Massachusetts DEN STARs presenting at MassCUE October 2009

1. DEN STARS Present AT MassCUE

2. Kathleen Schrock, Director of Technology Nauset Public Schools in Orleans Kathy will be a spotlight presenter on Wednesday. 11:15-12:10, Wednesday, October 28 SCORE: Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload Keeping up with the amount of information on the Web, which grows exponentially each day, has become a problem. How does an educator keep up with the blogs, micro-blogs, social networks, and email in order to learn from others and contribute their own expertise? Come learn how! The objective of the presentation is to provide time-proven strategies for gathering, sifting, and harvesting information using quick, easy methods.

3. Beth Knittle is the District K-12 Technology Integration specialist for Barnstable Public Schools Beth is presenting with Christine Spence-Dilley on Wednesday. Media in a Math Resource Room In 2007 Barnstable public schools began to participate in the Assistive Learning in an Integrated Collaborative Environment, grant 170, which provided students with learning disabilities laptops for classroom instruction. Explore ways to transform the learning environment of the math resource room into one rich with technology and media. Instruction and remediation can be tailor-made to meet individual student objectives using free Web tools and multimedia, allowing students to participate in a one-to-one laptop environment for daily instruction.

4. Donna Criswell, Technology Curriculum Integration Specialist in Sudbury, will be presenting on Wednesday with a group of her colleagues. Putting the Tools in the Hands of Kids Join us to experience how elementary teachers are putting wikis, podcasts, iMovies, FlipVideo cameras, laptops, unitedstreaming, Keynote, Pages, Interactive whiteboard technology . . . and more . . . in the hands of kids! We will share specific examples as well as management strategies from 4th and 5th grade classrooms across our district. Come join the fun and discover how to engage kids in active learning! Donna Criswell, Sara Fischer, Laura Burney, Megan Bowhers, Liz Kerrigan, and Amie Abdal-Khabir