This+website

This site started as a PLN for teachers enrolled in the [|Ontario Teachers Federation] : **Technology in the 21st Century Classroom**. The site is now going to branch out and serve as a portal for another OTF professional development venture, tied to Will Richardson 's visit to Toronto on the 30th and 31st of October, 2009. The title of his conference/workshops is **Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Extending the Conversation.

As such, the pages in the navigation bar have been adjusted to reflect the four workshops that will be given on the 31st of October. They will actually link to other parts of the site, developed earlier.

The four workshops are: **

1. **Using Social Media as a PLC**: leaders=> Brenda Sherry & Peter Skillen-this involves following up Will's work and teaching wikis, blogs, Twitter and RSS feeds to the participants from Day 1. 2. **Using Google as an LMS**: leaders=> Richard Grignon & Anne Steele-this will include Apps, Docs, Calendar and Site so that teachers can use Google for hybrid eLearning. 3. **Media Literacy:** leaders=> Kent Manning & Roger Lemelin-given that participants will be arriving with PC and Mac computers, we will be showing them Comic Life and Podcasting with Audacity. I will bring enough headsets for all teachers in this group. 4. **Photoshop Elements 7**: leaders=> Colin Jagoe & Jeff Brown-this was one of the best received workshops in the OCDSB this past summer. Beyond learning Photoshop basics, the end goal will be to show teachers that they, and their students, can use this powerful tool for presentations.