Rhonda+Rau

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 * Monday **


 * Big Idea:** Integrating technology makes a difference in education/impacts learning but does not replace good teaching practices
 * Session Title: Can technology save at risk students? (Robert Mazano)
 * Robert Marzno did a test study to find out the impact of using ineractive boards- discovered 16 point increse and found maximum ue of time ue should only be 80% or results decline.Also teachers and students need to be very proficient in using the boards for the greatest impact.
 * good teaching practice- highest results of understanding come from students who have to debate and back up thier findings vs. just summarizing their readings


 * Tuesday **


 * Big Idea: Great ideas for integrating technology.**
 * Session Title: Easy Technology Integration
 * only try three new ideas a year-then evaluate and reflect- if you do more probably will be stretching self to thin and won't be effective
 * [|www.Blogger.com] [|www.teachersfirst.com]


 * Wednesday **

1. Lesson summaries 2. notes collaboration – using Google docs; especially great for absent students 3. Concept introduction and exploratory projects www.classtools.net 4. Learn shares 5. Individual assessments 6. Rewards 7. Classroom organization
 * Big Idea: How to use a classroom Wiki**
 * Session Title: Wikispaces [|www.wikispaces.com]
 * [|www.Educationalwikis.wikispaces.com]
 * Her Seven Classroom Wiki Uses


 * Keynote and other Special Sessions **


 * Big Idea:** Don't let the "neysayers" get me down.
 * Session Title: Mario Armstong kicked off the ISTE conference.
 * Neysayers come in all forms- "dollar and centaur" (lack of funding), Medi-Ogre (settling for status quo), "locked-net monster" (no access)


 * Implications for your Classroom ** I will be utlizing several of the websites I learned about at ISTE, creating a class blog and Wiki, and will finally get to use a document camera for instruction. (Hopefully they will arrive in August!) I would like to use the blog for literature circle groups- posting focus questions for the groups to answer and react to each other's answers. I was introduced to several website that my students can work on in stations to reinforce what they are learning during direct instruction. Lastly, if my school will buy student reponse systems, I would love to intergrate these as well. I also will be looking more into interactive porfolios- but don't think I will implement them this year- depends what I discover and their ease of use.