Jenn

Jenn McMahon's Page

===Here is a link to a wiki that a friend and I maintain. Last summer, we taught a session at NWTC in Green Bay on FREE Hot Technologies. Obviously, this isn't something I got at ISTE, but I still thought some of you may like the resources. And remember, they are all FREE (because my friend Danyell and I are cheap. ;)=== []

http://metaatem.net/words/ISTE%202011 As you read this wiki, please keep in mind these are my __notes__ from the 2011 ISTE Conference held in Philadelphia, PA. These notes have not been edited, so spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes will certainly be present before I get a chance to clean things up. ~Jenn McMahon

Jenn’s ISTE Notes - Sunday Below is a link to a wiki that I keep with Danyell Franti. We use this wiki to “keep” links to free technologies. We like free because we are cheap! [|__http://tritonhottechnologies.pbworks.com/w/page/26133989/Hot-Technologies-Main-Page__] Keynote speaker Dr. John Medina
 * We have a moral responsibility to show children there are different ways of doing things. They carry technology around in their pockets. We need to show them how they can use that power.


 * Brains are not identical on boulevards and alleys, and that's where learning takes place.
 * They are the same on the highways and interstates, but that's not where learning takes place.


 * When people memorize something, they have to be able to use it before it becomes part of the highway and Internet. Simply memorizing facts creates robots. Students will not be creative or innovative if they are not given the chance to take what they have learned and improvise off of it.


 * To be a successful teacher, one needs to be able to know the gaps of each of their students. So, is there something that can measure and report that so teachers can be successful.


 * Theory of mind: good teachers have it. It means they bow when each of their students is bewildered or inspired.


 * Note regarding using Google docs on iPad. Students can take very basic notes on iPad; however, they cannot format until they go to laptop.
 * Article link to Is Google Making Us Stupid?

__http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/__

Jenn’s ISTE Notes - Monday Discovery Ed breakfast with Diane Doersch:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google fight: see who is a more popular search on Google.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discovery Ed interactive atlas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Live streaming events: watch for these events. Last year they were live video streaming at White Houses and stock exchange.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Davidson: Flat out, Flat screen future. The boundless digital textbook


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mooresville, North Carolina gives every fourth through twelfth grader a MacBook. Why a MacBook vs an iPad? Spending money on content and hardware instead of traditional tools like textbooks. Not spending nearly as much per pupil as most other districts in state. They have just reallocated the funds.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mooresville has a ton of data to support 1:1 learning. Would be a great source for data.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Test scores up. Suspensions down. Attendance up. Dropout rates down.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is about changing instruction and changing the way learning takes place. Instead of asking kids to power down when they walk through the door, they ask them to power up.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kids have laptops. Assigned DE videos as homework. Kids have to download video before we leave school because only 75% of. Their students have Internet access at home.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tammy’s Favorite Top 20 Tools! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Tammy did entire presentation on iPad, projecting it on large screens. Has laptop, too. She switches between the two on the projector. She is trying this. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.tammyworcester.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Handouts. Iste2011
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Avatar Editor <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://myavatareditor.com/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> They look like Wii Characters. Have students create an avatar based on character they read about. Or, have students create their own and describe them in writing. Then, does description match avatar. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All About Mii -- students write paragraph introducing themselves. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When you save avatar, you can uncheck “background” and insert it onto a picture, almost like a green screen. You can add speech bubbles, etc. Student can be on the moon, inside the chambers of the heart, etc. Can even record voice to descriptive picture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">JamStudio.com

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can create their own music. This is a FREE site. Loop it for presentations. If you like Pink Floyd, it will walk you through how to create a song in the same style. Click on Favorite Artists along left-hand side. To save them and use them, you do need to pay; however, if you click on In the Classroom, because you can get a free account. You have to fill out a “grant,” but it is simply adding name and address. They will then send you username and password.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Odosketch

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://sketch.odopod.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can draw. You can also watch videos of how the drawn pictures were made. Great for art teachers to show how pictures come together -- the process.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iGoogle

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.google.com/ig__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gmail <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skitch (Mac) / Jing (Mac/Windows)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://skitch.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.techsmith.com/jing/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can create easy screen shots. Great for using with students. Both give you some online space to save your screen shots. **Jing will also let you capture screen video.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plurk

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.plurk.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like Twitter <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Need to join first, then get lots of friends before you see the value in this. Most of Tammy’s new resources that she shares she gets from her friends on Plurk. She is tammyw. She will friend us and help us find friends. **Would be great tech resource for Tech Mentors and Diane. Share with Media Specialists.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bibme

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.bibme.org__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Log into account -- totally free. Keeps track of all your resources. This would be a great resource to share with media specialists and fifth grade teachers. I created an account already - home email address (dog is pw)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Random Name/ Word Picker

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://classtools.net__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Randomly chooses name from class list. (Diane showed this to us at a tech mentor meeting) Can be used to break kids into cooperative teams. First three names the computer chooses, are a team, etc. Can SAVE student names! Save to desktop. Can easily add all students from all classes. Could have library assistant do this. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would not have to put names here. Could be math facts. Could be vocabulary words. Fifty States. Sight Words for young kids.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__fur.ly__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://fur.ly/__] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will shorten multiple urls into one. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> there is a toolbar at top where students can move through those sites. Share with UWSSLEC, Media Specialists, Teachers, Diane, Danyell.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Delicious

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.delicious.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__delicious.com/tammyw__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> good person to “follow” in delicious.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evernote

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.evernote.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like delicious, but instead of storing bookmarks for you on the cloud, it stores “stuff” for you on the cloud. Can download to computer’s hard drive and it becomes a an app a computer. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is available on the iPad. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tammy used Evernote to show her presentation today. Can also put Evernote on you phones. It keeps all your “stuff” synced between your devices.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dropbox

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.dropbox.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can store files.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google search. Click on Advanced Search. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can have Google separate sites based on reading level.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google search. Along left-hand side, click on “real time.” It shows twitter feeds on that subject. Ex. ISTE11
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Qwiki

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.qwiki.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Great info on all sorts of things. It reads it to the students, along with having information typed. Try Milton, Wisconsin as a search term as an example. Can also type in famous people, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WolframAlpha

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.wolframalpha.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes better than Google because it doesn’t take you to websites. It gives you answers right away. You can put an algebra equation into it. It will answer the problem. Type in place. Type in Big Mac. Type “Hawaii and Kansas.” It will compare the two.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">QR Codes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(little bar scanners)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">QR Generator - Kaywa

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can turn anything into a QR Code of our own! Have your students do book reviews. Put them online. Put QR code in back of library book. Then, students can read review. Scavenger Hunt. Each QR code gives another clue. One artwork in hallway. Scan and it will give more information about the piece of art, the artist, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tripit

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.tripit.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will build itinerary for you when you are planning a vacation. Will create timeline for you and even give you directions. Completely free.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Spreadsheets and Forms

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Forms and User Guides - Howard DiBlasi.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video from Russell Simmons. Knock knock. Who's there? We are. Powerful video on You Tube.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**This session was NOT what I was expecting; however, it appears that MANY people were expecting something different. People were leaving in droves.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Building Learning Communities Using Google Apps (for Education Edition) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Important info for Diane when thinking about 1:1.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are Google Apps? Free web-based service. Cloud Computing. Presented from administrator perspective, educator perspective, and higher-learning perspective. Full-suite of application that are FREE.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Data is “in the cloud.”


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BTW: Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer. (quote of the day!)


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students do not need to create their own gmail accounts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can set up students to have access to ONE SCHOOL DOMAIN. Admin can decide what students have access to. Admin can reset passwords. This is all done in Control Panel.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who is using Google Apps is state-wide in Iowa. Edina Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District, Maine Township High School, and more.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Saves 100s of thousands of dollars because everything is saved on the cloud. Easy to collaborate and work as a team. They showed and interviewed fifth graders using it. Teachers can also work together virtually.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gmail, Talk, groups, calendar, docs, sites, video, (most used sites by teachers and their students).


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Docs - can view revision history, so you can see one or all students’ revisions. You can see who spent more time working on the project. Example: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://goo.gl/1moeN__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create dynamic seating charts in Google presentation. Can pull up on tablet, laptop, or phone.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Forms <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - use spread sheets to make sign-ups really easy. To create a form, in Google Docs, click on File. Click on New. Click on From Template. THOUSANDS of templates to choose from. No need to re-invent the wheel.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Sites - a wiki space

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can have students create e-portfolios.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogger - part of the Google Apps suite. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogger works well on iPads <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clear Creek Amana Middle School -- Had STUDENTS train the teachers on Google Apps! Students made suggestions on how to integrate the technology into the curriculum. (One student commented that teachers always comment on how kids aren’t paying attention. She said teachers are just as bad!) These were middle school students teaching the teachers. They called themselves the Creek Squad. One audience member said after watching a video of the Creek Squad, “The Creek Squad looks pretty kick-a$$.” Students were selected by putting out an all-call. Students just said they were interested the first year. In following years, 40 kids applied for 20 spots. They did interviews and everything to choose the students.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Apps Education Training Center (edutraining.google.apps.com)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Control panel has support for our tech coordinator.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Iowa Area Education Agencies (www.iowaeduapps.com)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Central K-12 User Group with Google Apps for Education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">32 Interesting Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This speaker has 1:1 computer with MacBooks for mobility.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As a District, we will need to force teachers, secretaries, EVERYONE to use it for a certain period of time. Once they are used to it, they will love it.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Biggest challenge to administrator of google account for district -- organizing the docs from an admin point of view. Thousands and thousands of docs, calendars, etc. Hard to organize and manage.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jenn’s ISTE Notes - Tuesday <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adobe Youth Voices -- Okay, those robots were wicked awesome!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephen R. Covey -- Keynote speaker
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Covey was “okay.” The real stars of the show were two, eleven-year-old boys who spoke more eloquently than many adults. They were truly amazing and inspirational. I actually had tears in my eyes that I had to wipe away at the end.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vendor Fair
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note to Diane: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comic Life, which we have back in Neenah, is available as an app on the iPad. It works just like it does on the laptop -- no limitations! Volume pricing is $3.99. This may be something to add to iPads if we go that directions.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Found a vendor with clipart. Took her card. Google Images is not ideal for elementary students. Too many inappropriate images come up. Also, VERY hard for youngest students to site the clipart as sources -- which has to be done when you grab it off of Google Images.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What Teachers are Doing with Mobile Devices in K-12 Classrooms (Dawning of the Age of Mobilism)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters actually changed name and focus of presentation AFTER they submitted what they were going to present. They seem to think this was minor; however, with so many sessions to choose from, I’m irritated! I could have chosen a different session to attend. They are starting off on the wrong note with me!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone is going mobile, becoming mobilists-- doctors, retail, business, EVERYONE -- except K-12. We are banning it!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2008: Laptops outsell desktops
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010: Smartphones outsell laptops
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In future, there will be 3 basic forms of technology.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. laptop
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. carry-along (tablet, pad, etc)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. phone


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A lot of background information on the growth of technology from 2008 to present. Give me ideas for how to use mobile devices in the K-12 classroom! That’s what I came to learn!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speakers predict the phone will become the number mobile device because if you drop it and break it, you are only out a couple hundred dollars. If you break your tablet device, you are out $700. They also made the comment that a tablet isn’t also a phone.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Based on title in booklet -- this should be about tablets as well as mobiles. It doesn’t appear it is. Ugh -- waste of time!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook is now getting more views than Google.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are a quarter of of the way through the presentation -- they have said NOTHING about using devices in the K-12 classroom!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apps are a part of a larger code that has been optimized for a small screen. An app is essentially a bookmark that has been optimized for a small screen.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20 minutes into presentation, they say they are going to start talking about using mobile devices in the classroom. This is only an hour-long session! (Can you sense my frustration?)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mobil learning management lessons: vocabulary on trees, had to draw picture and label parts of a tree, had to use camera on device to take photographs of the different parts of a tree.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology can no longer supplement our classroom content. Technology needs to become essential to the content. Should no longer be bringing students to computer lab for one-hour per week -- that makes it supplemental. By going flexible schedule with fourth and fifth grade students, we SHOULD be doing this -- as long as the classroom teachers see technology as vital to their content. Requires changing attitudes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This session seems to be more about the fact that we need to use mobile technology. I already know that. I think everyone in this room already knows that! I came to find out HOW they are doing it! Starting to watch my watch. I hope they redeem themselves.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mentioned a Flipped Classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some schools who have tried phone devices have found that they cannot get a cell signal inside their buildings. Speaker said you would need to have a repeater put inside (the phone company would do this). Some plans allow students to bring in own device and have the school pay for the data plan. The issue I see with this -- not all devices would be the same! Schools who use bring-your-own typically only use texting and browsing because they have to sue the lowest common denominator since not everyone is using the same device.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School Libraries and Cloud Computing: Roles and Possibilities - Doug Johnson
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quotes read at session
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">everyone seems normal until you get to know them
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm a librarian. Don't make me shush your ass!


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Http://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This guy is hilarious!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">you are never bored when you are the one talking.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope his wiki has all his slides!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">your know you are a 21st century librarian when/if...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have all already been using cloud computing.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Advantages of cloud computing:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cost savings: fewer servers not needed, less tech support needed, less hardware/software, less powerful computer, less printing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Access anywhere.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No compatibility issues
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No more excuses: I forgot my flash drive or homework at home.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">easier to collaborate for students, teachers, and administrators.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Concerns:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Long-term viability (too good to be true) There is no free lunch!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If all that info is floating around, who has access to it?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Needed infrastructure. We will need to spend more money on fiber, wireless access, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Security, Privacy, Control
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where is my data?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who has control over my data?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where is it safest?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">think of your data like money. Is it safest under our bed? Like saving to hardrive.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">could save in basement. Like saving to server.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">could put it in a bank. Safest place even though sometimes banks get robbed. Speaker claims our data is safer on the cloud with Google than on my hard drive.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">some people worried that Google is big brother. to this point, Google has not done anything sinister with our data.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tech Directors get nervous about using the cloud because there. Is a lose of control. It will change their jobs.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How are libraries already using cloud computing?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Circulation systems
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Class work
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ebooks
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital streaming
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online encyclopedias
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glogster
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prezi
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Follett Destiny
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Book sites
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shelfari
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">library thing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> goodreads
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">blogger
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wikispaces
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">destiny quest
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">online calendars and shared schedules
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">library Facebook fan pages


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">speaker suggests schools go to Google Apps for education. all students have email account, but their email account isn't turned on until fourth grade. Admin has that power. No advertising in Google Apps. For Education. No cost. There isn't a problem with kds under 13 having an account because the district is making the agreement with google, not student. District pays $5,000 a year for storage of data. Hiss district has fifteen Admin. On accounts.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google has great support materials.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go to his wiki to see all the applications they make available to all their students. each year, they are going to add a few more apps to the accounts.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how are others using google apps in their libraries?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">surveys
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">google form spreadsheets
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> book recommendation form
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">schedule librar time
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">training and professional development handouts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">book request (books students want the library to purchase)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to teach information literacy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">products shared with the librarian


 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">computer project idea animals should defiantly not checkm library books. Google It for a sample!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jenn’s ISTE Notes - Wednesday <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Readilicious <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://readilicious.wikispaces.com/ISTE____http://readilicious.wikispaces.com/home__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://readilicious.wikispaces.com/ISTE+Tools__

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**This is a PHENOMINAL session! Check out links for project ideas for elementary students!


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While waiting for the session to begin, I had a conversation with a first grade teacher sitting behind me. She uses the <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad for Daily 5. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> She has students do their writting and word work on the iPad (FIRST GRADERS). She has six iPads for her classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenters use Gloggster A LOT. They use Glogsters to design their wikispaces wiki pages.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stress the use of Wikispaces, Glogster, VoiceThread (Sounds like teachers use Glogsters to present information. They can add video, links, pictures, etc. Glogsters are embedded (layed over) into their wikispaces pages.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Uses VoiceThread as an assessment piece for verbal assessment.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blabberize - students can use their originals pictures and artwork and they give it a mouth and voice. Excellent for primary students to use fine motor.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iLearner - used with the IPad. Excellent for reading in the classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">isteread11 (Twitter tag)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">District used a wiki to showcase projects created throughout the project. Teachers sent projects to one person, and she posted to wiki. Eventually, each teacher started hosting his/her own wiki to do the same thing on their own.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Hooks - Animoto, Blabberize, Flip Camera, Voki, Paper Slides
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blabberize: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> students researched a person. They drew pictures. They used the pictures to narrate an tell the story. These were YOUNG students. Could be re-telling a story, research, telling about their favorite part of first grade, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wikispaces - read a book with second graders <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grumpy Cat <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Students used the flip camera to create booktalks and for re=retelling story. They wrote a script, practiced, then used flip to create. They posted on a Gogster. The project started when the teacher read <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do You Have a Cat? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sent email to staff asking who had a cat? They interviewed the teachers who had cats. She wrote u p informaiton and created cat Voki. They became one of the teacher’s cats and spoke as the cat in a Voki.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adventures with Maybelle Project -- Maybelle is a cockroach. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://maybellethecockroach.wikispaces.com/home__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (I got a cockroach to particpate). Similar to Flat Stanley.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Order Maybelle books for libraries (Tullar and Roosevelt/Alliance) Students had a Maybelle festival. One students won a haunted cupcake. They ate mock turtle soup. They had someone bring in hissing cockroaches. They had someonedressed as a cockroach. They hadd the author come to visitl
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To embed glog in wiki - just take the code. When you update glog, it will automatically update in the wiki.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Voicethread: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Could use Glog to showcase the student voicethreads of their islands. Used PPT to re-create Maybelle story by each chapter. ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Maybelle in the Soup__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) Then, uploaded slides to VoiceThread. Teacher figured out how to visual represent each chapter. Teacher asked questions into VoiceThread. She asked students questions. They answered. Ex: How did Maybelle feel when she got back to her home? Students responded on Voicethread as their teacher asked. Teacher had a list of questions she wanted students to respond to. She create a photograph that went with each question. She created picutes in PPT and exported them as JPG.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blabberize: Students created Maybelles out of construction paper. They canned them and blabberized them. Students wrote poems about the book or Maybelle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPads - iLearners wiki is meant to show you how you can use the iPad to support literacy.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading Apps! <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toy Story App <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - it’s the book. When you click on bottom, you can record your own voice or the student can record his/her own voice reading the book. Could have each student record his/her own page. Also has games, music, paint, coloring pages, etc. FREE DOWNLOAD!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iBooks - You can put books and PDFs. Some books cost money, others are free. You can put a note and annotate in iBooks. You can create Word documents, save as PDF, and put in iBook. Kids used Photostory to create their own books. They drew the illustrations and narrated their own books.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pearson science readers. Save as PDFs and put on iBooks. Many books are very interactive.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bookster <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is a great reading app for younger kids. (FREE)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read Me Stories <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is another great app. Everyday there is another book that kids can enjoy. (FREE)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you use Discovery Education: You can download the video books in DE and use those. They downloaded all the Caldecott books and put them in one category. They pulled hard copies of books from library so students could have those, too. Could also just download audio.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Storyrobe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - students can create their own books on their iPad. You can create a story, open a story, and share a story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FANTASTIC SESSION!!!! So many resources to show us project ideas and how-to’s for elementary projects! I cannot wait to share these with my elementary staffs. AFter this session, it will be hard to remind myself that I can’t do it all at one -- because there is so much I want to do! I have already emailed Julie Lennon and told her I would love to do the Maybelle project with her 1,2,3 classroom.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Garage Band to Ommunicate, Collaborate, and Create
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a classroom session. I am purposefully going to attempt to use Garage Band on the iPad instead of on my laptop. Opening it up, it already look squire different than they version on my laptop. We will see how this goes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This school does use laptops for these projects.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Objective is not how to use Garage Band, but how to use it in your content.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Asked to create a middle school level short story with a focus on comparing.contrasting main characters.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By the time they start this activity, students already know how to use Garage Band.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Garage Band is completely different on the iPad. It appears there are qte a few limitations to using it on the iPad. I don't thinki would invest int this app for our students. I think the best tool to use for this app is a desktop or laptop. Once you export, you can play it on the iPad, but I don't think you would use the iPad version to create anything too complex.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@@@Om a side note, I was speaking with the man sitting next to me. He is from New Jersey. He could tell I was from Wisconsin based on my accent. I have had Neenah kids comment on y north woods accent, but this one surprised me!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for this project kids needed to add voice and jingles.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be reading a shorthand story called Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas They do this project in the middle of the story, not after they have finished the entire story. This covers compare and contrast standards, which can be difficult for middle school students.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fur.ly/5tlh. this pinko has the story, the script handout for students, and the rubric. It has everything a teacher would need to do this assignment.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">URL above has all their handouts.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">students are given a script complete with stage directions for voice.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this project takes about a class period and a half.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">students read two pages of story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This may be a great resource sto share with Jennifer Merritt.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students have to write down their dialogue first. Teacher checks it before recording.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick & Easy Google Activities for Kids! - Tammy Worcester
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will need gmail accounts for many of these activities. *Diane may be willing to set up Google Apps for Educators accounts for us as a trial run for the district. Other option would be domain name accounts like GoDaddy.com. Detailed instructions are available on Tammy’s handout for this session. URL for this session: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.tammyworcester.com/TWHandouts/TW_Handouts/Entries/2011/6/28_Quick_%26_Easy_Google_Activities_for_Kids.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Post Card <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Using PPT or Google Docs. Single slide in google presentaiton. Studnents create a postcard to Mom and DAd telling theme where they visited. Stonhenge for example. They insert pic on side. On right side, they write a short post card explain where they went. Insert a clip art stamp. Make sure they site photo sources. They need to include at least 3 facts.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear M and Dad, Today we went to Stonehenge, in southern England. It was really cool! I didn’t know that it took over 1400 years to build it! I can see why it is on of the world’s greatest mysteries. I can’t believe it was bult by HAND without the use of modern machinery. Wish you were here! Love, Jenny
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Print this has a handout from PPT or Keynote. Could use tag board in printer. Could use Tammy’s resource from other day about different places.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m T-rrific Because

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Underneath that, in smaller text they need to write reasons they are terrific. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m T-rrific <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have 3 boys. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have brown eyes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">etc.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fold in-half and rip arms and neck to create a T-shirt shape. Could hang from yarn, string from BB and hang shits on line.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This could be used at start of year. My Summer was T-riffic because, George Washington was T-riffic because, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Slides - Build a Healthy Body
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students write healthy habbits on legs, arms, etc. Cut out and paste togehter to create a person. Similar to Gallon man.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Happiness is . ..
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a picture of something that you think portrays happiness. Go to Blogger.com. Under settings in Blogger, you can set it up so students can email photos to the blog. It wouldn’t have to be pictures. You could also say Take a pcitrue of what freedom is to you. Take a picture of something that is green, something that has three sides, field trip photos that students take.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Maps -- if you have a google account, you can create custom maps. Once you are logged into your account, you can click on “My Places.” Then, click on Maps tab. You can create a new name for each map. You can add place marks wherever you want. You can add pictures in there, etc. Students can put markers in all the states they have visited, all the cities they have visited, etc. This wold work well for Flat Stanley or Maybelle activity.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you couldn’t live in Wisconsin anymore, where would you live and why? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use Google Maps to mark their places and add notes. Jordan wants to live in Hawaii because it is warm and sunny. This would all be part of one map.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students pretend they are a rock band manager and they have to plan their upcoming tour. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> They also need to figure out what they are going to do on their “off” time while on tour.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Map out their community and add icons <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, labeling Police Station, School, houses, pool, library,etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Batchgeo.com <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take data from any website and have it map it. Use google form to have students type in addresses. (Here is the one Tammy had us fill out: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFhwSThlQTg1aEdZSWRUaXJBZnFkOGc6MQ&ifq__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ) It will give every address a place mark on the map.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take three words about ISTE conference and put all of them into Wordle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagxedo <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Does same thing as Wordle, but it takes it a step further. BUT, in Tagxedo, you can put the words into a shape (theme). You can even upload your own shape if you don’t like the ones they have.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Forms. Create a new form. Form needs two fields only. Call it ISTE Quiz. Field for name. Field for answer. You can reuse this form over and over again as you want students to do quiz game. Make a tiny url out of it. Paste url into spreadsheet so you don’t forget what it is. To delete answers for next quiz, go to edit. Delete rows. Instructions are on her website on the ISTE handout form.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make it Work! How to Make Your School Library Indespensible - Karen Kliegman
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ugh . . . so far, this is completely depressing. This session is a real downer. I’m starting to regret ending my ISTE experience this way. She is talking about the war against education and how we can do everything right, win all the awards, present at conferences, and still lose our jobs. This is not what I want to think about as I have been pumped full of enthusiasm and excitement for the upcoming school year.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big part of the problem for LMS is the misperception of what our program is all about and what our program does. Too many people think that libraries are just warehouses for books. Too many peoiple think that all librarians do is read books to students.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’ve been told to do less. But that isn’t in our nature. On the contrary, it is in our nature to give more.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are fighting for our lives and for the lives of our students, too.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We juggle many roles.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we do more with less? How do we make it work?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tip #1 -- Branding
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visibility -- make sure your school community knows what services you provide - webpage, wiki, logo. Create a Brand Identiy (The Unquiet Librarian)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Define your brand’s vision.