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anthropological intro to YouTube

docs.google.com

Mark Prensky digital natives

growing up online; digital nation (frontline)

(add the links from the handout)

Google Docs (needs a Google account)

learning and innovation skills, info, media, & tech skills (see partnership for 21st Century skills) digital literacy, media literacy, information literacy google game

Shift Happens video (see edtechie blog)

Back to the social networking youthvoices.net not password-protected; sign up for it; teachers take turns monitoring

Professional Learning Communities: online or f2f; most powerful are blended models; formats: blog, social networks, Twitter, listserv, nicenet.org (create online course - sort of blackboard/ moodle type thing -- totally closed); wiki ~ create for school, community belong to, or student

Twitter (chrislehmann, sammorra) ~ notify parents, communicate outside world;

create a small URL: bit.ly

ning.com make completely private for use with students (login and modifications)

teachersnetwork.org/grantwinners search for your boys "Simulating WWI"

teachnetnyc.ning.com when you set up a ning, every member has a blog

classroom 2_0.com

Web 2.0 at school: voicethread.com blogger.com animoto.com
 * use free version
 * be sure it's not blocked by school web filters
 * vimeo is not blocked; keepvid.com lets you keep YouTube stuff
 * shallow learning curve
 * allows project-based work
 * can be published
 * collaboration

the wiki or google doc will let you hold kids accountable