Strategy 2 Design - Presentation Topics

Presentation Topics

Keyboards, Keypads, and Thumbboards – What next?
Gaby’s ABC’s and 123’s – Keyboarding Strategies Update!
Join the roundtable discussion about keyboarding instruction. With the introduction of the iPad and other keyboards, keypads and thumbboards, we seem to have taken keyboarding back to a two-finger operation. How do we feel about this? We will discuss other keyboards, keypads, and thumbboards that are widely used and what, if anything, we should teach about them.

Share what you do and think about teaching the keyboard/keyboarding. I will share how I teach keyboarding with a quick and easy strategy that will engage your students using an alphabet poem, software, and interactive online games to create a solid framework of QWERTY keyboarding skills for touch typing and other input methods.

Why do you teach keyboarding?
How do you teach keyboarding?
Why should your students learn keyboarding?

Connect, Collaborate, Create, Challenge – CHANGE…
We must incorporate the best of what we know with the tools of the 21st Century to create expert learners. If educators are truly expert learners, it is time to demonstrate how we got there. Model life-long learning and embrace change. Come see how a little planning, a little training, a little risk-taking, and a big commitment to do what is right for kids have helped to transform the way our students learn. Let’s talk about a day in the life of a 21st century student!

Part 1: Design Your Professional Learning Community with Social Networking and Web 2.0 Tools
Experience social networking and Web 2.0 tools in the process of creating your own Professional Learning Community. Experience the power these tools can have on your own learning.

Part 2: Teach Digital Citizenship and Responsibility with Social Networking and Web 2.0 Tools for Your Classroom and Beyond Children and young adults need to learn responsible and ethical online behavior throughout their school years, yet many school AUPs prohibit use of these tools on the school networks. Design exemplary 21st Century lessons across disciplines. Help prevent cyberbullying and be proactive about teaching digital citizenship. Create wonderful new kinds of projects that will engage all of your students and connect your classroom to parents and community. Integrate the technology in creative ways during school and after hours.

ABC’s and 123’s – Keyboarding Strategies for Grades K-8
Master instructional strategies that engage your students with an alphabet poem, software, and interactive online games to create a solid framework of keyboarding skills. Develop good, safe technique before your students develop any hunt and peck habits.

Social Networking and Web 2.0
Part 1: Social Networking for personal use and professional growth: Experience first hand the power of social networks. Discover the many possibilities you will have using tools like Facebook, Wikis, Twitter, Plurk, YouTube, TeacherTube, Voicethread, GCast, Jott, Ning, and Flickr. Collaborate and communicate with family, friends, teachers and even students around the world.

Part 2: Social Networking and Web 2.0 tools for your classroom: See how social networking and Web 2.0 tools can be used productively and creatively to design exemplary 21st Century lessons across disciplines. Create wonderful new projects that will engage even your most difficult students. Discover ways to connect your classroom to parents and community. Make the world both experts and audience for your students and see what happens to their motivation!!! Presenter will provide practical and administrative tips for using these tools safely and effectively in the classroom.

On Beyond Google — Web Literacy and Search Strategies for
Teachers and Students (Grades K-12)
Learn several quick and effective strategies for finding information and excellent teaching resources on the Internet. Search like a pro so you can teach these techniques to your students. Use games, mini lessons, and activities to learn the grammar of the Web, reverse linking, site evaluation, country specific searching, and more. Lots of ideas and web links.

Pixel Projects, Digital Images Across the Curriculum (Grades K-12)
Learn essential techniques for capturing, editing, and using digital images in the classroom. Explore some basic editing and project ideas using Adobe PhotoShop Elements as a stepping-stone and gain the confidence to use these ideas in your class tomorrow.

If you are purchasing a digital camera to capture images, you want to use a camera that meets your minimum requirements. Check into the features like optical vs digital zoom, refresh rate, and pixels per inch. Check the type of storage it requires CD, DVD, media card, or the camera.

Powerful Movie Projects for Kids ( Grades K-12)
Opening doors for kids who are visual learners - Meet the MA Frameworks Standards for Communication and Technology - let students create their own multimedia with iMovie or Windows MovieMaker. Curriculum project ideas and student samples.

Standards in Motion (Grades 3-12)
Cover core academic standards in math, science, ELA, and social studies while covering half of the technology standards in one extraordinary project. Engage even your most reluctant learners in core academics through the creation of animation. Participants will understand how critical thinking skills, storyboarding, research, and creativity can come together in this multimedia project. Using PowerPoint, paint and other tools that you already own, you and your students can learn to produce simple to sophisticated animation that can be published for authentic audiences or used for future instruction. The repetitive process of creating the animation makes the content really stick.

From Here to Inquiry (Grades K-12)
A step-by-step approach to transforming our excellent lessons into technology rich, constructivist, inquiry based, plagiarism free lessons that enhance student learning. Learn how to turn the standards into essential questions. Learn how to transform teaching and learning – one-project-at-a-time.

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