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**Professional Conferences to Watch for**

 * [|National Educational Computing Conference], San Antonio, Texas, July 2008
 * [|Building Learning Communities], Newton, MA, July 2008
 * [|Learning 2.0]: Shanghai, China, September 2008
 * [|K - 12 Online Conference], November 2008
 * Conference 2.0: Be a part of the backchannel chat on all Educational Technology conferences around the world (created by [|Steve Hargadon])
 * [|HitchHikr]: Find out about, and keep up with, with all the Educational Technology conferences around the world (created by [|David Warlick])

**Professional Reading**
Here are a selection of books to 21st Century Literacy, constructivist teaching, and collaborative, project-based learning:
 * Anderson, Chris, [|The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More], Hyperion 2006.
 * Friedman, Thomas L., [|The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the 21st Century], Penguin 2005. [|ISB Main Library 303.48 FRI]
 * Howe, Neil, [|Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation], Vintage 2000.
 * McKenzie, Jamie, [|Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn], FNO Press 2005.
 * November, Alan, [|Empowering Students with Technology], Corwin Press 2001.
 * Pink, Daniel, [|A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future], Riverhead Books, 2005.
 * Richardson, Will, [|Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms], Corwin Press 2006.
 * Warlick, David, [|Raw Materials for the Mind: A Teacher's Guide to Digital Literacy], The Landmark Project, 2005.
 * Warlick, David, [|Redefining Information Literacy for the 21st Century], Linworth Publishing 2004. [|ISB Main Library PROF 371.33 WAR] (Curriculum Office) & Copy 2

Articles and websites about 21st Century Literacy, constructivist teaching, and collaborative, project-based learning:
 * Apple: [|Digital Tools for Digital Kids]
 * Armstrong, Sara and Warlick, David, [|The New Literacy]
 * McHale, Tom, [|Portrait of Digital Native], Tech Learning
 * Pew/Internet Report: [|The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools]
 * Prensky, Marc, [|Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants]
 * ====Munro, Susan; O'Brian, Mary Utne; Payton, John W.: [|Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits Of Working Together]====

Wired Wednesday Video Resources

 * Michael Welsch to Library of Congress
 * More Ken Robinson on Edutopia and Creativity

Monday and Wednesday and Thursday Tech PD Calendar
Thursday Aug 14th - Intro to ISB 21 - Support, Questions, Philosophy, Overview, Introduction, Philosophy

Monday Aug 18th - Burning Questions: Mac OS/Entourage, Vista/Outlook, SmartBoard, ISB21 Intro (new staff only) Wednesday Aug 20th - Burning Questions: Mac OS/Entourage, Vista/Outlook, SmartBoard Thursday Aug 21st - Burning Questions: Mac OS/Entourage, Vista/Outlook, SmartBoard

Mac OS/Entourage: KIm, Tara Vista/Outlook: Dennis, Chat SmartBoard: Jeff

Monday Aug 25th - Learing to Back-up Tutorial Wednesday Aug 27th - Smartboard and interactive learning environments - video - http://www.youtube.com/SMARTClassrooms YouTube videos that walk through SmartBoard 10 Software: [] Thursday Aug 28st - Nutz and Bolts - Panther Net - Smart board Trouble shooting - ISB Central

September 1st - Walk in Tech help - Focus: Smartboard 10 Notebook Wednesday Sept 3rd - Learning to Change Video - Thursday Sept 4th - What is Web 2.0?

Monday Sept 1st -Walk in Tech help - Focus: ISB Central and printing Wednesday 3rd - Information Revolution Thursday 4th - What is social bookmarking - Common Craft -

Monday Sept 8th -Walk in Tech help - Focus: Wednesday 10th - Do Schools Kills Creativity? Thursday 11th - PD DAY - no session

Monday Sept 15th -Walk in Tech help - Focus: Wednesday Sept 17th - Brain Rules - http://www.brainrules.net/ Thursday Sept 18th - What is RSS? - Common Craft video

Monday Sept 22nd -Walk in Tech help - Focus: Set up your reader part II Wednesday Sept 24th - The Web is Using us - video Thursday Sept 25th - What is a Wiki? - Common Craft - Hands on - join the ISB 21 wiki

Monday Sept 29th -Walk in Tech help - Focus: Set up your wiki Wednesday Oct 1st - K-12 Online - videos ?? Thursday Oct 2nd - What is a blog? - Common Craft -

Monday Oct 6th -Walk in Tech help - Focus: Wednesday Oct 1st - TED Talks - Thursday Oct 2nd - What is a podcast? -

Monday Oct 13th - Wednesday Oct 15th - Facebook Live and Growing up excerpts - Thursday Oct 16th - What is Social Networking?

Monday Oct 28th - Wednesday Oct 29th - Thursday Oct 30th -

Monday Nov 3rd - Wednesday Nov 5th - Thursday Nov 6th -

Monday Nov 10th - Wednesday Nov 12th - Thursday Nov 13th -

Monday Nov 17th - Wednesday Nov 19th - Thursday Nov 20th -