Wednesday Sessions July 2nd

Session 1 Scanner Magic: Innovative Uses for the Scanner.

Dr. Michels from Missouri State University showed examples of how her students scanned 3D objects. You can lay items on the scanner, cover with paper or material and scan to use in worksheets, brocures, web page images etc. This was a very different way to use the scanner and maybe our speech kids could try this on their persuaive speeches!

Session 2--Poster sessions by a variety of teachers.

Blogging, Podcasting, and Smart Boards--Oh My!

A half day kindergarten program are trying their luck with this using Kid Pics and recording their voice to make a podcast!

Kinesthetic Keyboarding: Hop Down from Secondary to Second Grade.

This teacher showed how she had used a shower curtain and drawn a huge keyboard on it. Kids could dance on it learning the keyboard.

Free-nology: Free Technology Resources for Educators.

A variety of free web sites were shown for teachers. To many to list here, but have a CD with all of them!

Untangling the Web for Elementary Mathematics.

Find all you need to untangle the Web for elementary mathematics at Coucnil Rock's one-stop Web site!

http://www.crsd.org/50338927131259/site/default.asp

Sessions 3: Make It Even Better: Windows Vista Tips and Tricks
This website is a wealth of tips for using Vista. Since I will have a mini lab in the library with vista and the new MS/HS lab also running Vista, I was particularly interested in this session!

Handouts from this session at http://speakwisdom.com/
brent@speakwisdom.com
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/

Peeked my head in A Disruption is Absolutely Coming: Computers Disguised as Cellphones but it is full. There are polls that students are answering with cell phones. It is a matter of time before the cell phone is actually a pwowerful computer. Disruption is nigh!

Audio is Great! Video is Cool! Ipods Can Do More!
Tony Vincent, Learning in Hand

The final keynote speaker was Idit Harel Caperton, President and Founder of World Wide Workshop
http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/

Social Networks, Wikis and Blogs are changing the educational landscapes. She presented her recent invention in 1:1 computing--the Globaloria Networks
http://www.globaloria.org/

We finished the Texas experience eating in an authentic mexican restaurant and picked up some souveneirs. While shopping for souveneirs, notice one clerk looked familiar--she was one of the finalists in Big Brother!

We were unable to get a flight out that night, so got up at 4:00 Thursday and headed home!

Great conference!