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Welcome & Introductions
Partner activity - Who are we? What are we passionate about regarding technology and education?

Overview of the Course

 * student ids
 * parking
 * email accounts
 * headphones, cameras and peripherals
 * textbook
 * saving and backing up
 * using this wiki
 * collaboration/conversations
 * self-directed learning
 * assignments
 * final project

Videos
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 * Shift Happens / Did You Know?** ([])

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 * Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us** by Michael Wesch

**Getting Around On Your Mac**
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Intro to Mac OS X

 * Menus
 * Keyboard Shortcuts ([[file:Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.pdf]])
 * Dock
 * Expose
 * User Account/Home Folder
 * Spotlight/Find Feature
 * for more info go to: []

Applications Overview

 * iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iLife,Garageband) & PhotoBooth
 * iTunes (View [|Podcasting for Beginners Session from NECC09] first section)
 * [|iWork] (Pages, Numbers, & Keynote)
 * [|Safari]
 * [|Firefox] (tabs & addons)

What Can You Connect to Your Mac?

 * USB (microphone, mouse, camera, microscope, printer, backup drives, etc.)
 * Bluetooth (mouse, printer, etc.)
 * Firewire (camera, backup drives, etc.)

Edutopia Video
Discussion:
 * [|Creatively Speaking, Part One: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind]**
 * Do we need to transform education?
 * What is the place of creativity in our classrooms?
 * How do we model and cultivate creativity?

Text
From Foreword: "This book--through its structure of planning questions, categories of instructional strategies, and categories of technology--shows teachers how to think about using technology to help their students practice concepts, engage in higher-order thinking, and problem solve. In other words, it helps teachers help their students hone skills and knowledge that will help them for the rest of their lives. That is the ultimate goal of education. (p. xii) (p. 10)
 * 1) What will students learn?
 * 2) Which strategies provide evidence of student learning?
 * 3) Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning?
 * 4) Which strategies will help students practice, review and apply learning?

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 * What do you Know?**
 * What do you want to Learn?**

Blogs
(See page 34 in the text) Create a blog at [|Blogger] by Google [|Getting started guide]

K12 Online Conference 2007 Sessions Other blogging services
 * [|"Sustained Blogging in the Classroom"] by Jeff Utecht
 * [|Classroom Blogmeister] by David Warlick
 * [|Edublogs]


 * Recommended Blogs**
 * [|2¢ Worth]
 * [|Weblogg-ed]
 * [|Tech Learning]
 * [|The Thinking Stick]
 * [|The Fischbowl]
 * [|Always Learning]
 * [|The Connected Classroom]
 * [|Sharon's Share]
 * [|Coolcat Teacher]

Assignments

 * 1) Set up your blog. Use the [|Getting started guide] for help.
 * 2) Read
 * Choose a chapter in __Using Technology With Classroom Instruction That Works__ that describes a set of instructional strategies relevant to your classroom.
 * Two blog entries from the list of Recommended Blogs.
 * [|"Turning on the Lights"]by Marc Prensky.
 * 1) Write
 * A post about what you learned from the chapter that you might use in your classroom. Label the post "Classwork."
 * A post discussing the two blog posts you read. Did you find them interesting? Would you like to follow the blogs? Label the post "Classwork."
 * A post describing how you could use the "Four Important Practices" mentioned at the end of the Prensky "Turning on the Lights" article in your classroom. Label the post "Classwork."
 * 1) For tomorrow:
 * If you have a digital camera please bring it in along with the cable that connects it to a computer.
 * If you have headphones or ear buds please bring them in tomorrow.