Day 4 with Shannon Miller

Shannon's enthusiasm for kids and technology is awesome!  She is created a brand around the term "voice." Everyone has a voice - an authentic voice.

Suggestions from Shannon:

• Animoto - cool site to use to create videos.
• Create and nurture collaboration between colleagues no matter where they are!
• Importance of creating a team, including the community and connect to students
• Create a voice for your classroom and remind students to find and use their voice.  Allow them to be heard!
• Think. Lead. Serve.  - Van Meter's whole school motto, carried out and supported through the district.
• Student clubs based on their interests - photo clubs, writing, skyping with authors, creating claymation videos.
• Sending wikis out on twitter to encourage others to contribute.
• Choose a simple curriculum based goal and see where it can go
• hootsuite - can read twitter, schedule tweets, and add an icon to tweet from pages
• Twitter suggestions - 
• check out other's lists and add more people to follow
• always respond to mentions & direct messages
• Easybib app - allows you to scan book and email to yourself

Tweets from the day from ‏@abridgesmith

RT @betswan: Little Bird Tales - create an ebook - bit.ly/fi3p4n

Student clubs based on their interests allows them to ignite their fire!#mp21st #passiondriven

Passion matters because it fuels us to go forward. #mp21st#passiondriven