“Best of the Best” NECC 2007 Workshops

NECC attracts some of the best educational technology presenters in the country. Each year, ISTE identifies the Best of the Best workshops offered at NECC. Inclusion in the Best of the Best program is based on quantitative and qualitative evaluation of numerous factors including workshop enrollments, participant evaluations, relevancy of topic, and overall audience appeal.

We look forward to discussing these opportunities with you. Please contact ISTE Professional Development Services at profdev@iste.org for pricing and availability.

Innovative Learning Technologies

Using GPS Units, Google Earth, and Geocaching in K–12 Classrooms

Learn by using GPS units, Google Earth and geocaching. Locate data-rich geocaches hidden at your school or other location. Explore numerous best practices for incorporating GPS technology/geocaching in K-12 classrooms. 

Literacies for the Information/Creativity Age

Power Searching: Information Fluency at Your Fingertips

Search more efficiently and evaluate digital information more effectively. Learn digital research techniques that return better information more quickly using the Internet.

Multimedia/Video/Virtual Reality

Digital Storytelling Using Still Images and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0

Bring your stories alive with photos. Learn how to create a flowing visual story including narration, music and eye catching effects while learning Premiere Elements.

17 FREE Software Tools for the 21st-Century Classroom

FREE CD software applications/projects for your students to explore the cornerstones of media research, technology, and literature—through minds-on, hands-on learning for the 21st century.

License to Thrill: Using TOP SECRET Technology Strategies to Learn

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Use free, engaging multimedia technology resources to overthrow boredom and educational apathy. Make students WANT to learn.

Quiet on the Set! Integrating GarageBand into Teaching and Learning

Learn hands-on how to enhance teaching and learning by infusing a 21st century recording studio into the classroom! Integrate educational music, podcasts, and video scoring.

Classroom Innovations Series: Podcasting—The New Voice for Learners

Learn how to create podcasts using Apple's tools and see how classrooms are using podcasting to create and distribute great content for student and teacher projects.

Project-Based & Problem-Based Curricula

E-scrapbooking Synergy: Where Natural and Virtual Worlds Meet

Apply seven inquiry-based, e-scrapbooking starters that combine the power of place-based learning, primary sources, and technology tools (PowerPoint, text, photographs, graphs, audio, video).

Web/Internet

Dreamweaver 101- Up and Running in Three Hours

Adobe's Dreamweaver is powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Come learn the basic skills you need to create, publish, and edit your Web site.

Don’t Break the Bank- Free Software Options for K–12 Schools

Are you paying too much for software? Join us for a hands-on exploration of free Web-based resources for the classroom. A CD will be provided.

Instructional & Administrative Productivity Tools/Resources

Create Your Own Multimedia Masterpiece with Windows Movie Maker

Say the word “movie” to any students and their eyes light up. It is simple to create your own masterpiece with Windows Movie Maker 2 (MM2). In this workshop we will take digital video (from a digital camcorder or download), edit it and save it to a DVD.

Engaging Staff and Students Using Web 2.0 Tools for Collaboration

Adults are overwhelmed and students are disengaged. Learn how Web-based collaboration tools can become part of the solution. Gain resources for immediate use.

Become a Digital Integration Maestro with Microsoft MovieMaker and Producer!

Compose dazzling presentations and online tutorials with Producer. Master the basics of digital video editing. Learn to integrate videos, PowerPoints, pictures, and Web pages. (6 hours)

Advanced Blogging, or Dealing with Sidebar Envy

Beginners and blogmeisters will examine and implement the most useful and interesting tools available for the Web 2.0 community. Think "tinker-toy philosophers." (6 hours)

Professional Development

Finding Successful Solutions for Technology Staff Development

Are you trying to solve the mystery of improving your staff development? These well-known investigators gather the evidence and present the right solution!

Funding

Approaching Grantgivers: How to Write It, How to Sell It!

Gain insight into effective technology grant development. Leave with a comprehensive grantwriting handbook on CD with sample grants and access to extensive grantwriting Web sites.

Safety & Security Issues

CSI- NECC—Computer Forensics and Data Recovery for Educators

Are bad things happening on good computers? Computer forensics and data recovery is a fascinating field. This workshop will demonstrate techniques and free tools.