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2007 CUE Conference Concurrent Sessions :: Session 6

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Saturday, March 3
9:30-10:30am

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Project Management 101: The Basics
John Arvizu 2265
This session will focus on discussing the basics of successful project management. The project lifecycle will be discussed with specific issues that require careful consideration to insure your project is successful.
Exhibit Hall - Booth 141 Palm Springs Convention Center

Classroom Lessons from Microsoft Office
Gary Hensley 2270- Free Hands-on Lab
Participants will use Word, Excel and PowerPoint in tandem as visual tools that stimulate students. Your students can become peer editors using the Readability, Thesaurus and Track Changing features of Word. Learn how students can use Excel to make time lines, databases, and graphs to tell the story with data. Take advantage of PowerPoint's animation and drawing tools to create lessons, animated cartoons, reports and more.
Mesquite A Palm Springs Convention Center

Mac and Windows Interoperability: Mac OS X Connects
Apple Systems Engineer 2289 - Apple Session
With Apple's transition to the Intel platform now complete, there has never been a better time to consider a Mac. Educators can now combine complete productivity and creativity in one system. Join us for a demonstration of how Mac software gives you both.
Mesquite B Palm Springs Convention Center

Learning to Go: iPod in Education
Kathy Shirley, Robert Craven 2302 - Apple Lab
Experience the many ways the best-selling iPod can boost productivity, further professional development and motivate student learning. There are incredible possibilities to differentiate instruction for every learner, in every subject area, for both teachers and administrators.
Mesquite C Palm Springs Convention Center

Podcasting with GarageBand
Digital Media Academy 2276 - DMA
Join the podcasting revolution! And create your own professional-sounding podcast with the amazing built-in tools in GarageBand.
Mesquite D Palm Springs Convention Center

Look What's NXT--Hands On With LEGO Robotics
James Isom 3049 - Free Hands-on Lab DOUBLE SESSION (runs until 12:00 p.m.)
This hands-on workshop will teach you how to integrate robotics in your class or after school program by building and programming a robot using the new LEGO NXT robotics system.
This is a Commercial Session All, 4-12, College, Administration SC, AD, TL, IN Mesquite E Palm Springs Convention Center

Everyone Has a Story to Tell!
Mark Blanton, Petey Smith 2021- Free Hands-on Lab
Learn how Photostory3 can effortlessly motivate your students to effectively write fluently and purposefully for an authentic audience. Bring photos to life with narration, panning motion, captions, titles, and music.
All, 2-12 LA, TL Mesquite F Palm Springs Convention Center

New Web 2.0 Publishing and The Classroom: Tools and Techniques For Students and The Community
Lauren Elliott 3082
Learn about online journalism, and how teachers are using the new Web 2.0 tools in the classroom--including collaborative web projects and publishing live images, video, and audio from cell phones.
Mesquite G Palm Springs Convention Center

Creating the Collaborative Classroom for the 21st Century
Mike Guerena 2077
Free or low cost technologies like desktop videoconference, wikis and email can transform any classroom into a collaborative 21st Century learning community connected to students around the world. Come to this session to find out how to do it in your classroom or school!
All TL Mesquite H Palm Springs Convention Center

Don't Have Time To Spend Hours Creating PowerPoints? Find FREE Fabulous Ones, Tweak Them, & Listen To The Applause
Lori Musick, Mark Bantle 2140
Are your students getting so tech-savvy that you feel like saying, "Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?" during some of your tech-less lessons? But, you can't find the spare time to make a fun PowerPoint that'll wake up those media-wise brains? These teachers will lead you through an amazingly simple way to have a tricked-out PowerPoint (with videos) in no time at all...AND...it's FREE and LEGAL! On top of that, Lori and Mark will hand out CDs loaded with examples you can take home! We've got two screens to show both platforms, so bring your Mac or PC!
All grades are welcome!
All, K-12, College IN Primrose A Palm Springs Convention Center

Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation
Will Richardson 5008
Multimedia content creation on the web increased at the rate of 3200% last year, and it shows no rate of slowing down. From audiocasts to screencasts to video for the iPod, there are all sorts of ways that students and teachers can take advantage of the easy creation and publishing tools that can bring this rich media to a wide variety of audiences. This session surveys the multimedia landscape, shows how schools are already taking advantage of it, and offers some tips on how to get started.
Primrose B Palm Springs Convention Center
CUE 2007 Featured Speaker

The Latest and Greatest in Digital Media
Arnie Abrams 2250
Dr. Abrams will share the latest advances in the world of digital media: what's new with cameras, software, and other gizmos and trends.
Primrose C Palm Springs Convention Center

21st Century Social Studies
Christy Keeler 2095
Using the lens of 21st Century learning, explore the world of social studies addressing ways to seamlessly integrate technology into your curriculum and instruction.
All, K-12, College SS, TL, IN Primrose D Palm Springs Convention Center

Moodle as a Tool for Professional Development
Barbara Masters, Jutti Marsh 2124
Moodle is an Open Source course development tool similar to some of the commercial products school districts use to create online content for both professional development and online student courses. We will explore how administrators and teachers can use this tool for professional development and briefly touch on developing content for students.
Intermediate, Experienced, K-12, College, Administration AD, TL, IN Smoketree AB Palm Springs Convention Center

PORTS Distance Learning and the K12HSN: We'll Take You There!
Brad Krey, Joe von Herrmann, Shawn Brown, Ty Smith, Todd Finnell 2105
California State Parks PORTS Program and the K12HSN work together to deliver FREE videoconference programs to your school! Whether you'd like your students to interact with a park ranger at the tidepools in Laguna Beach, or you want a virtual tour of the State Capitol, we'll take you there!
All, K-12, Administration SC, AD, TL, IN, IT Smoketree C Palm Springs Convention Center

Practice Makes Perfect
Scott Skidmore, Scott Johnson 2167
Come see the success of a futuristic classroom that uses the tools of today. This presentation will showcase a fantastic combination of cost effective hardware, Open Source software, and slick tools. Real teachers from the field will share these tools and best practices.
All, 4-12 LA, TL, IN Smoketree DE Palm Springs Convention Center

Leave No Student Behind
Barry Floyd, Patricia Scott, Eric Jarvis 2069
This presentation illustrates the use of packages such as Camtasia to develop and use video tutorials--asynchronous learning experiences--to enhance student learning.
Intermediate, 9-12, College SC, IN Smoketree F Palm Springs Convention Center

Squish! Gumby Goes to School: Make Curriculum Come Alive with Clay Animation
Carolyn Daly 3040
Come and learn how to use the clay animation process to engage students in curriculum objectives and facilitate retention of important classroom concepts.
This is a Commercial Session All, K-12 LA, TL Vendor Showcase, Exhibit Hall Palm Springs Convention Center

Bring Math to Life: Use Interactive Technologies to Improve Learning
Lee Grafton 2269 DOUBLE SESSION (part 2) See page XXXX for description.
Room A Palm Springs USD

No Budget? CLRN Offers Free, High Quality Web Reference and Information Sources
Peter Milbury 2133 - CLRN
Locate free, selected, high quality web information sources using the California Learning Resource Network Web Information Links collection. Provide your students with selected reference and information resources correlated to standards.
All, 4-12 SS, TL Andreas Wyndham Hotel

The MY HERO Project: Meeting Standards + Character Education
Sara Armstrong 2010
MY HERO provides a global space for students to identify and honor those who inspire them, from history/social studies work to contemporary experience. Art, video, and text tell these stories.
All, 4-12 SS, TL Catalina Wyndham Hotel

Equation Editor: Microsoft Word's Math Power Tool - CANCELLED
Bobby Thatcher, Dona Mayfield 2188
The Equation Editor feature makes it is possible to create all manner of math formulas, symbols, and problem templates. Easily make professional looking worksheets of fractions, long division, square roots, etc.
All, 4-12, College MA, IN Chino Wyndham Hotel

Mini Moodle Mash-Ups!
John Patten 2149
Lower costs, continued increases in power, and the ease of modern server software are providing educators with the ability to deploy their own learning management servers.
Intermediate, Experienced, K-12, College, Administration SC, AD, TL, IN, IT Madera Wyndham Hotel

Fifth Algebra Teacher Delivers Using Technology: A Case Study
Sam Sakai-Miller 2161-BYOL
The story behind the unexpected 89-point improvement over the previous year's scores by eighth graders who went through five algebra teachers in one year at their inner city school.
All, 6-12 MA, TL Mojave Learning Center Wyndham Hotel

The iPod as MegaVCR: Media Libraries in Your Pocket
Hall Davidson 2227
Move megadoses of media into the video iPod. Free and fee (unitedstreaming) media downloads work. Display PowerPoints (Windows, too!). Also podcasts, Flash, PhotoStories, and curriculum as "contact information!" A media library in your pocket. Televisions gain new life for media display. Projectors connect, too! The basics of how and wow!
Pasadena Wyndham Hotel

New Curriculum Resources for the Arts - SFMOMA Presents ArtThink
Esther Kligman-Frey, Debra White 2235
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will share features of ArtThink, the new student and teacher centered website featuring hands-on activities connected to modern and contemporary artists in the museum's online programs, Making Sense of Modern Art and Voices and Images of California Art. Interactive teacher tools and theme-based activities for the integration of visual arts, language arts and history-social science will be highlighted.
All, 6-12, College, Administration VPA, TL, IN Pueblo Wyndham Hotel

The District's Website: How Effective Content Management Systems Change the Communication Paradigm
Carol Rickert, Darryl LaGace 2225
The district's website is its most effective communication tool, yet many educators struggle to move the district's web presence from on-line brochure to a true communication portal. A visionary plan and a comprehensive content management system can bring this goal to fruition.
All, Administration AD, IN, IT San Jacinto Wyndham Hotel

Do You Screencast?
Dave Kootman 2100
This simple process is great for creating tutorials and demonstrations. A screencast is a movie of what a user sees on their monitor, often containing voice narration. Free screencast software is explained.
Intermediate, Experienced IN Santa Rosa Wyndham Hotel

Poetry in Motion
Trish d'Entremont, Lizz Goldman, Margit Boyesen 2051
Poetry and movie-making are natural affiliates. Presenters (who are classroom teachers) will share specific techniques for student instruction in use of poetry interpretation as the focus of a movie project. Examples from students in grades 4 and 6 will be shared.
All, 4-8 AD Sierra Wyndham Hotel

Tear Down The Walls--Leave The Traditional Classroom Behind
Jenith Mishne, Lori Everroad 2134
Start building a collection of Internet resources to bring the world into your classroom. Discover a variety of websites--some enhance student learning and others serve as powerful curriculum tools.
New, Intermediate, K-6 LA, IN Ventura Wyndham Hotel

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