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ConferencesComputer Using Educators (CUE) Palm Springs, CA ~ March 7-9, 2008 Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) Arlington, VA~ March 9-12, 2008 Society of Educators and Scholars (SES) Malibu, CA ~ March 21-22, 2008 Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association (WEMTA) Milwaukee, WI ~ April 6-8, 2008 Milwaukee Digital Media Conference (MDMC2008) Milwaukee, WI~ July 29-31, 2008 Computing Using Educators (CUE)Palm Springs, CAMarch 7th-9th, 2008
Don't miss the TCSIG Meeting at the CUE Conference. Thursday, March 6, 4:30 - 5:30 in the Catalina Room at the Wyndham Hotel. The Stephens Group is providing beverages (wine, beer, soda) and hors d'euvres. Plan on attending to network, party, and to discuss issues of concern to all. Title: Using iPods in the Classroom Presenter: Tammy Lind & Tammy Stephens Description: This session will introduce educators to using iPods and iTunes in their classroom to differentiate instruction. It will also cover iPod applications such as iQuiz, Kaplan SAT Prep, and iLingo. Date: Friday, March 7th, 2008 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: Mesquite G- Palm Springs Convention Center Title: Minding the Gap- Technologies to Support Struggling Learners Presenter: Tammy Lind Description: This session will introduce participants to the various emerging technologies that can be used to assist struggling learners both in and out of the classroom setting . Date: Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Time: 9:30-10:30am Location: Santa Rosa- Wyndham Hotel Title: Leveraging Technologies for Learning Presenter: Tammy Stephens Description: This session will introduce a framework for thinking about emerging technologies and making strategic decisions on which ones have the potential to transform teaching and learning. Date: Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Time: 11:00am- 12:00pm Location: Ventura- Wyndham Hotel CoSN Annual Conference
Title: M406: Ultra Light Portable Devices in K-12: The Quest for a $100 Device Presenters: Alice Owen, Irving Independent School District Tammy Stephens, The Stephens Group LLC, Robert Tinker, The Concord Consortium, Leslie Wilson, Freedom to Learn and The One-to-One Institute Description: The one-to-one model of computer usage has been on the scene for years, but this approach has not been broadly adopted in part because of its cost. This session will help technology leaders understand the current trends in Ultra-Mobile and low-cost mobile laptops and how they factor into the one-to-one computer movement. Presenters will look beyond the technology to explore policy and practical implementation strategies. Participants will be given a copy of CoSN's EdTechNext member-only report on this topic. Date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Time: 1:30-2:15pm
The Society of Educators and Scholars (SES)Title: An Ecological Perspective on 1:1 Computing Presenter: Tammy Stephens Description: School districts are complex systems in which all parts are interrelated with one another. Students, teachers, administrators and parents are continually engaged in a set of relationships with every other element in the system. They are living organizations that continuously undergo change. This paper looks at the evolution of 1:1 (one-to-one) computing programs in school systems through an ecological lens. Schools are seen as complex ecosystems in which laptops are an invading species that compete with everything else in the system for time, money and energy. The paper identifies the environmental conditions that research of 1:1 computer programs show are needed for successful implementation of these programs. The use of an ecological metaphor is helpful, because these factors should not be looked at in isolation, but in the context of interrelated human activity and their effects on the entire system. The paper will examine both successful and unsuccessful implementations of 1:1 programs throughout the United States. The author will use an ecological framework as a metaphor to explain the underlying dynamics that lead to these two very different outcomes. She will examine the hierarchical nature of school systems and how the most critical factors needed for survival happen at the local level. The paper also outlines technologies that have historically flourished in classroom settings and the reasons why they have been able to grow in these environments. This will help to explain why the addition of student laptops challenges traditional teacher roles and why the two cannot peacefully co-exist in the same environment. The paper also identifies keystone species, such as administrators and mediators, and the critical roles they need to play in supporting second order change in order for these programs to survive. In addition, the paper discusses new types of professional development emerging research shows to be most successful in supporting 1:1 programs. Date:March 21-22, 2008 Location:Pepperdine University, Malibu, California Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association (WEMTA)Milwaukee, WIApril 6th-8th, 2008 Title: Web 2.0 Tools for Information Technology Planning Presenter: Tammy Stephens, Mary Lou Zuege Description: Learn about how you can use Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, Google Docs and blogs to streamline and involve stakeholders in the information technology planning process. Date: April 7th, 2008 Time: 11:00-12:00 Location: Directors 7 Title: Lessons Learned on Managing the Digital Media Explosion Presenters: Connie Jaeger, Kevin Messman, Kim Desotell, Tammy Stephens Description: Success of the EETT grant including Kenosha, New Berlin, Mequon-Thiensville and Racine will be shared. Lessons learned on how to deal with the explosion of Digital Media will be featured. Resources including scoring guides, management techniques, student products, evaluation, and collaborative efforts of LMS and classroom teachers will be highlighted. Date: April 7th, 2008 Time:12:00-1:00pm Location: Roundtable Discussion Title: Kid-to-Kid (K2K) Videoconference Collaborations – Get Your Project and Partner Here! Presenter: Joan Roehre Description: This session provides an overview of K2K videoconference collaboration resources such as the Wisconsin History Mystery, C.A.P. (Collaborations Across the Planet), specific Date: April 7th, 2008 Time: 1:00-2:00pm Location: New Orleans Ballroom North Title: Successfully Implementing Data Driven Decision Making into Your Organization Presenter: Dr. Mickie Tubbs, Dr. Cal Stanley, Tammy Stephens Description:Many schools purchase student management and data-mining systems with the hopes of using data to help drive decisions and inform instruction. However, sadly research says that this never actualizes in most school districts. This presentation will focus on implementation steps districts need to take with administrators, teachers and support staff to use these systems Date: April 8th, 2008 Time: 9:15-10:15am Location: Cajun Title: What Does It Take to Build a Successful One-to-One Computing Initiative? Presenter: Tammy Stephens Description: Why do some one-to-one laptop programs succeed and others fail? This session will cover the components that research shows need to be in place before laptops arrive to build a successful program. Date: April 8th, 2008 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: Directors 6 Milwaukee Digital Media Conference (MDMC2008)The Power of Us! Creating the Future Together “Education is not merely about transferring information. It is about contextualizing that information in the real life experiences of the learners, and in relation with the experiences of other learners…It is the relationships among people and sharing contextualized experiences that create emergent knowledge that is the basis of education”~ Mark Federman. The conference will be held at the Milwaukee County Zoo, July 28th-31st. It will be a hands-on collaborative conference in which we will learn about wikis, digital mapping, digital photography, video-editing, and podcasting. Registration is $300 per participant. Online registration is available at the conference web-site. Two graduate credits from Cardinal Stritch is also available for an additional $300. Note: If you took the conference for credit last year, you will be able to retake it. We wrote the course so that it is repeatable due to the fact that digital media is an emerging technology that presents new learning opportunities every year.
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