I will also briefly address the idea of classrooms as third places. If you are interested in this concept, please take a look at my presentation on this topic:

http://www.slideshare.net/teachandlearn/classrooms-as-third-places 

I do not expect to have time to address assessment and evaluation. If you are interested in the strategies I use to assess and evaluate student work composed in the context of an online blogging community, please take a look at the following presentation:

http://blip.tv/file/430904/

If you are interested in learning more about 21classes as a blogging portal designed to support class communities of inquiry, please take a look at this blog entry. This discussion thread is also worth checking out.

- Konrad 

I will be presenting a session on teacher professional development in our networked world of Web 2.0. The session is scheduled for Thursday, November 8, at 9:00am.

I'm hoping that this forum will give us an opportunity to engage in a meaningful discussion on professional development before, during, and after the conference. 

I'm interested in your thoughts on the following:

1. How can we as educators prepare to better serve the needs of our students?
2. What have you done since September to contribute to your own professional growth?

- Konrad 

I have just created a community for TD 16 Capitalizing on the Web Conferencing Craze in Education.  Please visit the community and join if you would like to attend the session (or even if you want to browse)  I hope to tailor some parts of the session to what you would like to see during the session as well as the information and demonstration I hope to impart.

 See you at ECOO!

Shawn Allenby 

link to community:http://www.commun-it.org/community/webconf2007/ 

http://www.commun-it.org/community/tb15/forum

Geoff

Quentin D'Souza and I will be presenting on the topic of Web 2.0 at ECCO.  It would be great to have some of your input into Web 2.0 before the conference to help us frame some of our ideas.

I am quite interested in the answers to these questions:

1) How do you, or a teacher you know, use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom?

2) What mobile tools (i.e. iPod, cell phone, etc.) can, or are, effectively used in the classroom?  If you've got any specific examples, please share! 

~Rob

If so, consider using the tag "ECOO2007" when uploading any items to these services over the next month. Commun-IT areas are being set up to pool together items from across the web that are tagged with this keyword so that they can be easily found by conference participant. More details on this front will be available soon...

I will be presenting the following full-day workshop on Flash MX.  Please feel free to ask questions about the workshop and join the discussions. 

Workshop: W28 Drawing and Animation in Macromedia (Adobe) Flash MX

Flash is the industry's most advanced authoring tool for creating interactive websites and digital experiences. Content created with Flash can potentially reach a global audience via the ubiquitous Flash Player. Educators can use Flash to interact with learners, whether they are in their classroom or half way across the world! The participants will gain practical experience they need to create rich multimedia content. They will use the Flash drawing tools effectively to create original graphics and explore different animation techniques. As well they will learn how to publish or export their Flash project as different movie and graphic file formats. Action Scripts will not be covered.

Take care and thanks for visiting!