Agenda

=Agenda for Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 =

Workshop Facilitator: Edith Schneider
 8:30 - 9:00 Introduction and Overview

9:00 **How can we create web pages __quickly and easily__ so that we can communicate with students and colleagues using the web?**  10:00 **Brainstorm topics so that students** **research and collaboratively design an environmental conservation project to improve, restore or conserve school/community environmental resources. **
 * Our storage site - is220.wikispaces.com OR envirolit.wikispaces.com
 * Creation of usernames and passwords
 * Invitation of all participants from IS 220, St Anselm, and DGK
 * "How to" use our wiki pages


 * Click on @http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/teachers.htm to view basic facts about waste, composting and recycling, tools to reduce waste in schools, teaching the 3 "Rs" (reduce, reuse, recycle), and what teachers and students can do about climate change.

10:30 **Develop project idea, find resources and develop lessons for the environmental conservation project. Address the following:**
 * Why is energy conservation/ resource conservation important?
 * What problems are posed by plastic bottles, energy waste, and overuse of resources?
 * How do these problems affect us and the world at large?
 * How can we address these problems on a local level?

11:30 **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Digital Media Options: Digidoc, Photo Essay, Student Created Wikis ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> 12:00 **Lunch Break**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sample DigiDoc : <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">@http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mj1k_xo-project-documentary-class-501-po_tech
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="custom" key="5847423"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Characteristics of a Digital Documentary and Materials Needed
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">A Roadmap for Creating a Digidoc at @http://www.teachingmatters.org/digidocs/info.htm

1:00 **The Informational Documentary Work Plan** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> 2:45 - 3:00 Evaluation and Wrap Up
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lessons for Creating an Informational Digidoc: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 132%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">@http://www.teachingmatters.org/digidocs/info2.htm
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teachers modify lessons to suit their needs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Please evaluate this workshop by filling out the survey: Click here to take survey