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**Creating Dynamic Animations with PowerPoint (Michael Ruffini): Kotran-** 3 stars
You can create your own animations using PowerPoint using Custom Animations under the Slide Show tab.
 * PowerPoint Heaven Tutorials**-**[]
 * Education using PowerPoint- []
 * Royalty Free Music for Educators- []
 * Royalty Free Images
 * Pics4Learning- []
 * School Clip Art- []

**iPad: Personalizing Learning, Creating, and Sharing (Marco Torres): Kotran/** C.Lutz-Doemling **- 5 stars**
Excellent presenter and presentation. The presenter shared many apps that can be applied to education.
 * Songmaker- $.99- select a song and it auto tunes your voice to the song (educational use- multiplication table)
 * Pencast Player- free- an easy-to-use application powered by Livescribe that allows you to download, view and play your smartpen notes, audio recordings, or interactive pencasts.
 * Flip board- a fast way to flip through the news, photos and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr
 * Puppet Pals- create and upload your own stories
 * Use Flipboard to more easily interpret information on Twitter (
 * Wolfram Alpha - []
 * A suggested project: have students conduct, write, publish and comment on others' toy reviews or video games reviews

Excellent presentation with more than 101 websites/resources for science and math plus other content areas and grade level.

 * Patti Duncan Math and Science Wikispace- http://duncanpatti.wikispaces.com/101+Websites+For+Science+and+Math+Teachers this website has oodles and oodles of resources below are a few of the outstanding links
 * Science at PPPST- free powerpoints- []
 * How Stuff Works- []
 * Science Fair Central- []
 * Discovery Ed Math Homework Help- []
 * Hooda Math- interactive math games- []
 * [|www.zunal.com] - already created webquests - create your own for free or search the bank for an already created webquest that you can incoporate into your own course
 * "Fuel Our Future Now"- [] - Sparking ideas...fueling the passion. This is the most rewarding part of teaching, and when kids are fired up about hands-on science, the possibilities seem endless. Now you can roll up your sleeves and channel all that energy in your classroom, because we've channeled the valuable resources you need onto this site
 * British Broadcasting Corporation - [] - All kinds of resources for teachers

[|http://hsdesl.wiki.hempfieldsd.org] [|www.everythingesl.com]
 * Using Technology in the ESL Classroom (RaeAnn Smith): Lutz-Doemling - 3 stars**
 * suggested use of the following closed captioning resources:
 * [|www.pbskids.org/lions/stories]
 * [|www.storylineonline.net] - stories read by celebrities
 * [|www.mightybook.com] - MightyBook helps kids discover the joy of reading with hundreds of animated, read-aloud story books and songs that are as entertaining as they are educational.
 * Discovery Ed. and Safari Montage
 * suggested use of images
 * Pics4Learning
 * Animation Library and Discovery Ed.
 * Use of slideshare - search for already created resources
 * Use of Prezi - search for already created visual resources
 * Image Chef - simplified glogster resource
 * Use Keynote for digital storytelling - incorporate audio recording under "inspector"

Presentation slides available at []
 * School Libraries and Web-Based Practice: A Tour of Effective Practice (Joyce Valenza): Lutz-Doemling** - ***AWESOME***
 * "No longer just a library...now a libratory" the purpose has changed...libratories facilitate learning, creation, and sharing
 * Student work is no longer just for the teacher it is for everyone within and outside the classroom - students have a much wider audience

Presentation available at: http://gpsconnections.wikispaces.com/
 * Integrating Geospatial Tech Into Core Curriculum (Linda Nitsche): Lutz-Doemling - 4 stars**
 * Suggested looking at Walmart and Target educational grants for the purchase of GPS units
 * I will check with Mike Cichocki at the IU re: loaning out the IU GPS units and training
 * Contacts for Classroom Connections - []

Presentation available http://infolibrarian.wikispaces.com/
 * Research & Information Fluency with Web 2.0 Tools (Mardy McGaw): Lutz-Doemling - 3 stars**
 * Suggested that Google Docs is the most powerful tool for collaboration
 * Watch video on "Why Google Apps for Ed?" []
 * Used a google spreadsheet with teacher teams to display homework assignments for parents and students
 * Suggested using QR codes

Presentation available at: []
 * Managing Your Digital Identity (Kyli Yerse): Lutz-Doemling - 4 stars**
 * Create, collect, monitor and maintain - Digital identity cycle
 * Facebook Privacy - 10 settings every user needs to know - []
 * Great resource for securing and monitoring your passwords - [|http://lastpass.com]

This presentation included some great project examples and helpful rubrics for use when assessing various student projects. Link to wikispace with tons of supporting documents: http://thedigitalshift.wikispaces.com/Rigor-Relevance+Projects
 * Rigor & Relevance with Technology (Andrew Halter): Lutz-Doemling** * EXCELLENT - 5 stars

Web-Based Technologies & Classroom Practices ( Eric Graf): Schlamp- 2 stars** [|http://pro.eschooltools.com]
 * Create digital books through the web using "Build A Book"
 * Has a cost!


 * Glogster EDU... oh the uses you will see! (Traci Blazosky): Kotran- 4 stars**
 * 1st grade teacher using Glogster EDU in her classroom. She uses it for celebration portfolios to showcase accomplishments, growth portfolios from beginning to end of year, science fair process. http://ktitraci.wikispaces.com/Pete2011
 * Basic Teacher edition FREE- limited features; Premium $99 per year []
 * Glogstergirl.com http://ktitraci.wikispaces.com/Glogster- lots of great resources


 * iLife- Digital Media for Education! (Dave Marra): Kotran- 5 stars**
 * Awesome presenter from Schnecksville. A few of us had the opportunity to attend a workshop at the IU last year. I have requested him to return to the IU- will keep you updated
 * iLife '11- available- please contact me or Wayne if you are interested in the upgrade for your MacBook- updates []
 * Apple support for iLife website- []
 * Check out his site for daily tips and resource links- []


 * The Best Educational Ideas in the World (Gary Stager): Kotran- 2 stars**
 * I think I have learned to stay away from college professor presenters!
 * Here is his website []
 * Here's the presentation handout that was posted on his website []
 * I have to think really hard about what this session was about... but it wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be based on the title