Lisa+Lynch

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 * Monday **

> Blending Learning for the 21st Century Classroom: This session was about conferencing with a specific author. Classes are choosen to participate in a question/answer format. We were shown a sample of how the process worked and the students were very much engaged in researching the author and his/her works, comparing characters, etc, and coming up with good questions, to ask the author. > > Creativity 2.0: The Quest for Meaning, Beauty and Excellence: A session by Gary Stager from Pepperdine University. > > Lifelong Kindergarten : Presented by Michel Resnick. He is the founder of Scratch. This site enables students to share online using computational thinking. []
 * Big Idea:** Engaging students with free online tools

> Mimio - Spotlight on the interacive whiteboar content presented Karen Mahon. This was geared more toward principals and less toward the classroom.


 * Tuesday **
 * Big Idea:** Incorporating Technology - take the time to do it!
 * Learning Comic Kidz - Student showcase which was presented by 4th & 5th graders from Mexico. They were learning English and this was a great way for them to practice their skills. []
 * Poster - 5 minutes, 15 seconds per slide, 20 slides...by Susan Socha. Demonstration on how to engage students in math using the mimio and vodcasting. It was designed to caure limited attention spans.
 * Best Resources for Elementary Integration and Transformation by Boni Hamilton. [|www.easyintergation.wikispaces.co]
 * Visiting Vendors: Spent a long time looking for ways to improve communication with parents. Haiku and Schoology were two of the sites that offered easy ways to achieve this.

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 * Wednesday **
 * Big Idea:**
 * Web 2.0 in a K-5 Real World Stories by Mark Smith, Jennifer Metcalfe, and Jennifer Orr. This team of teachers from Colorado showed how their school has incorporated wikispaces, blackboard, open source, blogs, voice thread, twitter, etc. into their school. Mr. Smith is the technology teacher and works closely with the staff at their comfort level to incorporate new technology into the classroom. []
 * Flip Video in the Classroom: Presented by Christy DeMayer, Amber Miskimon, and Erin Mayer. This session was an example of how they used the Flip camera, Windows Movie Maker and Audacity within a research project. The trio walked us step by step through the process with audience participation to show how easy the process can be.
 * 60 Open Source programs in 60 Minutes: Presented by Benoit St. Andre. This was a fast moving session as we went to 60 interactive sites that we could use in our classroom immediately. There was so much information that I need to go back and review the sites that are pertinent to my classroom.
 * 60 Open Source programs in 60 Minutes: Presented by Benoit St. Andre. This was a fast moving session as we went to 60 interactive sites that we could use in our classroom immediately. There was so much information that I need to go back and review the sites that are pertinent to my classroom.


 * Implications for your Classroom **