Tuesday, March 14, 2006

slide outline for week #1/Lisa

Slide #1 Why

  • Why learn another set of tools?

  • (include a quote on changing technologies)

  • Note: that these tools mark a transition point in the Internet helping to bring the massive amount of information to users

Slide #2 – What/Blog

  • Define:

  • Technical Characteristics:

  • Purpose:

  • Poll/Who is using for personal use?

Slide #3 – What/Wiki

  • Define:

  • Technical Characteristics:

  • Purpose:

  • Poll/Who has contributed?

Slide #4 – What/Feed

  • Define:

  • Technical Characteristics:

  • Purpose:

  • Poll/Who has subscribed?

Slide #5 – Who

  • Who is using these tools?

  • Demographics: age/numbers/educational usage

  • Poll/how many are using these tools in their classroom or professional development

Slide #6 – Where

  • TLT Website will host the traditional format of information (http://www.tltgroup.org/.........)

  • To demonstrate both the technical and user characteristics of the Commtools we will be interacting

    • Week#1 Blog

    • Week #2 Wikis

    • Week#3 Feeds

Slide #7 – Next…

  • Everyone will receive a login invitation from Blogger

  • We invite you to read and interact in the blog

    • Purpose is to participants to experience interacting with peers in this environment

    • Many of the technical, user, and design information and questions will flow through the blog

    • We will encourage folks to debate, explore, post, question, etc.

    • If we find a few active participants we will spin off their own blogs.