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=**Activity #2 Get Started with ICT**= Information and Communication Technology is an exponential field expanding at an ever increasing rate. ICT offer exciting possibilities for educators to support and encourage learning. Use of ICT can be both helpful and harmful. During this course, we will learning how to benefit from ICT while mitigating the potential harmful possibilities. Learning needs to be fun so let's start with some fun activities.

**A. Personalize Your Homepage** - Create your own 'mashup' that can be used as a personal homepage.
The home page of your browser need not look like everyone else. You can move from a passive consumer to a proactive consumer by making a few changes. Here are a few sites where you can create your own personalized Home Page. Choose one - or more - and create! [|iGoogle] NetVibes PageFlakes

**B. Creating verbal art -** Create a Techie word splash

[|Check out Wordle] and follow the instructions. Experiment. See what wonders you can create You can even post your Wordle to your home page, share it on a social networking site (more about this later)

Watch this Alan November video. Be prepared to discuss in class and/or in the Pent Ning group [|Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom]
 * C. View a video** about technology -

Here are a few more interesting videos to view Information Revolution Did you Know [|A Vision of K-12 Students Today] Teacher's Guide to Web 2.0 at School
 * D. Still have time . . .**