My keynote PP for HVWP

1. Connecting to the World The Promise of Web 2.0 in Education Presented by Kevin Hodgson Sixth Grade Teacher Southampton, Massachusetts Technology Liaison – Western Massachusetts Writing Project

3. Did You Know … From: http:// youtube.com/watch?v =pMcfrLYDm2U

4. David Warlick says: “ We desperately need . . . we may not survive without . . . a generation of young people who are imaginative, inventive, fearless learners, and compassionate leaders. Yet, what can we say, as educators, about the students we are producing? We can prove that they can read, do basic math on paper, and they are able to sit for hours filling in bubble sheets. No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age.” -- from http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/02/16/happy-birthday-jude/

23. The ABC Project The ABC Workshop: http://k12online.wm.edu/TheCollaborativeABCMovie_Project.htm

24. ABC, Continued The ABC Workshop: http://k12online.wm.edu/TheCollaborativeABCMovie_Project.htm

26. Social Networking Explained: From http:// youtube.com/watch?v =6a_KF7TYKVc

27. Social Networking in Education From http:// teachersteachingteachers.org/?p =119

34. And a Poem to Share Z is for Zeitgeist . So often we live only in the moment and fail to see the realm of possibilities until they have shuttled on past us and we are left with the trailing shadows of what might have been or could have been or at least, seemed likely at some juncture before the hesitation. Yet, perhaps, if we were to reach out to explore this terrain together then our imagination might emerge as community, a hive of interaction and learning. Perhaps something new might unfold from this moment when our fingers wrap around the features of these times in such as way that we are guided forward instead of retreating back into the comfortable tradition of how things have always been, forever and ever. This compositional entry into the unknown is a strange pathway that moves between the heart and the mind and the eye, image under sound, stories told from some center inside of us and then shared as a common experience on the vast digital page. Your story becomes mine, and mine yours, and the sequence of how it is told is how we traverses amidst the phonetic sounds of our shared tongue, from the comfort of A to Z, and everything in between, to the micro-films of narrative. There exists a space for our stories here in this place where space does not exist, and like little wooden blocks with symbols carved upon them, we are balanced upon each other and dependent upon the whole. The moment is now and the movement is us. Z is for Zeitgeist .

36. Questions?