May 12th Meeting Agenda

Description: For our last meeting of the year we want to leave you with a tool that you can sink your learning teeth into this summer and use to stay in touch with us and each other. Social Networking is being embraced by educators and businesses across the country as a tool to connect people and create pathways to share. We want to create a social network so we can explore the possibility of using it in our teaching and so we can experience the synergy while we share best practices. Our network will contain a page for each member where best practices, samples of projects, and interests can be posted for your colleagues to see.

Goals:

• Learn about Social Networking
• Explore the National Education Technology Standards for Students
• Work in group to create a project plan based on the new standards
  

Agenda:

• Introduce our Social Network
• Exploring the computer liaison ning's elements
• Create an account for yourself
• Customize your page with a blog entry of a project you did this year
• Learn how to use the Forum feature
• National Education Technology Standards for Students
• Review the standards and the 21st century skills they're built on
• Learn how to edit the NETS-S wiki and review wiki concepts
• Contribute to the NETS-S wiki
• (link to the DOE NETS site from Dia Kuhl)
  
• Project Planning Group
• By popular demand, we will have a small group work session where we create a project plan. Each plan should include the following elements
  
1. Project Title
2. Description
3. Grade levels
4. Subjects covered
   
5. Standards
6. Technologies used
7. Procedures
8. Resources needed
   
• Post projects to your page on Ning.