Welcome to Let's Talk Technology !

 

Let's Talk Technology is a friendly community of educators in southeast Michigan who meet monthly to share, explore and apply a variety of emerging and fascinating technologies for the K-12 classroom (and everyday life). Let's Talk was started in 1997 through a MACUL grant and has explored classroom use of geocaching, podcasting, digital cameras, Universal Design for Learning and lately, Web 2.0 in the broadest definition. 

 

One of the hazards of exploring emerging technologies is trying to use all of them. As a result, our web home has evolved from a standard web page to a blog, and then to this wiki as well as to a variety of web based experiments. At the moment this PeanutButter wiki serves us well as a platform for collaboration, allowing members to update the site as needed. Conversations on specific topics will still take place on our VisitMyClass blog 

 

 

Next meeting: Saturday, November 8, 2008 at  Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon (directions)

Topic: Moodle! Carol I, Angie and Laura are Moodle trainers at different locations.  They will provide an introduction, handouts and help everyone set up in their own Moodle course. Carol's friend James Moon-Dupree is providing a Moodle site for us to use - thank you James!

 

Fee: $5 for non-members or pay annual dues of $25

Snacks: Carol K. and Sue M. 

 

It would be helpful if you could let know if you are planning to attend. Please visit the November Doodle poll (no relation to Moodle, just a cool, free Web2.0 app) where you can indicate whether or not you plan to attend.

 

This just in: 

Scholarship to attend the 2009 MACUL Conference! deadline is November 14, 2008 http://www.macul.org/news/index.php#108 check it out!

 

More about the Let's Talk Technology group 

• Details Membership, meeting times and places

• Let's Talk HistoryProject This project was started at our February 2006 meeting as a way to document the activities of the group over the past 10 years. Please visit and consider adding some details if you know them. 

 

Meeting Notes (most recent first, click on link for a meeting notes page)

 

2008-2009

• Meeting Notes November 8, 2008
•  Meeting Notes October 4, 2008 What we did on our summer vacations - reports from conferences (MITS, NECC) - more cool web 2.0 sites

 

 

2007-2008

• Meeting Notes May 2008  - MACUL Highlights part 2 - still more wealth! Please bring suggestions for topics to explore next year, what is hot, what are you curious about?
• Meeting Notes April 2008 - MACUL Highlights part 1 - All who were able to attend the conference will "share the wealth" of what they learned 
• March 2008 - no meeting -see you at the MACUL conference!
• February 2, 2008 - “Creating and Sustaining a UDL Learning Community: One District’s Journey” -  Jeff Crockett, preview of his MACUL session
• January 12, 2008 - continued discussion and demonstration of Web 2.0 resources - all members (so many sites, so little time)
• December 2007 - favorite Web 2.0 resources - all members
• November 2007 - Photo Story and Picasa - Angie
• September/October 2007 - "What I did on my summer vacation" and  planning meeting for the year 

 

 

2006-2007

• May 2007 - Curriculum Mapping with Angie Saylor
• April 2007 - MACUL reports - copy of meeting notes from Protopage as a backup
  • http://www.protopage.com/tech4teachers#Let's_Talk_Technology_April_07_Meeting_notes/Conference_comments
  • Carol I thinks that a wiki page might be a better place to create and store "just in time" meeting notes.
• October 2006 - Feb 2007 notes are located on a page at our Visit My Class blog - we might migrate them here some day (any volunteers?)
• May 2005 - Digital Photography with Michael Smith
  • Laura and Carol assembled these after the meeting. Note that you can click the Changes button to see previous versions

 

Pages of Collected Knowledge (new feature) 

• Web 2.0 Recommended Resources to explore

• Tips to help cope with Information Overload  (please add suggestions! )

• Shift Happens (Interesting links to the future including Web 3.0)

• Cloud Computing (with new free/cheap web applications/suites)

  

Additional Home sites for Let's Talk Technology

• Let's Talk Technology blog at VisitMyClass http://visitmyclass.com/blogs/lets_talk_technology/ Meeting summaries and pictures from 2005 to 2006
• Let's Talk Technology graphical interface at Protopage http://www.protopage.com/letstalk    Collected resources from a meeting that explored Protopage
• Let's Talk Technology original web pages at EDCEN http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~eheasley/talk-home.html Meeting summaries and pictures from 1997 to 2005
• Let's Talk Technology BlackBoard course http://bb.misd.net/ (login id required)

 

 

Note to editors:  The editing may be a little intimidating at first - try the "Wiki Style" guide at the top or bottom of the page, it explains everything. (Feel free to correct Carol's spelling.) If someone else is editing the page, PB Wiki will ask you to wait until the page is available so there is no chance of writing over someone elses work. If you have questions check with Carol, Jane or Laura or take your best shot, we can always go back to a previous version!

 

Request - when you write and edit this wiki, please refer to yourself by name (rather than "I suggest" I would write "Carol I. suggests"- if you are Carol).

 

 

 

If you have sites or handouts to share, try to bring them on a USB drive or CD so we can pop them into the wiki quickly.

 

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