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We (myself and AJ Chung) actually went early morning and picked up the registration packets and try to go through the final program and exhibit guide. I had the sessions printed out. We tried to look through Monday's program and selected the sessions we would like to attend. We then attended Keynote speaker Mario Armstrong / theme on Excellence from 1-3pm.
 * Sunday:

Monday ** I had selected the sessions that I was interested in. I went to register for those sessions and to get a ticket to attend. To my surprise I needed to pay $ 109 per session. Other sessions, we figured out by Tuesday that you have to be that place at least one solid hour before the first session ended. We attended most of the poster sessions and may be one third of exhibits.


 * Big Idea:**from Poster sessions: There were so many of the poster sessions including elementary based on 21st century learning skills


 * HP grant projects from nation wide school. Many of these projects were based on environment and school wide collaboration with one to one computer access. I wish DPS could also participate in HP grant writing ( Thousands of $). You may actually have the grant writer. We tried at George Washington high school but it did not go through(???).
 * Global Collaborative projects : linking the World to your classroom
 * The technology -science connection: students implement technology in lab investigations through the use of digital microscope,, cameras, internet graphing tools, iMovie, iPhote and iBook. I could use DPS tech person help in learning these techniques
 * Tools for critical thinking and More : Find on line from the Federal Trade Commission
 * Creating Podcasts for the Mathematics classroom
 * We wanted to attend The Power( and Ease!) of digital Video for any class: We could not get in.
 * I felt there were many sessions but too - many educators and it was hard to get in.
 * [|www.hp.com/hpinfo/grants]
 * [|www.guide2digitallearning.com/]
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 * Tuesday **

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 * Big Idea:** Attended numerous exhibits and posters and showcases
 * vernier: learned about new Gas Chromatograph and digital microscope
 * Google : Highly interested in Google Apps. I would appreciate if we could get more help on this in using this Google APPS in classroom for collaboration among the students online
 * Design with forever in Mind: Capturing Learning in the classroom /could not get in
 * Science on the web: Where it is and How to find it . Explore the best websites.
 * Best 10 week End of the year Project EVER
 * NASA, NOVA: NASA eClips video segments can engage our students.
 * Blogs: Creative Content Analysis and Refection for 21st century Classroom.
 * Challenging the Gifted students using Google Apps and Web 2.0 : Wished I could attend this. I felt a lot of frustration as we could not attend the sessions we really wanted to attend. Either it was full or needed extra $.
 * We wish DPS could find a professional grant writer to get the HP grants to have one to one tablets and whiteboards/SMARTBoards in every class to have 21st century skills.
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 * Wednesday **

[|zunal.com]
 * Big Idea:** Student show cases and Posters, web2.0
 * Using Zunal to create Classroom Websites for promoting Parental Involvement
 * iDea:Teach core content through the filmmaking process
 * Google:25 things you did not know it could do
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Final / overall reflections on how you plan to integrate what you learned at ISTE into your classroom ) I plan to integrate wiki or Google Apps for collaboration among students, classes and if possible with other school. I am also interested in videotaping my classes especially labs and put it on the wiki. But I do need some help and guidance and support. I really appreciate Dr Candy Stocker for supporting these kinds of activities in the past TIE conferences. I wanted to contact her before, during or after the ISTE conference to get some ideas and feel more comfortable in conducting the project. Thanks for your support.
 * Implications for your Classroom ** (