1. Setting up your accounts…

2.  Gadget of the day: Today’s Meet  “Did You Know”  Essential teacher accounts  Make seminar groups and assign articles  Activity: Teacher websites  Work Time

3.  Respond to this video on TodaysMeet  One thing you already knew…  Two facts that surprised you…  1 implication for teachers…  2 responses to the comments of others

4.  www.google.ca www.google.ca  http://pbworks.com http://pbworks.com  www.edmodo.com www.edmodo.com  www.twitter.com www.twitter.com  www.khanacademy.org www.khanacademy.org  www.readtheory.org www.readtheory.org  www.surveymonkey.com www.surveymonkey.com

5.  Increasingly Integrated  Widely used  Intuitive interface  Free  Cloud computing  Google Docs Google Docs  Apps for education Apps for education

6.  Intuitive interface (Similar to MS Office)  Free account has few limitations  2GB of storage  Reliability  Allows for editing vs. chronological updates  “No fuss, no muss”

7.  Format emulates facebook  Creates a social network for students/parents  Extends the classroom  Gives students a sense of ownership  Replaces/supports “agenda books”  Provides a vast PD network  Edmodo at a glance Edmodo at a glance

8.  Expand the scope and breadth of your Professional Development Expand the scope and breadth of your Professional Development  Experience frequent ongoing Professional Development Experience frequent ongoing Professional Development  Connect your classroom practices to your Professional Development Connect your classroom practices to your Professional Development

9.  Student Directed ‘modules’  Integrates tutorials and practice  Structured as a game  Provides LOTS of assessment data for teachers

10.  Easy to create and edit surveys  Easy to embed surveys on your website  Easy to view response data  Fairly unlimited free account  Students seem to be very responsive to surveys.

11.  After setting up your accounts for the ‘essential sites’, return to our “TodaysMeet” chat room and share which tool you are most interested in learning more about and experimenting with.

12.  Signing up on google doc

13.  Now that you have a pbworks account (or other), and you’ve started to think about the criteria for a good classroom website, start brainstorming/working on your own website homepage.  Begin reading your seminar article and thinking about a summary of main points and some thought provoking discussion questions

14.  Give some thought to possible topics for your lesson plan. Recall that the criteria requires the use of technology and that resources be available through your website whenever possible.