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__Re-Cap From Last Week:__
 * Papers will be returned to us Tuesday, or Thursday at the latest.
 * Unit Plan Assignment: Incorporating technology into any subject curriculum. Goal is to produce something that you will use. Examples include digital literacy, understanding how to online research, creating digital story etc. This will be presented in a 10 minute presentation and a 1-2 page overview to hand in. The goal is to produce a technology learning opportunity for your students that will work.

**Online Discussions** - skype, msn, elluminate, etc. __Co-op__- students work with you for a month, then go into the work force for a month- they need to keep up with assignments and keep up with the teacher- can use wikis to check in __Langley's Pro-D Model__ - come to a pro-d workshop and get credits - present at a workshop and get more credits- credits can then be used to attend other workshops that cost money

__Comments from online session__

- protocols need to be set up to help confusion- seemed like there was so much stuff going on and you didn't know what to focus on - comfortability with the program- depends on the type of discussion (dynamic discussion vs lecture format) - scaffolding is important ->start small (20 min session) then work your way up

PSA- Provincial Specialist A ssociations CUEBC - computer using educators of BC

**Wikipedia**

__Article__

- intimidating because you might think that everything you know is already on there- interesting learning experience (googled how to create bullets)- difficult to work on articles that a lot of people are working on because you often lose your work- working online: learn safety measures to save your work (copy things into a clipboard before you post so that you have a copy incase it crashes), sometimes though when you lose your work, the second time you write it is even better

__Research__

- wikipedia can be used for research effectively as a starting point, not as the sole source of information- controversial subjects are not the best subjects to research on wikipedia- the information is up to date as opposed to traditional encyclopedias where the information may be 10-20 years old


 * __Curricular Uses of Google__**

- The only difference between Google 5.0 and Google Pro is the processing speed. Google pro costs $400 but there is a link on Kevin's iamliterate to get it for free. - the power of google is that there is so much free stuff in one place - 80% of the focus of google employees is searching, for the other 20% they can do anything they want (docs, earth, picasa, etc. come from that other 20%) - Scholarly google: scholar.google.com ->narrows the search to scholarly resources - You can use google and the sfu databases congruently to maximize searching

[|www.googlelittrips.org] ->teaching literature with google maps

Create an exploration of the actual path of the characters in a story, eg. [|hanassuitcase.ca] Plot the path that the mother walked from her home to prison, you can see how far she had to walk, gives students a real perspective instead of just facts->build in assignments (have questions pop up within the program)

Layers - wiki spaces can be connected, turn on the roads, 3-D buildings, terrain, traffic reports, political borders, current weather, national geographic to explore the oceans, etc. (every layer will slow down the program because it is getting live information) Sun - will show how the sun shines on the earth at different times of day Stars - will show the stars in the sky if you look up, has all the constellations

Voki - speaking avatar, web 2.0 where a character says written text out loud [|http://www.voki.com/]

ICT Presentation: Natasha and Kiran- You can see there presentation wiki Digital Textbooks & Google Latitude