Information Overload

Finding the right web-based tools and resources for teaching and learning can be a daunting task for anyone. Simply googling a keyword usually provides too many unrelated results and can consume precious time you do not have. This hands-on workshop will show you how to search for and evaluate online educational resources more efficiently while using social networks such as twitter to connect with peers searching for similar content.

Searching -- Boolify, Google Advanced Search, Google Custom Search

Networking and interacting to discover resources that you didn't know you were looking for.

Metaphor here is the newspaper -- Opening the paper, reading the article about the subject you are looking for and seeing an article on the opposite page that you weren't looking for.

Twitter, Chats in Twitter

Collecting and organizing that information:

Diigo

iPlan, iTeach & iAssess

Building on the skills developed in our Information Overload workshop, this intensive hands-on learning experience introduces cloud-based tools to collaboratively plan and facilitate instructional activities that integrate engaging digital resources such as video, screencasts, podcasts and flash animations while constructing web-based student assessments that inform future instruction.

iCreate, iPublish and iCollaborate

Screencasting, Skyping, Tweeting, Texting, Mashing and Animating -- what does it all mean? While it may seem like a totally new language, one that many of your students seem to instinctively understand, in this intensive hands-on workshop we will show you how to ultilize the power of free web-based tools to collabortively create and share interactive learning activities with your students and your peers.