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Topic Summary
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125 LAB |
K -12 |
Jeffrey Barlow
Pacific University
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Quality Websites and Evaluation of Sites
Quality web searches and how to evaluate a website will be discussed. Learn how to utilize the web and use a variety of search engines to help select appropriate information for classroom use. Learn to utilize the “hidden web” that addresses concerns about security issues for your students.
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Jeffrey Barlow is the Faculty 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. |
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234C
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Math Middle School |
Cynthia Townsend (Miller)
Clara Brownell Middle School-Umatilla
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Bringing real World Data into Middle School Mathematics
To provide real world applications of data collection and statistics to rural middle school students in order to stimulate higher level thinking and an awareness of math in their daily lives and in careers. |
Cynthia Townsend (Miller) received her Bachelors of Science degrees from Oregon State University in Fisheries Science and Zoology. After working with kids in environmental and leadership organizations she decided to pursue a career in education. She graduated from Pacific University with her Masters in Teaching in 2002. This is her second year teaching math at Clara Brownell Middle School in Umatilla, Oregon and this is her second grant through the PT3 grant program. |
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025C |
K-8 |
Mark Bailey |
Digital Learning Stories
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Telling stories is a timeless means of communicating ideas. Digital media now empowers children to represent understanding and tell their learning stories in ways not previously possible. Fundamentally change the nature of your classroom projects and assessment. Ideas, examples and resources will be provided. (Link to Page) |
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106C |
Grades 4-9 |
Blair Baldwin |
“The JASON Project at OMSI”
The JASON Project is a dynamic national program designed to excite students about science and technology by bringing research scientists into the classroom through video and Internet technology. The standards-based, inquiry-driven curriculum is endorsed by the National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA) and is keyed to the national and Oregon State content standard for science, math, language arts and social studies.
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Blair Baldwin is Lead Teacher Educator and JASON Project Coordinator at OMSI. Mr. Baldwin taught high school earth science and chemistry for 8 years and his audience has ranged from elementary students to International Elderhostel participants. He is a member of the Oregon Science Education Council and numerous other professional education organizations in Oregon and Idaho.
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206IR |
Grades K-5 |
Nikki Beale
Orenco Elementary School-Hillsboro
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Inspire Elementary Students with Kidspiration Software
Watch young learners brainstorm, organize, plan, and create with this simple program. Kindergarteners through sixth graders can take an idea and watch it grow into a well thought out sentence, report, or story. Students are empowered to write and imagine with this easy to use software. Be inspired by Kidspiration!
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Nikki Beale has received her MAT degree at Willamette University in 1998. She has been teaching in Hillsboro for the past five years. Nikki is currently teaching fourth grade at Orenco Elementary School. She is married and has a 16 month old daughter. |
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214IR |
Elem. School |
Glen Bledsoe
Molalla Elementary School
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Writing & Technology: Students Creating New Genres with New Technology
There is much more to writing and technology than word processing. When students are given a wide range of technologies and the opportunity to experiment with different ideas, they will produce remarkably sophisticated works. This presentation will review the efforts of the students at Molalla Elementary School in sound design and computer animation.
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Since 1991 Glen L. Bledsoe has taught 3rd, 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. Glen's essays on education and technology appear on NEA's OWL.org website. He also writes about technology issues for Today's OEA magazine. He currently teaches computers at Molalla Elementary School in Molalla, Oregon.
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205C
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K-12 |
TE faculty Kevin Carr
George Fox University
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"Bring the Starry Night into your Classroom"
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.
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Kevin Carr is an Associate Professor of Education at George Fox University. Dr. Carr develops electronic tools to enhance classroom interaction and inquiry.
He currently leads an M.A.T. cohort and is writing an eText on Action Research for Pre-Service Teachers.
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LAB 107
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Any Level |
Jim Carroll
University of Portland
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PowerPoint Beyond the Bullets!
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.
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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. |
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210C |
All
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Mike Charles |
Finding the Right Online Project to do with Your Class
Join us for a hands on look at the power of collaborative online projects for preK-12 students. View examples of excellent online projects that have been done by other Web-savvy educators. Spend time online finding the right online project for your class using one of three online project clearinghouse resources. Online materials supporting this session will be available for your future use |
Dr. Mike Charles is an educational media and technology specialist with a background in curriculum and instruction. He taught in grades K-6 for 15 years in Phoenix, Arizona, working as a K-6 computer resource teacher for the final six years. His research interests include the way that technology enables student-initiated project learning environments, uses of visualization tools in teaching mathematics and science in K-12 education, and the complexities involved in changing teacher practice. (link to Page) |
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038 C |
K-12 teachers, Admin, & Support Staff |
Drew Hinds
Instructional Technology Coordinator-Salem/Keizer 24J
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Online Teaching Tools, Collaboration and Professional Development.
The online tools and communities are waiting out there. Making friends and influencing people in an online environment is the challenge and our profession needs innovative teachers ready to participate in meaningful online learning experiences. Will you be one of them?
"Good instructional units involve great learning without the technology." |
Drew is a teacher, presenter and Intel Senior Trainer. He currently serves as Instructional Technology Coordinator in Salem-Keizer Public Schools, the winner of the 2003 National School Board Technology Spotlight Award. His work with Intel, National Geographic, JASON Project and FIRST Lego League has taken him half way around the world presenting and providing professional development for teachers and administrators. Drew is first and foremost a pursuer of knowledge and facilitator of learning. His unique teaching style involves project based learning and authentic experiences that create meaning for fellow learners. |
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025C |
Elementary School |
Ryan Hoxie |
Integrating Technology Into the Classroom.
Will show several websites and programs that teachers can use right away in the classroom. The focus will be on integrating these websites/programs with Oregon’s standards.45 |
Worked for the Beaverton School District as a technology IA for 3.5 years. Currently a student teacher at Mt. View 6-8 technology. |
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025C |
Any Level |
Jerry Johnson |
iMovies
Learn how digital video can enhance learning during this hans-on session featuring the easy-to-use iMovie software found on all Macintosh computers |
Jerry Johnson is a biology professor and the Instructional Technology
Coordinator at Western Baptist College. To learn more about digital video, visit his site at www.learningdigitally.org/LD/DigitalVideo.html.
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217C |
Any Level |
Carolyn Knox
University of Oregon
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Computer Based Study Strategies
Learn how to use the computer as a study tool for yourself as well as for your students. Computer-based study strategies are useful for all types of students from Gifted to Learning Disabled to English Language Learners. |
Dr. Carolyn Knox is a research associate at the Center for Advanced Technology in Education. Her research centers around using technology in cognitive partnership to support diverse learners (students with disabilities and ESOL) in secondary classrooms. She is also interested in the uses of technology to support knowledge representation, socially constructed knowledge, and collaboration. |
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108C |
Grades 3 and up |
Anders Liljeholm
OMSI
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Using Lego Mindstorms robots to teach technology principles, computer programming and simple machines.
Lego robots are an open-ended tool that gives students the experience of designing their own solutions, testing and debugging software, and a physical understanding of how computer programs work. We'll look at ways to use robots to teach various lessons, and ways to teach about robots without any robots..
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Anders Liljeholm is the Lead Educator for Technology at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. He has taught with OMSI for the last nine years, including teaching over 1000 kids how to make their own computer game. With the recent renovation of the OMSI Vernier Technology Lab, he has led development of dozens of museum activities, classroom lessons, and take-home activities on the subject of inventions. He also appears regularly in various Portland area theatres.
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222C |
Elementary |
Reiko Park
Grandhaven Elementary School
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Cat’s Meow Reading Project
I formed the "Cat's Meow Reading Group" in which students were introduced to many emergent level books during daily small group read aloud. Once ten new books were introduced the students were loaned tape recorders to keep at home. They also received a canvas bag to transport the book/tape sets back and forth in each day. The students listened to the tape at least three times per night and following along in the book. Each day the students used a check out card system to exchange their books for new titles. |
Reiko Park is a first grade teacher at Grandhaven Elementary School in McMinnville. She received her BA from Portland State University and Masters of Arts in Teaching from George Fox University in May 2004. Reiko is married and lives in Hillsboro.
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Any Level |
Jacob Pence
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Making Adobe Photoshop work for you and your class.
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most powerful software tools available for creating digital media. Many of the features in this program can be very useful for teachers. Learn who is using Photoshop, the basics of the software, and get ideas for your own media. Learn hints on how to create projects/assignments where your students will learn through a creative medium. |
Jacob Pence is a 2003 graduate of the Pacific University MAT 5th year program. He recently completed his first year of teaching as the technology teacher at Banks High School. He teaches classes such as Digital Media, Technology Concepts, Computer Applications, and is the Yearbook Advisor. |
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128C |
All
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Steve Rhine
Willamette
University
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Music to My Ears!
Garage Band, iTunes, Sound Editing & Burning CD’s |
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223IC |
All |
Mike Stewart
Mt Angel District Technology Coordinato
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Building and Maintaining Your Own Website from Home
For those of you who have Internet access at home, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may have space available for you to host your very own web site without additional monthly fees. This presentation will show you how to set up and update your web site. |
Mike Stewart is the District Technology Coordinator in the Mt. Angel School District located in the heart of the Willamette Valley. Mike has served as a Teacher, Media Specialist & Technology Coordinator for 20 years. He enjoys his family, community involvement and working in the challenging world of technology. |
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026IC |
Elem., Middle & High School |
John Tenny
Flowing Thoughts Education Solutions
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Inspiration: Mind Mapping to Higher Thinking Levels
Very easy to use teacher planning and teaching tool that also supports student-thinking skills. Great software for all levels, all subject areas
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John Tenny, Ph.D. Owner, Flowing Thought Educational Solutions; developer of eCOVE: The Observation Toolkit software; prior elementary, middle school, high school, and university teacher; Inspiration software advocate. |
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231IC |
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David Warlick |
The Art & Technique of Creating Video Essays
It is clear that information of value in the future will be the information that communicates itself most effectively and efficiently. Sometimes it will be text, and sometimes it will be images, animation, audio, or video. The information literate worker of the future will be proficient in all of these formats.
This engaging presentation will help educators learn to communicate through motion and sound, creating video essays that deliver a message. Topics will include: Constructing video essay assignments, Selecting appropriate images and text from the Net, Importing Net-accessed images into iMovie Video,Video effects using iMovie, Evaluating video essays.
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David’s unique voice and message combines a wide range of experiences, both in and outside the education arena. He ran two businesses before graduating from high school and spent more than a year in manufacturing before completing his undergraduate work. He worked for nearly ten years as a middle school social studies, math and science teacher, during which time he also wrote award-winning instructional software and introduced hundreds of teachers to the educational potential of desktop computers.
In 1984, David moved to a central office position, as Director of Technology and then on to the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction where he served as a technology integration consultant and built the nation’s first state department of education web site.
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David Warlick |
Creative Uses of Digital Cameras in the Classroom
Never before has the classroom become so much a part of the world around us. Small digital cameras have affected how we look at war, love, family and friends, poverty, wealth, culture, and nature. People record their environment, share these images with each other and the world, and become archivers of their own experience.
This engaging and highly interactive presentation demonstrates many techniques for using these amazing technologies to capture the world and bring it into your classroom for exploration and interpretation. Learn how students can use digital cameras to learn vocabulary words, explore math concepts, enhance reading comprehension, motivate better writing, express what they have learned in social studies and science, and learn to use information as a raw material, not an end product.
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Since 1995, Mr. Warlick has been the owner and principal consultant of The Landmark Project, a professional development and web design firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. During this time, David has spoken at conferences and delivered workshops in nearly every state of the U. S. and audiences in Europe, Asia, and South America.
David has been an innovator and leader in the field of educational technology and a prolific programmer, writing some of the most popular interactive web tools available for teachers on the Internet – most of them free. He created and maintains the second oldest continuing online project, Global Grocery List, and writes for publications that include Technology & Learning Magazine, ALA’s KnowledgeQuest, Education World, and CUE Online. He has also written two books, Raw Materials for the Mind:3rd Edition, and Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century.
He is, at heart, a teacher with a contagious passion and enthusiasm for helping people discover a brand new world of teaching and learning.
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034IC |
Elem., Middle & High School |
Lynne Wolters
Concordia University
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NW Center for Children’s Literature
The Northwest Center for children’s Literature is a new professional resource for important adults in the reading lives of children. Our grand opening includes a week of events September 26-October 2, 2004. In this session you will be able to explore the NWCCL website and learn how to use these resources to include the latest and best in children’s and young adult literature in your lesson plans and units. If you have a love of children’s literature, this session is a must. |
Lynne Wolters is Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Concordia University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in educational technology, in both face-to-face and online formats. Lynne serves as PT3 Campus Coordinator. Prior to joining the College of Education, Lynne taught HTML and Web Page Design courses in the professional Web Master Program, at Mt. Hood Community College. In 1999, MHCC recognized her as Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She is Co-Director and Web Master for the NW Center for Children’s Literature. |
