The Needed Virus

How to Spread 21st Century Teaching for 21st Century Students

Porter Palmer Discovery Education

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Visit Learning.com/DiscoveryEducation to find out how single sign-on can benefit your classroom and incorporate 21st century skills into your teaching!

A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms.

Social Bookmarking

• Diigo

• Delicious

Why Use Social Bookmarking?

• Internally for team planning• Community outreach• Personal learning

Social Bookmarking

Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/user/discoveryed

Delicious

http://delicious.com/discoveryea

http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Wikis

What are you reading?

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

Why Blog?

• Tell your story• Share your learning journey• Explain decisions• Build relationships• Demonstrate personality• Model digital citizenship

Posterous

• SIMPLE• Easily Accessible• Autoposts (if you want) to

– Twitter– Facebook– YouTube– Flickr

If you can send an email, you can Posterous.

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http://principalspage.posterous.com/pencil-case-at-school

http://www.twitter.com/discoveryed

http://www.facebook.com/discoveryed

http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever

http://www.livestream.com/

http://edtechtalk.com/

http://live.classroom20.com/

http://dencommunity.com

http://denblogs.com

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”

Learning.com's Sky digital learning environment is specifically designed for K-12 teachers and administrators to provide intuitive tools and improve student learning. Discovery Education content is now available through Sky's single sign-on.

Visit Learning.com/DiscoveryEducation to find out how single sign-on can benefit your classroom and incorporate 21st century skills into your teaching!