FULL PC-A01 Introduction to Computer Animation using Adobe Flash 8
Dolly Bernard-Marks, Philadelphia University
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends,
Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices,
Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
This workshop explores the use of Macromedia Flash to create animations and interactions that can be used for instructional purposes and delivered on a CD-ROM or over the World Wide Web. Participants will create scaleable vector graphics and develop animated and interactive elements. |
PC-A02 Google Earth & Beyond
Alma Row, Dallastown Area School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends,
Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Google Earth is an exciting free piece of software that can bring any instruction to ‘life’ using satellite imagery allowing one to virtually “travel” all over the world. This workshop will focus on creating virtual tours enhanced by images, videos and overlays to create authentic, multimedia activities for students.
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FULL PC-A03 Transforming PowerPoint: Creating an Interactive Learning Environment
David Lees, St. Joseph’s University
Target Audience: K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed
Presentation Strands: Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Session Level: Advanced
Computer Platform: Windows
Learn how to change the way you use PowerPoint by adding interactive elements through Visual Basic Applications (VBA) and learn some tricks using ActiveX controls. Using VBA in PowerPoint will allow you to gather student input, create quizzes and turn PowerPoint into a full fledged multimedia creation tool.
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CANCELLED PC-A04 Creating Digital Documentaries and Stories!
Emma Graham and Kathleen Pagano, Council Rock School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Media Centers
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Create a first rate documentary or a digital story to share with your students by using primary documents, reliable databases and Photo Story. Come and learn to import/edit pictures, add titles, record narration, add background music and create all of this with the best resources available to you!
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FULL PC-A05 Discover the Power of Moodle
Shelbra Foster, Penn Manor School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Participants will leave the hands-on workshop with a sound understanding of how to construct an online learning environment. Upon completion participants will understand structure and organization. Experience & create an interactive threaded discussion, online glossaries, web based journals & writing activities, online polls, learning survey tools, quiz & lesson modules.
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PC-A06 21st Century Learning: Online Tools of the Present & Future
Tom McGee, Lower Merion SD
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Session Level: All
Computer Platform: Macintosh
This session is 100% fully interactive and engaging for all students. We will first take a look at some of the free online tools that are being used in classrooms for collaborative, global, online learning. Some of these tools include blogging, wikis, podcasting and skype. All participants will not only set up their own account, but also explore the ins and outs of each tool to maximize its full potential, such as RSS. We will also explore online projects and understand impact of student learning in today’s global learning society.
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PC-A07 The How-To Workshop for
New Technologies
Ben Smith and Jared Mader, Red Lion Area School
District
Target Audience: K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology
Director or
Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends,
Instructional
Strategies/Successful Practices, Media centers,
Mobile/Wireless
Technologies, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations,
Research
Session Level: Intermediate
Computer Platform: Macintosh
During the six-hour session we will demonstrate skills
that will increase
and update your technology integration and infusion skills
for the 21st
Century Classroom. The session includes the basics of
podcasting, wikis,
blogging, making movies and using Web 2.0 tools such as
Google Apps, Zoho,
EduBlogs, and many more. This session provide you with
tangible tools to
use or demonstrate immediately, upon returning to your
schools. Note: The
presenters are Keystone Technology Integrators.
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CANCELLED PC-A08 Web 2.0 from Start to Infinity (Take-along Curriculum)
Scott Garrigan, CAPE
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management, Technology & Ethics, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh
Experience a hands-on introduction to the participatory WWW (Wondrous World of Web 2.0). Use a new independent tutorial approach to learn about blogs and wikis, tagging and geotagging, social networking and bookmarking. We’ll see how your students can engage and contribute to global conversation using text, photos, audio and video.
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PC-A09 How Did They Do That? Hollywood Video Tricks to Spice Up Student Projects
Thomas Range II, Council Rock School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Performing/Creative Arts, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh *
How did people beam-up in Star Trek? How did ghosts appear in Harry Potter? How did Neo dodge bullets in The Matrix? These plus many other Hollywood tricks will be shown during this all-day, hands-on workshop. Attendees will be using iMovie and Final Cut Express, but the methodology can easily be transported to other video editing programs. Experience with these programs is not necessary and all attendees will be given a CD with video clips they can take home and work on by themselves!
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PC-A10 Podcasts: A New Genre Exciting Students
Carol Siwinski, Germantown Academy
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh
Let’s use the technology that students already know and love, the iPod. Learn how this simple-to-use device has brought excitement into the classroom allowing anywhere, anytime access to speeches, audio books, lectures and voice recordings. Learn how to develop and create Podcasts to provide students with great supplemental content as well as opportunities to have fun and be creative while developing their own. All participants will create a podcast from scratch. During preproduction they will plan and write scripts. In the next segment they will find their podcasting voice and record. Postproduction will allow them to edit the audio file, add music, sound effects and even photos and finally they will publish, converting their files to mp3 or mp4 and learn how to present their podcast to the world.
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PC-A11 Creating and Editing Digital Video with iMovie and iDVD
David Curry, Council Rock School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media centers, Performing/Creative Arts
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh
This course teaches basic video editing using Apple’s simple editing programs iMovie and iDVD, which are included in Macintosh OSX. It will cover editing clips, working with audio, and adding titles, transitions and effects. All video and audio will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own digital video cameras and/or footage. Some basic mouse and window computing skills are required.
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CANCELLED PC-A12 Building a Bigger Learning Community
Michael Baker, South Side Area School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research, Technology Leadership
Session Level: All
Computer Platform: Macintosh
Windows, Macintosh and Linux users are all welcome! In
this workshop, participants from all ability levels will
learn how to develop a high-quality educational wiki from
the creator of the Wikispaces December 2007 Wiki of the
Month. As a bonus, participants will be shown how to
integrate their very own podcast/vodcast into their wiki.
This resource will be the participants to keep and further
develop after the session is over.
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CANCELLED PC-A13 Adding Audio Content to your Instructional Web Sites
Mary Malinconico, Gloucester County College
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology & Ethics, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research, Technology Leadership
Session Level: Intermediate
Computer Platform: Macintosh *
Audio content will allow you to add another dimension to your educational web site from audio message from the principal or superintendent to lesson or test reviews. Using Garage Band it is easy to add audio files that have supporting text and images for your students to listen to outside of class. In this workshop, you will learn how to plan, record, edit and finalize audio files to placement on your instructional web sites.
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CANCELLED PC-A14 Digital Photography - A Hands-On Workshop
Chuck Ginter, Lower Merion School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends
Session Level: All
Computer Platform: Macintosh *
During this workshop all participants will have the opportunity to take photographs, download them into the computer, manipulate/edit and save them so that they can be used for publications, slide shows, web pages, etc. In addition, we will share ideas as to how digital photography can incorporated it various curricular areas.
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CANCELLED PC-A15 Beginning School of Photography -- Photography Basics, Field Trip and Building Projects (Fee: $650/person)
Tool Factory Staff
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Each attendee receives an Olympus FE 115 or better, 5.0 mega pixel digital camera ($250) detailed digital photography manual and a free copy of Tool Factory Workshop ($199). Learn tricks to improving photo composition and then take a field trip where we’ll take photographs of various events.
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| Although the workshops are held in either Macintosh or Windows labs, only those sessions marked with an asterisk (*) are platform specific.
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