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Thanks to Donn Martin for the following directions!

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Exporting epals student email list for upload into ning to invite students to private ning.

STEPS:

In epals

Click Teacher link, enter teacher name, click display results button, Under Students column click view link, Student info will display.

scroll down to bottom of page click generate report, Click on home link, Click webmail or you have new messages, Click subject link for accounts report, locate atachments, click attachment link, select open,

In Excel,

Click data tab, select text to columns, make sure Tab is selected as the delimiter, click next, click finish. Select colum header for all columns after c column and delete, change name for user@domain to email. save csv spreadsheet as teacher name.csv . (Save to desktop)

In ning- Teacher steps-

Login to ning. click the invite link, click import from address book application, click browse and locate you .csv file. click open. click upload. Click invite

The school year has begun, and you are looking for resources to provide resources for your students so that they will engage in their learning. There is a resource that is available to all staff and students that is a “One Stop Resource Mall”—Discovery OnePlace to find resources for Mondo, Discovery Education including Discovery Science, World Book, NetTrekker, CultureGrams, and Promethean Planet. Elementary, K-8, Middle School, and High School teachers can find this tool a simple resource tool for the classroom regardless of your experience level with technology. Come join fellow teachers to add resources that can support your lessons to build that engagement for student learning and support for English Language Learners. WHEN: Thursday August 27, 2009 TIME: 4:45 pm-6:00 pm WHERE: Sixth Avenue Elementary PRESENTERS: Shannon Wentworth, Sixth Ave. Elem., Gwynn Moore, Paris Elem. COST: AEA Members-A benefit of your AEA Membership, this workshop is free Non-AEA Members-$10.00 CREDIT: Credit information will be available at the workshop. So that we can plan for participant resources, please fill out the registration form and check if applicable made out to AEA to Shannon Wentworth, Sixth Ave. Elementary OR Gwynn Moore, Paris Elementary by August 26. image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/

If you have a new Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop. The district's wireless key needs to be imported before you can use the wireless network. This means that you won't be able to log in to the network either. Here's how to get the wireless working.

1. turn on your E6400 laptop
2. check the "workstation only" box and hit "Enter" on the keyboard
3. After the laptop has fully turned on click on "Start,""Programs," "Dell Wireless," and finally "Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility"
4. Now we have to import the Key. Click on the little arrow next to the "Options" button. Click "import." SEE IMAGE
5. Browse through the computer to find and double-click on apsnet1397.wpn. Click on "My Computer > Local Disk C > DELL > DRIVERS > Network > Wireless 1397 > apsnet1397.wpn. Once you click on apsnet1397.wpn, click "open."
6. Now your wireless will work within the district. Restart and try logging in.

Have you ever spent more time trying to find information on your computer than it would actually take to get the job done once you have found the information? Well lucky for you there are applications that will assist you in organizing your notes. These applications enable you to keep notes, phone numbers, files, tasks, lists, tags, images, directly record audio notes, share notebooks among colleagues, etc., all in one easy to use and organized place. The two applications I enjoy most are OneNote by Microsoft and BasKet Note Pads for Linux. If you work for APS you can start using OneNote right away. While at work, turn on your computer, click "start," "run," and type in "aps2007," and click, "ok." Wait 10 or 20 minutes while it installs on your computer. Do not stop the process. Once it's finished installing you'll have the Office 2007 suite which includes OneNote. To learn more about using OneNote, log in to One Place and go to Atomic Learning where you can search through over one hundred tutorials on using One Note. You can also go to Microsoft's One Note website to find lots of helpful training resources. If you have a friend in the district that is hopelessly disorganized, send them this link. Give them the necessary tools to empower the organizational wizard within them. Let's all get organized.

For a low, low price, you can have set of tools for your students that will help them communicate asynchronously, frequently and with authentic purpose. It will also encourage students to attend to the details and quality of their published work. But wait there's more! Research shows that these tools increase student achievement! How much would you pay for these tools? Fortunately for you the monetary price is FREE! It will only cost you time. You'll need time to explore these tools. Time to share these tools and time to teach these tools. These tools are the Web 2.0 tools. While time is always at a premium in the teaching profession. It is not an insurmountable obstacle. Here are some links to web 2.0 tools that you can start using now, email (epals), blogs (WordPress), & wikis (pbWiki). You can find helpful resources at Atomic Learning through One Place. Do you want more support? Contact your local technology coach/trainer for assistance. Take a look at the research. Becta recently publish research based on 11 - 16 year old students in and out of the classroom.

The reports found that young learners are prolific users of Web 2.0 technologies in their leisure time but that the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom was limited. However, schools and teachers who are innovating in this area have found benefits, such as:

• Web 2.0 helps to encourage student engagement and increase participation – particularly among quieter pupils, who can use it to work collaboratively online, without the anxiety of having to raise questions in front of peers in class – or by enabling expression through less traditional media such as video.
• Teachers have reported that the use of social networking technology can encourage online discussion amongst students outside school.
• Web 2.0 can be available anytime, anywhere, which encourages some individuals to extend their learning through further investigation into topics that interest them.
• Pupils feel a sense of ownership and engagement when they publish their work online and this can encourage attention to detail and an overall improved quality of work. Some teachers reported using publication of work to encourage peer assessment.

Read the details of the research. Thanks to Ewan McIntosh for pointing this out.