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iLead Institute Day 2 Agenda, January 8, 2009

 * 8:45: Introduction to Leading and Learning with 21st Century Tools: **
 * Overview: Web 2.0 tools
 * What is Web 2.0 and how can it be the engine for a 21st century school?

**11:15 AM: Break / Individual Assistance**
 * 9:00 AM: Aggregators: Create our own RSS homepage to be a portal to news sites, blogs, and other syndicated material **
 * Creating an account on a web-based RSS Aggregator: iGoogle
 * Moving content and deleting content
 * Adding content: from the catalogue, through the search, and by URL
 * Finding RSS feeds for blog sites
 * 10:00 Google Docs: Create, share and edit a collaborative document **
 * Google Word Processing document
 * Create and format a document
 * Add links
 * Add pictures
 * Name document
 * Edit document
 * Review your revision history
 * Invite others to edit or view
 * Create your own document and invite collaborators
 * Download file as (pdf, word)
 * Email as an attachment
 * Upload an existing document
 * Google Spreadsheets
 * Import and export
 * Add sheets
 * Chat with other collaborators
 * Google Forms
 * Organizing you Google documents - Management page

Best Practices: Principal blogs, specialist blogs, teacher blogs: http://rmhs5.blogspot.com/
 * 11:30 PM: Blogs: Create our own weblog to communicate to our learning communities **
 * Understanding the importance of knowing your audience, posting with consistency, developing blog writing tone, and wrapping the blog in its purpose
 * Creating a blog account for ourselves on Blogger.com
 * Writing our first post: audience, tone, purpose
 * Types of blog entries: article spotlights, interviews, professional thoughts, opinions, investigative
 * Dealing with security: settings, comment moderation, permissions and levels
 * Things you should change: blog description, time zone, who can comment
 * Email assistance: enabling comment notification, enabling posting via email
 * Add a Voki to your blog
 * 1:15: Evaluation**

__Tutorials__:

 * __**iGoogle**__
 * [|Moving and deleting content]
 * [|Adding content by catalogue and search]
 * [|Adding content by URL]
 * __**Blogger**__
 * [|Access your Blogger account]
 * [|Making a new post]
 * [|Dealing with security]
 * [|Things you should change to make your blog work better]

__ Other Web 2.0 Resources __

 * Definition: Web 2.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.05
 * Web 2.0 Time Savers for educators: http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604480
 * Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
 * Online communities transform teacher development: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryRSS.cfm?ArticleID=7165
 * Blogger: [|http://www.blogger.com]
 * iGoogle: [|http://www.igoogle.com]
 * Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com
 * WetPaint Wiki: [|http://www.wetpaint.com]
 * Technorati: [|http://www.technorati.com]
 * Delicious: [|http://del.icio.us]
 * Skype: [|http://www.skype.com]
 * From the Principal: http://waleyt.wordpress.com/
 * Principal's Blog: http://rvivien.wordpress.com/
 * Puxi High School Principal Blog: [|http://puxihsprincipal.saschinaonline.org]
 * Pudong Elementary Principal Blog: [|http://pudongesprincipal.saschinaonline.org]
 * Region 4 Blogs: http://blogs.region4.nycenet.edu/communities/default.aspx
 * Region 7 Blogs: http://region7blogs.com/communities/default.aspx
 * Will Richardson: [|http://www.weblogg-ed.com]
 * Learn Me Good: http://learnmegood2.blogspot.com/
 * Teacher Magazine: Best Blogs: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/blogboard/