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ITSCO @ Ohio on iTunes U ITSCO brings “Exploring WEB 2.0” to Ohio on iTunes U. We have thirteen tracks ranging in length from 2-10 minutes with topics including Google, Twitter, Flicker, and Yahoo Pipes. These vodcasts (video podcasts) provide an introduction to some of the more popular WEB 2.0 tools.iTunes is available at www.apple.com/itunes as a free download. We are taking requests! If there is a Web 2.0 application that you would like to see featured in our iTunes U content, let us know!

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Probably at no time in history has access to, and proficiency with, media and information technologies been more important in the public mind, nor more critical to policy making and teaching in government, schools and universities.

Now we have the opportunity to be connectors, to bring our classrooms to the world in a variety of ways. We can find other teachers who may know more than we do. (Secret Life of Bees)

Your teacher will read The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg to the class. You will be able to see the images projected on the screen. After we have read and discussed the images we will go to the computer lab to do the following activities.  Look around the Chris Van Allsburg website.  When you finish looking around the site go to the section "About Chris". Choose frequent questuins.  Read the questions and the answers. You might use the printer friendly version, it's a little easier to read.  You can ralso ead some answers to questions that kids have asked Chris Van Allsburg here. After you hear the story you are going to look at the images online; choose one and write a short story about it. After you write your story you can choose the links below to look at "solved" mystery stories others have written.   1. Solved Mysteries 2. Lafayette School California3. More Solved Mysteries4. Solved Mysteries Indiana

Still, the age group is a fickle bunch. All of the panelists said that they're constantly looking for the next, new thing to stay current with friends; and they often use different social networks and tools to keep up with different sets of people.