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= Taylorville Technology PD Wiki =

Presentations
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The Need for Change
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Contemporary Skills
Every child in America needs 21st century knowledge and skills to succeed as effective citizens, workers and leaders in the 21st century.
 * [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]**

Guidelines for technology skills for K-12 students.
 * [|NETS for Students]**

Guidelines for technology skills for K-12 teachers.
 * [|NETS for Teachers]**

Teacher Tools and Professional Development
The Classroom 2.0 Ning is social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative or transformative technologies in education.
 * [|Classroom 2.0]**

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning.
 * [|K-12 Online Conference]**


 * Taylorville Ning**

Easy Sites
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
 * [|Delicious]**

Free tool from Google that lets you create an easy-to-use blog where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more.
 * [|Blogger]**

Create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online that you can share with others. Allows for collaboration in and outside of the classroom.
 * [|Google Docs]**

Online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks. Users join an existing network and/or create their own.
 * [|Ning]**

Combine images, documents, audio, and video into digital storytelling projects.
 * [|VoiceThread]**

Simple to use wiki tool that provides easy, collaborative editing and controlled user access. This page was made with Wikispaces.
 * Wikispaces**

Explore, create, share and discuss timelines that contain text, images, and video.
 * [|X-Timeline]**

[|SlideShare] Upload powerpoints, provides an embed code to allow you to put in a wiki or a blog.

[|Scribd] Upload Office docs, pdf files- embed in a blog or send a link to share with others.

[|uStream.tv] Broadcast anything live with just a computer and a video camera

[|Skype] Use your computer like a telephone

[|Quizlet] Online flasshcards

[|Issuu] - publush pdfs for display as an online book -

[|Mixbook] - create an online book

[|World History Ning Site] [|US History Site] [|Sudan Project] [|A Scribe Blog] [|Mini Research Project on WIki] [|Chemistry Project] - three people on a team, team members are not in the same class [|Wiki Lab] [|Voicethread] - search for micds for more [|Online Comic] - Graphic Novel summaries Blogs
 * High School**
 * [|Poem of the Day] - students read a poem a day
 * [|English 10] - teacher poses question or prompt and students comment
 * [|9th grade student blog]
 * [|11th grade blog]

[|Beyond School] - An English teacher's thoughts on education [|A Difference] - Math teacher's take on education [|Practical Theory] - Blog written by Science Leadership Academy Principle [|21st Century Learning] [|Weblogg-ed] [|Open Thinking and Digital Pedagogy] [|Endless Forms Most Beautiful] - AP Biology Teacher blog for her students
 * Blogs to Read**

Especially for administration [|Leadertalk]

Contact Info Elizabeth Helfant ehelfant@micds.org ehelfant on skype, twitter, almost everything [|Elizabeth's Blog]