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=**Session Description**= //In this hands-on, interactive workshop, you will experiment with tips, tricks, and free technology tools that will facilitate your research, improve your personal productivity, and expand your professional opportunities.//

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 * Session Description**

This workshop will provide you with an overview of free technology tools for:
 * establishing professional learning networks
 * utilizing web 2.0 resources to facilitate graduate research and writing
 * connecting to free professional resources for language educators

Key Concepts:


 * Tagging Activity
 * Converse about:
 * Challenges of Graduate School
 * Teaching & Technology
 * Personal Experiences & Identity
 * Summarize the conversation on a Post-it
 * Use 5 words or less
 * Stick the Post-it on the person
 * Repeat


 * Goal today is exposure, not mastery
 * Knowledge as dynamic and constantly changing
 * Need for "Personal Learning Networks" (PLNs)
 * Shift in how we do our work --> Writing spaces, research, publication, 24/7 learning


 * Conceptual Underpinnings
 * Knowledge as a dynamic process
 * Change as the only reliable constant
 * Learning --> A form of growth
 * Transfer
 * Personal Transformation
 * Growth --> Requires risk-taking, stepping out of our comfort zones, thinking outside of our "boxes" --> Requires creativity
 * Creativity --> Possibilities made visible by bringing seemingly unrelated things into association with one another
 * Non-linearity --> Both learning and life are messy --> Chronological, linear ways of packaging information may keep us from seeing alternative options
 * Networking
 * Conceptual associations
 * Linkage of information
 * Social connections
 * Questions --> Grad school is about discovering questions, not memorizing answers
 * Quantum Possibilities
 * Build --> Networks, influence, identity
 * Build relationships (between information, Heavenly Father, other people)
 * Choices today determine tomorrow's options


 * Overview of Wiki






 * Networking








 * Research Tools




 * Productivity

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 * Teaching

> - A wiki collection of cultural resources in Spanish, organized by conceptual topics, grammar topics, media types, and vocabulary topics.
 * Culture