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 I am not attached to the logo...I couldn't get the little eclass owl, so I went with this one as a temporary...same for theme and colour...

 Group project ideas:  The question: The difficulties of integrating technology into all subject areas...The challenges of having a separate IT curriculum...The challenges of making sure all students receive adequate IT curriculum...um...  Sue's suggestion: the benefits and drawbacks of embedding ICT outcomes into subject area curriculum versus having a separate ICT curriculum.

 What to do (after figuring out our question...)  · Look at IT IRPs from BC and Alberta  · Interview teachers of various grade levels with respect to the amount of IT they use / integrate/  · Whose “job” is it to "teach" technology?  Other ideas:

 Presentations - use the wiki to link to blogs, videos, prezi presentations...make our own prezi? (I am useless at Prezi, but I don't mind interviewing and I think I can make a video to put on this space / Youtube...)

 Other ideas?

//Hi Jacqui and Anne, //

//I think that Prezi would probably be our best bet for a presentation using a Web 2.0 tool. I have had my kids use Prezi over the last few years and they have come up with some excellent presentations. With Prezi, you can also embed videos and other links. The other possibility is Glogster, (I used it for our New Year's form letter), but it's a bit more static than Prezi. //

//Thoughts? //

//Selena //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HI Selena and Jacqui, //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I like Prezi and am happy to work with it for this project. I've worked with Glogster only a little bit for a library lesson but I'm game to use it as well. //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I like the idea of interviewing teachers about technology, their comfort, use of, integration etc. I wonder if we could create a list of interview questions that we could all use so that we're gathering the same data? There are folks in our district office with whom I could chat/conduct the interview. I'm just thinking out loud here but I like this direction. //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a question about Sue's suggestion. How do we define or limit 'subject area curriculum?' Do we look at LA, SS and science, for example? Or focus on one area alone? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anne // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* // I have never used Prezi, but have an idea of what it can do. Willing to work with it! Same interview questions is a good thought. I am going to look at the BC IRPs with regards to technology. That might help give some idea of focus.

J.

Feb 6 - going to work on cutting my 600+ words down to 300 for this week's assignment and then spend a bit of time here. This past week was FULL! Report cards, the readings and so on...but it is done (well, almost!), so I can look at this project now. =)

J.

Good morning! Just catching up after the last assignment and the readings for this week. I will do the same and check into our ICT (information communication technology) outcomes. Anne

* Feb 13 - I added two new pages: Discussion questions and links we may want to read. Please look at them and add as you see fit. I looked at the BC IRP (curriculum docs) for English and ICT. They are both so dated that there is very little mention about technology. I will be asking my admin for more info.

I was thinking that it might be helpful to date our entries here and use a different colour each (something my students suggested when they worked on a wiki together!) to help us with our communication. Timeline? It might be good to have our questions established for interviews by the end of this week - we have a reading break coming up which might be a good time to work on this project a bit more / do interviews... J. I like the idea of different colours for each of us when we're adding to the wiki. I've learned something new! Anne

Feb 15th - Hi Jacqui and Anne. Great idea on having separate colours for each of us. I am glad that we will be skyping as I am feeling the need to be connected in person. Selena

I like the project outline and coincidentally, have been teaching the 5 W's of website evaluation (Kathy Schrock) with the Tree Octopus website. Great questions from the students have come out of looking at this one! Will Richardson is another proactive educator regarding technology whom we might want to integrate into our presentation. I follow his blog with Reader as well as a few others.