PC-D01 iWork ‘08
Steve Zalot, Apple, Inc.
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Adaptive Technology/Special Populations/Accessibility, Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Performing/Creative Arts
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh *
Apple’s newest suite of productivity tools with templates for classroom use, iWork 08 contains valuable applications for word processing, page layout and presentation skills. Meet the all new spreadsheet: “Numbers” with it’s unique approach to making calculations more approachable and useable in the classroom. This suite of academically sound tools provides compatibility with other “office” tools. Get your hands on these new applications and see for yourself the impact they can have on your curriculum!
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PC-D02 iLife ‘08
Dave Marra, Apple, Inc.
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Adaptive Technology/Special Populations/Accessibility, Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Performing/Creative Arts
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh *
This is a repeat of session PC-C01.
Discover the new and exciting members of iLife 08, revised for 21st Century students and teachers to create, publish and distribute their own educational content, in the classroom or around the world. Gain hands-on skills in creating and publishing world-class educational content using an all-new iMovie, easily created music in “Magic GarageBand” and more! Witness how your curriculum can benefit from podcasting, digital video & photography, music and more with this excellent suite of academic tools!
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PC-D03 Animation, Claymation and Moving Creations
Heather Chirtea, Tool Factory
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Get new strategies for animation in this vibrant workshop! We’ll look at various types of animation: path, sprite and claymation. Finally, bring all these projects together as a web site using MultiMedia Lab V.
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PC-D04 Connecting Technology with Diverse Learners in the Elementary Classroom
Stephanie Throne, Author
Target Audience: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Are you overwhelmed by the range of diversity in your classroom? Do you know how to effectively manage students with disparate learning profiles? Learn how you can connect multiple intelligences and instructional technology with core curricula to further enrich your activities and better attend to your students’ varied learning styles.
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PC-D05 “Trekking” with netTrekker
Dawn Crawford, netTrekker
Target Audience: K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Standards /NCLB
Session Level: Intermediate
Computer Platform: Windows
This workshop is 2 classes in 1! You’ll first learn how to show your students the world by creating virtual field trips by integrating netTrekker and Google Earth. Then you’ll see how easy it is to pique your students’ interest and imaginations as you teach them to create easy, beautiful projects with netTrekker and Photo Story.
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PC-D06 Power Up Differentiated Instruction with Cool, Tech-Created Products!
Grace Smith, Grosse Pointe Public Schools
Target Audience: K-8
Presentation Strands: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Session Level: Intermediate
Computer Platform: Windows
Want to energize instruction and motivate students to “show what they know?” If so, help students craft top-notch products using word processing, publishing and presentation software along with online “designer” tools. You will leave this session with fresh and exciting ideas for products students will love to create with tech!
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CANCELLED PC-D07 Integrating Technology with Curriculum
Pamela Swanson, Millcreek Township School District
Target Audience: Pre-K, K-8
Presentation Strands: Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh
Teachers will have the opportunity to view and create many different lessons. These lessons will be based on standards and they will be shown how to create differentiated instruction-based lessons. An open-ended application will be used to create the activities.
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PC-D08 Content Management With Moodle!
Evon Zundel, CAPE
Target Audience: K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Presentation Strands: Emerging Technologies/Trends, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh
This hands-on orientation to Moodle will introduce the participants to a free learning management system. Activities include: creating and organizing a typical Moodle learning site, participating in the interactive elements of the system and discussion of best practices in creating engaging online learning experiences.
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PC-D09 Getting Started in Your E-Classroom
Kristin Hokanson, Upper Merion Area School District
Target Audience: K-8, 9-12
Presentation Strands: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Macintosh
The number of E-classrooms throughout the state is increasing with all of the statewide initiatives. This hands-on workshop will provide a variety of resources for utilizing projectors, interactive whiteboards and clickers and help teachers in creating a 21st Century Digital Classroom. An E-classroom is one which effectively uses digital images and video, such as UnitedStreaming. Learn effective tools to take students around the world and make news fun. Engage your students with stimulating simulations and learn new and engaging ways of using software. Gain valuable resources for connecting with others using open source software. NOTE: if possible, participants should bring their own laptops so session can be tailored to group needs.
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PC-D10 Video in the Classroom: Using Windows Movie Maker
Ken Pruitt, DuBois Area School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Using self-authored video as a teaching tool, or professional development, is becoming a more viable option with host sites like Teacher Tube offering free web space. A participant in this workshop will learn how to plan, produce and upload video using various media compatible with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker.
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PC-D11 Digital Story Telling with Photo Story 3
Paula Albright, Hollidaysburg Area School District
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Session Level: Introductory
Computer Platform: Windows
Participants will explore digital storytelling as a method to combine the art of oral storytelling and principles of conventional writing with modern multimedia tools to deliver tales using images, sound, music and voice. Learners will create stories using digital photos by adding special effects, soundtracks, captions and narration using free software.
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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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