Join (ISTE) at the Annual National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention

Thanks for attending the following ISTE sessions at the annual NCTE Conference in New York.

ISTE, in collaboration with NCTE, hosted a variety of technology sessions at the 2007 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference in New York on Saturday, November 17, 2007.

ISTE was represented by Don Knezek, PhD, ISTE CEO; Lynn Nolan, EdD, ISTE Sr. Director of Education Leadership; Mila M. Fuller, ISTE Director of Strategic Initiatives; and the following ISTE members: Debra Kagan, Pearson Foundation; Holly Coughlin and Mardy Holt, Urbana High School, MD; Bill Gordh, Manhattanville College, NY; Stephen Lazar, Chris Bernard, and Marc Sternberg, The Bronx Lab School, NY.

For more information on the ISTE strand at NCTE please contact headquarters@iste.org.

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Digital Arts Storytelling
Learn how digital storytelling can play a role in the teaching of composition and other key literacy areas. In this session, you will learn the approach that the Digital Arts Alliance has used with thousands of students and teachers to integrate curriculum, storytelling, technology, and media.

Shared Vision, A Shared Voice for English/Language Arts Educators in an Increasingly Digital World
Share your voice as an English/Language Arts educator and contributor to ISTE’s refresh of the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS•T). In June 2007 ISTE released the new National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS•S) developed through the participation of educators from all 50 states and 22 countries. In this interactive session you will share your ideas and recommendations for what the teacher standards should include to support students as they learn and live in a digital world!

Integrating Emerging Technologies into Your Curriculum: 101
Discover ways you can begin to integrate blogging and other web authoring/web publishing tools into your curriculum in this highly interactive hands-on session. You’ll hear how a new, digitalnative English teacher and her tenured, content-expert mentor have connected the dots between delivering high-quality instruction and integrating emerging technologies to advance learning and publish students’ projects!
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Stories in Action: Technological Adventures Around the World
Discover how the oral tradition in your classroom can be the basis for technological adventures around the world. Using folktales as inspiration and computers in hand, we will create group stories. Through technology these tales are passed along, and as they travel physically and virtually, a global community of stories will bring participants together. Bill Gordh is an author, educator, master storyteller and musician.

Engaging 21st-Century Writers: Blogging and Social Networking Tools for the English Classroom
21st-century students are writing outside of the classroom though e-mails, blogs, or their MySpace pages. Teachers will gain hands-on experience with some of these tools, as well as a number of strategies to use these tools that students are already using to increase engagement with writing in their classrooms.
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