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**Dallas****, TX** **November 8-10, 2006** November 8 || Session Title || Comments || 7:30 – 8:30 AM || Becoming a SMART Educator Toni Heinowski heinowst@nbps.k12.wi.us || Go to [|www.smarttech.com] to sign up for ie magazine, can find lessons already created; tapped with finger not with pen. Circle all then tap in the middle and it erases all within circle. Expo marker over permanent marker to erase it. Has handwriting capability. Their story… published http://store.cambiumlearning.com/Kurzweil/files/newberlin.pdf http://www.nbps.k12.wi.us/handouts/monthlynotes/May06.pdf SMART board resources http://www.internet4classrooms.com/smart_board.htm http://governmentvideo.com/articles/publish/article_880.shtml || 8:45-10:00 AM || Keynote – Ray Kurzweil http://www.kurzweilai.net/ || Called modern day Thomas Edison and “the ultimate thinking machine.” Latest book – “The Singularity is Near.” He demo’d his new invention a hand size scanner that reads text with expression – incredible! || 10:00-11:00 || Exhibits and email || Saw InterWrite SchoolPad used with projector and screen. An Aha! Moment for me. Duh! Wrote to the participants in my three online courses. || 11:00-12:00 || Student Led Conferences Using the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Toni Heinowski heinowst@nbps.k12.wi.us || Student showed her writing and explained her editing process using the SMART Board. Cool video! She talked about her favorite sentences in the draft. || 12:00-1:30 || Lunch || || 1:30-2:30 || Using Interactive Whiteboards, Wireless Tablets and Voting Handsets to Improve Student Achievement Jan Robin, Amy Mayer, Conroe ISD (TX) || RM Easiteach http://www.gtcocalcomp.com/easiteach.htm This software comes with our InterWrite SchoolPad. Easiteach has its own voting system with clickers. Has word and sentence building tools. Can lock items on the screen. Has a listen tool. I like it… but our CD that comes with InterWrite is a one install only. Too bad. || 2:30-3:30 || Exhibits and email || Talked to AVerVision folks about our document camera. The adapter for a microscope is $50. Wrote to the teachers in my three online courses. || 3:30-5:00 || Beyond Drill and Practice: Improving Teacher Quality and Enhancing Learning Using Interactive Whiteboards Promethean Jimmy Bostock http://www.ettcnsc.org/bostockj/index.htm || Excellent! Promethean has ActiveSlate and voting system. “Technology doesn’t matter. What’s important is creating experiences for students and embedding technology into these experiences.” – Jimmy. Reply to those who find the ActivePad hard to use… “We do this every day when we use the mouse on our computer. We don’t look at the mouse pad; we look at the screen.” No IR for “eggs” or clickers. RF. CyberChase – pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html Medtropolis.com/body.asp [|www.ettcnsc.org] -> instructions -> instruction resources gottem! http://www.ettcnsc.org/Instructional_resources/other/interactive_whiteboard_links.htm Google Earth and Google SketchUp. Super! We need them in our NAL. TI SmartView – graphing calc. 30 day free trial || November 9 || Session Title || Comments || 7:30-8:30 || Clickers in the Classroom: Using Assessment Technology Houri Tamizifar htamizifar@gtcocalcomp.com || Excellent demo of InterWrite. There is a new version as of last Friday. We need to get it updated on our server. Carl said he would make sure this happens.  J || 8:45-10:00 || Keynote – Clyde Prestowitz http://www.econstrat.org/index.php || He spoke about the economic comeback of Asia. The man is brilliant! His new book is “Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East. Our students will need to compete in the new economic order. || 10:00-11:00 || Exhibits and email || Talked to Inspiration folks; Sent email to teachers in my online courses. || 11:00-12:00 || Handhelds in Education: How the Use of Handheld Computers in Grades 4-6 is Improving Student Productivity and Engagement in Los Angeles County Schools Raymond Chang and Michael Nunn || They described their PALs program. Palm One Academic Leaders; They put Palms in the classrooms and trained their staff. || 12:00-1:30 || Lunch || || 1:30-2:30 || Integration Sensation Beth Weeks Sherman ISD, TX http://www.shermanisd.net/Instruction/Technology_Integration/Excel_Integration_index.html Her blog: http://www.discoveryeducatornetwork.com/blog/default.cfm?user_id=155159 || Write to her and ask for CD. Session was full so I stood at the door for a while and watched her show a self checking Excel template. It was cool. She used “If, then” statements for these. || 2:30-3:30 || Exhibits and email || Talked to RM Easiteach folks || 3:30-5:00 || PBS TeacherLine [|www.pbs.org/teacherline] Tim Lum and Melinda George || Use D2L; It was a workshop and we talked among our groups at each table. I shared my experiences with online courses. They use online journals in their courses in D2L. || November 9 || Session Title || Comments || 7:30-8:30 || Amazing Animations scott.schonefeld@cpsb.org [|www.cpsb.org/presentations] [|www.ulead.com] || Ulead Cool 3D Studio Wish I had the software! He showed us how to make animations. || 8:30-9:30 || Email || Wrote to my course participants. || 9:30-10:30 || Teaching the Teachers: How to Implement Technology and Ignite Excitement – Pam Bryant (Asst. Superintendent) pbryant@clarksville.esc8.net amanda_wallace@clarksvilleisd.net || TIP Grant; They were sweet but didn’t really tell us anything new. They reaffirmed that what we are doing is the right thing. “Cheese, I’m proud of you!” – put a pack of crackers in teacher’s mailbox. || 10:30-11:30 || Exhibits at WFX Conference || ||
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