NEIT2009+hot+topics

What do you want to learn? What sessions would you like to offer?
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A session I'd like to attend:
Showcase of something you learned last year at NEIT2008. Where are the friction points in your school? Using Magic Wand by [|Magic Hour] (school content management system) The pluses and minuses of [|Google Apps for education] - e-mail, documents, calendars, chat, video, etc The possible applications of Google Squared, Google Wave AP CS... should we offer it? Can I even teach it? 3D Projection, can we do it ourselves? something like http://www.geowall.org/ Managing 1 to 1 Laptop programs - Aaron Grill Moodle Best Practices Moodle Best Practices in Lower School Use Moodle: Rolling Courses over year to year Google Apps: Implementation and Directory Synchonization Communications Strategy: Com. Department structure within a school Digitizing and automating forms Social Media in schools Ebooks/Audiobooks Use of "clickers" such as those from http://www.turningtechnologies.com/ (I will not be at the conference in person, but I'd love to read about this more on the wiki and know if anyone is using them successfully K-12) Libraries of the Future (based on what's going on with eBooks and Cushing Academy) How Sketch Up is being Used Hands On with Sketch Up Advanced uses/creative uses of the Smartboard Using the Alice 3D programming environment in the Middle (or Upper) schools to teach programming skills and as in introduction into 3D animation. A conversation/sharing of most interesting or unusual practices, for example: Going one-to-one pros and cons Using the Livescribe Smartpens by staff and students. Teaching collaboration (using online tools but not focusing on the tools). Video Production - ideas, projects, techniques, anything! - Jeremy Sambuca Lego Robotics (NXT) - projects? - Jeremy Sambuca (Will bring a kit if anyone is interested in talking) Online Educational Games iTunes accounts in schools Different ways independent schools fund technology initiatives Brainstorming for my new course on Digital Journalism -Liz Davis How to get a conference like this going in New Englad -Liz Davis Netbooks: selection, implementation. What do we need to know to set up a "class set" ? Collaborative Online Courses - Breaking out of our school silos to collaborate on the development and teaching of online/blended courses.
 * Any Flash/Photoshop teachers participating in Rotoball ?
 * What are the innovative ways that students are part of the teaching of tech, for example, students leading sessions about the tools they use, or helping to plan PD for teachers
 * What do you do to keep yourself fresh & how can we model that for the rest of our faculty? (You know, technology was supposed to make life easier for everyone...)
 * Any particularly unusual tech classes being taught or especially interesting/unusual uses of tech in non-tech courses?
 * What off-the-beaten-path apps have you discovered that the rest of us might not know about?

A session I'd like to lead:
Shouldnt this work?: Using the Mac and the Smartboard - Jay Heath Minimizing barriers: installing a mac mini with every Smartboard - Jay Heath Helpdesk software - Jay Heath Casper Suite: make you life awesome (if you're responsible for managing macs) - Jay Heath Screencasting (computer output + audio) - teacher and student productions - Reshan Richards Processing computer programming language (unless, of course, someone more qualified than me would like to lead it!) -Erin Mumford Make your website completely Open Source (Joomla, WordpressMU, Gallery2, Moodle, MediaWiki, Zencart) - Aaron Grill Drupal is Amazing! (How the free content management system and a little know how transformed our website) - Adam Gerson Writing your first iPhone Application (some programing experience required) - Adam Gerson Educational applications of Google Docs - Sam Schalman-Bergen Web sites every teacher should use and know - Sam Schalman-Bergen

Providing Sane Sound Tech Support to Difficult, Hostile, Incompetent, Challenging, Ungrateful, Ditzy-doodle, Frustrating, or Just-Plain-Nuts Teachers-Pat Hough
Lesson Plan Share for Technology Integrators -- Gina Marcel Hands On -- Learn Flash -- Gina Marcel Hands On -- Learn Scratch -- Gina Marcel Hands On - Learn Scratch with Picoboards - Jason McDonald Copyright issues/Fair Use: Properly cited images in a bibliography -Ellen Baru (I have been working on this area at Cathedral and will share what we've done so far). The future of textbook publishing - don buckley http://prezi.com/qr5j9yytdhs4/ (Don - ooo, does this include e-book potential as well as other options?) Moodle: Best Practices in Overall Setup, Pedagogy, and Classroom Management (A Conversation/Sharing) - Sean Dagony-Clark Reaching Critical Moodle Mass (or How Our Teachers Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the CMS) - Sean Dagony-Clark Can NYSAIS Members Collaborate to Build and Host a Better Moodle? - Sean Dagony-Clark, John Ment, Jen Davenport Setting up and using a virtual world in your school with OpenSim - Erik Nauman Twitter - getting started and/or tips and tricks -Liz Davis Social media in the classroom with Ning - Liz Davis Explore reference management and social bookmarking tools. How do we use various tech tools to encourage active online reading & research? Let's dive in and learn from one another. (zotero, diigo, evernote, noodletools, other suggestions?) Kathleen Ellis, Diane Neary. Developing your school's social media strategy - arvind grover Using [|Prezi] as a presentation tool - arvind grover Developing a Unit: Graphic Novels -- This unit will discuss a lesson ideas incorporating Graphic Novels and Technology into the Humanities Curriculum. Librarians and Technologists, come help us build this unit! - G. A. Félix, Sarah Murphy Google Sketch-Up -- Creating a 3-D Model to help sell your new or current technology construction projects to the staff/administration - Jeremy Sambuca Analog Ideas in the Digital Age? - What is the place of humility, privacy, formality, intellectual property, professionalism, process,... in the time of public self expression, collaboration, open source, data mining, instant publication,...? - Jed Dioguardi Web 2.0 tools. What ones are people using? how? Collaborative projects with other schools. I can share a first grade project with 3 other schools. We're using Voicethread, Google Earth, and Kidspiration. I see this as a time to exchange ideas and maybe to just play with some 2.0 tools and talk. I have a list with a bunch of links of recommended tools. -Ellen Baru Web 2.0 Smackdown - Liz Davis Fiscal Sustainability and your Info Architecture plan- who are the players? What are the considerations?- Kerri Richardson-Redding Moving toward a three-platform/cloud computing community with Linux and Netbooks- Kerri Richardson-Redding Policies/procedures for posting student images and video (could be combined with arvind's social media strategy) - Adam Kenner Green Technology - E-waste, death by paper, energy awareness, best practices e.g., blackle.com (Google in black & white) - Akbar Ali Herndon long exposure [|night photography out by Lake Mohonk] - bring your cameras and your tripods (or something to rest a camera on) - arvind grover No Agenda: Meditation for people in nerdy professions. Two 20 minute meditation sessions/w minimal discussion. Akbar Ali Herndon (Brilliant idea Akbar...Fred)