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Another Successful Mini-Conference!

Our spring mini-conference was a great success. Thanks to all of those who attended. ICE COLD’s Board thanks you for your glowing evaluations of the event. Below are just some of the wonderful responses we received.

• Loved all the sessions!
• Worthwhile day.
• Thank you for doing this
• Always valuable and informative
• Great practical ideas I can use
• Wonderful morning. Thank You!
• Time well spent
• New knowledge to take back to my classroom
• Thanks for the great conference and great hospitality.

Our second thank you goes out to our presenters. We thank them for sharing their valuable time and knowledge. Those who presented included: Cindy Adamson (Smart Notebook 11), Charlene Chausis (Lessons in ePUBlishing), Linda Houle (Web 2.0 the No Registration Way), Kelly Jonelis (Smart Board Math Tools), Roxanne Korpal (Social Media for Educators), Joe Melone (Internet Safety), Mariah Matariyeh (Glogster), and Stephanie Stieglitz with Michele Logan (Tech Clubs/Green Screen Moviemaking).

Finally a big thank you goes to our sponsors: ICE, Best Buy, Aver Media, CDWG, Comcast, Williams Group, Sister Mary Therese Freyman, Dan Merryman from Camcor, and Allison Knapp from New Bay Media (Tech Forum). We want to also recognize Vicky Peterson and Jeremy Meyers from the Downers Grove Best Buy on Butterfield Road who were available all morning to answer questions and give tech support when needed. We appreciated their assistance.

So with the spring mini-conference behind us we’ve planned ahead and set the date for our 2012-2013 mini-conferences. Mark your calendars now for October 13, 2012 and April 13, 2013. If you are interested in becoming more involved in chapter activities, the Board also set our meeting dates for 2012-2013 and invite you to join us. Check our chapter web site for meeting dates and time.

Now I’m sure for most of you the last thing you want to consider as summer approaches is a new school year. Yet as the school year winds down think about the opportunity summer offers to advance your technology skills, develop your PLN, or just have fun playing with tech. It’s a great time to heighten your comfort level with technology in preparation for a new school year. Reach out to those who might help you, explore the Internet with all its marvelous resources, and if a member of ICE take advantage of a fantastic learning tool – Atomic Learning. We hope everyone has a fun, relaxing and wonderful vacation with some great ‘techie’ times thrown in.

 

May 5th Mini-Conference Registration is Now Open

May is almost here and our mini-conference is less than two weeks away. Here’s an overview of the event.

ICE COLD Mini-Conference
Saturday, May 5, 2012
8:00 AM -12:00 noon
Lisle Junior High School
5207 Center Ave.
Lisle, IL 60532

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Cost $5.00
CPDUs available
Click here to pre-register:  Online Registration Form
Onsite registration will also be available May 5th.
You do not have to be a member of ICE COLD to attend. The conference is open to all educators so please share our upcoming event with your colleagues.

PROGRAM
Registration and Continental Breakfast - 8:00-8:30 AM
Sessions - 8:30-11:50AM
General ICE COLD Meeting and Raffle - 11:50AM-12:10PM

The mini-conference is a great opportunity to learn something new to add to year end activities or to pick up new skills or ideas to develop over summer vacation. Our presenters and their topics are:

• Cindy Adamson –SMART Notebook 11 (What’s new in the latest version for PC users?)
• Charlene Chausis – Lessons in ePUBlishing from Creation to Consumption (Did you know anyone can be an ePublisher?)
• Linda Houle – Web 2.0 – the No Registration Way (What online tools require no usernames, passwords, or email addresses?)
• Kelly Jonelis – Smart Board Math Tools and Other Interactive Strategies (What features and techniques enhance SMART’s math tools?)
• Roxanne Korpal – Social Media for Educators, Building Your PLN on Twitter (How can Twitter be useful and informative when you need it?)
• Joe Melone – Internet Safety: a Presentation for Educators (How do parents and teachers empower students to stay safe online?)
• Mariah Matariyeh – Glogster: How to Publish Student Writing with Glogster (How can this tool make it easy and fun to publish student works?)
• Stephanie Stieglitz & Michele Logan – Tech Clubs (What software, websites and projects make tech club more fun?)
• Stephanie Stieglitz & Michele Logan – Green Screen Moviemaking (What’s required to make a movie using chroma keying for MAC users?)

We will close out our mini-conference with a General Meeting followed by our always exciting raffle. This year’s raffle includes a variety of prizes and gift cards with the raffle prize of the day being a $200 Apple gift card! Please be sure to join us for a fun and educational morning - see you there.

March 2012

ICE-COLD Board Meeting March 11, 2012

ICE-COLD’s Board is setting up a conference committee for this spring’s event. We are looking for volunteers and invite anyone interested in being part of this activity to come join us at our March 11th Board Meeting at Lisle Junior High at 1:00PM. (Please note time correction from last post.) Hope to see you there.

ICE-COLD Mini Conference May 5, 2012

The date is set. Mark your calendars! ICE-COLD’s spring mini conference is scheduled for Saturday May 5th. We are quite excited about possible presentation topics under consideration: iPads, Smartboards, Google, epubs, special needs technology, Animato, Office tricks, and Web 2.0. When all is decided a list of presentations will be posted here. Stay tuned.

 

ICE-COLD Spring Mini-Conference

The date is set. Mark your calendars! ICE-COLD’s spring mini conference is scheduled for Saturday May 5th. We are quite excited about possible presentation topics under consideration: iPads, Smartboards, Google, epubs, special needs technology, Animato, Office tricks, and Web 2.0. When all is decided a list of presentations will be posted here. Stay tuned.

 ICE-COLD’s Board is setting up a conference committee for this spring’s event. We are looking for volunteers and invite anyone interested in being part of this activity to come join us at our March 11th Board Meeting at Lisle Junior High at 1:30PM. Hope to see you there.

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Mini-Conference Oct. 15th

Mini-Conference Oct. 15th

ICE COLD Fall Mini-Conference
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Lisle Junior High School
5207 Center Ave
Lisle, IL 60532
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 15, 2011, is our annual Fall Mini-Conference. We're looking forward to seeing you all there! As always, we have a great group of presenters and topics.

Presentation topics include: Creating with an iPad, Collaborative Writing and E-Pub Books, Using Interactive Whiteboards to Enhance Instruction (all grade levels), Using Web 2.0 Tools, Digital Storytelling, Global Projects and One Computer Classroom Activities. 

Don't forget that we also give away great prizes, including an iPod Touch and a varieyt of gift cards!

CPDUs will be available.

Click here for the registration form: To Register: Online Registration Form

Bring your friends and coworkers. We look forward to seeing you!

Save the Date - Oct. 15, 2011

The next fall mini-conference is October 15, 2011.  Save the date because there will be more exciting presenters with many new lesson ideas to incorporate technology in your classrooms immediately. There will also be great door prizes including an iPod Touch!

See you there!!

Location: Lisle Junior High School

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

 

 

 

See you on April 16th!

ICE COLD Spring Mini-Conference
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Lisle Junior High School
5207 Center Ave
Lisle, IL 60532
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Join us for some fun and learn some new things to use in the classroom as the year winds down.

• Andrea Keith: Communicating and Collaborating: A Day in the Life of a Connected Student
• Nadine Norris: Using Web2.0 Tools for Professional Learning
• Katie Reel: Creating a 21st Century Classroom
• Mary Christine Dion: Transform your practice to engage students via exciting (free!)  web-based applications
• Sheila Ruh and Sherry Sejnost: Interactive Whiteboard Lessons Made Easy
• Kim Zimmer and Mary Christine Dion: What Can Google Do For You?
• Sara Meyer: Fun, Free & Fast Digital Projects
• Dr. Sylvia Asplund: Year-long Technology Activities for Lower Grades
• Mary Therese Freymann: Starrmatica
• Noor Khan: YouTube to Creating Your Own Videos
• Matt Granger: Using Technology with ELLs
• Lynda Eberhart and Stephanie Stieglitz: Using iPod Touches and iPads in the classroom

Great raffle prizes, like a Mobi, a subscription to Starmatica and Graphtech training will be awarded to a couple of lucky teachers. We look forward to seeing you there.

Pass this flyer along to your staff!

Download ICECOLDMiniflyer
Register here!

See you on Saturday!

Saturday, October 23 is our annual Fall Mini-Conference. We're looking forward to seeing you all there! As always, we have a great bunch of presenters. Hot topics include using interactive whiteboards to enhance instruction, creating mulmedia projects with Audacity and movie editing software, and amazing ideas for technology integration across all grade levels.

Don't forget that we give a way great prizes and serve delicious pizza!

ICE COLD Fall Mini-Conference
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Lisle Junior High School
5207 Center Ave
Lisle, IL 60532
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Great raffle prizes including Flip video cameras, an iPod Touch, and gift cards will be awarded.

CPDUs will be available.

Click here for the registration form: To Register: http://bit.ly/977Yrx

Bring your friends and coworkers. We look forward to seeing you!

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Ready for an Amazing Week!

For those of you that are lucky enough to be able to go to Denver to attend to the ISTE 2010 Conference - Exploring Excellence, you know what a rich experience it will be. It's awesome to be in an environment with so many enthusiastic, like-minded educators. The energy at the Denver Convention Center can't be described!

Don't despair if you aren't in Denver this year. (Start planning on how you can make it to Philadelphia next year.) There are so many ways to attend the conference virtually, there's no excuse for not taking advantage! Here are a few tips to help you out. It's going to take some time and commitment, so settle in and make a plan.

Go through the conference planner and find sessions that you would have attended if you were here. Most session descriptions have links to the session resources, presentations, and contact info for the presenters. Download them all and put them in a folder. Spend some time learning from those resources. If you have any questions, make sure you email the presenter. They'll be happy to help!

The ISTE Connects website will help you find video taped sessions, live blogging, twitter feeds, and other news and events about the conference. 

Get the perspective of the attendees as they blog about the various sessions. Not only will you get links to presenter resources, but you'll get the perspective of some really smart educators as they learn.

The ISTE Ning Network will also help you connect with others, and find lots of documentation from the conference.