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Proposed Schedule for Will Richardson's Visit on February 20, 2007 - Pace Academy

Middle School 9:50-10:35 - Wiki and Blogs for Middle School Meet in MS Computer Lab

Best ways to use wikis and blogs in the Middle School grades. This session will have about 25-30 Middle School teachers.

Upper School Session One - 10:45am-12:30pm Blogs: The Next Generation Meet in US Computer Lab

A growing number of educators have been implementing Weblogs in their classrooms and schools, and that means that the uses and potentials of blogs are evolving and growing. Instead of just being about text, blogs are now about video, audio and multimedia. They’re about math and music and much, much more. We’ll take a look at how blogs are changing, talk about how the technology of blogging is changing as well, and try to envision where blogs are going next. ___________________________

12:30-1:00 Lunch with Students

Upper School Session Two - 1:00pm-2:45pm Connective Writing Meet in US Computer Lab

The ability to easily publish to the Internet has opened up all sorts of new possibilities for teachers to help students enhance their writing skills and become more effective communicators. In the age of the Read/Write Web, every reader can truly be a writer as well. Weblogs and wikis provide wide and diverse audiences from around the world for feedback and response. But they also require a more “connective writing” approach, one that can synthesize many disparate ideas from different sources, all connected together through hypertext. This is a think out of the box workshop intended to help you start exploring new ways to make your own writing and your classroom writing more meaningful and more effective.Meet in US Computer Lab

Upper School Session Three - 3:00pm-4:45pm Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation. Meet in the US Computer Lab.

Multimedia content creation on the Web increased at the rate of 3200% last year, and it shows no rate of slowing down. From audiocasts to screencasts to video for the iPod, there are all sorts of ways that students and teachers can take advantage of the easy creation and publishing tools that can bring this rich media to a wide variety of audiences. This session s