Some gathered ideas from other states

As I networked today, I gathered some ideas from other states. North Carolina has a flap grant to create conversational coaches. They are using SKYPE to allow Chinese coaches to connect with students for approximately 1 hour a week. The hour can be either during school or after school, depending on the individual coaches and students schedules. The hour can be all at once or broken into individual time increments.

Podcasting-free resources

An Apple distinquished educator: Patsy Lanclos, an instructional technology specialist, provided an informative session on creating podcasts. She shared with us the free apple resources that are open for education from the itunes store. To access go to itunes.com and select podcasts/education and then the free podcasts that you want. There are many free ones.

She used garage band software to create the podcasts we made. There is also freeware that will create the podcasts.

Technology's role in World Language Teaching, Learning and Professional Development

This session was provided by Northside School District personnel. The host was Rosana Perez. The trainer was Lorraine Trawick and Amanda Hefner. http://www.nisd.net/ is the school's home page.

What did this session provide:

information on Social Bookmarking: http://del.icio.us is a place to keep mobile bookmarks.
see example: http://del.icio.us/ww1soldier

Information on Wiki's : http://www.pbwiki.org is a place to create a free wiki.
see example: http://ww1soldier.pbwiki.org

Information on Blogs: www.edublogs.org is a place to create free blogs for your classroom
see example: http://ww1soldier.edublogs.org

NSSFL MEETING Day 1

I have decided to create a blog to help share the information I have learned at the NSSFL Meeting. Using the web to communicate with our students is so vitally important as they are the digital natives of today that expect instant communication and instant information. This blog's purpose is to help instructors see the value in using web 2.0 tools.

If you have questions or concerns regarding the content please feel free to post. This is both a work space and an experiment.

Thanks, Peg