fisher
Gadgets
7:45 am - 9:00 am
Room S320EF

Eventbrite.com - Used to schedule events
Rockmelt.com - A browser that integrates Facebook and Twitter into a Chrome browser
Google Voice - Create your own anonymous phone numbers to call your own
(you can now also port any number you want to Google Voice)
tripit.com - Send your travel itineraries to [email protected], builds an online itenerary (also supports social networking) and fully supports ICal

Yelp.com - Online food reviews

(Second presenter who has said kids don't want twitter)
Use Twitter to post school events by embeding to the front page of the website
-do this with Twitter.com/Goodies

www.jott.com - allows you to create reminders via your voice on your phone $3 for 10 minutes
You can add it to via voice and a human will transcribe and add it to your different apps

Rememberthemilk.com - Organize your life and it works with Jott!

Evernote.com - Taking notes the way they should be taken.

Dropbox.com - 2 free Gbs of storage, can also share files with others securely
Also does folder syncing

ustream.tv - create a tv channel for free

weebly.com - create websites easily
Site license for schools around $700



www.mozy.com - 2 free Gbs of space

CISCO Media hub or AppleTimecapsule for backup

MAC people 
Orbicule Undercover
www.orbicule.com/undercover


Turns on camera and takes pictures of person who stole your MAC
Or can dim your screen and start screaming stolen!
Costs around $50

Software: Affordable Clip Art and Photos
Novadevelopment.com $199 for Art Explosion
Clipart.com $12.95 and up

istockphotos.com 15% off coupon www.istockphoto.com/lesliefischer-offer.php
(Morguefile.com will find free - public domain photos you can use)

Digital Cameras
Leslie is associated with Sony
Sony Cybershot Hx1 and Sony Cybershot HX5V
both have auto intelligent mode and can take up to 10 frames per second and can analyze the area and select the mode of picture you should use
Do HD video and sweep panarama mode
Make sure you are using a high speed card
Look for class rating at a minimum have a type 6 or 10 card

Smugmug.com
Offers web interface to add picture groups and "well" as subgroups
Can choose size of image people can view
Does offer photo printing

Video, Audio and Portability
USB TV Card
Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick $129.99
EyeTV Hybrid $179.99 

Watch your Shows Anywhere
Sling Media - Hooks into your home theater has an ethernet port that once connected turns into a web media server with it's own IP


Streaming Video
Netflix.com
hulu.com
Boxee "Social Media Center" - Access media from the Web and your CPU in one central interface built into a tv box and you can watch each others media

More than one remote control at home - check out Logitech Harmony universal remote (880, 890)
$249 for standard $499 for the 1110 model

IPod
Nonowatch band ilovehandles.net
Ipod Hoodies

Android
swypeinc.com

IPAD
Can be a game changer in education
7 hour battery
Selling at a pace to become the 4th largest technology segment
Probably talking about 3 different devices this time next year
First 80 days 3,000,000 sold
Several textbook publishers have signed IPAD deals

IPAD Apps
Proloquo 2 go - SPED
Star Walk - knows your genral location and can tell what is directly above you 
iStudiez Pro - Student or teacher to track assignments and lesson plans
NewsRack and Instapaper - a one two punch NewsRack has over 3000 Rss feeds and once subscribed send it to Instapaper which downloads each of those stories and build an interactive newspaper that can be read online

Goodreader - hooks into your drives and downloads documents to your IPad

Many different types of case 
The "Clamcase" includes a full sized keyboard

Getageadcae.com for etch-a-sketch

IPAd microscope bodelin.com

Square Reader - will read credit cards - see shootout for more info

Wordlens - Again see shootout notes above
Basically is an instant translater

Moving on to "sizzle stuff" like usb record players, cassette decks and VCRs
Despair.com! Create your own posters

Silos to Synergy
Building Collaboration

Paula Leftwich k-12 Curriculum & Instruction
Steve Nolan School Technology Services

Polk County Schools
Communicating via paper = Seperate Silos (Curriculum and Instruction, Title Programs, Schools, Technology)
All doing our own things in our own silos without connection

-Reading Department
Associate superintendant for learning
The Budget Director
Purchasing
and IT - involving them initially was very peripheral)
Then, School Technology

IT and school tech are seperate but the same
School technology are the "translaters"
May seem intuitive to include instructional technology but it happened after the fact

2008  Reading Adoption
Selected Fast Forward as SIRP(Scientific Learning)
work to id available funding for pilot
windfall allowed for 39 middle and high schools
Had to Vett through STS/IT
Up and Running, but "Down and Dirty"
Debrief and Regroup


Assess and Revisit
What worked
What to improve
Whoelse needs to be involved
what kind of workflow will make it smoothest for teachers and students

So now have some connected Silos
But they are not yet all connected

At the table now
Reading Department
IT and School Tech
Assistant Sup/learning
Asst Supt ESE-IDEA funds
Finance - budget director
Purchasing
Vendor Scientific Learning

Phase II 2009 (Phase I was 2008 - if I didn't mention earlier)
pre-planning
72 elementary schools
4 other sites
July 2009 purchase
Installation August-September
Rolling start-up through Dec

Assess, Analyze, Adapt

Can't just make decisions without having the knowledge about the installation process
Need to learn from each other to enhance knowledge

Phase III
2010-11 School Year
New Licenses (Workforce, Alt. Ed)
Additions (Reading Assistant)
Upgrades
Training Configuration - 70 laptops
Routine collaboration
Frequent contact
More routine collaboration (via email and chatting)
Also bring in the professional development department

Now they are synergizing

SIS/IT.Info svcs
Curr and Instruction
Scientific learning
IDEAA
Title I, II, III
Budget and finance
School Senior Directors
Assessment and Accountability
Assoiciate and Assistant Supts
Superintendant
Dealing with reading block and assessment and accountability

Once you start expanding the circle does it dilute the process?
No because everyone still has thier own tasks on the committee


The Big Outcome
We have moved this effort from one that was necessary, but almost accidental to what is now
Integrated and Intentional

Nuts and Bolts
Tech considerations:
Does demo operate on standard config
type of networking needed
Server/Workstation requirements
Bandwidth?
Estimate hours per site for insttallations
-Can it be purchased as a package
-How does it handle updates
-what known issues could impact site use

PURE (Purchasing and Utilizing Resources Effectively)
A form driven by curriculum so that it will get used
Instructors requesting technology need to show how it will impact education

Mobile Laptop Cart Project
Districtwide balance of computer resources
102 schools
Access for CBT
Access for Instructional Applications

Grant Collaboration
Title I
ESE Idea Grant
Technology EETT Grant

When It Comes To Copyright, Educators Are A Priveledged Class!
Gary Becker
10:35-11:30

Since Mr. Becker announced that his presentation is copyrighted I will not take notes directly off his slide instead I will blog about what my notes say sometime this week.



Biggest User
Session 10


3 of favorite sites and focus in using rules to evaluate
must be free
platform non specific
easy to use for k-12

Follow along at http://xrl.us/biggestuser2

Steve is starting with Wordle.com
Normally not in his to ten because its too fluffy
But always among the most popular
no barriers to entry and adaptable
Wordle creates a wordl cloud
Adjust your settings color size or even randomize in case you find what you like


What do you do with it?
Great for language arts - synonyms, broaden vocab, have a student highlight their research paper
Make them circle three biggest words and rewrite without them

Guess the wordle from @jenwagner just mentioned


Cindy
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Can make pictures with words
Showing an example with Elanor Roosevelt
Can also print - have to screen shot Wordle
Can also change colors themes, fonts etc...
101 was to use tagxedo in the classroom can be found on tagxedo's blog

Round 2 Steve now showing prezi.com
What powerpoint would be without the slides
More creative, more fun and more flexible
You can embed media into it
Prezi meeting allows it to be collaborative
Can see what is happening when others are editing
Less features than Powerpoint but that can be a good thing
There is also an education version of it

Cindy
Showing www.livebinders.com
A Binder in the cloud
Can also checkout others livebinders making it collaborative
Can easily add images and video
Organize by dragging and dropping
What do you do with it?
Use QR Codes to share websites - there's even a binder about this
Audience saying they've kept lesson plans and share resources with their teachers
Free (of course)

Round 3
Steve
Qwiki.com
Don't use it to create but for search
Combines information from different sources to create a narrated research report.
Pulls info from wikipedia, images, videos
Have so many articles you can even find your home town

Cindy
Newser.com
All visual pictures related to current news
Showing snow in the midwest
All the latest news visualized
Can take out the fluff by clicking on less gossip
Fast down and dirty way to get at info

Bonus
Steve
UJam.com
Make Music Now
Not sure yet how it fits into education but gut feeling it does
It is in open alpha right now
You can sing to a click (or read a poem)
Volunteer from the audience reading to the beat
Once it's created you get an interface and then align chords to go with them and add background music
Can also change the tone of the song by mood
All kinds of amazing features
Can also change time signature!

Cindy
Schooltown.net
Edmodo meets Moodle with one hand behind it's back
Online walled garden
Good for teaching digital citizenship
It archives everything including chats
Parent, Teacher and Student accounts
Invented by someone with a 9 year old son who need extra support so the parent created this to communicate
Can have media, links to blogs and wikis, all kinds of group tools
Each student has to put in "smart" measurable goals
There are group controls to manage the site
Connectors allow you to add in links
You provide code for students and parents to control what part of Schooltown participants see it's the "invitation token"
Has self-contained e-mail and can turn on and off the chat

They are now overtime and I need to get to the last breakout session.

Twitter:Build your PLN
Jenna Liskens


Linskenspresentations.wikispaces.com
Twitter is a great way to share information
Major local news stories
There is so much information - Twitter can crash
Great way to get immediate news information

Also good to build your PLN
To do so you need to sign up for a twitter account

Explaining how the home page and what can be found there
Stick with people you follow that are in your PLN
You can create groups with lists
Lists can also be protected

Hastags can help you search twitter simply # followed by a keyword
Hastags searches can be saved
Ways to post pictures and links (and even shrink the link)
Showing how to search trends by loaction

DMs or direct messages is how you send private messaging
RT is used to Retweet
Power of Twitter is amazing

Talked about hashtags #FETC and #EdChat
Twitter can be completely free Professional development!

Make sure you pay it forward with Twitter
Even if you are just a lurker - when you find something that you want to share - SHARE IT!

Your network can grow tenfold from one RT or sharing a link