The Power Of One: Changing the World of Education One Teacher At A Time

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The Power Of One Changing the World of
Education One Teacher At A
Time

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation 2009

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Conference LinksTools For The
Classroomwww.toolsfortheclassroom.comNING
http//toolsfortheclassroom.ning.comBLOGhttp/
/toolsfortheclassroom.blogspot.comWIKIhttp//to
olsfortheclassroom.wikispaces.com/e-mail
howie_at_frontier.net
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Did You Know? V

• Durango Florida Texas California
• To China to Norway to???
• You Tube 519,026 Views

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anhywhays (his spelling) lol, im 15 and i wish
we had a class for dealing with massive ammounts
of info, global communication, and be
self-directed in my own learning. i already
cannot keep up with this flood of information
comming at me in 2008.
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The following is a simulated 21st Century
Presentation y 5 students have createdthey were
instructed to provide a presentation that will be
shared with a collaboration group in China as a
Global connection.They are presenting it to you
the first time..
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As Jobs Leave America's Shores...The New Face
of Class WarBy PAUL ROBERTS GROUP
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• Last year, of the 2.8 million science degrees
  awarded around the world, 1.2 million were gained
  by Asian students
  
• -- in Asian universities.
• Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat A Brief
  History of the Twenty-First Century. New York
  Farrar, Straus Girous, 2005.

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• 30 40 of the people we depend on for computer
  science and engineering are FORIGN BORN.
• Under the age of 45, it is nearly 70.
• Florida, Richard. Flight of the Creative Class.
  New York HarperCollins, 2004.

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• In China last year B.S.s in engineering
  represented 46 of all university degrees
• In America, it was 5.
• Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat A Brief
  History of the Twenty-First Century. New York
  Farrar, Straus Girous, 2005.

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• We will require 200,000 workers in science and
  engineering, 400,000 in arts, music, culture, and
  entertainment, and millions in other creative
  sector jobs.
• Florida, Richard. Flight of the Creative Class.
  New York HarperCollins, 2004.

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Globalization to wipe out U.S. makers of
surfboards.Austun American April 2008
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Bottom line 42 million to 56 million U.S. jobs
could be lost to offshoring.
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A factory in China that makes 20 million irons a
year 76,629 a day 9,578 an hour 159 every
min.
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This product is meant for educational purposes
onlyViewer discretion advisedNot recommended
for children.May be too intense for some viewers
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead
is purely coincidental. Approved for veterans.
Void where prohibited. No other warranty
expressed or implied.This is not an offer to
sell securities. Subject to change without
notice. Simulated picture. Breaking seal
constitutes acceptance of agreement.We have sent
the forms which seem to be right for you. List
was current at time of printing. Not responsible
for direct, indirect, incidental or consequential
damages resulting from any defect, error or
failure to perform. Sanitized for your
protection. Some equipment shown is optional.
Prerecorded for this time zone. Reproduction
strictly prohibited. No anchovies unless
otherwise specified.Driver does not carry
cash..Decision of judges is final.
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Is this what the future in the U.S. looks like?
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What do you think and say to your sdtudents ?
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If you want change be the changeGhand
,Michael Angier, guykawasaki , Will Richardson,
Angela Jackson, Shri Ram Katha , John W. Snider,
Howie DiBlasi
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Have we changed our classrooms in the last
20-30-years?

• Starbucks
• McDonalds
• Your bank On-line banking-bill paying
• Malls
• Sports stadiums
• Cameras
• Pay phones
• Travel agents
• On-line shopping
• Cars-motorcycles
• Churches
• Schools classrooms ???

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Change the classroom
My 21st Century Classroom

• Team of students
• Research team Goolge AltaVista Search
• Tutorial Team Jing (Create Screencasts)
• Curriculum Team Podcasts (Recordings)
• Scribes Team Google docs (take class notes)
• Global team e-pals Skype
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• Need 5 students each day then rotate-every
  student participates in a team

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..Think DifferentApple Commercial 1997 17
People
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Power to be your best.Think Different
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Collaboration and Problem Solving SkillsA.
Make a group of 3B. Make a list of the 17
people in the Apple Video who Think Different
.you have 3 min
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1. Deal with massive amounts of information2.
Become self-directed3. Create global
communications and connections4. Create
life-long learning skills5. Collect and/or
retrieve, organize and manage information6.
Interpret and present information7. Evaluate the
quality, relevance, and usefulness of
information8. Generate accurate information
through the use of existing resources9.
Information and effective communications
skills10. Thinking, problem-solving
interpersonal skills11.Self-directional
skills12. Use digital technology tools 13.
Teach and learn in a 21st century context.14.
Understand Digital Age Literacy15. Understand
Inventive Thinking 16. Produce High Productivity
content
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• 10 Questions to ask yourself on new technologies
• Is it focused on student learning?
• Can I observe and show the results?
• Does it meet the standards?
• Does it increase research skills?
• Does it improve communication skills and help
  students communicate globally?
• Are the students accountable?
• Does it improve student collaboration?
• Does it help students deal with massive amounts
  of information?
• Does it teach our students to be self-directed
  and understand how to organize more of their own
  learning?
• Is it sustainable?

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Team of studentsTutorial Team Jing (Create
Screencasts)Jing Projecthttp//www.jingproject.
com
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Jing Screen Shot
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Team of studentsScribes Team Google docs
(take class notes)Scribes Team Google
docs(take class notes)
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Google Docs and Spreadsheets - Docs and
Spreadsheets also has one clear advantage over
the desktop version its collaborative. While
editing a document, you can invite other people
to work on it with you. Windows or Mac, Firefox
or Explorer, Docs and Spreadsheets has everything
youd expect in a word processor and spreadsheet
program. Throw in the ability to import and
export in a variety of formats,
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We need to teach our students to deal with
massive amounts of informationAlan November
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Research team Goolge AltaVista Search

• Basic Web Searching Searching the NET- The
  Good-Bad-Ugly

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WiredSafety.org the world's largest Internet
safety and help groupWiredSafety provides help,
information and education to Internet and mobile
device users of all ages. We help victims of
cyberabuse ranging from online fraud,
cyberstalking and child safety, to hacking and
malicious code attacks. We also help parents with
issues, such as MySpace and cyberbullying. More
about us...http//www.wiredsafety.org/
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Flash Video on Evaluation Of Web
Siteshttp//www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Eva
luation/evalcriteria/index.htmslide1WiredSafet
y- other information on Evaluationhttp//www.wir
edsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/index.html
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Evaluating Web Pages

• Reading Web Addresses
• Quick Tips for Boolean Searches
• DETERMINING PAGE AUTHORSHIP
• CHECKING THE VITAL INFORMATION
• CHECKING THE CONTENT

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Learning how to use the 7 key commands

• Using the LINK Command
• Using the SITE Command
• Using the HOST Command
• Using the TITLE Command
• Using the TEXT Command
• Using the INURL Command
• Using the IMAGE Command

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Check these sites to verify spoofs, hoaxes, urban
legends or myths you may have read about

• Looks Too Good To Be True http//www.lookstoogood
  tobetrue.com/
• About.com Urban Legends
• CDC Health Hoaxes Rumors
• Hoaxbusters
• Vmyths
• Snopes.com

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Is this TRUTH or TRASH

• California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge Ken
  Umbach's obvious but amusing satirical piece of
  writing for students in Early to Late
  Adolescence.
• GenoChoice Create your own genetically healthy
  child online.
•  Aluminum Foil Deflector BeanieShield your brain
  from mind control.
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Tom Way's scientific
  terminology demonises a substance we can't live
  without. The whole site is worth investigation.
  This site originated from a 14-year-old secondary
  school student's science project.
• Feline Reactions to Bearded MenEven the web
  address indicates the status of this piece of
  scientific research. Check their Classics and
  Whatnot page for lots of other improbable
  science.

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Where is this?????

• http//descy.50megs.com/mankato/mankato.html

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Site www.toolsfortheclassroom.com 466 sites
if you want to find web pages that link to you
web site "linkwww.microsoft.com" in Google's
search box.
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Curriculum Team Podcasts
(Recordings)Students and Teachers, From K to
12, Hit the Podcasts
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We need to teach our students to be
self-directed and understand how to organize more
and more of their own learning -Alan November
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Podcasting-What is it?

• Tivo for radio-an audio broadcast similar to a
  news or entertainment radio show.
• Audio- images video) online and uses the
  Internet
• Works on any Internet-enabled computer
• Can be downloaded to MP3 player (iPod)
• Configure the latest episodes of your favorite
  Podcasts to automatically download to your
  computer and/or audio player whenever it is
  updated.
• You can subscribe to a Podcast through services
  like iTunes, Podcast Alley and Yahoo Podcast,
• Anyone with a computer and a microphone can
  record a show about any subject

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Why Podcast ?

• Allows students and teachers to publish to a
  global community ..with global content
• Distribute information
• Share performances
• Improve verbal skills
• Oral presentation
• Skill development
• Address Multiple intelligence
• Adjust to various learner skills
• All learners can be successful

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Ideas -Podcasting

• Travel Guide
• My Town
• Science Experiments
• Writers workshop
• Lectures
• Student dramatizations
• News Broadcasts
• Meetings
• Beginners guide
• School Concerts

• Writing
• Poetry
• Scientific experiments
• Social Studies reports
• Interviews
• Foreign Language
• Public Speaking
• Lecture and Notes
• Tell me about your first.
• Day at school
• Love

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Room 208
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Audacity with Podcasting
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Global team e-pals SkypeWe need
to teach our students global communication,
starting with Kindergarten. ..Alan
November.. 
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Welcome to the world's largest K-12 connected
learning community!ePals is the leading provider
of school-safe collaborative learning products
for K-12 across 200 countries and territories.
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Finding, Choosing and Collaborating via ePals

• Original Message ----- From Still,Beth
• To Howie Joan DiBlasi Sent Monday, February
  25, 2008 902 PMSubject RE Thanks from
  Scottsbluff
• Howie,Thank you for keeping in touch. I have to
  share one thing that I have done this week. Out
  of all of the suggestions you shared last week I
  was most intrigued with the ePals program. I
  immediately registered and posted a profile. I
  literally got goosebumps when I sent my first
  international email-----which was to Greece. Over
  the last few days I have heard back from schools
  in Japan, Germany, and Colombia. By the end of
  the week several of my students will
  probably receive their first correspondance from
  their penpals. I cannot even begin to tell you
  how excited my students are about this project!
  Thank you for telling me about it.  

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• Travel Buddy Exchange
• Sat, 10/20/2007 - 0110 sandim1
• I would love to set up a "travel buddy" project
  for 1st or 2nd grade level students in my school.
  Years ago, I had done this via snail mail and
  would like to update it using ePals email.
• Basically, 2 classes (one from each
  school-preferably far away) would exchange a
  small doll or stuffed animal and send it to the
  other school along with a blank journal notebook.
  The receiving school would send the doll and
  journal home with a different student each night
  and the family would write down what "the doll"
  had seen or done that day.

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SkypeGlobal Connections
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SKYPE

• 49.99 camera SkypeIVC-WebCast

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WEB Cameras - 19.95 - 89.95
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3. SKYPE
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Where Do I go to find Global Partners?
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I.V.C. Interactive Video Conferencing

• Use the Internet to communicate with audio and
  Video
• Take a field trip around the block or around the
  U.S.
• Visit and communicate globally
• Share and communicate student projects
• Get started for 198
• Camera 49.00PolyCom IVX 149.00 H323
  Standard IVC

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IVC 3
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1st Graders-Seahorse
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1st Graders-Seahorse-Video
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-My Hero
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Who is your hero?
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http//www.myhero.com/myhero/go/create/index.asp

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My Hero Sample Project My
Grandpa Said.
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Critical Thinking Skillshttp//fantasticcontrapti
on.com/index.php
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Does this individual have good critical and
problem solving skills ?
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Scratch - a language developed and made freely
available online by the Lifelong Kindergarten
research group at MIT Media Lab
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Tile-based visual programming environment and
toolkit, lets kids make games, animated stories,
interactive art, and share with others on the
Net.
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Over 136,635 Projects to be shared on the Net
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Project Based learningBeginning the Journey
Five-Year-Olds Drive Their Own PBL
ProjectsStudent-driven projects, enhanced by
technology, launch kindergartners on a journey of
lifelong learning. More to this story.
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What is Project Based Learning?

• Students engaged in project-based learning (PBL)
  activities "work in groups to solve challenging
  problems that are authentic, curriculum-based,
  and often interdisciplinary" (McGrath, 2003). 
  Project-based learning is a component of an
  inquiry-based approach to learning. In this
  approach, students create knowledge and
  understanding through learning activities built
  around intellectual inquiry and a high degree of
  engagement with meaningful tasks.

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New stats- April 2008-AARP Bulletin 4-2008

• Internet connections 218 Million
• 92 of Americans, ages 18-29 use the Internet
• 85 of Americans. Ages 30-49 use the Internet
• 72 of Americans. Ages 50-64 use the Internet
• 37 of Americans. Ages 65 use the Internet
• 97 billion e-mails a day April, 08 PC World

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Blogs
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To Blog or not to Blog. That is the Question!
BLOGS
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What is a blog?

• The term blog is a shortened computer-lingo
  word for web log.
• Online discussion thread
• Weblog database of writing and links
• Organized by date
• Sorted by topic/category
• Updated regularly current
• Allows users to read the comments of others and
  to respond with their own comments.

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Top 100 Education Blogs http//oedb.org/library/f
eatures/top-100-education-blogs
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Why would I use a blog in my classroom?

• Encourages students to engage in discussion.
• Gives all students an equal opportunity to
  participate.
• Increases opportunities for reading and writing
• Students see their work published
• Students are able to share their ideas and
  opinions with other and contribute their own
  ideas to the discussion.

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My First Blog Experience

• I created a blog and in the first 24 hours this
  was posted
• Hey Howie-hows it goin..Im Kristy and I just
  moved to Durango.I would like to meet a nice guy
  like you. I came here 2 weeks ago and I have
  nothin to doI read your profile and youre cute
  and I liked what you had to sayI am 21-f-/single
  and I like a guy who is easy to be comfortable
  around. I really like guys who are a little bit
  older than me and 64 is just about right. I have
  posted my profile and have lots of photos of
  me.come check it out ..OK

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e-Pals Blog---FREE
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WebLogs In EducationWill RichardsonBlogs,
Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for
Classrooms
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Will Richardson collects ideas for Web logs
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David Warlick 2 cents Worth
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Wikis
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Whats a Wiki? Why

•   Online database
• Built for collaboration
• Access to free information
• Kids can synthesize and produce content
• Global collaboration
• Writing across the curriculum
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•     Example http//www.wikipedia.org

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Natalie Watt Pitot House, on the site

• Natalie Watt has taught her third graders in New
  Orleans how to deeply understand the
  inner-workings of Wikipedia by organizing the
  class to publish an article about a local
  historic mansion, the Pitot House, on the site

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Pitot House
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What is Visual Literacy

• Ability to understand and produce visual images
• Reading and writing of images

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Digital Story Telling-what is it?

• Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of
  the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories
  derive their power by weaving images, music,
  narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep
  dimension and vivid color to characters,
  situations, experiences, and insights.
• - Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association

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Lets look at a sample of a Completed PhotoStory

• Let Them Be Little

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Lets look at a sample PhotoStory
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• from the book The Backdoor to Enlightenment
• Eight Steps to Living Your Dreams and Changing
  Your World

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Will you be the 10th person?

• For every nine people who denounce innovation,
  only one will encourage it.
• For every nine people who do things the way they
  have always been done, only one will ever wonder
  if there is a better way.
• For every nine people who stand in line in front
  of a locked building, only one will ever come
  around and check the back door.
• Our progress as a species rests squarely on the
  shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are
  satisfied with things they are told are valuable.
  
• Person 10 determines for himself what has value.

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The Power Of One Changing the World of
Education One Teacher At A
Time

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation June,2008

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Contact Information

• Dr. Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• 970-749-0760

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PROJECT 6PowerGramo is a powerful realtime
recording solution for Skype

• PowerGramo is a powerful realtime recording
  solution for Skype. You can record and replay any
  Skype call easily and simply.  
• Record incoming calls, outgoing calls or both
• Save your recorded calls securely
• Share your calls with friends
• Get started in less than 3 minutes!
• Totally free for download

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Digital DisconnectIn it's fifth annual survey of
more than 367,000 educators and students, Project
Tomorrow found a growing "digital disconnect"
between what role technology should play in the
classroom and how well schools are preparing
students for the workplace. While 66 percent of
school administrators think their schools are
"doing a good job preparing students for the jobs
and careers of the future," more than 40 percent
of middle and high school students said teachers
actually limit their use of technology. In
addition, 45 percent of middle and high school
students indicated that tools meant to protect
them, such as firewalls and filters, actually
inhibit their learning..
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Project 7ZAMZAROn-line file
conversionConvert iPod files into other
formatsWeb link http//www.zamzar.com/
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