A. Open/ Lunch
B. Create and present dynamic stories using KidPix
Chrissy Frankenhoff
Allow your young writers to share their creativity through the art of KidPix. Learn to transfer stories, illustrate and put into a slide show presentation. Inserting illustrations with the endless supply of tools allows children to explore the world of art with a click and a drag of a mouse. Finally, add voices
C. Making Math Move with Digital Flipbooks
By Scott Thompson
Students created digital flipbooks (Sprites) to help learn and understand mathematical skills and concepts. Using digital cameras, tri-pods, and general classroom materials, students created thirty second skits that demonstrated a specific skill or concept. The project encouraged students to look at individual steps in a process and explain, in their on words, how to complete each step. This project is one example of how to integrate technology into the math classroom.
D. Say it in 30 seconds or less?
Melissa Haberman & Deb McCarthy
Creating Public Service Announcements give students a chance to master technology skills, visual and media literacy, and ~ guidance curriculum at St. Albans City School.~ Teachers from multiple disciplines use class wiki to collaborate, while students use web 2.0 tools to organize their research about important teen safety topics. ~ Photostory and~ Moviemaker are used to create a culminating product in the form of a~ 30 second PSA.
E. Open/Lunch
F. Never Mark Another Quiz Again, EVER!
Brian Crane
I am a dabbler in the technological arts and have many discoveries to share! Please come and learn about my online grading, online quiz, and classroom website experiences. I will also have an online technology quiz ready for you to take! The quiz will auto-correct and I will export your grade into my online grade book right before your eyes. It will all be over before you can even say… well…technology!
G. Implementing 21st Century Skills in the Middle School Classroom
Eli Rosenberg
21st Century Skills – make content relevant, use modern tools of technology, develop thinking & problem solving skills, study academic content through real world examples, and on and on. In this project middle school worked with the town’s Parks Department, using Garmin GPS units and ESRI's ArcGIS software, to map Knotweed stands and decide where to take "management actions" (i.e. stomping knotweed!). Through the mapping process, students learned how geographic data analysis can be used to identify how to manage resources. These tools are readily available to classrooms teachers.
H. Vermont LEAD-IT: Leaders and Action Planning, A panel discussion
Peter Drescher & Panel
Join representatives from the 12 teams taking part in the ongoing LEAD-IT grant work that was begun in the fall of '06. These teams have worked hard at developing comprehensive action plans that support technology integration at their schools and districts. Teams have been comprised of Superintendents, Principals, Curriculum Coordinators and Technology leaders, as well as School Board members. Each of the teams has embarked on their own process of looking at their school technology plans, crafting long-term action plans, and evaluating how best to continue to move forward and grow in the constantly changing world of education technology. Come hear panelists talk about their process throughout the program, and hear about their ideas in bringing technology to the forefront of their overall
leadership strategy.
I. Edublogger in Google for Educators project – Infinite Thinking Machine
Lucie deLaBruere – Part 1 – Double Hands-on session
The potential of Web 2.0 to bring the pedagogy of John Dewey back in focus in today's educational ~landscape has everyone talking about School 2.0. ~~This hands on workshop will introduce participants to ~Web 2.0 tools that can support Dewey's tradition of active, engaged, constructivist learning.~ Come learn how to redesign research assignments using social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us ,~ work on group projects using Wikis, publish to a global audience by blogging and podcasting, ~collaborate with Google Docs and Spreadsheet, and more.~ Examples of real teachers using Web 2.0 with their students will
accompany practical hands on instruction during this double session workshop.
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