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 Presenter: John Walz Room: Upper School 149 Audience: Primary, Middle, Upper Faculty Tutorials: http://www.noodletools.com/helpdesk/index.php?action=file_library NoodleTools provides innovative web-based software that supports students and teachers throughout the research process. With this powerful tool you can record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards. When you have completed your research, turn all the you entered into a MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style formatted bibliography. Discuss with John the ways you might think about bringing this into your classroom and see examples of how it has been used at KP. [|Click here to sign up.]  Presenter: John Walz Room: Upper School 149 Tutorials: [|Brain POP]/ [|Discovery Education Streaming] Audience: Primary, Middle, Upper Faculty Are you interested in sites that provide curriculum-based visual content that engages students and supports educators? You will be interested in [|BrainPOP] or [|Discovery Education Streaming]. Both sites also feature lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, and other resources to help teachers to incorporate video content into the classroom. [|Click here to sign up.] 
 * Topic: NoodleBib** - **AM only**
 * Topic: Video Resources** - **PM Only**

**Topic: Social Bookmarking (with Visual Thesaurus)** Presenter: Gayle Allen Room: Upper School 148 Audience: Primary, Middle, Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: [|Diigo], [|Delicious], [|Visual Thesaurus] Social bookmarking allows you to share, organize, search and manage your bookmarks, all on the web. Social bookmarking is a critical component of student and adult learning in a collaborative, 21st century environment. In this session, you will learn what social bookmarking is, how to do it, and some of the ways you and your students can use it to access and share information. The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus. The program allows a user to develop word maps as stand-alone resources or in relation to course or work texts. Learn how Diigo and Visual Thesaurus can interface. [|Click here to sign up.]

Presenter: Alice Miller/Wendy Hall Room: Upper School 231 Audience: Middle and Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: http://www.slideshare.net/pbowler/ning-tutorial-2009 or [|YouTube: what is a Ning?] The unique feature of [|Ning] is that anyone can create their own [|social network] for a particular subject, interest or need. It offers a customizable application enabling users to create their own social network consisting of groups, discussion, photo, video, links to articles. Explore Ning.com and how it is being used in area. [|Click here to sign up.]
 * Topic: BING! You're in the Ning-Addressing the Digital Learner**

Presenter: Rachel Naggar and Aimee Singer Room: Upper School 232 Audience: Primary, Middle, Upper Faculty Tutorials: A social network service essentially allow users share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. Kent Place has created a [|facebook page] for our alumnae and a [|fan page] for our greater community. Take a look at how our development office is marketing our school to current and past constituents. Think about and discuss how your department might use it for marketing too. [|Click here to sign up.]
 * Topic: KPS Presence on Facebook**

Presenter: Becky Van Ry Room: Upper School 238 Audience: Primary, Middle, Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: Todaysmeet.com The term "backchannel" generally refers to online conversation about the topic or the speaker. Occasionally backchannel provides audience members a chance to fact check the presentation. Backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where wireless access connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat to actively communicate during class. Twitter is and example of backchanneling, when audience members add an event hashtag to their tweets (for example, #w2e was the hashtag used for the Web 2.0 Expo New York in 2009), anyone can run a Twitter search to review all the backchannel tweets related to that event. Think of how you could get more of an idea of student understanding or parent feedback or questions as you are presenting or even viewing a movie. [|Click here to sign up.]
 * Topic: Backchanneling**

Presenters: Elaine Schwartz and Sergio Alati Room: Upper School 239 Audience:Primary, Middle, Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: [|Blogger.com] A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. It is a web site where you write on any topic or interest on an ongoing basis. New posts shows up at the top of the page for your visitors to read and then they leave a comment. Come and see how Elaine and Sergio have used blogs in the classroom and beyond. Stop in and discuss with them how you might use it. [|Click here to sign up.]
 * Topic: Blogs**

Presenters: Kim Pearson Room: Upper School 132 - Music Center Audience: Primay, Middle and Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: [|Google in Education], [|Google resource] Free web based word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables any user to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored safely online and you can decide to share it based on permissions or keep it to yourself. Oh, and don't forget it can be accessed from anywhere. Hummmm....come explore how this can change the way you collaborate on assignments and projects. Click here to sign up.
 * Topic: Google Docs**

Presenter: Ana Maria Casas Room: Upper School 241 Audience: Primay, Middle and Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Come learn how you can take advantage of the power of Skype in your classroom.
 * Topic: Skype**

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Presenter: Christy Gillespie and Michelle Murphy Room: Upper School 242 Audience: Middle and Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNoZ7ZpzAQ OneNote is a a powerful tool that allows a users to use their computer like a notebook with sections and pages. But did you know you could simultaneously work on the same note pages, as if writing on a whiteboard in a conference room. After the session ends, every participant is left with a complete copy of the notes. A live sharing session can be useful when you want to edit the same notes during a meeting, so that everyone can contribute at once or even share them with others who cannot attend a the meeting in person. Join Christy as she explores how she has used OneNote and contemplate how this tool could work for you. Click here to sign up.
 * Topic: OneNote Sharing**

Presenter: Judy Bianco Room: Upper School 237 Audience: Primary, Middle and Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: [|Imagination Cubed] [|Dabbleboard] [|Twiddla] Online whiteboard tools allow users to type, draw and collaborate in real-time on a shared web-based whiteboard. We'll examine multiple tools including Imagination Cubed, Dabbleboard, and Twiddla. Online whiteboards are valuable tools for virtual brainstorming and innovation activities. Click here to sign-up.
 * Topic: Online Whiteboards**

Presenter: Sue Tracy Room: Upper School 147 Audience: Primary, Middle and Upper Faculty, Staff Tutorials: With [|VoiceThread], group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos and allows others to navigate pages and leave comments using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). You can share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. VoiceThread is an effective, communications web 2.0 to use throughout all divisions and disciplines. The young learners, even Nursery students can narrate personal events and the older learners can implement more advanced skills such digital storytelling from multiple points of view. Click here to sign up.
 * Topic: VoiceThread**