All you Mac iTunes users, listen up! If you’re anything like me you live in constant fear that your hard drive will crash and you’ll be stuck re-ripping your cd collection because you’ve lost your entire collection. Sure, you could back it up - but do you?
Now, you can! For free! Visit bandwagon and check it out! [...]
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The day started off with snow and talk of weather and one lucky vendor hit it off with participants. Handing out the free gift of an ice scraper with their contact information was right on target! An ice scraper was more useful than a pen on Tuesday.
Will Richardson opened the day with the topic: A [...]
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The concurrent sessions for Monday covered all kinds of relevant topics for technology in education.
A session title 1:1 Digital Initiative for Grades K-6 was very interesting. A small school secured Apple computers for each student to have their own in grades K through 6. In K-2, the computers were only used in class, but in [...]
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Materials from the professional development session about keeping teachers up to date on technology skills, software and practices in short periods of time.
Presentation: keeping-teachers-current.pdf
Feedback Form: feedback-form.doc
Session Plan: technology-morning-sessions-plan.doc
Tech Integration Plan Template: tech-integration-plan-template.doc
Bryan Tayman and I would love to hear how our presentation may affect what happens at your district. Let’s continue the conversation about Keeping Teachers [...]
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This term came up today and I hadn’t heard it before. Of course, a Google search turned up an entry on Wikipedia (3rd on the list). Apparently, the term has been around a while and is defined here:
A transformational leader offers a purpose that transcends short-term goals and focuses on higher order intrinsic needs. This [...]
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Hall Davidson shared that the iPod can be used to show videos, images, slide shows, and much much more.
Download videos (web based, unitedstreaming) Tip: Download the QuickTime format.
Convert the video to be compatible with the iPod (.mp4)
Show it class using the AV jacks on the television or projector. Tip: The AV cable for the iPod is [...]
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Steve Dembo presented his definition of Web 2.0 tools and went on to demonstrate the what, whys and hows about them.
Bloglines - Aggregate your blogs in one place
del.cio.us - Online bookmarking, have your bookmarks available wherever you login. See who else has bookmarks (interests) similar to yours.
flickr - Online photo storage and sharing with a Creative Commons area.
picnik - Online [...]
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Who wouldn’t want to be able to put themselves and/or their students into a video? Even if you’re not a techie, you have to admit you’d like to see yourself in a video!
Get your unitedstreaming video that meets your curriculum topic and put yourself (or your students) inside. If it’s an editable video, you can remove [...]
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Another presentation by Will Richardson and it was nice that he started with questions from the audience, rather than going with a formal presentation track.
Some questions - My take on the response in italics.
*How do we get started? There are free tools that can be used - Blogger, Edublogs, Class Blogmeister, Vox
*How do we [...]
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Will Richardson opened the Discovery Educator preconference with a talk about how the web can and should be used in education for students to make connections with others that are discussing topics that interest them, which in turn will make them more passionate about the things we are trying to teach them.
Suggesting that the web can [...]
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