1 per term, 2 per year. Teachers create a course out of there favorite unit. Syndication on iTunes U facilitated by Lindsay but creation of resource on Spot/SpotX up to teacher and students. THINKbuds pulls from Spot/X onto own platform and gets directed to by iTunes U. Public commentary enabled for 2-way dynamic.
High ranking site SEO for multimedia resources for teachers, good example of pairing media with lesson plans and other resources, not visually dynamic and doesn't promote a dialogue with the user
Invest orientation time at start of year building on TGS Digital Library with resources and allow teachers to briefly present their top tools and ones they'd like to improve upon
- Easy export to external site or a package/comprehensive "portfolio"
- Connect drafts to final products (blogs, videos, maybe others?) so we can show progress on Spot
- RSS embeds in Spot for daily reading
- RSS widgets curated by admin to stream outside world into Spot
- that's all for now...
- Adobe Bridge (great for media organization and also a skill in that industry)
- Diigo to multi-device?
- Re-evaluate Documents in place of GoodReader? Students are tending to do this already
- Google Reader? In conjunction with Spot or Flipbook?
- Build in the time for them to curate these with the support of their teachers (e.g. students can get suggestions on which pieces each month or at mid-term markers should be included in their portfolio for the time being)
- Friday Homerooms?
- Advisor meetings?
- On Spot for storage and display with easy