As is apparently tradition for me, I’m presenting two sessions at this year’s Powering Up With Technology Conference. (My first presentation at PUWT was … 2006? 12 years ago? Wow!) Rather than give long and difficult to type URLS for my presentations, I thought I’d share them here. (Yes, I am aware that “academicaesthetic” is …
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Reaching A High Score Presentation
Last year I rewrote my curriculum to make it into a game, and doing so helped my students master the content. This is my presentation on what I did, as given at this year’s Powering Up With Technology Conference. PUWT Conference Presentation (Hosted on Google Docs) Class page Apologies for the poor audio quality, I …
PUWT 2008 – Session 4: Using the SMART Board – It’s Elementary!
Presented by Cindy Savio. Education.smarttech.com – a way to share interactive activities for the SMART board. Showing a bunch of cool activities, some from the above site, others integrate media from Discovery Education Streaming. Cover a whole picture in a solid color, then “erase” the picture to reveal it gradually. Since the pens write in …
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PUWT 2008 – Session 3: What’s In A Ning? Online Social Netwoks in K-12 Education
Presented by Allison Archer Started out with a Bob Dylan song about times and how they’re a-changin’. Rolled right into dialogue on MySpace. (Boo! Hiss!) Social Networking is cool and helpful, but MySpace gives it all a bad name. Enter: Ning – a site that allows us to build our own social networks. Plenty of …
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PUWT 2008 – Session 2: Pocket Size Multimedia Studio
Presented by Evylyn Quinones 1st choice was on 21st century collaboration, but presenter was a no-show. Walked in on 2nd choice as she was showing off her Flip camera. Never got to see the built in software before – it allows for basic editing, but also allows you to upload the video to the internet. …
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PUWT 2008 – Keynote: Tammy Worcester
Sitting in the front again, or at least the 3rd row. She has a website, of course. :) Today: Copy/Paste from web. Our day: Copy from encyclopedia. Not much different, really, but how can we change assignments so students can learn from them? Mentioning David Warlick & using a “Building Block” model. Making glyphs – …
PUWT2008 – Session 1: Treasure Hunting at the Library of Congress Online
OK, I admit it, my first impression of the session was based entirely on the room. How’s this? They face forward to take notes, and turn around to use the computers. The teacher can see every screen from the front of the room. Sweet. Presenter is Danna Bell-Russel, from the Library of Congress. “Not about …
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