Questions for Consideration:
Have you experienced live video on the web?  In what context?
Can live video be harnessed for education?
What barriers exist in your board to receiving video; to broadcasting video?

Related Websites:
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/27/when-a-substitute-teacher-knows-skype-missing-school-is-easy-video/


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Questions for Consideration:
Why do teachers and students have the same permissions when using the World Wide Web at school?
Why do we apply a one-size-fits-all approach to professional development?
Might teachers be provided with training and technology that suits their unique abilities and interests?

Related Websites:
Links and more are on the blog:
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/02/its-time-to-differentiate-support-for.html

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Questions for Consideration:
Have you contributed to a wiki yet?
If you try it, you'll see how simple it can be to host and update web content all on your own!

Related Websites:
http://wetpaint.com
http://thecleversheep.wetpaint.com

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Questions for Consideration:
How much personal information do you have online?
Is your personal information secure?
What questions do you have about your online information?
Your students have a stake in the answers to these questions, will they have a chance to think about them, before their entire lives exist in bits and bytes?

Related Websites:
The Blogs are the current source of information on Google Health, so go ahead and Google it "Google Health".

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With tonight's total eclipse of the moon, I'm wondering, "What school skills are being eclipsed by new technologies?"  and "What do we spend time on that is no longer relevant to the lives of our students?"

Feel free to post your ideas for obsolete skills and 21st century skills on the "Let's Ban Chalk Wiki" http://thecleversheep.wetpaint.com


Related sites:

David Pogue's blog
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/

Beloit College Mindset list
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/

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Wiki... from the "Hawaiian word for Fast"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki

I've opened my Wiki to the World following discussion on Will Richardson's blog: http://weblogg-ed.com

How and when will meaningful change come to education... and what will it look like?  You can help out by contributing to the 21st Century Skills pages on http://thecleversheep.wetpaint.com

My contention is that teachers have to use the technologies to gain an understanding of their operation, and then they need to model the use of such tools in their personal learning. It is after this experience, that the employment of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom will make sense!

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Questions for Consideration:
Do you know what you know about the net?
Do you know what you DON'T know about the net?
Do you know what your children & students do and don't know?

Related Websites:
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/02/15/4848306-sun.html

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Questions for Consideration:
How do you connect with like-minded colleagues in your district, across North America, around the World?

Related Websites:
www.twitter.com
www.facebook.com
www.myspace.com

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Questions for Consideration:
Have you ever benefitted from someone sharing resources with you?
What have you developed/found that you can share?

Related Websites:
http://resources.elearningontario.ca

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Questions for Consideration:
Have you ever read a blog?
Did you know you can limit a Google search to blogs only?

Related Websites:
A few Educational Blogs to consider:
http://thecleversheep.wetpaint.com/page/Recommended+Edu-Blogs

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Questions for Consideration:
What projects could you co-author with a peer (or two or more)?
Can you collaborate with others to appreciate how students can use Web 2.0 tools to do the same?

Related Websites:
http://documents.google.com

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Questions for Consideration:
Where am I comfortable beginning?
How about in differentiating some of the products you ask students to create?

Related Websites:
Check out Wesley Fryer's ideas on Digital Storytelling
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/

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Archives are saving today's history on the World Wide Web. 

My favourite Internet Archives are listed on The Clever Sheep blog: http://thecleversheep.com

Don't miss the Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive, Newseum, and Museums and Art Galleries from around the world!

If you have archive links you'd like to share, feel free to drop me a line:
thecleversheep@gmail.com