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= Workshop 3 - Engaging Teachers, Engaging Students = = Part One - Classrooms are Changing =

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= Part Two : Connected Teachers = Connected Students= =Twitter= || ................................................................................................................................................ Create your own account and a PLN (Professional Learning Network) www.twitter.com

__//The 4C Twitter Account for collaboration://__ //Share whats happening in your classroom...// //A photo of some awesome work, a funny thing that happened during the day in the class, a website that was great, a quote from a student...anything you like!//

//Username: 4cclustertales//

//Password: 4ccluster// || An excellent article about the effectiveness of twitter for teaching
 * Tips and advice for you || @http://lauradoggett.com/2009/03/nine-great-reasons-why-teachers-should-use-twitter/

@http://theedublogger.com/2010/07/08/a-twitteraholics-guide-to-tweets-hashtags-and-all-things-twitter/ A basic guide on how to do everything in Twitter and what it all means.

http://twitterclassrooms.wikispaces.com/ Twitter in the classroom ||

=Part Three : Getting Efficient in your daily practice= =Google Docs= || ................................................................................................................................................ Start by getting yourself a GOOGLE ACCOUNT. This will involve setting up a gmail account also.

Get your planning seamless and stored in one place... Get your school programmes more collaborative... Get feedback easier... Give your students another platform to communicate with a wider audience! || @https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft || Below it is how it collects data as people compete it.
 * Tips, advice, creative ways to use it || 34 Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in your class:
 * A Must!**
 * Here's an example of a Google Form in action:



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=Part Four: Literacy Tools to engage and explore= ......................................... ||  || Using premade artistic resources to help kids tell their stories. Beautifully presented and fully printable or embeddable. media type="custom" key="10521322" || Little Bird Tales Stories are created, using uploaded artwork or drawn with the paint function (or both - photo with digital art added) and then text is added. What makes it so great is the option to add voice to each page. Digital literacy to the full! Can be linked nicely to your website (embedded). media type="custom" key="10521318" || Convert your students word processed work into a PDF file and then upload them to Youblisher. The result is one of these fully page turning books that look slick and can be downloaded or printed off at home. media type="custom" key="10521338" ||  || Fotobabble lets you attach commentary to photos. A perfect way of enabling students to share experiences etc. media type="custom" key="10521408" || AudioBoo I have used a few podcasting styled websites over the last few years and i have found none to be as quick and straight forward as AUDIOBOO. Either create your podcast directly from their site or upload your podcast in mp3 form. Then embed the podcast directly into your LMS or website as below: media type="custom" key="10521376" || Again, this webtool enables students to attach commentary to photos but with a more creative edge. BLABBERIZE is very easy to use and dare i say it, fun. media type="custom" key="10521936" || Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds that are fully interactive with Google search engine. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Able to embed in a wiki, website etc... media type="custom" key="10521434" || Wordle Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. @https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5 || = = =Part Five: Please Add your next steps to the google doc= Click Here
 * ==Written Language==
 * Story Bird
 * Youblisher
 * ==Oral Language== ||  ||
 * Fotobabble
 * Fotobabble
 * Blabberize
 * ==Visual Language== ||  ||
 * Tagul
 * Tagul
 * =='Websites for teachers only' we looked at== ||  ||
 * Cleverbot || [] ||
 * Touch the rainbow || @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlaJlb1ezg ||
 * Unneccesary Knowledge || http://www.unnecessaryknowledge.com ||
 * Shoot the bear || @http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience ||
 * Unneccesary Knowledge || http://www.unnecessaryknowledge.com ||
 * Shoot the bear || @http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience ||