NYSCATE 2005 - Bridging the Digital Divide

I just returned from NYSCATE and had a great experience. The keynote speakers were mostly good (with one exception), but not overly dynamic. I actually enjoyed the keynote speakers at the eLearning Symposium better.

My own presenter experience left a bit to be desired, but I'll post more about that later.

However, the workshops and concurrent sessions I attended were GREAT - every last one of them!!!! Either I made better choices than usual or the quality of the sessions was better this time.

I plan to write about each session soon, but am a bit over my head at the moment with requirements for my grad class, so it might be this weekend before I can post in more detail. However, I did put together some links and resources from these sessions. I was hoping to post it as an attachment here, but apparently Blogger doesn't support file attachments.

SO...
I've copied my Word document below. Sorry it's so long. No time to reformat right now. I'll see about making it look nicer later. First is info from the Keynotes and then scroll down for info from the sessions I attended.

Keynotes at NYSCATE 05

Opening Keynote – The Technology Wave of 2005

Corinne Hoisington - Professor of Information Systems Technology at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, VA

Links to info from her presentation are here.

http://courses.cvcc.vccs.edu/IST_Hoisington/nystate.htm

Keynote 2 – Creating a Learning Landscape with Digital Equity: What’s the Real Deal?

Bonnie Bracey - teacher-agent of change, working on technology integration projects with classroom teachers and national organizations.

Link to a streaming video of her presentation here and it will be on the NYSCATE website in a month. This was not the best presentation I ever went to.

http://www.annese.com/connect/

Hotlinks to supporting websites

• The Thornburg Center
• Digital Divide Network
• The George Lucas Educational Foundation
• Fifth World Summit for Children
• Games and Education
• Learning About Digital Divide Issues in the Classroon
• Science Without Frontiers STEM Initiatives
• http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey

Bonnie's Blog

Keynote 3 – The Journey from Access to Competence: Equity, Internet Inquiry, and Online Reading Comprehension

Julie Coiro, University of Connecticut

U Conn New Literacies web site

http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/

NYSCATE Presentation

http://www.lite.iwarp.com/NYSCATE2005.html

Closing Keynote – Bridging the Digital Divide: How Do We Minimize the Gap?

Dr. Cornelia Brunner

I didn’t attend this one. Below are links she had to supporting documents.

Supporting Web sites:

The Merrow Report

http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tmr_radio/girltech/guests.html

EDC

http://main.edc.org/Search/viewDirector.asp?id=66

Youth Learning

http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/howto.asp

NYSCATE Keynote Info

This is a link to the Keynote presenter bios and info on the NYSCATE website.

http://www.nyscate.org/conferences.cfm?subpage=133

Workshop and Concurrent Session Info from NYSCATE 05

I attended the following workshops and concurrent sessions

Using Office in the Elementary Grades

And

Cool Things You Can Do with Excel

Janet Caughlin, author of several books on these subjects by Scholastic/Tom Snyder Productions.

Janet’s web site with tutorials and info from and about her books

http://www.workshopbooks.com/

Excel Resources

http://www.workshopbooks.com/software_tutorials/excel_resources.html

Conference handouts

http://www.workshopbooks.com/conference_handouts/download_conf.html

Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: The Power of Digital Storytelling

David Jakes, Technology Coordinator, Community High School District 99 (Downers Grove, Illinois)

His website

http://www.jakesonline.org

MANY resources at his web site

http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm

Making Primary Source Connections with the Library of Congress

Gail Petri – Education Resource Specialist with the Library of Congress (formerly a librarian at Rush-Henrietta)

Library of Congress website

http://www.loc.gov/

This is a wonderful “guided tour” handout she used http://www.loc.gov/creativity/hampson/workshop/paper_tour.pdf I also have a copy of her presentation that I can share with people. Just let me know if you would like it.

Podcasting in Education

Gary Stager – consultant, phenomenal speaker, Thornburg Institute Associate and professor at Pepperdine University.

Gary’s web site

http://www.stager.org

A WEALTH of educational podcasting and audio production resources and information

http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html

Also other multimedia resources

http://www.stager.org/imovie/index.html


Apple Digital School Community (not just for Apple users)

Subscription based but some free things. I’ll be getting a trial subscription soon and will share that info with you. Lots of professional development resources and many other resources for teachers. Subscription includes NetTrekker and AtomicLearning (both of which are expensive to subscribe to separately). It's $75 for single user with education discount at the Apple Store.

A one-year subscription for educators that includes a collection of audio journals, online courses, cornerstone research, commentary, tools, resources and collaboration for an individualized, "just-in-time" approach to professional development.

A one-year subscription for educators that includes tutorials, libraries of articles and resources, and an interactive environment for individualized, collaborative, "just-in-time" professional development. Includes access to the full suite of netTrekker's more than 180,000 online resources that align with every state's standards. Features monthly audio journals from Audio Education with interviews with education experts.

Apple School Community home page

http://www.apple.com/education/ads/

Guided tour available there.