Tuesday+Keynote

**Tuesday’s Opening Keynote: Steve Dembo**
Recorded @ http://ustream.tv/recorded/ORDq9xtRcZQ0adDkC98TDkMjjqQHMIxY media type="custom" key="497480"
 * Streaming @ http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/connectedtv**

Characteristics of Digital Native: Expressive, Multimedia Oriented, information overload, **Extremely social**, less fear of failure, active involvement, instant gratification.

[|Poll Everywhere] uses cell phone text messages to survey.

[| Marc Prensky] - Digital Native/Digital Immigrant - Educators will have to change to really reach the natives.

Information Explosion! - Google has multiple types of searches. One person at Google manages the cleanness of the front page.

The World is Flat - 10 flatteners - references the steroid and opensourcing as two most significant

[|Wikinomics] - new ways to work Curriki - initiative to create an online collaborative curriculum Google Lit Trips - Innovation vs Invention Google Docs - New Ways to Work

Democratization of *knowledge *tools *the expert

The Community becomes MY network.

[|Twitter] - a network for empathy, resources, materials. Ning.com - create your own social network. Second Life - Every Wednesday night ISTE gets together in SL to learn together (and have fun).

New ways to attend conferences - Twitter, Skypecast, etc...Hitchhikr by David Warlick to track conferences. If you do one thing at a conference, make a personal connection. Build your network and the conference doesn't end when you walk out the door. Not just teach a man to fish- connect him to a fishing community

• PollEverywhere…vote by text message to an online site • Google Lit Trips • Blogs are always in some state of draft from…even sometimes when published • Classroom 2.0 Ning • Hitchhikr…can pull together blogs that are all tagged similarly…used for people who can’t attend a conference but want to tag along • Make connections at the conferences • Backchanneling and skyping and twittering are all part of **synthesizing** what you are taking in during a conference or session…making sense of it