Slate and chalk have been around for over 150 years.... Isn't it time we used new tools to connect with 21st century learners? I am currently acting as the London Region e-Learning Contact, and with tongue firmly in cheek, I believe that the fastest way to promote positive change in Ontario classrooms may well be to ban chalk!

Introductory Media: The Machine is Us/ing Us Wesch again... We Think (The Audience is Taking the Stage) Learning Zeitgeist Networking Survey "Wishing you many 'soft returns'..." RL "The network is greater than the node..." WR "What would happen if the chalkboard was transformed into a window on the World?" RL "Building relationships is the most important thing..." ML "It's not challenge that turns kids off... it's lack of engagement." RL "To be a good explainer, you have to make people care..." LF

New Chalk...	Potential Uses
Participation	PowerPoint, Keynote, more than electronic chalk, Golden Fleece Wiki, Wiki - (LIVE) , Chatzy, VoiceThread, Alex Couros, Let's Ban Chalk LIVE
Field Trips and Rich Tasks	Museums, Art Galleries (The Louvre), Jackson Pollock, Illusions, Charicatures, RPT's (a study in adaptation!), Skitch WebQuests, imagination cubed, Ed.VoiceThread, Let's Ban Chalk VoiceThread Electronic Portfolios: Scrapblog 50 Story Tools Molotov Alva
Recorded Audio/Video	CBC Podcasts, Prelinger Archives, TED (Jill Bolte Taylor's 'stroke' of good fortune), Al Gore, YouTube, TeacherTube, Blip.tv, Ustream, Supply teacher in Seoul, Movie Trailers, NASA archives, Have you posted a video to YouTube/TeacherTube? iTunes:Podcasts, CBC Podcasts (CommonCraft explanation of Podcasts) CommonCraft iTunes U Atom Films NY Times Archives Jing demo/explanation I Want You to Want Me (Jonathan Harris)
Live Video, Live Audio, Live Text	2:40 p.m. local time, Lee Lefever via iChat "What in your mind makes for an effective 'explanation'? Shanghai, Viena, gymnastics, robotics, across-town! iChat, Skype, Adobe Connect, Twitter, ustream.tv, Internet Archive 9/11 Massive Multi-player e-Learning Daniel Pink visits Arapahoe HS Google News visual, Digg.ARC, Digg.SWARM, Digg.STACK MoodStream
Google Tools	How to Search, Google Reader, Surveys (tests?!) (Google Docs), Collaborative Writing, Google Earth/Sky/Street, Flashearth, Google Maps (Create them! Upload photos to community map on google... tour of the school... tour of the classroom...MapMe.com), http://gelessons.com/ (clothing labels!) Global Surveys, Google Sketch-up, Google sites, Google Earth Demo, WikiMapia, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
'Smarter' Chalkboards	Search Delicious Links, tablets, bluetooth mice, CNN, OERB, Luidia.com, Johnny Lee (500,000 downloads), DougPeterson's Resource, Alberta's www.2Learn.ca, Mimio Interactive Whiteboard lessons
'Blended' Learning	MIT OpenCourseware, iTunes U, Blended Learning, the LMS,
RSS Resources	Flickr.com,flickr-storm Podcasting(TCS), VoiceThread, Blogging (TCS), Social Bookmarks: Delicious (TCS), Diigo, Intellectual Property and the Read/Write Web RSS and 'Embed Code' Wikipedia Encyclopedia Brittanica, Phun, IWB Whiteboard Podcast, 60 Sec. Tech,
Social Networking	Blogs, AllTop, Wikis, Podcasts, Facebook, Twitter,WhoShouldIFollow? Twistori, (GeoTweets, Journalism), TwittEarth, Visualize the twitter network e-community, social bookmarking (Diigo vs Delicious) Second Life (other virtual environments... body image; historic re-enactments; content creation... music, physical items...) Second Life Health Portal (Spain), Facebook: Teacher Impersonation We Feel Fine, Websites as Graphs,
Software Tutorials	Smart Ideas, Adobe Creative Suite - Flash, Google Docs, Exemplars: Flash Poetry (Beyond the Fire, Forests Forever,Word processing to model writing (i.e., Smart Ideas, Inspiration, Word/WordPerfect, the OERB or elsewhere), SlideRocket,
Cell Phones, PDA's,	Need for rules/guidelines vs bans... Saskatchewan cell phones, "Create a map showing how many students can receive a text message from another continent within the next 15 minutes?" Allow students to anonymously 'vote' or 'question' via text message to the teacher's phone. ? Clickers? OOKL phones upload to galleries wakerupper.com Liberty Science Centre (Eat and be Eaten) Thinking Machine Teach Digital (Wes Fryer's wiki on cell phone apps) Policies Jott, Utterz Murmur
Games and Simulations	TypeRacer, Google Image Labeler, Simulations (delicious), Phun, Linerider (play), Darfur is Dying, Gizmos @ Explore Learning (use Safari on Mac), e.g., Equivalent Fractions, Monty Hall problem,Play to Train (Second LifeTornado!) Breathing Earth, Karma Tycoon, Physics simulations, Shark Runners, Magic Pen, Nikon Scale demo,
Pick a Niche	Machinima, Facebook privacy?!, Animal Cams, tag clouds Intel Mash Maker
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Current Events	The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Newseum, Political Cartoons Pangea Day May 10,
	"You must become the change you wish to see in the world." Ghandhi Stanford 'Imagine It' (from folder)