Professional+Development+2010+-+2011

**Links for Professional Development August 16, 17, 18**
[|Agenda for Day 1] [|Agenda for Day 2]

[|Mindmeister] - Online brainstorming and mind mapping tool. Mindmeister provides a great collaborative environment. Visit our shared Mindmeister [|map for professional development in 2010 - 2011].

The new wiki for our 6th Grade is called D96Grade6 and is located at Wikispaces. All sixth grade teachers should visit this wiki and request membership.

GarageBand - Apple has some great tutorial videos you may want to use as a reference. There are also tutorials for the rest of the iLife programs.

Rubrics in project based learning: [|RubiStar].

Pyramids of the World Numbers spreadsheet: Temperature Numbers spreadsheet:

Take a tour of [|Dabbleboard] and then add to a whiteboard document to share what [|uses this tool holds for teachers and students]. = =

Podcasts - over 100,000 audio and video podcasts available for free iTunes U:
 * __iTunes Resources__:**
 * Over 600 universities distribute content on iTunes U - about half are available to the public
 * Beyond Campus section of iTunes U has content from other institutions - libraries, museums, radio, etc.
 * Many forms of content available on iTunes U - pdfs, movies, audiobooks, slideshows
 * University of South Florida has created Lit@Go - audiobooks; browse in iTunes or use their website, @http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

GOOGLE DOCS - Here is a podcast: media type="file" key="1-18 Using Google Docs.mp4" width="300" height="300"

__**Skype Resources:**__ Skype website - download the application for free Skype Getting Started Guide for Mac OSX Skype an Author - Virtual visits in your classroom 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom - scroll to the bottom to find out how to locate others using Skype The [|Want Ads] has educators who are looking for others to participate in a Skype project. This [|Directory] contains a list of authors and others willing to Skype with students.