K12 Online Conference

I viewed the Cool Tools session this morning. Some of it was a little over my head but I still learned some pretty "cool" stuff. My favorite was Slide Share. This is a place to search and post slide presentations like PowerPoint and tag them for easy sharing. Be careful of copyrights when you post! I used this site today and I found a large number of IB geography slide shows that will be helpful for my students.

I was also fascinated to find out that you can geotag you Flickr photos. This could be fun for students to post pictures of different places, record the coordinates from their GPS, and then tag the photos accordingly.

I hope to view a few more of sessions soon.

Professional Development

I found this site that will have several sessions during the weeks we are not in class.
http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k12online2007schedule.html

Some of them look interesting. Just remember the times are in GMT. I think we are 4 hours earlier.