03.03.11

Announcements

 * Collection Development Plan approval, Nooks, PTSA requests
 * [|ALA's Teen Tech Week], March 7-11

** Mix and Mash @ Your Library **
**Mon.** Social Networking and Teens **Tues.** Digital Art Hanging and digital music **Wed**. Gaming in your library **Thurs.** All things FILM **Fri.** Digital books, books trailers and books into movies All week long -- original music by students for bells, Teen Tech announcements

**What are your favorite go - to tools for using video in the classroom?**

 * YouTube (Gaggle Tube)
 * Discovery Ed
 * TED
 * Using [|TED] in the classroom to generate discussion.
 * Browse [|TED]talks
 * [|TED Talks Demystified for Teachers]- categorized by traditional discipline.
 * [|50 Awesome & Inspiring TED talks for Homeschoolers](technology and innovation)
 * [|TED talks for Teachers]



Flip cameras in the classroom

 * "Sandbox Time"**
 * Copyright - [|Keeping it Legal]
 * [|Strategies for increasing student achievement]using the Flip camera
 * [|Forty interesting ways to use your Flip Camera]
 * Video podcasting with a Flip and Audacity

Here at school, Flips have been used for filming student-written soap operas, dance and physics collaborative project, mystery plays, social studies movie, introduction of a new class in Hawk's Nest, and filming a student written play.


 * Outreach –** what do we do with what we’ve learned here?
 * Goal setting –** what do we want to learn next time?
 * Promote -** how do we build momentum?
 * Reflect -** What can we do to encourage teachers to try new technologies?