"Classic" Keynotes, Presentations, and Workshops   KidPix to PhotoShop: Imaging Ideas for the Information Age From KidPix and Print Shop to Corel Draw and Photoshop, graphics software have become popular tools. Regardless of whether you're using the images in desktop presentations, multimedia projects, or web pages, this session will demonstrate techniques for selecting, modifying, and using the best graphic for the project including digital camera images, scanned pictures, still video captures, clip art, and original drawings. Next, the session will explore tricks for making your digital images more appealing through manipulating contrast, brightness, shading, smudging, sharpening, and other tools. It will also explore a spectrum of computer-generated pictures, examine alternative imaging tools, and compare graphic file formats. The session will end with an exploration of output devices including printers and projectors.   Museum Makers and Bridge Builders: Learners as Architects of the Internet Architects design all kinds of structures. They may repurpose an existing building or construct the building themselves. Help your learners become architects of the Internet. This session will discuss the different levels of Internet access, use, and creation. Large-scale, ongoing projects as well as small-scale, short -term projects will be demonstrated. In addition, the session will discuss project planning and classroom management techniques for K-12 web development projects. It will also discuss project management considerations such as timelines, site layout, project mapping, copyright, use of screen dumps, and responsibility charts. Finally, classroom management techniques including learning styles, time management, collaborative groups, and file management will be explored.   Curriculum Connections: LEAD the Way with Internet Along with textbooks, trade books, CD-ROM, and videos, it's time to make curriculum connections with Internet. This session will help you LEAD the way and successfully integrate Internet into your classroom. You'll learn to locate resources, evaluate materials, activate the learning environment, and disseminate information on Internet.   Teachers Love Dessert: Professional Development & Internet (RECENTLY UPDATED) Get a piece of the PIE (Professional connections, Instructional development, and Educational technology). Internet is a great resource for students, but it is also a powerful resource for the professional development of educators. This session explores how you can make the best use of the teacher tools available on the Internet.   Newberys & the Net: Thematic Technology Connections For nearly eighty years students have been reading Newbery Medal winning books. From historical fiction set during the Dustbowl or World War II to contemporary issues such as animal abuse and divorce, these award winning authors can bring reading alive for students. By adding the power of Internet and other technologies, educators can build information-rich, thematic technology connections. This session will explore how to connect popular, award winning books with online resources and technology-based classroom projects. Participants will leave with book lists, web addresses, and software titles that can lay the foundation for your technology connections.   Keys, Locks, & Deadbolts: Doorways to Life-Long Learning in a Web-based World This workshop examines the world of web-based curriculum. It explores general resources as well as web-based learning environments and challenges educators to become not only consumers and collaborators on the Internet, but also creators of web-based resources. This session explores the elements of web-based curriculum including informational, instructional, and lesson/unit aspects of web-based learning materials. It also provides guidelines for examining materials. Finally, this workshop focuses on assessing needs, identifying objectives, developing instructional strategies, and planning web-based curriculum materials. It also discusses web site structure and learning environment management.   Before You Jump In: Ten Facts of Life for Distance Educators Even experienced teachers with technology skills will find developing and delivering web-based curriculum a challenge. Each learning environment has unique problems and frustrations. Whether you're planning a high school English class or an MBA curriculum, your mission is the same. This session will explore ten tips for creating and implementing effective, efficient, and appealing web-based courses.   Be a Web Wizard! Kids as Web Page Developers The workshop will focus on unique web development projects that go beyond posting artwork or sharing papers. It will also provide tips for working with K-12 children as they become web wizards. The workshop will explore a spectrum of student-produced web projects, examine alternative project management options, and compare web page development tools.   Caldecotts to Newberys: Thematic Literature-Technology Connections (RECENTLY UPDATED) For decades, children have been reading Caldecott and Newbery Medal winning books. These award winning illustrators and authors bring reading alive for learners. By adding the power of Internet and other technologies, educators can build information-rich, thematic technology connections. This session will explore how to connect popular, award winning books with online resources and technology-based classroom projects. Participants will leave with book lists, web addresses, and software titles that can lay the foundation for your technology connections.   Gardening in the New Millennium: Planting, Weeding, and Harvesting the Internet Create gardens for learning in the information age. From flowers to vegetables, you'll find many kinds of gardens and as many reasons for gardening. The Internet is the same kind of exciting place. There are many ways to be involved with the Internet, you and your students need to select the best approach for the time, effort, and outcome you seek. This session will use gardening as a metaphor for Internet integration. It will help you decide whether to be a consumer, collaborator, or creator of an Internet "garden." You'll learn to plan your garden, plant the right seeds, watch for weeds, tend your plants, harvest your crop and share your good fortune within the context of our "Internet garden" theme. Whether you want to pick a good site or grow your own webquest, this presentation will help you design and implement your Internet project.   Spinnin' the Web: Designing and Developing Web-Based Learning Environments - (workshop format only) Along with textbooks, trade books, CD-ROM, videos, and all the other technology resources, it's time to make curriculum connections using Internet resources. This workshop will help you LEAD the way through LOCATING web-based resources, EVALUATING these materials, ACTIVATING the learning environment, and DISSEMINATING student-based projects on the web.   In this workshop, you'll integrate Internet into the K-12 curriculum through the development of web-based learning environments. Explore how teachers and students are working together to create school sites, classroom pages, newspapers, projects, and individual pages. Examine large-scale, ongoing projects and small-scale, short-term projects. Design, development, implement, and evaluate web-based pages and projects.   This workshop challenges educators to become not only consumers and collaborators on the Internet, but also creators of web-based learning environments. Participants will focus on assessing needs, identifying objectives, developing instructional strategies, and planning web-based curriculum materials.   Inspiration, Imagination, & Interaction: Students and Technology-based Creativity Tools Anyone can make something using HyperStudio, Print Shop, or Amazing Writing Machine. However producing a unique, exciting, motivating, and relevant project involves inspiration, imagination, and interaction. Creativity is the key. This session will explore ways to guide students through the process of creating an innovative project using technology-based tools including software selection, project ideas, and learner guidelines. If your students are just making, it's time to start creating!   Web Weavers: Kids as Web Page Developers Web weavers come in all ages. This session will explore the spectrum of web page project coordination from teacher to student control, examine various levels of web page development tools from HTML to WYSIWYG, and demonstrate different types of student web projects. The session will focus on unique projects that go beyond posting artwork or sharing papers. Finally, it will provide tips of working with K-12 students on web page projects.   Internet Integration Ideas: Cool Waves for Information Surfers Information surfers are always looking for great new waves! This session will explore practical, new sites you don't want to miss and provide lots of classroom integration ideas.   The Learning Environment Puzzle: Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration, and Creativity (RECENTLY UPDATED) How do you build an effective learning environment for your students? It requires coordination, cooperation, collaboration, and lots of creativity. What kind of puzzle builder are you? Do you start with the border? Do you need to "see the box" to build the puzzle? From Internet access to revised standards, more and more pieces are being added to the puzzle every year. This presentation will focus on how you, your resources, and your services fit into the learning environment puzzle.   Surfin' the Internet: Practical K-12 Project Ideas If you've found the beach and you're ready to "hang-ten", this workshop is for you! An intermediate level workshop, it will not discuss the basics of selecting a service or sending email. Instead the entire session will be devoted to practical Internet integration ideas. The workshop contains unit and lesson planning guidelines, in addition to a wide range of K-12 project ideas.   Virtual Sandcastles: Developing Distance Learning Environments (RECENTLY UPDATED) There are many ways to implement distance learning environments in education. This session focuses on the spectrum of technologies used in distance learning including live interactive TV, delayed video, email, chat, web, desktop video conferencing, computer-based, multimedia, telephone, fax, and postal service. It also highlights the role of technology, faculty, and students and the various levels of interactivity and student involvement. Finally, it explores how technologies can be selected and blended for the design and development of effective courses taught at a distance.   Wondering, Wiggling, & Weaving: Exploring How Kids Learn With Technology Children don't just "do" information and technology. A project-based learning environment involves wondering about a topic, wiggling through information, and weaving elements together. Each child learns and expresses themselves in a unique way. This session will explore the process of wondering, wiggling, and weaving. It will provide suggestions to address the multiple intelligences of children, the attributes and potential of technology, and the endless possibilities for learner-centered projects.   Lighting a Fire With Your Faculty: Planning, Positioning, and Promoting (RECENTLY UPDATED) Although you might want to light a fire under your faculty, a better approach may be to light a fire with your faculty. Careful planning, positioning, and promotion are critical for expansion and even survival of media programs. In addition to sales and service knowledge, today's educational technologist needs skills in maneuvering and manipulation to compete for resources such as space, money, and personnel. This session will focus on new marketing strategies. For example, lawyers, used car salesman, and even your Avon lady can teach you about promotion.   Welcome to the Funny Farm: Managing Centers in the Information Age (RECENTLY UPDATED) Has your media center turned into a funny farm? With new technologies being added and budgets being slashed, are you ready to be "taken away"? If you're desperate for ideas to make your life and your center more manageable, this is the session for you! With the help of our funny farm friends from the grumpy goats to the muddy pigs, we'll provide some survival strategies for the Information Age!   Oldies But Goodies (Updated to Fit Your Needs) Internet Tapestries: Weaving the Web into the K-12 Curriculum Web weavers use Internet as their looms and information for yarn! This session will explore ways to weave Internet into your K-12 classroom. Using the Internet Tapestry analogy, we'll identify criteria for site selection, examine site categories, and explore different levels of Internet integration. In addition, we'll demonstrate how you and your students can weave your own web through joining online projects and designing your own web pages. Regardless of whether you have one or one hundred Internet connections in your school, you can weave Internet Tapestries.   Avoiding Road Kill on the Information Highway: Practical K-12 Internet Projects If you've tried an Internet project with kids, you may have felt like Road Kill on the Information Highway. With age-inappropriate materials, inaccurate information, and loads of junk, our students need "driver's education" for cruising the information highway. Students need basic skills in accessing, selecting, and evaluating information found on the Internet. In addition, they need to become part of the global educational community by interacting with other students throughout the world. This workshop will discuss options for integrating Internet into the K-12 classroom along with lots of sample sites and projects.   Technology Trailblazers: Exploring New Frontiers in Technology & Learning Schools the final frontier. These are the voyagers of media educators. Their ongoing mission is to seek out new information and new technologies. To boldly go where no educator has gone before... Are you taking a covered wagon or a starships into the next century? Boldly go where no educator has gone before. Take a stand! Make a difference. We'll learn from famous frontiersman of the past how to use the tools and techniques of today to blaze the trails of tomorrow!   Strap on Your Spurs: Technology and Change Cowboy Style Do you move from one technology plan to another without experiencing any real change? Too many technology plans look years down the road, but forget next semester! If you've lost hope and are ready to abandon the herd, strap on your spurs and try some new approaches to technology planning, integration, staff development, and the change process.   Icing on the Cake: Integrating Multimedia Elements into K-12 Student Projects Multimedia elements like scanned images, computer graphics, digitized video stills, sounds, and movies can all add icing to your multimedia cake. This session will discuss how you can expand student projects through incorporating various technology elements. There are many ways for students and teachers to express their ideas through technology. Regardless of whether you have lots or only a little technology, this session will demonstrate how to develop practical student projects that build on a variety of technology resources. In addition, it will highlight ways to get teachers more involved with using multimedia resources in the teaching/learning environment.   Ride the Magic Carpet: 101 Multimedia Integration Ideas Like a magic carpet, multimedia can take students to many exciting places. This session provides over 101 ideas for integrating multimedia projects into the K-12 classroom. From simple scanning projects to emerging technologies and resources (i.e., QuickTime, Laserdiscs, CD-ROM, Internet), suggestions highlight motivating and educational applications across content areas.   Let's Go Fly a Kite: Technology in your Classroom Whether you like the traditional kite or a stunt kite, there's a kite and a technology for you. Come fly a kite as we explore the possibilities for students and teachers in today's classroom. Integrate technology into your classroom by combining the best of what technology has to offer. From CD-ROM and laserdiscs to Internet there are endless informational and instructional resources for all ages. Help learning come alive for your students through effective. well-managed technology integration activities that work! Let's go fly a kite!   From Life Rafts to Submarines: New Frontiers in Teacher Education and Technology Are you drowning in a sea of technology? Is your "ed tech" course overflowing? We don't just need a life raft, we need a high tech submarine! It's time to explore new frontiers in teacher education and technology. Educators need more than survival skills to use technology effectively in today's classrooms. This session provides suggestions for redesigning your introductory educational technology course including instructional strategies and student projects.   Building Treehouses for Learning: Paradigm Shifts in Teacher Education and Technology Educators need more than survival skills to use technology effectively in today's classrooms. From instructional development to Internet integration, is it possible to cram all the skills into a single educational technology course? We need more than course revision, it's time for a paradigm shift in the way we approach teacher education and technology. This workshop provides suggestions for redesigning your introductory educational technology course including instructional strategies and student projects. You'll leave with the resources you need to help preservice teachers build treehouses for learning in their classrooms!   Presentation Pizzazz! Developing and Delivering Quality Presentations Are your presentations great, or just "okay?" Most people would probably rate themselves as "okay" presenters. This session will transform mediocre presenters into magnificent presenters by adding pizzazz to your presentations. It will focus on the design, development, and delivery of effective presentations and will place emphasis on presentation design, materials development, practice, implementation, and evaluation. In addition, the session will emphasize presentations of all types from conference presentations to inservices.   Educators Empowering Educators: Trainers, Mentors, & Peers Educators empowering educators is a popular approach to involving all teachers with technology. This session will focus on ways that educators can impact the integration of technology into classrooms. Three roles of educators will be discussed. First, the role of teacher as trainer. This element will focus on common questions about developing effective inservice programs. In addition, selection of inservice formats and activities will be discussed. Tips for successful inservice programs will be outlined. Second, the role of teacher as mentor will be highlighted including alternative approaches for teachers when working one-to-one with other teachers. Finally, the role of teacher as peer and collaborator will be investigated. Potential projects and keys to successful partnerships will be discussed.   Dingbats, Thumbnails, and Electronic Whiteout: Practical Desktop Publishing Ideas During the past decade, there has been a newsletter and worksheet explosion. Everyone who owns a computer has become a publisher. This revolution has created some excellent examples of quality print communication, but at the same time has also produced some of the tackiest publications ever produced. Now that the hardware and software tools of desktop publishing are readily available, it's time that the design aspects of desktop publishing be considered. The session will provide suggestions for hardware and software selection. It addition, the session will explore techniques for designing quality computer-generated print materials. Examples will include guidelines for the development of instructional print materials, handouts, newsletters, and brochures. Finally, ideas for producing computer-generated transparencies will also be discussed.   Point Systems to Portfolios: Assessment in Today's Multimedia Classroom This session focuses on traditional as well as emerging questions and concerns about student assessment. It provides suggestions for evaluating single projects and units, as well as more global options for assessment. The unique concerns when dealing with multimedia environments and higher-order thinking skills will also be addressed. The workshop will provide examples of alternative assessments for specific multimedia projects.   The Information Kaleidoscope: Building Exciting Learning Environments Can books, CDs, Internet resources, and multimedia live in harmony? The tools are here, now how do you build an Information Kaleidoscope for children to enjoy and explore? How do you coordinate projects with teachers and help them feel comfortable using technology? The Information Kaleidoscope provides the resources, tools, and opportunities, it's your job to create effective, student-centered learning environments. Projects across content areas and grade levels will be discussed.    Back to Presentation Title and Description Page [Overview] [LLG - FAQs] [Annette Lamb] [Associates] [Programs] [Key Ideas] [eduScapes] [V2A Books] Developed by Annette Lamb, November 1998. Updated 03/01.