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Obstacles to Opportunities “The Technology Specialist as Teacher Leader: Strategies to Ensure Successful Technology Integration and Student Learning in Schools”

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Patrick Ledesma
Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Bio
Patrick Ledesma is a School Based Technology Specialist (SBTS) and National Board Certified Teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he helps teachers and students integrate technology in the classroom. He is currently in the Ph.D. program at George Mason University.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Patrick+Ledesma

Presentation Title
“The Technology Specialist as Teacher Leader: Strategies to Ensure Successful Technology Integration and Student Learning in Schools”

Description
Successful technology integration in schools requires more than just advocating technology. Technology integration requires instructional understanding, administrative collaboration. and professional development. This knowledge must be combined with an understanding of student needs, school culture, and current education issues. Technology leadership is instructional leadership, and in his presentation Patrick will review strategies that help the technology specialist balance the numerous hardware, software, training, and instructional issues while keeping a focus on student impact.

Presentation
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/ledesma.mp4
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/Ledesma.mov
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/ledesma.mp3

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Obstacles to Opportunities Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age”

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Karen Richardson
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Blog: http://witchyrichy.wordpress.com

Bio
Karen is a full-time doctoral student in Curriculum and Educational Technology at the College of William and Mary. She also serves as an adjunct instructor at the College. Her “real” work varies from helping school divisions update technology plans to working with principals who are learning about their roles in the integration process to providing ftf and online workshops on a variety of tech topics. She is the chair of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Society for Technology and Education.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Karen+Work+Richardson

Presentation Title
“Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age”

Description
Copyright used to be only a problem to teachers as they tried to figure out what they could and could not use. Some just gave up and crossed their fingers. Multimedia projects loaded onto websites only made it worse because now it really did matter where you got it. Fortunately, just as the web has facilitated file sharing, it has also given birth to new ideas about copyright and how we can make the rules more user-friendly. This presentation will briefly review current copyright law, but it will focus primarily on a new trend called Creative Commons that puts power in the hands of both the creator and the consumer, who is, by the way, probably also a creator. The copyright boundary has been breached and teachers and students should be stepping through!

Presentation
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/copyrightintro.m4v
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/copyrightintro.mp4
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/copyrightintro.mp3

Supporting Links
http://witchyrichy.wikispaces.com/copyright
http://del.icio.us/witchyrichy/copyright

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Professional Learning Networks “Creating PLE’s with TLC”

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Brandi Caldwell
Springville, Alabama, USA
Blog: http://mrscaldwell0.edublogs.org/

Bio
Brandi is married with two sons Trey (7) and Brady (5 mths). She has taught high school English for 11 years. In 2002 she became a Nationally Board Certified Teacher. In 2006 she became a 21st Century Fellow with the Alabama Best Practices Center. Her goal in the classroom as well as with teacher training is to show that school can be challenging and creative through the use of technology integration.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/BrandiCaldwell

Presentation Title
“Creating PLE’s with TLC”

Description
All teachers should feel like they can be a part of a professional learning environment (PLE) that involves their colleagues within the school, the district, and the world. Many face obstacles when seeking meaningful professional development. Brandi will provide ten technology-infused steps toward creating group collaboration and professional learning environments. The first step will be the most basic with the greatest comfort level and each step will advance towards a more technologically proficient user.

Presentation
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/PLEwithTLCnew_iPod.mov
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/PLEwithTLC-new.mov
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/PLEwithTLCnew.mp3

Supporting Links
http://del.icio.us/PLEwithTLC
http://professional-learning-networks.wikispaces.com/Welcome

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Professional Learning Networks “Building Online Communities for Youth”

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Lee Baber,
Shenandoah Valley, VA, USA
Blog: http://EdTechTalk.com

Bio
Lee Baber is a musician, audio engineer & artist who teaches CompTech8 in Virginia’s Rockingham County Schools and works with Youth Voices, Youthbridges, New Media Guides, EdTechTalk and presented Book of Internet Audio at K12Online last year.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Lee+Baber

Paul Allison
New York City, New York, USA
Blog: http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/

Bio
Paul Allison teaches as NYC School of the Future and is the NYC Technology Liaison for the New York City Writing Project.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Lee+Baber

Susan Ettenheim
New York City, New York, USA

Bio
Susan Ettenheim is having a lot of fun and finding great satisfaction teaching at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, M416 in New York City and webcasting with the EdTechTalk network of Worldbridges.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Lee+Baber

Chris Sloan
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Bio
Chris Sloan is a Master Journalism Educator and teaches AP English Language and Composition, composition, photography, and New Media at Judge Memorial in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been the tech liaison for the Utah Writing Project, the National Writing Project, and the Utah state director for the Journalism Education Association.

Bio Page
https://k12online07presenters.wikispaces.com/Lee+Baber

Presentation Title
“Building Online Communities for Youth”

Description
Our examples for this presentation, Youthvoices and Personal Learning Space, are school-based social networking sites, a place online where our students share personal blogs, do research into topics of their own choosing, work with images, and develop profile pages that connect to other students from Canada, Brazil, USA, and other countries who are joining in. As students develop an online identity with maps, avatars/icons, interests, likes and dislikes, teachers and moderators of the space can facilitate communication and networking skills. (Live event Oct. 24, Wednesday at 9:00pm EST http://edtechtalk.com)

Presentation
Original
http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/Building%20Online%20Communities%20for%20Youth
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/lbaber.mp3

Supporting Links
http://edtechtalk.com/node/169
http://YouthVoices.net
http://PersonalLearningSpace.com
http://YouthBridges.net
http://ElggPlans.wikispaces.com
http://YouthWiki.wikispaces.com
http://teachersteachingteachers.org/
http://WorldBridges.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/paulallison
http://WebcastAcademy.net

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