Presenter: Jeff Bradbury
Location: New Jersey
@TeacherCast
Presentation Title: Learn how to create a WordPress Website in less than 20 minutes
Presentation Description: Learn how YOU can create a dynamic WordPress website in less than 20 minutes. Jeff (TeacherCast) walks you through the steps and demonstrates how to choose a great theme, add posts, pages, widgets, videos, photos, and menu items.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.TeacherCast.net
Presenter: Kathy Cassidy
Location: Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
@kathycassidy
Presentation Description: Connecting your classroom with the world beyond your building is not just an add on. Connecting can teach digital citizenship, engage students, provide an authentic world-wide audience, meet curriculum standards and extend the learning. Kathy Cassidy shares examples from her own and other classrooms of deep, connected learning.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://bit.ly/findingconnections
Additional Information:
Places to Find Kathy Cassidy
Professional Blog: http://kathycassidy.com
Classroom Blog: http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/
Email: kathy[at]kathycassidy[dot]com
Book: Connected From the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades
http://shop.plpnetwork.com/connectedkids/
Presenter: Karyn Keenan
Location: Chicago, Illinois USA
Twitter: @karynteaches
Presentation Description: In this presentation, Karyn shares how she takes her primary students on a digital journey without a budget! First, Karyn will convince you why you should blog with your students. Then you will learn how to set up blogs on Kidblog and get your kids blogging and commenting. Karyn will also share how the use of tools like VoiceThread and AudioBoo can enhance your blogging experience!
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://sites.google.com/site/thetools4school4/k12online12
Additional Information:
Presenter: Allanah King
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
@Allanahk
Presentation Title: Sandpit QR Code Presentation
Presentation Description: In this presentation Allanah King describes how she has used QR codes with her class of Year Four children. She also shares a number of other uses of QR Codes that may be useful in teaching and communicating with the wider community. The ideas in the presentation came from a series of blog posts that Allanah wrote over a series of months in the middle of 2011. All of the links she mentions in the presentation are hyperlinked on those blog posts. Please visit Allanah’s blog and suggest other ways you have used QR codes in your classroom.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://allanahk.edublogs.org/category/qr-codes/
