ONLY DAYS REMAIN to Pre-register for CUE 2007!!
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Coming to Palm Springs? Bring your e-waste for recycling!
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Who Should Attend?
Educators, technology coordinators, administrators and those who are looking to see how technology can support student achievement. Many sessions and exhibits will be of special value to those involved in Title I, School Improvement Program, Eisenhower Program, Data and Assessment, Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT), English Language Development (ELD), Special Needs, and GATE.
Our Annual Conference in Palm Springs (March 1-3, 2007) is looking to be THE Educational Event of the year! The theme is "Sharing the Summit" and we've got an exciting roster of activities scheduled!
- Over 200 exhibitors!
- Over 300 workshops, breakout sessions and seminars!
- Use Ed Tech K12 Vouchers to reimburse your registration fee (membership and some portion of workshop fees excluded)!
- NEW! "CUE Tips" quick 20 minute sessions!
CUE invites nationally recognized speakers to present at our conferences. This year, we are pleased to present the following featured speakers:
| KEYNOTE - Deneen Frazier Bowen |
 Deneen Frazier Bowen began her work in education by blending her passions for teaching and acting by becoming a high school theater teacher. Since then, she has worked with educators all over the country to harness technology for better learning: both their students' and their own. Beginning in educational technology as a software designer, she quickly recognized a strong need for school-wide visioning, professional development, and curriculum integration. Her book, The Internet for Your Kids, set the stage for her decade of work training teachers to use technology in the curriculum. Her work ranges from focusing on the professional development needs of teachers at one particular school - San Francisco University High School and Ephesus Elementary School in Chapel Hill, NC - to grounding the work of educational technology companies such as BellSouth Foundation, Apple Computer, bigchalk.com and Teachscape.
Deneen is the author of The Internet for Your Kids, founder and director of ActWith, offering uniquely live interactive learning experiences by creating characters that engage audiences in exploring the possibilities within and around them.
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General Session
Friday, March 2
8:00 am - 9:45 am
Primrose B/C/D Palm Springs Convention Center
THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS
Take a uniquely entertaining and enlightening journey into the minds and hearts of today's digital natives. Using recent research, Deneen portrays a riveting cast of characters to reveal the students' struggle to connect what they do in school with what they do in the world. Using their own words, Deneen invites you to witness and connect to both the hope and discontent felt by these restless natives. Discover how to engage and leverage the digital mindset and creative energy of your own students to support the co-creation of a new future for your school.
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Deneen's Follow-up Session on Friday, March 2
THE POWER OF STORY - DIGITAL STYLE
For centuries people have been telling stories to educate the younger generation about their world - historical stories, cultural stories, personal stories. Today, students "digital natives" are educating the older generation "digital immigrants" with their stories of growing up in a digital world. What if you could help students claim their own stories using digital tools? What if you could communicate with students at a deeper level by supporting and listening to their stories?
These stories can help school communities connect in new ways to solve the new challenges of the digital era. In her keynote, she presents three digital stories, two authored by students and one by a teacher. In this session, Deneen guides you through a deeper exploration of the development, creation and uses of digital stories to help students express their ideas, dreams and concerns.
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| SPOTLIGHT SPEAKERS |
SPOTLIGHT -  Peter H. Reynolds
FableVision's Founder/CEO Peter H. Reynolds is a trusted name in education and educational technology circles. From the recent life-time Computer Using Educator (CUE) Award for Technology & Leadership to the 2004 Christopher Award for "advancing the ideals of the human spirit,"? Peter has earned tremendous equity for his messages about authentic, life-long learning. Through his award-winning books, published in over twenty languages (The Dot, Ish, The North Star), Peter has touched the lives of millions around the globe. Founded in 1996 by Peter and Paul Reynolds, FableVision is a turn-key educational media developer and publisher committed to creating positive programming/ products that help all learners navigate their full potential. With offices in Boston, Portland, Oregon and London, the FableVision team enjoys an international reputation for its unique brand of innovative, technology-delivered storytelling and learning. |
ANIMATIONS IN A FLASH
Peter H. Reynolds will share his techniques for creating simple animations for the Web and or/multimedia projects. Using Macromedia Flash and other tools, Peter will create an animation step by step for participants and provide inside tips and inspiration to start making your students' projects come to life through animation.
MAKE YOUR MARK AND SEE WHERE IT TAKES YOU
Peter will share his vision about how to inspire more creative classrooms and schools in this age of test-centric, challenging demands. His message is served up in an entertaining blend of animation; reading of his best-selling books, The North Star, The Dot, Ish and So Few of Me; and heartwarming stories of how creative educators dared him to make a mark in school. Peter will wrap things up with debuting a short new animated film, He Was Me from his Stories That Matter and Stories That Move DVD, which is guaranteed to remind you to keep your own creative spirit alive!
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TOOLS OF THE CREATIVITY TRADE
Peter says: "Learning is never-ending journey. All of us, children and grown up children, are participants on a voyage of self-discovery. Every one of us is unique and has a right to be inspired in ways appropriate to his/her own abilities, talents, and interests." There are a lot of educational goals we all share. These foundation skills provide the building blocks upon which a lifetime of learning can be built. FableVision supports content and activities that strengthen those basic skills, including writing, reading, comprehension, articulation of ideas, research, and problem solving. We also believe that well-educated students and adults are not complete without less "test-able" skills, such as self-determination, guiding principles, appreciation of culture, goal-setting, creativity, community service, and a natural desire to learn and improve. Peter and his team will share FableVision's line of latest products that focus on skill building as well as fostering creativity.
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SPOTLIGHT - Will Richardson
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 Will Richardson is known internationally for his work with educators and students to understand and implement instructional technologies and, more specifically, the tools of the Read/Write Web into their schools, classrooms and communities. A public school educator for 22 years, Will's own Weblog (www.weblogg-ed.com) is a primary resource for the creation and implementation of Weblog technologies on the K-12 level and is a leading voice for school reform in the context of the fundamental changes these new technologies are bringing to all aspects of life. His critically acclaimed, best-selling book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms (March 2006, Corwin Press) is already being used by thousands of teachers to reinvent their practice, and his keynotes, presentations and workshops to audiences around the world communicate a fresh and inspiring vision of what schools can and must become. He is a founding partner of the Connective Learning Group which is dedicated to assisting educators contextualize and implement Read/Write Web tools into their schools and classrooms.
Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation
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 survey the multimedia landscape, show how schools are already taking advantage of it, and offer some tips on how to get started.
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RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge
RSS is a powerful yet fairly untapped tool that educators can use to easily track many sources of information and knowledge. But it's also evolving into an effective way to connect people and ideas in ways that we've been unable to before. Using RSS, we can not only read what others write, we can read what they read, and even read what they create in easy, time-saving ways. This session will take a look at the tools and strategies that can make RSS an integral part of every educator's professional development and practice.
Losing Your Digital Accent
Marc Prensky says that students are Digital Natives while most educators are veritable Digital Immigrants who were not born in to technology and will always keep their accents. We print out our e-mail, prefer plain paper to digital paper, and still use phone books to look up numbers. This divide makes bringing technology to our students more difficult, and our accents many times get in the way of our use of technology. But accents are easier to lose than you might think, especially when all sorts of constructivist technologies are lowering the bar to entry. This workshop is filled with ideas and hands on suggestions to help educators start speaking the natives' language a bit more clearly.
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CALIFORNIA SPOTLIGHT: Leslie Fisher
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 Leslie Fisher's interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and thus began a personal discovery process where technology replaced the flute and brought her nationally celebrated talents to us today.
After graduating from USC with a Business and Marketing degree in 1989, she went to an Apple Computer Inc. subsidiary where she was in charge of the education marketing and training program. Wanting more technical experience, Leslie left this company in 1992 and joined Apple Computer Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer in K-12 education, providing technology solutions to school districts across Southern California.
When the Internet took off in 1994, Leslie was one of the first Apple employees assigned to study Internet growth and implementation. Due to her knowledge of web design, server implementation and Internet Resources, she became the Internet resource in the Educational Western Region.
In 1997, Leslie was roadkill on Apple's road to recovery and was part of their massive lay off. Leslie planned to spend most of her huge severance package golfing and waiting a few months to look for a job. The day after her layoff, her phone began to ring with Apple customers requesting consulting. Before she could say "fore," Fisher Technologies Inc. was created to help educators with their technology implementation and decisions.
Fisher Technologies Inc. is now a nationwide Corporation providing web design, consulting, training and presentation services to school districts and companies.
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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.
MP3
Been wanting to dive into the world of MP3 or currently have some MP3s and you want to learn more about player, software or how to use them in the classroom? This session will provide a bottom to top overview of what is MP3, how to get them, how to play them on a computer, CD or MP3 player and how to make sure you are downloading MP3s legally and safely. The class will conclude with some ideas for MP3s for classroom use.
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THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY
Taking digital Pictures Effectively: Leslie Fisher has been fortunate enough to learn her digital photography skills from some of the biggest and brightest in the industry. This presentation will go over examples and methods to take better digital pictures. Everything from composition, lighting, flash techniques and point and shoot camera settings will be discussed. Time permitting, Leslie will show you some of her favorite Photoshop tips to help you enhance your digital images. |
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January, 2007
