UCET 2010 Conference - Presenter Handouts and Materials

Below, listed alphabetically by presentation title, you'll find the presentation materials submitted for online distribution to our UCET membership. In your browser, you can right-mouse-button-click on any of the links and choose "Save File as...," "Save Target as...," "Download linked file as...," or something similar. The browser will then allow you to choose a location to save that file to on your local hard drive.

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UCET 2010 Conference Presentation Handouts, Materials, and Links

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A Teacher's Guide to Plagiarism Detection Tools:  Richard Eissinger, Southern Utah University

Accessing Curriculum with eText:  Judy Roberts, Jordan School District

Advanced my.uen:  Victoria Rasmussen, UEN

Animation, Bingo, PPT Games, Clickers, and More – Technology Tips to Enhance Student InteractionRandy Christensen, Richard Eissinger, Southern Utah University

Bats in the Neighborhood: Friend or Foe?: Bonnie Muir, Jordan

Blog Your Class:  Kathy Himle, SLCC

Blogging Basics:  Katie Blunt, Camille Cole, Canyons School District

Bringing Web 2.0 into the Classroom with Blogs and Wikis: Katie Blunt and Camille Cole

Building Blocks of iLife, The: iTunes and iPhoto: Kelly Dumont

Capture That Screen With Jing!: Nathan Smith, Utah State University

Crafting a Winning Grant Proposal:  Jenn Gibbs, UEN

Creating AAC Podcasts with a PC:  Carl Lyman, Brett Zabel, Utah State Office of Education

Cutting-Edge, Totally Web-based Keyboarding (Grades 1-college):  Barbara Ellsworth, Mesa Community College / Ellsworth Publishing Company & Professor at Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ

e-Teaching Tools for the Elementary Classroom:  Carol Robertson, Tooele County School District

Engage Your Students with Scantron "Clickers"!:  Melissa Prapassarangkool, Marty Connolly, Scantron Corp

Explore the QWERTY Island Keys with Captain Keyboard: Dr. Bill Morgan, Canyons School District

Finding and Customizing Educational Games:  Rob Bentley, UEN

Foreign Language Resources:  Rob Bentley, UEN

Fun Excel Projeects:  Victoria Rasmussen, UEN

Get SMART! SMART Boards & SMART Notebook Software:  LeAnn Springer Uinta County School District #1

Getting Started in Second Life:  Laura Eliason, MEd, Davis School District

GIS (Geographic Information Systems): Bonnie Muir, Jordan

Google Calendar: Tricia Jackson, Park City School District

Google Docs and Forms: Rob Bentley, UEN

Google Sites for Building Collaborative Websites:  Carl Lyman, Utah State Office of Education

Google: Stop Searching and Start Finding!:  Victoria Rasmussen, UEN

Helping Adolescent Readers REACH Their Potential:  Jennifer Kendrick, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Craig Pritchard

How to Increase Your School's ACT Score 2-3 Points:  John Baylor, John Baylor Test Prep

Hunt and Peck Remediation (OTS) Dr. Bill Morgan, Canyons School District

Introduction to Programming with MIT Scratch:  Carl Lyman, Utah State Office of Education

Is There Life Beyond Google? Using Digital Libraries to Find Educational Resources for the Classroom:  Kirsten Butcher, Robert Zheng, University of Utah

Merging Documents: Experience the Tool of Merging Documents to Enhance Communication with Parents and Students:  Todd J. Andre, Davis

New Snow Leopard Screen Capture Options: Nathan Smith, Utah State University

Online Assessment Options:  Cher McDonald, Canyons District

Photoshop:  Nathan Smith

  • Learn Photoshop CS4 - this is a BYOL session (Bring Your Own Laptop). If you don't own Photoshop CS4 Extended, please download and install Adobe's free trial version just before the conference. You can get the trial download at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

  • All workshop materials and additional resources will be online at TeacherLINK

Pixie + Projects = Phenomenal Performance:  Betsy Wagstaff, Edith Bowen Lab School

Pizzaz in your SMART Presentations: Bob Hoopes, Duchesne County School District

Powerful PowerPoint:  Stephanie Seely, Jayanne Unander, Granite School District

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Paper and Ink:  Tricia Jackson, Park City School District

Responsible World Citizenship in a Digital Age:  Kip Clark, Rachel Ligairi, ProQuest

Search Me! Effective Google Search Techniques for the Classroom: Kelly Dumont

Show Me Your Story – Photostory and Windows Movie Maker:  Todd J. Andre Davis

Have some fun using windows free story telling software, Photo Story and Windows Movie Maker. Find out how fun and easy it is to make your own video stories with music and narration. This will be hands on, so be ready to think, have fun and be enlightened.

Stop Motion Animation with FRAMES:  Rob Bentley, UEN

SumoPaint: Tricia Jackson, Park City School District

Technology in the Arts:  Christine Ramker, Jordan

The EMED Project – Creating podcasts of 4th Grade Math Concepts:  Vicky Dahn, NUES

The Entrada Ranch GIS project:  Pat Lambrose, Salt Lake City School District; Guy Durrant, Daggett SD

The Web 2.0 Classroom:  Trent Jensen, Davis School District

Using Boardmaker Plus to Create Curriculum Activities:  Judy Roberts Jordan School District

Utah First Lego League and First Robotics:  Kathy Hajeb, University of Utah

Utah Stories -- iTunes U Project:  Carl Lyman, Brett Zabel, Utah State Office of Education

VolunteerSpot: Tricia Jackson, Park City School District

What's New with eMedia (Video Downloads and More!): Adriane Andersen andKatie Garrett; UEN

Which Voice Recognition Program Should I Use? Dragon Naturally Speaking or Microsoft -Vista/Windows 7 Speech Recognition:  Bryan Carroll, Kent Remund, Utah Center for Assistive Technology (UCAT)

Wicked Wikis:  Colleen Bliss and Sallie Warnecke, Canyons School District

Wimba Classroom Basics:  Scott Allen, UEN

Wireless Computing:  Jon Freeman, Xirrus, Inc.

Word Projects:  Victoria Rasmussen, UEN

WordQ and SpeakQ - Writing Tools for Reluctant Writers:  Craig Boogaard, Utah Center for Assistive Technology

Writing Books with PowerPoint:  Paul Waite, Davis School District

Writing Options that Work!:  Judy Olson, Marla Marshall, LuAnn Sorensen, Lorraine Frandsen, Heather Ogden, Janice Bruno, Carbon/Emery UAAACT

Your Technology Passport to Teaching the Social Studies CoreRuth King, Bob Hoopes, Cedar Ridge Elementary

YouTube:  Keith Smedberg, Bruce Luck, Granite - Olympus High

 

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