ORVSD is a free resource for online teaching and learning designed to promote the use of technology in Oregon classrooms. The resources at Oregon Virtual aid teachers and administrators in modifying curriculum and giving students ample opportunity to meet benchmarks and excel at essential skills. Educators in Oregon are using these tools to help develop staff and create online professional learning communities as well.

We offer Oregon school employees the opportunity to find and share online resources, learn and use cutting edge online tools, and discuss how to put them to use in the classroom. The resources, training and support at ORVSD are free to public educators in Oregon. Sound too good to be true? Yah, baby...but it is free.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, eLearning, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

This 90-minute session will provide participants with an overview of using Learning Walks to effectively assess professional development efforts and the effective integration of technology into teaching and learning. Todd and his technology coach will share how Learning Walks are being used in South Lane School District and provide participants with an opportunity to experience the process first hand.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post ? Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Tools, Data Driven

What is School 2.0? What are the pedagogical ideas that form it? Examine ideas of constructivist pedagogy and the use of 21st Century tools to create schools that are engaging, caring, and relevant places of learning for everyone involved. The history of the formation of the Science Leadership Academy will form the backdrop for this conversation.

Audience: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

Science and social studies classrooms provide unique opportunities to integrate technology and engage all levels of learners. This fast-paced session will give you a glimpse at a variety of tools that we have used with our middle-school students. Walk away with several ideas and activities to use with Google Earth, clickers, moodle, SMART boards, United Streaming, photobooth, and more.

Audience:Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Administrators

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

"What are you doing?" It seems like a pretty useless thing to want to know about your friends, let alone strangers. While Twitter continues to grow in popularity and use in mainstream media and culture, what exactly is it and why would anyone want to know what you're doing? This session will explore this phenomenon from both a broad overview as well as specific stories that demonstrate its value for personal and educational purposes. You might still think it's useless, but at least you'll know why.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia

Rushton Hurley was part of the inaugural group of teachers in the Bay Area of Northern California who participated in the first Google Teacher Academy. Since then, he and other Google Certified Teachers have shared ideas, initiated projects, and promoted the use of free tools to help more effectively engage students in their learning.

The presentation will include:

- How students and teachers can use Docs and Forms as collaborative tools for planning projects
- How geographic tools can be used across the curriculum
- How Sketch Up and Fresh Brain can promote active learning
- How Advanced Search can be used to find resources
- How YouTube and Zamzar can channel good content into your classroom
- How Audacity and Irfan View can allow fine-tuning media for powerful projects
- How VoiceThread and Photo Story can strengthen students' confidence
- And more! Really.

In an era of budgets thinner than certain food-averse celebrities, it is more important than ever that we be aware of the multitude of freely available resources. The presenter will bring links and information to all attendees, including a special set of resources as a thank-you for having the courage enter the room.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

Today's kids have grown up digital. They have had access to a world of new possibilities - some good, some not so good. I believe it is the responsibility of parents, teachers, and other adult mentors to join kids on the digital playgrounds and to teach them to be happy and healthy cyber-citizens.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia

A detailed look at the design of our learning environments. What have we learned from the virtual that we might build in the physical world of education? What is the world doing with bricks, mortar and learning.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

Strategies for using Podcasts range from allowing students to record their own voices as they practice their oral reading fluency to providing authentic learning experiences through the production of student researched, written, and produced radio programs. GarageBand users Donna Ellickson (Douglas Gardens) and Meg Dean (Thurston MS) will be hosting this session.

Audience:Primary Teacher (K-8), Administrators, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

In this session, you will explore 21st Century Learning and how it relates to the new National Educational Technology Plan. Upon the completion of this session each participant through advocacy and leadership will be able to answer: What, where, when and how they should practice this new NETS plan back in their District.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Data Driven

We transformed our middle school's alternative education program from a packet-based, curriculum-aligned punishment into a gaming-based, curriculum-aligned treat. We play cool games and build with programming languages like Scratch and Alice and no matter what . . . we always win!!

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

ORVSD is a free resource for online teaching and learning designed to promote the use of technology in Oregon classrooms. The resources at Oregon Virtual aid teachers and administrators in modifying curriculum and giving students ample opportunity to meet benchmarks and excel at essential skills. Educators in Oregon are using these tools to help develop staff and create online professional learning communities as well.

We offer Oregon school employees the opportunity to find and share online resources, learn and use cutting edge online tools, and discuss how to put them to use in the classroom. The resources, training and support at ORVSD are free to public educators in Oregon. Sound too good to be true? Yah, baby...but it is free.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, eLearning, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

We may never know what the magnitude of our impact will be or how the passion we transmit may ripple out into the world. Over the years, I've heard many stories about how a few words or a simple act have changed a students life forever. We may not walk into our classrooms everyday thinking: "I'm going to change the world today!"? Yet, that is exactly what we do. We DO make a difference. We DO change lives. The question we need to consider is this: What KIND of difference do we intend to make? This session will answer -- or at least bring on more provocative questions -- on the journey for Passion Driven Instruction.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy,Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia

What if school wasn?t just preparation for real life? What if we treated school as real life? Can we harness the power of the tools at our disposal to help kids to research, collaborate, create, present and network in real and powerful ways. How do we create real-world, practical applications of the skills and content of our classes so that students can create real work that matters? How do we move beyond the ?blog project? into harnessing tools so that students learn, create and lead in new and powerful ways?

Audience: Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

Use Inspiration & Kidspiration software to help students think critically about content by categorizing, comparing and contrasting and showing connections graphically. Learn how to incorporate images, photos, video segments, sounds, and web links into one diagram based upon your curriculum. Diagrams can be used for research, collaborative investigations, to communicate individual insights and even to present learning.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Tools, Data Driven

RSS or Really Simple Syndication might be the single most important technology that enables us to handle the vast amounts of information available to us. Simply put, RSS allows us to control what information we receive. This session will attempt to take the "geekiness" out of RSS and provide easy entry points to begin creating your own personal internet.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

A session geared toward exploring the uses of the iPhone and iPod touch for the school administrator. Learn, collaborate, explore, have fun.

Audience: Administrators, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Tools, Multimedia

Join me for an exploration of social media that has the power to connect you to a global, education thinktank!

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

Virtual manipulatives are relatively new tools that are available to teachers and students and are valuable tools for helping students acquire higher-order concepts. Math instruction can be enhanced through the use of virtual manipulatives by:
1)providing students with a visual representation of an abstract concept
2)providing students with the opportunity to explore math concepts through manipulation
3)providing students with immediate feedback.Participants will have the opportunity to explore a variety of online manipulatives.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Administrators, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven

This presentation will outline the process of constructivist learning in Teen Second Life & demonstrate projects, best practices & student/teacher responses.

Audience: Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Multimedia, Data Driven

This participation-rich session focuses on the most classroom-friendly of the Google Tools, including Docs, Forms, Sites, and Notebook. You'll be delighted with all the new ideas and classroom applications of the things you'll see and do!

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Instructional Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia

A detailed look at the design of our learning environments. What have we learned from the virtual that we might build in the physical world of education? What is the world doing with bricks, mortar and learning.

Audience: Primary Teacher (K-8), Secondary Teacher (9-12), Post - Secondary, Administrators, Media Specialists, Instructional Tech, Infrastructure Tech

Session Categories: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Humor, Technology Integration, eLearning, Virtual Learning, Emerging Tech./ Web 2.0, Wikis, Blogs, Tools, Multimedia, Data Driven