Summer+PD+Share

=**Please share all the great stuff you are learning about over the summer.**=

//What are you reading? Who are you talking to? What are you checking out? Where are you going? Let us know!//

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 * ~ =====**Name**===== ||~ =====**Books**===== ||~ =====**Websites and Apps**===== ||~ =====**People, Blogs, Tweeps**===== ||~ =====**Conferences, Workshops, Sessions**===== ||~ =====**Anything Else**===== ||
 * Justin @newfirewithin || The Book Whisperer

Readicide

Linchpin || classblogs.org as a possible alternative to kidblog.org

edmodo.com- I've had an account for over a year but I'd like to do more with it. ||  ||   || I will be the new team leader for my grade. I'm especially thinking about leadership and teams. ||
 * Patti [|@pattigrayson]

[|Patti's Ponderings] || [| Personal Learning Networks]

[|A New Culture of Learning] || [|tagxedo.com] - just found this new word cloud generator and am exploring ways to use it.

[] - looking at hangouts for PD at school. ||  || [|PLP] || Taught 3rd grade for 6 years, looping with my kids to 4th this year. || @BarbaraDay || Focus The Death & Life of the Great American School System || Weebly - I built a new website Voki - Something I want to try this year Plurk - while everyone else is playing with Google+ I'm trying out Plurk. ||  ||  Capturing Kids Hearts || Having a great summer, but I'll be ready to go back to 4th grade in the fall. ||
 * Barbara
 * Rebecca @rebpilver || [| Brain Rules] || Exploring ways to do more blogging this year- AMAZING examples of class blogs

http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/ http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/ ||  ||   || We will add some more posts for beginning of the year Foldable ideas at http://getinthefold.blogspot.com/ || Helped start #5thchat || #5thchat, #4thchat, #elemchat, #ntchat || EdCamp Birmingham GA Science Boot Camp || Excited to working with some amazing people I have met this summer on Twitter! || @elle_gifted || Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators || Create Gifted Teachers Exchange Wiki- a place where GT educators can share & collaborate online.
 * Catherine @mrsd5107 ||  The Passion-Driven Classroom ||  Summer Book Club for The Passion-Driven Classroom
 * Elle

Blogs- Been updating my personal/professional blog & finding platforms for my students to blog.

Learned the diff between copyright & Creative Commons licenses & have found sites to use. Check out the Diigo list I have created for this. || #4thchat Will be presenting on how to use Skype in the Classroom || Thrilled that my PLN has grown and includes some amazing and inspiring educators. Look forward to sharing ideas & collaborating!
 * 1) 5thchat
 * 2) 6thchat
 * 3) gtchat
 * 4) elemchat
 * 5) ntchat || Reform Symposium E-Conference:

Looking forward to integrating lots of technology into my teaching and preparing my students to become responsible digital citizens. || The Daily5 The DailyCAFE || Updating my professional blog [|TeachingisElementary]
 * [| @ncarroll24]Nancy Carroll || The Book Whisperer

Exploring [|Edmodo] to use with my students. || #4thchat
 * 1) 5thchat
 * 2) 6thchat || Reform Symposium E-Conference

[|EdcampCT] || Trying to be more organized this year (so reading up on that). Also, will be presenting at the MassCUE 11 Conference in Oct. so working on the presentation for Beginning Bloggers. || Anissa Labrador || Technology for Learning || Used these resources to build my PLN: 50 Ed tech bloggers to follow: []
 * @edtechlab

Setting Up Google Alerts to get the latest info for your interests [|http://www.fractuslearning.com/2012/06/06/schools-edtech-google-alerts/#]

VoiceThread Socrative- Great webtools || #edtech
 * 1) edchat
 * 2) edtablet
 * 3) eltchat
 * 4) edtools #edapps #ipaded
 * 5) ipadchat #cpchat || Joined TLC- Lots of PD and great community

Attending FETC in January || Was a 4th grade teacher for 16 years, in the fall I will be the instructional tech coordinator for my school Learning how to be an admin on Schoology Planning an iPad pilot in k-12 private school Mining for great additions to my PLN Writing Tech Vision statement & Standards for teachers Planning PD for iPad, Web 2.0 tools, etc. Working on presentations for FKC & FCIS ||
 * Jeanne [|@jmplus2] || **[|Passion-Driven Classroom]**

[|Brain-based teaching :) Sprenger]  [|Integrating differentiated instruction & understanding by design : connecting content and kids] ||   ||  #4thchat

[|Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis.]  [|Carol Ann Tomlinson] ||   ||   ||