The following are my slides and resources from a professional development workshop that I’ll be facilitating for a local high school today.
Workshop materials available on the resource wiki, Learning Collaboratively.
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These are my slides and resources from another of my sessions here at iSummit in Nashville, TN.
More than 4,000 teachers were recently surveyed about the mobile technologies and apps that they and their students most commonly used. This presentation will provide a hands-on introduction to these tools. Strategies for implementation will be shared.
Visit Digital Tools for Teachers’ Toolboxes, Version 2 for even more tools, tutorials, examples, and resources.
These are my slides and resources from one of my sessions here at iSummit in Nashville, TN.
More than 4,000 teachers were informally surveyed about the Web tools that they and their students most commonly use. This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to these tools along with teacher-created and student-created examples. Strategies for implementation will be shared.
Workshop materials available on the resource wiki, Learning Collaboratively.
I’ve been developing this professional development workshop for the past few months and I am excited about presenting it for the first time today at the AAIM Conference.
Workshop Description
Equip parents to help with homework and enable students to engage with course content inside and outside the classroom with online tutorials. Learn how to easily create audio and video tutorials using free web-based resources.
Workshop Resources
Wiki Page with workshop lesson plan, tutorials, notes, and materials
I’ll be facilitating one of the opening workshops today at the Arkansas Association of Instructional Media Conference. I’m excited to be back in Arkansas as I went to college and spent my first two years teaching in this state. The AAIM Conference is in Hot Springs which is one of my favorite Arkansan (Pronounced like “Are Kansan”) towns. I’ll be speaking a couple of more times throughout the 3 day conference. Here are the resources from today’s workshop.
Workshop Description
Photo scavenger hunts get students moving while engaging them with course content. Well-designed photo scavenger hunts integrate 21st century skills and promote higher-order thinking.
Workshop Resources
This is my slide deck for my keynote presentation at today’s Tennessee Administrator’s Technology Academy. The following serves as an outline of some of the topics that will be highlighted and demonstrated.
Educational Technology: Current Trends and Future Directions
Today’s capacity crowd made the Tennessee Discovery Education Network Leadership Council’s (TN DEN LC) professional development a fantastic event. Thanks to everyone at the Apple Store for being great hosts.
The Tennessee Discovery Education Network Leadership Council (TN DEN LC) is hosting a professional development opportunity at the Apple Store in the Memphis area. These events are always informative and fun! During this time the Apple folks and the TN DEN will explore green screening and iPads. Join us for a great morning of learning! You won’t want to miss this!
Make your reservation soon as seating is limited.
Event Details
Topic #1: iPads in the Classroom
Topic #2: Green Screening and iMovie
Date: Saturday, February 26th. 2011
Time: 8 am -10 am
Apple Store in Saddle Creek
7615 W Farmington Blvd Germantown, TN 38138
The first Midsouth EduTweetUp of 2011 was held Tuesday evening at the IDT Studio. Approximately 10 educators representing several school districts and area independent schools enjoyed an informative evening of networking and idea-sharing.
The evening’s festivities included opportunities for requesting advice/advice sharing, a tour of the IDT Studio, discussion about upcoming events, and concluded with a Web 2.0 Smackdown, where attendees had the opportunity to demonstrate their favorite Web 2.0 tool and share how it can be integrated with teaching and learning.
Thanks to everyone that participated and made this a fun and informative event.
A special thanks to Philip Cummings for coordinating the barbecue dinner and to Trey Martindale for hosting us in the IDT Studio.
Below are the slides from the meeting followed by a few notes and resources from the evening.
Notes
Educational Technology Certificate – UM IDT‘s K-12 certificate in instructional computing applications is a series of four Instructional Design and Technology courses designed to prepare inservice and preservice teachers to meaningfully integrate technology into teaching and learning.
Graduate degrees in Instructional Design and Technology and School Library Information
2011 Martin Institute Spring Conference – Those who come to feast with us can choose from the a la carte menu of learning sessions, attending as few or as many as time allows. Registration in each session will be limited to the first hungry learners to “make their dinner reservations.
The 2011 Martin Institute Summer Conference will focus on PK-6 grade literacy and STEM. The call for presentation proposals will be posted in the coming weeks.
E-Learning Network – Monthly lunch meetings for professionals to learn about and share e-learning technologies and strategies.
Web 2.0 Smackdown
Here are the links from the Web 2.0 Smackdown.
Waze – Real-time maps and traffic information based on the wisdom of the crowd
Twitterfall – Twitterfall is a Twitter client specialising in real-time tweet searches. New tweets fall into the page.
SweetSearch – A search engine for students.
SweetSites – Collections of sites organized by subject and academic level for teachers and students.
Haiku – A lesson-centric learning management system built to bring the advantages of the web to your students and classes.
Digital Wish – Putting technology in the hands of teachers and students.
Wetoku – Easily conduct video interviews.
Skype Education – A free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms.
Sqworl – A clean and simple way to visually bookmark multiple URLs.
NextUp and Meetzi – In-meeting management tools that helps make your meetings more focused, actionable, and on time.
Kids’ Vid – An instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom.
Review the tweets and links using the event tag: #metu.
Future EduTweetUps are already in the works. Please add your information to the Memphis EduTweetUp database to receive information about future events.
Event Tag: #metu
All PK-12 educators (and future educators) are invited to join us for food and fun as teachers from schools and districts all around the Memphis area connect and share ideas. The evening will conclude with a Web 2.0 Smackdown during which attendees can volunteer to share quick demos (under 3 minutes) of some of their favorite Web 2.0 tools and services. Note that free wi-fi will be available in the studio. We’ll also have a computer projector and screen.
We’ll be meeting at the IDT Studio at the University of Memphis (320 Ball Hall) from 5:30 to 7:30 PM on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Please help spread the word via Twitter, Facebook, on your blog(s), email, etc., and include the event tag: #metu. Non-Twitter-using teachers are absolutely welcome to join us, too. There is no registration fee, but we will be having the meal catered from Corky’s ($5/person). Please help us order the appropriate amount of food by RSVP-ing using the buttons in this Tweetvite or contacting Philip Cummings.
Event Tag: #metu
