"7 Things You Should Know"

The Educause Learning Initiative offers excellent info for educators, but I particularly like this webpage because it focuses on one technology at a time and explains its usefulness. So far, technologies covered include: Ustream, Zotero, Second Life, Wii, Alternate Reality Games, and more. Make this page one of your Favorites.

http://www.educause.edu/EL17Things/7495?bhcp=1&time=1225774460

Jeanne
JSerra Cath HS

Free Webinar - Feb. 4 on using Wikispaces

I just signed up for this webinar... there are many FREE online opportunities to learn more about integrating technology into education. This is just one example.

Join Wikispaces and Chris Bell for our February Education Webinar on February 4th, 5pm-6pm PST. We'll cover the basics of how to start an educational wiki in your classroom, create accounts for your students, and begin building content. Then Chris Bell, the Technology Project Manager at the Julian Charter School, will present his work. Chris' school has been using wikis in its classrooms for several years. He'll introduce you to his school's Wikispaces Private Label site, show you the wikis he and his colleagues have built, and highlight features and practices that he has found valuable for his classrooms. Join us and learn how to do more with your wiki. You can find more information and register for the event at:

http://wikispacesineducation0902.eventbrite.com

Jeanne
JSerra Catholic High School

Collaborative Invites have Gone Out!

Welcome to our Blog. All the invites went out today. Had a little glitch with Capo USD - all those emails bounced back, so they will be resent. I hope you all will join in and enjoy our network. Add content to this blog and participate on the Ning as well. I also put this group into Facebook. After speaking with some contacts I have in Second Life, I have three virtual meeting spaces that our group can use for meetings for free!!! So when we cannot meet, perhaps we can schedule virtual office hours. Let me know your thoughts on this. I will be setting up a SL group. If you want, go ahead and get a SL account and an avatar and search for me: Veronica Piers and I will help you get thru the basics. You will find, as I have, that it is a marvelous networking tool. I am so looking forward to working with all of you!!

Jeanne
JSerra Cath HS

Meeting Today

I am very excited about my meeting this morning with two professionals from St. John's Episcopal School who are just as interested as I am about networking and establishing a learning collaborative between local school librarians. We are establishing the underlying structure for our group and will be personally inviting others to participate and co-author the blog. We all have so much to share with one another. Each person's contribution will add to our professional growth exponentially and in a practical manner. I said this once before, and I'll say it again. I have attended conferences and attended seminars where the speaker had great ideas, but the ideas were over-arching. There was no practical application. That is my hope for this learning community. More to come!

ALA National 2009