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Welcome! === Welcome to our session on using technology to enhance learning in science. The aim of this session is for you to explore and apply Web 2.0 applications so that you can use them with your students. As with anything, we learn better by doing and that's what we will do today! === === The following is an outline of tasks for the session - I will start with a short explanation, and you can complete tasks according to your own interests and at your own pace. ===

1. Google Account
===Create an identity and then create a Gmail account with that identity. Once you have done that, check out Google Docs for uploading and sharing files. ===

2. YouTube
===Create a channel in YouTube - sign in using your Google (Gmail) account info. Find five videos associated with a topic for use in a lesson, unit or class. Add these videos to "My Favourites". Then create a playlist of this group of videos. If time permits, go to your profile and select the styles and settings to make your channel more personalized. ===

3. WikiSpaces
===Create an account using wikispaces.com and join the wiki for this session. Add a page (use your name for the page name) and post a link to your YouTube channel. Enter the discussion area. Start a thread, or make a comment to another teacher. If you have a web tool that would be of interest to other teachers, post it there. Begin your own wiki using WikiSpaces for a collaborative task for one of your classes. ===

4. ClassTools.net
===Check out some of the tools at ClassTools.net. Create a vocabulary review game using the Arcade Game Generator. ===

5. Quizlet
===Use the same vocabulary you used for ClassTools.net to make flashcards on Quizlet.com - same idea, different activities! You can also just check out some of the Quizlet games already created for our Intermediate Science curriculum by CLICKING HERE ===

7. [|Delicious]
===Log in to our esdnlscience account at Delicious.com (use the Yahoo! login option - username is esdnlscience and pword is teacher1). Start social bookmarking and help each other find websites to support learning and teaching in our science classrooms. Find/go to your favourite science web sites and bookmark them using Delicious. Tag the sites with keywords so you and other teachers can find them easily. Try to add at least 3 new sites to our Delicious account. You can also sign up for your own Delicious account. ===

===8. Visit some of the other links below and check out some of the web tools listed. ===
 * phet.colorado.edu : Simulations in many languages! Select a simulation, click 'translated languages' and either run from the computer or download to your computer for quicker loading
 * Aliant Learning Centre : TONS of videos, including the perennial favourite, Bill Nye. Create an account using your esdnl email and then explore away! You must use Internet Explorer for this site.
 * www.vozme.com : This site allows users to enter text manually or electronically so that it can be read aloud by a male or female voice
 * TeacherTube : Like YouTube, but for teachers!
 * TedTalks : Theis is the website for the talks from the Technology Education and Design conference. With a $6000 registration fee, the latest ideas on every topic imaginable is presented to a very captivated audience. These videos can be viewed from the main page. Have fun exploring!
 * Zamzar : This is an excellent free online file conversion site
 * BrainPop : Lots of great short animated videos - it is a subscription service, but you can sign up for a 2-week trial or ask me to show you using our account. For those of us who teach FI, the French version (brainpop.fr) is free!!
 * Stellarium : A FREE open-source planetarium. Please ask me for a demo on the SMARTBoard! If you teach Grade 9 science, this is wonderful...