This document provides tips and resources for teachers looking to integrate technology into their classrooms. It recommends enlisting help from tech coaches and online communities. Teachers should examine their curriculum to find opportunities for meaningful integration rather than just decoration. When starting, it's best to focus on one project using one tool well. Teachers can also join existing projects or engage with online teacher communities. The document provides examples of technology uses and starting points like the Technology Integration Matrix. Contact information is included for the presenter.

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Finding Inspiration: Real
Teachers and Students
Transforming Teaching
and Learning
Lucy Gray

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Where Do I Start ?!?!?

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Enlist Help
 Consult on a regular basis with your building tech coach, tech
coordinator, or curriculum specialist
 Find an online community or mentor.
 Illinois Computing Educators
 Classroom 2.0
 Classroom 2.0 Live
 Webinar Calendar on Classroom 2.0 Live Site
 EdTechTalk
 Women of the Web 2.0

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Examine Your Curriculum:
Integration vs. Decoration *
 What concepts are difficult to teach?
 What are you most confident teaching? Least confident?
 What concepts need to presented in a more compelling way?
 What do you already doing that might fit well with technology?
 What can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time?
 How can you address both state standards and NETS
standards?
* Credit to Tom Woodward for this phrase!

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Focus on One Project, One Tool
 Pick one thing and do it well.
 Gain confidence
 Consider using a tool that you can build on.
 Wikis, blogs
 Let kids see work of others who came before them.
 Expect kids to help.
 Create tech oriented jobs in your daily classroom job assignments.
 A student who maps geographic locations mentioned in class in
Google Earth
 Create routines where technology is used on a daily basis.
 Interactive whiteboard calendar

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Join a Project in Progress
 Consider a joining a project run by another teacher.
 Classroom 2.0
 Global Education Collaborative
 ThinkQuest.org
 Rock Our World
 Around the World with 80 Schools

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Engage in Online Communities
 Visit blogs of people in the know
 Silvia Tolisano – Langwitches
 Kim Cofino – Always Learning
 Lisa Harrison – Passionately Curious
 José Picardo – Box of Tricks
 Will Richardson - Weblogged
 Explore the Classroom 2.0 community
 See the Enlist Help slide
 Start following people in Twitter. Click here to get started.
 Participate in the K12 Online Conference

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Starting Points

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Technology Integration Matrix

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K12 Horizon Report

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The School at Columbia
Google Apps
Social Network
Constructivist

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Lisa Parisi & Christine
Southard
“I have moved from a teacher-directed classroom
to a project-based learning classroom. My
students are much more connected outside of the
classroom and are much more willing to step
outside their comfort zone to collaborate with
others.” – Lisa Parisi

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Wikis
 Time Zone Experiences
 Classroom Book Talk
 Mysteries of Harris Burdick
 Comparing Hemispheres
 Poetry Collaboration

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Valerie Becker

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Global Collaborations
 Global Learning Partners
 Where Are We? Who Are We?
 Laura Jernegan
 Whaling
 What a Wonderful World
 Learning About Whales

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Karl Fisch

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A Whole New Mind

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This I Believe

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Contact Information
 Email: elemenous@gmail.com
 Blog: http://lucygray.org
 Skype: elemenous
 iChat/AIM: elemenous
 Flickr/Delicious/Twitter etc: elemenous

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Presentation Resources
Slides can be found at:
http://lucygray.org
Links to resources mentioned can
be found at:
http://delicious.com/elemenous/teachernet09