Janice

Atomic Learning Meeting Notes:
Atomic learning More than just tutorials now. Tech integration lesson plan21 cent is new. All aligned by ISTE standards. Users can manage what they do in folders... folders can be shared, content of what has been completed can be shared and managed and administrators can monitor for pd credits. Company now has all recording figures in place. Track-ability and record-ability have it. For students and staff for one price. How you set up access is up to you. Can give to students and parents too for same price. No matter how many users. One price.

Project based and tech integration projects and workshops. Can be filtered by subjects. Home page of project with a movie to see if you want to do it (like Discovery Ed... shows movie from home page to see if it is the right one). Downloadable resources and rubrics, with directions. Videos are chunked out. Linked to standards. Even PA standard (look into this because the last time I heard from Clair this was not the case even though they told her it was). Can search by standard. Aligned with ISTe standards. Collection of projects are continually being updated. We produce tutorials according to what customer needs.

Can search by themes as well. 21cent skills. Resources a little different. Can download a pd booklet. If your district needs paper trail. There are pd workbooks. Lots of backup and ideas on how to modify. Cyberbullying- 21century- Internet Safety Can upload your own stuff for students and parents Creative Commons worksop? Did not get what she meant by this. Resources for teachers. PD credits- Get assessments for teachers and students. Aligned to iste Webinars based on the assessments. Assistive technology tutorials. Extra add on. For special ed. Copy of pd workbook... have actual workbooks that teachers can hand into PD after complete. Have a trial. Pricing 21century package 12 thousand something. Need individual logins. Assign logins by grade or building. Custom package gives ability to upload your own training or student videos. Add on for assistive technology for special education.

8:15-4:00- Discovery Education Pre-conference Event: Trinidad If you are there early and have nothing else to do I am showing off a preliminary version of the Methacton Librarian's Picturing America Wiki: **from 12:45 to 1:30 during DEN's Recess Session in Trinidad.

FIZZ Session- Lodge Enhance the Classroom with User-Generated Video and Music Double Session. One take, user generated video. This is so cool... kids can make a video in one take. They create a script and using PowerPoint or something like that and print out the papers... these storyborads become the video... you pull one sheet after another as someone reads the script... it is about content and not the technology... so content is not curriculum based! I can so use this to teach the Dewey Decimal System... a dull subject will become fun!!! Students create story boards and actually film the paper content and e like Lee LeFever from Common Craft videos... kids will love this.

Second Idea... create a song or have the kids create a song (use music only that they like or give them some music from free sources... or just a beat... they can put the words in... ) put content area words to the music. This will make a nice podcast! In this case he created a music video about Area/Volume/Surface Area. So cool for students who learn differently. Lodge actually recorded the song. He recorded it on his phone! iPhone... but of course he has a music studio in his house so ours won't sound as good! We can do it in audacity as podcast or do a music video with flip cameras. He set up up a curtain and had kids do the video and had them create motions to the songs.... everyone in the class has a chance to be in the video... play the song as the kids do the motions and sing the song... they have to learn the song... this is how they will learn the content if they learn this way. One of the kids on the video looked like one of my students.. Sam. Could have been him... he cam from NC. 25 kids in the classroom. put speaker close to the camera and have kids create their own knowledge. Great as an assessment piece. Kids have some misconceptions... vaccum... kids made the motion of a vaccum cleaner... but if that is how they can connect it to remember it... it is a good thing.

Teachers doing it to teach number concepts... kids love to see their teachers. Can't believe I am going to be in my first music video!!!!

Third kind is Exit video... while we take the final assessment.

This was a double session and it went very fast!!!

Learning can be fun... I knew it!!!!

Apps for helping special needs students. cramberry.net also has iPhone iPod touch application. Online and app! the mnemonizer? Quizlet Awsome highlighter put any website in and it allows you to highlight and save... free and kids can use it at home or at school and after they highlight they can send it to themselves in e-mail or put it on delicious.

Not online... foldits.wikispaces.com outline creator- cambridge rindge and latan school has the link. foldables has the link too.

have text... read to students... vozMe.com Answers.com will read to you too... it will create an mp3 too. Nice to have these free buttons for the students.

Word has a speech to text capability... 2003 click on tools and speech, it will open a button where you can click on the button and it will type what you say... not perfectly but editable. All students in our district have access to this tool. You have to speak the punctuation marks.

Adobe go to view... go to bottom and click read... it will read any PDF to you. View doen to read out loud and have to click it twice but it is free so it is great...

"Blogging tricks kids into reading and writing."

Google Docs... one account for a class... nice space to help the students be more productive.

Can use SMART Recorder with anything on the computer. Not just SMART Notebook. Have to open each sep. yu can take the save it and it saves it as a wmv file and it uploads to any video or wiki like that or you can upload to

Natural reader- naturalreaders.com- it will talk to you and let you have things read to you.

Online maniplatives... math playground.com... videos and interactives. National Library of virtual manipulatives... nice Scince interactives in Discovery are nice... can set up classrooms in DEN... STEM Resources and Brain Pop... students can watch them at home or at school. Den Scicon... check out the other web 2.0 tools. xtranormal... can take embed code or download the video and put it on your website. Cover it Live... live blogging tool. can take the chat and embed it anywhere... you can limit who can comment... archives the comments... can embed videos etc. into the live chat. have kids use blog names rather than real names... safer. make video- create a tutorial so they can go back and review. Nice to have repeated exposure to the content... plus they love to watch themselves and their friends. We need access to Discovery Science... see what it costs to add it to our streaming account. Christinesouthard.blogspot.com

Steve Dembo- Web 2.010 http://tinyurl.com/top10hershey http://Teach42.com web.2.0- o'reiley conference... name stuck but they never defined it Entirely web based interactive plays well with others this is anything you can use that you do not have to download... entirely web based... if you can get to it... you can use it. Interactive- go to website to create Plays well with others- content is portable... grab the content and bring it somewhere else or put your content into it... grabing the media and put it into sites and use it...

Wallwisher.com- don't need to put in a valad e-mail so the students can use it. Can take discovery pictures and pull in the pictures... Great summary- Vidly- Use Wallwisher as a presentation tool for kids... put in the pictures... and see what we can make out of it... use this as presentation too. Use it for KWL.

Rights for images... so long as you keep them private... you can use the images as long as they are private. Wallwisher is private... the only people who have access are those that have the URL because you give it to them.

Edmodo is what twitter would have looked like if it was designed by an educator... Twiter for educators... all private... give codes to the kids... classroom codes... organize them into classes and clubs etc. do microblogging with kids.. can send messages to one class or more than one or everyone... this would be doable even when I have the entire building in it... 100% private... have to log into emodo through your account... can respond to teacher privately... but kids can't send it to each other privately... only to entire group. Can embed stuff... do p

etherpad- like a backchannel for kids... making real changes in real time... aquired by Google... it is embeded in Edmodo now... and it is now called chalkboard... it is in beta now... ask for it so you can be in the beta of chalkboard. Edmodo- microblogging... private... nice with beta of chalkboard live blogging. keep in touch with kids on snow days- can be a Swine Flu strategy... stay in touch and keep up with assignments... Can do it with teachers... for Professional Development... first hour they stayed in classrooms and collaborated with each other... then come together... lots of uses!

http://ipadio.com mobile podcasting studio. No time limit on hoe long the podcasts are... no money... want to use your cell phone but regular phones... Great podcasting project... have to do it on the phone... but it is great to do it... quick informal podcasts... plan it all out... virtual field trips... audio log of a field trip... biographies! summaries of the day... foreign language instruction so you can hear kids doing their homework before they come into class...

Wordle- do wordle of kids writing to see what words the kids are using... food diary in wordle... so they can see what they are eating most often... good for speaches but there are so many other things you can do with it. Kids can record what they learned. We can automatically pu

Started out with a strange DEN Pledge! So funny. New Discovery and Wilkes video... Meet Brooke and Jim for dinner at Fire Pit 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. General Registration 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Welcome Reception/Casino Night (Badge Required)**

Monday 2/22:
Chocolate Ballroom (maybe we can all sit together?)
 * 8:30- 10 AM** Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

(2nd choice- Are your students Digirally Literate?- hotel Garden Terrace Ballroom East- Jim Gates)
 * 10:15-11:15** A Gamut of Gizmos Cocoa Suite 2/3

(2nd Choice Perk up your projects with Web 2.0) Coca Suite Terrace (3rd Choice- Moodle in Crystal A- but if another Methacton person is going I will stick with Grant Writing!)
 * 11:30- 12:30** Grant Writing for Beginners Empire C

At some point I want to get here:
 * 12:30**- Meet up with Brooke Ross to meet with Laurie Linch from Atomic Learning.
 * 12:30- 2:00** Keystone Poster Session Chocolate Ballroom- best practices ideas here!

2nd Choice Kristin's Copyright Presentation- Trinidad
 * 2:30-3:30** SMART Boarding 101 Cocoa Suite Terrace

2nd Choice vrLibrary- Tower Suite 1
 * 3:45-4:45** SMART Boarding: Document, Develop, Deliver Cocoa Suite Terrace


 * 4-5** PA Educatiors PLN- Hotel Starlight Terrace East.

Tuesday 2/23:

 * 8-9:15** Chris Lehman (Principal of SLA) Keynote: Building School 2.0 Creating the Schools we need Chocolate Ballroom

2nd Choice Creating Cartoon Movies for Social Studies: Convention center Empire D.
 * 9:45-10:45**- If you kNEW Google Hotel: Garden Terrace Ballroom West

2nd choice It's Elementary 10:45-11:45- Empire B
 * 11-12** Green Screen for Dummies- Hotel: Garden Terrace Ballroom West (Scaryoldguy's presentation)

2nd Choice Are you smarter than an elementary student Empire A Tom McGee Lower Merion
 * 2:15-3:15** Fundraising for Technology Empire C Heather Chirtea Tool Factory

2n Choice Building 21st Centrury Citizens- Hotel- Garden Terrace Ballroom East- Sylvia Martinez.
 * 3:30-4:30** Technology Professional Development Toolbox Cocoa Suite Terrace Dianne Krause from Wissahickon


 * 4:45- 5:45** Cyber Safety- We are All Responsible Magnolia A/B Jan Frenzel Harrison County and Ginny Frank.


 * 6:15-7:45**- Banquet

Wednesday 2/24

 * 8-9** Technology & Web 2.0 in the Classroom Empire A Alexis Sziy and Pam Carstensen Catasauqua School Dist


 * 9:15-10:15** A new Staff Development Model: Practice What you Preach Coca Suite Terrace

2nd choice Web-based options for telling story... Cocoa Suite 2/3. Connie Sitterley Penncrest.
 * 10:30- 11:30** backchanneling in the classrooms Magnolia A/B Scott Snyder