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"Yolink Update with Enhanced Search Engine-Special Guests: Brian Cheek, Ken Shelton, Lucy Gray 08/07/2010 Links for presentation: http://gl.am/e1kT4 *Plus page has additional links & resouces *I participated in this webinar and it is a good one hour training to get familiar with Yolink & Sweetsearch. I recommend this training. There is a previous training in the Classroom 2.0 archives you can also access.

"Thanks to the Internet and the technologies we use to access it, we've move from a world where all of these (information, knowledge, teachers, learning, getting an education) were relatively scarce to one where they're absolutely abundant…" - but how are we at accessing it? How about our students? Seems like a call to train learners with literacy skills

I like how the site has a set of short videos demonstrating each "teacher move" to support learning using "Accountable I think these would be helpful in training/professional development, as well. The fact that these "moves" were observed in effective classrooms (i.e. research-based) is good to know.

"How is it now that so many adults are reduced to tears when confronted by an unfamiliar technology?" One answer is that, "We have learned to become helpless; most likely by playing the traditional game of 'school'." Our evaluations through PD surveys, conversations, and focus groups indicate that teachers feel they don't use technology because they don't have enough training. Tom Whitby advises educators hesitant to use the modern tools of today, to stop relying on others and take ownership of their learning and suggests this can be done through developing a personal learning network.

Among the findings: New teachers aren't more likely than veteran teachers to use technology. This raises some important questions how well teacher preparation programs are training pre-teachers how to integrate technology or if they're simply entering school environments where they're not encouraged to do so.

A guide from Microsoft on developing information literacy skills. I'm going to use some of these ideas in an upcoming training & with students in the classroom.

Watch this training on how to use LiveBinders & links to examples and best practices & tutorials

The most recent issue of the 21cif Information Fluency newsletter. Feel free to join! Low volume news letter dedicated to searching, evaluating and ethical use of digital information. Includes an invitation for free access to our new 3 hour self paced training course and online assessment: Information Fluency Investigator 3.1.

There's one request for advice that I receive more than any other from coaches: How can I coach a resistant teacher? This article explores that by helping those who coach teachers to look at themselves as much as they do those they coach. Good read for instructional leaders.

"Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz making applications. These apps will help you make quizzes for online use for free."

Thanks, Mike. I've been collecting links for awhile on Google Apps in Diigo and glad to have this one. I'm already thinking of a website for the district. I created one for the Google Apps training and will be thinking how to revise and expand it.