Now I have finally figured out why I bought the school pictures every year! I created this with an awesome little program called Sqirlz Morph http://www.tucows.com/preview/365265 I saved the animation to Flash, it took a long time to build.
Tonight is the big night, Happy Graduation son! Homemade gifts are always the best!
Back by Popular Demand! Flyer to Pass on to others!
Tech Camp for Technology in Humanities
You asked for it and here it is! A brand new tech camp for teachers! The class has been completely re-written with a new name, number and most importantly amazing new learning opportunities.
Campers new and old sign up quickly because space is very limited. The course was just approved and move quickly to get a spot!
Each participant will spend the week engaged with powerful Web 2.0 tools, 21st Century teaching strategies, multimedia, and curriculum resources to use with students.
This class will be different from past years, but there will be a few repeated projects. For example everyone will create one movie to be used in curriculum, but those that have the basic skills will be encouraged to go to the next level of sophistication. Meg serves as a coach, guide and facilitator as each participant creates what they need for a successful school year.
Each participant creates custom projects, so bring your ideas and we will turn them into reality! This is a hands-on week, tailored to individual needs. Class times will vary by location but plan on a full day starting about 8:30 and ending about 4:30. Three graduate credit hours from Aurora University will be offered for an additional fee, CPDU’s for other participants.
Here are a few comments from past participants:
· Meg was awesome! I am a beginner with technology and I learned so much from this class. There is stuff out there I did not even know existed. I am so excited now about really diving into technology with my classroom. Meg you are outstanding! Clearly!
· Meg gave me so much insight into new ways to incorporate technology into my classroom.
· Hands –on learning – we had time in class to do what she taught. Small group discussions & projects.
· Everything Meg demonstrated she had us try on our computers & then apply to our final projects.
· Active participation in creating files and a planning guide.
· Meg gave us time to explore. She was supportive and sensitive to our needs. She made it fun!
· Meg is terrific! She is so knowledgeable, creative, and helpful.
· I wish it could have been longer. I would have loved to keep going.
· The class was awesome – Don’t change a thing!
Course Number: OEDS 6394
Course Title: Technology in Humanities
3 Semester Hours Graduate Credit
Catalog Description
Catalog Overview
This course is designed to assist educators to integrate technology into the humanities content area i.e., language arts, social studies, and fine art. The Illinois Learning Standards, Illinois Professional Teaching Standards and Content Area Standards all emphasize the need to integrate technology into content in meaningful ways. Course sessions will focus on lesson structure and strategies, while lab time will be spent on content-specific tools for technology integration. Participants will be encouraged to bring software or tools available to them to learn how to integrate them as part of engaging lessons.
June
Week #1
June 8-12, 2009
Location:
Ottawa High School
Ottawa, IL
Registration through:
LaSalle ROE
119 W. Madison Street
Courthouse Room 102
Ottawa, IL 61350
Phone 815-434-0780
Fax: 815-434-2453
Registration link: http://209.175.240.41/LaSalle/course.php?workshopID=1042
Week #2
June 15-19, 2009
Location and Registration
Lee/Ogle ROE
7772 Clinton St
Dixon (Grand Detour), IL 61021
Ph: 815-652-2054
Fax: 815-652-2053
Registration http://www.iarss.org/Inservice/WorkshopDetail.asp?ID=11984
Week #3
June 22-26
Reserved for tech camp in a local district
July
Week #4
July 20-24, 2009 ***** This is the same class as last year, the August dates are the new class
OEDS 5090 Tech for 21st Century Teacher
Catalog Description
This course will provide educators new strategies to reach the 21st Century learners. Participants will learn cutting edge instructional strategies to increase student achievement and engagement. Every participant will create curriculum projects and a comprehensive plan to bring these Web 2.0 strategies to students.
Catalog Overview
This is a practical course designed for the specific needs of educators as they work with the 21st Century learners. New skills are needed to plan and present lessons that engage students of all abilities. This course is focused on redesigning curriculum and integrating the rich resources in various software packages and in online communities. Teachers will create various multimedia projects that they can use with their students.
Further, participants will learn how to organize digital resources to share with colleagues. Other areas explored through course include assessment, differentiating curriculum, meeting the needs of students of all abilities, and engaging students to increase student achievement. This is a practical class tailored to the specific instructional needs of each participant.
Location and registration:
KIDS Boone/Winnebago, DeKalb and McHenry ROE
300 Heart Boulevard
Loves Park, IL 61111
Phone: 815/636-3040
Fax: 815/636-3069
Registration link: http://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopDetail.php?id=4887
Week #5
July 27-31, 2009
Location and registration:
DuPage County Professional Development Center
1519 S. Grace Street
Lombard, IL 60148-4617
Phone: (630) 495-6080
Registration https://www.dupage.k12.il.us/register/course.php?recid=4018
Week #6
August 3-7, 2009
Location and registration:
KIDS Boone/Winnebago, DeKalb and McHenry ROE
300 Heart Boulevard
Loves Park, IL 61111
Phone: 815/636-3040
Fax: 815/636-3069
Registration link: http://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopDetail.php?id=4888
Social Networks Are the R&D Teams of the Future
WOW! This was really interesting when I opened up my ASCD SmartBrief and there was an article about my session at ASCD’s Annual Conference. My session was at 8am on Saturday March 14, 2009, and it was a ticket session that was sold out. My session was titled Professional Learning Networks Using Web 2.0 Tools.
Peeking under the hood on the SmartBrief site, pretty amazing to have my session ideas reach 175,000 people the brief goes out to! As I am looking around there must have been a live blogger in the room that used Cover It Live during the session and then wrote the article for the SmartBrief. There were people outside the room engaging in the conversation, great way to extend professional development beyond the walls of the conference center.
WOW!
http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/prof-learning-networks-using-web-20.html
http://ascd09.wikispaces.com/Professional+Learning+Networks+Using+Web+2.0+Tools
Hi all!
I am coaching in a science class with an awesome teacher that is doing an amazing interactive lesson in her SmartBoard. Yippee! She is doing a dynamite job of using images, videos, and the many tools in Notebook 10. We are working on using her new airliner, and we were excited to engage a boy in class on crutches using the airliner from his seat. I am so mad I did not videotape this lesson. Every student in this room is engaged and into the lesson, and the visuals are really helping the instruction! This is what I am talking about, engagement! “Let’s summarize with a video off You Tube”! My heart is going pitter patter!
Hard to share different resources, because this was truly dynamite! I will see if I can upload her notebook file here for you. I might have to wait until next week to do that!
Erosion Ideas in Google Earth, maybe these can be used next week!
http://www2.lhric.org/eastchester/schools/hs/teachers/fermann/GE.htm Excellent earth Science resources.
http://gelessons.com/lessons/ Earth science lessons using Google Earth.
http://geology.utah.gov/google_earth/ I can’t open these on the student machine, not sure about these.
Video on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFpCJsc_k64 How Things Work video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR6evrt7els Bill Nye the Science Guy on water erosion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4WQQ_WBdUM Example of water erosion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HFmxRicX4o Water erosion video.
These are the administrator academies I will be presenting in Illinois this Spring. Pass this on to your administrator.
01/22/2009 KIDS Roe in Loves Park
The Future of Leadership: Technology and the
School Leader
https://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopQuery.php?type=Administrators%27%20Academy
02/24/2009
The Future of Leadership - Technology and the School Leader
Session during the ICE conference St. Charles
http://www.iceberg.org/form.php?fid=efc8ad5aeeb37b5ebf1d5a0113044296
02/25/2009
Technology for Administrators: How to Lead Change in the Classroom with Blogs, WIKIS and Podcasts
Session during the ICE conference St. Charles
http://www.iceberg.org/form.php?fid=efc8ad5aeeb37b5ebf1d5a0113044296
03/11/2009 Tinley Park
The Future of Leadership: Technology and the
School Leader
Speaker: Meg Ormiston
Administrators’ Academy # 744
March 11, 2009 Hilton Garden Inn, Tinley Park
April 1, 2009 Doubletree, Bloomington
Illinois Principal Association
http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf
03/26/2009 Rock Falls
Technology for Administrators: How to Lead Change in
the Classroom with Blogs, WIKIS and Podcasts
Administrators’ Academy # 520
Speaker: Meg Ormiston
May 6, 2009 Whiteside ROE #55, Rock Falls
Illinois Principal Association
http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf
04/02/09
The Future of Leadership: Technology and the
School Leader – an Online Course
Administrators’ Academy # 751
April 2, 2009 Online
Illinois Principal Association
http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf
04/23/200 South Cook
Communication and Organization in a Digital World
http://www.s-cook.org/scws2/wshopb.aspx
04/29/2009
The Future of Leadership: Technology and the
School Leader – an Online Course
Speaker: Meg Ormiston
Administrators’ Academy # 751 (online)
Illinois Principal Association
http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf
05/12/2009 west 40
Technology for Administrators: How to Lead Change in the Classroom with Blogs, WIKIS and Podcasts
http://www.west40.org/register/findall.php?category=Administrators%27+Academy
05/13/2009 DuPage
The Future of Leadership – Technology and the School Leader (AA#744)
https://www.dupage.k12.il.us/register/course.php?recid=3805
05/14/09 Rockford
Leading Change with Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis
https://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopQuery.php
05/15/09 Rockford
Leading Change with Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis
https://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopQuery.php
This site is new to me today, and I really think it would be very powerful in the classroom. http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/ I spent some time with the Image Detector, what a great tool to help students critically look at images looking at things like is this image stagged or altered in any way. Very powerful in the classroom.
Long ago I tried to create a tour in Google Earth, back to try it again with the help of my twitter network I am shocked how easy it was to complete this. What a great way to illustrate why I was a little tired!
Working with Words using Web 2.0 Tools
· NEW Discoveries
http://skrbl.com/ Create and share free online whiteboards.
http://www.bubblejoy.com/intro.php Bubble Joy
http://www.tokbox.com/# Free video calling.
http://www.wordia.com/ Redefining the dictionary.
http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr image collection.
http://next.yahoo.net/photosoup/ Create puzzles with images.
http://www.gifup.com/ Create animated gifs about vocab words.
http://wordle.net/ Create tag clouds with Wordle.
http://www.fodey.com Create talking tomatoes, flowers and much more.
http://makesweet.com/ Similar to Image Chef.
http://www.pimpampum.net/toys/ Amazing Flickr Toys I forgot about!
http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/archive.php Check the Bubblr archives for my pumpkin carving “how to”.
http://www.pimpampum.net/memry/enter.php Create a memory game with Flickr images.
http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php?id=4329 Create “virtual books” with images from Flickr
http://metaatem.net/words/ Spell with Flickr!
http://vizlab.nytimes.com/ NY Times Visualization Lab
http://www.geogreeting.com/main.html Geo greeting
http://www.wiifit.com
Web 2.0 Tools
Skype http://www.skype.com/
· uStream http://www.ustream.tv/
· RSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
· Podcasting http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html
· Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
· Twitter http://twitter.com/
· Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/
· Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/
· You Tube http://www.youtube.com/
· Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
· Ning Classroom 2.0 http://www.ning.com/
· del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/
· Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/
· Second Life http://secondlife.com/
· Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts
· Google Calendar http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html
· Google Docs http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
· Google Sketchup http://sketchup.google.com/
· Street View http://books.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
· Google Earth http://earth.google.com/
Google Lit Trips http://www.googlelittrips.org
· Google Maps http://sketchup.google.com/
· Google Page Creator http://pages.google.com/-/about.html
· Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
· Image Chef http://www.imagechef.com/
Add Letters http://www.addletters.com/
Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/
GCast http://www.gcast.com
Jing http://www.jingproject.com/
Schooltown http://www.schooltown.net/
Great to be part of the Mt. Vernon Conference in Mt. Vernon Illinois! Here are the links to my various wikispace pages I created. Please feel free to share them with others back at school!
http://megormi.wikispaces.com/multimedia Multimedia in a Differentiated Classroom
http://megormi.wikispaces.com/reading Technology Resources to Support the Struggling Reader
http://megormi.wikispaces.com/web20tools Bringing the World to Your Classroom Using Web 2,0 Technology Tools
http://megormi.wikispaces.com/google Power Googling for Educators
