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The Classroom 2.0 live workshop to be held in Salt Lake City on August 14th and 15th is quickly approaching! The workshop will be held from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm each day at the Jones Center, Granite School District, 382 E. Baird Ave (3605 S.), Salt Lake City, UT 84115.


Classroom 2.0 LIVE Workshops are "collaborative" and highly engaging events that focus on the practical use of Web 2.0 technologies in education. The workshops are FREE to attend, are organized by local educators, and have a unique format of demonstrations, facilitated discussions by participants, and "drill-down" time. This is a conference for and by the people attending.

We need your help! Please consider leading one of the sessions as a discussion facilitator. Look for any open yellow highlighted facilitator spot, edit the page and add your name. Sign up today to be a facilitator!

• Workshop Agenda and Session Signup: Click here
• Register That You Will Be Attending: Click here

I know it's early, but I want you to mark your calendars. Additional details will be forthcoming.


Classroom 2.0 LIVE Workshop
Friday, August 15 and Saturday, August 16, 2008
9:00 am - 4:00 pm each day
Salt Lake City, UT

• Proposed Agenda
• "I'm Attending" Page - Add your name to the list if you plan on attending.
• Session Proposals and Ideas - Wanna present? Submit your proposal here.
  

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Yesterday I had the privilege of interviewing Steve Hargadon for an episode of T4 Tips Podcasts. In the interview, we discussed social networking and its utility in education. Rather polished and a great teacher in his own right, Steve did an excellent job in detailing the Classroom 2.0 social network and provided several compelling reasons for teachers everywhere to join in on the conversation.

Last night's Social Software in the Classroom open professional development class went as well as I had envisioned it could go from the beginning. To say that it went perfectly would probably be an understatement:

• Recording, transmission, and connecting went flawlessly.
• We opened with the first "show & tell" session that I know of that has included teachers from across the country. The topic: Bring your favorite Firefox plugin.
• We continued with a wonderful discussion about the in-class use of various exciting, online teaching tools.
• After a brief break, we were happy to interact with our first international guest speaker. Rachel Boyd (from New Zealand) was kind enough to explain to our class about a few of the experiences she's had in using blogging as an educational tool for her students. How many guest speakers from New Zealand have you brought into your class lately? +10pts to Rachel for her willingness to share.
  
• Finally, Rachel's discussion led perfectly into a discussion about blogging. We used Blogger as our tool of choice, simply because the participants already had Google accounts and the Blogger interface is relatively easy to use.
• In total, roughly 35 teachers from around the world participated in our class.
• It's been amazing to see how far we've come in 5 short weeks, and am glad that we were able to shine in this final session.
• None of this would have been possible without educational social networking! Classroom 2.0, EduBloggerWorld, FaceBook, and especially the Twitter network (my TwitterSchool) have been able to come together to make truly great things happen.