Setting up your accounts…

Gadget of the day: Today’s Meet“Did You Know”Essential teacher accountsMake seminar groups and assign

articlesActivity: Teacher websitesWork Time

Respond to this video on TodaysMeet

One thing you already knew…Two facts that surprised you…1 implication for teachers…2 responses to the comments of

others

www.google.cahttp://pbworks.comwww.edmodo.comwww.twitter.com

www.khanacademy.orgwww.readtheory.orgwww.surveymonkey.com

Increasingly IntegratedWidely used Intuitive interfaceFreeCloud computingGoogle DocsApps for education

Intuitive interface (Similar to MS Office)

Free account has few limitations2GB of storageReliabilityAllows for editing vs. chronological

updates“No fuss, no muss”

Format emulates facebookCreates a social network for

students/parentsExtends the classroomGives students a sense of ownershipReplaces/supports “agenda books”Provides a vast PD networkEdmodo at a glance

Expand the scope and breadth of your Professional Development

Experience frequent ongoing Professional Development

Connect your classroom practices to your Professional Development

Student Directed ‘modules’ Integrates tutorials and practiceStructured as a gameProvides LOTS of assessment data

for teachers

Easy to create and edit surveysEasy to embed surveys on your

websiteEasy to view response dataFairly unlimited free accountStudents seem to be very responsive

to surveys.

After setting up your accounts for the ‘essential sites’, return to our “TodaysMeet” chat room and share which tool you are most interested in learning more about and experimenting with.

Signing up on google doc

Now that you have a pbworks account (or other), and you’ve started to think about the criteria for a good classroom website, start brainstorming/working on your own website homepage.

Begin reading your seminar article and thinking about a summary of main points and some thought provoking discussion questions

Give some thought to possible topics for your lesson plan. Recall that the criteria requires the use of technology and that resources be available through your website whenever possible.