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| Session Title | Session Description | Strand | Location |
| Collaborating with Blogs Dan Kerr | This session will focus on the set up, showcase and implementation of an elementary school collaboration blog. The blog allows teachers to post lessons, view lessons, add any number of pages and take ownership for a specific area of learning. It is all about sharing a bit of themselves and what's happening in their classroom. The blog also showcases student work. It has a number of elements including surveys, video clips, professional literature pages, a place for professioanl goals and more. A wonderful tool for teachers to teach teachers and improve student learning. | Digital Integration | Java Comp. Lab #56 |
| How to Fully Utilize the Internet in Your Classroom Tim Ramsey | 1. How to Fully Utilize the Internet in Your Classroom 2. Different options ideas for you to use to control how students access the Internet using WebPath Express and Google Custom Search as well as showing ways to empower students to focus their own searching using advance searching techniques and Windows Search | Digital Tools | Library |
| Moodle: from idea to lesson John Mikton | This session is geared for educators who wish for the first time implement Moodle to support their current lessons and curriculum. In this hands on workshop you will create a course, and then explore the various resources and tools which you can integrate to support student collaboration, integration of wiki's, and develop an interactive area for you and your students to work with in and out of the classroom. Please make a point of bringing any handouts, documents which you wish to integrate into the Moodle course. Best if they are word documents. | Digital Tools | Room #43 |
| Introduction to SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard: Part One Andika Pratama | Basic training to get novice users started with the smart board. It will be a hands-on training where teachers will be grouped and have their own SMART Board within the group to play and interact with. This session is highly recommended for any teachers that have never used the SMART Board and/or need to refresh their knowledge. This is the first session of two consecutive sessions. | Digital Tools | Sumatra Comp. Lab #59 |
| Producing Multimedia as Performance Assessment David Elliott | Video Productions have become a key tool for documenting learning. They are the "opera" of digital technology as they involve all the skills of writing, audio, video, movement, and editing. YouTube has become the "stage" for all the world to see. How can we assess these products that honor their work as well as the goals of the school and class? | Digital Learning | Teratai #41 |
| Nothing Changes Right? Jeff Utecht | Just how crazy am I? Come discuss a new learning theory for the 21st Century. We'll take a look at what we know, what we think we know, what's changed since we were in our education programs and end up looking at learning through a new lens. I have more questions than answers. | Digital Learning | Teratai #42 |
