HOUR ONE

I.  Welcome, Intros of the two Barbaras, intros of the participants: Why are we here?  What do you hope to learn? (15min)

II. Deep-Learning Exercise & reflection (15 mins)

III.  Participatory Culture, the Generations:  Drawing on the MacArthur Foundation Report on Youth and Participatory Culture (Henry Jenkins et al);    (10 mins) (BG)

IV.  Social Software as a Way to Meet these Literacy Challenges:  Blogs, Wikis and Web 2.0 Overview  including "The Machine is Us/Using Us" Web 2.0 Video (M Wesch) (20 mins) (BG)

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HOUR TWO

V. An explanation and overview of the tools: blogs, wikis (BS)

A.  How do they work

B.  How are they used in teaching

VI: Getting your hands on the tools (this is where we pray for network connectivity) (BS)

A. Blogging exercise

B. Adding conten to this wiki

C.  RSS, Tagging Exercise

VII. More Considerations and Applications: (BS and BG)

A.  Images

B.  Audio

C.  Skype

D. Multimedia/Digital Storytelling

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HOUR THREE

VIII. Bringing it back to your classroom: small group  sessions (20 min)

A. Group yourselves by subject, discipline, department, activity: think of how these tools could be used in the classroom -or-

B.  Group by tool and explore how it could be used in a variety of disciplines

--Groups report back and comment, exchange ideas.--

IX. Final thoughts and questions

X. Follow-up?