Vermont ‘Fest 2007 – Workshops At-A-Glance
(See Below For full Details)
Wednesday Pre-conference
Workshop Choices |
Room |
6:00 – 9:00 |
Workshop # A
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Gateway 1
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Adobe Lightroom: Digital Imaging Tools for the Rest of Us*
Katri O’Neill |
Workshop # B
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Northstar 1
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Global Classroom Workshop on MOODLE*
Dr Richard Hartshorne, |
Workshop # C |
Escapade 2 |
Podcasting and iPods in the Classroom**
Bryan-St.John Schofield |
Workshop # D
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Northstar 2 |
From Web 2.0 to School 2.0*
Lucie deLaBruere |
Workshop # E
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Gateway 2 |
Almost Free Podcasting on the PC*
David Wells |
Workshop # F
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Escapade 1 |
Get Inspired*
John Minelli |
Workshop A
Adobe Lightroom: Digital Imaging Tools for the Rest of Us
Katri O’Neill
With the release of Lightroom 1.0, Adobe has brought us a powerful editing and organizational tool that has many of the same powerful functions of Photoshop but at a much greater ease of use. Do you enjoy working with digital pictures? Would you like to learn more about easily controlling color, exposure, and white balance? Learn how to improve your over or under exposed images, remove red eye, and create special effects and much, much more
Attend this workshop for beginners and learn how to manipulate images like the professionals without having to master the intricacies of Photoshop.
Adobe Lightroom is for both Macs & PC. For this workshop you can download a free 30 day trial of Lightroom at:
Workshop B
Global Classroom Workshop on MOODLE
Dr Richard Hartshorne,
This workshop is intended for teachers, administrators or instructional designers who are interested in how the Moodle web based learning environment/course management system can enhance classroom teaching. The Open Source system called Moodle has some unique features that make it particularly well suited for use in a high school environment. The presenter, Dr Hartshorne, has extensive experience with helping teachers in school districts to use Moodle effectively in their classrooms; he has also taught a course using Moodle intensively and is currently working with Global Classroom as an adjunct Professor, facilitating online courses for teacher professional development.
For this workshop no experience with MOODLE will be expected and the focus will be on using Moodle as an adjunct to classroom teaching rather than in a pure distance-learning context.
We will cover the following topics:
1. Overview of Moodle as an Online Learning Environment
2. Designing and constructing your course on the Moodle system.
i. Setting up the course and adding students [hands on]
ii. Customizing the Weekly outline to display course components. Pedagogical value of this. [hands on]
iii. Making course resources available online, such as scanned articles, web links, audio or video clips. [hands on]
iv. Dealing with assignments online. Document upload, inline text entry (Journal), grading and feedback.
v. Discussion forums – types of forum and examples of use. Using groups with forums. Grading issues. [hands on]
vi. Informal interactions student-student, student-teacher; chat & dialogue.
Resources Required
Participants are asked to bring a portable PC or Mac with them. Participants will get most from this workshop by bringing with them a syllabus that they can use as a course template and some files that can be uploaded as resources. Also bring along ideas for discussion forum topics.
Workshop C – Receive a Video iPod
Podcasting and iPods in the Classroom
Bryan-St.John Schofield Apple K-20 Education Consultant
This three hour hands on session provides an in depth review of pod casting, focusing on the creation of audio, enhanced, and video pod casts. We will also review the many ways ipods are being used for instruction and assessment in Vermont Classrooms.
Using the iLife and iwork suites each participant will create a short enhanced podcast and load it on the Video ipod they will receive as a part of the workshop.
Apple will provide a Mac Book per participant during the sessions.
Workshop D
From Web 2.0 to School 2.0
Lucie deLaBruere
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 John Dewey's tradition of active, engaged, constructivist learning. Come learn how to redesign research assignments using social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us , use YOU-Tube and other video sites,~ 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 workshop.
Workshop E - Receive a Video iPod
Almost Free Podcasting on the PC
David Wells
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Podcasting is really low cost and easy.~ Learn how to create a podcast with free and open source software on the PC platform.~ Empower your students and school with Podcasting.~ Participants will receive their own iPod as part of this workshop.~ Bring a laptop with administrator privileges (so you can load software) and any PC microphone to create your own podcast during this workshop.
Workshop F
Get Inspired
John Minelli
This hands-on workshop is aimed at teachers who want to use and learn about the full suite of applications from the Inspiration© company. Using 30-day free trial software, we’ll first explore the award-winning visual organizing software programs, Inspiration and Kidspiration. We’ll see how visual diagrams can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, and how they stimulate creative thinking in the classroom. There are so many uses for them that you will explode with ideas! This training will also help past users of these programs realize the tremendous potential of full Internet-integration that the latest versions of Inspiration and Kidspiration offer.
In the second half of the training, we’ll explore the newest member of the Inspiration© family; the data analysis program, InspireData. This innovative software applies the proven strategies of visual learning to data literacy. Students at the upper elementary level and beyond can collect data in multiple content areas, and use a visual analysis tool to see all the relationships and strengthen their critical thinking skills.
All you need for this workshop is your laptop and a willingness to explore.
Note: Pre-conference workshops require a minimum of 6 participants to run. If the minimum is not reached you will be notified prior to the conference via e-mail.
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