2010 “Technology to Go” Kiosks

Friday Schedule

ONE TWO

Session A Digital Tools for Get Connected

9:30 – 10:45 Formative with Collaboration
Assessment Tools

Meredith Stewart LeeAnn Spillane

Session B Five Tools to Tools and

11-12:15 Know Assessment for
Digital Projects

Katie Dredger Marjorie Larner &

Dan Proffit

Session C Scratch That Moving from

12:30-1:45 Chad Sansing Blurker to
Blogger

Crystal Beach

Session D The Long and PowerPoint is Old:

2:30 – 3:45 Short of It Using Prezi to
Present
Bud Hunt
Lauren LeBlanc

Session E Mix it Up with There IS an App

4-5:15 Mixbook for That: Using
iPods and iPads in
Kasey Dellinger the English
Smith Classroom

Sara Kajder

Saturday Schedule

ONE TWO

Session F Moodle in the ELA Using

8 – 9:15 Classroom VoiceThread in
the Elementary
Carla Beard Classroom

Christopher
Working
Session G Writing with Wikis Forming your
9:30 – 10:45 Troy Hicks Inquiry

Sarah
Beauchamp Hicks

Session H Professional Twitter Me This

11-12:15 Development 2.0
Bud Hunt
Lee Ann Spillane

Session I Yes, You Can! Using GoodReads

1:15 – 2:30 in the Classroom
Crystal Beach
Amanda Smoker

Session J Data Visualization A New Tradition

2:45 – 4 of Storytelling
Sarah
Beauchamp Hicks Dan Woods

Session K Video Podcasting NCTE Unplugged:

4:15 – 5:30 What do you
Carla Beard know?
Katie Dredger
Session Descriptions:
(keyed to grade levels and beginner/explorer/power user “levels”)

Five “Tools to Know”

If you were only to move five tools into your teaching, these would be the
free web 2.0 tools to consider… (k-12, beginner – power user)

Forming Your Inquiry: Using Google Forms in Education

Let your students ask the questions! Forms is so much more than a tool for
teachers. Come and explore this versatile Google tool and see first hand the
potential for creating engaging learning environments. (k-12, beginner -
explorer)

PowerPoint is Old: Using Prezi to Present

In this age of constantly emerging technology and students who know more
about technology innovations than their teachers, it helps to have super cool
presentation tools at your disposal. Keep your students engaged and your
visuals relevant with Prezi, a free, Internet-based program that achieves the
same purpose as Microsoft PowerPoint, only in a much more interesting way.
(k-12, beginner – power user)

Combining Reading, Writing, and Social Networking in the

Classroom: Utilizing the Goodreads Website
Learn how to utilize the Goodreads website in your classroom, enhancing the
reading and writing experiences of students. Foster excitement and learning
in an online classroom community, reading and writing about books using a
social networking format.
(k-12, beginner – explorer)

Data Visualization: Telling the story with less words

There is more open source data available today than every before--come and
check out some free web applications that allow us to take that data and put
it in pictures! This tool will allow you to help your students see the big
picture and tap into research, documentary and storytelling in very different
ways! (k-12, beginner - explorer)

There IS an App for That: Using iPods and iPads in the English
Classroom
Get “hands on” with iPods and iPads as we discover, engage and play with
multiple applications for writing, reading, annotating texts, notetaking,
organizing, and more. We’ll work to develop our own Appolicious list and
explore resources for moving our continued learning. (k-12, beginner –
explorer)

Video Podcasting
Gather, edit, and present information using relatively inexpensive equipment,
then upload when you're ready to share. Student podcasts can take many
forms: family interviews, book reports, even college applications. Existing
teacher podcasts can support your lessons. Shoot, edit, upload, done! (k-12,
beginner – explorer)
Tools and Assessment for Creative Digital Projects
Join us to explore options for digital visual and audio presentations using on-
line tools including pecha-kucha.org and ignite.oreilly.com. Assess students’
projects using an English Language Arts rubric designed for use with both
print and digital projects. Co-create presentations using these tools. (k-12,
beginner – power user)

The Long & The Short of It - Reading and the Web

In the summer of 2010, Amazon announced that they sell more e-texts than
they do hardcover books. Clearly, we are in the midst of a shift in how we
read, access, annotate, make and share texts. But what does this shift look
like? How can we mark up our digital texts, or save them for later? Share
them? What does a personal digital library look like, and how can we work
with one in the classroom? How do we move from an analog reading world
into a digital one? Can we?
Come to this session where we will explore how to read on and from the Web
in ways that mimic and surpass our use of analog texts. Be prepared to
share how you manipulate texts on and via the Web, and how you ask your
students to do the same. (k-12, beginner to power user)

Scratch that: Student programming as interdisciplinary learning

Help students learn through Scratch – MIT’s all-ages drag and drop
programming language. See examples of student-directed, cross-curricular
programming. Problem-solve how to protect time for such projects in your
class. (k-12, explorer – power user)

Twitter Me This
Microblogging continues its meteoric rise. Seems we're all a-Twitter about
something or other. Come and join us for a conversation about and an
exploration of the world of presence tools like Twitter, Plurk, and others, how
they create opportunities to network locally and globally, and what we might
do with them in our schools and to enrich (or to help create) our own
personal learning networks. (k-12, beginner – power user)

Mix it up with Mixbook

Students are interested in assignments and lessons that incorporate any kind
of technology so why not pair that with the writing process? I'm not talking
about typing an essay in word but rather creating a piece of work
collaboratively or independently that is creative yet structured in an online
program that can be accessed from anywhere. This session focuses on using
an online tool that will allow students to create stories, poems and freewrites
in a nontraditional setting that allows them to be creative with word
orientation, set-up and pictures. (k-12, beginner – explorer)

A New Tradition of Storytelling: Bringing Digital Stories into the

English Classroom
Building on oral tradition and our already rich understandings of bringing
personal narrative/memoir into the classroom to strengthen community, this
session will examine digital storytelling as a tool, a genre, and a powerful
approach to writing alongside our students. (k-12, beginner – explorer)

Moving from Blurker to Blogger

This session is designed to help teachers jump on board to the blogosphere!
Teachers will learn how blogs work, the basics for finding and participating in
blogs of interest, and gather ideas on how to set up their own blog – both
professionally and within the classroom. (k-12, beginner – explorer)

Yes, You Can! Tips for the AP Classroom

Too many times teachers think technology will take away from the classroom.
Yet this session aims to show how a few tech tools can truly engage and
challenge students even within the AP classroom. (k-12, beginner – explorer)

Digital Tools for Formative Assessment

Digital technology tools can assist you in adapting your instruction to
students' needs. In this session, we'll explore ways to use screencasting,
Google Forms, online polling, Quia, and more to create formative
assessments. (k-12, beginner – power user)

Moodle in the ELA Classroom

How can Moodle help your students take control of their learning? Bring a
laptop and build something in your school's Moodle. See possibilities using
the Forum, Glossary, and Quiz modules. (k-12 beginner – explorer)

Get Connected with Collaboration Tools

Looking to organize class information and connect to students and parents?
This session will compare the collaborative powers of Google and Wiggio.
We’ll look at calendars, shared documents, and chat as we talk about which
tools suite your audience and purpose. Take away strategies for getting
started, reaching out and connecting with your eduverse! (k-12 beginner –
explorer)

Professional Development 2.0

Wanted: One Teacher. Must be curious and want to learn. Must have idea-
sharing, can-do attitude; creativity and previous exploration experience a
bonus. Bring your laptops, digital devices and can-do attitudes to this hands-
on session where we will explore professional learning online in communities
such as Ning and Twitter. (k-12, beginner – power user)

Using VoiceThread in the Elementary Classroom

VoiceThread is an online social networking site where users can upload
pictures, then add comments with video, audio, text, or drawing. Discussion
will focus around how VoiceThread can impact elementary classrooms, as
well as privacy concerns and online citizenship. (K-6, beginner–expert)

Writing with Wikis

From the world's largest encyclopedia to our own classrooms, wikis are
changing the ways that we think about writing. In this session, we will explore
the ways in which teachers and students are using wikis to write, revise, and
respond as well as ways that you can use wikis to create an online classroom
presence. (k-12, beginner – expert)
NCTE Unplugged: What do you know?
We so rarely get a place during the conference to sit back, reflect, and
examine how we’ve moved as a result of what we have seen, studied,
engaged with, and discovered. This open session is designed for discussion,
collaborative exploration, and discovery of what we know now – and what
comes next. (k-12, beginner – power user)