ICESessions

= = **Which Sessions did you attend? Please, share your notes and comments here!** Great session.
 * [|Kevin Honeycutt]- Cyberbullying/Internet Safety - Notes from session [[file:Honeycutt.doc]]**

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 * Suggested resources**

Tricks and tools to bring audio into the classroom to increase engagement level of students -Maureen Miller
 * Michael Bryant - Pump up the Volume- Audio in your Classroom**
 * Narration- [|Voicethread.com] - voice comments to go along with pictures and video
 * Sound cues- play a theme song or sound byte to indicate a transition time in class
 * strip the audio from the video- allows for students to use their imagination to picture the conten
 * Listen to speeches - past, present- gives more meaning to events than reading a speech
 * [|myplick]- sync a power point

-[|Jeff Shaw]
 * Tag–Who's It?** **[|Scott Meech]**, Sears School, Kenilworth.
 * Tagging:Important organizational skill that needs to be taught.
 * Tag photos, docs with meaningful keywords that will separate them from the rest when trying to narrow a search and find what you need.
 * Delicious (social bookmarking) account for your school? Needs an efficient tagging scheme to be effective (e.g. don't tag everything with "education," which is too broad).
 * [|Quinturakids.com]: search site for kids that presents keywords in a "cloud" based on relative importance or frequency
 * [|Edutagger]: alternative to Delicious for social bookmarking; specific focus on K-12
 * Twittertrend - iPhone app; follow "what's hot" in the world by checking the most frequently used words in Twitter at that moment; can be more immediate than "conventional" news sources when a big event breaks
 * [|Wordle] - visual rep of word frequency; "dissects" text to show which words are used most often

-Jeff Shaw
 * Get Wiki With It: Using Google Sites & PB Wiki in the Elementary Classroom** [|Kim Zimmer]-Avoca West
 * [|Google Apps] vs [|PB Wiki] - both are good choices for classroom use.
 * Very easy to set up a classroom wiki in PB Wiki.
 * Avoca's 5th graders have a monthly book review wiki. Teachers created a "Spotlight section" to showcase best examples of book reviews.
 * You have option of prescreening submissions before posting.
 * Multimedia can be added to wikis or Google docs. Idea: Spooky podcasts for Halloween.
 * Build webquests in Google Docs

-Marci Kulbak, Elm Place
 * Dig****ital Storytelling: Makin' Movies** Joe Brennan- Retired
 * Explores independent films to inspire students
 * Show various 30 second commercials to students to inspire ideas
 * Concepts in movie making such as backward motion create special effects
 * iMovies can be used in all subject areas

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 * Spiro Bolos- Blogging in the Classroom

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 * Helene Blowers- From Players to Guides: Learning 2.0**

[|Turbo-Charged Wikis in the Classroom] -Maureen Miller

Nadine Norris- with Stakeholders about Internet Safety Issues **
 * Using Web2.0 Technology to Communicate

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 * Using Information Literacy To Enhance Research**

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