VSTE 2009 Reflection

Posted on February 27, 2009 by nutt.
Categories: Library Resources, Special Items.

     

I don’t know where to begin. On February 22-24, 2009, I went to the Virginia Society For Technology In Education (VSTE) Conference 2009 which was held at the Virginia Beach Conference Center. I partcipated in some awesome sessions. Below is a list of sessions that I attended.

 

Sunday, February 22, 2009

 SECOND LIFE AVATAR INTERVIEW

A LANDLUBBER’S GET STARTED IN SECOND LIFE 

READY, SET, INTEGRATE!

 

Monday, February 23, 2009

READ:OUTLOUD UNIVERSAL-UTILIZING YOUR RESOURCES

ARE YOU READY TO SUBMIT AN ELECTRONIC VGLA

GEOCACHING IN EDUCATION-HIGH TECH TREASURE HUNT

REPRESENT! USING VISUALS TO SUPPORT LITERACY

UNVIRSLE DISEGN FOR LREANING: THE PHAONMEAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID!

PARLEZ-VOUS TECHNOLOGY? ENHANCING SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION WITH TECHNOLOGY

 

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

FREE SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS TO INCREASE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

I ON THE VAAP & ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

CHEW THE P.H.A.T: POLICIES AND HOW-TO’S IN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL READ: REACHING EVERY CHILD IN THE DIGITAL AGE THROUGH CUSTOMIZED LITERACY EXPERIENCES WITH CAST BOOK BUILDER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VSRA Conference 2009

Posted on February 19, 2009 by nutt.
Categories: Special Items.

I will be presenting a session called: Technology Integration Made Easy Using MS Word.

Participants will learn to use cloze activities for building vocabulary, teaching about context clues and focusing on comprehension.

Participants will be introuduced to how cloze activities are created by using Microsoft Word.

Hand-outs and other resources:

Cloze Activities Agenda

How to Prepare Texts for a Cloze Procedure

Directions for Creating Cloze Activities Using Microsoft Word

Examples of Cloze Activities:

Comprehension of Narrative Text

Correct Pronoun Usage

Elements of Poetry

First Grade Activity1

First Grade Activity2

First Grade Test 1

 

Create Your Own Cloze Activity:

Irregular Past Tense Verbs Cloze

Irregular Past Tense Verbs Cloze2