Session H *schedule subject to change

Podcasting with PowerMediaPlus & Audacity: The Totally Free Solution!

Michael Greene

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Teachers are discovering the excitement of creating educational podcasts with their students!  PowerMediaPlus provides an easy way to host podcasts and is a free service to all NYS teachers.  Learn how to create an audio file (MP3) using Audacity freeware, and how to use PowerMediaPlus to make it available over the Internet.

Extending the Experience through Twitter & Ning

Brian C. Smith

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Take your experience @NYSCATE to a new engaging and informative level.  Connect and extend  NYSCATE for yourself and your colleagues by utilizing two social networking tools, Twitter and Ning.  Twitter is a hybrid instant messaging and blogging (or microblog) tool where users create short messages to share information and what they are doing.  Ning is a social networking site created specifically for NYSCATE events and conferences.  Joining the NYSCATE social networking site hosted at http://nyscate.ning.com will virtually extend the conference and put you in contact with other conference participants.  Learn more how to join and participate in these networks at this session.

Technology and the School Principal

Christopher Shively

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As a school leader, have you ever thought like Alice in regards to technology in schools? Has Technology complicated schools?  Of course it has, but so did writing utensils, textbooks, videos, students, parents, ditto machines, etc.  The objective of this workshop is to make the nonsense make sense and provide you with ideas to include in your school leadership plan with regards to technology.

Tablet PC's as an Instructional Tool

Patricia Sullivan, Michael Strauss

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The Hilton Village Elementary school is piloting the use of Tablet PC's as a teacher tool to create an engaging instructional environment. We will demonstrate how we are using this tool to connect with our multi-media students and how other staff, including administrators and support personnel, are discovering unique applications.

On the Shoulders of Technology

Frank Sobierajski

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Let the power of technology bring mathematical insights to your students.  The visual capabilities of computers, digital images, and software make your classroom come alive for 21st century kids.

Using Technology to Combat Plagiarism

Mansel Wells

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Students can easily download material from the Internet and submit it as their own work.  Teachers can foil their efforts through the use of many technology tools.  Participants will discover how word processors can be used in the writing process to make plagiarism difficult to accomplish.  Websites for tracking illegal files will also be explored.

Self-Directed Learning with Technology in the K-12 Classroom

Jim Dieso, Mike Amante

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Come learn about a set of custom targeted technology curriculum where students learn to independently create exciting technology projects of all kinds! See how one district has developed a model where classroom teachers, Teaching Assistants, Library Media Specialists and Technology staff have implemented such a program successfully in their district.

Digital Democracy – High-tech Activities and Policies Essential for Modern Citizenship

Gary Stager Ph.D.

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This session explores high-tech activities designed to inspire student political participation at a variety of grade levels. The Internet has changed politics and what it means to be a modern citizen.  In an age when candidates host online discussions, political organization depends on meetup.com and elections are won or lost on YouTube, it is vital that students master the tools and media techniques of their age, including: data analysis, simulation building, polling and propaganda creation.

In addition to mastery of the tools and techniques essential for civic participation, this session will explore the network and democratic policies required if students are to develop as productive citizens.
The computer, Internet and constructivist software will be used to address:
    * The mathematics of polling
    * Making sense of data
    * Effective communication
    * Propaganda creation
    * Online community building
    * Civic participation

Protecting Your Network from the Great Unknown

Michael Boggess, Jim Pappe

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Built specifically for securing K-12 networks, Total Traffic Control gives you a single admin console to see everything running on your network and control any detected issues. Monitor and report activity, filtering, manage spam, secure the gateway and desktops, archive e-mail/instant messaging, and manage your bandwidth-all from a single interface.

Digital Storytelling to Captivate and Motivate

Michael Russo

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Video engages learners, and with the abundance of free and low-cost video tools, it is easy to incorporate video projects into any curriculum. Time devoted to a video project can be just a few days, up to a few weeks, depending on learning needs and time constraints. This session will demonstrate some simple and more complex projects, and provide guidance as to how you can bring video to your classroom.

Study Island's web-based NYS assessment preparation programs

Andrea Fontana

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Study Island is an entirely web-based NYS assessment preparation program that uses multiple study modes, including interactive games, to teach and assess each skill outlined in the NYS Learning Standards.  As students work through the self-paced program, teachers and administrators can generate detailed diagnostic reports tracking individual and group performance.

Producing Blended Instruction on a Shoestring Budget: Preservice Teacher Digital Portfolio Design

Stephen Ransom

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This session’s purpose is to share pedagogies, technologies and logistics of creating and maintaining a blended college level course with a high degree of technology infusion required for the creation of digital teacher portfolios using MAC OS X technologies with virtually no reliance on e-learning software or the I.T. department.

Are These the Technology Skills We Need for Our Future? Students Give Their Interpretation of a Technology-Centered Urban High School in Upstate NY

Ramona R. SantaMaria, M.S.Ed.- Buffalo State College

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Schools integrate technological solutions, often without reservation, for a variety of reasons some of which use technology as a solution to raise standardized test scores, the current measure of a schools’ academic performance (MacGillis, 2004), and others buy into the panacea that technology offers solutions to problem areas. However, it is under-resourced, urban schools that lack the financial ability and opportunities to acquire and implement the latest technology (Bass & Rosenzweig, 2001); often these school incorporate affordable, but outdated technology into the curriculum, because they perceive any technology as an opportunity to improve academics and future employment opportunities (Trend, 2001, Gooden & Silverman, 1996). This paper presents students’ perspective of classroom technology, discussing how/where they perceive the immediate and future benefits of the skills that they have been taught.

A Study into the Spelling of Technology Terms

John Thompson, Ph.D. - Buffalo State College

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Print readers and Internet users see numerous spellings of technology terms, but is there a correct or accepted spelling at this point in time? The study examines the spelling of some frequently used technology terms such as website and email in print publications and online sites to determine similarities and differences in how the technology terms are currently spelled.

Pod Quad

NYSCATE Podcasting

Know Audacity?  Why not stop by the NYSCATE Podcasting room and edit a recording of a NYSCATE session?  Help will be available.  Edit a recording and receive a gift.  Please note that editing will not be available during Keynote sessions.

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