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=The Savvy Scholar:=

Tech Tools for Research & Professional Productivity
===A Workshop for Graduate Students from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese=== Presented by Cherice Montgomery, Ph.D., Brigham Young University August 25, 2011 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in JFSB 160


 * 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

=Session Agenda=


 * 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
 * Build --> Networks, influence, identity


 * 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