A. Wanna Wiki?: New Tools for Classroom Teachers- Part 1
Sandy Lathem
What’s a wiki? Want to find out? In this hands-on session, you will learn about wikis,
open source software that allows people to collaboratively construct documents on the
World Wide Web. In this session, you will learn how to use PmWiki, one of several
open source tools. As we construct a document together, we’ll talk about the pros and
cons of creating a wiki and how we can use wikis in our classrooms and professional
collaborations. It’s easy, and fun and has potential!
B. Teachers’ Workplace & Riverdeep Learning Village: Resources & Tools for
Vermont Teachers
Arlyn Bruccoli, Bill Romond, & Jill Peck
Through its involvement in IBM’s Reinventing Education program, the Department of
Education has been a part of the development of technology products designed to meet
the specific needs of Vermont educators. This work has resulted in Teachers’
Workplace, a web-based suite of tools that foster reflection, collaboration,
communication, and the creation of online portfolios. Riverdeep Learning Village’s
Vermont site is a web-based product to support the creation and dissemination of
electronic classroom lessons and resources, promotion of best practices, and alignment of
lesson plans to the Grade Expectations and Frameworks of Standards and Learning
Opportunities. These tools facilitate the Department of Education’s continuing efforts to
support teachers’ meaningful uses of technology in their professional work both in and
out of the classroom.
C. Portraits of our Senior Friends: Digital Photgraphy, Oral History, and Intergenerational
Connections
Dov Stucker
For the past several months, 8th graders at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington have
been breaking down stereotypes and making new friends--with people 7 times their age!
Regular visits to local senior homes, in small groups, have offered a chance for students
to share in activities, and to try their hand at taking photographic portraits. The results are
remarkable--strong bonds, and beautiful artwork.
D. Completing the Technology Circuit
Erica Goodrich
Be part of an electrifying presentation that will spark your interest in the Technology
Performance Assessment Tasks. You will witness how a unit on Magnetism and
Electricity can become more attractive by using technology within the 5 computer
elementary classroom. See how a multitude of technology including Tom Synder
Productions, United Streaming, and Inspiration were deeply imbedded into the content.
You can use this as a model for any integrated unit.
E. Technology and Multi-cultural Education: Vermont Students Meet the World
Veanne Maxwell
Exposing students in rural Vermont to other cultures around the World is a challenge that
technology can help teachers to meet. This presentation will show one teacher’s efforts
to use technology to bring multi-cultural experiences to her students. The countries she
has taught include Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, and Egypt. The tools she uses
include email, classroom websites, commercial websites, web cams, webquests, and all
manner of multi-media.
F. Authentic Learning through Technology: Public Service Announcements
Caty Wolfe
Research, data collection, writing, filming, editing... High school students with a mission
and a topic collected data from their peers and from national sources on everything from
drinking to West Nile Virus. They took that information and wrote a script for a 30
second Public Service Announcement. Students directed, filmed, and edited their final
products.
G. Pod Casting in YOUR Classroom
Ellen Ferro and Bryan Schofield
Getting information out is now easier than ever. With creativity, good information to
share and software, it's a few clicks away. During this session you will see how easy it is
to share school news, classroom tidbits, whatever…. It's not just a buzz word
anymore....pod casting is the future. With more and more educational content being
developed for and delivered through pod casting, educators and students have on-the-go
access to audio ranging from curriculum-related content to professional development
shows. Get the latest on Pod casting in education!
H. Don't be a Cyber-outlaw! A copy-cat-alog for educators.
Bill Wargo & Donna Iverson
If you are wondering just what Internet copying is legal and what is
not, here is the place to find out. In addition, we will look at
Google's ambitious book scanning project whose goal is "to unlock the
wealth of information that is offline and bring it online". Right now,
the Internet is the new Wild West. Learn how the law applies to this new
frontier.
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