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Staff Development Day
1/28/08
Morning Technology Offerings
Although many sessions can be adapted for other levels, sessions are labeled as most suitable for ...
A=All
E=Elementary
U=Upper
Abante—a Standards-Based Progress Report A
Bill George
Instructional Practice – Reinforcing effort & providing recognition, Setting objectives & providing feedback
21st Century Skill – Inventive Thinking, High Productivity
Description – Bill will give a general introduction to Abante-the district's standards-based grading system. He will show how grades 9 and 10 are using the software to record student progress and replace Grade Machine. Of interest to grade 10 and 11 teachers and others anticpating moving to the world of standard.
Audacity & GarageBand A
Barb Rehmeyer
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Homework & practice
21st Century Skill – Effective communication
Description – Barb will demonstrate how students can use Audacity and Garage Band for recording themselves, and how to turn those recordings into a Podcast (maybe).
Blogging: An Interactive Alternative to Journals U
Kathleen Jenkins
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Summarizing & notetaking, Homework & practice, Setting objectives & providing feedback
21st Century Skill – Effective Communication, Digital-Age Literacy
Description -- You can use any number of sites to create a blog, an excellent communication skill to get your students to write for an audience. Journaling, student-to-student online comments and prompt responses are a few of many possibilities.
CREST -- Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology A
Hope Rowan, Shey Conover—The Island Institute
Instructional Practice – Reinforcing effort & providing recognition, Nonlinguistic representation, Cooperative learning
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Effective Communication, Inventive Thinking, Digital-Age Literacy
Description – Let us introduce you to CREST--a three-year grant to the Island Institute from the National Science Foundation. Searsport District High School is one of 11 island and coastal high schools/middle schools benefitting from this grant in the form of technology equipment and stipends for students and teachers to attend CREST career fairs, college campus visits, and summer institutes. See how SDHS teachers and students have used this experience and learn how you an be part of it too. Of special interest to MS as there are opportunities for you and your students to become involved.
Google Docs & Student Created Blogs A
Ray Wirth
Instructional Practice – Homework & practice, Cooperative learning, Setting objectives & providing feedback, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Effective Communication, Digital-Age Literacy
Description -- Explore the possibilities of using Google Docs, Blogger, and other Google Tools in the classroom. Find out how to easily create online documents (such as course syllabi or lists of links) and manage student blogs.
Graphs Are Groovy! A
Barb Rehmeyer
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Nonlinguistic representation, Generating & testing hypotheses
21st Century Skill – Digital-Age Literacy
Description – Use websites and AppleWorks Spreadsheets to make simple graphs. Highlights of project SSES 5th graders did using a web database about ice-out dates to make graphs and writing a position statement about “Are Winters Getting Warmer in Waldo County Maine?”
How to Publish a Book on lulu.com A
Brian Merrill
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Homework & practice, Setting objectives & providing feedback, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Effective Communication, High Productivity, Digital-Age Literacy
Description – Learn to use a new online tool, lulu.com, to self-publish a book. This site can be used to publish your own work or perhaps a student anthology, and you can also publish music CD's, DVD's, photo books, calendars, comic books, posters and artwork, all for free! Learn the basics.
iMovie '08 and iMovie 5.0.2 A
Bill Wiley
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Nonlinguistic representation, Cooperative learning, Setting objectives & providing feedback
21st Century Skill – High Productivity
Description – Bill will show parts of the movies he has made using both iMovie '08 (on the MacBook) and iMovie 5.0.2 (on the iBooks) and tell about how he went about making the videos with students. Teachers can experiment with videocameras and programs as time permits.
Intro to MARVEL and ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES U
JoAn Petersen
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Summarizing & notetaking
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Inventive Thinking, Digital-Age Literacy
Description -- Do your students roll their eyes at the mention of Marvel? Find out about the authoritative, peer reviewed articles in these expensive databases that are part of the "hidden web". Issues & Controversies, a previous library hardcopy subscription, is now accessible only online. If you have used this in your classroom, find out how to access it now.
iStop Motion E
Trent Emery
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Nonlinguistic representation, Cooperative learning, Setting objectives & providing feedback
21st Century Skill – Inventive Thinking, High Productivity
Description – This is an explore session. There will be clay and small figures and you can collaborate with others to make an animated movie using videocameras and iStop Motion software on the elementary MacBooks. Discussion about how this technology might be used by your syudents.
Kidspiration Templates and AppleWorks E
Erin Ireland
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Homework & practice, Nonlinguistic representation, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Inventive Thinking
Description – Erin will show some of the Kidspiration templates that she (and Barb Rehmeyer) has used for projects. Some are included in the Kidspiration progam and others are activities that were created with the Activity Wizard. She will show how to make a template in Kidspiration and AppleWorks, and save to the Server so students have easy access to it.
Look What Kids Can Do With a Picture! A
Tracy Armentrout
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Nonlinguistic representation, Cooperative learning, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication
Description – Tracy will describe & show posters that 3rd & 5th grade students made using digital cameras, iPhoto, and AppleWorks. Participants will have an opportunity to make a quick poster with photo and text. Tracy will also show the iPhoto slideshow and Power Point-like presentation made with student's photos.
Needs: own laptop, digital cameras & LCD projector from SSES, handouts?
MARVEL and ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES for ELA/SS U
JoAn Petersen
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Summarizing & notetaking
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Inventive Thinking, Digital-Age Literacy
Description -- Explore author, literary critism, history, and many more databaes. Need a cultural comparison calculator? Find out how to access the library's new online subscription to Issues & Conroversies.
MARVEL for Math/Science U
JoAn Petersen
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Summarizing & notetaking
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Inventive Thinking, Digital-Age Literacy
Description -- Examine Access Science, Wildlife, GeoRef, Agricola, Health, Aquatic and more. These databases provide a rich pool of resoures for your students projects and your lesson consruction. A list of great resources/math manipulatives from MLTI will be provided.
NoteShare/iCal in the Classroom U
Dawn S-K, Darci Bradstreet
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Homework & practice, Setting objectives & providing feedback, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Digital-Age Literacy, Inventive Thinking
Description – Dawn and Darci will show practical, everyday ways they have successfully used NoteShare to get kids organized including using iCal to share class assignments.
Noteshare--Get Students Organized A
Eunice Loredo
Instructional Practice – Summarizing & notetaking, Setting objectives & providing feedback, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication
Description -- Are you tired of hearing students excuses about losing printed materials? Organize lessons and materials electronically and win the battle.
NoteShare to Round Up Research U
Laurie Rule
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, Summarizing & notetaking, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Digital-Age Literacy, High Productivity
Description – In less than 20 minutes learn how to use NoteShare's web research agents to quickly assemble Internet research sources into custom notebooks. Avoid “googling” and multiple bookmarks. Actually find relevant sites and organize everything into a NoteBook.
Portaportal - Making and Adding Websites A
Ron Leighton
Instructional Practice - Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – High Productivity
Description – Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online so it is easy to share with your students. Ron will demonstrate his Portaportal and help you create your own or add new websites to one you have already started.
SmartBoard and Smart Tools A
Gail Anthonis
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, 2, Reinforcing effort & providing recognition, Reinforcing effort & providing recognition, Homework & practice, Nonlinguistic representation, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Effective Communication, Inventive Thinking
Description – Gail will demo how to connect and use your laptop with the SmartBoard, as well as, share some successful student projects. She will also show what the Smart Tool application (installed on everyone's laptop and appearing in the upper left corner of screen on start up) can do without a SmartBoard.
Student and Teacher Reading Resources E
Roxanna Morse
Instructional Practice- Homework & practice, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Goal- Inventive Thinking; higher-order thinking and sound reasoning
Description -- Roxanna will introduce several resources from the Elementary Library web site that provide text (some read aloud) and reading comprehension activities, as well as, practice tests in reading and responding. Will include Storyline Online (http://www.storylineonline.net/), and Enchanted Learning (http://members.enchantedlearning.com/).
Universal Design Features on Your Laptop (particularly useful for SPED folks) A
Laurie Rule
Instructional Practice - Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – Digital-Age Literacy, High Productivity
Description – Teachers want their students to succeed, but a one-size-fits-all approach to education simply does not work. How can teachers respond to individual differences? A universally-designed curriculum offers learners multiple means of representation, expression and engagement. A quick tour of the Universal Design features on your iBook/MacBook will help you customize the learning experience for ALL your students.
Using Message Boards with Students U
Ray Wirth
Instructional Practice – Identifying similarities & differences, 2, Homework & practice, Setting objectives & providing feedback
21st Century Skill – Effective Communication
Description -- Explore the possibilities of using a message board (forum) to enhance student discussion and learning. Find out how to set up and manage a board.
Videography A
Leslie Gregory
Instructional Practice – Nonlinguistic representation, Cooperative learning, Setting objectives & providing feedback, Cues, questions & advance organizers
21st Century Skill – High Productivity, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, Digital-Age Literacy
Description – Usng literacy as the basis for creating authentic, real-world products, Leslie will share student work from her Ethnography class documenting local histories and waterfront usage over time.
Making Data Based Maps U
Maura DiPrete
Instructional Practice – Nonlinguistic representation, Identifying similarities & differences, Generating & testing hypotheses, Cooperative learning
21st Century Skill – Digital-Age Literacy, Effective Communication, High Produtivity, Inventive Thinking
Description – With equipment and software provided by the CREST grant, Maura will share student created maps based on collected field data and the free Maine Geographic Information System (MEGIS) map layers. She will also describe the thinking process behind the maps that leads her students into higher levels of critical thinking.
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