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Recently, a good friend and Edublogs webinar moderator, Phil Hart, shared with me a recent Elluminate presentation I unfortunately missed. Edublogs webinars provide a free online gathering of educators or others interested in transforming the educational arena. Through the Elluminate platform, people are able to chat, talk aloud, share screens, answer polls, and so forth to problem-solve or learn information. If you have limited time for professional development, then I suggest attending these webinars, because you meet many people from various fields who really help you and communicate with you. Plus, these events are quite fun and offer people a convenient way to attend “workshops” and build their Personal Learning Network (PLN).
What are the Solutions?
Although several topics were covered in the recent webinar, I thought two were quite relevant for educators.
- How do we keep up with all the new technology and avoid burn-out?
- Which technologies should we recommend?
Several suggestions were offered if you would like to view the archive of the event . You will have to download the Java file. However, I think these are definitely topics to continue to discuss. When we find real solutions to these problems, we will be able to entice more educators and our schools to implement educational technologies!
My Top Tech Management Tools!
- Google Reader – Simple way for me to quickly read my favorite blogs in one area. View this instructional video on how to use an RSS reader .
- Delicious – Simple way for me to bookmark the tools and websites I enjoy. Hint: Add the icons in your tool bar for even faster bookmarking.
- Google Calendar – You can actually add every webinar event automically within minutes to your Google calendar.
- Tweetdeck – Twitter is one of my favorite sites. Tweetdeck allows me to group my friends, mark Tweets as favorites, view profiles, follow automatically, add pictures, and so much more! View this video to find out how to use this program.
What are yours?
Your boot camp challenge for this week:
Participate in a webinar and share your experience with us!
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Karenne Sylvester
// Jun 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm
My biggest edtech – avoid the burnout secret would be to learn one thing at one time and once it’s as comfortable as brushing your teeth, move on to the next!
What’s that old Confucius saying? Journey of a thousand miles…
K
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Important Advice for Teachers | Teacher Boot Camp
// Jul 2, 2009 at 9:03 am
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Sue Waters
// Jul 3, 2009 at 7:19 am
My tip is what out for when new tools come out. Don’t feel the need to be swept along when others get excited. Let others do all the work and then if over time they stick with using them then consider trying them out.
Thanks for cross posting on the live events blog!
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ShellTerrell Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Sue Waters,
This is a great suggestion! This is one reason I love blogs and wikipages. Everytime I read about a new technology, such as VoiceThread, Glogster, and Twitter, I try to find blogs and wikis that show how other educators already implemented the technology. This way I can plan for possible obstacles and see what worked or did not work.
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