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== Pre-conference Keynote - the week of November 30 The following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. []

=Building a Personal Learning Network=

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 * [|iGoogle]
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**Time to Play: subscribe and create your networks**
>> [|David Warlick] >> [|Will Richardson] >> [|Dean Shareski] >> [|Alec Couros] >> [|Kim Cofino] >> [|Clarence Fisher] >> [|Kathy Cassidy's Grade One Classroom] >> [|Darren Kuropatwa] >> [|Backroom Educational Technology Blogger] > > **Resources:** >> [|Free Technology for Teachers] >> [|Welcome to NCS-Tech] >> [|Larry Ferlazzo's Web Sites of the Day] >> [|Open Culture]
 * Suggestions for your network:**

>> [|CBC News Feeds] >> [|Scientific American News Feeds] >> [|Canada.com] (including the Star Phoenix) >> There are blogs on lots of other topics that have nothing to do with your work. For example: >> [|Everything Rachael Ray] (Cooking) >> [|Inside the Dodgers] (Baseball) >> [|Jeff Straker] (Music) >> [|No Impact Man] (Environment) >> [|Battlefords Jazz Society]
 * Suggestions for your reading pleasure:**

=Part II - Information Literacy=


 * 1) The Grammar of the Internet** - Get REAL

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 * 2) Information Literacy Skills: Searching and Search Tools**
 * //**How do Search Engines Work**// from: [|Recommended Search Engines: UC Berkely - Teaching Library Internet Workshops]
 * [|Preparing for your search]

3. Create a [|custom] Google search engine


 * More Resources:**
 * Video: [|Google Search Tips]
 * [|Google Librarian]

=Part III: Resources: Magazine Search Engines= [|Magazine Search Engines] from the Ministry [|Living Sky School Division Learning Resources]