PETE+and+C+2008+Highlights

Pat McKeon, Karen Norris and Kristina Hurley attended PETE + C. Here are some of the highlights from the sessions that they attended:

Monday’s Opening Keynote: DAVID POGUE Tuesday’s Opening Keynote: Steve Dembo See also Reporting Back Wiki
 * Web 2.0 Tools Go Elementary This presentation showed how many Web 2.0 applications are used in elementary classrooms. (ie - Blogger, Wikispaces, Voice Thread, Animoto and even Webkins)
 * 50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story Steve Dembo, from Discovery Network, presented a number of examples of the web applications contained in Alan Levine's wiki. These included creating a family history using ToonDoo, timelines with xTimeline and Ourstory.com, poetry with Voice Thread, combining Discovery sound tracks with student artwork using myplick.com....
 * [|Traveling with Technology] Fifth Grade students from Germantown Academy create multimedia projects.
 * [|Technology, Even in Kindergarten] Examples from half day kindergarten classes in Upper Merion school district
 * Literacy through Technology A Central Bucks fourth grade teacher highlights many Web 2.0 applications used to develop the literacy skills of 'digital natives.' Applications include bubbl.us, classblogmeister, gcast, flicker, etc. Visit Meg Griffin's [|blog] and check out the persuasive video created with Voice Thread.
 * Enhancing Differenciated Instruction Using Web 2.0 Tools Cheryl Capozzoli from Susquhanna Township School District's amazing presentation - very organized and many great uses for these web-based tools. Includes interactive desktop publishing, collaboration, presentation, notetaking, mindmapping, forms, polls and surveys, podcasting, vodcasting, blog, wiki, webpage construction, communication, multimedia, photo sharing, simulations, personalized browsers, global network connections and web 2.0 resources.....
 * Google Earth Tours The Whole World in Kids' Hands: Student Made Google Earth Tours, presented by Julie Tebbets
 * RSS and Research - Chris Champion first introduced us to the http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/ The Readers reviewed were Google reader, Bloglines, Pageflakes. If your student do ongoing research - use the MSN search and subscribe to the RSS feed. Updates will be delivered to your reader.
 * [|Wikis+vs.+Blogs.ppt] - A good resource to use with staff that have little or no knowledge of Wikis or Blogs. Great classroom examples.
 * [|What is even more Amazing then Google Earth?] ISS EarthKam is a free NASA program where students use a web interface to remotely take live photos of our planet from International Space Station.
 * [|Director's Cut:] Digital Media & Premiere Elements - The session demonstrated how to use online media (a clip from UnitedStreaming), green screen and some special effects in Adobe Premiere Elements to create digital movies where our students are the stars. [|Adobe Digital Kids Club]
 * [|Do The Crime, Do The Time: Copyright for Educators -] This was an interactive and good review of what you can and cannot do. They gave out hard copies of their resources. Two good ones [|Music Publishers' Association], and [|The TEACH Act,]
 * Get a Second Life- This was an informative session on how Second Life is being used by [|educators] to transform distance education and simulate [|professional learning communities.] What the 2007 Horizon Report has to say about [|Virtual worlds]
 * [|Online Collaboration Using netTrekker d.i.] - This session showed us how to; Change our role in netTrekker, create shared search information, use the new search tools to drill down, use the dictionary tool, and Read Aloud.
 * Expanding Technology Leadership The establishment of a Technology Mentor Program has allowed our district to move from a district based technology staff development program to a site based program. The result has been expanded leadership and a significant increase in the number of workshops.
 * [|Teachers Behaving Badly - Violating Copyright Law] Professional development programs need to address copyright in the digital age. Teachers should model acceptable behavior in the classroom including conduct that doesn't violate copyright law. This session presented legal issues content in an interactive gameboard setting. Participants will reviewed copyright and plagiarism topics and enhance their knowledge of legal and ethical issues.
 * Video Podcasting in Chemistry & Physics This presentation focused on how to create and post video podcasts in the chemistry & physics classroom. These can be created by the teachers and/or students. The podcasts can be accessed at home without the use of an iPod. Learned
 * 50 Ways to Use Discovery Education streaming When it comes to integrating digital media into your classroom, the possibilities are endless. earn powerful ways to integrate all of the resources available in Discovery Education streaming into instruction. Learning centers and online assignments. Team digital storytelling projects and media content on the video iPod. The possibilities are endless.
 * The REAL Work of 21st Century Skills This session described implementation strategies for 21st Century Skills. Pennsylvania initiatives such as Getting to One and Classrooms for the Future include building 21st Century Skills as a goal. What are these skills and how do we leverage technology to nurture self-directed learning behaviors or improve critical thinking skills?
 * Technology and Differentiated Instruction-Bill Dolton
 * To Tech- or Not to Tech-Lillian Geltz