Etech+Monday+February+2,+2009

=Etech Monday February 2, 2009= Click [|here] to see all the sessions that were available. Click on the time slot and then click on "Show Descriptions" in the upper right. Then scroll down to see details of each session. Some sessions posted links to their website/wiki and/or posted handouts relating to the session.

Session 1 8-8:45 am


SMART Boarding in the Classroom 101: How to Become a SMART Teacher
Presenter: Gensburg, Bret - U of Akron

====**Description:** Come see and experience the newest SMART Board Software and hardware including the SMART Wireless Slate. Discover how this technology will seamlessly transform your classroom into a digital-age. Lean content-based ideas for your computer, classroom management, and advanced SMART Boarding techniques! Plus get KLIK-ed!==== -Positioning is key -Toolbar – Click on icon bar – Customize toolbar -To extend a page – Click on extend page at the bottom of screen -Full Screen Mode – Up in toolbar – Draw line on page and drag down to extend page -Gallery – (working tool) – Lined paper (under Administration/Evaluation)

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//This presenter if VERY entertaining. He presented a lot of basic ideas, but in "the cheap" way (ways to do them faster). He believes in using color to teach processes (each step in a different color), and teaching to the "23rd student" meaning you plan your lessons for the student that is missing from the classroom that day, that way all students get complete, detailed notes. Can be used at all grade levels.//=====

The Price is Right! Free Technology Tools You Can't Teach Without!
// Presenter: //Holewinski, Catherine - Buckeye Valley Local SD (Delaware) Are you looking for the best resources the Internet has to offer for free? Then join us as we highlight the most outstanding websites you just can't teach without. This session will provide you with a list of 100+ notable web resources plus tips & techniques for use. Sites for each curriculum area as well as web 2.0 will be presented. Return to your class ready to put these free resources to work.

//I just stopped by and picked up the handout for this session. Looks like web addresses for many of the sites discussed in sessions I attended today and more! The sites are organized by categories.//
 * **Link to PowerPoint listings of Free Websites** ||
 * [|Website #1:http://www.buckeyevalley.k12.oh.us] Excellent handout for Web 2.0 tools. ||
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The iPod Touch--So Cool For School! 
// Date/Time: // Monday, February 02, 2009 > 08:00 AM - 08:45 AM // Presenter: // Whyte, Peggy  - Instructional Tech. Svcs. of Central Ohio (ITSCO)  //Students would not need a touch iPod to do many of the educational things this presenter talked about. Key resources were all the educational podcasts available to teachers and students. "Grammar Girls" Also in the iTunes store - NEW iTunes U > Beyond Campus > Ohio to listen and view podcasts - vodcasts from eTech conference. //// Also check out Tennessee State - 6 videopodcasts on differentiating instruction.//
 * **Description:** ||
 * Put exciting educational audio, video and games right into their hands with one of the coolest products on the market--Apple’s iPod Touch. We’ll explore podcasts (both audio and video) that will supplement, enrich, or remediate your curriculum in science, math, social studies and language arts. ||
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Technology That Your Students Use That You Should Know
Presenter: Sebring, Douglas - North Olmstead City SD

Considering the availability of primary information sources, Internet tools, and extensive collaboration opportunities, educators should access and use electronic resources that their students probably know as well as to conduct personal research. This workshop provides specific examples, demos, and activities with technology tools, digital media, and web pages that can enhance any school.
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The presenter offered a brief overview of the many types of technology available over the Internet, such as podcasting, blogging, wikis, IP telephony (using the Internet as a phone line, of sorts), Google, the many add-ons available for the Firefox browser, and more. Nothing was very in-depth, and most of these things were covered better in other sessions. If interested in some of these things, the presenter has uploaded his presentation materials to the conference website.
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Keynote Speaker Wes Fryer
Handouts available at http://handouts.wesfryer.com/ohio and podcasts at [|www.speedofcreativity.org] - Blog Video podcast available at iTunes Ohio. How we choose to use technology - is it accomodating or transforming? Digital Immigrants should be Digital Learners. Brain processes visual images 60,000 times faster than text. Blending - pieces of different technologies used together. "Our job is the invent the future, not prevent the future." Need transformative use of technology - "Disruptive Classroom" by Clayton Christensen Scott Mcleod video - Time **new Blooms** - at [|www.edorigami.wikispaces.com]

Flip - have students watch lectures at home, do homework in classroom under direction of teacher. [|www.k12onlineconference.2008] for 123 presentations online www.chatzy.com [|www.voicethread.com] - Rachel's haircut is his 3 year old daughter's VoiceThread.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Session 2 10:45-11:30 a.m.
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Using The TI-73 In The Middle School Math And Science Classroom] //Presenter:// Gallagher, Debra - Bowling Green State University This session will offer middle school math and science teachers an opportunity to explore many useful ways the TI-73 calculator can be used to enhance student learning. Several hands-on activities will be presented and information for obtaining resources to teach math and science using the TI-73 graphing calculator will be shared. This calculator is designed with middle school student in mind. -Smartview Calculator Software - $60

==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Come And See Web 2.0 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">   == <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Presenter: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sebring, Douglas <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> - North Olmsted City SD (Cuyahoga) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Web 2.0 refers to a so-called second generation of web-based communities, applications and services designed to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. These powerful online tools can be harnessed to transform and expand the learning experience in any content area. Experience del.icio.us, digg, flickr, gabbr, and many more peculiarly spelled words that provide innovative learning.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Presentor: Patty Ellick - Licking Valley Elementary School

Description: Educators will be given ideas and web resources for integrating technology ino the K-5 curriculum. Ideas can be used within a lab or a classroom. Projects include word processing (Word, Works, MaxWrite), graphing (Excel, Works, MaxCounts), brochures (Publisher), slide show presentations (PowerPoint, MaxShow, HyperStudio), graphic organizers (Kidspiration), and Internet research.

Comments: This is geared to K-5 classrooms. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She really has found some quick easy ways to integrate technology skills based on standards into the classroom. She suggests it works best with schools that have scheduled computer class time with a computer teacher/specialist to do the tech. end while the classroom teacher provides the content to use in the tech. project. Classroom teacher then grades the tech. project and uses it in the content area grade. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The school website with her info on it is : [|www.lickingvalley.k12.oh.us] She is also willing to share ideas if you contact her directly at ellickp@lickinvalley.k12.oh.us She is also extends and invitation to come visit her classroom to see for yourself. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

SMART Boarding in the Classroom 202: Work SMARTer Not Harder
Presenter: Bret Gensburg - U Akron

Description: So you know what a SMART Board is and you are looking for the next level? Come to this advanced workshop. We cover what the one-hour intro. could not. Concepts include Gallery, linking, Internet, recorder, videos, documenations, and other hardware/sofware. Get your questions answered, and see the next level of this technology. Learn tips and tricks to work SMARTer Not Harder. Plus get KLIK-ed!

-Customizing a tool – Select the tool, then properties to customize -Adding excel table – click inside to prevent stickiness -Change row height – start at bottom of table and drag down –work up to change height -Click and drag text into cells – text stays the same -To remove, first click cell, then drag out -Magic Pen Tool -Draw a square or circle to magnify -Write In on object or text – will become invisible after time -Galleries -Compass (New with Smart Notebook Version 10) Comments: Again, VERY entertaining. Showed tips on how to use SMART Tools 10, clone pages to create tutorials while you work, and other short cuts to make you work SMARTer Not Harder. Easier to show you then to try to tell you here.

Interactive Websites Perfect for the SMART Board (run by SMART Ed. Services)
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Comments: This website has some great links especially the EveryDay Math Resources Link. This link has resources listed by grade level, then by lesson number! Really a great resource for all K-5 areas! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Website is: http://curriculum.new-albany.k12.oh.us/twyant/smartboardwebsites.htm

**Wiki Wiki Wow: I Can Do That With A Wiki?**
Presenter: Melissa Fischer (Central Crossing High)

Description: Wikis are one of the most powerful tools available to educators. The amazing part of a Wiki is how easy they are to create. The session covers what a Wiki is, creating a Wiki, and lesson ideas for using Wikis in the classroom.

Comments: There are a couple free websites where you can host your own Wiki for use by your students. The main purpose of a Wiki is to provide a place where students can collaborate. There is also use for Wikis among teachers to coordinate and collaborate on curricular issues. Here are a couple of websites that I have found truly easy to use and they are __free__:

[|http://pbwiki.com] http://www.wikispaces.com

-//Holly Viebranz//

The presenter shared a project that she had done with her students that shows how effectively wikis can be used. Students, in small groups, were to find a song that they felt represented a certain wartime-era in history. Students researched the song and time period. Each group was given their own wiki in order to share their research/create an informative page about their song and era, including text, images, and audio. Most groups put in extra hours at home, and what was really neat was that students could view (but not edit) each other's wiki as it was in progress and leave feedback/suggestions in the comment section. These sorts of collaborative projects would probably be most effective at the Middle and High school level.

The presenter also commented on how wikis could easily accomplish many of the functions of staff meetings.

[|Keep It Clean!] “My computer’s not running like it used to!” How often does tech support hear that complaint? This session will demonstrate simple maintenance procedures, using readily available freeware, for keeping hard drive and registry clutter to a minimum, eliminating spyware and streamlining the start-up sequence on Windows® based PCs. - [|Website #1:http://tech.luke.googlepages.com] -To restore computer – Start-Programs-Access-System Tools-System Restore -Internet Cache (Set as low as possible) – Fire fox -Open browser-tools-options-advanced-0 cache (Firefox) -Explorer-tools-options-browsing history-settings-8 cache -Clean out temp files -Orphaned shortcuts and links (use OrphanRemover) -Duplicate Files (Free Websites) -CCleaner -Easy Duplicate Finder -Double Killer - Control + Click to follow link

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Dr. Tim Bell and Ed Hill presented the "Spi Camp 08" with comedy and participation. Participants used the same technology as middle school students use at Camp to discover elements of this engaging program. Participants decoded encrypted messages and solved riddles to reveal website "clues" to this espionage theme. Lots of math content; featured the Applie iTouch. --Coop=====

Ask And You Shall Improve
Presenter: Michael Routa (Ashland University)

Description: This session mainly focused on how to communicate within your school building and district about technology needs in order to come to a shared vision.

Comments: I have taken several courses from this presenter as part of my masters program at Ashland University. He is interesting to listen to if you like to learn more about communication in large organizations such as schools. His message focuses on the importance of keeping an open dialogue about technology and accepting that you can't always get what you want, nor will any technology ever be the answer to all of our struggles as teachers.

//- Holly Viebranz//

[|SMART Boarding In The Classroom 303: Document! Develop! Deliver! Websites, PD, And User Groups] Gensburg, Bret - Univerity of Akron In this world of documentation, educators turn to the Internet to show what is happening in the classroom. This presentation will show how using a SMART Board, or not, a teacher can save/share their notes and Podcasts on the Internet to change how we access students. Strategies for successful PD and User Groups will be shared. Tips/Tricks will be shared. Bring your questions and get the answers. -Please ask Tom Andrews (tandrews@berea.k12.oh.us )for the PowerPoint

Useful highlights included: - Using SMART recorder to create podcasts, to leave foolproof lessons for substitutes, or to document student reading ability/progress by having them read aloud while highlighting text (records your voice and on-screen actions as a video file) - Adding sound to help students remember concepts (ex. - an alarm sounds when dividing inequalities by a negative) - linking images to other files, websites, or pages in the notebook file to create interactive activities