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=Teaching Technologically=

**Session 1: Introduction**

 * Setting up a Google account
 * Discussion - what is frightening and exciting? - Inspiration
 * ITS, IT4U , Learning Commons , EMAP , CCDE , TEL, College supports, PAWS , iTunes@usask.ca , Blackboard, Classroom Capture
 * The Google suite
 * The workshop series - What we plan and what you want/need
 * Survivor blogs

Links
Google search: @http://www.google.ca/ Google images search: @http://images.google.ca/ Google maps: @http://maps.google.ca/ Google news: @http://news.google.ca/ Google video: @http://video.google.ca/ Google mail: @http://mail.google.com/ Google calendar: @http://www.google.com/calendar/ Google documents: @http://docs.google.com/ Google photos: @http://picasaweb.google.ca/ Google reader: @http://www.google.ca/reader/ Google translate: @http://translate.google.ca/ Google notebook: @http://www.google.ca/notebook/ Google scholar: @http://scholar.google.ca/

Blogger: @http://www.blogger.com/

The following links were extracted from "The 100 Best Social Sites for Students, Academics and Educators "

**Academics**  **Papers - beautiful application for searching, organizing, locating and sharing research papers or anything else. **  __[|Shelfari]__: A way for book lovers to connect, this networking service allows users to create and share their own virtual book shelves.  __[|Revish]__: Another community letting book lovers review their favorite books, form groups or update their current reading status.  __[|Good Reads]__: A book reader’s community allowing members to review ans share books they read.  __[|Connect Via Books]__: This clever social site connects book lovers based on their reading list and allows them to discover similar interests.  __[|Zoetrope]__: From Francis Ford Coppola’s production company, this site allows poets, musicians, playwrights and a variety of other artists to post their works in progress and get feedback.  __[|Pronetos]__: Seeking to link scholars with the hope of facilitating academic research, Pronetos is free and extremely helpful  __[|Academici]__: A knowledge network for professors and general academics. Includes networks for nearly any subject from gravitational physics to US history.  __[|Financial Academics Network]__: A social site for finance geeks, FAN seeks to connect professors and students financial academics. Search forums, groups and blog postings.  __[|Graduate Junction]__: A social site specifically to help graduate students with their research, Graduate Junction also connects members with industry contacts.  __[|Academia]__: A far reaching connection of academics at universities from around the world. Chat with academics in similar fields or find old classmates.  __[|Humanities and Social Sciences Online]__: Individuals in the science and math sector tend to gravitate to new technologies first often leaving the humanities in the dust. No anymore with this social service dedicated to liberal arts academics.  __[|Social Science Research Network]__: A research network aiming to disseminate information among social scientists and researchers.  __[|Access Research Network]__: A non-profit research network connects researchers in science, technology and society. This site focuses on controversial issues such as abortion and evolution. <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> __[|Rare Diseases Network]__: From the University of South Florida and supported by the National Institute of Health and the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, this excellent social site connects scientists and researchers working on rare diseases.

__[|FUMSI]__: A powerful research tool that harnesses social networking technology to improve research quality. __[|TeachAde]__: Find other teachers and get resources to help develop professional skills at a great social site for new teachers. __[|4Teachers]__: Offers a social community along with tools and information for teachers, this site wants to bring technology to the classroom. __[|Twitter For Teachers]__: A website and community helping teachers learn how to use Twitter for classroom use with discussions, photos and videos. __[|Classroom 2.0]__: An active social site for teachers focusing on web 2.0 and collaborative technology for beginners to online networking. __[|Edutagger]__: A social bookmarking site allowing users to save interesting articles related to education to share with colleagues. __[|The Schools United]__: This social networking site brings schools together from around the world through videos, blogs and other features. __[|NextGen]__: This site seeks to supports the worldwide efforts of teachers to make a positive impact in education with technology. __[|Education Leadership]__: A social networking site aimed at creating and connecting new leaders in education. __[|Passionate Teachers]__: Share work ideas and strategies with teachers who care deeply about their work and promoting quality teaching. __[|Teachers Network]__: A social network with great information, videos and podcasts to help teachers. Also includes a section specifically for new teachers. __[|BONy]__: A European education social network offered for free by the European Union. __[|Global Classroom]__: A social network of students and teachers seeking access to quality education. Provides free online classrooms for teachers to help integrate the internet into classrooms. __[|EDU4DRR]__: A social network by and for teachers who want to make a difference in disaster prevention. __[|Learning 2.0]__: An invitation only learning community for teachers and educators. __[|Comenius Program Network]__: A network for teachers across Europe to seek support and share ideas to help ensure successful projects.
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