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=Session 1 Presentations 9:30-10:30=

**Ask An Integrator**
Room: 102 Have a question? Want to ask about a specific tool? Need help transforming a lesson? Technology Integrators from different school districts will be available to assist you.

Touch Tank - Vendor Presentations
Vendors for various hardware and software solutions for 21st century classroooms will be demonstrating their products and available to answer questions.
 * Room**: 105

Using Google Earth and Digital Storytelling to enhance instruction and assessment.
Google Earth was used to enhance the teaching and learning experience for a seventh grade European geography unit. Working with a partner, students researched selected European countries and created a tour of that country that included placemarks and images. This lesson took between 8-10 classes including research, computer lab time, editing, and finalizing the tour. The Road to Revolution, an eighth grade integration project, used Moodle, Noodlebib and iMovie to create a digital story about the Revolutionary War. Students worked in pairs to write their script and gather images for the digital story. This lesson took 10 classes for script writing, image gathering and recording the digital story.
 * Room**: 103
 * Presenter**: Social Studies - Google Earth, IWB and clickers - Wes Swanson, Paul Juba, Hempfield
 * Description**:

Technology in the Middle School Mathematics Classroom: Interactive Whiteboard and Student Response System
Is the pressure of PSSA test scores wearing you down? Do you desperately want new and exciting was to engage your math students everyday? Please come to this session to explore several different methods for integrating technology into your math classroom. Interactive whiteboards and Turning Point Student Response System will be highlighted during the presentation.
 * Room**: 106A
 * Presenter**: Jenna Karkoska and Matt Wagaman, Hempfield School District
 * Description**:

Classroom Technology Integration: Lots of Ideas! (FCS)
Are you interested in intensifying student interest and success in your curricular content? Would you like practical ideas to add to your teaching tool bag? Come to this session to explore ways to seamlessly integrate technology into classroom activities and teaching strategies. View classroom tested, real life, practical applications of Moodle, iMovie, forum, and more. Join in a discussion to share ideas, concerns and questions. Although the examples presented are used in a Family and Consumer Science classroom, the applications can easily be adapted to any subject area.
 * Room**: 106B
 * Presenter**: Tina Shank, Penn Manor School District
 * Description**:

eMission – Operation Montserrat – Interactive Video Conference
Experience an actual eMission - Participants at this session will experience this interactive Video Conference mission as actual participants. This will be their exciting mission: The Soufriere Hills volcano located on the small island of Montserrat is ready to erupt at the same time a Category 3 hurricane is approaching the island from the east. The volcano team calculates rock fall and volcanic tectonic data to predict what will happen with the volcano. The hurricane team tracks the approaching hurricane and calculates estimated times of arrival on the island. The evacuation team uses population maps and available transportation options to move residents out of the danger zones to safe shelters on the island. Your team receives satellite data from the island every 5-6 minutes to assess the situation. The communication team’s job is to keep Mission Control informed about this brewing situation on Montserrat and to relay recommendations from all teams. Standards: Earth science, water cycle, weather, oceans & energy, rock cycle, lithospheric plates, ecosystems and spheres, risk management, graphing, graph interpretation, math in everyday life. //(Note: this is a condensed version of the actual student video conference.)//
 * Room**: 106C
 * Presenter**: Commander Kathleen Frank
 * Description**:

Making the World Flat Through a Internet Technologies (Delivering world class education to developing countries.)
This presentation will highlight a prototype collaborative that could change how developing countries access world class education. Utilizing an “adopt-a-school” model, we will demonstrate how any school in the developed world can enrich curriculum, instruction, and teacher training. We will demonstrate and discuss such technologies as the XO Laptop from OLPC, wiki’s, SKYPE, Teacher Tube, FLIP videos and other forms of digital media. We will demonstrate the amazing benefits of such a partnership for all participants. Come see how you and your students can change the world without leaving their town.
 * Room**: 106D
 * Presenter**: Jeff Remington, a 7th grade science teacher, Palmyra Middle School
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Adding Pizzazz to Student Projects

 * Room**: 106E
 * Presenter**: Amy Shucker and Jennifer Klinger, Language Arts teachers, ELCO Middle School
 * Description**:Make your students’ poems come to life with digital poetry! Learn how iMovie and GarageBand can be utilized to create “digital poems.” During this session, participants will learn how to create visual representations of poems using iMovie. Attendees will then learn how to use Garageband to record a voiceover over of a poem as well as a background track appropriate to the poem’s mood and tone. Exporting the voiceover from Garageband as an Mp3 file makes incorporating the file into the existing iMovie a snap! The final result is a digital poem, complete with pictures, a voice over, and background music! This project can be adapted for other subject areas. Student Project Example