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By demand, we'll have some work time built into the workday today, so that you can move forward with your online bookmarking site, portaportal or delicious, and some might look into more advanced stuff, or simply set up networks and such.
3:00-3:15 Needed: Community-building Resources - session starter
3:15-3:45 Reflection: Organizing Resources, Case Study and Resource Planning Guide
Pair up participants and at the end ask them to provide genuine, but positive feedback to the partner. (!!!)

Search eThemes
Search my bookmarks: Delicious (http://delicious.com/laplao)
Portaportal (http://guest.portaportal.com/laplao)

(Use comments to record your ideas or questions, or suggestions, or your progress)

Organize bookmarks on your computer, plan your search, set up and add resources to the online bookmarking site.
To learn more about searching check out the advanced search in Google. Read the advanced search tips.
Try Yahoo search, and note the warnings about harmful content in the search results (if there are any harmful sites that is!).
Another place to try is Ask.

If you would like to find websites appropriate for younger readers, try this search KidsClick!.

To help your kids learn to type (hand and finger position, too), here is a link . It's very fun.

3:45-3:50 Break

3:50-4:10 Watch the videos

4:15-4:20 Classroom Visits: what to expect, how to sign up

4:20-4:40 Differentiation: use the handout
Create a Google Account, search for blogs, subscribe to blogs. Make iGoogle your homepage in a browser.
Customize your homepage.

4:40:4:55 Explore a website of your choice or go to WikiHow, and find an article that you can use in the classroom or on your own.
4:55-5:00 Closing, questions,


Wikipedia - collective knowledge

Places to go to:
Images:


Movies:


Science


Reading

 

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Valerie, 373 - days ago   

Sorry I was late, again! I'm afraid I will always be.
I enjoyed today's class. There was a lot of time for exploring and working on skills.
Thanks.

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