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Educator Academy Series
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Macworld Educator Academy Conference
Computer Using Educators (CUE) and IDG World Expo are pleased to present Macworld Educator Academy. Teachers, administrators, IT professionals and tech coordinators are encouraged to attend this event. New this year, the academy will be to two days within Macworld, January 16-17, 2008.
Day 1 "the Why" will focus on broad issues and thought leadership with inspiring visionaries and how they are changing education’s use of technology tools locally and around the world.
Day 2 "the How" will focus on the implementation strategies, best practices and successful implementations.
Why Attend?
The massive changes our flattened world has wrought on all levels of industry requires K12 education to respond with effective leadership and innovative classroom practices. Join expert educators as they demonstrate current applications of technology to engage students, enhance achievement and impact learning in new and powerful ways.
For more info, explore www.cue.org/macworld.
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As the world has become flat, niched by a long tail and connected by the Internet, what does today's 21st Century Learning Environment need to provide? Come hear John Couch talk about how Apple is looking at content, creation tools, distribution and building of collaborative learning environments.
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The disparity between what we believe is possible and what we believe is actually happening is inescapable. 76.4% of survey respondents stated that they truly believed that school age children have the capacity to make a significant and meaningful contribution to our world. Yet 68% of those same respondents stated that less than 25% of the children in their school actually did something that they believed made a significant contribution to our world with 42.4% stating the number to be less than 10% of their students.
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Video games can provide a context for learning, opportunities for inquiry, and frameworks for cooperative learning. They are also deeply motivating and engaging. A good deal of incidental learning happens as students play, but can this powerful new media be harnessed for intentional learning in formal education?
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Global Collaboration: a buzzword or an educational reality? Be prepared to ""rock your world"" as you apply practical global projects in your classroom today! See how easy it is to expand the walls of your classroom to the furthest reaches of the planet. From easy to extreme, bring the world to your students!
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Educators from Provo City School District will share the process of a systemic approach that: 1) Establishes a basic floor of opportunity that ensures that each child will be given an ""X"" amount of appropriate technology access and use in real life skills and traditional school skills, 2) Uses MacOS tools, such as Keynote, Pages, Garage Band, and iChat, to help teachers shift from telling to discovery in the classroom, and 3) Enhances productivity, which equates to more students doing better work, regardless of cultural difference and/or disability.
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It's not about clicking and daragging! It's not about blogging, podcasting or Web 2.0-ing! It's about teaching!
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Don't miss the exciting kick-off to the second day of the Macworld Educator Academy, led by a noted educational technology expert. You will be delighted, informed and inspired by this engaging presentation on the nuts and bolts of Macintosh technology in education.
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From OS tricks to classroom management tips this sessions shows why OSX leopard is purrrrrfect for every classroom or computer lab.
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Computers in education environments are among the toughest IT environments to manage and secure. The large number of daily users, the limited resources of on-site staff, and the immense number of schools that district technology personnel must manage all come together to create an IT 'perfect storm'.
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An educational networking guru breaks down the deep, dark secrets behind school servers for system administrators. Topics to be discussed include: weblog server, iChat server, Collaboration tools, online grades, student web pages, pdf files in sites folders, webmail and much more! (tentative description)
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Whether you're a small educational organization or a large one: eLearning for employees and staff developed inhouse can be engaging, effective and exciting. Think you need a lot of resources and funding to start your own eLearning group? Think again! This workshop touches on everything you need to know from concept, design, learning models, deployment, tracking, and return-on-investment. A "nuts and bolts" workshop and Q&A session.
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Nothing is better than Macs for building projects from a wild variety of software and sources. Build curriculum projects integrating Google Earth, iTunes, iPhoto, Parallels (tap XP software!), media libraries, and QuickTime Pro that grab students via the iPod-or iPod peripherals (like VCRs/TVs/ projectors). A wild i-ticket ride through the technology thicket!
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Macworld Educator Academy Labs
The Educator Academy will also feature several hands-on workshops focused on the needs of K12 Educators during the entire week of Macworld.
Download the Educator Labs @-a-glance
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Speaker:
- Angela Folendorf–Macintosh Specialist - Education Consultant
Combine the simplicity of a white board with the power of a computer! Learn to transform your classroom into a dynamic learning environment using a SMART Board and Notebook software.
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- Chris Walsh–Digital Learning Specialist,WestEd
This fun, faced-paced workshop explores how students, teachers, parents, and administrators can get the most from Google's latest tools. Participants will learn about new search techniques, Google's latest collaboration tools, and desktop applications such as Google Earth.
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Learn from a master educator and producer how you and your students can use professional-grade video tools in your class. If you’ve outgrown iMovie, this workshop is for you.
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- Ted Lai–Education Technology Coordinator,Fullerton School District
With iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, and more, the iLife suite can help teachers engage students, differentiate instruction, and document learning. Discover how students can develop their voice through digital storytelling, too.
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Leopard features over 300 innovations. Learn how to put these to work in your classroom: connect students with the world, organize with colleagues, increase your own productivity, and much more.
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- Ted Lai–Education Technology Coordinator,Fullerton School District
Bring your lessons - and your students’ projects - alive with music. Give students the tools to easily create their own compositions, soundtracks, and jingles for multimedia projects in any subject area.
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- Dr. Bill Wiecking–Hawaii Preparatory Academy
How can laptops be used in your classroom to augment teaching and engage students? Learn the ups and downs of wireless schools, including implementation, security issues, wireless roaming, case studies, typical problems and their solutions, and a look to the future: will the iPhone become a teaching tool? If you are an educator, administrator or system administrator, this session is for you.
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Speaker:
- Lucy Gray–Lead Technology Coach, Center for Urban School Improvement ,The University of Chicago
Powerful teaching and learning tools for both students and teachers, blogs can be used for student reflection, parent communication, professional development, and much more. Come be inspired by best practices.
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- Ted Lai–Education Technology Coordinator,Fullerton School District
Share student work with parents, the community, and the world! Learn to use GarageBand and a free hosting service to Create an online show, enhanced with images, links, and attachments.
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Learn how to save, annotate, and share your bookmarks online. Then learn to use RSS for accessing, managing, and making sense of more information than ever before - including others’ bookmarks.
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You and your students can easily create cinema-quality presentations with Keynote ’08 - and deliver them with pizzaz! Also learn how Pages ’08 streamlines word processing and Numbers ’08 revolutionizes spreadsheets.
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Discover the many powerful new features of Leopard server, and learn from an expert how to tweak the server/client environment to best fit the needs of the classroom.
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- Lucy Gray–Lead Technology Coach, Center for Urban School Improvement ,The University of Chicago
Learn to use wikis and Google Docs to collaborate and create interactive multimedia content with your students and colleagues. Create your own wikis and online presentations - and see stellar examples.
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