Portland+ITSC+2011+Conference+Notes

Portland ITSC Conference – itscapp.oetc.org – all links __ Mon.Feb.20, 2011 __ Joe Morelock, Canby School District Director, Technology & Innovation 5,000 Students, 9 schools, 50% Economically disadvantage, 2,000 laptops, 1.875 iPods __ Ipod Touch & iPad 1:1 - 10 am __ - Grant opportunities: Meeting the needs of every student, get this in students hands - iPod case = speck - Voice Recorder on iPod, read passages, listened to words we messed up with; we could do a rough drafts,; manage them through iTunes; name of student on recording; ditial profolio on iTunes; parent teacher conference - Algebra Touch $2.99 (order operation, like and unlike terms  - “Clickers are just single use technology, bad use of money for a box that does one thing” accessibility built in    - 2 minutes a day, 180 school days, 360 minutes = 6 school days out of the year!    - Peer edit presentations on iPad    - “Never memorize what you can look up in books” Albert Einstein    - wiki.canby.k12.or.us    - dictionary.com, dictionary on desk, thesaurus, voice recorder, clock, globe (google earth) ALL on desk    - wolframalpha $1.99– supercomputer cluster – high campcity processor – google on steroids, asks what specifically you are talking about like a color, name of species, date, formula, define the problem (not problem solving)    - The elements $15, wolframalpha   MATH APPS   - Numberline – free app for fractions, decimals for special ed/resource room!!    - Ninegaps – not for iPad, fraction kitchens – not for iPad - Dice, count by, whiteboard all apps for probability?! Or other - High end kids, enrichment kids strong GREW LANGUAGE ARTS - Google Translate - Chicktionary – how many words can you make - Corkulous – Post goals for the week (collection of goals for the week – posting educational goals!) ANY SUBJECT - iPod shuffle to check out books, audioable/iTunes store - BGA out ( to project onto screen/projector/Smartboard) DATA for iPod Touch’s online – research shown ALL OF THIS IS NOT a silver bullet – use these resources takes **it/problems away!! NO…this is not a eReader…built in though…not a replacement for laptops, different way of working together… $50 iTunes apps to try out Bretford for a cart for iPod Touch/iPad = charges and syncs __ Learning with iPad - 1:30pm __

- Start with your learning targets not the tech - Inkling app – buy one chapter from textbook instead of the whole thing (college only?!?!) - Mit Moble – just for iPod?! - Pages App - $9.99 - Start with your learning targets not the tech Directory for presenters on link __ Curriculum for iPad - 2:45 pm __ __ iTunes U – audio, free (can be), podcasts __

FL vitural school, FLVS * WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE, NEED Pages App!!!!!! template to make ePubs for them to read, read to them, on iPod, iPad, chapter marking, MAKE A BOOK!! Read to students, guided notes!! PBL for math words!! File export (after you have ePub open…ePub, retitle, author, put in different genre) __ Tues.Feb.21, 2011 __

__ Going Global: Preparing Students for global citizens – 8 am __ [|www.lucygray.org], workshop materials [], back channel (use with kids?!), Social Media, Global Issues, connected! - Where is Matt, dancing in different countries, video, show diversity, Matt Harding - Horizon Report K-12, DATA, emerging technology – Principals, Tech, Superintendents (1 year or less, cloud computing, collaborative environments) - The Global Achievement Gap Book, Tony Wagner, 7 skills that kids need to have, global learning/ education, district - High Noon, J.F. Rishard (French), document about global - The World is Flat - A Whole New Mind - Classroom 2.0 – webinar series - Global Education Collaborative - [] - signed up!! - Projectexplorer.org to exchange with others, interview questions, video, pictures, add on and continue - ePals, iEarn, TakingITGlobal, World Savvy to network with others, Skype in with 2 ladies from = Connect with languages.org, educatorcity.com, [] http://aroundtheworldin80schools.com/ Around the globe in 80 days, via Skype Be in environment you can connect – network Google Form [|http://mrmellott1003.weebly.com] [|http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit/65660] [] Challenge 20/20, pair 2 schools together in the world __ This looks interesting – Alec Coursos and Dean Shareski – 2 pm __
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 * Today’s meet back channel **

“Think like a hacker” How would you change this to personalize or how does it work for you, more efficient more relevant delicious bookmark - Posterous: blogging tool – EASY, post@posterous.com, YOU will set up a blog J   - Behold: creative commons, find images, tag, share license with you as well, thru Flickr - iEtherpad.com: like google docs, simpler/easier, invite, creative pad, type in real time, plays back - myfakewall: like facebook for history figures - tagxedo: like wordle with photos, 101 things you can do with tagxedo link – Microsoft Silverlight download is not working properly on my computer, ask/get fixed… - myna: audio editor like garageband, launch, to play with tracks, library to use - random name generator: pick on students - Instapaper: read it later, sync article to an account - screenr: records with audio screen cast, publish, mp4 - Ngram: Google labs, Books Ngram Viewer, trend of word use in google books - Big huge labs: great with Flickr account, motivator, magazine cover, mosaic, enter own, use flickr tag, columns, rows, create - TodaysMeet: backchannel, instant chat room - Tripgeo: mapping tool, google maps for directions, send someone directions with interactive maps, neighborhood map - Symbaloo: personal “star” page for arrange your websites in pods – categories =entertain, edu, etc - Qrcodes: scan with a photo of scan and send to a website, 39 interesting ways to use, Tom Barrett - Bit.ly: bookmark lip, simple URL shortener - Safeshare TV: safest way to share YouTube videos, share parts of it, or take out sounds - Fur.ly: shorten multiple urls into one (more than one links into one class period), slide bar up top - Doodle: Set up a meeting, schedule event, title it, next, click dates, next, time, email the link,see all - Openattribute: all info from site plus link/photo They use delicious.com to keep all URLs online, edmodo.com, fake facebook __ Developing your personal learning network – 3:45 pm __ bud hunt budtheteacher@gmail.com Budtheteacher.com [|www.bit.ly/itscpln] [|www.itscapp.oetc.org] HOW people work, not how the device works Curtis Bonk wrote The World is Open – educational psychologist Purposeful transparency, what do you want to share publically, appropriate conversation Productive eavesdropping, have a recorder, be a great sharer TwitterforTeachers (maybe get) Hash tag for this conference Carbonite.com – Service to check your house fumes… __ Tues.Feb.22, 2011 __ __ Tech ‘Centers’ – 8 am __ 1) New SmartBoard – integrated system 2) Mixed reality – 3D Document Camera 3) SmartTable K-3, 8 students at once 4) New integrated SmartBoard, software, assessment sound amplifying system for room…microphone – pays for itself in a cell phone, small speakers 5) Wireless pad (Mobi, CIM, Clickers, Memios – like Smartboard with no board) 6) Record and play back, interactive, eInstruction, uWriteTouch pad – wireless whiteboard pad you see on the pad, not just board 7) Grade Cam 8) Safari Montos – digitial media content, quality, Bill Ni type of things __ Photos: itscphotos.posterous.com – 8:30 am __ Photo a Day: Remember what happened that day, document your life, take picture yourself, storyteller, capture moment yourself Photographer not just an archivist Choose lisence button: Yes, Yes, etc, html to post on blog or website, students are following picture rights search.creativecommons.org, look at license to right, ethical skill for students, “some rights reserved” Behold.cc: modify pictures Compfight: google it, //tag// by user, fewer results, search TEXT, key words in tags PLUS descriptive images Google Images: Advanced search, drop down box, licensed phot []: ??? Health: How do get naturally high? Wes fryer (google him) to blog post of pictures on posterous, click post to web, for it to be live with slide show like his! Notes feature in Flickr, overlay, to type about, math picture you see everyday, geometry. HistoryPin.com, take photo of todays context with history pictures, Pin your history to the world
 * 20 websites in 20 minutes **
 * Activity #1 ** : Photo editing, Picknic – great quality! Own image, their imagine, quick, easy, editing tools, great! 6 word story, math picture, zoom feature
 * Activity #3 ** : CreativeCommons.org : Free/Open Content, copy left, some rights reserved, tangible form of us, USING NAME BRANDS, license your photo, non-commerial so they won’t use pic for $$
 * Activity #2 ** : Explor Flickr.com Groups: slideshow, pictures, editing, music, quick talk, ADVANCED search, find license for picture, Interesting/relevant button will be quality photos
 * Activity #4: Snopes website, ** is the image/video for real, type in to search this, understanding the media, how do you make it, mindful magic (cropping)