Keynotes, Presentations, and Workshops     Learning Together: Internet-Rich Collaborative Projects Collaboration involves working together toward a joint goal. This session focuses on exploring, locating, selecting, adapting, and creating successful online projects. Explore different types of Internet projects such as interpersonal exchanges, information collection, analysis activities, and problem solving projects. Learn about places to locate current and ongoing projects. The session will also help you select a project that fits the needs of you and your curriculum in terms of size, length, background, content, and technology. Learn how to adapt projects to meet your needs and the technology you have available. Finally, find out how to create and direct an online project that involves sharing through surface mail, email, the web, or video conferencing.   Riding the Reading Roller Coaster: Information Age Literacy Information age literacy is like a reading roller coaster of opportunities. Although we often equate literacy with books, children are now reading ezines on the web and electronic books on CD. From historical events to contemporary issues, popular literature can bring reading and the world alive for students. Explore how to connect popular children's and young adult literature with online reading projects, Internet resources, and technology-rich activities to promote information age reading.    Playing Well with Others: Mentoring, Teaming, and Conducting Workshops You need enthusiasm, tact, and patience to work with teachers. Traditional approaches to staff development for technology integration have often been ineffective in producing widespread change in teaching practices. This session explores formal and informal ways to address the professional development needs of educators. Learn ways to be prepared and make the most of "teachable moments" with technology and teachers. Examine other techniques such as study groups, creation crews, and field trips as ways to promote curriculum development activities. Find out how to recruit e-contributors, e-coaches, and e-mentors to help your technology staff expand their impact. Finally, try out a dozen ways to motivate your teachers. Learn to play well with others and bring passion and enthusiasm back into your technology program.   Becoming User-Friendly: Support, Sharing, & Smiles The print paper is stuck, the system crashed, and I lost everything... does this sound familiar? For many teachers, technology equals hassles. Turn frustration into fun! The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. This is the message of user-friendly technology leaders. This session focuses on ways to recruit teachers and provide practical, classroom-based technical and curriculum support. Explore ways to plan for positive teacher learning experiences and expand projects beyond the scope of the classroom. Finally, learn user-friendly techniques for dealing with people without saying "no" or making anyone feel "dumb". Remember, a smile is a passport that will take you wherever you want to go.   Windows to the World: A Dozen Ideas for Teaching and Learning at a Distance Interactive communication systems such as two-way video, email, and web-based information sharing have given educators and their students exciting windows to the world beyond the classroom. This session explores practical, meaningful examples of engaging educators and their students through technology. A dozen ideas will be provided for teaching and learning at a distance. Topics include active learning, authentic resources, real-world audiences, problem solving, information processing, creativity, communication, collaboration, competition, motivation, multiple perspectives, and global connections. Finally, the session will focus on leadership strategies for opening these windows to the world.   Roosting in a Cactus: Planning and Assessing Technology-Rich Student Projects Using technology in the classroom can be like trying to roost in a cactus. Look beyond the problems and explore ways that technology can enrich teaching and learning. This session focuses on guidelines for planning and assessing technology-rich student projects including designing a realistic task, creating meaningful activities, selecting technology tools, organizing resources, and promoting effective communications. If you're using a word processor as a typewriter , it's time to break out of the mold and explore new pathways for expression through effective image, word, and voice communications.    Open a Can of Worms: Managing Technology-Rich, Engaged Learning Environments Using technology with your students can be like opening a can of worms. This workshop will help you develop realistic strategies to create an effective and efficient technology-rich learning environment in your classroom. Examine a wide range of technology options (i.e., productivity tools, multimedia, imaging, Internet) and learn to systematically select, manage, and integrate these resources to fit your grade level and content area standards and needs. Regardless of whether you have one computer or a dozen computers in your classroom, management is the key to effective, engaged learning environments. Explore practical, management guidelines for "real-world" technology integration.   Digital Glyphs: Imaging Ideas for a Visual World Use practical, curriculum-connected activities to teach important visual literacy skills through the use of scanners, digital cameras, and imaging software. From ancient rock art to children's sidewalk drawings, we live in a visual world. Teach important visual literacy skills through the use of scanners, digital cameras, and imaging software. Packed with practical projects, participants will leave with a wealth of curriculum-connected activities that incorporate digital imaging. Explore ideas for KidPix, Photoshop, PowerPoint, HyperStudio, and other popular software packages. Regardless of your grade level or content area there are many ways to enhance learning by connecting pictures and words.   Technology Butterflies: Creating Engaging Learning Environments Break out of your classroom cocoon and become a technology butterfly. Use technology to engage your learners in exciting, motivating activities that reach beyond your classroom. Explore technology-rich problem solving, information processing, collaboration, communication, and authentic activities. Finally, learn practical tips that will help transform you and your students into technology butterflies.   Web Walking: Developing Practical Web-Based Course Materials Are you overwhelmed by the prospect of integrating web-based materials into your courses? Do your distance learning materials need pizazz? Are you frustrated by the endless list of constantly changing software and hardware options? Rather than chasing after the latest technology, this workshop will emphasize practical approaches to developing useful web-based course materials. The turtle won the race by walking, not running! Effective distance education programs begin with the careful creation of quality course materials. This workshop will explore a variety of techniques for incorporating existing web-based materials into your courses, as well as developing new instructional materials. Addressing the individual learning styles of students is critical in developing effective online courses. The workshop will examine strategies for building meaningful online activities and assessments that meet the needs of different types of learners. From authoring tools such as WebCT to programming languages such as JAVA, there are many ways to build web-based courses. Regardless of the tools you choose or your level of technical expertise, the steps in designing and developing specialized single pages, web-based courses, and web sites is the same. The workshop will end by exploring the keys to an effective web-based course.   Hot Wheels, Barbies, or Legos: Educational Technology Leadership Cars, dolls, or building blocks: which were your childhood favorites? Take the technology temperament test. Do you have a guardian, artisan, idealist, or rational personality? How does your personality impact your technology leadership? In this session, participants will gain insight into their leadership skills and address a dozen key questions facing educators integrating technology into their programs. The session will conclude with building blocks of technology leadership. From modeling and coordinating to sharing and mentoring, explore ways to expand your role as a technology advocate.   Internet Expeditions: Creating WebQuest Learning Environments Take your students on exciting Internet Expeditions by creating dynamic learning environments that put your students at the center of the action. Use the power of Internet to expand your classroom and extend your activities. WebQuests provide an authentic environment for problem solving, information processing, and collaboration. Participants will explore four ways to build WebQuest learning environments including using existing resources, adapting or modifying a WebQuest, creating a new webquest, or co-producing materials. In addition, examine instructional and classroom strategies for successfully integrating these activities into the K12 classroom. If state standards are getting you down, use WebQuests to help you address those higher-order competencies and proficiencies.   Entering Rattlesnake Gulch: Searching for K12 Internet Resources When you use the Internet, do you feel like you're entering Rattlesnake Gulch? This presentation will provide you with some ideas for getting started using Internet yourself and with your students. Explore search tools for children and adults, locate teacher resources, and identify good starting points. Learn to live in rattlesnake country.   Student Starships: Leading and Learning in the New Millennium Innovators unite! It's time to use the tools and resources of technology to reach for the stars. Explore effective ways to integrate Internet into the classroom, match standards and instructional development ideas with teaching and learning strategies, and consider ways to meet the individual differences of your students. The Internet can be the great discriminator or the great equalizer. You decide. Give students the tools to build their own student starship and set a unique course into the new millennium!     Information Overload and Other Techie Bugs: A Prescription for Healthy Internet Integration Have you noticed that you can never find exactly what you need, but you can always find interesting, irrelevant websites? Do you need a personal assistant to help you wade through all the websites you've written on scraps of paper? Do you have more bookmarks than books? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you need Dr. Lamb's prescription for Information Overload. This session will help you find the "best of the net" and provide realistic strategies for integrating Internet resources into classroom activities.   Prairies, Pioneers, and Partnerships: Matching Standards, Resources, and Engaging Projects  Survive on the cyber-prairie by aligning standards, selecting useful resources, and developing engaging, technology-rich projects. Find partners and build your 'Little School on the Cyber-prairie.' To survive on the prairie, pioneers had to modify their old ways and learn new skills. We need to do the same thing on the cyberfrontier. Without careful packing, those new standards won't fit in your curriculum wagon! Pioneers toss stuff as they go and pick up new things along the way. This session will help you align standards, select useful resources, and develop engaging, technology-rich activities. Find a partner and build your 'Little School on the Cyberprairie.'   Classroom Campfires: Don't Do Internet, Do Integrate! From identifying resources to building webquests, this hands-on workshop will help you light a virtual campfire in your classroom! Start with a spark through enticing, information-rich web-based resources. Engage students by designing active, exciting, "real-world" learning environments including an introduction, catchy focus, meaningful activity, tools, directions, and a realistic timeline. Learning can be easy, hard, fun, or boring. How can we make our classroom an exciting place to learn? Light a campfire in your classroom! Start with a spark! Identify enticing, information-rich web-based. Identify a purpose for your fire. What are students supposed to learn? Why? Embers are the hot remains of a fire. Engage your students by designing active, exciting, "real-world" learning environments. Create a project that will keep the fire going! Sing around the campfire. Share an idea. Find out what your students have. This hands-on experience will help participants build effective web-based activities for students.   Building Treehouses for Learning: Technology in Today's Classrooms This full-day workshop focuses on ways to effectively integrate technology into today's classrooms. It will demonstrate how you can create active learning environments that provide students with the tools they need to create their own treehouses for learning. We'll explore tools you might use in planning, producing, and presenting information in your classroom as well as a range of technologies from handouts and displays to desktop presentations, computer software, and Internet. First, the workshop focuses on developing effective teaching/learning environments including identifying outcomes and creating technology-rich lessons. Next, the workshop discusses the integration of all kinds of technologies into the classroom including books, computer software, and Internet resources. Designing and producing effective informational and instructional materials including print, visual, projected, display, multimedia, and web-based materials comes next. Finally, the workshop examines issues and ideas for dealing with management and evaluation of technology-rich learning environments   Information Age Learning: The World is at your Fingertips Internet provides the world at your fingertips through easy information access, varied perspectives, and tools for communication and collaboration. However, users also have to deal with information overload, time consuming searches, and inappropriate materials. From identifying the information need to integrating resources into the classroom, this session focuses on using Internet as a teaching/learning resource. Explore good student starting points, varied types of information, and reasons for using the Internet. Consider current information resources such as electronic newspapers and journals, online reference materials such as encyclopedias and almanacs, and resources for teachers such as lesson plans, class management ideas, and professional development resources. Integrate web-based learning materials such as case studies, investigations, virtual field trips, practice/testing, simulations, and tutorials. Finally, the session will provide tips for surviving in the information age.   Literature Ladders: Linking Books and Internet Resources Literature Learning Ladders is a project that uses children's books as the focal point for technology-rich thematic activities. Themes such as adventure, family, friendship, nature, fantasy, and history serve as the ladder rungs of this exciting online learning resource. From Dustbowl era historical fiction to contemporary issues such as animal abuse and divorce, popular literature can bring reading and the world alive for students. By adding the power of Internet, educators can build information-rich thematic technology connections. This session will explore how to connect popular children's literature with online resources and technology-based classroom projects. The session includes a book list, web addresses, author resources, software titles, and lots of activities that can lay the foundation for technology connections.   Caldecotts Connections: Thematic Book-Internet Links Illustrations are a powerful way to draw children into the world of books. By adding the power of Internet and other technologies, educators can build information-rich, thematic technology connections. This session will explore how to connect Caldecott 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.   Imaging and Imagination: Visual Tools in the K-12 Classroom We remember what we see. Visuals are a powerful means of expression whether trying to teach a concept, express an idea, or change an attitude. Digital camera images, scanned pictures, still video captures, clip art, and original digital artwork can dramatically enhance your desktop presentations, multimedia projects, and web pages. This workshop will focus on ideas for integrating visual resources into K-12 classroom projects. Techniques for selecting, modifying, and using the best graphic for the project will be demonstrated. Participants will examine alternative imaging tools and output options, compare graphic file formats, and explore techniques for creating and enhancing images. Finally, the session will apply these ideas to realistic classroom projects using popular imaging software such as KidPix and Photoshop.   Ringmasters, Clowns, and Tightropes: Educational Technology Management and Leadership If you're supposed to be the ringmaster but feel more like a clown, this session will help you address 15 "biggie" educational technology questions that teachers, parents, and school board members often ask. Do you feel like you're walking a technology tightrope? This session will help you deal with the fun and frustrations of life as a technology leader. We've got answers to the big questions: correct, incorrect, and just plain silly. Do computers really make a difference in kids' learning? What's technology integration? How many computers are enough? How do you handle aging technology? How do you assess the technology program? How do you prepare for new technology? How do you motivate teachers? How do you handle the implementation dip? What's the best way to configure computers in schools - singles, clusters, labs? What's the role of the Internet in schools? Where do we put our emphasis? This session will address 15 "biggie" educational technology questions that teachers, parents, and school board members are always asking. If you're supposed to be the ringmaster but feel more like a clown, this session is for you.   Producing Pearl Projects: Technology-Rich, Engaged Learning Environments Create a 'pearl of a project' that engages learners through technology-rich, meaningful learning environments. Learn to apply engaged learning ideas including problem solving, information processing, collaboration, communication, and "real world" activities. Explore practical, K12 projects that integrate technology tools and resources including books, Internet, CD-ROM, imaging, video, and multimedia. Not all oysters produce pearls and not every classroom project is a success. How can you create a pearl of a project that engages learners through technology rich, motivating, meaningful, and authentic learning environments? This workshop applies ideas related to engaged learning including problem solving, information processing, collaboration, communication, and "real world" activities. Rather than focusing on "what engaged learning is", the workshop will examine practical projects that apply these ideas to classroom settings through the use of technology tools and information resources including books, Internet, CD-ROM, imaging, video, and multimedia. For example, a book, historical site, video, or small animal may serve as the focus point, Internet resources provide background information, and meaningful activities engage students in reading, exploring information, and learning.   Technology Tools in Teaching and Learning Engage students in learning by creating exciting, real-world projects that integrate the tools of technology for communicating, calculating, and organizing ideas and information. Hammers, spoons, shovels, and thermometers... every profession has its tools. Teachers and students use the tools of technology for writing, calculating, and organizing ideas and information. In this workshop you'll learn to integrate productivity tools including word processing, and databases into the K-12 classroom. Engage students in learning through the development of exciting creative, real-world classroom projects that require students to locate, evaluate, organize, analyze, and communicate information in order to solve problems, make informed decisions, and effectively share their ideas with others.   Seven Simple Starters: Realistic Internet Integration This short (30 minute) presentation focuses on seven simple "starters" for teachers interested in integrating Internet into their classroom. From daily activities to engaging projects, this session provides seven simple "starters" for teachers interested in integrating Internet into their classroom. Internet integration can be so overwhelming. Where do you begin? This session focuses on seven simple "starters" for teachers interested in integrating Internet into their classroom. From daily activities to engaging projects, this poster session will provide lots of practical, classroom integration ideas.   42eXplore: An Approach to Internet Integration We need three legs for a sturdy chair. We also need at least three quality resources for a foundation of Internet information. With four sites, one can be down and we still have enough for information comparisons. This session will help you evaluate and select Internet resources, then create effective learning activities. Explore a weekly web resource called 42eXplore (http://eduscapes.com/42explore) that provides help you get started with topics and activities across content areas and grade levels.  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 02/02.