6 Reasons I’m Excited About VermontFest 2013

6 Reasons I’m Excited About VermontFest 2013

I’m super excited about this year’s VermontFest conference in Killington Vermont for so many reasons.  

#1 Vermont's most amazing educators will be there

Can't wait to catch up with so many of my edtech friends and fantastic Vermont educators 

#2 My sessions this year were super fun to prepare for.  

Presentation materials will be posted next to each session below (minutes before each session – gotta make those last minute tweaks ; )

Using Google Tools to support the Common Core
Thursday Session 2  10:45 – 11:40

The Magic of Making with Your iPad
Thursday evening  6:00 – 9:00

On the Road to iPad App Development
Friday  Session 4   12:40 –1:35

DRAFT 1

DRAFT 2

Collaborative Notes

 

#3 The closing keynote will provide Charlie Wilson and I an opportunity to LAUNCH a new Connected Voices project feature Vermont teachers and students… stay tuned

#4 Killington Grand has the best hot tubs!

#5  I get to bring my HOME and my husband to the conference.

1984 Wanderlodge Bus by Bluebird

Killington Grand is letting us park our mobile home/bus  - Just look around for the brown/tan vintage RV – a Bluebird Wanderlodge.  And Craig Lyndes, my super talented husband is helping with tech set up and tear down, so he’ll be there too

#6 VermontFest (Killington, VT) is our last stop on our way out of Vermont on our living in a bus adventure.

Craig and I gave up our apartment in June and moved into the bus for an 18 month journey (6 months in Vermont, 6 months outside Vermont, 6 months back to Vermont,  with the next 6 months To Be Determined)

Here is our TRAVEL Blog
http://techsavvyknowmads.blogspot.com/

Advanced Google Calendars

Google Tools Mini-Lab Series for Instructional Leaders

sponsored by CVEDCVT

Google Calendar Advanced Features

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Organizing Efficient Meetings with Google Hangouts

 

Looking forward to introducing Google Hangouts today with Educational Leaders from Vermont schools.

Full Screen Presentation

 

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My first attempt to use post by email to lucie.wordpress.com

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Fall 2013

Want to use your iPads in more powerful ways?

Looking for a Graduate Class that can support you in this inquiry?

Then why not enroll in a Fall semester graduate course offered by Marlboro College Graduate school. Completely online!  

Join fellow educators to consider the Essential Question: "How can we leverage mobile tools to transform learning?"

-Contribute to collaborative curation of resources and grow a PLN (personal learning network) that can help us better understand learning with mobile devices.

-Build skills using mobile tools by completing the weekly challenge

– Reflect on our learning

-Complete a Final Project that uses mobile tools to transform learning in YOUR learning environment.

Course Description:

Tablets, smartphones, readers and other mobile devices are rapidly becoming part of the learning landscape. This course will explore and evaluate features and resources to leverage when integrating mobile devices in instructional design and curriculum. Course topics will include apps, multimedia, and multimodal resources such as ibooks, ebooks, iTunes U and Open University. There will be a heavy focus on moving beyond consumption into creation and collaboration with mobile devices, using text, audio, images, and video. Personalized learning, accessibility, and other pedagogical considerations will be explored as we pursue a creative inquiry into what type of transformation is possible with mobile devices.More information is available on the Class Syllabus.

Registration for Fall 2013 EdTech courses, both in Brattleboro, and online, is coming to a close. Classes start September 6th at Marlboro’s graduate school.

Other Marlboro Fall Courses include

• Transforming Learning with Mobile Devices. Online. Faculty: Lucie deLaBruere

• Technology and the Common Core. Online. Faculty: David Wells

• Teaching Programming for Non-Programmers. Online. Faculty: Will Brooke-de Bock

• Web Design and Media Production. Every other Saturday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am. Faculty: Caleb Clark

• Educational Technology. Every other Saturday, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Faculty: Jane Wilde

• Legal and Ethical Issues (1.0 Credit). Online. Faculty: George Anthes

Registration & course descriptions: https://gradschool.marlboro.edu/admissions/application/cep

For information about joining our EdTech master's, certificate, or Educational Technology Specialist endorsement programs, contact Joe Heslin at: jheslin@gradschool.marlboro.edu : (802) 258-9209.

 

Google Tools For Schools Summer Institute

Over 120 Vermont educators are now Google SAVVY after receiving 45 hours of professional development from a rockstar staff of Vermont Google Savvy instructors this summer at Google Tools For Schools.

Amazing projects were designed using Google Tools that are now being implemented in schools across Vermont.  Google Tools For Schools will be featuring some of these projects throughout the school year in upcoming newsletters and Hangouts. 

Thank you to the following organizations  for hosting one of the regional Google Tools For Schools Summer Institutes this summer.

• North Country Schools – Newport, VT
• Bellows Free Academy – St. Albans, VT
• Mount Mansfield Union High School – Jericho, VT
• Crossett Brook Middle School – Duxbury, VT
• Green Mountain Union High School – Chester

And a special thanks to Champlain Valley Educational Development Center supporting the 3rd year of Google Tools For School Summer Institute. 

 

 

 

Mobile Media Maker Camp

Become a Maker of Mobile Media 

Create Media on Your iPad or for Your iPad

July 15 – 19, 2013

at Mobile Media Maker Camp

Learn more at www.MobileMediaCamp.com

 

Mobile devices are changing the way we consume interactive media providing us with increasingly rich resources for teaching and learning. This summer, why not learn to create your own rich and interactive mobile media for teaching and learning while enjoying beautiful Burlington, Vermont.  Making mobile media will not only enhance your own teacher created resources, but it will also provide you with the skills and confidence to guide your students through the process of learning by making movies, music, podcast, ebooks, and mobile games.

Come to Mobile Media Maker Camp and TAKE away a product that YOU MAKE              and also  TAKE away skills and confidence to design learning experiences  around a culture of DO where students use their mobile devices to MAKE Mobile Media and become active contributors to the world around them.  Learn in an amazingly beautiful setting Mobile Media Makers Camp will be held in state of the art campus of Champlain College located within walking distance of  Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont On Campus Housing Available

Imagine Invent and Innovate at ISTE 2013
Looking forward to 3 hours of fun with ISTE Participants tonight

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A great discussion on iPad App Development at Iste UnPlugged Hack your Ed. Add your notes to this discussion

http://goo.gl/J34hR