There are NO workshops cancelled! If you requested transportation, report to the lower level of the convention center. Have fun today!
Full-day workshop (lunch included) times are 9:00 am to 3:30 pm. Half-day workshop times are 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Please note the location of preconference workshops. Transportation will be provided to the workshop locations - originating from and returning to the St. Charles Convention Center. When registering for a workshop, indicate if you need transportation to the workshop location or contact Karen Vaughan at 314-692-1250.
Enrollment for most workshops is limited to 25-30.
Group discounts are not applicable to preconference workshops.
NOTE: Some workshops are BYOL (bring your own laptop)!
Full-Day P01 - Tech Level: Intermediate
Digital Projects for the Global 21st Century Classroom Connection
Howie DiBlasi
Location:
Hoech Middle School, Room 110
3312 Ashby Rd.
St. Ann, MO 63074
This workshop will provide hands on creation of six community projects and show how to make a global connection. Projects allow students to learn 21st century skills, prepare them to meet the demands of the global community and engage them in mastering core curriculum skills. Learn how to integrate digital programs into the classrooms with new knowledge, skills, and strategies that are critical to individual use of digital information resources. Join us and learn how to improve learning through digital media and multimedia magic.Projects created will include Web 2.0, digital storytelling, podcasts, Ning, and blogs to teach 21st century literacy skills while gaining expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. Participants will use FREE collaboration tools in creating Web 2.0, digital media including projects such as: This I Believe; The Best Part of Me; My Hero, : This Is My Country; My Town and This Is My America.
Extreme (Web 2.0) Lesson Plan Makeover
BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)
Darren Kuropatwa
Location:
St. Charles Convention Center, Room 102
1 Convention Center Plaza
St. Charles, MO 63303
Full-Day P03 - Tech Level: Intermediate
Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works
BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) PC or Mac, wireless internet capability, MS Word recommended but not required
Gina Hartman & Andrea Blanco
Location:
Francis Howell School District, Board Room
4545 Central School Rd.
St. Charles, MO 63303
Storytelling and Digital Video Editing for Beginners (Macintosh)
Kate Shaw
Location:
KETC Channel 9 (PBS), Anheuser Busch Community Room
3655 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63108
Learn the basics of storytelling and digital video editing through the trusted lens of public television. Learn the skills necessary to create dynamic stories about your community. Participants will:
3) Utilize digital video cameras, editing equipment and digital delivery systems to aggregate resources in the community.
4) Learn how to engage students in the responsible, ethical use of digital media to engage in public service.
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Connecting Digital and Print Literacy: Creating Book Trailers
Jerri Davenport
Location:
Monroe Elementary School, Room 215
2671 Zumbehl Rd.
St. Charles, MO 63301
Book trailers are a great way to connect digital and print literacy in a real-world application. Learn how to create and manage a book trailer project in your classroom. Participants will make book trailers using Photostory 3 - a free Microsoft download. Learn how to help your students select their audience, and decide how to construct their message to accomplish the persuasive goal of the trailer. The workshop will touch on copyright compliance issues and practice finding acceptable images and music. Creating voice-overs using the free download Audacity program will be demonstrated. Skills covered can be applied to any subject area and any grade level.
Google Tools for Educators
BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)
Stephanie Madlinger, William Bass & Cindy Lane
Location:
St. Charles Convention Center, Jr. C
1 Convention Center Plaza
St. Charles, MO 63303
Are you interested in immediate online feedback for you and your students? Save time by creating 21st century lessons. In this precon participants will be introduced and motivated to use several Google Tools in their classroom and professional development opportunities. These timesaving, easy to use resources will both change and enhance lessons and workshops. Google for Educators is a huge asset to add to your professional learning network. Participants will love the fact that they can learn & share beyond the day’s event. Participants will be introduced to innovative ways Google Tools can be used in education. This day of fast-paced presentations and hands-on activities includes experience with advanced search techniques, collaborative web-based applications, and inspirational instructional strategies.
Google Certified Teachers share ways they’ve implemented tools such as Google Docs, Google Earth, Google Sites, and more. Participants will be introduced to an online community focused on supporting educators as they learn more about the power of Google to drive student learning.
Transforming Learning using ActivInspire and Promethean Boards
Christine Murray
Location:
Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill School, Room 126
801 S. Spoede Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63131
Interested in Promethean boards and using Activinspire software? In this seminar for beginners, you will learn about using premade flipcharts and resources from Promethean Planet and how to tweak the lessons to fit your needs. We will explore the ins and outs of all that Activinspire can do. Learn how to create interesting lessons that grab your students' attention, get them out of their seat and begging to interract with you. No previous Promethean board or Activinspire knowledge needed.
Creating ActivInspire Lessons to Engage Your Students
Kelly Gilchrist
Location:
Pattonville Learning Center, Room 306
11097 St. Charles Rock Rd.
St. Ann, MO 63074
Do you use a Promethean ActivBoard in your classroom? Want to learn how the new ActivInspire differs from ActivStudio? Are you ready to create flipcharts with magic erasers, pull-out words, links to other pages and more? This workshop is for you! During this full-day workshop, you will:
2) Create and add sound files, links to pages and web sites to your flipcharts.
3) Use the camera tool to capture images from online textbooks.
4) Open and use the new resource browser and add resources to “my resource library”.
5) Use the screen recorder in your lessons.
6) Download and store Discovery streaming or YouTube videos in your flipcharts.
7) Locate, download and install flipcharts and resource packs from Promethean Planet
Come prepared to activate student learning!
Tell It Like it Is – Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum (Windows)
Doug Lyon
Location:
St. Charles West High School, Room J106
3601 Droste
St. Charles, MO 63301
Digital storytelling is an engaging means of integrating technology into the classroom curriculum. Participants will become familiar with the elements and techniques of effective digital storytelling, as well as explore sample projects that will help improve student achievement across the curriculum. Gain hands-on experience using Pixie, Frames and WebBlender to create digital story to address curriculum standards.
Participants will receive a free copy of Frames software.
Writing Interactive Lessons Using SMART Notebook 10
Ellen Downs & Alison Hancock
Location:
Babler Elementary School, Room4 (In Basement-enter back of school)
1955A Shepard Rd.
Wildwood, MO 63030
This workshop is for experienced SMART Board users. Participants will 1) explore the newest features of SMART Notebook 10, 2) design lessons, create units and organize resources and 3) learn how to edit templates in the Lesson Activity Toolkit. Presenters will share examples of Notebook lessons. Participants will have ample time for collaboration and mapping instructional units that enhance learning. Bring any materials to support lesson plan creations!
Full-Day P11 - Tech Level: Intermediate
Using SMART Response in the Classroom
Martha Bogart
Location:
Pattonville Learning Ctr, Room 104
11097 St. Charles Rock Rd.
St. Ann, MO 63074
What’s all the buzz about “clicker” systems in the classroom? SMART Response (formerly called Senteo) is an interactive response system combining handheld wireless remotes (or clickers), a receiver, and powerful assessment software that allows you to create tests and manage, track, and evaluate the results. This system integrates seamlessly with the SMART Board, but must be purchased separately. Come learn how to set up formative and summative assessments for your students and obtain immediate results that can be used to guide instruction. In this hands-on session, you will learn the basics of the hardware and software and have an opportunity to create your own assessments either from scratch or by tweaking downloaded question sets.
Full-Day P12 - Tech Level: All
Making the Move to Moodle: Moodle for Beginners
Vince Szewczyk & Diana Dell
Location:
St. Charles High School, Room 201C
725 N. Kingshighway
St. Charles, MO 63301
Ready to Moodle? Attend this session to learn why Moodle is called the “Swiss Army Knife” of instructional tools. This hands-on session introduces the basics of Moodle. Resources, activities, blocks and other embeddable tools will be introduced and demonstrated. Effective course layout and instructional strategies will be presented. Participants will learn how to create courses and be provided a free Moodle course.
Full-Day P13 – Tech Level: Intermediate
Second Life – The Virtual World for Education
Randy Barnes
Location:
Cooperating School Districts, Tele Lab
1460 Craig Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63146
Second Life, a 3D virtual world created by its "residents", offers a range of new and exciting possibilities for educatiors and their students. Already, there is a broad range of prominent educational institutions and organizations exploring the use of virtual worlds for the delivery of a wide range of courses and educational events including Distance and Flexible Education, Presentations and Discussions, Historical Recreations, Multimedia and Games Design and Language Learning practice. This class will take you into the virtual world of Second Life and let you visit some of its top educational locations.
Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning (Learn Web 2.0 Tools for Your Classroom)
BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)
Wes Fryer & Karen Montgomery
Location:
St. Charles Convention Center, Jr. D
1 Convention Center Plaza
St. Charles, MO 63303
Blended learning contexts which combine face-to-face interaction with online, digital learning, can provide students with more flexible and in-depth opportunities to learn than traditional lectures. In this session we’ll explore key ingredients for blended learning which teachers and students should utilize in our information-rich environment.
Good teaching is similar in many ways to good cooking. Recipes are helpful, but master cooks often modify those to meet different needs and situations. The same is true for teachers. If we extend this analogy of cooking to teaching and learning in a Web 2.0 world, what are the best “ingredients” to use as we help both teachers and students learn to be more effective, safe, and powerful communicators in our flat world.
This workshop will focus on six key ingredients: del.icio.us, social bookmarks, Flickr photo sharing, VoiceThread digital storytelling, collaborative writing tools, websites for phone recording as well as SMS polling, and videoconferencing.
Cooking can be intimidating for novices, but richly rewarding. Let’s learn to “cook up” some gourmet learning with some powerful (and free) Web 2.0 tools.
Make It and Take It 2.0
Gail Lovely
Location:
Jefferson Middle School, Room 308
2660 Zumbehl Rd.
St. Charles, MO 63301
Come to this workshop and leave with your own websites! If you are an elementary teacher come and create your first wiki, website and blog to use with your students when you return to your classroom! This safe, supportive workshop is designed to help educators in PK-6 see the value and relevance of some web 2.0 tools and to then create resources with these free tools to be used with their students upon returning to school. Wikis, blogs, simple web pages and other tools will be included in this workshop. From "ah ha!" to "ta da!" in one workshop!
Add Yourself to the Web 2.0 World
Leslie Fisher
Location:
Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Big Mac Lab
1201 S. Warson
St. Louis, MO 63124
You may have heard the term Web 2.0 tossed around and thought it was some sort of code. Actually, Web 2.0 is the buzzword that has been given to the new applications appearing on the web. The next generation of web surfers are having a more active role in the development of today's web content and you can be part of it by contributing or learning the best locations to harvest and contribute to this information. Bring an email address you can access from the web and be prepared to join in on the many wikis, blogs, videos, podcasts and social collaboration sites the web has to offer!
SMARTboard 101
Jennifer Young, Maried Swapp & Amy Johnson
Location:
River Bend Elementary, District Lab
224 River Valley Dr.
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Have you ever used SMART Notebook? If the answer is no or “just touched it”, join us for an energetic session with fellow teachers. SMART Notebook software along with a SMART interactive whiteboard allows teachers to provide interactive learning experiences for their students. Come learn to utilize icon tools, gallery items, object formatting, and the SMART Education website for existing lessons.
Create eLearning Content using Web Authoring Tools
Dan Tripp
Location:
Oak Brook Elementary, Computer Lab
510 Big Bend
Ballwin, MO 63021
This workshop will show teachers, staff developers, district technology integration specialists, and technology coordinators how to create district specific eLearning content and tutorials for on-demand training.
1) preview various inexpensive authoring tools and learn the benefits of each tool, and how they can be deployed for their school district, and how districts can monitor completion.
2) learn how to easily create eLearning tutorials, presentations, and quizzes for an educational setting.
3) learn about various inexpensive tools used to author and deploy eLearning solutions.
Half-Day P19 - Tech Level: Beginner
Twitter for Beginners
BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)
Shawn Kimball
Location:
St. Charles Convention Center, Room 103
1 Convention Center Plaza
St. Charles, MO 63303
Learn how to set up your own Twitter account. Come discover great educators to follow which will expand your personal learning network (PLN) worldwide. Follow leading educational experts and content area specialists. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to use Twitter to improve your knowledge and skills while also improving teaching and learning in your classroom.
Keep It Clean!
BYOL optional
Luke Allen
Location:
Rockwood Summit High School, IT Lab-Room 215
1780 Hawkins Rd.
Fenton, MO 63026
“My computer isn’t running like it used to!” If you find yourself saying, then this workshop is for you. Teachers may be unaware of just how much has been added to the system and system files since the first time they used the computer. This teachers’ workshop addresses the issue by providing simple tools to use to clean up much of the clutter that has accumulated on the drive, and thus improve its performance. After attending this workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how to manage the start-up sequence, junk files, orphaned shortcuts and the Windows registry. The workshop also addresses the issue of adware/spyware, what it is and how to control it. These skills can minimize computer down-time. Readily available freeware for simple maintenance procedures to reduce hard drive and registry clutter, eliminate spyware, and streamline the start-up sequence on Windows based PCs will be used.
Basic Tips and Tricks with Office 2007
Jeen Steiger
Location:
Harris Elementary School, Room 200B
2800 Old Muegge Rd.
St. Charles, MO 63303
MS Office 2007 suite can boost staff productivity and enhance the teaching and learning process. If you’ve moved to Office 2007 and realized that most of your favorite tools have also moved, then this workshop will help you in finding and using the tools that you are accustomed to utilizing in previous versions of Office. New features of Word and practice within the 2007 applications will be the focus of this preconference session. Workshop participants will preview online Office resources and discuss compatibility considerations as well as work with the following: 1) Word 2007: tables creation and formatting, autotext entries, tool customization, graphics formatting, links, and mail merge; 2) Excel 2007: basic formatting features, autosum, simple formulae, data formats for import / export functions, charts and graphs; and 3) PowerPoint 2007: new features in 2007, everyday uses for PowerPoint --- it isn't just for slides.
