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Upcoming Presentations
Gifted Kids Network (GKN) is an Internet based gifted and talented programming model that includes advanced content, enrichment, and affective programming. The GKN model was developed to support ‘at risk’ gifted students particularly students living in poverty and students in rural communities. The presentation will include a ‘tour’ of an implementation of the Gifted Kids Network.
 * July 31, 2008. 2008 [|NMAG Summer Institute], Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Gifted Kids Network Model.**

Take a tour of the Gifted Kids Network (GKN) is an Internet based gifted and talented programming model that includes advanced content, enrichment, and affective programming. The GKN model was developed to support ‘at risk’ gifted students particularly students living in poverty and students in rural communities.
 * October 18, 2008 [|NEGCT] 2008 Conference, Mansfield, Massachusetts, The Gifted Kids Network Model**.

Enrichment 2.0 utilizes the internet technologies including: wikis, blogs, discussion boards, videoconferencing, podcasting, interactive graphic organizers, and social bookmarking to create constructivist learning. Learn more about these internet tools and technologies and discover how they can be used to create authentic learning for gifted students.
 * October 18, 2008 [|NEGCT] 2008 Conference, Mansfield, Massachusetts, Enrichment 2.0**

Past Presentations
====**media type="custom" key="665383"February 22, 2008. [|Beyond Giftedness Conference], Arvada, Colorado. Technology and the Gifted - Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Photo and Video Sharing: Implications of Web 2.0 for Gifted Education.**==== This workshop will explore the Read/Write Web as a tool for communication and expression. Teachers will explore Web 2.0 tools and how they can be used in the classroom. Ideas for using Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Photo and Video sharing as differentiation tools will be explored. The workshop will address ways to keep students safe while encouraging technological literacy and providing constructivist tools for differentiation. The workshop is geared for 4th – 12th teachers Download the [|Handouts]