2010+eTech+Conference

Please post any useful information, resources, tools or links that you found at the 2010 eTech Conference.


 * [|http://learningcommons.infohio.org] A place for all Ohio educators to explore and engage in web 2.0 technologies and 21st Century Skills; be sure to click on 21 Essential Things
 * [|http://topwebucationsites.blogspot.com] - A wealth of 21st Century sites related to the following: blogs; wikis; podcasts; social networking; social bookmarking; graphic organizers for writing and research process; survey tools; web pages; collaboration tools; image sharing; tutorials; audio.
 * Poll Everywhere - [] This site allows a user to create online polls to gather data using the texting feature on a cell phone. However, for educational uses it only allows 32 respondents.
 * Ryan Collins presentation included several great tools for classroom use using a cell phone. His web site, [], has many other resources and tools that can be easily incorportated into the classroom. I especially liked his idea about texting your students OGT review questions.
 * K7.Net - [] This site gives you a voice mailbox that can be used for students, parents or others. They can contact you without you giving out your personal cell phone numbers. It emails you voicemial messages.
 * Google Voice - [] This site will give you a cell phone number and let you forward calls to phones you own whether home or cell. You can set groups as well.
 * Recording Podcasts - [|http://www.drop.io] I especially liked this resource for recording podcasts. It easily creates a mp3 and gives students a free way to record their own podcasts. Conference call features can allow several students to collaborate on a project.
 * Assessment - [] Here is a great site for rubrics for assessing technology projects.

The handouts from the sessions with David Warlick are at www.davidwarlick.com

Go Further: 21 Essential Things for 21st century success 21 tutorials for CEU's or 21st century certificate or grad credit []

Personalize Learning in the 21st century classroom (Net Trekker) database to help students/teachers/parents learn more effectively...instructional aides such as reading aloud are included includes Hot Math and Weekly Reader as well I received a free 30 day trial for attending the session www.netTrekker.com

Blending many forms interactive technology in the high school mathematics classroom Using Turning Point clickers Using document cameras mathgraphs.com on-line TI 83-Plus Geometer's sketchpad Algebra Emotion Fathom website links at www.ashland-city.k12.oh.us/staff/caoberho

What's in Their Pocket? Utilizing the technology your students already have cell phone podcasting (phonecasting.com0 use cell phone to search google (466453) website: Poll everywhere wiffiti (text to screen) Voki.com (create animae character)

Nothing but NETS: Redesigning teaching and learning through technology integration Educational tech standards for students (ISTE) [] [] has lots and lots of tools including animoto, audacity, blogs, concept maps, google earth, google docs, jink, online surveys such as poll everywhere, rubistar, aviary, scrapblog, wikis and wordle blabberize and hulu.com also discussed

Impact of 21st century multimedia projects in the high school classroom Euclid High School grant projects to study the affects of integrating technolgoy into classroom projects used Digital Tableau, Comiclife, podcasts,etc. No definitive results as to the impace on achievment, behavior or motivation...requires more research conclusion; technology needs to be trasnformative not just adaptive

MODcasting: Motivation on Demand specific instructions on podcasts and using audacity powerpoint available at moodle.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us with username etech 2010 and password 2010 flashkit.com/loops (free soundbites), moodle's blog block or [|http://dropio] discussed levelator use in audacity

**//__Go Further: 21 Essential Things for 21st Century Success__//**

As a librarian, I have been trained to use INFOhio and take advantage of these free resources. I love it, and I wish I had the time to devote to this type of professional development. It's like one-stop shopping, and I love it. This session was a general overview about some of the new additions INFOhio has added to their database to assist teachers in preparing for the 21st century student. Equitible acces to quality resources for students and professional development for teachers are located in one place. Also, you can follow INFOhio on twitter. Post with INFOhio-21. [|21 Essential Things Handout]


 * //__ Keynote Speaker: David Warlick __//**

David Warlick is a former teacher that has written several books Blogging and Redefining Literacy as well as authored many online journal articles and magazine articles dealing with technology and education. He is the father of the most popular website "Landmarks Citation Machine", which I have bee using as a teaching tool for about ten years on how to cite resources. We heard him speak at our first ARRA meeting in Columbus, OH, and the theme of this speech at eTech was "A Gardner's Approach to Learning: [|David Warlick At eTech Ohio]

He discussed how the 21st century teacher must be a master learner. Constantly asking yourself "what did I learn today". We need to understand information's infrastructure: people and information that help us do our jobs. Good Search engine: Technorati Social Bookmark: Delicious You may also want to try to visit his blog located at his homepage, visit his blog, and review the handouts from other conferences and enjoy the wealth of information that is available to us through him. [|David Warlick's Homepage]