SessionDescriptions

2009 GVSD TECH CAMP Session Descriptions
Kay Yeakel ** ||  **Welcome and Introductions Setting the stage! ** ||
 * ~ ** DATE ** ||~ ** TIME ** ||~ ** TITLE ** ||~ ** TRAINER ** ||~ ** DESCRIPTION ** ||
 * **10-Aug ** || **08:00-8:45 ** || **OPENING ** || **Melody Wilt
 * **10-Aug** || **09:00-10:15** || **21st Century Skills** || **Melody Wilt** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Twenty first century skills are key to improving our nation’s competitiveness a knowledge driven economy. Twenty first century skills are the lifeblood of a productive workforce in today's global, knowledge-based economy. As more of our economic competitors move to foster 21st century skills development within their educational systems, the United States faces a critical challenge to keep pace in preparing our students to meet the demands of global community and tomorrow’s workforce.** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10-Aug** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10:30-11:45** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Blogging in the Classroom** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Andrea Moffat** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Participants will explore several classroom blogs at different grade levels, as a way of investigating the possibilities for teaching the genre of blog writing in the classroom. A brief overview of blog management, safety, and set up will give participants the basic knowledge needed to start their own classroom blogs.** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10-Aug** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10:30-11:45** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Good Web Design** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Kay Yeakel** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Whether you are a first timer at creating a website for your classroom or want give your site a new look <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">this course will review design principles, resources and tips for planning your site. This session will provide you with the “think abouts” for designing a useful and well organized site. ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10-Aug** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10:30-11:45** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Intro to Google Earth** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Ross Hunter** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**This is an introductory session for beginner Google Earther’s. In this session we will identify uses and examples of Google Earth in the classroom. Participants will be given an overview of GE’s features, navigation and some tips on getting started with Google Earth in your own classroom.** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10-Aug** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**12:45-2:00** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Good Web Design** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Kay Yeakel** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Whether you are a first timer at creating a website for your classroom or want give your site a new look this course will review design principles, resources and tips for planning your site. This session will provide you with the “think abouts” for designing a useful and well organized site.** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10-Aug** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**12:45-2:00** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Get Your Game On! SMART Review Games** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Linda Williamson** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Learn how to create and modify SMART interactive review activities that can be adapted for use in all subject areas. This session will provide ideas and Notebook game templates for creating review games that engage and challenge students - Jeopardy, KOOSH, Vocab Review, and more.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Schoolwires: Creating a Webpage ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Ross Hunter ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Schoolwires session will guide you in creating a multi-page website for the upcoming school year. We will begin by looking at examples of teacher websites, developing a rough draft of your site, and guiding you through the steps of a creating a website that has text, images, and documents. Bring pictures, files and ideas to use.** **Great session for the website newcomer!** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2:15-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Blogging in the Classroom ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Andrea Moffat ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Participants will explore several classroom blogs at different grade levels, as a way of investigating the possibilities for teaching the genre of blog writing in the classroom. A brief overview of blog management, safety, and set up will give participants the basic knowledge needed to start their own classroom blogs.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2:15-3:30 ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**What in the World is a Wiki?** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sheila Amodei ** ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **This course will walk participants through settup up Wikispace accounts for classroom use, using the editing features and discussion tab, and embedding videos and pictures to jazz up their spaces.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3:30-4:00 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">CLOSING ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Reflection Discussion: 21st Century Skills** ||
 * <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Calibri; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">08:00-8:45 ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">OPENING ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Ross Hunter** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Determining the Learning Advantage**: //**Applying Technology in the Classroom**// ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-10:15 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Digital Pics, Voice, & Video as Learning Reflections ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Andrea Moffat ** || **<span style="display: block; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">How many times have you taken action-packed digital photos and videos and then wondered, "What am I going to do with these?" In this class, we will view pictures, video, and voice recordings as the perfect centerpiece for reflecting on learning. You will view examples of teacher-made and student-made digital products in which the focus was reflection and sharing of learning. You will be introduced to and interact with free tools for visual and audio reflection such as Voicethread, Glogster, and Foto Flexer. (Digital camera use and uploading pictures to your computer will not be covered in this course.) ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-10:15 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Digital Citizenship in Schools ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Kay Yeakel ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Learn the nine elements of digital citizenship and the role they play in the classroom. Also, tips for integrating digital citizenship concepts into the classroom. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-11:45 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Moodle for Beginners ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Laura Mikowychok ** || **Join Moodle Administrator and statewide presenter Laura Mikowychok for an introductory journey through the Moodle open-source Learning Management System (LMS). Learn the basics of navigation and understand the Moodle environment, accounts, and activity creation; leave with a great foundation for building in Moodle, and dozens of ideas and inspiring examples.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10:30-11:45 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Get Your Game On! SMART Review Games ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Linda Williamson ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Learn to create and modify Smart interactive review activities that can be adapted for use in all subject areas. This session will provide you with ideas and templates for creating review games that engage and challenge students - Jeopardy, KOOSH, Vocab Review, and more using Smart Notebook and online Wordle created images. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10:30-11:45 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Break on Through to the Other Side ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sheila Amodei ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Interested in learning about new, free tools to help work together more collaboratively? Then this is the course for you! We will explore Web 2.0 websites and how their features can help teachers and students create a 21st century learning environment in their classrooms.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-2:00 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Wikis and Glogster and SmartBoards… Oh My. ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Gloria Kandrick ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">In this session, you will learn the basics of introducing wikis, Glogster, and SmartBoards seamlessly into your classroom environment. Wikispaces are a great way for information to be shared amongst teacher and students. The teacher and the students themselves may contribute to the development and content of the wiki. Glogster is a program that creates attractive pages for classroom websites or wikis. Additionally, Glogster can make updating websites for multiple classes much easier. Finally, a few handy applications of the SmartBoard such as Page Recorder will be highlighted. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">More Moodle (Intermediate Users) ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Laura Mikowychok ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Join Moodle Administrator and statewide presenter Laura Mikowychok to expand your skills with the Moodle open-source Learning Management System (LMS). Try your hand at 'interactivities' like forums and wikis, and get ready to use them in class! Explore dozens of ideas and inspiring examples.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Podcasting in the Classroom ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Ross Hunter ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**And so shall your voices be heard…..well if you take this session they will. This session will walk you through the steps necessary to create a podcast in your classroom. Participants will identify uses of podcasting in their individual classroom, record and edit your podcast, and post your recording online.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2:15-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Brave New World of Technology in English and Social Studies Classrooms ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Meg Sargent / Megan Druckenmiller ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **This week you will be learning many new 21st century tools to bring into your classroom. Megan and I would like to share with you how we chose to implement these tools into our co-taught English and Social Studies course (American Studies). We will explain how we implemented the technology, the challenges we faced, and the outcomes of the use of technology.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">11-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3:30-4:00 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">CLOSING ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Closing Reflection: Determining the Learning Advantage** ||
 * <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Calibri; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Calibri; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">08:00-8:45 ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">OPENING ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **<span class="wiki_link">ISTE: National Technology Standards for Students ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-10:15 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Elementary Smartboard Use - A Teacher's Perspective ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Christine Jaffe ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Participants will explore smartboard use across elementary subject areas through guided practice with smartboard software, tools, and interactive websites. Participants will collaboratively design and share a brief smartboard lesson which addresses different learner needs. Andrea will share ways in which teachers can teach the mechanics of smartboard use to children. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-10:15 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Designing and Scription a Move - Part 1 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Larry Cinciripino ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">This session is an introduction to using Movie Maker and Pinnacle to enhance the student's curricular experience. Use movie maker sofwareto create vignettes, mini movies, and classroom presentation. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-11:45 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Schoolwires: The Next Level ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Ross Hunter ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **This session we will investigate some of the functions beyond the basics. We will create a Photo Gallery, Forms and Surveys to collect informatio n, and some additional tricks and tips.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10:30-11:45 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Airliners and Senteos ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Henry McCloskey ** || <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 30px;">**<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 60%;">Airliners and Senteos - The participants will be given a demonstration of tools associated with the SmartBoard. The tools will enhance the students' understanding of material and gives the teacher instant assessment. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10:30-11:45 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sharing and Creating Smartboard Lessons ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Lois Hillman ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teachers will create a curricular based Smartboard lesson and share it with their collegues. Teachers are asked to bring a Smartboard lesson to class. Lois will show some lessons created by teachers and how to modify a lesson found online. Teachers will create a lesson based on a curricular topic and share with the group. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-2:00 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Videos Gone Wild! ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Joanne Piombino ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Explore using United Streaming and YOUTube in your classroom. Participants will learn how to create and manage user acounts in United Streaming and capture video from YOUTube to save to your laptop, Plus get tips for using the video player tool in Smart Notebook.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Brave New World of Technology in English and Social Studies Classrooms ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Meg Sargent / Megan Druckenmiller ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week you will be learning many new 21st century tools to bring into your classroom. Megan and I would like to share with you how we chose to implement these tools into our co-taught English and Social Studies course (American Studies). We will explain how we implemented the technology, the challenges we faced, and the outcomes of the use of technology. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Technoentiated Instruction ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Stephen O'Toole ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Differentiated instruction based on student skills, interests, and products can be supported with technology tools. In this session, teachers will explore various tools for use in their classroom. Teachers will leave with an understanding for how to use the tools in conjunction with information they learn abut students through assessments and classroom observations. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2:15-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Elementary Smartboard Use - A Teacher's Perspective ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Christine Jaffe ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Participants will explore smartboard use across elementary subject areas through guided practice with smartboard software, tools, and interactive websites. Participants will collaboratively design and share a brief smartboard lesson which addresses different learner needs. Andrea will share ways in which teachers can teach the mechanics of smartboard use to children. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2:15-3:30 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Adobe Captivate, NetOps & ExamView ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Henry McCloskey ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **The computers offers a lot of distraction to students who are not fully engaged. By using Adobe Captivate, a teacher can create a Flash movie that is attractive and interactive. Captivate is a supped-up version of the basic software found on SmartBoard's Notebook.

NetOps helps any teacher to present, monitor, assess, and aide in with classroom management. The program allows the teacher to be the computer hub in a computer lab.

ExamView is a program that will save any teacher hours of writing and grading test.** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**We will be discussing what are the "Copyright Guidelines for Educators". Since teachers make the decisions closest to the field of instruction we need to be informed on what is legal for us to use in our classrooms for instruction as well as for our students to use in projects.** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">12-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3:30-4:00 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">CLOSING ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Closing Reflection: ISTE: Standards a Comparison** ||
 * <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Calibri; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">13-Aug ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Calibri; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">08:00-8:45 ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">OPENING ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Creating the Learning Plan** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">09:00-10:15 ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Copyright and Fair Use ** || **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Carol Cavalcanto ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * We will be discussing what are the "Copyright Guidelines for Educators". Since teachers make the decisions closest to the field of instruction we need to be informed on what is legal for us to use in our classrooms for instruction as well as for our students to use in projects.** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">09:00-10:15 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read Naturally ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lois Hillman ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understanding and using the Read Naturally program in the classroom to support Special Education program goals. ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">09:00-11:45 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creating Google Earth Tours ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ross Hunter ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Using both Google Maps and Google Earth teachers will create an interactive tour using Google Earth. These tours can add a whole new dimension to any presentation or great multimedia project for any subject.** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10:30-11:45 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Pics, Voice, & Video as Learning Reflections ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Andrea Moffat ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">**How many times have you taken action-packed digital photos and videos and then wondered, "What am I going to do with these?" In this class, we will view pictures, video, and voice recordings as the perfect centerpiece for reflecting on learning. You will view examples of teacher-made and student-made digital products in which the focus was reflection and sharing of learning. You will be introduced to and interact with free tools for visual and audio reflection such as Voicethread, Glogster, and Foto Flexer. (Digital camera use and uploading pictures to your computer will not be covered in this course.)** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10:30-11:45 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Copyright and Fair Use ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carol Cavalcanto ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12:45-2:00 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using a Digital Camera to Enhance Personal Narrative Writing ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lois Hillman ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teachers will be asked to model a personal narrative that their students would write. They will take photos, upload them and integrate them into a word processing software. Utilizing the components of the Units of Study - Personal Narrative, the teachers will produce a personal narrative utilizing the photos. Personal Narratives will include details gleaned from the photos to enhance their writing. ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Videos Gone Wild! ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joanne Piombino ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> **Explore using United Streaming and YOUTube in your classroom. Participants will learn how to create and manage user acounts in United Streaming and capture video from YOUTube to save to your laptop, Plus get tips for using the video player tool in Smart Notebook.** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12:45-3:30 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Movie Making - Part 2 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Larry Cinciripino ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take what you learned in the introductory class to take movie making to the next level. Use movie maker sofwareto create vignettes, mini movies, and or classroom presentations. Bring your photos, ideas, and creativity to this class. ** ||
 * **<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">13-Aug ** || **<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3:30-4:00 ** || **<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">REFLECTION AND CLOSING ** || <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ||