Diane


 * Session A - No Garageband, No Problem!**
 * Not a great workshop....
 * Music Maker - 16 tracks, user-friendly
 * Comes with free tracks
 * Comes with 6 packs (takes about 20 minutes to download)
 * Seems similar to Jam Studio, although with [|Jam Studio], a knowledge of harmony helps you produce better tracks
 * Saves tracks as wave files
 * Go to [|www.cffcoach.org] for videos on how to use Music Maker

> Session C
 * Session B - How to Become a SMARTer Teacher** (Jim Oliphant - joliphant@propelschool.org)
 * [|www.joepropel.wikispaces.com] - lots of resources there
 * Wallwisher - a wall of comments (can also add pictures) - good for use with SmartBoards
 * Use outside of the board to hide information (so you can drag pictures or text onto the board) - don't be afraid to use the horizontal space to the left and right of your main board area
 * Use [|SmartExchange] for resources on using SMART Board (ex. he showed us a ton of Jeopardy templates)
 * [|Teachers Love SMART Boards]
 * [|Harvey's Home Page]
 * [|Cool Iris] - a free download - allows you to view pictures like in a gallery (looks like an iPhone app)
 * Use Bubble Wrap - to teach directions, patterns, or just to allow students to play as a reward
 * Create a Magic Tunnel - for math or verb tense, prefixes and suffixes, translation
 * Split your screen into two colors. Create two colors that are opposite the colors on each side. When you slide one over, the one color just disappears in the background.
 * [|Jigsaw Planet] - great for engaging students in the beginning of a unit - allow students to put the puzzle together and then talk about the picture
 * To right click on the SMART Board, just click and hold your finger down
 * Using SMART Board with Discovery Video
 * use the SMART Video player - can use the capture tool, draw on the video/annotate, then use the Capture button to save your notes, then delete to continue playing the video (saves it as objects)
 * Wheel of Fortune, Monopoly, and other games are available on SMART Exchange (use [|Sign Generator.org] to create playing cards)
 * There's a calendar generator in the gallery - elementary teachers can use it for their calendar work rather than displaying on the wall. Use stamps, pen, etc.
 * Use the Infinite Cloner to create multiple copies of any picture - you get the copy by touching the object and just dragging it away (good for counting coins, cell reproduction, etc.)


 * Session C - On Track for Reading Success** - an o.k. software program - not something to write home about. I was bored.


 * Session D - Multimedia Presentations**
 * [|www.petecmmp.yolasite.com]
 * Yola = free, easy, web-based editor
 * retrieving video-based content: try [|Internet Archive: Moving Images]
 * has a great series of videos called How to Be a Teenager from the 1950's - suggest to 7th grade English teachers for //Outsiders// unit
 * also a great site for kids to use to write voice-overs as a writing project
 * For social studies: Library of Congress: American Memory (also at this site are other subject areas - I got to see some of Walt Whitman's notebooks with a quick search)
 * [|JungleWalk] = great for science - all animals sounds, pictures, videos, information, etc. (also see [|www.Arkive.org] - Life on Earth for images)
 * [|www.hippocampus.org] - multimedia lessons for science, math, and social studies
 * check out QuickTime Pro 7 (allows you to get movies from the web easily; only costs $20)
 * File conversion sites:
 * [|www.keepvid.com], [|www.vixy.net], [|www.zamzaar.com], []
 * Software: TubeSock, MPEG Streamclip
 * Ripping Videos:
 * [|HandBrake]
 * [|MPEG Streamclip]

Since I've done several stop-motion films myself, I was interested in learning some tips and techniques as well as ways to tie it to the curriculum. Certainly, stop-motion animation is fun, but I wanted to hear how teachers have incorportated it into their instruction. While I did learn a few things about camera settings, I didn't really find that curriculum piece that I was looking for. Tool Factory has a program called Movie Maker, but it's not Windows' Movie Maker.
 * Session E - Digital Claymation**

Mind-mapping
 * Session F - Web 2.0 for Reflection and Assessment (and Critical Thinking, and Metacognition)**
 * [|Mind Meister]
 * Can be collaborative (can set up a team, but that costs money) - could contact them and ask about educational pricing
 * Can add notes, links, attachments
 * Also available for iPhone
 * Bubbl.us is more linear, like a flow-chart
 * Mindspiration is another similar tool
 * Mind Meister is free
 * No save option (it autosaves) - you may want to close in order to do the autosave if you're working on a large file
 * How to use it for idea generation:
 * create a mind map of what you think of learning with technology at the beginning, middle, and end of a course
 * mind maps should change from the beginning of the semester to the end
 * can use it as a note-taking tool (after class, put notes on a mind-map)

Word clouds (Wordle)
 * Ideas for use:
 * Give a few lines of Shakespeare - put into a Wordle and print. Students highlight those words they don't know.
 * Use as a review. Cut and paste all of students' journals into a Wordle.
 * Helps you see common themes in multiple texts
 * Can be formative assessment
 * Copy and paste online discussions from several participants to use to summarize a discussion (I tried it with my Ursinus students' blog responses. Neat! I'll be using this next week for my class.)
 * If you put a tilde between the words, it will keep the words together (or use a hyphen) - look in the Advanced features section
 * [|www.Tagul.com] is another word cloud generator, and this one is neat because it publishes in a shape

Google forms (docs.google.com)
 * Will automatically build a spreadsheet based upon the data
 * easy way to give a quiz or test and give students immediate feedback
 * I need to learn more about this. He didn't really have time to demonstrate how to use it. I am sure there are plenty of videos on YouTube that would help me. I always use Survey Monkey. But with Google Forms, you can e-mail all of the participants easily.


 * Session G - Data, Data, Data...Now What?** (e-mail Paula for handouts at pwesterman@eyork.k12.pa.us)
 * Eastern York SD - using Performance Tracker, they set up frameworks for district writing assessments and other local assessments
 * Created a Needs Assessment Committee, Instructional Program Specialist (the presenter), and Curriculum Leadership Team
 * Created Professional Learning Communities (use time before students arrive to meet within grade levels as well as time to meet during the day when students go to specials - teachers complete weekly feedback sheets to show evidence of meeting and progress)
 * Essential Questions: Do we believe all students can learn at high levels? How often do our collaborative teams meet? Is collaboration time during the teachers' professional day? Is it required? Have collaborative teams clearly defined essntial learning outcomes? Have collaborative teams created common assessments to measure essential standards? Do the assessment results show how each student did on individual essential standards? Is common assessment data shared in comparison to others?
 * Teachers were required to meet on a weekly basis:
 * Teachers created student achievement plans - Game Plans and SMART Goals
 * Worked hard on a guranrteed and viable curriculum through curriculum mapping
 * Uses 4Sight, AIMS web, TerraNova, Study Island
 * Looked for a technology tool for a curriculum framework model
 * Trained all administrators and teachers in Performance Tracker; expectation that assessment data is used in faculty meetings, at-risk meetings, etc.
 * Communication sent to teachers when new data was made available on PT
 * Using Assessment Builder with the 4Sight
 * Using Curriculum Connector to upload maps and use lesson planning component of [|Curriculum Connector>]


 * Session H - SAS Supported in the Context of Resiliency**
 * This workshop made the whole conference worth it for me!!
 * New standards are still in the proposed stage BUT they are released and being used (b/c of talk about common core standards which we're 94% aligned in RWSL and 97% aligned in math - some states are only 20% aligned) - standards changed but the eligible content did not change
 * on SAS, you can get units and lessons in the Materials and Resources section (lesson plans at all levels, scripted)
 * I want to gather Formative Assessment sites to help in the curriculum writing process:
 * []
 * [|www.ccsso.org/Publications/Download.cfm?Filename...pdf]
 * There are [|glossaries]on SAS!
 * Summative assessment = autopsy (comes at the end); Would you want your doctor to write up your condition using an autopsy? Summative assessment is valuable but not for the child - Good for how did we do for that group of learners? What do you want to change for the next group of learners?
 * Formative assessment = ongoing assessments; example: whiteboards on which students write answers; on instructional level
 * Benchmark = where is the student aligned to the grade level expectation. Making progress is great (which we find out with Formative), but we still need to know how they are doing compared to grade level
 * Diagnostic - Do we want to be part of the field test for the math diagnostic??
 * Think about learning as "learning progressions" - the basis of differentiated instruction - taking the learner higher than where they started, not just progressing at grade level


 * Session I - Grading Papers Online** - I went, but I didn't take many notes. I had a hard time understanding the platforms.


 * Session J - iPod Touch in the Classroom**
 * There's an app that provides a remote that can be used with PowerPoints!
 * Go to iTunes U - many great resources for the classroom
 * (Aside - go to [|www.iamlodge.com] - for using Flip videos
 * In Safari, if you want to see the URL, click and hold
 * To copy picture from Safari, hold the round button and power button at once to take a picture of what you saw
 * Great Apps: Go to the website!
 * iFlashcards free
 * myhomework - show to Gillian!
 * Get Google app so I can go into Google Reader (check out an app for other reader)
 * Flickr Search
 * MissSpell's Class (from Dictionary.com) - you have to say if the word is misspelled or not)
 * Vocabulary Cartoons (I have books on this from NCTE!)
 * Basic Math facts - good for kids
 * Math Ref - gives formulas (good for middle school)
 * Periodic Table of Elements
 * History Maps - great for SS
 * United States Fact Book - great for elementary - lots about states
 * iPod Labs - $1000 to $2300 (for 20-40 iPods touches)
 * Plug and play USB document camera for $60 - [|www.ipevo.com] - see [] (get a roll of shelfpaper if you're going to use your iPod under the document camera) - I'm going to get one of these!!)
 * Go to website for additional apps and ideas: [|www.web.me.com/lajaxn/PETEC2010]

Session K - Cell Phones in the Classroom
 * Go to [|PennTeacher.org] for online technology courses
 * Kids get in trouble for bringing phones in the classroom because they are only told not to use their cellphones, not //how// to use their cellphones
 * [|Drop IO]: A digital drop box that can be password protected and everything can be downloaded
 * for pictures (students can take pics with their phones and e-mail them to this site) - students can then download pictures, can comment on pictures, rename, etc.
 * can be used for document files
 * can also call in a voice memo/"podcast" (number is not local, though) - great for students to read their writing aloud for revision and/or feedback or a reflection on what they learned (files saved as MP3's)
 * Polls - helps you know if they got it or do I need to review (good for a "dipstick" formative assessment)
 * [|PollEverywhere]
 * can be embedded in PowerPoint
 * Can go to [|www.poll4.com] to vote in the poll, too
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