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NECC08 Monday – Birds of a Feather – Free, Open Source, and Web 2.0 Software for the Classroom.

Steve moderated and essentially people form the 200 some audience shared free resources. Here is the list:
 
Weebly (website creation)
Think.com (a global community of learning User+extratext@gmail.com (gives you through away e-mails—for students)
 
Delicious (cloud book marking)
Diigo (cloud book marking and more)
scratch.mit.edu (let’s kids make games, animated stories, etc.))
slideshare (PowerPoint sharing)
Tux Paint (drawing for children)
ChaCha (phone text answer)
Audacity [...]

NECC08 Monday afternoon – “Energize Your Classroom with Google Tools”

Google Apps
Google Education
 
Some of the examples looked really useful. It seemed to me that Google Docs might work as a tool to accomplish what the Sunday speaker talked about to gather information from the “crowd”. I need the notes from Vaughn to really make sense of this. 

NECC08 Monday noonish – David Warlick “Our Students, Our World”

handouts.davidwarlick.com
Landmark-projects.com
use these tags for this post.
flat classrooms warlick n08s283
3 points
1. Unpredictable future
2. Networked student
3. New Information Landscape
 
Something about long tail.
Innocentive a place where problems are posted and solutions are submitted (for money)—possible fund raiser? J
 

NECC08 Monday Morning

Wonderful World of Wikis by Vicki Davis and Adam Frey
(sort of lived blogged so excuse the messy thinking)
 
I hope to find a lot of resources out of this session.
 
Necc2008www.wikispaces.com
This Wiki is used for this session including a link to a backchannel site to use during the session.
 
Editing, history, groups, monitoring, easy are the concepts that [...]

What Wonderful Successes! (Or Educators Learning Web 2.0)

After a little background I hope to tackle the question “Why?”
 
For the last 2 months (coincidentally the same time I have not posted—hmmm) the Spring Branch Library Information Services Department has been heavily involved with infusing web 2.0 applications and thinking into the curriculum and educators’ creative minds.
 
Liz Philippi, Vaughn Branom, and I have presented [...]