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I will share my real life classroom experience using social media. I have had an excellent experience using social media in my classroom and would love to share with others. I've researched social media as a graduate school project in the IDET program at the University of Utah and would like to share issues, challenges and successes with other teachers to encourage them to be as social networking friendly as possible. I'd like to share the benefits of edmodo, twitter for students (and teachers), titan pad and a few other classroom friendly websites. I would love to be able to help teachers set up with accounts and mobile devices to begin using social networking to enhance their classroom and grow their Professional Learning Network.

Pioneer Library is full of wonderful resources and tools for students and teachers. Come learn about Pioneer Library tools such as EBSCO, Soundzabound, and eMedia. Then see how you and your students can use those Pioneer resources and tools to build your own online media on websites like SuperTeacherTools, Zooburst, Voki, and more.
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Do you want students to work together on a project or just share ideas in real-time? Can you provide a way for multiple students to create, revise, and edit content all at the same time? Ever have trouble where a student takes a writing assignment home and never brings it back? Or can you picture the student that you don't trust to take the assignment home in the first place?

Google Docs offers a free solution that engages all students to collaborate together to share ideas and create content together. All you need is a Gmail account to get started.

Reviewing the new Common Core, I noticed that students in elementary grades are now required to create content online. This last summer I started to create and post some content myself and found it to be quite exciting. I tried to bring this excitement into my classroom by using Google Docs and also Wikispaces. We found that Wikispaces is a great place to publish the work and that Google Docs is better for the prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and overall collaborative approach.

My intent is to show teachers how to create and share documents in Google Docs as well as how students can go do research together or go through the writing process. Teachers will see the power of multiple students accessing the same document at home or at school to complete a project. Of course, this power extends beyond writing and the elementary grades.

Where can you find: Activity Calendars, Local Events, Parent Resources, Professional Development Resources, Letter Interactives, Number Interactives, Science, Tech, Engineering and Math Interactives, Spanish Resources, Downloadable Media for Preschoolers, AND Utah State Library’s new Literacy site with even more great resources at the click of a button? On Utah Education Network's Preschool Pioneer Library - come find out all about this great site where kids go to click, learn and grow!

Explore ways you can use Pixie, Tech4Learning's 21st century student creativity tool, to unlock learning and build thinking skills in your classroom curriculum. Learn how collaboration improves student learning and a how a video project, interactive stories, and animations can help motivate students to produce their best work and meet Common Core Standards in a creative way.

Ever wanted to create an animation to teach a lesson, do a book review, share classroom procedures, or just have fun? Learn how to make your own animation with an easy, free website called Xtranormal. Preview at http://www.xtranormal.com/