October Weekend: 10/21 - 10/22

Web 2.0 for Teachers: Podcasts & Flickr & Blogs, Oh My!
We begin with the assumption that teachers will know how to begin using the tools of online discourse with their students only after they are comfortable with using these tools themsleves.

One of the principles of the National Writing Project is that teachers gain important insights into the teaching of writing by being writiers themselves. This is an important strand of our work in summer invitational institutes and during inservice seminars during the year.

With similar thinking, we have designed this series of workshops to introduce three internet tools. We want to invite teachers to begin to read and write blogs, to start listening to and producing podcasts, and to begin building community around their digital photographs in Flickr.

Our purpose is to engage teachers in the New York City Writng Project to begin to use words, images, and sounds to document their passions as professionals.

Friday, October 21, 2005

 * 4:00 - 4:30 Tabbed Browsing - Ken and Kate
 * 4:30 - 5:30 Blogging - Julie and Nancy
 * 5:30 - 6:30 Flickr - Ken and Susan
 * 6:30 - 7:15 Dinner Discussion - Web 2.0 Kate, Ken, and Paul (recorded for a podcast)
 * 7:15 - 8:00 Podcasting - Paul

Saturday, October 22, 2005

 * 9:00 - 10:15 Writing in Weblogs and Beyond, and subscribing to blogs using Bloglines - Kate, Ken, and Paul
 * 10:30 - 11:45 Launching your own podcast, and subscribing to others using iTunes - Kate and Paul
 * 11:45 - 12:15 Take a digital photograph - Ken and Susan
 * 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch on your own
 * 1:15 - 2:30 Using Flickr Groups - Ken and Susan
 * 2:30 - 3:00 Next Steps - Kate, Ken, and Paul