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Presenter
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| All levels |
Peggy Roblyer
The Top Tens: A Summary of Popular Technology-based Lessons Across the Curriculum
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Peggy will spotlight and discuss the "top ten" lists of technology-based lessons outlined in her textbook.
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Dr. Roblyer has taught, researched, and published extensively in the field of educational technology for 30 years. Her textbook Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching and other textbooks on the Internet and tool software for teachers are widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate instructional technology courses; some of her publications have been translated into Spanish and Chinese. |
| All levels |
Sean McKay
George Fox University
Wikies in K12 Environments
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Wikis provide a collaborative web-based tool that empowers students and teachers to develop websites around projects, classes, and topics. Everyone gets to contribute and participate in developing and maintaining the website and thus the tool serves as a way to build community in the classroom with everyone contributing to the overall project. |
Sean McKay is a Systems Administrator and Technology in Education consultant for George Fox University and serves in the Institutional Technology department and the School of Education. |
| All levels |
Drew Hinds
Oregon Department of Education Resources for Educational Achievement and Leadership (REAL)
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Session participants will be introduced to REAL and have hands-on opportunities to examine the Resource Applications. REAL provides teachers, parents and administrators with consolidated information and resources related to Oregon's Standards. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how Oregon Educators can use REAL to increase student achievement and close the achievement gap.
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Drew is a parent, teacher and facilitator of school change. He has served as a teacher, school, and district leader in Oregon and is currently an Education Specialist at the Oregon Department of Education. His work with Oregon Universities, Intel, Hewlett Packard, ISTE, National Geographic, Scholastic, JASON Project & FIRST Lego League has taken him around the world Providing professional development for teachers & administrators. His unique teaching style involves project based learning and authentic experiences that create meaning for fellow learners. |
| All levels |
Jeffrey Barlow
Pacific University
Using Technology in Social Studies Classroom
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Dr. Jeffrey Barlow of Pacific University will discuss a number of techniques for engaging students in the production of World Wide Web pages in Social Studies classes at all levels in such a way that they simultaneously will become sophisticated, cautious consumers of electronic materials. The class is hands on and does not presume that the participants have used the web in their classes. If you can use email, or have thought about using email, you are qualified to participate! |
Jeffrey Barlow is the Director of The Berglund Center for Internet Studies at Pacific University and the Director of the Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning. He edits the Journal of the Association for History and Computing. His web sites in Asian Studies receive more than five million hits per year. Among other things, he teaches sophisticated searching in electronic resources to history students. |
| 6-12 |
Mike Charles
Pacific University
Science inquiry Measures Up
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Image processing provides a great way to get visual learners engaged in science and math inquiry. Leave this session with access to free software public domain software and lesson ideas to help your students do measurements with digital images. |
Mike Charles is an educational media and technology specialist with a background in curriculum and instruction. He taught for 15 years in Phoenix, Arizona, His interests include the uses of visualization tools in teaching mathematics and science in K-12 education, ways that technology enables student-initiated project learning environments,, and the complexities involved in changing teacher practice.
Links - http://fg.ed.pacificu.edu/charlesm/presentations/ip_math_sci/index.html |
| Middle to high school |
Kelly Cudney
Santiam Christian High School
A Visual Display of U.S. History
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Exposing secondary students to technology in such a way that it increases engagement and caters to multiple intelligences. Teacher has altered lectures to PowerPoint presentations & slide shows, and students have completed group PowerPoint & video presentations. |
Kelly Cudney received a B.S. degree in History with a minor in Mathematics from George Fox University in 2004, followed by an MAT degree in Secondary Education at the same institution in 2005. While she did some of her student teaching in Social Studies, Miss Cudney is now a second year Math/Science teacher at Santiam Christian High School, and serves as the Sophomore Class Co-Advisor. |
| All levels |
Christian Dumitru
Enablemart
Introduction to the Assistive Technology Market and Products
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In this session, you will learn about the many products that Enablemart has to offer in the area of assistive technology. There will be product demos of HeadMouse Extreme, Zoomtext Magnifier Screen/Reader and Clarity DeckMate CCTV. |
An alumni of University of Portland, Christian Dumitru is the Northwest Accounts Manager of Enablemart. |
| All levels |
Kevin Carr
George Fox University
Bringing the Starry Night into your Classroom
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Learn about the Phases of the Moon using Starry Night, a classroom planetarium package available at low cost to teachers. The lesson shown in this session can be adapted to any grade level and is one of many made possible by Starry Night. |
Kevin Carr is an Associate Professor of Education at George Fox University. Dr. Carr develops electronic tools to enhance inquiry. |
| All levels |
Trish Lichau
Concordia University
Brains Need Games
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The 21st century classroom is filled with “Digital Natives” whose brains, because of a “tornado of technology,” may be wired for a type of learning not found in traditional classrooms. This session will explore the issue of Digital Natives (students) and Digital Immigrants (teachers) and then examine how neuropsychosocial conditions and classroom ecology mandate that gameplaying be incorporated into the curriculum so today's students experience meaningful, long-term learning. Discover why we should uplevel, uplearn and unlearn in every lesson! |
Trish Lichau is an experienced public and private school teacher and administrator. She designed and implemented 10 educational courses for the education program at Mt. Hood Community College and is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Concordia University. Trish is currently earning her Ph. D. from Capella University; her dissertation is titled Next Generation Instructional Design: Modifying Transformative Educational Workshops for Online Delivery. |
| K-8 |
Jerry Johnson
Corban College
Digital Photos in Education- Cool Things To Do
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n this session, you will learn about some interesting software that allows you to do some creative things with photos. Software such as Comic Life, NoteTaker, Flickr will be featured. Most of the applications are Macintosh products only. |
Jerry Johnson is a biology professor and the Instructional Technology Coordinator at Corban College. To learn more about Digital Photography in Education, visit his site at http://www.learningdigitally.org/DigitalPhotography.html |
| Elementary to middle |
Glen L. Bledsoe
Molalla Elementary School
Digital Graphic Novels: Digital Writing Using Photos and Words
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Used creatively, technology can enhance students' personal communication skills and provide a rich medium for their writing. Presenter Glen Bledsoe will show several examples of student work and take participants through the process of creating simple digital graphic novels of their own. |
Since 1991 Glen L. Bledsoe has taught 3rd, 4th, 5th and 17th grades. With his wife Karen, he has written over a dozen books, including the ever-popular The World's Fastest Trucks. His students have won numerous awards for web design at state and national levels. He also writes about technology issues for Today's OEA magazine. He currently teaches 4th grade at Molalla Elementary School in Molalla, Oregon. Glen's essays on education and technology appear on NEA's website, |
| K-12 |
Deena T. Grossman
Oak Grove Elem.
Composing with Sibelius: Using the Sibelius music notation program in 4th through 12th grade music classes
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Deena Grossman will discuss and demonstrate the use of the Sibelius music notation program for music education in 4th through 12th grade. |
Deena T. Grossman has a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Portland and a Master of Music degree from Rice University. She teaches kindergarten through sixth grade music at Oak Grove Elementary in Milwaukie, Oregon. |
| K-12 |
Steve Rhine
Willamette University
Podcasting
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K-12 classrooms around the country are becoming their own radio/television stations through Podcasting. Find out how to create your own audio and video podcast and how podcasts can be educationally valuable tools for students' learning. |
Steve Rhine is a Professor of Education at Willamette University. He taught high school mathematics for many years before moving into teacher education. He has been active in the educational technology community for the past two decades.
Podcasting Doc
Podcasting HTML |
| All levels |
James Carroll
University of Portland
PowerPoint Beyond the Bullets!
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A hands-on look at interactive controls within PowerPoint that allow students and teachers to make learning centers, animated presentations, hyper-linked pages and much more. |
James B. Carroll, Ph.D. Associate professor of education at University of Portland since 1993. Teaching and research focus of educational technology, educational research, and foundations of education. PPT Doc, PPT HTML
Action Tools doc, Action Tools HTML |
| 7-12 |
Rick Bures
Concordia University MAT Student
Interactively Learning Animal Classification
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Use Animal I-Class to help your students learn animal classification in an interactive and engaging manner. Animal I-Class can be used over the internet, or downloaded for enhanced features and the ability to customize it to your own purposes. Animal I-Class was developed under an OTEN grant and with the help of NOAA (think NASA of the sea!), the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and scientists the world over. |
Rick Bures is an MAT graduate of Concordia University, where he wrote his first grant while still a student teacher, under which he wrote his Animal I-Class software, presenting it at the OTEN Showcase Conference that year. He is currently in his third year teaching science at Alder Creek Middle School in the North Clackamas School District, where he continues to explore, utilize, and share innovative uses of technology in education.
http://www.scenicoregon.com
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| Middle through 12 |
Verle Walters
Vernier
Lights, Camera, Action - Bringing Video to Science and Math
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Interested in finding out how you can use video in your math and science classroom? Come see how you can use data collection technology and a webcam or digital camera to enhance your students' understanding of math and science. Topics will include video synchronized data collection, video data analysis, and still digital photo analysis. |
Verle has 14 years of experience teaching physics and math. He has 10 years experience training teachers using data collection technology with TI graphing calculators. He worked for Texas Instruments for three and one-half years working in product development and marketing as was involved in the TI-84 and TI Navigator projects. Currently Verle is the Educational Technology Specialist and Strategic Partnership Manager at Vernier Software & Technology. |
| Upper elementary |
Charlie Graham
Tom McCall Upper Elementary
Digital Media to Support Authentic Learning in Elementary School
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During this session we will explore the use of technology to enhance student learning through a variety of digital learning projects. The presentation will center on examples of student digital documentation and video productions including classroom science projects, historic biographical 'interviews', and exploration of Greek mythology from my 6th grade classes. The application of this technology not only excites students' interest and motivation, but allows them to make connections at a deeper level within the learning of required content. |
Charlie Graham has taught in the Forest Grove School District for the past 20 years. He is currently teaching 6th grade at Tom McCall Upper Elementary School where he has implemented technology into is teaching as a OTEN participant over the past 2 years. Environmental education and service learning play important part in his educational philosophy and orientation. He leads “Roots&Shoots” groups (Jane Goodall Institute's environmental/humanitarian program for youth) in the local area. |
| middle to high school |
Dave Ramsay
Concordia University
Google Earth in the Classroom
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Dave will discuss how you can use Google Earth to engage your learning community with the global community, using the technology to bridge with other cultures worldwide. He will use his WebQuest as one practical example of various classroom applications of Google Earth. There will be ample time for Q&A. |
Dave Ramsay is an education student at Concordia with a working-world tech background in the field of printers and digital imaging |
| 6-8 |
Eric Salkeld
Five Oaks Middle School
Mining for Technology Projects
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Teachers are constantly on the lookout for engaging projects that help students demonstrate their learning. In this workshop, participants will get middle school student-tested and approved ideas on projects that they can use in their content areas. In addition, participants will learn places to mine for engaging technology projects and ideas. |
Eric Salkeld is a 4th year middle school teacher in the Beaverton School District and 2002 graduate of Willamette University's MAT program. |
| 1st grade |
Kaitlin Christensen
Mini-Grant Recipient
Electronic Resources Support Differentiated Instruction in Primary Classroom
(20-minute presentation)
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In this session, we will explore all the different learning avenues a digital camera and multifunction printer can take your primary students! Look at real student and classroom examples, as well as get many ideas about how to use a digital camera everyday in the classroom. All of these ideas and more can contribute to sparking the interest of our students in unique and exciting ways for both the teacher and students. |
Kaitlin Christensen is a first grade teacher in the Sherwood School District. She has a focus in using the digital camera and multifunction printer to allow her students to see different things they are learning in the classroom in a variety of avenues. She is looking forward to continuing her ideas and applying them to her classroom this year and her classrooms in the future. |
| 6th grade Spanish immersion |
Tessa Daniel
Mini-Grant Recipient
Spanish Telenovelas
(20-minute presentation)
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In groups of four or five, students wrote, directed, starred, and filmed soap operas in Spanish. Creativity and Spanish abound! |
Tessa is currently teaching Spanish at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie. At the time of filming, she was student teaching at Cedar Park Middle School in Beaverton |
| 4th grade |
Amanda Elliott
Mini-Grant Recipient
Life on the Oregon Trail: A 4th Grade Documentary
(20-minute presentation)
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Using digital recorders, students created a documentary of what life was like along the Oregon trail. |
Amanda Elliott is a recent graduate from Pacific
University who recently completed her student teaching in the Beaverton School District where she is a full time substitute.
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