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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, 21^st 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!

• The class was invaluable in motivating me to begin integrating technology into my reading & writing curriculum & gave me a plethora of ideas for how to achieve this goal.

· 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 21^st Century Teacher

Catalog Description

This course will provide educators new strategies to reach the 21^st 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 21^st 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

grad class · graduate class · meg ormiston · summer · summer 2009 · tech camp

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

ascd · meg ormiston · social networks

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

administrator academies · meg ormiston

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!

Where in the World is Meg?

creating a kmz · google earth · meg ormiston

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/

differentiating · differentiating using technology · differentiating with technology · meg ormiston · technology

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

meg ormiston · mt. vernon conference 2008 · Resources

Well I did it, I made it through nine weeks of tech camp, and now that I have had a nap the past two afternoons, I can actually say I had a BLAST! I just logged into School Town to work on our Tech Camp Alumni Group and I found this message from Hal (Week 9 camper). I am STILL laughing!

It’s Sunday morning. I woke up about 6:00 a.m. and went back to sleep, and I had a dream. In the first part of the dream my mom and dad were going to a Sox game, but for some reason my dad left the lot with his car. I told him he couldn’t get back in but he parked in the lot for a bar.

I went into the bar. I don’t know what happened to my mom and dad, but suddenly I was with our tech camp group and a bunch of townspeople. You were showing our movie projects to them! Every one of them was brilliant, many of them using 3-D effects a la Second Life. I was dreading mine coming up but then I looked at the clock and it was almost noon, and the bar cleared because everybody left to watch a Bears game. I was relieved.

The reason I figured out the whole dream, though, was because you also had our graded plans with you…ON PAPER! The grades were marked at the top in red ink. That’s when I woke up.

dream · funny · meg · meg ormiston · tech camp

The rented motor home pu, Motor lled out of the driveway this morning at 11am and here I am blogging in a recliner as my husband cruises along. We just crossed over the Ohio state line and my husband is ready to stretch. Connected through the Internet using my Verizon broadband I just crossed one thing off my learning goals of the week, I created my first podcast using gcast. I really was shocked how easy it was! Traveling like this is really amazing!

For those of you joining us on the adventure we will try and stay connected and keep you posted of the many adentures we will have on this trip to Dreams Park outside of Cooperstown NY. My youngest is heading to a week long tournament and all of us are going along for the circuses! Join us for a laugh!

Baseball · Cooperstown · Dreams Park · meg ormiston · Motor Home

For all of you that have taken classes with me I leave the resources “up and available” for you to access. Below your wiki page may have a different name, but when I put the resources there I keep them there for you to acces. If I missed a link let me know and I will add it!

Yes, all my resources are there for you long after you take a class. If I missed anything, let me know and I will add it for anything. Here are links to my blog http://www.techteachers.com/, my wiki http://megormi.wikispaces.com/Communication My web resources http://techteachers.com/resourcetable.htm

administrators · meg ormiston · Resources · tech camp · techteachers

Welcome! Today we will be using a variety of Web 2.0 tools to explore the possibilities for teaching and learning in our schools today. All the resources shared today will be found on our class wiki http://megormi.wikispaces.com/leaders Feel free to go to this site and copy the links (in the white section, not the entire page and background) paste the links over to Microsoft Word and type your notes as you go. At the end of the day you can email this to yourself and the links will be active links. I look forward to a great day of learning!

administrators · blogs · digital tools · meg ormiston · podcasts · school administrators · school leadership · wikis