PETE+&+C+Tuesday


 * Tuesday Sessions**

Keynote Speaker - Daniel Pink
 * summary of presentation


 * AM Sessions**

Discovery Education/Discovery Streaming
 * Bend It, Break It, Bust It Loose - [|Matt Monjan] [|www.geekybird.com] - click on birdhouse**
 * DE Video
 * DE Audio
 * Songs to help with learning the English Language
 * DE Images
 * 20,000 images to search
 * embedding video
 * steps to include controls
 * PPt 2003 - toolbar - view - toolbox-controll toolbox - hammer and wrench symbol - windows media player - right click - properties - fit to screen....
 * My Content - bookmark your stuff
 * Teacher Center
 * assignment builder, assessment builder
 * Calendar - daily facts
 * Writing Prompt Builder - using images and videos, can also insert voice thread, animoto, etc
 * Close captioning - add to existing video/captioning
 * hearing impaired, ell, struggling readers, emphasis language/grammar
 * download video and cc icon (video and text file)
 * right click on cc file and open in note pad - change font size and color - and make any other changes that you'd choose!
 * can dump the video into movie maker and create your own narration/captioning
 * Digital Storytelling
 * use their images in photostories
 * book talk/movie trailor - Sammy the Seal example
 * pictures of you example
 * Quiz builder - create and assign quizzes related to their content
 * Assignment builder - quizzes and writing prompts
 * suggestion - use for professional development
 * Green Screen - example
 * Interactive Atlas
 * Professional Development
 * resource section on the DE site
 * DEN


 * Meeting English Standards with Pod/Vodcasting**
 * wiki site: http://gasd-conferences.wikispaces.com
 * created a scene from classic literature as a podcast

Professional Learning Networks: So Important! - Patricia Duncan
 * Her wiki site: http://techiescitchr.wikispaces.com
 * Using social networking sites to create PLNs (personal learning networks/professional learning networks)
 * connect, collaborate, contribute
 * organizations - ISTI, Keystones, etc
 * Google Teaching Academy
 * Companies such as Prometian
 * Discovery Education - DEN
 * webinars
 * talk on the "phone" - skype, [|oovoo]
 * listserves - Yahoo, Google groups
 * often have searchable lists
 * start your own
 * Microblogging
 * twitter
 * [|plurk] - threaded conversation in timeline format, can be bookmarked
 * PLNs on Facebook
 * Ning - create own social network (PETE & C example) - classroom 2.0, NECC, PA educators....(Cheryl
 * Other resources
 * [|Portaportal] - create folders and save bookmarks, simpler than delicious - great for students


 * PM Sessions

[|Using Google Earth in Science and Social Studies] - Robin Martin**

Using Technology to Teach the Civil War - Practical classroom examples, using technology to promote historical inquiry and Web. 2.0 applications. Companion [|Blog]
 * Professional Development Outside the Box - Lisa Franklin, etal**
 * pdoutsidethebox.wikispaces.com
 * formative assessment
 * reading strategies/series
 * using podcasts on instructional strategies
 * tutorials on webpages
 * video conferencing
 * ooVoo - multiple streams visible at once
 * vodcast
 * [|screenflow] - for MAC
 * google docs
 * skype
 * webcams videos - have teachers use this to create these at the end of pd sessions to create infomercials to share with those who can't attend
 * survey preferences for the way pd is delivered - [|survey gizmo]