The document discusses Twitter and Protopage and how they can be used together to meet the Michigan Online Learning Requirement. Twitter is a social networking application that allows users to post short updates. Protopage allows users to create personal or shared webpages using widgets. The document provides examples of how teachers can facilitate online learning activities using these tools to promote collaboration, integration of technology skills, and develop lifelong learning skills for students.

1. 0 meets Juicing Up the Online Experience Jane Perzyk www.protopage.com/janeperzyk

2. What is 0 ? Twitter is a web-interface social networking application where a community of friends from around the world sends updates about moments in their lives. Updates are limited to 140 characters with simple text – no HTML code. Updates are sent via Twitter website, mobile phone SMS, or IM on Jabber or Gtalk. Facilitating a workshop on Twitter and Protopage at the Macomb ISD.

3. What is Protopage ? 0 Protopage is your own personal or shared webpage created with drag and drop widgets RSS Feeds Calendars Bookmarks Photos Text To-do lists

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7. What is the Michigan Online Learning Requirement? 0 “ A structured learning activity that utilizes technology with intranet or Internet-based tools and resources as the delivery method for instruction, research, assessment, and communication. State Board of Education Guidelines, 2006

12. Why the Michigan Online Learning Requirement? 0 “ It will prepare them for the demands they will encounter in higher education, the workplace, and personal lifelong learning.” State Board of Education Guidelines, 2006

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15. Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future 0 “ We have now embarked on what may be the ultimate, all-encompassing, episode of globalization .”

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27. Ouch! 0 “ Some teachers make a PowerPoint and they think they’re so awesome,” says a student. “But it’s just like writing on the blackboard,” says another .

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31. The Landscape Has Changed! 0 Educators have slid into the 21st century—and into the digital age—still doing a great many things the old way. Marc Prensky

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38. 0 For the first time in history, our job as educators is to prepare our children for a future that we cannot clearly describe. David Warlick

39. 0 Teachers today need to know how to teach using tools that are unfamiliar that they can’t fully master! Marc Prensky

40. Which Brings Us To. . . Twitter and Protopage and the Online Course Requirement 0

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53. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php We are witnessing a breathtaking evolution of new forms of digital communication. More than witnessing, we are facilitating it . All of this is unfolding so quickly that 0 we do not have time to pause and reflect on what is happening. But if email is becoming an endangered species, then we need to pay attention .

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