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Discussion:
What chapter in the book and what NETS-S standard did you choose to focus on? (Groups of 3)

RSS in Plain English
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iGoogle Home Page
Create your iGoogle page with some feeds that are of interest to you personally and/or professionally.

[|iGoogle Crib Sheet]

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More on RSS
[|Google Reader] [|NY Times RSS Feed] [|CNN RSS Feeds] [|Technorati Advanced Blog Search] [|Google Blog Search] [|Google News] RSS Feeds RSS for Educators by John Hendron (see me for the book)

Video
(Turn & Talk about students, technology and multi-tasking.)
 * [|How Google Saved a School]**

Google Apps for Education
[|Kern Kelley's Google Tools Comic Boo] [|k]



Speed Geeking Activity
[|Google Alerts] ||< [|Blog Search] ||< [|Book Search] ||< [|Custom Search] || [|Blogger] ||
 * < [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/alerts.gif link="http://www.google.com/options/icons/alerts.gif"]]
 * [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/maps.gif link="http://www.google.com/options/icons/maps.gif"]][|Maps] and [|Google Earth] ||< [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/news.gif link="http://sites.google.com/a/yarmouthschools.org/summer-2009-tech/goog_1245713515494"]] [|News] ||< [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/news.gif link="http://sites.google.com/a/yarmouthschools.org/summer-2009-tech/goog_1245713515494"]][|News Archive] ||< [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/scholar.gif link="http://sites.google.com/a/yarmouthschools.org/summer-2009-tech/goog_1245713515511"]][|Scholar] ||
 * < [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/movies.gif link="http://www.google.com/options/icons/movies.gif"]][|Web Search Features] ||< [|Google Squared] ||< [|Google News Timeline] ||< [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/blogger.gif link="http://www.google.com/options/icons/blogger.gif"]]
 * < [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/calendar.gif link="http://sites.google.com/a/yarmouthschools.org/summer-2009-tech/goog_1245713515536"]][|Calendar] ||< [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/translate.gif link="http://www.google.com/options/icons/translate.gif"]][|Translate] ||< [[image:http://www.google.com/options/icons/picasa.gif link="http://www.google.com/options/icons/picasa.gif"]][|Picasa] ||< [[image:Picture_1.png width="131" height="42" link="http://www.google.com/squared"]] ||

Creating Wikis

 * [|PBworks]
 * [|Wetpaint]
 * [|Wikispaces for Educators](see [[file:WhipUpaWikiHandout.pdf]] for help)
 * and, Getting Tricky with Wikis

Assignments

 * 1) Read
 * [|Learning with Blogs & Wikis] by Bill Ferriter, Educational Leadership, February 2009
 * Select the chapter in the text that has the strategy you will focus on in your project.


 * 1) Write
 * A post on each of the Ferriter article, Learning with Blogs & Wikis, describing your thoughts about blogs and wikis as digital tools for professional learning. Label the post Classwork.
 * Write an entry in your blog that describes technology resources to support the learning strategy from the text that you plan to focus on in your project. Label the post Classwork.
 * 1) Comment
 * Write two more comments on posts by people in our class.
 * Write a comment on one of the Recommended Blogs listed on Monday's page.