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Classroom Management Tools and Ideas

Presenter – Cindy Doder, Webster Groves MO School District

Positive Behavior Support systems have been implemented in many school districts. What tools can help support you in your PBS work or classroom management in general? Ideas may include classroom tracking tools, communication tools or team collaboration tools. If you are new to PBS come see how districts use tools to enforce positive behaviors. If you are part of a PBS initiative, bring your ideas and samples to share.

Take-away – Participants will gain ideas on using technology tools for implementing and managing Positive Behavior Support Programs.

Cindy Doder currently is the Data/Software Coordinator for Webster Groves School District. A certified eMINTS Instructional Specialists since 2004, Doder worked 7 years as the Technology Curriculum Coordinator, and before that as the High School Technology Coordinator and district SIS manager.

Positive Behavior Systems (PBS) comes to eMINTS Winter Conference with this engaging and informative presentation from Cindy Doder. Cindy does an excellent job of demonstrating how the PBS and eMINTS methods for addressing classroom management correlate. She makes the use of data and planning a course of action in creating the most effective learning environment possible. The focus is on meaningful management in our schools that promotes learning.

For more information on Cindy’s presentation and PBS, check out her resources here.

Bernie Dodge Friday Keynote – “New Decade, New WebQuest Thoughts” Technologically, creating a WebQuest can be very simple. As long as a teacher can create a document with hyperlinks, he or she can create a WebQuest. Making a WebQuest that truly transforms student thinking and learning requires careful planning and thinking on the part of the teacher. In this session Bernie Dodge will provide thought-provoking ideas to enhance WebQuest development and use.

I grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut (home of Holyland USA, the Playmates, Annie Leibovitz, Rosalind Russell and George Metesky), a once-great industrial city that was slowly rusting away in the ’60s. I tunnelled my way to freedom with a scholarship to WPI and never moved back. By my senior year, I knew for sure that Electrical Engineering wasn’t for me. So, after graduation, I joined the Peace Corps and taught math on Bonthe, Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone for two years.On my return, I landed a position as a very junior administrator working on a unique curricular change effort at my alma mater, WPI. Our mission was to develop projects and programs designed to broaden the experience of engineering undergraduates — to “humanize” technologists. We set up a satellite center in Washington, D.C. and organized projects in which students worked with agencies like EPA and HUD to analyze the societal effects of various technologies. It was probably at this point that I became intrigued with the systematic design of instruction. I wanted to know why some of the things we tried worked and others didn’t. That led me to IDD&E Department at Syracuse University, and directly from there to San Diego in 1980.  Teaching My main professional focus is on the design, implementation and evaluation of computer-based learning environments. The courses I teach are all variations on that theme: a doctoral class about the design of learning systems; the development of WebQuests and lessons wrapped around telecollaboration, databases and software; and all about the design of educational games and simulations. I just ended a long stint of coordinating the nine sections of class taken by pre-service teachers. I’ve developed courses about wikis, blogs, Second Life, podcasting and CMS. I’ve also guided curriculum development for the Triton and Patterns Projects, Challenge Grants of the San Diego Unified School District that are now complete. Software I’ve developed two educational packages for children (Quations published by Scholastic and Grab-a-Cab by Silver Burdett and Ginn) but boundless wealth continues to elude me. In 1994 my PLANalyst lesson planning tool was published by SuperSchool Software, and I’m working on a new version for a new publisher. HomeMaker is a free tool I wrote to help ordinary mortals create personal home pages without dealing with html. Instructional simulations and games are my particular focus because I’ve always been interested in figuring out what makes things interesting. K-12 I’m also very involved with schools and teachers. I was the founding president of San Diego Computer-Using Educators in 1982 and later served on the Board of Directors of CUE, Inc. For 6 years, I co-directed the T2ARP program which prepares student teachers to work within the technology-rich restructured environments of O’Farrell Community School and Morse High School. The T2ARP program was a finalist in the 1998 Association of Teacher Educators national competition for outstanding teacher education programs. In January 2000, clearly due to some kind of clerical error, I was named to the eSchoolNews Total Impact 30 list. A similar misunderstanding led to my being profiled in the August 2000 Converge Magazine as a shaper of ed tech’s future. From 2002 to 2005 I served on the National Educational Advisory Board for Cable in the Classroom. I’m presently on the eMINTS National Center Advisory Board.

The man who helped WebQuests go viral comes back once again to deliver our Winter Conference keynote. For that we are grateful, but we are even more grateful for the knowledge Bernie has shared with us over the years. This year’s address was no different.

In an effort to get beyond the WebQuest, Bernie is looking at “mgagement” or utilizing mobile literacies in our schools. He’s not talking about just cell phones or even smart phones, but he’s talking about any device that allows people to access the internet anywhere. Think “iPads” or other handheld devices that can access a network from almost anywhere.

Event Capture was the first way in which Bernie found to utilize mobile devices in learning. It’s a method that makes better use of field trips or on-site learning. Students create a knowledge base before, during, and after a real-life experience. A tool identified as a great resource for this type of real-life crowd-sourcing is EverNote, the free, collaborative note-taking tool for use on almost any operating system or device.

Wonder Points was another idea identified to improve “mgagement.” It’s the act of taking advantage of the natural wonderment in every human being, particularly our students. Utilizing immediate observations that can be captured via mobile devices, students can capture that wonderment and develop it into concrete learning activities.

The motivation through real-life learning and using the mobile devices that allow us to record life as never before make Bernie’s new direction toward mobile learning a logical next step from the classroom-based WebQuest. It’s truly inspiring to see that one of our long-time partners is so in-tune with the direction of educational technology. We can’t wait to see where this takes us next at eMINTS!

What about the WebQuest? There’s the WebQuest 3.0 where the critical information gathered by students comes from outside the classroom, using mobile devices. Students go out into their communities and learn about the world around them, instead of gathering all their content from the world wide web.

These are exciting developments in Bernie Dodge’s work. What Bernie does influences eMINTS greatly and should continue to take us into the future, a future where the mobile device becomes the primary mode of learning. That learning is immediate, real-world, and meaningful to our students. Sounds like a good time.

849-Presenting Prezi

Presenter – Jackie Carl, Ava R-I (MO) School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

Prezi is a Flash-based, online presentation tool that uses a canvas to zoom through your presentation. This session will show you examples of Prezi vs. PowerPoint, my personal Prezis and Prezis made by my students so you can see ways to incorprate it into your own classrooms. If you bring your laptop, we can dive in and start using Prezi during the presentation so you can get your feet wet and walk away with a Prezi of your own.

Take-away – Learn how and why to use Prezi for your presentations.

Jackie Carl has been teaching science at Ava High School for over 6 years.She earned a BA from Sac State in Biological Science. After moving to Missouri she returned to school for a teaching certificate and M.Ed in Gifted Education from Drury University. Carl is currently working on an MNAS from Missouri State and teaching evening classes for Drury University in addition to full-time teaching at Ava High School.

Materials - http://mrscarls.wikispaces.com/PresentingPrezi

850-Open Office at Your Service

Presenter – Nancy Toombs, Ste. Genevieve R-II (MO) School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Beginner

Looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office? Come take a look at Open Office, the free productivity tool. You will receive a copy of Open Office and a peek at what each piece of the software can do. With it your students can be free to use a productivity tool at home without spending a dime.

Take-away – An understanding of a free version of Office that will be available for students to use both at school and at home.

Nancy is the Technology Director for Ste. Genevieve R-II School District and is currently in the second year of the eMINTS PD4ETS program. She started her professional career as an accountant and then returned for a business education degree at Southeast Missouri State University. She has her Masters in Educational Technology from the University of Missouri.

Materials - http://www.openoffice.org

851-The Coach’s Cafe

Presenter – Carmen Marty, Brooke Higgins, Terri Brines, eMINTS National Center
Audience – PD4ETS and certified eIS
Tech skills – Beginner

This session is for anyone who has attended Days 1-4 or Days 1-8 of the Cognitive CoachingSM Foundations seminar. The goal of this session is to give these participants time to reconnect, share coaching stories, and practice skills. Participants can expect time to coach each other and share round table style their experiences and questions.

Take-away – Cognitive CoachingSM particpants will refine and gain confidence in coaching skills.

Carmen Marty has been an eMINTS Instructional Specialist for the last six years. Prior to her time at eMINTS she was an eMINTS teacher and PD4ETS graduate. Carmen currently is working on becoming a Agency Trainer in Cognitive CoachingSM for the eMINTS National Center.

Brooke Higgins has been an eMINTS Instructional Specialist with the eMINTS National Center for the last six years. She works with eMINTS4All, eMINTS and PD4ETS programs. Before coming to eMINTS she did her undergraduate and graduate work at Pittsburg State University where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s in Educational Technology. For seven years, she taught 3rd grade in Carthage, MO, where she was an FY01 eMINTS teacher. She currently is working toward being an Agency Trainer for the Center for Cognitive CoachingSM.

Terri Brines taught 8 years in a parochial school and 5 years in public school. She was an eMINTS teacher for 4 years before joining the eMINTS National Center as an Instructional Specialist. Brines earned a bachelor degree in Elementary Ed. and early childhood from Central Missouri University and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Missouri – Columbia. She currently is working toward being an Agency Trainer for the Center for Cognitive CoachingSM.

852-Speed Geeking Returns

Presenters – Doug Caldwell, Brooke Higgins, Nancy Boatman, Ruth Henslee and Carla Chaffin, eMINTS National Center; and Jodi Tompkins, Eldon R-I (MO) School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

Make plans to attend this fast-paced and exciting experience! Session participants will benefit from the knowledge of others in the field and walk away with a plan for incorporating 2.0 tools in meaningful ways. Session participants will view actual, practical and rich examples of online technology tools and hear about implementation strategies used to enhance communication, collaboration and cognitive thinking. The session’s activities will be delivered in a “speed-geeking” format: five stations will be set up and participants will rotate through each station in timed intervals. Collaborate with others about each chosen resource and “draft” ideas on adapting that resource to your work with either teaching staff or K-12 students.

Take-away – Participants will view 5 tools, learn how others are using them, and decide how the tools could be implemented in their own classrooms or training sessions.

Doug Caldwell from eMINTS National Center and Jodi Thompkins from the Eldon School District are experienced leaders of professional development and classroom coaching activities with practicing teachers. Each school year they individually provide over 200 hours of “hands-on” F2F teacher professional development and many hours of session follow-up coaching. Doug is an Intel Teach and SMART Board Certified trainer and has a Specialist Degree in Educational Technology from the University of Missouri. Jodi has eMINTS PD4ETS and Intel Teach certification and is a Glogster Educational Ambassador. She has a Master’s Degree in School Administration from the University of Central Missouri. The “mystery-geek” presenters also have vast experience as technology leaders and consultants at the district, regional, state and national level and are otherwise very worth meeting.

853-The Thinking Classroom

Presenter – Lisa Berg, Bolivar, MO School District
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Beginner

Investigate how to write engaging lessons that take learning beyond the surface level of discrete facts and enable discovery of how facts are connected to bigger ideas so students can transfer knowledge and skills to new or similar contexts. Change the focus of instruction from learning a set of discrete isolated facts to figuring out connections and arriving at a general conclusion in an inquiry-based environment.

Take-away – Build lessons around concepts that students should understand and skills they should be able to do.

Lisa Berg taught in the classroom for 13 years, as a computer lab teacher for 7 years and currently serves as the Technology Integration Specialist for the Bolivar School District. She has been a Certified Instructional Specialist and training eMINTS teachers at the Bolivar school district for 7 years.

854-SMART Board: Beyond the Basics

Presenter – Julie Barchenski, SuccessLink
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Beginner

Using a few “not so basic” features of SMART Notebook software can make your lesson activity stand out and easier to follow. We’ll investigate ways to improve the style and appearance of your lesson activities by creating crossword puzzles and exploring the lesson activities toolkit. Bring your computer and follow along and you can create something to take back to your classroom.

Take-away – Participants will be able to search for and locate different ways to add style and interactivity to SMART Board lessons.

Julie Barchenski is the Technology Coordinator for SuccessLink where she has been employed since 2000. She holds eMINTS Instructional Specialist Certification, SMART Masters Trainers Certification and is a member of the International Society of Technology Educators. She was a co-presenter at the National Educational Computing Conference and sat on the committee that facilitated the development of the 2005-2011 State Technology Plan for Missouri. Julie earned her undergraduate degree from Missouri State University.

Materials - http://www.successlink.org/eMINTS.pdf

855-Do You Want to be in the Movies? I Do! – Mac platform

Presenter – Craig Snethen, South Callaway R-II, MO and Heidi Ebersole, Fulton 58, MO School District
Audience – Middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Intermediate — for Mac users

Learn how to make use of the Apple ifamily to produce DVDs so students can easily share learning experiences with family and friends. This session uses Mac tools and is for users of Apple computers.

Note: Teachers should bring their laptops and media to work on their own products during this session.

Take-away – Attendees will leave with an understanding of how they can use the Apple ifamily of products to produce an iDVD movie.

Craig is in his 24th year in education. He taught middle school for 12 years and has served in the Fulton School District technology office for12 years. Currently he is an Instructional Technology Specialist for South Callaway R-II Schools. Snethen is a graduate of the eMINTS PD4ETS program and has been training teachers in the eMINTS philosophy for the last seven years. He became a certified Intel Teach program trainer in fall 2009.

Heidi is in her 19th year in education. She is a National Board Certified teacher who has completed her eMINTS PD4ETS training. She was trained in eMINTSin 2000 before beginning to train teachers in eMINTS in 2008. Currently Ebersole is completing eMINTS training with a group of teachers from Fulton and Community R-6 schools.

Materials - http://www.sc.k12.mo.us/sws/c.snethen/instructionaltech/imovie9.html

742-Web 2.0: Using Edmodo in Secondary Education

Presenter – Kate Johnmeyer Stone and Michael Romick, Gasconade County (MO) R-I
Audience – Middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Intermediate

This presentation will include an introduction to the use of the free website Edmodo.com, a social learning tool for classrooms. Participants will be walked through signing up for this free service and will learn how to communicate more effectively with their students in real-time. Edmodo is a service that allows teachers and students to share notes, assignments, files and links – similar to Facebook and Twitter – but it is completely safe for classroom use.

Take-away – Participants will gain an understanding of the basic uses of Edmodo and be able to implement it and its many technological opportunities in their classrooms.

Kate Johnmeyer Stone is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, She teaches at Hermann High School in Hermann, MO. She is in her second year of the eMINTS program at HHS and enjoys finding new and exciting ways to introduce technology as well as cooperative learning in her classrooms – ranging from dual credit College Composition to Honors English II and a wide variety of electives.

Michael Romick teaches Honors English III, English III, Theatre Arts and ACT Prep at Hermann High School. He also is the Theatre Department director, Drama Club and Speech Team sponsor and Thespian Troupe Director at H.H.S. After working in the corporate world for nearly twenty years as a marketing and visual executive, Michael has turned his energies to education for the last six years. Michael graduated Magna cum laude from Missouri Baptist University in 2005.

743-We Aren’t Fools; We Use Free Google Tools

Presenter – Angie Esser, eMINTS National Center
Audience – Elementary/Middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

It is important for teachers to use free tools on the Internet to enhance the way they teach to meet the needs of 21st century learners. This session focuses on the implementation of Google Tools to support learning and teaching in the classroom. Many Google Tools will be useful in the implementation of skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and problem solving. Teachers will benefit from learning how Google Tools can enhance teaching and learning in the classroom.

Angie Esser has a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Missouri, and a Masters Of Education in Educational Technology. She taught for 10 years in elementary classrooms before joining the eMINTS National Center an Instructional Specialist for the last six years. During this time Angie has presented at conferences across the state of Missouri and nationally, most recently at NECC in summer 2009.

Materials - https://sites.google.com/site/emints2011/home

744-iSchool – iPods in the Classroom

Presenter – Shauna Jensen, Instructional Specialist Utah
Audience – Elementary/middle school teachers
Tech skills – Intermediate

More than a music player, the iPod Touch has become an engaging tool for learning in the classroom. Come and explore amazing educational applications that can be used across all curriculum areas during this hands-on session.

Shauna Jensen is a certified eMINTS Specialist in the state of Utah. She has been involved with eMINTS since 2003 and enjoys attending the eMINTS Winter Conference.

745-Classroom Management Tools and Ideas

Presenter – Cindy Doder, Webster Groves MO School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

Positive Behavior Support systems have been implemented in many school districts. What tools can help support you in your PBS work or classroom management in general? Ideas may include classroom tracking tools, communication tools or team collaboration tools. If you are new to PBS come see how districts use tools to enforce positive behaviors. If you are part of a PBS initiative, bring your ideas and samples to share.

Take-away – Participants will gain ideas on using technology tools for implementing and managing Positive Behavior Support Programs.

Cindy Doder currently is the Data/Software Coordinator for Webster Groves School District. A certified eMINTS Instructional Specialists since 2004, Doder worked 7 years as the Technology Curriculum Coordinator, and before that as the High School Technology Coordinator and district SIS manager.

Materials - http://schools.webster.k12.mo.us/PBStools

746-Implementing a Film Festival in Your School/District

Presenter – Allison Byford, Sprindale AR Public Schools
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Beginner

Come listen to one district’s journey to implementing a district-wide Middle School Film Festival. We will overview our process and offer suggestions for beginning one in a school or district. Student examples of films will be shared; we will talk about what worked for us, offer some caveats and share our resources. Teachers will learn how they can implement these kinds of projects in the existing curriculum and lead their students to creating a successful film.

Take-away – Participants will walk away with an outline of things to consider as they embark on launching a film & multi-media festival.

Allison Byford is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Springdale Public Schools, currently working toward certification as an eMINTS Trainer through the PD4ETS program. She is a Certified Intel Trainer and a Certified ELL Instructor.

Materials - http://www.sdale.org

747-Interactive SMART Boards and Incorporating Handheld Technology

Presenter – Beth Newton, Columbia (MO) Public Schools
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

This session will inform teachers of ways to use the SMART Board in student-driven activities, to inform ways that teachers can incorporate cell phones and ipods into the curriculum, and to inform teachers of free online softare to support student-driven curriculum and incorporating technology into the classroom.

Take-away – Teachers will learn how to use cell phone to support student learning, how to use interactive SMART Board activities that are hands-on and how to use web-based activities to engage students.

Beth Newton is an eighth-grade science teacher at Oakland Junior High in Columbia, where she has taught for 14 years. A certified eMINTS instructional specialist, Beth won a METS/eMINTS grant in 2007. She earned a masters degree in educational technology from Northwestern Louisiana State University.

Materials - http://www.columbia.k12.mo.us/ojhs/Newton/newton8thgradescience.htm

748-Video Applications in the Classroom

Presenter – Ruth Nation, Wellsville-Middletown R-I (MO) School District
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Beginner

Need to engage your learners? Need help creating a 21st century classroom? We will look at using video and inexpensive cameras to transform learning. From step-by-step instructions to actual classroom examples, we will explore creating video to enhance student learning.

Take-away – Participants will learn how to incorporate student-made videos into the curriculum.

Ruth Nation is a teacher with 20+ years of experience in the classroom who is now also the ETS for her small rural Missouri district. In addition to completing the eMINTS PD4ETS training Nation is also an Intel Master trainer. She has presented at MOREnet conferences and at the Missouri Show-Me Technology Day events.

Materials - http://wmr1.blogspot.com

635-What’s New with Bernie Dodge?

Presenter – Bernie Dodge, WebQuest guru
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Intermediate

Learn about Bernie’s newest take on educational tools and strategies for your classroom.

Dr. Bernie Dodge is a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. His main professional focus is on the design, implementation and evaluation of computer-based learning environments. He is a member of the eMINTS National Center Advisory Board.

636-Tech Tips and Cool Lessons in the Math Classroom

Presenter – Royce Cozine, Jefferson C-123 (MO) Schools
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

A potpourri of great math tools, lessons and methods to increase math understanding and meaning for your students. Some specific examples and lessons for elementary, middle school and high school math classrooms.

Take-away – This session is designed to help students go beyond just doing math, but to actually think mathematically and see real purpose behind what they do.

As a small school teacher, Royce Cozine has had a large list of responsibilities over the years. Currently, he teaches two high school math classes, sixth grade math, 7-12 gifted along with being the computer network administrator and K-12 math coordinator in his district. Cozine also is a certified Educational Technology Specialist for eMINTS and a certified eMINTS teacher. He has taught 24 1/2 years and hopes to pursue a doctorate in mathematics in the future.

Materials - http://www.jc123.k12.mo.us/jhsmath/PTInfo.htm

637-eMINTS Teachers and Technology Coordinators

Presenter – John Neels, Winfield R-IV, MO School District
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers and PD4ETS participants
Tech skills – Beginner

The goal of this presentation is to share strategies with eMINTS teachers to help develop and maintain a positive working relationship with their district technology staff. – Gaining access to blocked Web 2.0 tools – Maintaining classroom technology – Basic troubleshooting to eliminate the need for tech support.

Take-away – eMINTS teachers will learn to work with their district technology staff to create and maintain a technology driven classroom.

John Neels has been the Technology Coordinator for Winfield R-IV School District since 2001. He completed eMINTS PD4ETS training in 2009.

638-Back to the Future with Cooperative Learning

Presenters – Carrie Wideman and Michelle Gilmer, Sikeston R-6 (MO) School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school students, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Beginner

Cooperative learning is the future. When students can work together in the classroom, they gain the skills and knowledge necessary for real-world collaboration. Come brush up on your cooperative learning strategies in this fun-filled secession. We will show you how to get all students active, engaged and motivated to learn. We will also show you some SMART Board tools that will help you facilitate your teams. Be ready to experience cooperative learning first hand!

Take-away – Participants will be able to implement cooperative learning strategies with their own classroom.

Carrie Wideman is an eMINTS certified teacher in her third year of teaching. She currently isteaching 6th grade communication arts and science. She has had extensive training in cooperative learning.

Michelle Gilmer is an Instructional Technology Specialist with the Sikeston R-6 School District. She was an eMINTS certified elementary teacher for 8 years.

Materials - http://www.sikestonr6.org/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=4034

639-Technology for Formative Assessments

Presenter – Dan Tripp, Parkway MO School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

Researchers show that formative assessments (assessment for learning) and feedback have significant impact on student achievement and closing the achievement gap. This session will focus on using technology to embrace formative assessments and feedback in the classroom. Participants will learn how to use technology to create formal and informal formative assessments and how to provide instant feedback to students. In addition, participants will learn how to use collaborative technology tools to enhance learning communities in order to analyze data from formative assessments and differentiate instruction.

Take-away – Participants will learn how to embrace technology to create formative assessments and instant feedback to students to increase student achievement.

Dan Tripp is an eMINTS teacher and staff developer in the Parkway School District. He is the creator of the Scientific Method Web Site and has presented at the eMINTS Winter Conference for the past two years. In addition, Dan has presented state-wide webinars on the integration of Google docs and Moodle, as well as presenting at the Midwest Educational Technology Conference.

Materials - http://www.parkwaypd.org

640-SMART Notebook 201: AKA “I Didn’t Know You Could Do That”

Presenter – Brooke Higgins, eMINTS National Center
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

There are not enough minutes in the day (or in your eMINTS PD sessions) to learn about everything the SMART Board and SMART Notebook can do. In this session, you will get a chance to spend time exploring some of the advanced tools within the SMART Notebook side tabs — tools you forget about in the daily grind … tools that will help your lessons become more dynamiic … tools that may save you some time … tools that may even get your kids excited about learning. We will look into some advanced uses of the Pages, Gallery, Attachments and Formatting side tabs to boost your efficiency and effectiveness and keep your learners engaged.

Brooke Higgins has been an eMINTS Instructional Specialist with the eMINTS National Center for the last six years. She works with eMINTS4All, eMINTS and PD4ETS programs. Before coming to eMINTS she did her undergraduate and graduate work at Pittsburg State University where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s in Educational Technology. For seven years, she taught 3rd grade in Carthage, MO, where she was an FY01 eMINTS teacher. She currently is working toward being an Agency Trainer for the Center for Cognitive CoachingSM.

Materials - http://sn201.pbworks.com

641-Intel Tools

Presenter – Roxanne Kerwood, eMINTS National Center
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Intermediate

How do we get students to think? More importantly, how do we get students to skyrocket toward higher-level thinking? Session attendees will discover how a free online tool from Intel can serve as the rocket that will steer students toward use of critical thinking skills. No software required. With Internet access teachers can guide students as they soar into ranking information they can use to debate differences, reach consensus and organize ideas.

Roxanne Kerwood is the Professional Development Materials Coordinator for eMINTS. She has been an eMINTS National Center staff member for nine years, serving as an instructional specialist during her first four years with eMINTS.

528-What’s New with Bernie Dodge?

Presenter – Bernie Dodge, WebQuest guru
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Intermediate

Learn about Bernie’s newest take on educational tools and strategies for your classroom.

Dr. Bernie Dodge is a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. His main professional focus is on the design, implementation and evaluation of computer-based learning environments. He is a member of the eMINTS National Center Advisory Board.

529-SchoolTube

Presenter – Michelle Dirksen, Hancock Place MO School District
Audience – Administrators, Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

The presentation will describe what SchoolTube is and how schools, teachers and students can use it to share their videos. I will showhow our district is using it for daily and weekly newscasts and for students to share their products. I will provide the information and list of materials participants need to get it started in their own school!

Take-away – Participants will learn a safe and fun way to create, share and store videos with peers, students and families on their own video channel.

Michelle Dirksen is the Technology Director for Hancock Place School District in St. Louis, MO. She has been in the district for 16 years. Dirksen is also a recent graduate of the eMINTS PD4ETS program..

530-Rural Schools+Community = 21st Century Learners

Presenter – Maribeth Dann, Gasconade County (MO) R-I School District
Audience – Administrators, Middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Advanced

Come see how our rural school, in collaboration with local organizations and the Rural Schools Partnership, has incorporated place-based learning to engage high school students and prepare them for the future. Observe how students recorded oral-history interviews with local citizens and how to collect some of your own. You will leave with community-based instructional strategies that will prepare students to be 21st century learners.

Take-away – Participants will learn how to gather and edit video and audio recordings.

In her 19th year of teaching Maribeth Dann has taught third-twelfth grades. For the last 10 years she has taught gifted students and communication arts. She also serves as the instructional specialist for her district.

531-Instruction Online

Presenter – Anne Jeschke and Kim Kieffer, Chillicothe R-II (MO) School District
Audience – Administrators, Middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

This session will provide participants with an overview of the process we’ve gone through to create and facilitate online courses, hosted in Moodle, for high school students. Discussions will be open for suggestions, questions and for other districts to share their progress in online course development. Collaboration will be an integral part of this session! Information covered will include teacher training, teacher recruitment, courses selection, pilot program, Moodle hosting, e-architect responsibilities, course creation timeframe, online resources, student guidelines, grading, parent feedback, what we’ve learned and future plans.

Take-away -Participants will learn the process for creating and facilitating online high school courses.

Currently in her 28th year of education Anne Jeschke is the Instructional Technology Specialist at Chillicothe R-II Schools. She has taught at many levels, including preschool, kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade and Title One Reading. Jeschke’s connection with eMINTS began in 1999 when she became an eMINTS teacher, later going through PD4ETS training and then becoming an Instructional Specialist. She attended and trained district teachers in Intel Thinking Tools. Jeschke has trained many eMINTS teachers and currently is involved in the administration of her district’s online high school courses.

Currently in her twelfth year teaching special education in the Chillicothe R-II School District Kim Kieffer has taught grades 8-12 in various settings including resource study skills, class-within-class and self-contained math classes.She is an eMINTS4All teacher who has taken numerous e-Learning courses as well as Intel’s Thinking Tools Training. Kieffer has written grants that focus on the use of technology to assist special education students, including Play-Aways, classroom laptops, Airliner and LiveScribe pens. Her focus in education is to close the gap between the special education students in the regular classroom.

532-Spice Up Your Presentations Using Glogster.edu

Presenter – Jodi Tompkins, Eldron R-I (MO) School District
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Beginner

Are you tired of the same way your students are presenting information? Jump into the world of Glogging. Glogster.EDU is one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 tools used by students around the world. Glogster.EDU offers a teacher-controlled or monitored environment for students to host and create an online interactive website/poster that can be shared publicly or privately. This site enables students to add text, web links, photos, graphics, audio and even video. It offers students a way to release their creativity through manipulating multimedia content into an online presentation. For those students who have already mastered PowerPoint and are now looking for a new creative way to be engaged, collaborate, express themselves or share information, this is the site that allows them to do just that

Take-away – Participants will leave having a good working knowledge of Glogster.edu with implementation ideas for use in their classroom.

Jodi Tompkins from the Eldon School District is an experienced leader of professional development and classroom coaching activities with practicing teachers. Each school year she provides over 200 hours of “hands-on” F2F teacher professional development and many hours of session follow-up coaching. Jodi has eMINTS PD4ETS and Intel Teach certification and is a Glogster Educational Ambassador. She has a Master’s Degree in School Administration from the University of Central Missouri.

Materials - http://cooltools4integration.wikispaces.com

533-Severe Weather: A Constructivist Approach to Learning

Presenter – Denis Knight, Junction Hill, MO
Audience – Middle/high school teachers
Tech skills – Beginner

This series of lessons centers on using severe weather phonemona to promote critical thinking in a variety of approaches including a photojournal, news report and multimedia presentation on the human impact of a catastrophic weather event. The intention of this presentation is to demonstrate how a variety of scientific inquiry methods can be blended into a cohesive multidisciplinary approach to learning.

Take-away – Participants will be exposed to a variety of learning opportunities and how these activities come together in a culminating project.

Denis Knight has been a Missouri science educator for 22 years, nine years as a high school teacher and 13 years as a 6-8 grade teacher. He was trained as an eMINTS instructor four years ago and feels that he is learning every day to implement the strategies of the program. Last year Knight presented a model classroom presentation at the NSBA Technology+Learning Conference in Denver, CO.He has been asked to present again this year in Phoenix, AZ. Last year Knight was recognized as a SMART Exemplary Educator.

Materials - http://junctionhill.k12.mo.us/denisknight/scientific%20inquiry.html

534-SMART Math Tools

Presenters – Sarah Acord and Laura Brockman, SMART Technologies
Audience – Elementary/middle/high school teachers, PD4ETS/certified eIS
Tech skills – Intermediate

Come learn about the new tools for math that are now available for SMART Notebook. These tools will help you create engaging, interactive lessons that will increase student learning.

Socializing is really just communication. Edmodo provides an interface that is similar to other social networking sites as well as a “parent view” that allows parents to gain access to what’s going on in the classroom. You name the kind of communication that has to happen in a secondary classroom and Edmodo provides a feature to help you.

The program listing is below and you can find Edmodo here:

Web 2.0: Using Edmodo in Secondary Education

This presentation will include an introduction to the use of the free website Edmodo.com, a social learning tool for classrooms. Participants will be walked through signing up for this free service and will learn how to communicate more effectively with their students in real-time. Edmodo is a service that allows teachers and students to share notes, assignments, files and links – similar to Facebook and Twitter – but it is completely safe for classroom use.

Take-away – Participants will gain an understanding of the basic uses of Edmodo and be able to implement it and its many technological opportunities in their classrooms.

Julie Lassiter is a Secondary English Educator and has taught at Hermann High School in Hermann, MO for four years. She studied at Central Missouri State University (now UCM). Her class load includes 3 sections of 10th Grade English, English Elective, Yearbook and Mass Media. Using technology in the classroom has allowed her students to increase their abilities to work independently, collaborate with groups and organize their assignments.

Melanie Masur graduated from Westminster College in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in Middle School Education with an emphasis in Communication Arts and Social Studies, and since that time has added High School Communication Arts to her certification. She currently is in her eighth year of teaching, her fifth at Hermann High School after spending three years at Osage County R-1 Schools in Chamois, MO. Her main teaching responsibility in Hermann has been 9th Grade Communication Arts and she has also taught Communications, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Creative Writing, Mystery Literature and Read and Write for Life.