Here is my presentation document for “Using Mahara” from the 2010 Moodle Moot
Mahara is a system that can complement a Moodle installation.
Entries Tagged as 'conferences'
TechFeast – Drupal I and Drupal II
July 21, 2010 · No Comments · conferences
If you are looking to create your school’s website, Drupal is an alternative to Joomla or other CMSs.
These are documents from my presentations at 2010 Tech Feast in Bloomington, IL:
presentation-Drupal_I
presentation-Drupal_II
Creating a Digital Substitute #ICE2010
February 24, 2010 · No Comments · conferences
There are so many tools available. I have tried to share just a few that could be utilized to Create a Digital Substitute for when you are attending a conference, have another planned absence, for a virtual field trip, for setup for a lab experiment, or just for the student that was absent.
2009 IL Education and Technology Conference
November 21, 2009 · No Comments · conferences, Web2.0
It has been 2 years since I jumped into the Web 2.0 world. Wow! What a difference 2 years has made. I attended the 2007 Illinois Education and Technology Conference. At that conference, I learned about social bookmarking, blogs, and wikis. Since then I have learned a lot of great things by investing some time into learning about many technologies that are available to all of us.
I had my first opportunity to share this year at the 2009 Illinois Education and Technology Conference. My presentation was titled, “Creating a Digital Substitute”. The presentation was basically about using tools such as Flip Video cameras, MP3 Recorders, myplick.com, Microsoft MovieMaker, Audacity and a variety of other tools. These tools allow a teacher to leave materials for a substitute teacher to utilize during a planned absence or a staffing. Other opportunities could be a digital field trip, notes for an absent student or review for science lab setup and notes from class.
The idea of creating a digital substitute is a ultimately a way for the teacher to learn the technologies that eventually they will feel comfortable in sharing these technologies with their students. Two speakers (Charlene Chausis and David Jakes) at the 2007 conference shared that we need to immerse ourselves in these tools/technologies in order for us to have a comfort level that we can then share these tools with others (students).
Technology Conferences
February 9, 2009 · 2 Comments · conferences
I wonder why people attend conference(s), technology or non-technology? I use the term, non-technology, but I really cannot imagine that there is such a thing as a non-technology conference.
I will be attending the ICE Conference at the end of this month, February 24-27, 2009. I know there will be teachers and administrators at the conference since ICE stands for Illinois Computing Educators. This is an aspect of the conference(s) that I anticipate. It is the networking with other Teachers, Technology Coordinators, Directors, CIOs, and Administrators.
This will be the second conference that I have attended this year. The first being a conference in Springfield in November called the Illinois Education and Technology Conference.
At these conference(s), I get an increased passion for expanding the utilization of technology in our classrooms as well as ideas for better utilization for the professional and administrative technologies. Mostly because of the successes that are shared during the sessions.
A goal that I have for the upcoming conference is to learn from other schools how they are utilizing their budgets, big or small. As the time comes around this year for building budgets, I wonder about balancing the Capital Outlay, Supplies and Materials and the Professional Development that comes with the technologies.
I will check back in with an update at the beginning of March. In the meantime, please share conferences (technology and non-technology) you attend and one thing that you liked best about the conference.
Keep Learning and Sharing,
chris
