1. USING CURRENT TECHNOLOGY
IN THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM

2. ACHIEVEMENT?
Teacher comfort / confidence = success!
Student access = success.
Learning Styles
Self paced learning ?

3. CURRENT TECHNOLGY Computing in the Cloud Google Docs Drop.io
The Right Blog
    Wordpress.com
Uninventing
    Forums!
    You Tube / NFB
Open Source
    Open Office
    Paint.net   

5. THE CLOUD
 computing in which scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. 

6. THE CLOUD
 Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them

7. Storing files on the Internet
THE CLOUD LITE
Storing files on the Internet

8. GOOGLE DOCS Get a Gmail account Free better email better filtering
7 x the storage you have with First Class
(Their share price is better than ours)

9. Documents, presentations, spreadsheet Microsoft compatibility
GOOGLE DOCS
Docs
    
Documents, presentations, spreadsheet
Microsoft compatibility
Open Office compatibility
Download as,  PDF etc.
upload files of same type
gets around compatibility issues

10. GOOGLE DOCS
7 GB of Storage
(That's a lot)
I've been using for 4.5 years I'm only up to 32% usage
Access anywhere!  
Share with anyone!

11. like a file folder online Access anywhere! Share
file sharing website
like a file folder online
Access anywhere!  
Share
upload, download and files to the drop
tks Tom Sheppard (Frank Roberts)

12. 100 MB free
unlimited # of drops
CT 3200 example

13. WORDPRESS.COM
please note .... 
Not wordpress.org 
(content management system)
good but more involved

15. WORDPRESS.COM
Why not blogger? It's googlefied
 Wordpress is much more flexible
Supports many more filetypes
3GB free
Scalable (for a fee)

16. WORDPRESS.COM
Why not build a site at school?
HTML! and worse
School sites; access should be limited to within the building!

17. UNINVENTING
Why re-invent?
Reduce (your workload)
Reuse (a colleague's work)
Recycle (post your edited version)

18. UNINVENTING
Use the Forums!
All you have to do is ask!
Don't be shy!

19. UNINVENTING
Great Resources!
show in class
share a worksheet
assign as homework
have the kids find them and write a "review"

20. YOU TUBE TITLES: A SAMPLING
Structure of the earth 
The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics 
Birth of the Solar System
Space School- Earth Space School- Solar System The Earth's Water Cycle - Environmental Science Soil Texture - Environmental Science Global Warming 101
Ecosystem Dynamics
The Nature of EcosystemsBill Nye the Science Guy - "It's The Food Web
Garbage Warrior - Michael Reynolds Sustainable Living 
The Intertidal Zone Ecological Footprint
How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Nutrient Cycling

21. OPEN SOURCE FAVOURITES

22. OPEN SOURCE
The price is right .... FREE
Support is there
Open office compatibility is great
Complete emulation of Microsoft Office

23. FREE
more stable than GIMP
Just works
Does everything I need
Intuitive

24. Why do we care? OPEN SOURCE Allows kids to access software to create
they can learn by doing

25. OTHER STUFF Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Audacity

26. LINKS http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.theteacherlist.ca/

27. YOUR TURN
What would you like to add?