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Hot Technologies to Rev Up Your Program Annette Lamb - alamb@eduscapes.com [|Sessions]

Supplied 12 ideas of winning technologies along with important issues and practical strategies for use.

Moving students from being internet consumers to internet creators

Organization
 * **Old Way** - Draw, redraw, get frustrated, throw in trash
 * **New Way** - Arrange, rearrange, share, collaborate

Webspiration is the new online version of Inspiration and it is free. (**see Session site**) gliffy is another organizer

Digital Collections
 * **Old Way** - Look in the vertical file
 * **New Way** - Search collections around the world

IDEA - International Debate Education Association is a good place for information on debates of topics. Most libraries have sites as well as the archives for most countries, museums, art galleries etc. that should be used.

www.worldsfamousphotos.com

Research
 * **Old Way** - Fill out notecards.
 * **New Way** - Create virtual sticky notes.

Great tools for online sticky notes and online note-taking

On research Tools there is a link to a digital workshop called The Digital Dog ate my Notes.

//Awesome Highlighter// is great for doing highlight note taking

Data Tools
 * **Old Way** - Complete paper-based polls and surveys.
 * **New Way** - Embed surveys within online programs.

//Swivel, Google Docs, Zoho//

Writing
 * **Old Way** - Save, send, share, save, send, share... takes forever.
 * **New Way** - We all work together.

Wikispaces, Google Docs, Google Sites, PB Works and Wetpaint all allow writing with history for collaboration. Each invited person will have history for each change they make. These things are great for collaboration and creation.

Blogs & Microblogging
 * **Old Way** - Write in a secret diary.
 * **New Way** - Share your thoughts and get feedback.

More microblogs - posterous, soup.io, tumblr

Feed Readers are a great tool to keep track of everything you like to read with the convenience of having it all come into one place.

Audio Publishing
 * **Old Way** - Attend live activities or you miss the action.
 * **New Way** - Record and share audio experiences.

Video Publishing
 * **Old Way** - Read and create text.
 * **New Way** - Read and create comics.

Missing from the session list is Goosebumps

Multimedia Publishing
 * **Old Way** - Send in film and get back slides.
 * **New Way** - Build multimedia projects to share with the world.

If you are overwhelmed on where to start, google is a great place with lots of information.