Diving Deep into Google Earth and Google Maps
- Lucy Gray’s presenter notes
- Adding images in Google Earth
- Geotagging
- Maps, directions, and more
- Google Book Search Library Project
Web 2.0 in Teacher Education (Program Info)
- My presenter notes
- Alternative to the term Web 2.0 is the Read, Write Web
- Teacher education and professional development that effectively helps teachers better integrate technology with teaching and learning
- Allow the teachers to select their own goals and help them reach them
- Online social networks can more easily provide the in-time assistance, coaching, mentoring, etc. that individuals during development/learning, but teachers often don’t think about using the networks
- How do we prepare teachers to teach in the 1-to-1 environment?
- The emphasis should change from "teaching" to designing learning that engages the students.
- Resources for future teachers
Designing the 21st Century Global Learning Environments (Program Info)
- Building on some online discussion that has been ocurring for the past year here and here.
- If there were no barriers what would education look like? Brainstorming notes
I went through the brainstorming notes, and I like the idea of having retired teachers as mentors for new teachers. Having an experienced teacher on my side that I could go to for help, advice, etc, would be a big help, especially in the first few years.