SESSION 7, 1:10-2:10
Build Your District's Capacity to Use Technology
Come learn about the Partnership for Technology Professional Development, a new DOE initiative that will offer online technology courses for administrators and teachers through MassONE. In this session, project partners (CAST, Virtual High School, and MESPA) will speak about the courses they will offer, which will include topics such as 21st century skills development, Universal Design, online assessment, and technology leadership. The courses will include a train-the-trainer component that will help participants spread their new knowledge throughout their districts. Details about the project are available at http://www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/teacher/ptpd.html.
Grace Meo, Director, Professional Development and Outreach Services, CAST
Skip Stahl, Director, Technical Assistance and Project Director, NIMAS Development
Donna Scribner, Chief Learning Officer, Virtual High School (VHS)
Kathi Lengel, Curriculum Integration Specialist, MESPA Education and Technology Center
PoemPoint: Poetry Comes Alive!
This workshop will show teachers how, by using a combination of video and software, poetry can be taken off the page and turned into something lively, dynamic and fun. Attendees will be given tools for how to put a multimedia spin on poetry and be shown examples of finished projects. By showing various poems that have been adapted as short films, students are given a chance to not only hear a poem, but also to see what visual images artists have paired with particular words or phrases. Students are then given a chance to choose a poem of their own, and using PowerPoint, Flash animation, or other multimedia programs, create their own short “films” for poems that have been covered in class. The presentation will feature teacher- and student-generated samples, clips of the original short films, suggestions for tailoring the assignments to different grades and skill level, and examples of grading rubrics for use in the classroom.
Jay Savage, English Teacher, South Shore Vocational Technical High School
English Language Arts, Multimedia
intermediate, high school
Instructional Technology in the Science Classroom
This workshop will present an array of instructional technologies that can be used in the classroom. Areas of emphasis will include e-textbooks, distance learning, science resources on the Internet, streaming video, CD's, public television, federally funded government initiatives, and state sponsored support for science teachers. This presentation will demonstrate the use of these products in the science classroom plus new information from the MSELA Summer Leadership Institute that will take place in July 2006.
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Tom Vaughn, Professor of Earth Science, School of Professional and Continuing Studies, Northeastern University, 1991 Pathfinder
Science
intermediate, high school |
Integrating eBooks Across the Curriculum
Learn how to create your own eBooks! Its use is rapidly increasing due to the popularity of mobile technologies such as PDAs, laptops, tablet PCs and iPODs. This presentation will demonstrate methods for creating eBooks that can be used to support all curricular content areas. Samples of eBooks created by eReader for Palm OS, Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC, and Adobe Reader will be showcased. Methods for integrating interactive eBooks into the curriculum will be introduced. A comprehensive printed list of eBook resources will be provided for all and beamed to audience members who bring their Palm PDAs.
Dr. Maria Lizano-DiMarie, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Antoinette Bruciati, Program Director for Education Technology, Sacred Heart University Education Department|
Handheld Technology
K-12
Integrating eBooks Curriculum.pdf (78KB)
eBooks Library.pdf (188KB)
eBooks Accommodations.pdf (1MB)
ABC's and 123's — Keyboarding Strategies for K-6
Master instructional strategies that engage your students with an alphabet poem, software, and interactive online games to create a solid framework of keyboarding skills. Develop good, safe technique before your students develop any hunt and peck habits.
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Gabrielle Richard-Harrington, Instructional Technology, Greenfield Middle School
Vocational Arts
elementary, intermediate |
Keyboarding
***Quick and Easy Computer Activities for Kids
In this fast-paced session, you'll discover many quick and easy-to-create projects that integrate technology into all areas of the elementary curriculum, using Kid Pix, Inspiration, Microsoft Office or AppleWorks and the Internet. Activities are aligned to the ISTE standards and to the multiple Intelligences. You'll leave with dozens of clever ideas you can use tomorrow in your classroom!
Melanie Woolworth, Educator, Visions Technology
Multimedia
elementary, intermediate
IQuest: Multiple Intelligences and Technology in Action
The IQuest addresses all the intelligences identified in the pioneering work of Dr. Howard Gardner while providing a clear structure and specific goals for your twenty-first century classroom. Come join Walter in a discussion of how the IQuest can empower your teachers as effective technology users! Walter has developed a flexible approach to delivering information age learning experiences: the Intelligence Quest, or IQuest. Whether you are known among your colleagues as being on the leading edge of new instructional techniques or you are cautious to adopt new ideas at first, the IQuest can help you restructure your approach in all facets of instruction, from simple read and response activities to full-fledged technology-infused projects. The IQuest can support teachers in helping their students make connections across the intelligences, across subject areas, across technologies to the real world working definition of information age productivity.
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Walter McKenzie, Director of Technology, Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, Surfaquarium Consulting, 2006 Pathfinder
Constructivist Classrooms, Technology Integration
K-12, administration |
IQuest.pdf (2.05 MB)
Walter McKenzie's One and Only Surfaquarium
Creating Interactive Documents
Interactive documents for teaching and learning can be created using Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Word. Using the Forms Toolbar and Control Toolbox, text input boxes as well as other type of interactive controls such as drop down lists, option buttons and checkboxes can be added to a document creating an interactive tool that can be used with or without the Internet. Word documents can be used as worksheets, surveys, or tests. Interactive PowerPoints can provide a differentiated approach for teaching and for assessment. Creative presentations are especially helpful for students who are visual learners. Animations can help illustrate complex processes and keep students' focus. Actions can be attached to any objects on a slide allowing for creative and effective interactive activities. These documents can be stored locally to be used in the classroom or be made available through a web site for distance learning activities.
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Catherine Case, Technology Coordinator, Bresnahan Elementary School, Newburyport
Distance Learning, Multimedia
all |
Creating Interactive Documents Handout.pdf (368KB)
HAWKS Radio Station: Internet Broadcasting and Podcasting
Xaverian community radio provides an immensely powerful tool for delivering educational standards and providing a real world learning experience for students, parents, and alumni. Internet radio design involves realistic problem solving, investigation, development, and innovation. Xaverian students demonstrate these skills as the disc jockeys, webmasters, and computer technicians who produce Hawks Radio. Broadcasting and podcasting also connect students to other school communities worldwide. For instance, The Modern Language Department uses podcasting to talk to other schools in France and Spain. In addition, the History Department allows students to produce a radio show on the History of Rock n' Roll. Finally, the Hawks Radio boasts a segment designated to sports and news casting. Participants will gain first-hand knowledge on how to set-up an Internet based radio station, walk away with strategies on how to produce radio shows, listen to recorded works from Hawks Radio, and leave the workshop full of ideas on how a radio station can be incorporated into the curriculum.
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Theresa Jay, Director of Technology, Xaverian Brothers High School, Westwood
Multimedia, Media Literacy
high school, network managers |
WhKS.pdf (91KB)
djcontact©right.PDF (215KB)
soundexchangeelection.PDF (361KB)
soundexchangeinvoice.PDF (375KB)
Wanted: Super Technology Leaders
Left your Superman shirt at home? Doubting your Super Powers? Find out what it really takes to be a technology leader. In this presentation, we'll explore educational technology as a profession and the role of the technology leader, examining the roles, responsibilities, qualifications, and characteristics of technology leaders in the context of technology coordinators as change agents. Included will be a brief review of the literature, a preview of the findings of a recent survey of Massachusetts district technology coordinators, and a look at some of the current technology leaders in Massachusetts. How did they qualify? What is their “value-add?” You may be surprised to find that you're already doing many of the right things!
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Laurie Keating, President, MassCUE; VP Technology Research/Planning, CELT Corporation, 1997 Pathfinder
Administration, Technology Leadership
administration, network managers, technology coordinators, instructional technology specialists |
COURTYARD PRESENTATIONS
Getting Beyond Testing- Putting the focus back in teaching using digital instructional solutions.
Learn how instructional technology solutions focus the teacher and student on instruction. Nothing is more important than providing students with the individual instruction they need to succeed at each point along their continuum of learning.
Join us to explore Pearson Digital Learning's research-based instructional technology solutions that elevate the art and science of teaching and inspire students to reach their greatest potential.
Kelli Hodges, Pearson Digital Learning
SRI, Scholastic Reading Inventory
Dr. Spencer will show how this reading inventory helps lexile students for reading tracking and progress monitoring and how the SRI links student's interests levels and reading levels to match and guide student selection. Teachers and districts will use the SRI to track progress and become informed based upon the generated reports by SRI .
Julia Spencer, Ph.D.
RM Math Framework Edition
RM Math Framework Edition is a digital curriculum for Middle School Math. The program is designed for Whole class teaching, using interactive technology; it also supports individual instruction and remote learning. During the presentation you see a sample of the variety of 2000+ resources and activities that staff can use to engage and motive students to enjoy and understand Math. Harness the power of interactive whiteboard technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics! See how you can transform mathematics to motivate, excite, and engage students! Improve math performance and test scores! The presenter will demonstrate how to integrate interactive whiteboard and wireless technology into the curriculum with a particular focus on middle school grade levels.
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Sue Scott-Mitchell, Senior Educational Consultant, RM Educational Software
Mathematics, Teacher Productivity
Intermediate |
Requirements are changing. Are you ready?
Data collection and reporting have always been important, but with the onset of NCLB collecting data for state and federal reporting is a growing requirement. As a result, school districts need the most efficient way to comply with state and federal reporting and improvement requirements. UNICOM has the answer you are looking for and its name is Infinite Campus . We believe that Infinite Campus is the best and most cost effective comprehensive Student Information System on the market today. Currently managing more than 1.25 million student records in over 3,000 school districts nationwide, Infinite Campus is an integrated, web-based, and well proven solution with capabilities that surpass those of its competitors. Infinite Campus is a tool that will help you improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.
IT staff and administrators
Website Content Management Software
Is the task of updating your website becoming overwhelming? Are you spending too much time updating content for non-technical users? Would you like to have an easy to use interface so teachers or principals can update their content? Savvy's Content Manager, a powerful and easy to use web content manager puts web site management in the hands of the people who provide content. Editing is as simple as clicking on an area of a web site in Savvy's browser-based interface, updating the information and then publishing to the Web with another click. No coding, no file transfers, no additional software, and no rising IT costs. Web content management is made easy and affordable and the web site is always up to date.
Savvy Software, Inc.
Common Backup Mistakes
Everyone focuses on their 'nightly backup' but are you missing some key data? This session focuses on the most common backup errors and items missed. Come learn the strategies and check points you need on your network. General topics include:
- Log Backups
- Routing and Firewalls
- Key Workstations
- Snapshots of Servers
- Point in Time Restores
- Testing
Michael Healey, CTO, GreenPages
Meet Learning Networks
This session will highlight the services offered by Learning Networks, a vendor that works in partnership with towns and learning organizations to harness the power of the Internet to create virtual communities. Learning Networks builds tools for creating easy-to-update websites, adding power to FirstClass desktops, and simplifing account management by linking to the SIS; while also providing user training & support and hosting FirstClass & the website.
FirstClass —Open Text Corporation
Big6 Turbo Tools
Technology added to the Big6 process makes students more organized and successful information problem-solvers and assists educators in guiding and directing projects and meeting technology and information literacy standards.
Stephen Kunzler, Alexandria / Big 6 Turbo Tools
Digital Storytelling with unitedstreaming
This session will focus on digital storytelling as an important instructional tool, both in and out of the classroom. Teachers can capitalize on all the digital assets available to them through unitedstreaming to create simple, yet powerful digital stories using free programs like PhotoStory 3, Movie Maker, iMovie, and more.
Discovery Education
Intervention to Enrichment Through Interactive Software for the Diverse Elementary Math Classroom
We will share strategies for using interactive software in Numeracy and Algebraic Thinking for intervention to enrichment as well as regular classroom use to help students to understand and teachers to teach.. Counting, Operations, Place Value, Comparing, Ordering, Problem Solving, Fractions, Decimals. Participants will receive a CD & corresponding lesson outlines which can be used in a variety of learning environments.
Rudy Neufeld, Senior Author of Understanding Math
Fred Steitz, New England Consultant
elementary
OnCourse Lesson Planner: Improving Lesson Plan Creation, Management and Sharing
Come see how more than 30,000 teachers and administrators are using the OnCourse Lesson Planner to integrate, track, and analyze federal, state, and local educational standards, comprehensive curriculum, and more! OnCourse Lesson Planner is a web-based tool that automates the creation, management, and sharing of lesson plans. Through easy-to-use online templates, teachers can more quickly and easily write, edit, and collaborate on lesson plans. Principals can review and comment on the plans electronically. And teachers can map lessons to educational standards enabling administrators to generate reporters about what’s being taught, when, and by whom.
Georgia Gallicchio, OnCourse Systems for Education
