thursday

Ning [Classroom 2.0, Teacher 2.0, Collaboration 2.0], del.icio.us, Twitter, Skype
 * Thursday - June 19 -** **Understanding & Building Social Networks**

"One thing I'm convinced of is that we're changed by conversation, especially ongoing conversation. For professional development to change teaching practice, we need to have cohorts of teachers working together. That just doesn't happen in every school district." Wesley Fryer

8:30-9:00 - Online communities aka. social networks
 * [|Social Networking in Plain English]
 * What is an on-line community? [Infinite Thinking Machine]
 * Why do people participate in social networks? [|5 reasons]
 * Social networking in corporate America: What strikes me about [|this] are the words "**See** how we're connected".

9:00 -11:30 - Ning (Karla)
 * Everything you wanted to know about Classroom 2.0 [Driving Questions Podcast]

Noteworthy reading [|Create your own social network in 7 steps] [|Are Teachers in your building parallel players?] [|7 things you should know about] - EDUCAUSE [|How Web technologies are shaping education]

Ning: A summer reading project?

Resources: [|Ning] [|Ning Help] [|Ning How-Tos]

Examples of Ning Networks: For teachers: [|Classroom 2.0] [|Web 2.0 Teachers] [|iConnect/iLearn in the 21st Century] Social Networking in Education - a more complete list of Ning's For students: [|Horizon Project] [|Taking IT Global] [|Kevin Honeycutt's Art Snacks] For community: [|Linkedin]

11:30-12:30 - Lunch

12:30-2:30 - del.icio.us (Jona) Read through this blogpost on how to use delicious and watch the embedded videos for more tips. Using the table of content, complete del.icio.us basics and then follow the 9 tips.

Set up your own account with [|delicious].

Examples of shared del.icio.us bookmarks http://del.icio.us/ewan.mcintosh#2008-06-17

2:30-3:30 - Twitter (Tanya)

Skype
[|Skype] [|30 Tools and Tips to Make Your Skype Better]