ITSC Program Events

1-1 Classroom on a Shoestring: Changing the Culture

Beavercreek Elementary 6th Grade Supply List: #2 pencils, glue sticks, computer, 6 subject folders... What happens when parents become part of the technology solution? What are the teachers' responsibilities and challenges? Experience a "typical" day in class. Learn tips for changing the educational culture of your class, school, and community.

3 Best Practices with Moodle

This presentation will focus on some “Best Practice” strategies related to 3 of the Moodle modules.

• The Quiz feature will emphasize the value of Formative Assessment.

• The Lesson Module can be used to design adaptive learning process.

• The Wiki Module will support collaboration with shared documents.

Beginners Guide to Instructional Hardware Selection

So many tools and so little money. Use 3 of the hottest hardware tools while learning to decide which hardware device is best suited to support your curriculum goals. SmartBoards, classroom responders, slates and more. It's all about the results!

Communicate and Share with Google

Explore Google tools that specifically allow educators to communicate and share online content with students. Specific applications include Reader, Calendar, Notebook, Book Search, Groups, and News.

Creating and Sharing with Google

This session will focus specifically on the Google applications that allow you to create an online presence and share it with students, parents, and colleagues. Applications such as Google Pages, Docs and Spreadsheets, and Groups will be explored.

Drupal - Best web content package ever? - YES

Learn all about Drupal, the Swiss Army knife of web content packages. It does it all, podcasting, videocasting, blogging, event scheduling, syndication, forums, chat and more. It's free (open source) and runs on any web server (Linux, Mac or Windows).

Engaging Students with Authentic Technology Projects

Embrace 21st century strategies to create an instructional learning environment that moves away from teaching isolated computer skills towards an integrated thematic approach. Come learn how you can combine everyday productivity tools with Web 2.0 to support curriculum integration and collaboration.

Gadgets

Are you a gadget head? Do you surf the net or listen closely to geeks talking in hopes of hearing about a cool software product or gizmo? Leslie Fisher (Gadget Freak) will show you some of her favorite hardware and software gadgets that do everything from make your life easier to provide piles of fun. Hardware, software and even completely off topic gadgets will be discussed.

techSmartz: Keeping Connected Kidz Safe

According to a recent survey, 71% of parents believe much of the responsibility of a child's safety online belongs to the schools. Are you preparing your students to be safe online? Are you familiar with pre-teen and even "tween" social networking websites? In this detailed presentation, given by Detective Micah Smith of the Linn County Sheriff's Office, learn how online predators are contacting kids online, how to keep kids safe on social networking websites, and learn the effects cyberbullying is having on today's youth. We will also cover how district policies can assist with cyberbullying cases, and what resources are available to schools to implement internet safety curriculum into the school day. Website Info

Makin' Movies ~ Made Simple

Come and create 3 different simple movie projects - Riddle Me, Digital Poetry, and Mini Documentary. Experience how to use and create a digital kit-- including photos, videos, sounds, and music -- to engage and focus your students in the art of movie making. Tips and tricks will be shared on classroom management and project organization. All projects can be completed using free software such as iMovie, MovieMaker, or PhotoStory3.

Oregon Virtual School Resources

Breeze through tools Drupal and Moodle, onto some of the newest web tools and resources offered for free for you from the Oregon Virtual Schools. Uploasd video or podcasts, host your own webpage or blog and peruse content. At the same time contemplate the classroom applications all in a hands on, interactive and fun hour.

Podcasting and the Struggling Reader

See how our reading scores grew significantly over 10 weeks with the use of an Apple iShuffle. We designed Reading Buddies, a reading intervention homework program for students who have been identified as needing additional support in reading. Lessons are delivered via an Apple iShuffle and include work in phonemic awareness, alphabetic principal, rhyming, handwriting, and literature studies. Student iShuffles are individualized according to student needs and are changed every week. Create podcasts for your classroom.

Powerful Vocabulary Development Strategies with Common Software!

Literacy development focus using Inspiration, MS Word, and free online dictionary sites to create dynamic and powerful vocabulary activities for students!

Quick and Easy Computer Activities for Kids

In this fast-paced session, you'll discover many quick and easy-to-create projects that integrate technology into all areas of the elementary curriculum, using Microsoft Office and the Internet. Activities are aligned to the ISTE standards and to the Multiple Intelligences. You'll leave with dozens of clever ideas you can use tomorrow in your classroom!

Online Communication Tools for Kids

Students have always enjoyed communicating with peers. This session will present several tools available to help teachers cater to the online communication environment; such as Moodle, Blogs, Wiki's, Social Networking, and more. Specifically, communication tools which allow for two way communication will be presented (forums and the chat environment), and conversation surrounding ethics when using these tools.

Student-Run Enterprises

Interested in providing Authentic Tasks for students? Addressing the Career-related Learning Standards and Essential Skills while incorporating environmentally generated learning? Operate without a budget from the school? Come see how student-run enterprises hold the potential for a very powerful learning opportunity in your backyard! Students from the MHS Tech Cadre (Web design enterprise) and Pulse Media Productions (Video Production enterprise) of Milwaukie High School will be here to share their story and why this education model works for them. Every school should have these types of enterprises. Jeff Linman, Advisor for both of these enterprises will be here to address logistics questions regarding how to start these types of enterprises. Round table discussion format.

The Film Festival as a Springboard to Systemic Instructional Change

Dr. Tyson began the Mabry Film Festival in 2001 as a way to integrate technology into the instructional plan of the school. He has seen firsthand the power of media production in a middle school setting. Producing digital media content is not only well within the financial grasp of most schools, students have the capacity to create compelling and deeply moving content of the same quality you can find at your local video store. While in many ways this medium is the language of their generation, producing student work of exceptional quality does not just happen by "turning students loose" with a video camera and a computer. This session will provide ideas and insight into ways you can leverage the unprecedented excitement of a film festival in your own school community, making learning irresistible while building support for deeper use of technology tools. Few things excite students and parents more than a large audience's critical acclaim of student work. Dr. Tyson will explore ways to make the educational experience of your students more rigorous and demanding by bringing their meaningful contributions to life on the big screen.

The Virtual Teachers Lounge: Utilizing Online Professional Learning Communities

In this session teachers will learn how to join, build and utilize online communities such as the DEN, Web 2.0 tools like Twitter, and social networking sites, including Facebook, to share ideas, learn professionally, and collaborate with colleagues around the world.

VoiceThreads as an Instructional Tool

Explore how to use VoiceThread as an instructional tool to improve instruction and learning in the classroom. This techie tool is cool and really easy to use, and it is FREE! Bring a powerpoint presentation and walk away with an online presentation today!!!

Writing & Publishing Online

The WriteSite supports content area writing by providing an environment for students to post, read critically, respond to peers, revise, and publish online. Teachers in upper-elementary through degree-granting schools will leave with strategies for how to easily utilize the collaborative power of the Web. WriteSite Resources

Streamlining Assessment with Exam View: St. Helens A
CIM Audio Visual

Did you know that Exam View Content comes bundled with over 5,000 textbooks? It's likely that you currently have this powerful product in your district. Come and learn how Exam View can help to streamline assessments from start to finish with a complete toolset in three seamless applications. See how teachers can build comprehensive tests with Test Generator, administer tests with Test Player, integrate clickers with the content and analyze results with Test Manager.

Teaching & Learning Math with the Video Game Generation: St. Helens B
Tabula Digita

Educational video gaming through immersive 3D learning environments is finally here. Tabula Digita,(creators of the National Multiplayer Educational Games Tournament), will share how to really enage students (and teachers) in the process of mathematics for middle and high school through the use of multiplayer video games, which allow students and classess to compete and collaborate with students across classes, schools and districts around the nation. It is a program that has students asking teachers for more help in math and talking about math with other students. The DimensionM program from Tabula Digita also has students coming to school early, leaving lunch early and staying after school to get more time using the math-based video games, which look and feel like many mainstream games. Please join our CEO for a lively, fun and interactive session about this topic!

KidBiz & TeenBiz - Differentiated Literacy Solutions: St. Helens C
Achieve3000

An overview and hands-on experience will be provided to participants for the exciting differentiated literacy programs offered by Achieve 3000. KidBiz (grades 2-5) and TeenBiz (grades 6-12) provide leveled non-fiction content to students based on their Lexile scores. Teachers can work with a wide range of student ability levels, but have students read and write about the same topic. Activities are included that measure student improvement in comprehension, vocabulary, and writing. Results for various Oregon customers will also be shared. This session is intended for those not yet familiar with Achieve 3000 or its products.

Adobe Digital School Collection: St. Helens D
Adobe

Join Leslie Fisher for a session that will explore exciting ways in which educators can use the Adobe Digital School Collection to inspire students. Learn how to engage students in learning through multimedia projects that use Adobe Photoshop® Elements software for digital imaging and Adobe Premiere® Elements software for producing digital video. Learn how Adobe Acrobat® software empowers educators to communicate and collaborate more easily and securely. And learn how Adobe Contribute® software provides the ideal solution for easily updating websites and blogs.

See how Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Zune can Enable Dynamic, Meaningful, 21st Century Educational Experiences: Mt. Adams
Microsoft

The Microsoft connected desktop provides teachers and students with rich research, collaborative, and productivity tools that facilitate deep learning and maximize instructional time. See how students can create dynamic, meaningful content with ease. Understand how students with learning differences can get the most of Microsoft’s tools through built in accessibility features. See how you can leverage your current Microsoft investment, as well as free education focused tools offered by Microsoft. Included are instructional best practices for instructional technology directors, trainers, and facilitators. Additionally, learn about the Zune Education Platform and the future roadmap for Microsoft’s portable media devices. This is a two hour session.

Enhancing Writing and Vocabulary Instruction Using Technology: Cascade A/B
Visions

As educators, we know that reading and writing are intimately connected, but does our instruction reflect that in our daily lessons? This presentation will explore the connections between the writing process and reading comprehension with a special emphasis on using technology help our students make that connection using onscreen graphic organizers. Whether we are reading or writing, the structure behind how we convey ideas in the English language remains unchanged and graphic organizers are the key to helping ALL our students to become effective readers and writers. This presentation will also cover a variety of approaches to enhancing your vocabulary instruction using technology. The strategies and materials presented will include both student centered activities and the creation of custom instructional materials in minutes rather than hours. An emphasis will be placed on daily oral and written language development. This presentation will cover several areas:

• A brief review of the research that proves the efficacy of using graphic organizers for both reading and writing.

• A review of best internet sites that provide free graphic organizers.

• Practical strategies for implementing the writing process in the classroom on a daily basis, with an emphasis on both reading and writing.

• A review of a few pieces of commercial software that implement the writing process in a way that is practical for "real" classrooms. The emphasis of the presentation will be to provide teachers with practical, research based solutions that they can implement tomorrow in their classrooms.

Boost Student Achievement in Mathematics with TI-Navigator: Cascades C
Texas Instruments

Let your staff know how the TI-Navigator Classroom learning system can be used in classrooms to inspire and engage students at your school or district. Find out how this easy-to-use, real-time, interactive technology can provide a non-threatening environment allowing all students (even the shy ones) to participate in any classroom activity. TI-Navigator assists teachers to obtain immediate feedback from every student during lessons, allows students to do questions on paper/pencil tests at their own pace while keeping track of answers, and instantly grades homework and assignments. TI-Navigator also enables teachers to capture the screens of student calculators while they are connected to the TI-Navigator system. An interactive workspace on the teacher computer aggregates data points or lists that are input individually by students and enables the entire list to be displayed and analyzed in real time. Participants will learn how this technology can enage students in the learning process and improve student achievement.

SMART Integrated Classroom: Gardens A/B
Compview

See how SMART products can work together to make a SMART Classroom. Integrate a SMART Board, Airliner and the new Senteo Student Response System into an efficient classroom management tool.

Thin Clients - How To: Garden C
OpenSourcery

Can you replace a network of PC's with a network of thin clients to reduce costs and vastly reduce support maintenance? You sure can! Join us in this session to see it done.

Engage and Energize Your Classrooms with eInstruction: St. Helens A
CIM Audio Visual

Being engaged in the classroom is one of the keys to deep learning. Come to learn more about how using a student response system can help teachers to actively engage all students in classrooms with ever increasing numbers, check student understanding throughout a lesson, provide on-going real-time feedback during lessons, differentiate instruction based on student understanding, and efficiently assess and record student knowledge. See examples of how teachers can use this formative assessment tool to make learning visible and take learning to a deeper level using quality questioning strategies during instruction.

Teaching & Learning Math with the Video Game Generation: St. Helens B
Tabula Digita

Educational video gaming through immersive 3D learning environments is finally here. Tabula Digita,(creators of the National Multiplayer Educational Games Tournament), will share how to really enage students (and teachers) in the process of mathematics for middle and high school through the use of multiplayer video games, which allow students and classess to compete and collaborate with students across classes, schools and districts around the nation. It is a program that has students asking teachers for more help in math and talking about math with other students. The DimensionM program from Tabula Digita also has students coming to school early, leaving lunch early and staying after school to get more time using the math-based video games, which look and feel like many mainstream games. Please join our CEO for a lively, fun and interactive session about this topic!

KidBiz & TeenBiz Advanced – Discussion of new Writing Center features and hear success stories from Oregon customers: St. Helens C
Achieve3000

In this KidBiz/TeenBiz session, new features in the writing center will be highlighted. In addition, a panel of Oregon customers will provide an overview of their programs and be available for a Q&A session. For those already familiar with our 5-step literacy process, you will want to attend this session to learn more about how our differentiated solutions can dramatically improve your student's comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. This session is intended for those familiar with KidBiz & TeenBiz, or attended the first session.

Adobe Creative Suite 3: Bringing Design Into the Classroom: St. Helens D
Adobe

Learn about this ideal toolset for empowering students to create professional-quality print materials, rich interactive experiences, and dynamic mobile content while teaching them essential skills for successful careers. During this one-hour session, Leslie Fisher will tie together Adobe Photoshop® , Adobe InDesign®, Adobe Dreamweaver® and Adobe Flash®. See how easy it is to use exciting, new features for producing amazing layouts, images, and illustrations.

CONTINUED: See how Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Zune can Enable Dynamic, Meaningful, 21st Century Educational Experiences: Mt. Adams
Microsoft

The Microsoft connected desktop provides teachers and students with rich research, collaborative, and productivity tools that facilitate deep learning and maximize instructional time. See how students can create dynamic, meaningful content with ease. Understand how students with learning differences can get the most of Microsoft’s tools through built in accessibility features. See how you can leverage your current Microsoft investment, as well as free education focused tools offered by Microsoft. Included are instructional best practices for instructional technology directors, trainers, and facilitators. Additionally, learn about the Zune Education Platform and the future roadmap for Microsoft’s portable media devices. This is a two hour session.

TI-Nspire: New Technology from Texas Instruments to improve student understanding: Cascades C
Texas Instruments

Come see what’s new from Texas Instruments. The most inspired learning technology ever imagined – TI-Nspire. Learn about the enhanced graphing capabilities combined with easy-to-use computer features that distinguish TI-Nspire technology from traditional graphing calculators. This new product is available with or without a Computer Algebra System (CAS) and has a changeable faceplate that enables compatibility with the TI-84 Plus and TI-83 Plus. The TI-Nspire greatly enhances the use of multiple representations for concept development and problem solving. This session is appropriate for all users from novice to expert.

SMART Integrated Classroom: Gardens A/B
Compview

See how SMART products can work together to make a SMART Classroom. Integrate a SMART Board, Airliner and the new Senteo Student Response System into an efficient classroom management tool.

Making the Most of Moodle: Garden C
OpenSourcery

Moodle - you've heard about it, maybe you even use it. Join us in this session to learn about how to get started with Moodle and how to get the most out of it.