METC 2010: Sessions

Tuesday, February 9: 9:45 - 10:35 AM
Learn how easy it is to create, manage and integrate wikis into your classroom curriculum. Explore wikis being used by other elementary teachers and to engage students and encourage collaboration and communication. BYOL - internet browser needed.

Tuesday, February 9: 1:00 - 1:50 PM
Come see ten excellent Web 2.0 tools and resources for learning in the early years. Gail will demonstrate the tools and share their applications and implications for the youngest learners. Curriculum and learning take center stage as Gail counts down her top ten list. The session will use a wiki as its backbone, so you can add your own ideas, and questions; embedding powerful adult learning while modeling student learning and tools for student learning.

Tuesday, February 9: 9:45 - 10:35 AM
What's a wiki? How do you tweet? What can my students do with a blog? It's elementary! This session will introduce you to the basic Web 2.0 tools that you can use every day to enrich your classroom, and enhance your own professional development. Follow-up after the session in the Connections Lounge, and get hands on help with these great tools!

Tuesday, February 9: 3:25 - 4:15 PM
Blogging is a way of building community outside and inside the classroom. Allowing students to record and reflect on their classroom enhances their learning experience. Blogging also helps answer parents' perennial question, "so what did you do today at school?" This presentation will help your students deepen their meta-learning and give parents a peek into their child's school life. BYOL - internet browser &Windows Media needed.

Tuesday, February 9: 1:00 - 1:50 PM
Gone are the days of sitting in workshops learning to use difficult programs, then forgetting what you learned the minute you are out the door. The Web 2.0 and Open Source tools shared in this session are easy to integrate and produce professional results. Through these use of these tools, the sky is the limit to creativity and learning

Tuesday, February 9: 3:25 - 4:15 PM
Come discover how blogs, wikis and podcasting have enhanced one teacher's high school Language Arts classroom. Examples from a current classroom will be provided as well as testimony from students regarding their positive experiences with this technology.

Tuesday, February 9:10:50 - 11:40 AM
"If you build it, they will come," sometimes doesn't work out. Simply creating a wiki doesn't guarantee that students will meet your learning targets. Learn how to meld Cooperative Learning pedagogy with 21st Century writing situations (blogs and wikis) to transform collaborative writing. Emphasis will be placed on infusing Positive Interdependence and Individual Accountability.

Tuesday, February 9: 10:50 - 11:40 AM
Create, design and customize your own classroom wiki. Learn how to upload and embed pictures and videos and how to use variuos free web 2.0 tools to make your wiki an interactive part of your classroom. BYOL - internet browser needed.

Tuesday, February 9: 2:20 - 3:10 PM
Second Life (SL) is the rich-media 3D world occupied by millions of resident avatars. Participants in this course visit a variety of places and develop SL skills. Although this session is not overly technical, participants gain hands-on experience creating environments and objects, taking photographs and movies, and exploring applications of SL in teaching and learning. Course sections include the history of virtual worlds; creating and modifying avatars; keeping track of your content in SL; and real-life applications of SL for education.