Final NECC summary

My second formal session was by Harvey Almaronde. He has a website with premade lessons for the SMART Board.
My third formal session was Powerful Possibilities for Pint-Sized Students. Many suggestions were similar to those given by Tammy Worcester. Creating a custom search engine so students can access only what you put in can be done at http://www.google.com/cse
Post conference website is not yet available, but this gives you an overview of her lecture.
My last formal session was Explore free PBS Kids Go! Video. This site is for students ages 6-10.
I checked out a number of tables in the poster areas and, instead of writing everythig I saw, I will go back to the main NECC site and access any handouts.

I have two bags of freebies from the exhibit floor to give to teachers when I return. I'm pretty sure I'll have to do some kind of inservice so I can reward teachers for attending.

I look forward to Denver next year. I hope I can attend the conference there. Dorothy

NECC update

My first experience at NECC was the poster area. On Monday, June 29, I saw uses of Photostory 3. One use was a sixth grade project where each student scanned 10 photos, saved them to a flash drive, and uploaded them to a school computer. The photos were inserted in Photostory and, at the end of the school year, the teacher burned all to CDs and sent home in report card envelopes. The second use was an alphabet booklet. A letter was placed on each page and then pictures or words that began with that letter were placed on the page. The third sample was a monthly calendar. During the school year several pictures were taken of each student. These pictures were added to a monthly calendar and sent home at the end of the school year so parents would have a personalized calendar of their child to use the following year.

My first formal session was Tammy Worcester's Favorite Technology Tips, Tricks and Tools.
jamstudio.com is a site that allows you to put in chords, choose music and play it. You can save
it and return later. She has many different ideas. Her handouts can be found here: Tammy
Especially check out Tiny URL.

As I find time around babysitting my grandson, I'll add some more to my blog.

Digital Citizenship

I am in a great session on Digital Citizenship now. So much to share. Once I sort through the informationl, I will post it. There are sample policies about social networking and cell phones being shared that I think will be helpful for all of our schools.

This has been a great conference with so much information. I need about a week to sort through and digest the information! I will post more information as soon as possible.

Safe travel to everyone traveling back home today!