TECHNOLOGY CENTER SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS

Date and Time: November 5 - 8, 2003

Place: McCormick Place,

EXHIBIT FLOOR BOOTHS # 248-252, Chicago, Illinois

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Day and Times	Hands-on Demonstrations	Presentations
Wed. Nov.5 12noon-1pm	Opening! Hand out Program.	Opening! Hand out Program.
Wed. Nov.5 1pm -2pm	Creating an iPhoto Book: Under a Microscope Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher
Wed. Nov.5 2 - 3pm	If I Were President: Integrating iPhoto in Social Studies Elaine Wrenn, Technology Coordinator
Wed. Nov.5 3- 4pm	Create Photo Animated Storybooks, Stickers, puppet shows and More Using Photo Kit Junior from Apte. : Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher	iPhoto & iMovie for Assessment & Portfolios Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher
Wed. Nov.5 4- 5pm	Create Talking Books with Clicker’s writing and multimedia tool from Crick Software Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher	Visit the Apple Learning Interchange to See How Teachers are Using iLife to Inspire Learning Elaine Wrenn, Technology Coordinator
Thurs. Nov.6 10 – 11am	Creating an iPhoto Book: Under a Microscope Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher
Thurs. Nov.6 11 – 12noon	If I Were President: Integrating iPhoto in Social Studies Elaine Wrenn, Technology Coordinator	Using short iMovie video clips to enhance the documentation and interpretation of children's work and play George Forman, President, Videatives, Inc.
Thurs. Nov.6 12 – 1pm	Try out new software in this area! Center for Best Practices, Western Illinois Univ.	iPhoto & iMovie for Assessment & Portfolios Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher
Thurs. Nov.6 1 – 2pm	Create Photo Animated Storybooks, Stickers, puppet shows and More Using Photo Kit Junior from Apte. : Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher	Visit the Apple Learning Interchange to See How Teachers are Using iLife to Inspire Learning Elaine Wrenn, Technology Coordinator
Thurs. Nov.6 2 – 3pm	Become a Music Composer With Making Music from Viva Media LLC Presenter: TBD	Real Parents, Real Kids, Real Involvement: Virtual Pre-K! Chicago Public Schools
Thurs. Nov.6 3- 4pm	Virtual Pre-K: Bilingual resources that bring parents, children and teachers together in the learning process Chicago Public Schools	Brown bear, Brown Bear comes to life under the children's direction! Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator
Thurs. Nov.6 4 – 5pm	Create Talking Books with Clicker’s writing and multimedia tool from Crick Software Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher
Thurs. Nov.6 5 – 6pm	Documenting a Field Trip: Using iMovie to Enhance Learning Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator
Fri. Nov.7 9 – 10am	Early Childhood Technology Integrated Instructional System Linda Robinson & Carol Schneider, Center for Best Practices, Western Illinois Univ.	iPhoto & iMovie for Assessment & Portfolios Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher
Fri. Nov.7 10 – 11am	Documenting a Field Trip: Using iMovie to Enhance Learning Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator	Real Parents, Real Kids, Real Involvement: Virtual Pre-K! Chicago Public Schools
Fri. Nov.7 11 – 12noon	Tour Virtual Pre-K: Bilingual resources that bring parents, children and teachers together in the learning process Chicago Public Schools	Using short iMovie video clips to enhance the documentation and interpretation of children's work and play George Forman, President, Videatives, Inc.
Fri. Nov.7 12 – 1pm	Create Talking Books with Clicker’s writing and multimedia tool from Crick Software Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher
Fri. Nov.7 1 – 2pm	Creating an iPhoto Book: Under a Microscope Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher	Brown bear, Brown Bear comes to life under the children's direction! Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator
Fri. Nov.7 2:00 – 2:30pm	Try out new software in this area!
Fri. Nov.7 2:30 – 4:30pm	TechAndYoung Children Interest Forum Annual Meeting: All welcome ; )	TechAndYoung Children Interest Forum Annual Meeting: All welcome ; )
Fri. Nov.7 4:30 – 5pm	Try out new software in this area! ! Center for Best Practices, Western Illinois Univ.
Sat. Nov.8 9 – 10am	Create Talking Books with Clicker’s writing and multimedia tool from Crick Software Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher	Brown bear, Brown Bear comes to life under the children's direction! Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator
Sat. Nov.8 10 – 11am	Creating an iPhoto Book: Under a Microscope Presenter: Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher
Sat. Nov.8 11 – 12noon	Documenting a Field Trip: Using iMovie to Enhance Learning Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator
Sat. Nov.8 12 – 1pm	Try out new software in this area! ! Center for Best Practices, Western Illinois Univ.
Sat. Nov.8 1 – 2pm	Create Photo Animated Storybooks, Stickers, puppet shows and More Using Photo Kit Junior from Apte. : Gayle Berthiaume, First Grade Teacher
Sat. Nov.8 2 – 3pm	Try out new software in this area!	iPhoto & iMovie for Assessment & Portfolios Presenter: Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher

Descritpion of Spotlight Sessions

Presentation: Brown bear, Brown Bear comes to life under the children's direction!
Presenter: Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator

Find out how young children can easily create books and videos using digital tools that bring learning to life. From language arts to science, students love to create and tell their story.. Brown bear, brown bear comes to life under the children's direction! Students share with their families and the videos and books they produce are used again and again! Come and join us. Your classroom won't ever be the same!
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Presentation: iPhoto & iMovie for Assessment & Portfolios
Presenter: Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher

See examples of how iPhoto and iMovie can be used for assessment and portfolios. Dara will share examples of how she has used these applications to create teacher and student portfolios, to assess student reading skills, and to share information with parents. Students become actively involved when they are part of the process.
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Presentation: Using short iMovie video clips to enhance the documentation and interpretation of children's work and play
Presenter: George Forman, President, Videatives, Inc.

Explore a rather unique method of combining brief (20 - 50 seconds) video clips hyperlinked to words in a page of text to guide teachers of young children in their professional development. The text explains the significance of a child observation. instead of a "voice over" as in an educational video tape with a narrative, this is a "video under" - a "videative." The text both describes and explains the play episode and the pop up video clip gives the text context, nuance, and authenticity.
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Hands-On Sessions:

Creating an iPhoto Book: Under a Microscope
Presenter: First Grade Teacher

In this workshop, you will learn how to use the ProScope, a USB digital microscope to examine a variety of different objects and develop a digital photo album using iPhoto. View the collection of images as a presentation or save it as a PDF. Imagine how your students can use these 21st century tools in projects for any curriculum area.
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If I Were President: Integrating iPhoto in Social Studies
resenter: Elaine Wrenn, Technology Coordinator

Learn how to create an album using a digital camera and iPhoto. This session is a fun lesson on US history and American presidents. You will use a digital camera to take photos, and learn to import these images into an iPhoto album. You will also learn how to integrate music and add descriptions to each of the pages, including what you would do if you were President. View your digital photo album as a presentation or save it as a PDF.
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Documenting a Field Trip: Using iMovie to Enhance Learning
Presenter: Karen Thompson, Instructional Technology Facilitator

Explore a new way to document the experience of a school field trip with iMovie, Apple's easy-to-use video-editing software. By using sample footage taken from a trip to an aquarium, learn how to edit a video, add a title page, create transitions, integrate music and include special effects. iMovie is an ideal way to bring learning to life, whether your students are going on a field trip to a national park, an art museum or a science fair.
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Create Photo Animated Storybooks, Stickers, puppet shows and More Using Photo Kit Junior from Apte
Presenter: , First Grade Teacher

Learn how easy it is to turn your photos into animated storybooks, slide shows, stickers and puppet shows. In this hands-on workshop, participants create their own photo projects using digital cameras, Apple computers and photo project software designed just for young children.
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Create Talking Books with Clicker's writing and multimedia tool from Crick Software
Presenter: Dara Feldman, Kindergarten Teacher

Learn how to support young children and non-readers by using Clicker's powerful, yet easy-to-use, writing support and multimedia tool. Clicker enables young children to write using pictures to make talking books. Students can listen to their writing and begin the process of reading.
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Become a Music Composer With Making Music from Viva Media LLC
Presenter: TBD

With Making Music, children learn the basics of musical composition at their own pace as easy as finger-painting. In this hands-on workshop, participants will choose from 16 instruments to create their own original music composition.
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The Early Childhood Technology Integrated Instructional System
Presenters: Linda Robinson and Carol Schneider, Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood at Western Illinois University

During this spotlight session, participants will explore nine web-based workshops developed by the Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood at Western Illinois University. Workshop content focuses on setting up the computer environment, integrating technology into the curriculum, customizing activities, and involving families in technology. Participants can view workshop content that includes curriculum activities, software information and links to outside resources. Strategies for using this website as a training tool for educators and families will be discussed.
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