Wednesday, February 4, 2009

2nd LAN Party

That's Learning At Night. This is an initiative of the NVSD44 Teach Team. They are trying to get teachers interested in new technology. Besides the interesting topics they are providing dineer for 70 - 80 teachers from the district. This time it was Chinese food to coincide with the Chinese New Year. The food was good.

It was held at the local high school and the main focus seems to be introducing a variety of Web 2.0 technologies to teachers for their own professional use, and then to find ways to use these technologies in the classrooms.

Some of the applications mentioned in the introduction were Delicious, Skype, Edmodo, Evernote and Twitter. We then went to one of 4 sessions. The sessions included: Blogging buddies, Back-channel and others. Link to info.

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