Producing Blended Instruction on a Shoestring Budget: Preservice Teacher Digital Portfolio Design
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Producing Blended Instruction on a Shoestring
Budget: Preservice Teacher Digital Portfolio Design
Presenter: Stephen Ransom
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.
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Presenter: Stephen Ransom
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.
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nyscate07h12
Extending the Experience through Twitter & Ning
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Extending the Experience through Twitter &
Ning
Presenter: Brian C. Smith
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.
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Presenter: Brian C. Smith
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.
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On the Shoulders of Technology
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: On the Shoulders of Technology
Presenter: Frank Sobierajski
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.
Podcast
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Presenter: Frank Sobierajski
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h05
Tablet PC's as an Instructional Tool
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Tablet PC's as an Instructional Tool
Presenters: Patricia Sullivan, Michael Strauss
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.
Podcast
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Presenters: Patricia Sullivan, Michael Strauss
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h04
Digital Democracy – High-tech Activities and Policies Essential for Modern Citizenship
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Digital Democracy – High-tech Activities and
Policies Essential for Modern Citizenship
Presenter: Gary Stager Ph.D.
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
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Presenter: Gary Stager Ph.D.
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
Podcast
nyscate07h08
Protecting Your Network from the Great Unknown
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Protecting Your Network from the Great Unknown
Presenters: Michael Boggess, Jim Pappe
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h09
Presenters: Michael Boggess, Jim Pappe
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.
Podcast
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Technology and the School Principal
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Technology and the School Principal
Presenter: Christopher Shively
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.
Podcast
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Presenter: Christopher Shively
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h03
Self-Directed Learning with Technology in the K-12 Classroom
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Self-Directed Learning with Technology in the
K-12 Classroom
Presenters: Jim Dieso, Mike Amante
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.
Podcast
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Presenters: Jim Dieso, Mike Amante
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h07
Podcasting with PowerMediaPlus & Audacity: The Totally Free Solution!
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Podcasting with PowerMediaPlus & Audacity:
The Totally Free Solution!
Presenter: Michael Greene
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.
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Presenter: Michael Greene
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.
Podcast
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Study Island's web-based NYS assessment preparation programs
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Study Island's web-based NYS assessment
preparation programs
Presenter: Andrea Fontana
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.
Podcast
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Presenter: Andrea Fontana
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h11
Using Technology to Combat Plagiarism
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Using Technology to Combat Plagiarism
Presenter: Mansel Wells
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.
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Presenter: Mansel Wells
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h06
Digital Storytelling to Captivate and Motivate
20/11/07 10:30 AM
Title: Digital Storytelling to Captivate and Motivate
Presenter: Michael Russo
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.
Podcast
nyscate07h10
Presenter: Michael Russo
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.
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