Anita's+summary

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//I really enjoyed the keynote speakers and found them not only interesting but also truly revealing of important information and provoking to action by teachers and administrators. I only wish that the workshops were either longer or geared to different levels of technology. But I learned more at this conference than I have at all the conferences in the last 10 years.//

1. **Bringing the Globe into Your Classroom-**Anne Murchin
 Anne Murchin is a computer and IT teacher at a small rural school in Hawkesdale, Australia (about 3 hours from Melbourne) This is an area of sheep farms and small towns. She and her students use blogs and skype to reach and communicate with Boston, Manila, Indonesia where she has met the teachers in the past. Through blogs, wikis, nings, voicethreads, skype and google applications her students arrange for exchange of information and images with students from all over the world. She gave the websites and resources for all the above internet mediums. Interesting interview the students had with a scientist in Antarctica, live in real time. I am now on her list of people to communicate with and will be a source of information between my Geography students and her students when we will study Weather and climate and landscapes during second semester and next year when we study agricultural systems. [|http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au] student blogs [|http://www.voicethread.com] [|http://netgened.grownupdigital.com] facebook for students. [|http://coveritlive.com] liveblogging [|http://www.skype.com] video conferencing [|http://www.pingmusic.com.au] ping music project [|http://murcha.wordpress.com] Anne’s teacher blog [|http://murch.globalteacher.org.au] Anne’s class blog [|http://www.learncentral.org] virtual classroom applications and software.

2. **Around wikispaces in 90 minutes-**Natalie Sutton
Natalie is a Design Technology teacher from Sha Tin College in Hong Kong. She showed us how to register on wikispaces and how to set up pages for our classes. She showed the simpler applications of how to set up a table of contents and the headings. Another aspect was how to upload pictures and different types of files She gave us many different websites that can be used inside of wikispaces to enhance. I have had a wiki for my TOK students to post their essay outlines but my students found it too difficult to use. I want to use simpler adaptation for my wiki which I learned in this workshop. http://stctechnology.wikispaces.com Natalie’s Wiki [|http://www.slideshare.net] [|http://www.slideboom.com] both to load powerpoints, slide shows and photos. [|http://www.cooltext.com] to enhance titles and features within wiki. [|http://www.xat.com] for interactive quizzes [|http://www.pixton.com] for cartoon making [|http://www.jigzone.com] makes a jigsaw puzzle of a picture [|http://www.xtimeling.com] to make timelines

3.**YouTube—a New Tool for Teaching Information Litera****cy**-Dana Dukic Mrs. Dukic is a librarian at the West Island School of Hong Kong. This work shop was mostly for librarians and spent a long time on the history of YouTube and the uses for Librarians but I perked up when she gave web sites that is a directory of teacher resources from YouTube arranged by subject matter. Links are on the Links page of this wiki.

4.**Learning in and beyond the Classroom: Mobile content and iPod Touch**-Kathleen Ferenz
This workshop showed how to use the iPod touch with an elementary class to teach reading. The first requirement was a cart containing enough iPod touch for a whole class. A whole child’s novel can be uploaded on each one and the students can read the novel from their iPod touch. Interesting and fun to learn how to use the iPod touch but not something I could use in my classroom in the near future.