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Topic Summary
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Presenter Bio
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Jim Carroll
University of Portland |
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Technology is Just a Tool: The Myth of the Neutral Machine
When is a hammer more than a tool for pounding? When is a computer more than a tool for--well, what is it suppose to be for? Is there more for teachers to pay attention to than whether the computers and software work? Is technology teaching something beyond the academic curriculum when we chose to use electronic technologies in teaching and learning?
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Jim Carroll has taught educational research and educational technology courses since 1988. He came to education with a degree in studio art. He has written extensively in the area of educational technology and has been an advisor to a number of P-12 school districts on educational technology issues. He has participated in grant work from the Oregon Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (NSF), the Oregon Quality Assurance in Teaching, and Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (US Department of Education). Currently Dr. Carroll is OTEN's director. |
Steve Rhine
Willamette University
Social Collaborative Software
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Web 2.0. YOU create the internet. When you or your students create resources for others on the web you create conversation rather than just pieces of paper. Let the network sift through the massive amount of resources available and find just what you need. We will explore free social collaboration tools like GoogleDocs, Blogging sites, wikis, tagging, podcasting, and the amazing world of RSS. |
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. |
Sean McKay
George Fox University
The WikiWay to Collaborate and Communicate in the Classroom
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Wikis provide an easy to use (and maintain) website where you and your students can create and share classroom activities, projects, and communication together, all without knowing HTML. Using just a web browser, you will learn how to set up your first wiki and receive practical tips on preparing your students to collaborate using this wonderful web-based tool. |
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. |
Sandra Shadron
Sunrise Middle School
SMART Board and Senteo Clickers: Enhance and Assess Student Learning
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This session will demonstrate how to use a SMART Board to increase students' math achievement through increasing their engagement, problem-solving skills and ability to visualize mathematical concepts. Attendees will also learn how to enhance student learning through formative assessments using Senteo Clickers. Participants will be able to do a bit of hands-on experimenting with the SMART Board and the Senteo Clickers. |
Sandra Shadron has taught math in the North Clackamas School District for the past 9 years. She has taught in Hawai'i and California. She presently teaches at Sunrise Middle School. Sandra uses the SMART Board and clickers in her classes daily. |
Tisha Morrell
University of Portland
The Impact of Technology-Enhanced Lessons on Student Achievement
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Does using technology-enhanced instruction have an impact on student achievement? In this presentation, we will (a) look at examples of how teachers have integrated technology into their teaching; (b) examine models used for measuring student achievement; and (c) discuss the impact this change in instruction has had on student achievement. |
Patricia Morrell is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Portland. Her background is in science education. She has been working with the OTEN TQE project as the Student Assessment Specialist.
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Matt Symonds
Connecting Middle Schoolers with Geography using GPS (Global Positioning System)
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GPS is an emerging technology that teachers are just starting to tap in to. The educational promise of GPS includes integration with social science, science, mathematics, language arts, cultural competence and more. Teachers can use GPS instruction to foster critical thinking skills and the value of learning. GPS instruction engages multiple intelligences and can be an effective tool to promote exploration and discovery learning. I will show how groups of middle school age students learned to use GPS units to support several geography concepts including map reading, identifying physical and human features, and the spatial concepts of location, distance, direction, scale, movement, and region. |
Matt Symonds received his MAT from Pacific University in Spring 2008. Before embarking on this new career as a teacher, Matt was one of the most recognized navigation experts in Eugene, Oregon. He worked at a prominent outdoor retailer and taught gadgets and navigation to all age groups. Matt was a media favorite appearing on outdoor and morning show segments featuring GPS units and outdoor gear. An OTEN grant provided Matt with a great life intersection as he built a website for teachers on how to integrate GPS instruction in the classroom. Site can be found at weteachgps.com.
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Mark Bailey
Pacific University Forest Grove
Making History Personal: Using Primary Source
Materials and Digital Learning Stories in your Classroom
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An exciting new array of digital primary source materials allows your students a more intimate glimpse into history. Accessing these artifacts encourages students to develop a more personal connection to the issues, actions, and people that define our past. I will provide an extensive set of links to these materials and will demonstrate a technique to bring history alive by interviewing historical figures. Examples will be provided from the work of a range of elementary students. |
Mark Bailey has explored educational applications for emerging technologies since the 1980s. An Associate Professor at Pacific University specializing in early childhood education, Mark publishes and presents extensively on the confluence of technological innovation, educational empowerment, and social justice. View Web Resources |
Lynne Wolters
Technology Educator
Quality Resources For Teacher Created Curriculum
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There are numerous online resources available to teachers and student teachers. The challenge is finding high quality and appropriate resources. The 10 a.m. session will emphasize ECE/lower elementary, and the 11:15 session will emphasize middle/high school, with all grade levels and content areas touched on in each session. You will leave this session with a list of high quality resources you can use immediately. |
Lynne Wolters is a nationally recognized authority in new media, social networking, information/media literacy, and Web 2.0 tools for schools. |
Karen Eifler
University of Portland
Managing a Digital Classroom
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This session will address some of the wrinkles faced by teachers who take the plunge and use computers and other technology tools to teach. These challenges include keeping several plates in the air: student behavior, techno glitches and teacher dignity, not to mention how to go about assessing the impact of that technology-enhanced instruction in this era of teacher accountability. Participants should leave with at least three strategies for managing their digital classrooms.
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Karen Eifler teaches educational psychology, curriculum and assessment to pre-service teachers after a decade of teaching multiple subjects in grades 4-12.
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Jerry Johnson
Corban College
Educational Podcasts and Podcasting
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During this presentation, you'll learn about the use of podcasts and podcasting in education. You will learn how to find and subscribe to educational podcasts, and how to create and publish student-generated and teacher-generated podcasts. |
Jerry Johnson is a biology professor at Corban College and is presently a doctoral student in the area of Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University. His website is Learning Digitally at www.learningdigitally.org. |
Jill Bryant
Willamette University
Whose Paper is it Anyway? Using the Writing Process and the Internet to Write Research Papers Students Can Call Their Own |
Is it possible to use the Internet to write a research paper without plagiarizing? This session will focus on helping educators learn how to help students from grades 3-12 focus on the writing process as a way to help them use the Internet for writing research papers without simply “pasting” others' words into their papers. We will engage in a series of activities that will demonstrate not only how writers can effectively use the Internet to write research papers, but also how to make writing fun.
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Jill Bryant is an Associate Professor of Education at Willamette University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Her research and teaching interests include educational technology, teacher research, and literacy instruction. She is a board member of the NW Teacher Research Collaborative and has been a Campus Coordinator with OTEN for six years
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J.D. McMahan
Insight School of Oregon
Online Alternative High School
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Insight School of Oregon will present material to help participants discuss and design "Strategies for Student Success" through experiencing Advanced Learning, and work skills developed in a technology-based environment. Focal points will include: ways to provide students with opportunities to earn credit by demonstrating proficiency through technology; ways to demonstrate essential skills in reading comprehension, writing, listening, speaking, applying mathematics, thinking critically and analytically, use of technology, demonstration of civic and community engagement, appreciation for global literacy, personal management, and teamwork skills; examples of a curriculum based development of student education plans and profiles; developing career-related learning experiences that connect classroom learning with real life through the use of technology; and communicating and engaging of stakeholders through technology-facilitated interactions. |
J. D. McMahan, Head of Insight School of Oregon (ISOR) has been in public education for the past 33 years, 25 years as a school administrator. He has served urban and rural communities as a principal, vice-principal, counselor, teacher and coach. His specialty is curriculum, conflict resolution, staff development, student guidance and creation of alternative and innovative programs. |
James Carroll
University of Portland PowerPoint Beyond the Bullets! |
A look at presentation tips and interactive controls within PowerPoint that allow students and teachers to make learning centers, animated presentations, hyper-linked pages and much more. |
Jim Carroll has taught educational research and educational technology courses since 1988. He came to education with a degree in studio art. He has written extensively in the area of educational technology and has been an advisor to a number of P-12 school districts on educational technology issues. |
Mark Szymanski
Pacific University Eugene
Gizmos and Gadgets: A Look at Using Student-Controlled Web-Based Simulations in Your Classroom |
In this session, we will explore how student-controlled web-based simulations are being developed and used in classrooms around the U.S. In the past, these have been called "virtual manipulatives", but some of us like gizmos and gadgets better. Specifically this session will focus on learning how to use math and science gizmos and gadgets and how to integrate them into a wide range of instructional method for three targeted groups, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 grade. |
Mark Szymanski began teaching at Pacific's College of Education Eugene campus in 1999. He earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. He taught in Milwaukee, Wis., and has focused much of his work on technology and the power of connecting communities. |
Anita Z. Boudreau
Pacific University Forest Grove
Do Educators Need a Second Life?
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This session looks at Second Life ® [SL] considered by some to truly exemplify the Web 2.0 phenomenon due to its purely collaborative nature. SL is an immersive 3D virtual world imagined and created by its users, or Residents,that has grown to millions worldwide since its launch in 2003.This rapidly growing community includes: gamers, businesses, schools, non-profit organizations, artists, and the list goes on. Learn more about this educator's explorations "inworld" in SL. |
Anita Z. Boudreau is an Assistant Professor at Pacific University's College of Education. Her primary interest lies at the intersection of learning and technology. To that end, her research and practice explores the design and implementation of technology to support communities of practice in diverse contexts and infrastructures for knowledge management, as well as knowledge media design. |
Glen L. Bledsoe
Molalla Elementary School
Building Personal Communication Skills with Collaborative Digital Writing
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Clifford Stoll, author of High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong In Schools, warns educators against teaching technology and charges them to give students hands-on experiences in school and to emphasize personal communication skills. The reality is that technology is embedded in our culture, and to overlook its wise application in education would be a foolish waste of tools. Which is not to say Mr. Stoll hasn't an important point: technology is often used in schools in ways that don't develop students' collaborative skills. Used differently technology can improve students' interpersonal communication skills. Technology is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used in many ways toward many ends. As technology-using teachers we want to improve students' digital media skills and promote their personal collaboration abilities. This session will describe the process of collaborative digital writing, show examples created using this process, and lead participants though a sample session.
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Since 1991 Glen L. Bledsoe has taught using technology in elementary and higher education classrooms. He and his wife have written over seventeen non-fiction books for the school library market. During this past summer Plasq, the creator's of Comic Life, hired Glen to write curriculum for using Comic Life in the classroom. Glen's weekly comic Nota Bene by Leonardo may be found each Wednesday at http://salem-news.com/notabene/index.php
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Stephanie Blumenson
La Salle Catholic College Preparatory
Video Voyage; How to Implement a Digital Video Camera into Your Classroom
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Have you ever wondered how to liven up your classes and content? In this session you will learn the basics of using a digital camcorder with your students and helping them create short films that bring your content to life. You will be exposed to different ideas for projects and lessons using the camcorder. Finally, participants will see actual film projects created by middle school and high school students. Participants will leave with a basic understanding of how to operate a camcorder, strategies to implement it into the classroom, and ideas to create projects and extended learning activities. |
Stephanie Blumenson teaches in the Religious Studies department at La Salle Catholic College Preparatory in Milwaukie. Prior to working at La Salle, Stephanie taught both social studies and religion in Utah. Stephanie received two OTEN grants during her undergraduate and graduate years at the University of Portland. |
Eric Anctil
University of Portland
Networking: Developing Professional Online Identities
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As a new generation of teachers moves from education into the work force, multiple identities are created and transformed. For many, one of the most challenging transformations is from being a student to being a professional, both on the job and in one's personal life. This is especially true when online identities are considered. This session will explore what online identity is as participants reflect on their own professional transformation and the many challenges that accompany moving from one social system to another, particularly in the area of online identity construction and maintenance. |
Eric Anctil, assistant professor of education at the University of Portland, conducts research and writes about the relationship between K-20 education and media (television, radio, print, the Internet, and other media forms) with particular emphasis on athletics. Anctil's most recent book is Selling Higher Education: Marketing and Advertising America's Colleges and Universities and he is currently working on a new book, Tossed Out: How ESPN is Destroying Amateur Sports (and What We Can Do About It). |
Thad Dennison
Sitton ElementarySchool
The Oregon History Film Project |
The Oregon Heritage Film Project is a capstone for the standard 4th grade study of Oregon. Incorporating student writing, visual art, computer use, and narration, The Oregon Heritage Film Project produces a student-created feature film about the rich history and culture of our state, and is easily adapted to any district-adopted history text or previously used teacher-created unit on Oregon. |
Thad Dennison lives and teaches in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland. |
Meg Courtnage
Inspiration
Visual Learning with Kidspiration 3 in the Elementary Classroom
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In this session, we will explore how Kidspiration 3 can support elementary instruction across the subject areas. In addition to learning how to use and apply five new visual math tools, we will look at ideas for integrating concept maps and graphic organizers in reading and writing, social studies and science. You will also learn how to access and modify ready-made activities and lesson plans, as well as build your own activities in Kidspiration. |
Meg Courtnage is an Education Development Manager at Inspiration Software, where she helps develop content and products that support teachers and students. Her background is in math education, and before coming to Inspiration Software she taught math in Oregon and Mississippi public schools.
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