February+2011+Conversation

iTiL Conversation Agenda Date: Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 Time: 11:00 - 3:30 Enroll at this [|link] Watch the speakers via [|uStream here].
 * Note: If you "Join my crowd" you will receive permission to the private video as well.


 * **Time** || **Topic** || **Resources / Activities** ||
 * 11:00 || Networking / Lunch
 * Use our computers or your own laptop to do the activities in the right column. || * Join our learning network at http://Ted21C.ning.com
 * Join the [|iTeach iLearn] group
 * Respond to [|Sharing Successes]
 * Read [|Sharing Successes]
 * Have a favorite website/online resource. Share [|at this link] ||
 * 12:00 || Welcome || * Ice Breaker Discussion
 * Share one response that impacted you.
 * Explain how you might bring this back to your school.
 * Showcase your work
 * [|Innovation Field Trips]
 * [|Innovate My Class]
 * Join our professional development
 * One link to remember - http://www.ted21c.org ||
 * 12:30 || Revitalizing iTeach/iLearn - //Sandra Bynum (Tech Coach)// * What has worked? What has not worked?
 * How to restart the energy once surrounding technology integration into the curriculum.
 * Setting up strategies to join together and form our own network. || [[file:tech.ppt]] ||
 * 12:50 || Individualizing Learning with Technology - Pamela Livingston (Author 1:1 Laptop Programs that Work)
 * How does ubiquitous technology provide better ways to individualize learning?
 * What are best practices for doing so?
 * What are common pitfalls to avoid? || Wiki about 1-to-1

[|Laptops, Work and Students] || || ||
 * 1:15 || How Google Saves Our School - //Jason Levy (Principal)//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How we integrate Google forms to rapidly collect information and collaboratively solve problems
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tech support
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PD needs || Click Here ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:35 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Principal's Role in Supporting iTeach/iLearn <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Gloria Nelson (Tech Coach)//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How are Principals continuing supporting technology integration in iTiL schools?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How can we support leadership in making tech integration successful?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What progress/improvements have been made in the iTiL schools?" || [[file:Principal's Role in Supporting iTeach.pptx]]
 * 1:55 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supporting Learners with Special Needs - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Stella Porto (Assistant Principal)//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we support learners with special needs.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What resources are being used? || [[file:Differentiated UDL.doc]]
 * 2:15 || Teen, Tech & the Ability to Focus - Greg Toppo (Ed Reporter - USA Today, Author of Upcoming Book on Teens & Tech)
 * Is technology a distraction, or do we need to redefine what it means to focus?
 * Do we need to teach focusing?
 * Is ADHD really a problem or are students just bored? || * [|Improve your focus overnight]
 * [|The Innovative Educator on the ADHD Cure]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Kids Are All Right] ||
 * 2:40 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology Smackdown - Lisa Nielsen * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share your favorite online tool that supports your iTeach/iLearn work
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Contribute <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|at this link] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. || media type="custom" key="7906313" ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:00 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wrap Up, Questions & Answers ||  ||
 * 3:15 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete Evaluations || [|MOET Workshop Survey] ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:30 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adjourn ||  ||