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Upcoming Events for June 2009

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · schedule, trainings, web2.0

As part of my promise to do a better job of sharing upcoming events more than 24 hours before they occur, here is my list of online “events” that I’ll be doing this month.

Monday June 8th at 6 p.m. PDT: It’s Elementary:Reflecting on the School Year Ending

It’s Elementary
Link to show

Wednesday June 17th at 9 a.m. PDT: Follow up to Classroom 2.0 Meetup

This is an in-person event. Details can be found here.

Thursday 6/18 Friday 6/19 at 7 p.m. PDT: Edublogs Live! VoiceThread: A 21st Century KWL

Monday 6/22 at 9 a.m. PDT: Fear Not the Code which is about using embed code and not freaking out…

A Special Message to SCUSD Teachers

I will be conducting trainings on the new district student information system, Zangle in the Oak Ridge Lab this summer. Check her for more information as I get dates (likely starting in July).

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Links for What's New!

April 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · trainings

Podcasting Lectures

Interactive White Boards

Flip Video Cameras

Videos for Math Instruction

Twitter in Education

Cell Phones in Learning

You Tube for Education

Maybe useful to you…

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Preview of What's New!

April 18th, 2009 · No Comments · trainings

This Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 4 p.m. I will be doing a training at the Oak Ridge Elementary computer lab called, “What’s New” which is about recent trends in educational technology. Here is the slide show for the training:

Whats New

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Student Blogging: avoiding the potholes on the way

April 7th, 2009 · No Comments · blogging, trainings

I will be conducting a session Student Blogging: avoiding potholes on the way in the Edublogs Elluminate room in a little under 24 hours. Since the day and time depend on your time zone, here are a few:

UTC: Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 01:00
US EDT: Wednesday April 8, 2009 at 21:00 or 9:00 p.m.
US PDT: Wednesday April 8, 2009 at 18:00 or 6:00 p.m.
Perth, Australia – Western Australia Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM

or click here to calculate your own.

This session is for folks new to blogging with students and talks about how to structure and plan for this big step. It’s more a how and why than a how-to. Please join us!
Photo: Day 223 – Learning to use computers on flickr

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Recap of Beyond PowerPoint Training

March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · multimedia, trainings


Photo Credit Tiny Flowers by Emily D Elliott on flickr photosharing

I’m sorry!

Howdy! Thanks for coming to my training, and thank you for your patience with a truly trying technical situation. I will be discussing the difficulties we had with ISET (the “tech” folks), so if you were planning on attending my session on April 23rd (“What’s New”) things should be better. Please fill out the online evaluation form here, or by clicking the Evaluation tab above. If you would like to hear more about trainings in the future, please put your email address at the widget in the top left column. I’m thinking in the future, that I’m only going to cover PowerPoint by itself, and I’ll do a training on online alternatives as a standalone training.

Here are the links for the training:

The presentation:

Background on PowerPoint design (the links in italics are “backups” and should be available at SCUSD even though these sites are blocked):

Resources to get pictures

Resources to make slideshows online as an alternative to PowerPoint, or if want to place a PowerPoint on a Web page

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Preview of Podcasting in the Classroom: Giving Students a Voice

January 18th, 2009 · No Comments · trainings

On Thursday January 22, 2009 from 4-6 p.m., I will be doing a training on podcasting, or making audio recordings, at Oak Ridge Elementary. SCUSD employees interested in attending can sign up on the ERO registrar. Hope to see you there!

Links for Training

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Preview of Multimedia: Beyond Power Point

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · multimedia, trainings

Here are the links that I have for the training, which will be taking place today (Thursday 10/23 at 4 p.m. in the Computer Lab at Oak Ridge Elementary). Hope to see you there!

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Follow-up to to Integrating Web 2.0 Applications in the Curriculum

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments · trainings, web2.0

I had a great time meeting and learning with my participants. Here are some further links that maybe of use:

First, for Kate, here is the linear graphing project that was done with fifth graders. It using stop-motion film techniques, which someone recently opined, may be the “new black” in student film work.

Next, for Patty, here is a video on RSS, which I hope will prove helpful:

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var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.edublogs.tv/flvplayer.swf”,”mpl”,”450″,”355″,”8″);so.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”);so.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”);so.addVariable(“height”,”355″);so.addVariable(“width”,”450″);so.addVariable(“file”,”http://www.edublogs.tv/uploads/ub8rzqf0snn2g5ay.flv”);so.addVariable(“searchbar”,”false”);so.write(“player”);

For Dan, I recall the words “pre-service teachers” coming from you, I’m going to share a contact, Bethany Smith, who works in North Carolina teaching tech integration to pre-service teachers.

For all of you, my gratitude for your time and energy, and a link to http://instructify.com, where I and other share Web 2.0 tools.

Remember, you can contact me using the link above, or leaving a comment, if you have more questions.

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Welcome to a Taste of Web 2.0

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments · trainings, web2.0

We will be learning about Web 2.0 tools to use in your classroom. These tools and application are also known as the read-write Web, interactive Web.

Here is the slideshow for the presentation:

Taste of Web 2.0
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and here are bookmarks from our training:

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Share your opinion

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments · blogging, trainings, web2.0

We covered a lot during this training, and Pat and I want you to know that we will continue to help you. You can leave a comment here, or send an email when you have further questions. I will list upcoming trainings in the sidebar to the left, so look there if you would like more time to work on projects.

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