Learn how to make instant screenshots or screencasts with Jing. Comment on student work, narrate instructions, give directions and then share with your students or parents. Jing can save you time in demonstrating or explaining technical tasks or concepts that are difficult to explain in words.
Experience the latest developments in classroom audio enhancement. Learn how to make your schools and classrooms safer for each teacher and student by applying the Security Alert System for Education. By a simple press of the alert button on the amazingly small microphone your teacher wears every day, your teachers will be able to instantly alert the proper authorities when you an emergency occurs, or when an Intruder enters your classroom. Don't get caught without the safety and security of the SAFE System.
This session will introduce the participants to fun and exciting, curriculum-based iPad and iPod apps. A lot to see and experience.
Learn how to use Photostory 3 to make book trailers. Book trailers are a great way to introduce students to books and help them select reading materials.
I will demonstrate how to use PowerPoint to design and create PPTX slides which can then be converted to JPEGs and imported into PhotoStory which can manipulate them for conversion into some magical WMV movies.
Keep parents, students and other teachers up to date on what is happening. Fun ways to communicate through Google Calendars.
This session will be a hands-on exploration of engaging resources and ideas for integrating technology and math in the elementary classroom. We will share our list of virtual manipulatives, interactive games and activities, online videos, podcasts, and more and then will invite you to join our Diigo online community for continued collaboration.
Tech Strand-Our session will review how local SIS data can be used to organize and focus assessment data for teachers, parents and administrators. Using local and current data to group and retrieve CRT, benchmark and other assessment data provides formative information delivered in a familiar and current context. Teachers and counselors view their students assessment scores in their current class. Administrators can view longitudinal trends. Parents and students have full access to their scores and can compare them with grades and district averages.
The US is falling behind in math and reading scores. By the time students reach fourth grade, they are expected to be independent readers, yet over 40% read below grade level. Research-based Destination Math and Destination Reading are specifically designed to assist students in grades K-12 by increasing reading and mathematics proficiency. The program includes an automated alignment to the Utah State Standards, new Common Core standards, National Council of Teachers of Math (NCTM) and NWEA Map assessments. Learn how to accelerate student success using Destination Reading and Destination Math.
Discover ways to engage your students and facilitate learning with technology every 21st century classroom should have. See actual lessons delivered for elementary, middle and high school classrooms. These lessons incorporate 21st century tools such as an interactive whiteboard, a document camera, student responders and carefully selected "Best in Class” educational tools. This session will help you accelerate learning through the application and use of technology. Come find out how!
The iPad is an exciting new mobile device for education. This session will provide an overview of how the iPad is being used to significantly change the learning experience for students as it related to literacy (reading and language fluency), mathematic achievement and student participation. The session will provide an interactive experiences with the iPod exploring digital textbooks, Apps, free media resources, and productivity tools, which will greatly enhance K-12 instructional opportunities.
Is your district facing budget cuts? Are you losing students and staff? Are you looking for innovative ways to prepare students for the 21st Century? Virtual learning provides solutions. Explore strategies and successful initiatives which can help you preserve teacher jobs, increase student performance, and enhance course offerings
PhotoStory helps you to create exciting video stories by adding panning and zooming effects to your pictures. Use PhotoStory to record narration for your pictures, and add titles and background music to your story and share with others.
Come and see how you can use your portable devices as an assessment tool. No SMART Board required, but if you have one, this is a great way to get more out of the portable devices in your classroom. Bring your device, if you have one, and see first hand the assessment capabilities.
Come and see how you can use a smartboard interactively in your classroom to develop conceptual understanding and increase student motivation.
BYOL-TakingITGlobal (TIG) operates the world's most popular online community of young leaders. TIG members inspire each other to make a difference, learn about issues that matter, and find out how to constructively channel their energy and ideas. With a growing membership of close to 300,000 individuals in over 200 countries, www.tigweb.org has reached 10 million youth since its launch in 2000. As TIG's vibrant global community has evolved, educators have sought to integrate its resources and focus on action-based learning into their teaching. This was made easier in 2006, with the launch of the TakingITGlobal for Educators (TIGed) program. TIGed comprises a community of educators interested in empowering their students to think and act as world citizens, a collection of resources that facilitate the inclusion of global perspectives in the classroom, and a virtual classroom that allows students to use technology to learn with and about peers the world over. Depending on the amount of time available for this session, it could range from a simple introduction to the platform to a hands-on workshop in which participants create and build their own online classroom communities.
Turning Tech allows teachers to use their existing teaching materials with our Student Response technology. We also have a software that is 100% native to PowerPoint, which allows heavy PowerPoint users to use their existing PowerPoint lessons they already have created. With our variety of response devices, we can accommodate Pre-K class rooms all the way up to Higher Education classes. We will demonstrate effective ways to use this technology with your students and show you how you can track your students progress throughout lectures as well as through the school year.
The Utah Instructional Media Consortium buys instructional videos using economies of scale for school districts and charter schools in Utah. You can download or copy the DVDs and use them for as long as you like. Come learn how to access the videos in digital and DVD format. We'll use eMedia. All the videos are easily accessible to every teacher in Utah.
BYOL-Increasingly, educators are attempting to integrate technology-based practices and resources into classroom instruction. Hanson and Carlson (2005) found that 100% of teachers could articulate benefits of using digital resources in the classroom, but teachers also noted that finding useful digital resources takes too much time and the resources themselves need significant modifications before they can be utilized.
Educational digital libraries seek to provide teachers and learners with access to high-quality, online educational materials by cataloging only resources that meet standards for instructional value and accuracy (NSDL, 2010). The search tools provided by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) may support efficient identification of educational materials for the classroom because searches conducted using the NSDL return only instructionally-relevant resources that have met preexisting quality standards.
Thus, we hypothesized that searches conducted within NSDL would be more likely to provide high-quality, reusable curriculum materials compared to a commercial search engine. In a study with preservice teachers, we examined how search tools provided by the National Science Digital Library impacted the success with which participants identified relevant educational resources that they deemed appropriate for classroom use.
Findings demonstrated an advantage of NSDL Science Literacy Maps over keyword search tools. NSDL Science Literacy Maps may be effective because they provide teachers with an organized representation of domain learning goals that can help structure the search for educational materials in a domain. We will discuss these results and their implications for practical strategies to support the search for online, educational materials.
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