Group+Discussions

Feedback from individuals/groups -

//**Session 1 -

Breakout Session 1  **  //Edline - every teacher has site and all students can access online grades **, **in touch with parents, no surprises with grading

7th grade english - One page website, character summaries and plot summaries like a facebook analagy - all essential parts of books posted on district intranet - choice of application/software - __motivation -__ profile page, facespace

4th grade - ostrich eggs and story about it. class staged eggs in various places (including principal's chair) and used Animoto to record it. used web and cell phone

Rather than reading about Edgar Allen Poe - made flip video with student enacting

Student journalists in classroom - use cell phones in classrooms, finding sources

//**Breakout Session 2**// Barriers:
 * Time to work with new technologies
 * Access to technology resources - consider 1:1 Computing, avoid restricted access to computer labs
 * Filtering blocks - restrictions on web sites
 * Classroom control vs. openness of technology tools
 * Clearinghouse of effective tools - amount of information on the web can be overwhelming
 * Money/funding

//** Session 2 -

Breakout Session 1 **

Using website to provide continuous education to students - many absences due to illness

Elementary - Latin American cultures - sound, video, economics, flag, own voice - slides - ran at parent night. continuous feed around school at parent night - also on website through the library

Skype - could skype certain lessons to student who was not at school so she could be a part of the lesson and also a part of group work. trial set up in teacher room and students in another room but could watch through webcams. they were the jury

Classroom response systems for assessment - pre and post assessment and data can be saved. Immediate feedback. Many people creating and sharing assessments

Teacher using Twitter rather than website for information

Using wiki and podcasts - training and how to access material - freeware - bringing people togther to get work done.

Successful Strategies:**//
 * Breakout Session 2
 * Access to technology - students using the technology

//**Barriers to implementing digital tools:**//
 * Ethics & proper use of digital tools - concerns about digital plagarism. Discussion about policies to addres
 * Equity to resources and access to resources
 * Transition from paper communications to electronic communications. Lack of willingness to move to electronic environments.
 * Students don't know how to use many of the digital tools - how do we assess students in these learning environments?
 * Lack of reliability of the technology.

