ISTE+2012

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__**Keynotes**__
 * Sir Ken Robinson**
 * Education sits at an interesting crossroads.
 * More and more teachers and kids are becoming disengaged.
 * Education is becoming depersonalized.
 * Irony at its best...NCLB (rather MCLB: Millions of Children Left Behind)
 * We are in a suffucating culture of standardization.
 * Our education system is based on compliance and conformity over creativity.
 * 1 in 3 kids don't make it from grades 9-12
 * Systemic cultural shift is needed
 * What is the role of technology in increasing student engagement.
 * People have more access to mobile devices than clean drinking water.
 * Average person looks at their phone 150 times per day.
 * Mobile learning extends education beyond the physical confines of the classroom, allowing them to collaborate anywhere at anytime.
 * The future of education is wireless.
 * Being digitally literate is essetial for participatin in our future economy.
 * The number of mobile devices will exceed the world population this year.
 * Humans and brains do better with empathy (teachers) and passion (students).
 * Passion leads to achievement. We need to help kids find and develop their passion.
 * Cellophane kids: when teachers look through the students and only see curriculum and test scores.
 * Bring our kids into the future with the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century.

__**Make a Good School an Awesome School with IT**__
 * Visionary leadership should be the cornerstone of a school.
 * All students can learn, all educators can improve.
 * An important element of PD is collaborating with other schools
 * Use data to drive PD. What does the school need to improve upon?
 * Digital Coach...someone devoted to IT learning
 * Trailblazers instead of "pilots". Teachers who try new things and report back to the school.
 * Implementaton Dip - when you go backwards when implementing something new. This is normal and expected. We will go backwards with iPads before going forwards.
 * More school visits as PD!!! Cheap and easy to organize.
 * What are your goals for buying a device? What devices drive the curriculum goals?
 * Sunshine Books Online, Scribblemaps, Photofunia (website for kids to utilize)
 * Use Wordle to check tone of certain documents. You simply upload the document to see which words come out largest. Those are the words that are most frequently used in the document. Great idea for report writing!
 * Allow projects that might end in failure.
 * Brad Coey-Braddon: bcoey4@eq.edu.au
 * Clayton Carnes: ccarn9@eq.edu.au

__**Best Elementary School Educational Apps for iPads, iPhones, Mobile Devices **__
 * alicechristie.org, alice.christie@asu.edu, Arizona State Professor
 * App Name: **Apps4iSchool**
 * 5 C's of Tech Integration: Contextualize, Critique (evaluate), Create, Communicate, Collaborate
 * Doceri: teacher tool, an alternative to the Apple TV, membership required (booth 4213)
 * Teacher Tools: TeacherPal, Readability (take any webpage and puts in into a book format), LogMeIn (allows you to connect wirelessly to your home computer), Screen Chomp (, Camera +, FaceTime (collaboration similar to Skype), Skype, iTunesU, Google Translate
 * iWork: Pages, Numbers, Keynote iLife: iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand
 * General Student Tools: Mental Case Classroom Edition (organization), myHomework (organization), Evernote (note taking), Famous Quotes, LogMeIn, Adobe Reader
 * How Stuff Works for iPad, PBS Kids Video, BrainPop Featured Movie, Qwiki (takes a topic and puts it into a movie format)
 * Science Reference Tools: Audubon Guides - A Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Flowers, and Trees, Science Glossary @ Visionlearning, Quake Tracker (live app that finds where earthquakes are happening), StarWalk for iPad - Interactive Astronomy
 * Social Studies: Stack the States, Stack Countries, Factbook, BIO graphy, GeoBee,
 * Language Arts: Writing and Drawing (creation)- Pages, IA Writer (scaled back word processing, Kid Paint, PS Express, Drawing Pad, Postcard (have kids take a picture of something, write about it on the postcard and send it to the teacher...ex: Picture of an octagon, "Here is a photo of an octagon....", Toontastic, Sticky Notes, Speller, Penultimate, SWF, Ghostwriter, Snapguide,
 * Productivity Tools: BookBuddy Lite, Animoto, PostcardExpress, Use Your Handwriting,
 * Collaboration Tools: Educreation Interactive Whiteboard, Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative Drawing, Screen Chomp (kids can be geographically separate but can still be working together)
 * Puzzles, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking: Doodle Fit, Jigsaw Puzzles, Lego Instructions, Little Things (similar to I Spy books)
 * AppsGoneFree: One free app per day
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__**Mentoring New Teachers**__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/11NWF25huJKgQ7ntZ-yBJVSBscg4rNh-N5ILak3D9awE/mobilebasic?pli=1
 * @teachingwthsoul (Lisa M. Dabbs)
 * #ntchat on Twitter meets online every Wednesday
 * http://bit.ly/LisaDabbsISTE12
 * To Follow: @mbteach, @kleinerin, @dmantz7, @shellterrell, @tobethatteacher
 * Shannon Miller: vanmeterlibraryvoice blog
 * Kleinspiration.com
 * First Steps to Support New Teachers: pairing (TRAINED) veteran teachers as mentors to new teachers, create mini PLC's of new teachers lead by a mentor teacher
 * Online Teacher Mentors: http://www.edupln.com/group/thenewteachermentoringproject
 * Get them on TWITTER!!
 * Develop a robust teacher induction program. One that is engaging and innovative, rather than just having them sit there and listen to someone speak.
 * Emphasize the importance of working with parents.
 * Great Apps: Foton, Animoto, EduCreations

__**ePortfolios in 1st Grade**__
 * Use Google Doc's and then embed it onto their Kidblog
 * Have a scanning station in the room where kids can scan their stuff, or better yet, teach them to take a picture of it with the iPad and then upload
 * Video clips of students reading
 * zilladog.net: parent protected email
 * www.edmodo.com - similar to FB but education related
 * Components of an ePortfolio: development (shows growth, timeframes, and progress over a period of time), reflection (student-led, thought provoking, teacher guided), showcase (student & teacher selected, shows growth, assessment (authentic, ongoing, varied)
 * 5 Steps:
 * 1. Create work in Google Docs over a period of time
 * 2. Decide what items to share in ePortfolio
 * 3. Create Blogger Account
 * 4. Link, embed documents and reflections
 * 5. Customize blog

__**iPads**__ Benefits of Device: collaborate, create, communicate, interact, access, media, engage, and provide student expression Supports types of Pedagogy: differentiation, personalization, multiple intellegences, sensory, and adaptable
 * Story Robe App
 * Prologuo2Go: communications app for nonverbal students
 * Pages: used to create student eBooks
 * Corkulous: digital corkboard
 * Inspiration Maps: a tool for mind mapping or brainstorming
 * Popplet
 * Drawing Apps: drawing pad, hello crayons, doodle buddy, adobe photoshop
 * Photography: Photogene, adobe photoshop express, iPhoto
 * Videos: iMovie
 * Check out the iAm app: this was the video of middle school students
 * Garage Band for Podcasts: have students make a podcast about the book they just read. Interview style works well.
 * Keynote: presentations
 * Storytelling: Comic touch, strip designer, comic life
 * iStop Motion: for claymation

__**7 New Things to Try with Video**__
 * Media Festival: CA student media festival, mediafestival.org (go to "Steal Everything"), a place where students can post their videos for judging.
 * Make Videos From Video Games: Rooserteeth.com (need an EZcap or a Dazzle), this would be a great mini idea.
 * iPad Microscope: buy a microscope off Amazon and attach it to the iPad camera with a grommet (super glue the grommet). On YouTube: Davidson Microscope
 * Video Making Apps:
 * Cinemagram (make part of the still photo have video): http://cinemagr.am/
 * Green Screen FX (adds a background behind the student ***use with 50 States)
 * Coach's Eye (comment on video)
 * Action Movie FX: rock falling
 * MadPad: make 12 recordings ("The-capital-of-MN-is".....each kid has a word for the sentence)
 * Morph Software (have to buy on Amazon): shows the changes of a picture over time (perfect for 5th grade graduation!)
 * QR Code Game Scavenger Hunt
 * hook a camcoder up to PC (use a Dazzle)
 * The Den, Qrvoice.net, Adobe Youth Voices
 * Cut apart a QR code

__**Bookmarks, PLNs, and More: Supercharge Your Learning, Teaching, and Research **__ Follow: @coolcatteacher, Viki Get a Diigo Education Domain for the school to bookmark in. Mr. Reader App: Best reader app that is compatible with Diigo Buffer: Twitter App

__**Multi-Player Math Gaming**__ Wed 8:30am, SDCC 32AB -Presentation Slides and Resources: http://www.arcademics.com/ideas/rti/ -Aracademics Website: Run by the University of Kansas, games created based on research about fluency and rapid response. The idea is to increase rate of fluency. They do not address higher level thinking skills, intentionally. It is truly targeted at fluency. -"By the middle of first grade, student's ability to quickly and automatically retrieve facts becomes critical for success in mathematics, as decades of research has indicated." -Fasnot and Jacob
 * Use visual representation
 * 10 minutes of fact fluency practice daily
 * Multiplication table is really only 18 facts that need to be memorized
 * Students should understand the numbers, their relationships, etc. to help them understand
 * Quick images (flashes images on the screen, fingers, dice, etc.): rekenweb (http://goo.gl/quppT)
 * The best way to teach math is with the iceberg model (drills come last). They need the basic understanding of number sense before practicing.
 * It's not about memorization, but rather about understanding number relationships
 * Targeted practice, not just random. Give students practice in only the areas they need.
 * Motivated by: challenge, competetion, prestige (earning rewards), immersion into new situations.
 * Every month there is a free Arcademics app in the app store. Follow on Twitter and FB for free announcements.
 * Tug of War games allow students to work collaboratively and competitively.
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__**<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969);">Lit Circles with iPads: www.ipadlitcircles.com **__
 * Ask questions that intigate inquiry...higher level thinking. What is the text saying? Not factual questions.
 * Apps for Internet Resources: dotEPUB (turns websites into book format and dumps into iBooks) and JoliPrint (turns websites into clean PDF's)...they can annotate in GoodNotes, Noterize, epiNote+, etc.)
 * Book & Response Journal Options: Notability (type, record, embed) or PaperPort
 * Make sure students are assigned to an iPad that they only use (shared by the same 5 kids).
 * Use the camera to record themselves voicing their opinion on characters.
 * Roles: connector (takes an idea from the text and connects it to another experience or idea "This reminds me of....", Illustrator, investigator (researcher), wordsmith (shares vocabulary)
 * Popplet: have them create a popplet and then save as a jpeg. It saves to photo library and then they can upload to their blog.
 * Visual Thesauras and Word Atlas Apps