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BEYOND NEWSPRINT: Use Your Newspaper for Podcasting, Blogging and More
Pauline Luther with Jill Wilson
Podcasting and blogging are the latest interactive teaching tools educators are using to spice up lessons. See how Pinellas County classroom teachers and reading coaches are using these tools with newspapers to motivate students to do research, [...]

iEarn
is the world’s largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

presented by John Kuglin
Gen D – Defined as being the generation that has grown up with digital devices in a digital culture. They will be competing for jobs in a digital global work environment. How do we provide them with skills and tools to compete for 21st Century Jobs? John Kuglin utilizes his 30+ [...]

i-SAFE Inc.
i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE incorporates classroom curric
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The last session of the day and the juice in my laptop’s battery was gone !!! I did enjoy “iPods for Everyone“, presented by Adriane Peters and Teresa Gunter-Jackson from Leon County, FL.
I was in luck, since Terry Pickering agreed to take notes for me.
Leon County schools are using iPods as audio books for elementary [...]

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iPods in Education with Gloria Wood from the Bolles School.
Bolles Middle School has been podcasting for the last two years.
What do you do with an iPod in Schools?
English:

Samples of music
Recordings of authors who wrote the poems
Examine the lyrics
Download poem MP3 files from online
Sentence Diagramming

Social Studies:

makes information more compact and accessible
students do interviews, [...]

Use your Noodle. Learn Moodle
Presenter: Michele Moore
What is Moodle?

Course Management System
Open Source
Based on Social Constructionist Pedagogy
Try it out and play with environment: http://moodle.remote-learner.net

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Make places in your textbook come alive for your students by incorporating video, photos and audio.

Suggested United Streaming video, that can be used and even cut into individual clips.
Crazy Talk: Make a cartoon of someone talking and add voice.
Google Earth

Preview a location before you are taking your students on a field trip. Give them background [...]

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NComputing
Turn 1 computer into the equivalent of 30 (up to 10 with Windows XP Home/Pro/Media Center, Windows 2000 Professional) PCs!! No Hard Drive, CPU or CD ROM ; yet each NStation functions as an ordinary computer.
Very interesting the possibilities of expanding one PC to become seven more stations in the classroom. The [...]

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I am sitting on one of the Apple Macbooks, waiting for a session entitled “Global Learning and Apple Learning Exchange” to start.
I regularly look at their website and have found many interesting projects, especially dealing with the global curriculum component.
Presenter: Max Judd
What does Global awareness mean? How do we teach global awareness?
Asked [...]