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Very Cool Tricks for Using and Making Videos Add to Planner [Session : BYOL] Rushton Hurley, Next Vista For Learning Monday, 6/30/2008, 8:30am-9:30am; Grand Hyatt Lone Star Ballroom D You can use simple editing software, but wonder what's next. It's this session! Make better videos and get students more engaged and focused. Requires Movie Maker on PCs, iMovie and Garageband on Macs, Audacity, and Irfan View.

Technology and Differentiated Instruction: A Hands-On and Differentiated Experience [Session : BYOL] Bill Dolton, Lower Merion School District with Virginia DiMedio, Chuck Ginter, Rhonda Keefer and Tom McGee Monday, 6/30/2008, 3:30pm-4:30pm; Grand Hyatt Lone Star Ballroom B Explore and mine DI resources. Contribute to a public wiki collection of technology-enhanced DI strategies. Hands-on and differentiated for all levels of prior DI experience! Requires Firefox on Macs.

Integrating Virtual Manipulatives into Elementary Mathematics Classrooms [Session : BYOL] Drew Polly, UNC-Charlotte with Clif Mims Tuesday, 7/1/2008, 11:00am-12:00pm; Grand Hyatt Lone Star Ballroom B Participants explore an assortment of Internet-based virtual manipulatives that align to mathematical concepts taught in elementary schools.

A screencast of how to import an OPML file into your newsreader

J. Emmett Gardner, University of Oklahoma with Tracy Hayes and Cheryl A. Wissick Tuesday, 7/1/2008, 2:00pm-3:00pm; Grand Hyatt Lone Star Ballroom C Explore free Web-based tools and resources that increase students' access to general education curricula, embrace universal design and teacher productivity, and accomodate diverse students' learning needs.

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Pennsylvania's planning wiki for NECC 2008.