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High School CoP Agenda August 27

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  1. Show streaming video “Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media”
  2. Review and finalize norms
  3. Finalize method of communication between meetings
  4. Review of R: drive resources and Blog Resources
  5. Sample Blogs, Wikis, Moodle, and Podcasts members have put together
  6. For Friday:
    Discuss the first 4 chapters of Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts.
    How do they want to divide up into subgroups for Tech Professional Goal Targets
    Finalize your professional goal targets
    Assessment of tech PGTs (View action research PowerPoint)

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Anonymous said…
Scott -

Thanks for the info today. If anyone is interested in working on the "Flickr for photo publishing on the web" I would be very interested on this sub CoP.

Thanks,
Bill Webb
August 27, 2007 at 4:05 PM
Anonymous said…
Thank you for showing us what a blog, podcast, and moodle looked like on the computer. I found that information to be helpful having come into this group very last minute and unable to get the book before the CoP started.
August 27, 2007 at 6:53 PM
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