Connaught's+Summer+Workshop

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Welcome to Connaught School's summer workshop, based on the online workshop//,// [|23 Things]. Over the next few weeks you will encounter the tools of the the new internet, Web 2.0. These are the tools that our students are using to keep in touch with the entire world through social networking, video, audio and gaming sites. They are also the tools that we can use to collaborate, create, and share our professional knowledge.

When you start school in the fall you will have a web presence, the ability to use a wide number of tools and a clear understanding of which ones are your favourites. You will be ready to use the tools to share information with students, parents and your school community. You will also be comfortable with using these tools as an integral part of your instructional strategies.

So.... get ready... it going to be an interesting summer!

**Structure of the Workshop:**
The workshop is divided into six blocks. Each block will focus on a web-based tool that you will use. There will also be some content/reading on which you will focus your use of the tool.

Block One: Introduction
An introduction to embedded technology and the impact on teaching and learning. 1. Watch a video, listen to a podcast, view teacher/classroom blogs 2. Reflect on the your responses to the video, the podcast and the blog

Block Two: Blogging
3. Create and format your blog - this will be our medium for sharing, learning and discussing over the course of the summer 4. Write your first blog post and comment on the post of a classmate 5. Read about the educational applications of blogs including assessment 6. Write a blog post using blogging conversation protocols 7. Find blogs of interest

Block Three: RSS Readers and Start Pages
Don't be frightened by the techie sound of this -- it is one of the best professional tools you will ever encounter and very easy to set up and use. We are doing it at the beginning because it will apply to many other things that you will be doing. 8. Watch the video: What is rss? 9. Read the article: What is a start page? 10 Set up either an rss reader or a start page 11. Create a set of links using a social bookmarking tool 12. Add the link to your blog

Block Four: Collaborative Creation and Online Safety
13. Learn what a wiki is 14. Develop an understanding of the collaborative and educational purposes of a wiki 15. Read, research, and come to an understanding about online safety and ethical issues 16. Use a wiki to collaboratively build a set of norms and expectations for the use of laptops and for online safety in your school

Block Five: Image Tools
17. Upload photos to an online photosharing service 18. Create a slideshow with your photos and embed the slideshow on your blog 19. Use an online image generator to create and embed a personal image for your blog 20. Embed a video or a slideshow on your blog or wiki page

**Block Six: Introduction to Digital Storytelling**
21. Define digital storytelling 22. Outline the steps to tell a digital story 23. Create a "Story in Five Frames"

Face-to-face Workshop: Digital Storytelling
//Morning:// media type="youtube" key="OC1OixM_118" width="425" height="350" //Afternoon//:
 * instruction on laptop technicalities
 * introduction to digital storytelling with Powerpoint
 * **Dean Shareski's PowerPoint Extreme Makeover Video**
 * introduction to publisher
 * Introduction to Photostory III
 * Introduction to Windows Movie Maker
 * Curriculum application
 * creating a digital story

**Continuous school-based professional development**

 * Information literacy
 * Online reading strategies
 * Writing application and strategies
 * Creating webquests