Session 1 Presentations 10:00 - 11:00
A. Smartboard-able Possibilities with On-Line Resources
Carol Reynolds
This presentation will focus on websites and on-line activities for use with a Smartboard. Get your index fingers ready! We’ll feed the hungry, find out what kind of a bug you are, play some word games, practice those math facts, make snowflakes, check our geography skills and more. The use of portaportal to bookmark sites for student use will also be shared. These sites can also be used without a Smartboard.
B. Climbing Mount Everest
Denise Larrabee, Joanne Finnegan and students
Are you feeling like your pack is getting too heavy with the addition of the technology GEs? Learn how to climb over obstacles to integrate technology into your lesson plans for authentic learning. Third graders will join us to demonstrate how they persevered to create informational brochures using Google Earth, Pics4Learning, and MS Word, along with traditional research tools. You will see brochures created by third graders, one resulting from a virtual visit to the top of Mt. Everest. Denise will also share her experiences doing online research with third graders and trekking alone without her “sherpa.”
C. Burr and Burton Academy Research Lab: Student Driven Tinkering
Adam Provost
Students pick their own ‘tech¹ topic, nab a community consultant and fire up
a study project on a flexible time frame that allows you to cover three subjects maximum per semester or one across semesters almost indefinitely.
Students are immersed in web 2.0 technologies as they work on their project and along the way they construct a philosophy of education, hone presentation and collaboration skills, debate like fiends and explore how technology is changing.
D. My Historic Lunches
Pam Holley
What if you could invite anyone from the past to dinner? Who would you choose? What might you learn from them? This is the question I posed to 8th~grade students to launch the project to create a movie using Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premiere Elements illustrating their 5 or 6 choices of lunch companions with their image inserted into the picture (use Adobe Photoshop Elements to mask). Students then add titles, video effects and transitions, as well as narration and music and make certain to include the lessons/teachings/quotes these historic figures gave them.
Come and see some of the outcomes and learn how to use and adapt this clever project for your students.
E. ~Live Interactive Learning: Using the Web to Connect Real Time
Joseph Thibault
"Webinar", a new term to describe live web based meetings are growing in popularity with business people worldwide; but is there a place for them in education?~ Several sites offer free webinar tools that will easily let you share resources over long distances with an audience of one or many.~ Whether you need to connect with students over the summer, after hours of for scheduled study sessions, these tools can be of great value to your classroom and students.~ This session will highlight a few of the best real time collaboration tools such as DimDim, Skype, WiZiQ, WebHuddle and Vyew.~ Each is free, each is different, come to find out which would be most useful for your classroom.
F. Creating a Voice for All Students
Carrie Fogg, Dave Davidson, Jeff Guilmette , Melissa Coviello
Are you looking for project ideas for your students that will engage them, challenge them, and allow them to create a product they’ll be proud to share? From kindergarten to 12th grade, all students benefit from reflecting on the clarity of their message and improving their speaking voice. We will show you how you can use the very simple, powerful, and free open source program, Audacity, to help your students add their voice to projects. From adding voiceovers to PowerPoint or Photostory, to creating MP3s that can be posted on the school website or emailed home to parents, or even creating Podcasts, audio can add new life to your projects. By giving students the ability to edit the final product, even shy, reluctant speakers can shine and every student’s voice will be heard. We will show you examples
of projects from elementary through high school and demonstrate how you can use Audacity to record and edit audio clips.
G. Professional Development To Go
~Lucie deLaBruere
Educators are usually so busy helping others learn, they rarely have the time for their own learning.~ But what if you could learn while your driving, waiting in line, sun bathing?~ Now you can - grab your IPOD or other mp3 player, load it with a playlist that fits your learning needs, and take your professional development to go. Five educators set out to learn everything they could about creating professional development to go for different types of audience (administrators, school board members,~ teacher leaders, classroom leaders, tech folks, and students)~ Let us share our playlist along with the ~the "tech" lessons we learned creating and share them.
H. Information session: Vermont DOE Transformation and what it means for schools
Peter Drescher, Bill Romond
Join Peter and Bill as they discuss the Vermont Dept. of Education vision for transforming schools in the 21st century.? While this is the vision set forth by the State Board and Department of Education, there is significant input needed from the schools community to set this in motion.? Come find out how this vision can positively impact the work you are doing in your schools and communities.? Topics will include alignment of the 21st century skills with the new NETS, and the Vermont GE's along with the original twelve principles of High Schools on the Move; and the direction they will take in the near future.? Time for questions and discussion will be included.?
I. Web 2.0 Tools Across the Curriculum – Hands-on Double Session
Tony Galle
Participants will learn the basics of SKETCH-UP, Google's~3-D modeling program. ~They will spend time experimenting with the drawing tools and maneuvering through the 3-D space. ~In a short time, they'll be able to turn a rectangle into a cube, build a house, and create a virtual iPod.~Google Sketchup has potential for student projects in~tech, art, math, science, language arts, or social studies~
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