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!
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!
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 andSherry 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.
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.
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.
For the past 7 years or so, our chapter of ICE has organized 2 mini conferences a year. This Saturday, we broke records! Over 130 educators gathered on a rainy Saturday morning to network, learn, share, and have fun! That's almost twice as many attendees than we've ever had at our mini conference. We were thrilled and humbled that so many people found the time in their busy schedules to join us.
Here are a few of the highlights: Erica Roberts provided some good information about how she uses Edmodo as a tool to communicate and collaborate with her students. Here is her electronic portfolio including her presentation. In addition, be sure to check out the ICE newsletter when it arrives. (Here's the link to watch for the electronic version) I've written an article about my experience with Edmodo.
Nancy and Shannon from Recess Technology Educational Consulting (TEC) Inc. did their usual fantastic job of showing teachers practical strategies for using the Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom. Nancy and Shannon are two really innovative educators who have presented at ICE as well as our mini conference. They are spectacular presenters and would be a great addition to any district's professional development plan.
Carol Coutts-Siepka and I showed how she uses the Flip camera in her classroom to enhance instruction. Carol had some great examples and you can see our resources to learn more about using the flip camera here.
Dawn Moore and Heidi Kay showed a packed room the value of Google Docs to communicate and collaborate. There was lots of discussion about real world examples about how the tool facilitates increased productivity and working together with colleagues with curriculum materials. Here's their agenda with their resources and contact information.
Tricia and Helen Lazzaro put together this site to support their strategies for using technology to differentiate in the classroom. They presented lots of ideas for infusing technology into lesson planning and differentiated content, process, and product.
Stephanie Sstieglitz has compiled an excellent set of resources for copyright and fair use. This is an extremely important topic and all educators should spend some time with the resources Stephanie has put together.
Check back soon! I'll put additional links from the other presenters up within the next couple of days. In addition, you get to see some great pictures of the event!
Have you seen the new look for the ICE Website? In an effort to make the web presence for Illinois Computing Educators a rich resource for our membership, the Executive Board has been working hard to design a website that can be used as a portal for information, news, and professional development. Check it out!
While you are there, make sure you register for the 2010 ICE Conference - a Learning Odyssey. As it is every year.... it'll prove to be one of the most valuable learning opportunities you'll participate in all year!
Well.... for ICE COLD anyway! We had the most outstanding crowd of around 80 people. It was a really fun morning. The energy was was amazing. Thinking about all these educators who got up early on Saturday morning to gather together and learn makes me proud to be part of the ICE COLD community. The Mini-Conference was certainly a worthwhile way to spend a Saturday morning. Here's a run down of what we learned....
Dan Rezac reflected on the successes and failures of projects he has done with his students as a middle school technology teacher. If you haven't seen Dan's projects, you have to take a look at how he guldes his students through the project based learning process using Web2.0 tools. Check out Dan's blog for his presentation. Subscribe to Dan's blog. He is a reflective educator who we can learn a great deal from.
Deb Thomson put together a humongous list of Web2.0 tools to use in the classroom. This list should really inspire you. Her session got rave reviews! Thanks Deb for stepping in and putting a great presentation together at the last minute.
Internet Safety is a very hot topic this year. Sister Mary Therese put together this wiki together with some important resources.
Cathy Baker is a real Microsft expert. Her session on Excel was extremely informative. She put together this awesome wiki wikithat is extremely useful for anyone trying to utilize the Office Suite for school.
Even if you use Google every day, you'll find this presentation useful. I presented some crazy stuff Google can do. It was a great session - very interactive. I was adding to it right up until 9:00 a.m, thanks to Jon who had a few more tips for me.
Jon Orech presented Digital Storytelling as only he can do! Jon is one of premier experts on Digital Storytelling and those who had the opportunity to stop in his sessions really learned a lot! Here are his sources. Take some time to explore this wiki - it's full of great information.
Stop back at this blog. We'll be adding some pictures soon.
Mark your calendars now. Our Spring Mini-conference is April 24th.
