Edutweetpanel+1+Back+to+School+Projects+and+Tips

=Back to School Projects and Tips Educational Twitter Panel=

Time Frame:
Wednesday Aug 5, 2009 8-10 pm EDT

NEW Tweetgrid with NEW Panelists and the final hashtag!! **[]**
 * Moderator:** [|@coolcatteacher] - Teacher, IT Director [|Cool Cat Teacher Blog]

OK, at 9:20 I met my limit for too many tweets and was kicked out - -unfortunately I was in tweetgrid and tweeted for 15 minutes before I figured this out! ;-) I'm kicked out of twitter for a bit, think the tweet panels will have to be about 30 minutes-45 minutes in length - if someone sees this, please share it with everyone! Sorry it kicked me out! - Vicki Davis - Cool Cat Teacher

How does this work?
Each panelist will address one question each 10 minute segment with a tweet and tag it with the hashtag - the questions will appear for a period - and anyone can join in the discussion. The topic is about tips and tricks and technology for back to school - but we need to come up with a set of agreed upon questions. I'm still new to this but let's learn together! We need more panelists - add your name! Everyone welcome!

**Proposed Hashtag(s):**

 * //#educhat -- Add this tag to EVERYTHING we do tonight (tweetgrid has a place for this.)//**

Panelists
//Add your handle, and brief relation to education here//. We can have as many as we want! Add it if you want to be on the official tweetgrid!
 * [|creativeclimate:] Intermediate elementary teacher who is constantly searching for the best wikis/embeddable widgets to enhance the learning experience of my students.
 * [|BArcher001:] NQT specialising in Humanities & Religion, who is always looking for the best educational tools to use in the classroom.
 * [|damian613]: Former secondary English teacher, current school psychologist. Knowledgeable in English and special education.
 * [|akh003]: English teacher, high school
 * [|plnaugle] I teach 4th graders math and English in New Orleans. I design lessons with embedded technlogy for my students.
 * [|shellterrell] I teach English to elementary, high school, college, and adult students in Germany. I integrate educational technology daily into my classes.
 * [|hawaiianbrat96] I work in Clark County School District in Las Vegas, NV. I currently teach English I and English II to 9th and 10th graders and facilitate the English Virtual Lab for English credit deficient students in 9-12 grades. I aim to conquer the classroom through technology to continue to engage and motivate students to learn.

Proposed Questions
Questions -- Also, anyone want to volunteer to put some twitterpolls out there for these time slots? Sign up. Also, we can pull these out of the search and onto a wiki page by searching for these tags - anyone game to help with that? This is an experiment - how much collective goodness can we harness from this little experiment. How can we mash it up and make it cool - push it. Innovate.

**8:00 - Tweet out the link to this wiki and invite participation. 8:01 - Blogging - Our topic will be classroom blogging - try to share a tip, links, classroom examples, uses, favorite video tutorial #blog #edchat 8:10 - Wikis - Wikis in the classroom - tips, links, classroom examples, video tutorials, uses #wiki #edchat -- post a link that either 1. explains what a wiki is, 2. wiki rubric for scoring or 3. A "Hall of Fame Wiki for organization, content, collaboration or educational inspiration. 8:20 - Educational Networking, some call this socio-academic networking and using for education - sites,examples, links #edchat #network 8:30 - Calendaring and communications - how do you communicate, share dates, events, best practices, ideas #edchat #cal 8:40 - PLN's - personal learning networks - are they important, how do you teach students to build them, what role do they play, how can you use twitter for this? Links - #edchat #pln 8:50 - Post one example of your digital footprint (thanks K. Fisch) for others to see (i.e. delicious account link, blog ink, wiki link, etc.) #edchat #digfoot 9:00 - Digital Citizenship Education - how do we teach students about their digital footprint and digital safety - share links to best practices, examples, and tweet your thoughts. #digcit #edchat 9:10 - Digital Storytelling - Share a link, best practice, good example, tools, etc. #edchat #video 9:20 - Handhelds & Itouches & Cell phones - What are you doing? Share links, best practices, tips, apps, thoughts, advice. #edchat #itouch 9:30 - eBook Readers - Where is this going? Things that should be considered? Ideas, tips, best practices. #edchat #ebook 9:35 - Maintenance, IT, Tech Integration - Tips for maintaining a school networking, keeping equipment in working order,etc. #edchat #it 9:40 - Cell Phones in the Classroom - Tips and Ideas for using cell phones in the classroom. #edchat #cell 9:50 - Global Collaborations & Flat Classrooms- What will you be doing? Why is this important? Share links and examples #edchat #flat 9:50 - Enter the "Web 2.0 Smackdown" Phase where we share as many tips, tools cool tools as possible that teachers should use - this is free for all madness and stops when we do (about 10pm but hopefully others will pick it up and let it keep going #edchat #web2** 9:59 - Say goodnight with your favorite video about education and invite people to create their own edutweetpanel on our wiki!

What is a new tool you'll be using this year in your classroom?** I plan on using VoiceThread, Glogster, and Voki for projects this year. I am trying to decide the best way to have individual blogs for my students. I will be using a [|class wiki] this year. (pln) I will be using [|VoiceThread] and a class wiki. I really want to have the parents more involved on my [|children's wiki]. I will also be using SecondLife, Smartphones, Twitter, podcasts, Skype, and ESL chat robots with my adult students.
 * Notes --

[|@paulawhite] and I started a collaborative wiki for classes across the US http://usafunfacts.wikispaces.com/. I also participate in many of the projects hosted by Jen Wagner at her site []. I also added [|this page] to this [|Wetpaint site] and plan to have my students complete it. (pln) [|@ozge] from Turkey, [|@marama] from New Zealand, and [|@shellterrell] from Germany started a [|VoiceThread project for our kindergarteners]! We will be finishing the Elephant Story that was begun and welcome any other elementary students to join the project!
 * Do you have a global collaboration that you will do? Share the link. **

Schedule
Moderator will finalize the day before