ISTE 2010

Global collaboration project headed by Vickie Davis and Julie Lindsay. Connect your classroom locally and globally to create meaningful and authentic learning communities using Web 2.0 tools and emerging technologies.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-16, in educational tasks. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

TYP-O knows the most common spelling mistakes and can suggest words even if they are misspelled. The free app is designed for dyslexics and non-native English speakers but is helpful for everyone. Compatible with IPHONE, ITOUCH and IPAD.

Another site with links collected at the ISTE Conference.

As introduced at the ISTE conference!

Dean Shareski reflects on the conference.

Google custom search engine for students to find appropriate images. Here is another one: http://bit.ly/searchimages. Use these or create your own.

Handouts for Jeanie Warrick's presentation. Includes SmartBoard Tips and Tricks and a list of great teacher web sites.

Simon Crook's Slide Show presentation.

Communicate with parents, teachers and students online in a Web 2.0 environment.

Build and deliver online training. Free online tools for creating dynamic multimedia presentations and tests.

Backchannel from Colette and my Voicethread BYOL session.

SecretBuilders is a virtual world for children 5 to 14 years old powered by a web 2.0 community of children, parents, educators, writers, artists and game developers. On SecretBuilders, children will explore virtual lands, undertake quests, play games, maintain a home, nurture a pet, and interact with their friends. Three features which form the backdrop for SecretBuilders distinguish it from other online worlds: * Children learn through immersing themselves in the stories, themes, and concepts from the best in literature, arts and humanities. They will interact with famous historical and fictional figures and be introduced to content and characters from world civilization and the great thoughts and ideas of human creativity. * Children will create this site, not just consume it. They are directly involved in creating this world with their ideas, critiques and contributions on virtually every aspect of the site and many of their ideas will be implemented! * Children publish their works - writings, art, videos - making SecretBuilders their own personal store of creativity. They can invite friends and family to view their works, and comment upon them. Seeing their works published and enjoyed by others instills tremendous for self-confidence as well as motivation to do more.

"Learning Tools Smackdown ~ Teacher-librarian and technology educator practitioners will share their ideas relating to effective practice in use of 2.0 tools to deliver the mission that resonates well with ISTE's NETS*S."

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below."

"The mission of School of One is to provide students with personalized, effective, and dynamic classroom instruction so that teachers have more time to focus on the quality of their instruction. To achieve this mission, School of One re-imagines the traditional classroom model. Instead of one teacher and 25-30 students in a classroom, each student participates in multiple instructional modalities, including a combination of teacher-led instruction, one-on-one tutoring, independent learning, and work with virtual tutors. To organize this type of learning, each student receives a unique daily schedule based on his or her academic strengths and needs. As a result, students within the same school or even the same classroom can receive profoundly different instruction as each student's schedule is tailored to the skills they need and the ways they best learn. Teachers acquire data about student achievement each day and then adapt their live instructional lessons accordingly. By leveraging technology to play a more essential role in planning instruction, teachers have more time to focus on doing what they do best - delivering quality instruction and insuring that all students learn."

"Join Howard Rheingold and other noted educators in creating a world-class resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies."

The Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad may be a breeze to use and fun to have, but what about blind students?The federal government is stepping in after a few lawsuits regarding how unfair these new types of books are for visually impaired and blind students.

Actually, the iPad is compatible for blind and visually impaired users. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7801280/Apple-iPad-is-great-gadget-for-blind-people.html

Themes for your presentation are designs that apply to every slide you add. You can either choose one of Google presentations themes or pick your own background image and color for your presentation. There are also many presentation theme designs in the Google Docs template gallery.