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	21^st Century - Digital Kids in the Classroom Learn about 17 FREE software applications you can use in your classroom for students to explore the cornerstones of media--research, technology, and literature--through minds-on, hands-on learning that prepares them for living and working in the 21st Century. The workshop will provide hands-on activities using FREE programs that include: Blogs, PodCasts, Wiki, Vlogs, Streaming, Photo Story, Digital Story Telling, Photo Express Editor, Visual Literacy, Skype, PodSafe Music, WikiSpaces, Itunes, Juice, PodCast Alley, Ipodder, Audacity and YackPack . Hands on activities are included. Who are the Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants? Learn how emerging technologies can be used to support comprehension and 21st Century information literacy skills in the classroom. What will the Digital Classroom look like in the next 5 years? Find out in this workshop. Attendees will use FREE software, and create applications for the 21^st Century classroom. Activities will include Digital Storytelling to teach 21st Century Literacy skills while gaining expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. Projects will allow students to learn 21st Century skills and prepare them to meet the demands of the global community and engage them in mastering the core curriculum. The projects are models for driving education change and transforming educational institutions into model learning environments that cater to the broadest range of users and use collaboration tools in creating Blogs, Wikis , PodCasts and Digital Stories. Learn how to integrate programs into the classrooms with new knowledge, skills, and strategies that are critical to individual use of digital information resources. Join us and learn how to improve learning through Digital Media and Multimedia Magic. The software applications and programs will be provided to attendees on a CD. Digital Tools For Digital KIDS: How do we leverage the learning preferences of Digital Natives? We all know the future will be greatly impacted by the development of new digital tools. But have we considered what the digital world is already doing to the students that enter our classrooms? What strategies can we use to appeal to the learning preferences and communication needs of digital learners while at the same time honoring our traditional practices and assumptions related to teaching, learning and assessment? More importantly, what are the implications for teaching, learning and assessment in the new digital landscape? This workshop allows participants to understand teaching, learning, and assessment strategies for working with the digital generation. The session will provide attendees examples of: § Examples of quick and easy digital photography activities and projects § Web links, hints, cheap publishing techniques, and more § Create a story about your town and its history § Handout and FREE software and Web sites provided § Improving your photography skills through easy-to-follow tips while learning image-editing skills with free software § How to share knowledge, thoughts, and feelings with the global community about the MY TOWN PROJECT § Using books, calendars, slideshows, digital videos, PodCasts, and Video Conferencing § Global communication software for the classroom Digital Book Publishing - Do you have hundreds of digital photos in shoeboxes? What about the 987 images on your computer? Why not gather, organized and prepare the photos to be published in you own book. Join our book party and learn how to transfer, organize, rename and edit all of your photos. Find out what makes a GREAT photo, tips on good composition and how to make a good photo GREAT. After you have selected your best photos you will create a book that you can self publish. Microsoft Publisher - Publisher is a program on the district computers that is powerful and simple to use. We will explore application in the classroom and how to integrate the application into your daily curriculum. Projects that students will create in the class include samples of newsletters, brochures, flyers, signs, postcards, letterheads, business cards, and calendars. You will amaze yourself at how you will be able to create projects professionally and easily with Publisher! Come away from the class with various projects relevant to the classroom! Digital Cameras- 1 & 2 Participants will learn the secrets of taking great pictures using a digital camera. Topics will include settings and composition and the correct use of a digital camera and its many functions. Participants will photograph a variety of situations and locations including landscapes, people, art, close-ups and stills. In addition you will develop technical skills in photo editing with specific software and learn tips for effective integration into the classroom. Viewing, saving and renaming images will be demonstrated. The importing the image into Office documents, Power Point and Photo Story and other software will be examined. Participants will edit, modify, crop and enhancing images using Photo Express and Picassa. A CD will be provided with free software. Digital Storytelling with PhotoStory- Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. And it derives their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together. This can be one of the most powerful forms of communication, and offers a tremendous vehicle for learning. Students will create a Digital Photo Story and learn how to edit photos, add sound, music and produce a final production for Storytelling. Each project is designed to allow the student the opportunity and avenues for personal expression. You will learn about multimedia communication with action and motion, and it helps them reinforce a variety of other skills, including critical thinking, literacy, interpersonal communication, collaboration, public speaking, composition, storytelling and group decision-making. You will explore storytelling, and learn basic photography, /composition, storyboarding skills, editing and audio enhancement. At the end of the project, participants will understand how all the pieces come together to make a digital story. Participants must bring digital photos on a flash card or CD to input into their projects. A CD will be provided with free software. Digital Interactive Learning With Web 2.0: Making The Global Connection for Education How can schools start the conversation about using the new Web-based tools that allow us to communicate, collaborate, and create content. Schools should be using the new generation of web-based tools that allow us to communicate, collaborate, and create content. Yet schools are only beginning to use these tools. Find out about approaches like School 2.0 and books and tools that can help us understand the issues, get started talking about what works, and get up and running easily. How do we translate traditional information skills for an information landscape that is genre-shifting, multi-modal, media-rich, participatory, socially connected, and brilliantly chaotic? Web 2.0 tools can do it. The presentation/workshop will help you discover how Web 2.0 applications, digital stories/podcasts, blogs, Wikis, new handheld devices, and annotation software provide more engaging and collaborative personal computing environments for students and teachers. ePortfolios can address different purposes (introduction of self, reflection, rich multimedia artifacts) with emerging Web 2.0 development tools. Take polls, online surveys embedded presentations and social bookmarking trials. At the same time contemplate the classroom applications and discover how to build an infrastructure for continual professional development using Web 2.0 tools. Web 2.0--it is colorful and thrilling. It has created enthusiasm and an audience never before imagined. Web 2.0 tools are the emerging communication tools of the 21st century. A recent study revealed "fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the Internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or Webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations." We will explore how the shifts we describe as Web 2.0 impact our instruction and are enhanced by a focus on Information Fluency and Educational Technology. Examples of Web 2.0 Applications will include: 43 things , del.icio.us , Jotspot, Wikipedia, Pageflakes, Classroom 2.0 , Gliffy, Bubbl.us, ChatCreator, Zoho Creator ,, Slideshare , FURL , Flickr, Google Video (Hall Pass) ("lesson plans" search), MediaMax, voo2do, goowy, YouOS, g.ho.st, GetSparc, Zamzar, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Peepel, Writeboard, Skype, skrbl, Netvibes, Bloglines, Educational Podcast Network, Blogger, (Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch)LetterPop, scrapblog, Go2Web20.net, drupal Podcasting - Forget blogging: the hot topic right now is podcasting. If you've ever fantasized about hosting your own talk show, this is your chance. Podcasts are recordings distributed across the Internet as downloadable MP3 files. Want to learn Italian, make a video, learn to knit, find out about the latest trends in Technology, listen to NPR radio, and find out how to use Photoshop or Travel information. These and thousands of other PODCASTS are available for you to listen to. Find out how to locate a podcast, listen to it and save it on your computer or load it on to your mp3 player. Learn how to use Itunes to locate and listen to PODCASTS. All you need to start your own PODCAST is a microphone, some software, and the gift of gab. In fact, most PodCasts are home-brewed and you can learn how to do it with your students. Learn how to incorporate PODCASTS into you classroom and curriculum. We have all the equipment to use and you will be able to check it out after taking the class. You can then take the equipment to you school to use it with your students. Students will write a script, record and edit the PODCAST. Join you peers and have some fun and get your 15 minutes of fame. We will provide many ideas for you and your students. After you make your PODCAST we will show you how to use the Audio Editor and make special effects in your PODCATS. A CD will be provided with free software. Professional Development: Podcasting in Education These hands-on workshops are designed to help you discover how easy it is to create, distribute, and access podcasts. Enhance your skills with the latest technologies and understand the power of podcasts. The content available through podcasts is exciting, creative, and valuable for teaching and learning. Podcasting 101: Getting Started -Creating Podcasts The iPod is a flexible and powerful access device for educational content. In this technology literacy course, educators new to iPod explore its multitude of uses, from accessing a calendar or checking a student and parent contact list, to using the iPod for professional development, and as a storage device. Participants learn how to download and manage resources with iTunes, sync their iPod, and access materials from their iPod. Using Audacity , educators will create a podcast that they can use in their classroom and connect to on their iPod. Podcasting 102: Podcasting for Administrators This workshop is designed to help school or district administrators understand the potential of podcasting as a personal and school communication vehicle. A wide variety of podcasting applications will be explored, including how to create dynamic communications, community outreach, course outlines, instructional best practices, and professional development. Participants will learn to create an enhanced podcast using Audacity and post them on a hosting service provided by the school or district. Blogs The objectives of this hands on workshop are to introduce participants to the educational and classroom applications of using Blogs and Blogging, familiarize them with best practice examples, and give them a quick overview of how to get started creating and using Blogs in their own educational environment. Welcome to the blogosphere! This workshop session will explore the fun and ease of creating a BLOG. It is designed to assist you to understand what a Blogs is and how it can be used in the classroom and support your classroom instruction. Participants will create a Blog and have it ready when they return to the classroom. Students and educators are creating Weblogs in our schools at the local, state and national level and then using them in the global community. Teachers and students are realizing their powerful learning potential and their use in the classroom. Find out how Blogs are transforming classrooms around the globe. Participants will explore examples from Language Arts, Social Studies, American History and other curriculum areas with teachers who incorporates Blogs, podcasts, and studycasts to enrich the curriculum. Participants will gain an overview with practical implementation suggestions. Here is an example of a history teacher and how she is using a Blog: "This year we are participating in our second book blog project. The students in my building read a historical novel and the comment on that novel through a blog moderated by myself. I make suggestions on the number of pages to be read and then post questions for discussion. All comments are sent to me first and approved before being posted to the Internet. Only first names or pen names are allowed in posting comments for safety reasons. The author of the book we are reading has also been included in both of the book Blogs we have done". Blogs remove the technical barriers to writing and publishing and enables students to keep track of their thinking over time. Blogs are impacting education, business, politics, media and across the global community. Participants will examine models of understanding of the best practices to use when teaching and learning with Blogs, how to develop strategies and techniques in responsible and academically proficient ways. Wild- Wild Wikis: Wikis are an ideal tool for online collaboration. The workshop will explore several successful Wikis from educational applications. Participants will create and set up your own free Wiki. As the World Wide Web has evolved into what is popularly known as Web 2.0, the importance of the input and collaboration of the people who use the site has become extremely important to the educational community. A Wiki is an example of social software that has become popular in recent years. Wikipedia is the most well-known Wiki and some people have limited experience with it. They may understand that the information they read there was contributed and edited by other users, but they may not know how they can contribute to this resource. They may also not realize how they can use Wiki technology to solve some of their own collaborative needs. Wikis involve input from participants and they are subject to the same dynamics that any other societal interaction brings.