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are you a digital native or digital immigrant?

Change in the workplace, change education.  What workplace skill do we need to provide for our students?

Baylor Univ. compared brain scans from adults and students and students brains are differnt now.  They process differently than we do, we need to adapt or we will loose them.  So how do we become the adapter the helps them plug in to the educational outlet?

Creative content delivered immediately on a global scale. NOT pen and paper!

Grapics over text,  multi-tasking students make it difficult for the pen an paper, read to understand teacher. 

What is web 2.0?  Internet that allows people to interact with information and be content providers. The read/write web. – any application on the web that allows you to interact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLIGopyXT_g

• Awesome video.
• Disease – Social networking Fatigue – TMI (too much information)
• Technorati Tags, make sure you tag your blog, keywords that are in the article

Q&A From Audience

• What’s a WIKI – updateable website – collective knowledge – students can create and edit repeatedly with out fear of a red pen.
• Digital Storage options
• A Drive 50G, Flip Drive, 20G, Media Max 25G, Google Docs, Box.net (1G)
• Wiki vs Blog what the difference
• Wiki multiple contributors, blog is a running comments on 1 author
• What is Podcasting?

Basically audio or vido broadcast rendered in form to load to web.  You do not have to have Apple or iTunes to podcast.  It is not a podcast until you decide to continue with episodes. 

www.podomatic.com http://www.powermedialplus.com http://www.boomshuffle.com    http://ccmixter.org http://jumpcut.com http://eyespot.com

Organize and Mangement

create projects with rolls.  http://projectoffice.net/Index.aspx

http://deskaway.com http://www.teamworkpm.net

http://stikkit.com

http://www.jott.com

Wordle – create a wordwall for you or for your class. www.wordle.net

Moodle and Ning (social networking)  go to “in plane English videos” for simple explainations of Web 2.0 applications.

Mind Maping, create a throw away email account for your logins, Gmail is great it won’t throw away sign up emails.  Write it down, save it, BUT DON’T TAPE IT TO YOUR LAPTOP!

CONCLUSION:
Don’t be afraid to fail, you only getting 1 step closer to being successful.  Pick 1 new thing a year to master, don’t try to do too many thing in the same year.

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