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=Safari Live= Date: Tuesday, 11/06/07 Location: Truman High School; Levittown, PA Event: The Bucks County Schools Common Inservice for Foreign Language Teachers Instructor: Mark Hoffman

Purpose:
The purpose of this session is to discuss the ways in which technology impacts today's learner and the implications for instruction in a K-12 world language classroom.

Objectives:
Participants will leave with:
 * a broad understanding of what it means to be a digital citizen
 * a broad sense of what current Internet applications bring to global communication
 * a better understanding of how to connect what today's students expect from school with what we, as teachers, can provide
 * basic proficiency in using web-based communication tools like "Safari Live"
 * a user account for [|www.epals.com], a website that enables global partnerships and collaboratives between classes worldwide
 * a sense of logical next steps to thoughtfully incorporate the above technologies into a world language classroom

Who is your instructor?
I'm Mark Hoffman. I began my career as a Spanish teacher in Central Bucks and now serve as the Director of Instructional Materials, Research Services, and Technology Applications at the [|Bucks County Intermediate Unit] in Doylestown, PA. This is a fancy way to say that I work on county-wide educational technology projects and initiatives. I sit somewhere halfway between the worlds of technology and curriculum, serving as a liaison between Technology Directors and curriculum support personnel in the districts across county. My department has highly talented folks that specialize in staff development, technology planning, technology integration, library services, video encoding, etc. We provide free access for all educators in Bucks County to 10,000 physical titles (DVDs, VHS tapes) through [|WebMax] and will deliver the movies to your school's door-step every week of the school year. We also provide access to nearly 10,000 digital videos on-demand thru unitedstreaming, safari, and the IU's private collection.

Contact me: hoffmanm@bucksiu.org 215.348.2940 ext 1601

Workshop Resources:
[|Link #1: Safari Live session (demo)] [|Link #2: ePals: Global Classroom Meeting Place] Link #3: Example of a world language wiki built through online collaboration [| Link #4: End of session survey]

Post-workshop Resources:
[|Video #1 -- Did You Know: Shift Happens 2.0] [|Video #2 -- Pay Attention : Teaching today's digital learner] [|Video #3 -- The Connected Classroom: How schools have changed] [|Video #4 -- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?]