ISTE_Webinar_Descriptions_2010-11

**Webinar Descriptions**
=2010-2011=

Name: Rich Blozie Bio: Rich Blozie is a Technology Integration teacher and professional development provider for the Weston Public Schools in Connecticut. Prior to working in Weston, Rich was a technology director, library/media department chairperson, and a classroom teacher with a specialty focusing on technology. Rich has been a doctoral technology teaching assistant with three different universities including Columbia University, where he completed one of his graduate degrees. Rich serves on the Board of Directors for a non-profit technology organization that supports promoting effective 21st-century educational technologies for schools. Rich has taken a personal interest in online learning and believes that all students should experience an online course prior to graduating high school. Name: Robert Miller Bio: Robert Miller is the Director of Information and Communication Technologies for the New Canaan Public Schools in Connecticut. He is entering his seventh year in this position at New Canaan and spent five years in a similar role in a neighboring school district. Rob is responsible for the technology infrastructure, technology support, data services, state reporting, and the instructional program for Technology and Library Media, merged as Information and Communication Technologies, in New Canaan. Rob recently finished his Doctorate of Education at Northcentral University in E-Learning and Teaching Online. His dissertation focused on the development of 21st-century communication, collaboration, and digital literacy skills through the use of social network tools at the high school level. || This is what a P.L.N. (Personal Learning Network) is all about. Join our session and find out how to get stated, how to create the PLN, software to use and who to invite. How to learn from others and share. Participants will learn how to meet and communicate with people in a PLN that you will create. Discover why Ning's are like subject area resource rooms in a large school. They’re social networks connecting teachers with common interests. Connect to discussion forums, utilize a blog, share resources, and plan group activities. Learn how to attend a conference Virtually. Online sessions and summaries allow you to be there in spirit even when it’s impossible to be there in body. You can locate conference sessions and then view archived the videos available on the website. Workshop participants can share updates with teachers not at the conference, to ask questions during panel discussions. We will demonstrate 5 PLN's that include, Classroom 2.0, Educators PLN, ProTeacher, Teachers.net, and Global Education Network. Discover how educators around the world are willing to share their ideas/information back and forth, provide creative and refreshing new ideas; get advice from a very supportive group. and a great place to meet teachers from all over the country. ||
 * 10/13/10 || Technology Leadership Through Modeling || Chris O'Neal || Learn strategies for modeling technology use by practicing what one preaches. What the participants get out of it is strategies for demonstrating their own commitment to technology, by using it authentically during faculty meetings, and for admin-related tasks. ||
 * 10/20/2010 || Standing Room Only: Creating PowerPoints || David Jakes || From sitting on a stool telling a story, to using PowerPoint or Keynote, being able to communicate effectively has never been so important. This session provides participants with ten strategies for helping students develop compelling presentation media that will help them convey their ideas and passions. Leave the session with an understanding of how biology, learning theory, and design principles can reshape how your students present their ideas to the world. ||
 * 10/27/2010 || Impact Learning and Engagement With Images || Gail Lovely || Use copyright-friendly, powerful images to enhance learning and engagement in your classroom! This webinar will provide you with thoughtfully selected image sources, powerful free image editing and creation tools, and the desire to immediately use more images in your learning environment. ||
 * 11/3/2010 || Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning || David Jakes || Humans are anatomically built to process visually. With that in mind, how can educators take advantage of the explosion of user-created visual content, the Web's enormous capacity to distribute that content in multiple formats, and the high level of engagement that occurs when visual content is used in instruction and in student-created media? This session explores a framework for understanding the process of helping students become more visually literate, and identifies the strategies and tools to do so. ||
 * 11/10/2010 || Glogs--the Next Best Thing || Cristine Clarke || This presentation explores the pedagogical uses of the traditional paper and pencil poster and how it can now be technologically enhanced through the use of www.Glogster.com Glogster allows students to create digital posters which include multimedia elements. In the presentation we define the educational value of posters, when they are best used as an element of instructional design, how to comment on and grade Glogs. Participants will also create their own Glogs to get started. ||
 * 11/17/2010 || Cool Tools for Schools || Adam Bellow || As the world we live and teach in evolves, the role of the educator is changing too. This presentation takes a look at some exciting digital story-telling tools, as well as soon alternative search engines for students. We will explore some great ways to search for content as well as ways to help teachers integrate other web tools into their classroom learning. ||
 * 12/1/2010 || iPad Program Implementation || Camilla Gagliolo || The iPad brings interactive learning and a range of amazing resources to the fingertips of all learners. Discover the possibilities of learning in your classroom with the new iPad and turn your classroom into an engaging learning environment with media rich learning resources and interactive applications. The purpose of this session is to share the many educational uses and integration ideas of the new iPad into classroom learning. The session will discuss applications for use in Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science as well as applications for creativity, organization, reading, communications, and reference materials. Participants will learn about the many applications available across the curriculum and management strategies for their use in the classroom. ||
 * 12/8/2010 || Understanding and Applying Web 2.0 Technologies to Teaching and Learning || David Jakes || This session explores how Web 2.0 connective technologies can be used to support student learning. We'll examine the affordances of key tools that support the development of timeless skills such as being able to communicate, collaborate and think critically and creatively. Additionally, a framework for assembling these technologies in the context of a digital learning space will be discussed. Leave the session with an understanding of cutting-edge technologies and how they can be leveraged to create new learning environments for students. ||
 * 12/15/2010 || Movin’ On Up in Science: Taking Integration to the Next Level || Ben Smith and Jared Mader || Ben and Jared are back! And in this webinar, they show you how to effectively and seamlessly integrate technology into your science classroom. See how they use technology to help their students find information, collect and analyze data, and communicate about their learning. Discover how the NETS for Students can provide a roadmap for what your students should be able to do. Learn from best practices, handouts, and sample projects. Presenters Ben Smith and Jared Mader of Red Lion School District in Pennsylvania are well-known for how they integrate technology into the science curriculum. ||
 * 1/5/2011 || Web Tools in the K-12 Classroom || Ben Smith and Jared Mader || The world is changing as technology changes the nature of the "community" in which we live. Students already use technology to bring them closer and connect them to one another in a virtual way. They exist on FaceBook or MySpace for a social connection, deliverable at any time. Web 2.0 tools allow for social interaction to be integrated into the curriculum. We will demonstrate ways to effectively make use of these technologies in the science classroom. The NETS-S provide standards identifying what students should be able to do related to technology skills. Web2.0 tools provide many opportunities to transform the traditional learning environment by providing students with the ability to make social connections in completing their assignments. This session will explore how to use the latest Web 2.0 tools available including social project creation, reviewing, sharing, and more. ||
 * 1/12/2011 || Intro to Inquiry-based Learning, Part 1 || Neil Stephenson || Calgary Science School uses a framework for inquiry-based learning that revolves around an Inquiry Rubric for teachers. This rubric breaks inquiry-based learning down to eight components (authenticity, academic rigour, assessment, technology, working with experts, communication, value beyond the school and active exploration). In this session, Neil Stephenson will introduce the eight components of strong inquiry based work, and then provide a number of classroom projects that illustrate the rubric. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate by using the rubric to assess the projects shared. ||
 * 1/19/2011 || 140 Characters and Beyond: Extending Your Use of Twitter || David Jakes || Do you want to know what I had for breakfast? How bad traffic is in rush hour? Of course not! But by now, you have probably have had a chance to try out Twitter and engage in the actual conversations that can help you become an active member of an always-on learning network. This session will help you extend and add value to your Twitter experience by demonstrating a variety of new Twitter tools that can serve to create a more comprehensive and capable platform for learning. Leave the session with an understanding of how to enlarge the affordances of Twitter and how to make it an essential part of your practice. ||
 * 1/26/2011 || Intro to Inquiry-based Learning, Part 2 || Neil Stephenson || Calgary Science School uses a framework for inquiry-based learning that revolves around an Inquiry Rubric for teachers. This rubric breaks inquiry-based learning down to eight components (authenticity, academic rigour, assessment, technology, working with experts, communication, value beyond the school and active exploration). In this session, Neil Stephenson will introduce the eight components of strong inquiry based work, and then provide a number of classroom projects that illustrate the rubric. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate by using the rubric to assess the projects shared. ||
 * 2/2/2011 || The Power to Integrate with Web Mashups || Terry Herman || Web 2.0 applications have exploded in recent years resulting in a plethora of cool tools and Web services. Have you begun to incorporate these online Web services and applications into your pedagogical mix? What if you could pick and choose your favorite applications and online Web services, include your own data, and combine them in unique ways to energize student learning and provide an integrated learning experience? You can! Mashups involve the reuse, or remixing, of works of art, of content, and/or data for purposes that usually were not intended or even imagined by the original creators. Mashups can be used for navigating and visualizing content and to understand the connections between the different mashup components revealing unexpected trends and relationships. We will explore the concepts and technology of Web mashups using Yahoo! Pipes to seamlessly remix existing online Web services, tools, and widgets for new and unique applications. Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. ||
 * 2/9/2011 || Teaching with the iPod Touch || Chris O'Neal || This thumbs-on workshop is designed for iPod Touch users to explore fun and productive apps and finally get that iPod doing all it's meant to do! Learn ways to customize your iPod Touch for personal efficiency; explore applications for communication, collaboration, and productivity; envision and plan a classroom-rollout for iPod Touches; explore an iPod website designed to provide an educator-friendly interface for using iPods. ||
 * 2/16/2011 || Online Facilitation and Design Tips || Les Foltos & Matt Huston || Your school or district is offering online courses. Maybe you've been teaching online for a while; perhaps you are considering it. What works best online for teachers? What transfers well from face-to-face teaching, what is unique to online facilitation, and what are some challenges to consider in the planning stage? This Webinar will model online facilitation best practices, distinguish between synchronous, asynchronous, and blended modes of delivery (and the keys to success for each of them), offer models of online facilitation (and opportunities for further education), and engage participants in ways that will transfer to their own online design and teaching. The Webinar will include brief exploration of how online facilitation and design principles can and often do improve *face-to-face* instruction. Participants will be provided with one or more pieces of research and/or models of online facilitation as pre-reading / pre-viewing. ISTE NETS alignment for key online facilitation ideas will be provided. Learners will co-construct meaning as we go, using polls, whiteboards, text slides and any other interactive elements supported by the Webinar platform. By initial design, the Webinar will focus primarily on facilitation but include design tips along the way. ||
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 * 3/2/2011 || What Should Administrators Know and Be able to Do with Technology in the Classroom? || Ben Smith and Jared Mader || From cell phones to AUPs and everything in between are some of the problems and issues facing today's administrators. The NETS-A provide a tangible list of administrative goals and skills needed to perform as an effective digital age leader. In this hour, we take a closer look at the NETS and what administrators need to be able to do to transform their schools into a global, digital-age learning environment. The presenters bring two different sides to these issues - one from a teacher, the other from a Director of Technology. How do we create the best situation for our students to learn? The discussion begins with classifying the use of technology in order to more effectively observe teachers and improve instruction. We will discuss the Speak Up Report and how it applies to today's classroom. This session will also explore some ways to create safe,but dynamics learning environments. Let's engage in a true discussion of the issues facing today's students, teachers, and administrators. ||
 * 3/9/2011 || Heartware in the Classroom: Integrating 2.0 Tools into Global Collaborative Projects || Jim Carleton and Mali Bickley || During this webinar, participants will explore a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can be integrated into any classroom program in a meaningful way. Participants will be able to investigate how these engaging tools can be integrated into classroom practice while being embedded in collaborative projects. Participants will b exposed to a variety of 2.0 tools and shown examples of how each can be integrated into meaningful projects. A short discussion about ethical and responsible use of ICT in the classroom and digitral literacy will preceed the exploration of using 2.0 tools in a literacy with ICT presentation. Examples of 2.0 tools to be explored •Edublogs •Glogster •Voice Threads •Podcasting •Web Conferencing using Skype and/or Adobe Connect/Elluminate •Publishing tools- My Hero •Digital Storytelling using Photoshop Elements •Wiki Spaces It will become evident through the webinar that these tools are used to encourage collaborations worldwide, thereby showing that it is not about simply using the hardware, but using the heart to foster relationships. ||
 * 3/16/2011 || Technology-Rich Adult Learning: A Model for Online Instructional Design || Linda Carling and Kristen Thompson || Learn about a model for the development of technology-rich online and blended programs and courses for adult learners that has evolved from experience and the research literature at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education (CTE). CTE's Online Learning Model builds upon adult learning theory, principles of backward design, professional development standards, and ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) to create high quality, project-based online and blended courses. These courses are designed to support high levels of interaction using web-based technology tools, as well as community-building, high-performance teaming, and ongoing participant reflection. In this session, gain practical techniques and strategies for establishing development roles and timelines that model digital-age work and learning. Also, learn how to design digital-age online assessments and activities while ensuring continuity, maintaining participant momentum, and creating media-rich content. Explore creative applications of Web 2.0 tools in online and blended courses that inspire active student learning and knowledge construction. Throughout this presentation, gain best practices for applying the NETS-T in the design of your online and blended courses to engage participants and promote learning. Also, discover how this instructional design model was applied to the development of the Johns Hopkins University Online Graduate Certificate in School Administration and Supervision, a NETS-A aligned program in partnership with ISTE. ||
 * 3/23/2011 || You Always Wanted to Create an Online Course--Here's How! || Rich Blozie and Robert Miller || Description (TBA)
 * 3/30/2011 || Dynamic Digital Portfolio Building: Your Best Reflection || Carol Teitelman || Building a digital reflection of your ideas and products takes vision and tools. While digital portfolios have been around for a while, they are uncharted water for many teachers. Some teachers lack the knowledge of digital tools while others are unsure of what artifacts to collect and showcase. In working with a new statewide initiative, I have found that focusing on the tools and a process provides the guidance that most teachers need. Once they have worked through their own portfolio, the potential for using them with students seems to make much more sense. Working toward seeing the portfolio as a dynamic, changing reflection of one's ideas and work provides new ideas in assessment. Several free sites will be shown for portfolio building and the Epsilen portal used in Texas will be demonstrated as an example. Tools will include Flickr, Shown'd, and Picasa. Instructions will be available for 360 panoramic photography and spin photos to include 3D objects. ||
 * 4/6/2011 || PLN: Building Your Global Connection Network || Howie DiBlasi || You walk into the room and they are all there. The greatest resource people in the world, educational professionals, lecturer's, visionaries, innovators, and authors. You start conversations with them and they can be as long or as short as you want, and as in-depth as you have time for. Then you discuss ways to teach various concepts, learn about resources that others are using, or maybe even have conversations that challenge the way you think about education and teaching.
 * 4/13/2011 || Making Connections: Smithsonian American Art Museum Across the Curriculum || Adrienne Gayoso and Victoria Lichtendorf || Visiting a museum these days is often a virtual experience, but not a passive one. Join us for an engaging exploration of how accessing the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online collection energizes curriculum development, student research, and class projects. Learn to use the American Art Museum's myCollection scrapbooking and online education features such as videos, podcasts, and interactive content. Find out about how artwork from the collection can inspire audio and media-rich classroom projects using Audacity and VoiceThread. This session is designed for middle and high school teachers, technology coordinators, and pre-service teachers. ||
 * 4/20/2011 || STEM to STEAM to STEAMIE: Turning up the Temperature on STEM Education || Mike Gorman || Are you ready to facilitate the building of a society of learners as you go beyond the four components of STEM? This is a must attend webinar for those wanting to fit Project Based Learning, 21st Century Skill Acquisition, and NETS into their STEM initiatives. Participants will be introduced to the idea of integrating Arts (STEAM)) and including everyone (STEAMIE). Michael, a facilitator at the National STEM Academy in Washington DC last summer, will present an amazing collection of STEM programs! He will relate his own learning experience including a first hand glimpse of STEM initiatives at the White House and a look at STEM in relation to the new proposed science standards. Learn about great resources as you take a tour of web sites promoting STEM education. See firsthand examples of free software designed to turn up the heat on any STEM education effort. Michael, the Fort Wayne Chapter: United States Air Force Association STEM Educator of the Year is ready to show you that it really is time to get STEAMIE! ||
 * 4/27/2011 || Remixing History, Part 1 || Neil Stephenson || Neil Stephenson's Cigar Box project revolved around students gathering and remixing historical primary source images into their own new artifacts, representing their understanding of a number of themes. The strength of the project is how a wide variety of thinking skills, technology tools and assessment practices were built into the project. Students experienced effective and ethical information literacy skills, graphic design, podcasting, digital storytelling and communicating with experts via Skype. Neil brings a great deal of documentation on the project, including student work, classroom videos and assessment artifacts. The Cigar Box project recently won Neil the two highest teaching awards in Canada, the Prime Minister's and the Governor General's Awards for Teaching Excellence. ||
 * 5/4/2011 || Remixing History, Part 2 || Neil Stephenson || Neil Stephenson's Cigar Box project revolved around students gathering and remixing historical primary source images into their own new artifacts, representing their understanding of a number of themes. The strength of the project is how a wide variety of thinking skills, technology tools and assessment practices were built into the project. Students experienced effective and ethical information literacy skills, graphic design, podcasting, digital storytelling and communicating with experts via Skype. Neil brings a great deal of documentation on the project, including student work, classroom videos and assessment artifacts. The Cigar Box project recently won Neil the two highest teaching awards in Canada, the Prime Minister's and the Governor General's Awards for Teaching Excellence. ||
 * 5/11/2011 || Creating Student Podcasts with the Smithsonian American Art Museum || Elizabeth Eder || Expand your students' creativity. Promote student reflection and critical thinking. Improve research fluency, literacy, and writing skills. All without leaving your laptop! Explore the Smithsonian American Art Museum's vast collection and education features and learn how to use these online tools to inspire classroom podcasting projects using Audacity and VoiceThread. This session is designed for middle and high school teachers, technology coordinators, and pre-service teachers. ||
 * 5/18/2011 || No Future Left Behind: 21 Century Classrooms Where Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Converge, Learn, Transform, And Create || Mike Gorman || What are digital natives… digital immigrants? How can technology improve great lessons? Why are digital immigrants essential in the education of today's digital native? Discover how education has passed both the Industrial Age, Information Age and has entered a new era. Learn about a seven step approach essential in facilitating needed transformation. Find out how ever changing technology really does hold the key to successful implementation of NETS, PBL, STEM, and 21st Century Skill acquisition. Educators will learn how to put all these ideas together in order to create real student centered education, a society of learners, and true technology producers. Michael, a practitioner in the classroom, will share practical lessons and resources that will empower educators to use their life experiences and digital immigration to facilitate real learning activities for the digital natives of today. This will be a session filled with points to ponder, antidotes, and resource material to share with any personal learning community. ||
 * 5/25/2011 || Science on the Go - Probes and Mobileware in the Science Classroom || Ben Smith and Jared Mader || Mobile devices are all around us. They drive our daily routine and support the business and personal lives of our society. This session will focus upon how to utilize these devices and the Apps that accompany them to create an authentic, engaging, and hands-on experience for students, both, in the lab and beyond. Students will utilize the "mobileware" to increase their productivity, efficiency, and data analysis capabilities, all in the palm of their hands. We will discuss how to develop a plan that allows your students to begin using the tools that they bring with them on a daily basis to improve the instruction in your science classroom. ||