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=**Tiffany Howell's VSTE Notes Page**= [|Delicious Site for Shelton Park]

Engaging and Involving the Digital Mindset- Student Voices:
by Deneen Frazier - Keynote speaker http://www.deneenfrazier.com/

http://www.actwith.com/ [|www.**digital**collaboratory.blogspot.com] ( blocked by school filter) http://takingitglobal.org/ TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. It is now the world's most popular online community for young people interested in making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month. http://www.taglit.org/taglit/login.aspx - Taking A Good Look At Instructional Technology

Podcasting 101:
by John Hendron

Jenny has a great summary of this session of her page. Jenny's Page

Here is the link to the presenters website: http://www.johnhendron.net/

Here are some other links to blog pages where teachers have posted podcasts that their classes made. http://bobsprankle.com/blog/C1180652568/index.html

Here is another link to a teacher page that Janene sent me. This one is a teacher at Brandon MS: http://mrmayo.org/ Click on the link to their online magazine to hear their podcasts.

NETS*T Certification:
by Linda Holt and Karen Campbell The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has created National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T). These standards promote effective technology integration in the classroom. Teaching with technology has been shown to increase student achievement, and this is the overarching goal of the SVTC EdTech grant.

We are encouraging all teachers within our consortium to become NETS*T certified. [|View complete list of NETS*T certified educators].

The process
Below is an overall look at the certification process. For specific directions on how to submit artifacts, please download [|Steps for Submitting Artifacts]. [|http://svtcgrant.cisat.jmu.edu]. Here is a presenation about the process: Here is the handout we were given by Karen Cambell Here is a the webapge that outlines the process and has the rubrics. [|**svtc-edtech.org**]
 * 1) Register for a NETS*T Certification Electronic Portfolio at
 * 1) Complete the survey of essential conditions and self-assessment online.
 * 2) Once you are in your electronic portfolio, select a performance indicator (eg. I.A, VI.C, etc.) under the ?View Current Status? link. You will have the following buttons for each performance matrix:
 * 3) Description (a description of the indicator)
 * 4) Plan (list ideas for meeting this standard section, optional)
 * 5) Evidence (a list of suggested artifacts for meeting this performance indicator)
 * 6) Model (see samples of artifacts, coming soon)
 * 7) Portfolio (upload or update artifacts)

Digital Stories:
Denneen Frazier

One of our Fourth Grade Teachers, Glenn VanHouten went to this session. Here is the website with sample digital stories and information on how to make them. He's planning to start having his students make these next week. I'll let you know how it goes! http://www.digitales.us/index.php

Technology Teams:
by **Malinda Gilbert** Technology Support Specialist IT Call Center Fairfax County Public Schools & **Ryan Dillon** Technology Support Specialist Woodson HS Fairfax County Public Schools

Spring Hill ES Technology Team – Amy McFarlin, SBTS

1. The team meets once a month on Monday afternoons as part of a committee. Every teacher is required to be on at least one committee. Grades 1-5 are present (usually) and 1 specialist is present. Grade 5 teacher informs the 6th grade what is going on since there are only four 6th grade teachers and they are obligated to be on other committees.

2. Tech Members assist in letting us know the kinds of training they would like during their monthly training times.

3. Each member is responsible for the information provided by the SBTSs and giving it to their team members.

4. Team meets and discusses items they would like to be purchased by our P.T.O. and we also share what is going on in the classrooms.

5. Team members do some hands-on training and then they are supposed to turn around and train their teams. These are for "tips and tricks" not major training items.

6. Team shares the types of equipment available and lessons that the SBTSs can demonstrate and to talk to their teams about them.

We received a CD with the presentation and some other files as well. **



Keynote in the Classroom:
by Suzanne Whitlow & Julie Franklin - Henrico Co. Public Schools

This was a Share Fair session that displayed quicktime that we made using Key Note which is similar to Power Point but for Apples. Here is a link to the website where their SOL review movies are stored. The movies are cute for SOL Review. Some of them having catching musical tunes with the kids singing to them. They said we can download them and use them at our schools as long as we have quicktime. http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/~whitloss/keynotevste/index.html

Google, Google, Google
by Brenda Crawford brenda.crawford@frco.k12.va.us and Tara McGrady Franklin Co. Public Schools

This presentation highlighted the use of Google Earth, Google Images, Google Moon and Google Mars.

Google Moon - http://moon.google.com/ (Try zooming in really close and you'll get a "cheesy" surprise) Google Mars - http://www.google.com/mars/

Social Bookmarking:
by John Hendron http://www.johnhendron.net/

[|www.campfirenow.com] - free for up to 30 people to join your campfire site. http://del.icio.us/- owned by yahho, has newsfeed, RSS capability http://del.icio.us/gcps is his school system's site. Magnolia Wiki-Wiki- which we are using here http://www.writeboard.com/ - created by 37 Signals - can share revise and edit documents. Test- username VSTE, Password VSTE. http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm - recently purchased by google. Allows web word processing.