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June 11, 2009 ** 1.0 General House Keeping 1.1 We will have Wikispaces asa private label for next year and the following. We can create as many wikis as we need. Please use the resource! 1.2 We have pre-purchased Voice Threads w/ enough capacity for everybody K-8 for next year. 1.3 We have pre-purchased Zoomerang until November 2011.
 * One Last Time: Notes and Reminders at the End of the Mansfield 2.0 Projects

2.0 Web 2.0 pieces in PD Strands? 2.1 There are no direct offerings in PD Strands for next year 2.2 They are embedded in co-taught offerings.

3.0 Other Option 1 – The Mansfield 2.0 Book Club 3.1 This will be a wiki based read and respond activity. 3.2 Every 2 months (Oct-Nov, Dec-Jan, Feb-Mar, Apr-May) a book will be selected for a group read and response. Response will be done on a private wiki. 3.3 Books will be from the Web 2.0 genre that are other educators across the country are reading and talking about on-line. 3.4 Working with Jane for possible inclusion of other educators. 3.5 Want a head start w/ your summer reading? Two books for sure will be: 3.5.1 A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink 3.5.2 Outliers – Malcom Gladwell 3.5.3 Both of these books are available in print and as audiobooks, from Audible.com which you can download onto an iPod for listening (car trips, plane trips, out by the pool). Contact me about a way to sign up for Audible to get one free book if you want to try this out.

4.0 Other Option 2 – Web 2.0 Tool of the Month 4.1 Every 2 months (Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May) we will select a Web 2.0 tool for exploration. Response will be done on a private wiki. 4.2 We may have an afterschool meting of an hour to introduce it, but a wiki will be used for resources, discussion and to direct self exploration. 4.3 The effort will be to construct the activity so that you can in the time that best fits your schedule. Generally to get CEU’s you will post a link of what you did with the tool on the wiki.

5.0 Other Option 3 – The K-12 Online Conference - [] 5.1 November 30, 2009 (keynote) and the following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17. 5.2 This is an asynchronous online conference, with activities you can “dip” into, or go back to –the archives of 2006, 2007, 2007 are posted and are great. 5.3 Quite a few schools used “hosted” a live evening gathering for a couple of session. We will do the same next year. 5.4 Not quite sure we will make it w/ CEU’s but it will be worked out. 6.0 Discovery Education Streaming, Discovery Education Science 6.1 We own Discovery Streaming, but do not use fully use its resources (especially at PK-4, but that will change, hopefully next year!) 6.2 Please remember – have an individual teacher login so you can start building YOUR classroom resources (you can always share, but you want to have your individual account set up. 6.3  The individual account allows you to set up students in your classes, and use the assignment builder to create lessons, and ASSESSMENTS for your kids. 6.4  Please remember – ALL of Discovery Streaming content are cleared of copyright. All images, clip art, songs, sounds, and movies can be downloaded and used in student projects. AND everything except the videos can be made into student projects and put out on the web (video has to be held on an internal system or behind a password protection). 6.5  Please remember that the State of CT has purchased Discovery Science for all teachers of Grade 6,7, 8. If you touch on science and you have not added that, make a note to have Jim or I help you in September. 6.6 In the fall I will coordinate a 30-45 day pilot of the Discovery Science – Grade 3-5. If you want to be a part of that experience keep you eyes peeled for information early September.

7.0 Other Discovery News 7.1 There are changes coming to Discovery Education on July 12, 2009 7.1.1 Video will become available in FLASH format. 7.1.2 Video will become embeddable by copying that snippet code. 7.1.3 Discovery will unveil its Media Share service. 7.2 Please join the Discovery Educator Network (DEN). 7.2.1 The DEN is an online community of over 90,000 educators who share information and resources about Discovery products. 7.2.2 The DEN is a place to grow and share your Web 2.0 knowledge with other educators using Discovery Products. 7.3 Please consider becoming a Discovery Start Educator 7.3.1 Becoming a Star Discovery educator is one step beyond joining the DEN. 7.3.2 You have greater access to materials (DEN Stars will get access to Media Share at no cost) 7.3.3 There are some requirements and you can follow up on these at the Discovery Education site. 7.4 Please be aware theat there is a Discovery Leadership Council forming in CT. 7.4.1  Den Stars will be organizing more state and regional activities in the next year. 7.4.2 CT is well behind other states efforts, and it is excitig to see. 8.0 The last Web 2.0 tool for the year, courtesy DEN Star Jen Dorman and her presentation at EASTCONN’s Day of Discovery 8.1 Myplick.com – you upload pictures for a slide show. You upload an MP3 music file. The music wraps to the pslides and tehn you can adjust the transition points between slide changes w/ a slider or a click

points between slide changes w/ a slider or a click