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Chocolate Tech Affair

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ZiggyU Announces:

 

The Chocolate Tech Affair:  A Technology Workshop Devoted to Educators and Librarians that like Chocolate!  

 

 

 

Oh, the truffles our educators have seen!  It's time to pull up that computer chair, grab a mouse, and Digg in.  Sinfully Delic.io.us Web 2.0, Library 2.0 read write web tools such as blogs and peanut butter wikis, will be sampled; crafted just for teachers and librarians (pod slurping will not be allowed).  Alongside of these will be pared edible chocolates of the San Francisco Bay Region.  With the read write web tools, ed1stop, YouTube, will learn the secrets of how chocolate meets state education standards using the latest Google Tools for the Classroom.  Try a tasty videoconference with the chefs of the world, dabble in Second Life or discover a Flickr of a librarian Mashup. How about a TeacherTube chocolate or develop your own streaming chocolate video! Join this rare opportunity for social networking with teacher and librarian friends while tasting regional chocolates!  What could be more decadent?

 

Even though Ziggy might sit here at my side as I prepare for this fun-filled workshop, he will not be given any chocolate!  He will get that pathetic look in his eyes that says "feed me" not realizing that chocolate can be lethal to dogs!  Chocolate contains something called theobromine which is poisonous to dogs, even a large dog like Ziggy.

 

Learner Outcomes:

 

  1. Participants will gain an understanding of Web 2.0 and many of its available tools in educational contexts.
  2. Attendees will explore the effect of emerging Web 2.0 technology on e-learning.
  3. Attendees will walk away with sesson resources and strategies for use after the workshop.
  4. Chocolate lovers attending the workshop will gain new appreciation for chocolate

 

 

Blogs:

 

  1. Using Blogger to create free blogs.
  2. Other free blog sites for education include David Warlick's Class Blogmeister and WordPress .
  3. A blogger describes a chocolate tasting at Draeger's Market in San Mateo, CA .
  4. Discover what the ZiggyU Blog has to say or if it has anything to say today .
      • Explore the chocolate dinner menu, which item would you like to try and why?
      • Anything interesting on the blog that you might want more information?
      • How could you use a blog in your own setting? This is one example of a math teacher using a blog. 
  5. Springfield Township High School (Oreland, PA) Librarian, Joyce Valenza's NeverEndingSearch Blog and her school Virtual Library!

Chocolate Curriculum:

 

  1. Thematic Pathways for Chocolate is an educational resource site dedicated to chocolate.
  2. Sweet Science of Chocolate brought to you by the San Francisco Exploratorium.
  3. German Town, PA students review  "The Chocolate Touch" by Patrick Skene Catling.
  4. Many different chocolate shapes to color or make shapebooks about chocolate things.
  5. Explore the main menu for lessons surrounding the book "Chocolate Fever." 

Del.icio.us

 

  1. Del.icio.us is a "social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browseris a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser."  Click to see who else saved the website!
  2. Come see ZiggyU's Del.icio.us account and his doggy pal, Lindy's Del.icio.us account.

Ed1Stop:

 

  1. Ed1Stop, a new award winning Web portal service that acts as a personal gateway to both subscription-based services and free educational Web.
  2. No portal?  Use United Streaming! Get a temporary password in this workshop :-)
  3. You could even use United Streaming under "Curriculum Support" to find a number chocolate videos that meet state standards including one called "Number Crew:  Action to Fractions" and another called "Chez Mimi:  A Table." But for now let's discover some basic chocolate information :-)  
      • By using the search tool, how many video segments can be found about chocolate?
      • Find one you might like to use in the library or classroom. 
      • Did you find any articles about chocolate? 
  4. How about launching Grolier's via Ed1Stop to view chocolate documents to use across the curriculum!
  5. California Streaming also is a subscription service that offers videos and images including those on chocolate.

Flickr:

 

 

 

  1. Flickr is a Yahoo! Company. The Library of Congress is even using Flicker! Visit the LOC FLickr photos!
  2. By using this photo management company's photo search tool you can find many interesting things, try it out! You can even use your cell phone camera to send images to your Flickr account.
      • Discover what the Oregon SLA library group had going on in 2006.
      • Find librarians or ZiggyU's trading cards!
      • Visit Antarctica and a classroom partnering with Antarctica scientists via Flickr, what's your favorite picture?

    3.  Education guru, David Warlick's Flickr basic instructions or see this great video on using Flickr from the K12 Online Conference.

    4.  There are "Flicker Toys" that can do all sorts of neat things with images for Flickr.  For instance in one above image, I used the

           "Captioner" for  the book "Cockroach Cooties" which is on the California Department of Education recommended reading list.

    5.  ZiggyU's Flickr! Visit the Chocolate Affair Flicker slide show :-) Try this cool Flickr application called Flickr Storm.

 

 

Google Tools for Educators:

 

  1. At Google Tools for Educators site you will find a link to Google Tools for Your Classroom .
  2. Google Earth uses in the classroom!

 

Polling Tools for You!

 

  1. Take a look at "PollAnyWhere."  Do you like chocolate?

    Second Life:

     

     

    1. Second Life is a 3D online virtual world.
    2. Take a sample of the Pacific Rim Exchange blog to explore how Modesto City Schools uses SL in a Japanese exchange program .
    3. The Modesto City School SL project portrayed in Edutopia.
    4. A Second Life for middle school science and math students.

     

     

    Twittering Away!

     

    Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Come see what ZiggyU is twittering about today or the famed David Warlick's Twitter!

     

     

    YouTube/TeacherTube/Your Own:

     

    1. YouTube, the online video site where you can watch I Love Lucy in the Chocolate Factory, in which Lucille Ball is working in a real L.A. See's Candy Factory. Students even made a reenactment.
    2. How about the YouTube video "Treadmill Dance" for physical education classes? Sometimes you might want to download a YouTube video such as the one from a book talk on a favorite person but your school blocks it.  Here is how to download from home and play at another location.  One by a now famed high school student on the War has over 11 million views.  Read all about it.
        • To download a YouTube video, select your video from YouTube then go to YouTubeX. 
        • To play the downloaded YouTube.FLV videos you need a FLV player such as the one called Wimpy. It is free.
        • You could also go to ZamZar.com for a free online file conversion or for Mac's try StinkBot.
    3. TeacherTube's goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos such as the one on Milton Hershey.
    4. Why not use a streaming archiving solution for staff development? Try the Tech Monk!
    5. WOW! National Geographic uses YouTube and UC Berkeley!

     

     

    Videoconferencing:

     

    1. AT&T Videoconferencing for Learning page, part of Knowledge Network Explorer.
    2. Sample a videoconference guest "chef " from the Library of Congress  at no expense to the audience.
    3. Rock and Roll with a videoconference honoring another potential guest chef or take a look at COSI YouTube videoconferences!
    4. Not for sampling today but take a peak at the New York Institute of Technology Culinary School distance education program that includes chocolate truffles varying in prices and programs.
    5. Visit California's K12 High Speed Network (K12 HSN) to learn how to obtain a videoconference desktop solution in order to collaborate with others.

     

     

     Wikis:

     

    1. King of all Wikis, Wikipedia (English), the free encyclopidia that anyone can edit, has chocolate for the sampling.
    2. Wikis for free using Peanut Butter Wiki (PB Wiki), Wikispaces and Wetpaint .  Have fun with your Wiki!
    3. Visit a PB Wiki explanation via YouTube.

     

     

 

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