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What are the possibilities of using an iPod Touch in the classroom? There are thousands of educational apps that can be used in a variety of ways to enhance your curriculum. In this session we will highlight how to integrate the iPod Touch in elementary classrooms.

iMovie a fun, easy and powerful movie making and multimedia tool. Learn three "do-able” projects for students and teachers.
In this session we will create a movie trailer, music video, and a narrated slide show. In addition see how all the new features can help best tell your story.

Through this hands-on workshop, you will develop a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS5. This class is designed for teachers of all content areas with little to no previous knowledge of Photoshop, and will teach skills applicable to any classroom curriculum. Techniques include Content-Aware Fill, compositing, using Layers, adding text to images, preparing images for the web and more. Learn the tools necessary to create fliers, handouts, and images for websites, tests and assignments. Written tutorials will also be provided.

In Utah, 39% of students in 2011 were not proficient Geometry, scoring poorly on the concepts of calculation of area, perimeter, and slope. There is a need to present these concepts to many of our students in a new way.

Global Positioning System Receivers (GPSr’s) can be an effective and engaging technology tool to help your students understand these concepts and enable your students to experience math in their world in a new way. We will cover how to use a GPSr to find the area and perimeter of a location, calculate the slope of a hill (& the distance up that hill!), and even how to figure out the volume of water fall on your school campus during a rainstorm!

Not a math teacher, that’s OK! I will show you over 50 ways to integrate GPS into your instruction in any classroom.
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We'll have three hours where we share Macintosh and iOS resources, websites, freeware, and answer questions you've been wanting to get answers to. Lots of resources you can take back to school with you - these will be available. Bring your own Macintosh or iOS device. Nathan Smith, Director of Technology of the College of Education & Human Services, will host the session - which will combine presentation and hands on. Last year's session was standing room only!

In this session, you will be introduced to several tricks of the trade in ActivInspire to make your Promethean board more interactive and student-oriented. We will use object hiding, labeling, actions, layering, and more in creating an interactive flipchart for your classroom.

In addition to creating their own flipchart pages, participants will also leave with example pages and instructions. It will be beneficial to have content in mind to build flipcharts around.

Bring your laptop with the latest version of ActivInspire installed. This workshop is for teachers who are already familiar with ActivInspire and want to learn more.

If you don’t bring your laptop or have no experience with ActivInspire – this workshop is not for you.

Are you thinking about getting an eReader. Come learn about the features of some of the most popular new devices. Also learn how to get more out of and put more into the different devices. Public Pioneer provides books through your local library system and K-12 Pioneer has great resources for use on many eReaders. We will also discuss tools for converting PDF's to ePub and how to create ePub books with online and desktop tools. Come get your book on!

They said this many powerful and free Google resources couldn't be packed into a single session. They were wrong! Step inside, buckle your seatbelt, and get ready to get excited about possibilities that won't cost you or your school a dime. We'll cover both the tools and the projects one might do with them, and finish with info about becoming a Google Certified Teacher.
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Help your students be informed about their world using the PBS student authoring tool the.News and the online student authoring tool You.Edit. These two tools allow students access to current event information for teens at home, in the classroom, and in out-of-school time. The.News uses journalism and video to tell topical and relevant stories about subjects of interest. It is a noncommercial, multi-platform tool designed to help teens acquire the knowledge and skills to become better citizens of the 21st century.

The accompanying tool, You.Edit allows students to mash up all the elements of PBS videos with their own original productions, provides teachers with many open ended prompts to encourage project-based constructivist teaching, and allows teachers to have classes and even to invite members.

Using journalism and technology, the.News provides educators with content specific tools while also helping them meet the civic mission of schools. An instructional design informs video and curricular content, targeted to middle and high school students, to support social studies, language arts and science learning objectives, as well as critical thinking and media literacy. Each video story is supported by lesson plans with content-based standards, discussion questions, student activities, vocabulary and primary references. The material is presented as options to fit teachers’ instructional needs and is accompanied by professional development resources.