Agenda

Welcome
Icebreaker
Review & Questions
Overview Web 2.0
Aggregator/RSS
Customizing iGoogle Space
Google Suite
Create Blog
Evaluation


Training Flow

Introduction to Leading and Learning with 21st Century Tools:

Piano stairs - Rolighetsteorin.se - The fun theory



Overview: Web 2.0 tools
-- What is Web 2.0 and how can it be the engine for a 21st century school?

"Visions of Today's Students"




Aggregators: Create our own RSS homepage to be a portal to news sites, blogs, and other syndicated material

-- Creating an account on a web-based RSS Aggregator: iGoogle

-- Moving content and deleting content

-- Adding content: from the catalogue, through the search, and by URL

-- Finding RSS feeds for blog sites



Break / Individual assistance
Blogs: Create our own weblog to communicate to our learning communities

-- Best Practices: Principal blogs, specialist blogs, teacher blogs

-- Understanding the importance of knowing your audience, posting with consistency, developing blog writing tone, and wrapping the blog in its purpose

-- Creating a blog account for ourselves on Blogger.com

-- Writing our first post: audience, tone, purpose

-- Types of blog entries: article spotlights, interviews, professional thoughts, opinions, investigative

-- Dealing with security: settings, comment moderation, permissions and levels

-- Things you should change: blog description, time zone, who can comment

-- Email assitance: enabling comment notification, enabling posting via email

Evaluation/Ongoing Support