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Swimming without Drowning: Early Career Teachers and Web 2.0 Technologies
 
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shanawald -  It's her first year teaching English, 2nd year teaching.
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[Comment From Jason Ramsden]
And she's presenting already! Go @msstewart! Go!
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Twittersanmccarron -  RT @dwarlick: #NCTIES - VickiD quote: "Every teacher should have a push-pin map illustrating your global connections." I like this.
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samandjt -  New teachers' advantages are also their challenges
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shanawald -  New career teachers have some advantages.   Room to make mistakes w/out getting in trouble.   Comfortable with personal use of the technology. Enthusiasm

Challenges:   same as the disadvantages.   Lots to learn
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Twittersamandjt -  Get session starting on new teachers taking risks at #NCTIES Rm 301A
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shanawald -  How to swim

Keep the end in mind
Create a window into your classroom
cultivate support
don't be afraid of the epic fail (love that one!)

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shanawald -  Problem:   Student reading journals either take up classtime or get lost

Solution: Wiki
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samandjt -  Use technology to solve existing problems.
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shanawald -  Each page represents a student.
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samandjt -  Great wiki reader journal example:
http://la6stewart.wikispaces.com/Link+to+Student+SS+Journals
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samandjt -  Discussing collaborative notetaking:   Onenote Shared notebooks, Google Docs, Evernote
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shanawald -  The kids who are dazed were dazed before technology too
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samandjt -  But why should we all take notes:   Everybody must learn to take them as a life skill.
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shanawald -  That's why I live blog--I get to see my notes and others.   Sometimes ppl ask questions about something that makes me think.
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shanawald -  Another recommendation for voicethread.   I need to get it together for VT.
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shanawald -  Campaign Ads Wiki--brilliant!
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samandjt -  Using the web to create an engagement with campaign ads:
http://la6stewart.wikispaces.com/Campaign+Ads
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shanawald -  Looked at historical ads, genre of ads (web based, television).   Never thought about ads having genres.   What a powerful literacy activity.
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[Comment From JLW]
Thanks for sharing this session
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