Separating Prime Cuts of Educational Technology from Common “Mystery Meat”
I will be presenting this summer at the Summer Institute in Olympia, WA. During my session, Math & Technology in Today’s Classroom, I’ll show how I use technology such as the electronic whiteboard, student response systems, software, mathcasts and video projects to promote student learning and achievement and for assessment (both formative and summative).
For those who want to learn more about mathcasts, I’m pleased to announce that Tim Fahlberg along with a wonderful team of partners (including yours truly 
) will be conducting a session at NECC entitled Mathcast Spaces: Thinking, Doing, and Sharing Mathematics Out Loud.
Presenting at EduComm this year was a great experience but didn’t really allow time in my schedule to attend any sessions. Well, here is a page of 2007 EduComm Post-Event Conference Material with links to handouts and videos of sessions so now I can watch them. And so can you. 
I spent last week at the AP Calculus Summer Institute in Vancouver, WA. I took the AP Calculus AB (experienced) session with instructor Sharon Cade. I was glad to have her as an instructor again; I took a week-long workshop from her a few years ago at PLU and learned so much. I gained a lot of insight during this session into the reading and scoring of the AP exam which will definitely help me better prepare my students next year. Besides the calculus, I also love her team-building activities and definitely plan to use them this year. I think they get kids in the right frame of mind, and they are fun. I know I learn more if I’m having a little fun. :) The experienced session was also great because I got great ideas for lessons and incorporating technology from the other teachers in my session.
Here are a few math and tech highlights from the week:
I’ve updated the Mathcasts, The Sustainable Classroom, and About Patty pages.
Mathcasts: I’ve included links to student projects and to some of my own videos, directions for creating your own mathcast, and links to other mathcast resources on the web.
The Sustainable Classroom: I have included a link to a video created by ESD 112 of my students and I using and discussing the technology we received through our participation in the Sustainable Classroom Grant.
About Patty: I’ve updated this page with information about technology grants that I have or am currently participating in, presentations I have given, and articles and press releases about our classroom and projects.
You can either click on these links or use the menu at the top of each page to visit these pages. Enjoy!
Shari Conditt and I presented this morning at the ATI/ETS Summer Conference. Our session, Practical Applications and the Role of Technology in Assessment FOR Learning, focused on how we have applied Assessment FOR Learning strategies in our own classrooms for the past four years and how we use technology to help us assess student learning.
We shared our syllabi and how we introduce our assessment practices to students and parents, assessment software that we use such as ExamView from FSCreations and Hot Potatoes from Half-Baked Software Inc. (see previous post), how we use our eInstruction “clickers” (aka student response systems), and mathcasts.
I hope to post portions of our presentation soon.
If you attended our session and have questions or comments, feel free to post your comments here or to send an email.
My EduComm presentation, a joint session with Michele Conway, can be viewed here. Michele’s portion of the presentation can be viewed in slides 1-32; she gives a great overview of the Hitachi StarBoard and its uses in the classroom. My portion of the presentation can be viewed in slides 33-the end; I primarily discuss how my students and I use the Hitachi StarBoard to create mathcasts.
I am honored to be presenting on July 24th at the 14th Annual ETS Summer Conference. In this presentation with my colleague, Shari Conditt, we will describe how we have implemented Assessment FOR Learning practices in our own classrooms and how we utilize technology in formative assessment. In particular, will share how I am currently using ExamView and Hot Potatoes (LOVE the spuds!) online assessments, eInstruction student response systems, and mathcasts.
I’ve just completed Year Two of this project and when I think back to how I taught two years ago compared to now, I barely recognize that teacher. I’ve been involved in several technology grants through the years but this one by far has done more to change the way I teach than any other project.
Kash VanCleef and I made a joint presentation at the year-end Sustainable Classroom Project Celebration on June 27th. We shared our experiences using technology in our classes, described our mathcast project, and shared our plans for our 2007 Qwest Foundation Learning Technology Grant. Our presentation wasn’t recorded live, but I hope to have a Camtasia recording of our presentation to share soon.
After our presentation, we were presented with some new toys - brand new Hitachi BT-2G Bluetooth tablets! I’d like to give a special thanks to Nicole Rausch of Hitachi America and to Bob Berry of Troxell Communications for our new toys. 
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