Summer Institute of Technology
 Participants will define social bookmarking. 
Activity (Watch Video on Social Bookmarking)

Participants will establish an account and begin marking sites on their computer.
Activity (Set Up Delicious Account)

Participants will understand the importance of Tags and how they are important in defining a search.
Activity (Watch Video on Tags)
Activity (Discussion on 21st Century Skiil) How would students benefit from skill set?
Delicious is a free social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
Concepts
Using Delicious to Create Social Bookmarks
New SchoolNotes is an online posting website for teachers to post information for students including lessons, objectives (the SIOP model), assignments, and more. The features include creating and editing multiple pages, organizing hyperlinks, uploading files, and storing assignments in the calendar feature. 

•Visit new.schoolnotes.com
•Download and save as 97-2003 excel spreadsheet to thumbdrives
•Enter username and password for techNtuit and delicious

Tracking Account Information in School Notes
Concepts
Creating a Digital Lesson
The tutorials presented in this mini session will demonstrate how to design a digital lesson using a media kit. In each of the tutorial sessions, explanations will be provided to expand ideas and strategies for integrating technology-based, multi-media resources into the design of a digital lesson. The focus of the presentation will allow teachers to see, use, and understand the educational benefits of integrating technology into a well designed digital lesson.

Concepts
What is a Hyperlink
Participants will learn the basic concepts of hyperlinks into a multi-media presentation
Activity: PowerPoint Demonstration (Christopher Columbus, Einstein & Planets)
Activity: Creating hyperlinks and embedding files

What is a Media Kit
Participants will learn how to organize and construct a media kit into subfolders
Activity: Create sub folders and downloading files

How to Create External Storage Links
Activity: Posting a video on Teacher Tube (Create Account)
Activity: Posting PowerPoint lessons on SldeShare (Create an Account) 

How to Create A Digital Lesson
Use of Media Kits and create a digital lesson

Creating Digital Differentiated Lesson Plans 
In this mini session participants will be given an overview of Lessonwriter, YakItToMe and ShareBox, combining all three software applications into an online lesson. Participants will learn the simplicity of creating a differentiated lesson plan using the various components of Lessonwriter, record text on YakItToMe and store the digital recording on a ShareBox widget.  
Audio Widget
Interactive Whiteboards 
 Creative Commons
The Ethics Challenge

One important goal of media education should be to encourage young people to become more reflective about the ethical choices they make as participants and communicators and the
impact they have on others.We may, in the short run, have to accept that cyberspace’s ethical norms are in flux: we are taking part in a prolonged experiment in what happens when one
lowers the barriers of entry into a communication landscape. For the present moment, asking and working through questions of ethical practices may be more valuable than the answers
produced because the process will help everyone to recognize and articulate the different assumptions that guide their behavior.

Now, consider how few of those qualities might be applied to the emerging participatory cultures. In a world in which the line between consumers and producers is blurring, young people
are finding themselves in situations that no one would have anticipated a decade or two ago.

To address these challenges, we must rethink which core skills and competencies we want our children to acquire in their learning experiences.The new participatory culture places new
emphasis on familiar skills that have long been central to American education; it also requires teachers to pay greater attention to the social skills and cultural competencies that are emerging in the new media landscape. In the next sections, we provide a framework for thinking about the type of learning that should occur if we are to address the participation gap, the transparency problem, and the ethics challenges.
Audacity
Driving Question
What is Lesson Writer?
Lessonwriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage. Use any content from any source and just copy, paste, and submit it on LessonWriter.com and in a matter of moments create a comprehensive lesson plan and student materials. LessonWriter will record what was taught in each class make recommendations about what to teach next.

Participants will learn how to use lesson writer by watching a video and seeing a demonstration.
Activity: Play Lesson Writer Video and check for understanding.

Participants will create a differentiated lesson using a lesson writer format.
Activity: Participants will create a lesson writer account, find text related to topic and create a differentiated lesson. (This lesson will be used for posting to their created project)

Concepts
YAKiToMe is a free text to speech program. Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.
Participants will learn how to use YakiToMe by seeing a demonstration.
Activity: Past text into voice synthesizer and render to YakiToMe Site. (The posting will be used to record in audacity and then transferred to My Share Box)

Concepts
Voice Synthesis
The Sharebox is a central storage box that saves the items you have shared. As a registered user, you can log into your personalized Sharebox from any computer and view what you’ve sent — only you have access to your Sharebox. This allows you to share items multiple times.
What is My Share box
Participants will learn about a widget and how to use embedded codes for posting a My Share Box widget.
Activity: Create a My Share Box Account
Activity: Demonstrate how to locate an embedded code into a PBWorks plugin.
Activity: Demonstrate how to upload an mp3 file into My Share Box. (Participants will use this skill on day three when they create widgets to their PBWorks site.

Concepts
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are originated by third parties, though they can be home made. Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the early development of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. Early web widgets provided functions such as link counters and advertising banners.
What is a Widget?
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization providing free legal mechanisms for learners inside and outside schools to share and remix content. 

A creative commons environment allows for an expanded range of creative work to be available for others to legally build upon and share. 
Once the Creative Commons domain has been developed it will enable content creators to grant some or all of their rights to the exclusive domain through open content licensing terms. The intention of the exclusive Creative Commons domain is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. External links with elements digital content library can then be used as live events as they are tied to a presentation to bring depth and dimension to a lesson.
Today’s technology makes it easy to remix and share on a grand scale. With the availability of open source shareware remix software like Audacity, MovieMaker, imovie, photostory3, ANIMINTO, and GarageBand educators can engage in the act of remixing content. These new technology tools allows an individual to remix digital content and share with millions of other educators through Web 2.0 collaboration projects like Face Book, Youtube, bloger, Teacher Tube, edublogs, and pbworks. This remixing of media has created a whole new challenge to redefining copyright fair use policies.  Currently anything that is published on the web has immediate ownership by the creator.  
Participants will be given the opportunity to discuss and explore meaningful pedagogical intervention, which focuses on three core concerns:
Activity: Participants will review a PowerPoint presentation on The Ethics Challenge and discuss their relevance to the digital native.
Activity: participants will review creative commons video and discuss the importance copyright and how it applies to creative common attributes
Activity: Participants will learn how to apply for a creative commons licenses. (This skill will be used again during day three after wiki projects have been created.)

What is Delicious?
Crossing Over Into the Digital Divide
Overview: SMART Board interactive whiteboard will give you an understanding of the basic functions of the SMART Board.  Controlling the application with your finger and writing notes in digital ink to save and share later.  You will be able to insert notes as graphics or text into Microsoft Word and Excel documents.  PowerPoint presentations will be used on the interactive whiteboard and you will be able to save notes in your presentation as well.  Notebook software basics will give you an understanding of the menus, side tabs, and navigating through the Notebook Gallery collections.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to, Record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together and Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
WHAT IS PODCASTING?
Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Many people liken podcasting to radio on demand. However, in reality, podcasting gives far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. In addition, with Podcasting, listeners can determine the time and the place, meaning they decide what programming they want to receive and when they want to listen to it.  Listeners can retain audio archives to listen to at their leisure. While blogs have turned many bloggers into journalists, podcasting has the potential to turn podcasters into radio personalities. 
WHAT IS PROJECT-BASED LEARNING? 
Project-based learning is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons and instead emphasizes learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world issues and practices. In this mini-session participants will be given examples of styles of learning between those students who grew-up as a digital native and the industrial styles of current learning standards.  
Project-based learning is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons and instead emphasizes learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world issues and practices. To extend learning teachers can create participatory environments that are project based oriented. 
WINDOWS MOVIEMAKER 
Windows Movie Maker 2 lets you create, edit, and share your movies right on your PC. It's easy to use, yet it provides powerful capabilities that rival those of expensive computer editing packages. You can download the software FREE from Microsoft. It works with both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition. You can also store your video and create links to your Wiki or embed HTML codes to play right off your web site.
CREATING DIGITAL STORIES
Historically, we have valued creative writing or art classes because they help to identify and train future writers and artists, but also because the creative process is valuable on its own; every child deserves the chance to express him- or herself through words, sounds, and images, even if most will never write, perform, or draw professionally. Having these experiences, we believe, changes the way youth think about themselves and alters the way they look at work created by others. In this session Mike King and Jesse West will present the art of digital story telling as it applies to the formative writing process. Participants will learn how to create digital mash-ups in a storyboard through the use of creative common picture searches, recording written narratives in audacity and develop a digital story in moviemaker, photostory3 and or imovie.
SUMMER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
This three day workshop is designed for teachers to explore the latest technology tools and solutions available to help schools build 21st Century learning environments that motivate and engage today’s students. 
Creating Digital Lessons 
In this session you will learn how to create technology-based thematic unit, and how to use LessonWriter as a workable framework for teacher instruction. Additionally participants will learn about Creative Commons, and open source software.
Photo Shoot and Podcasting Narrative 
• Each participant will have a picture taken. These photos will be used throughout the workshop for posting and completing profiles on social network accounts setup during the workshop.

• Each participant will write a short description on why technologies interest them, some hobbies and what they feel they will be able to contribute at the end of this workshop. This information will also be useful when setting up profile information on the social network. 

8:00 – 8:30
Introductions, Materials and Agenda 
•Presenters will introduce themselves and then participants will read their short descriptions.
•Participants will be given an overview of the three day agenda along with information on how to access the website to preview skills and lessons taught.

8:30 – 8:45