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Salisbury
University (Maryland), in conjunction with Seaford School District and Wicomico County
Public Schools, will be hosting the Mid-Atlantic Handheld Conference this
summer! The conference will be held on the campus of Salisbury University
on July 18th. The presence of Handheld Computers in the educational sector is beginning to gain a foothold. Both Pocket PC and Palm operating systems of handheld computers are changing the way many teachers are teaching, and the way many students learn. Come check out this one-of-a-kind conference in the Mid-Atlantic Region! |
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Tony Vincent
will be delivering the Keynote Address and doing sessions throughout the
day! Tony teaches kindergarten through
fifth graders in Omaha, Nebraska as
Willowdale Elementary School's technology integration specialist. |
Who should attend MAHC?
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Tony's web site and presentations have inspired educators around the world to effectively and creatively use technology for learning.
He has co-authored Handhelds for Teachers & Administrators and teaches a
handheld computer graduate course for the University of Nebraska. He is also
a certified palmOne™ Education Training Coordinator and enthusiastically
helps educators integrate technology and learning. |
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New
Sessions Added!!!!! The conference will offer half-day hands-on sessions and concurrent sessions throughout the day. Pocket PC and Palm workshops and concurrent sessions will be offered. Session Strands will include:
Here's a listing of the sessions being offered:
Contact Information: - Come learn the "ins and outs" of operating a Palm handheld computer. Participants will leave this hands-on workshop with a greater understanding of these amazing devices. Contact Information: tfishburn@seaford.k12.de.us - Witness first-hand all the wonderful educational applications of handheld computing. This fast-paced session will highlight some of the following: can't live without software, classroom applications, "how-to" resources, websites, and emerging trends in handheld computing in the K-14 milieu. Come and get some ideas for classroom use, teacher productivity, and fun applications! Contact Information: cborga@seaford.k12.de.us and mcoifell@seaford.k12.de.us - Using probes with handheld computers in the science classroom stimulates higher order thinking strategies and prepares students to use technology in the "real" world. Come see how high school teachers are using Pocket PC's and probes in science. Attendees will experience/see probes in action and leave with practical ideas to use!
Contact Information: jhoeffne@wcboe.org kreddish@wcboe.org - Imagine a teaching tool that will enhance vocabulary development, provide for intense concept development and engage your students' creativity. That's a pretty tall order but you get that and more with GoKnow's animation and drawing tool, Sketchy. You will have the opportunity to view student animations submitted to this year's Sketchy Contest. Try your hand at using Sketchy as you participate in a model lesson designed to introduce GoKnow's animation tool to students and use it to illustrate simple or complex concepts. Bring your palm, your imagination and get started on the road to implementing research-based teaching strategies now.
Contact Information: pweeg@comcast.net - Would your students like to be published authors? Of course they would! They will be proud to beam their original stories and illustrations in their very own eBook to anyone with a Palm and eReader or PalmReader. eBooks can be incorporated into a language arts class or any content area where students have the opportunity to write about a given topic. As a participant in this hands-on session you will write a story, illustrate it and create your own eBook with eBook Studio. Bring your Palm handheld, story idea and any picture file you might want to include in an eBook. Beaming completed eBooks to other participants will be a fun way to "publish" and share the "artifacts" from our session.
Contact Information: info@k12handhelds.com - Come see the cutting edge of multimedia on handhelds. You’ll learn how to get multimedia content, such as photos, audio, video, and animation, on to your handheld, and what tools you need to do this. We’ll also look at some great curricular applications for using handheld multimedia content to make learning fun and to improve student achievement.
Contact Information: John_Burke@mcpsmd.org - Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Rockville, Maryland, in partnership with Wireless Generation has developed and deployed an early literacy assessment that is administered using a handheld device. The new assessment combines the screening benefits of DIBELS and the diagnostic benefits of an early literacy assessment developed by MCPS. This technology based-assessment saves teacher time in preparing materials to assess students, scoring and calculating assessment reults and generating reports for analysis and communicating results. This session will include an overview of the assessment and a demonstration of administration and reporting.
Contact Information: cskeeter@wcboe.org and dkarten@wcboe.org - Our presentation will take a look at how a 5th grade working-towards-level class and a 2nd grade above-level-class formed a learning partnership to complete activities together using their Palms. Samples and explanations of some of our joint projects will be presented. Some of the activities will include a "Palm Pal" activity. This is an activity that uses the premise of the traditional Pen Pal program and puts the twist of the use of Palms in the equation. Another example would be group generated webs and concept maps. Finally, writing activities with different focuses will be shared. We will look at the success and struggles that we have faced working together with these groups and the management issues associated with this work. Contact Information: rhoster@seaford.k12.de.us - The focus of this session is how to use the handheld with your current curriculum. We use handhelds for vocabulary, lab reports, journaling, and animation. Handhelds increase student focus and on-task behaviors. We've been using handhelds in our classes all year and the students are just as excited about working with them as they were on the first day of use.
Contact Information: jbaker@wcboe.org kreddish@wcboe.org nheflin@wcboe.org jhoeffne@wcboe.org - Join us as we share with you the experience of implementing a 24/7 Palm program into our 8th grade classrooms. We will tell you every thing that worked and didn't work, give you copies of our forms and timeline. Through pictures, student work and personal testimony enjoy the highs and lows of an exciting, creative year. Leave with ideas and materials that will help you successfully plan and start a palm program at your school.
Contact Information: pweeg@comcast.net - Would your students like to be published authors? Of course they would! They will be proud to beam their original stories and illustrations in their very own eBook to anyone with a Palm and eReader or PalmReader. eBooks can be incorporated into a language arts class or any content area where students have the opportunity to write about a given topic. As a participant in this hands-on session you will write a story, illustrate it and create your own eBook with eBook Studio. Bring your Palm handheld, story idea and any picture file you might want to include in an eBook. Beaming completed eBooks to other participants will be a fun way to "publish" and share the "artifacts" from our session.
Contact Information: info@k12handhelds.com - Come see the cutting edge of multimedia on handhelds. You’ll learn how to get multimedia content, such as photos, audio, video, and animation, on to your handheld, and what tools you need to do this. We’ll also look at some great curricular applications for using handheld multimedia content to make learning fun and to improve student achievement.
Contact Information: vincent@mac.com - Take a trip through Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy by learning about cool activities for third through eighth graders that use Palm™ and Pocket PC™ handheld computers. The journey begins with digital flash cards for the Knowledge level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The trip also includes activities for teaching the Order of Operations, algebra concepts, spreadsheets, Roman numerals, and more. After sampling activities from a full array of thinking skills, teachers will have numerous ideas for teaching differentiated math lessons using handhelds.
Contact Information: dickersonm@seaford.k12.de.us and jrohlich@seaford.k12.de.us - Come learn the "ins and outs" of operating a Pocket PC handheld computer. Participants will leave this hands-on workshop with a greater understanding of these amazing devices.
Contact Information: wenusc@sc.rr.com - Lexington Elementary School in Lexington South Carolina uses handheld computers and the mClass software to improve reading fluency. The mClass Reading assessment program for grades K-3, allows a teacher to complete a Running Record assessment with a student one to one. The teacher uses a handheld for the assessment, transfers the data to a secure website and then retrieves information for both individual student and overall class reading level. This assessment takes the place of a tedious, paper assessment method presently being performed by teachers using Running Records in a Balanced Literacy classroom. E-books by familiar vendors such as Reading A –Z and the Wright Group are downloaded to the handheld, which make this company's product applicable to what the teachers are currently doing. It saves the teacher precious time and the assessment is more accurate.
Contact Information: elizabeth_hunsperger@usa.net - Designing PDA Friendly Websites will be explained. Why special PDA designs are necessary will be both discussed and demonstrated. There will be a discussion of emulators. Instructions on using PhotoShop, or PaintShopPro, to make a webpage template will be given, as well as instructions on how to use the template in making the site. Examples of PDA friendly and non-friendly sites will be shown. Along with this, it will be demonstrated how those designs can be changed. Somewhat PDA friendly, and then improved, pages are to be illustrated, with descriptions of how changes were made. Also included in this illustrated talk are: General Rules of Thumb for making PDA friendly designs, designing for some specific situations, and important questions and their answers. An Outline of a Project Plan for a PDA Friendly Website will be given out to those attending. This presentation will conclude with -- Things to look forward to: Future developments for the PDA and handheld software.
Contact Information: kreddish@wcboe.org and jhoeffne@wcboe.org - Learn how to use Inspiration for the Palm and Docs to Go as strategies to improve your students' reading and writing skills. You will learn techniques to teach students how to use their Palm to categorize information from the text, create graphic organizers, and write their final Constructed Response. Participate in and leave with a classroom tested Reading and Writing lesson using Inspiration and Docs to Go. Be ready to explore the possibilities of using Palms in your classroom to enhance reading and writing skills. Please bring your palm, keyboard and sense of excitement.
Contact Information: jmiller@wcboe.org - The purpose of this session is to show the basic components of Inspiration and to show how it can be integrated into Reading instruction. Participants will be given two templates that can be used in an elementary class. One sample will be on basewords and the other on antonyms. Come see how easy Inspiration can be used to enhance Reading instruction.
Contact Information: info@k12handhelds.com - Come see a variety of teacher tools on handhelds and learn how you can use a handheld to jazz up your classroom and save yourself time. In this session, you’ll see gradebook and attendance programs, assessment tools, databases, graphic organizers, display peripherals, reference tools, multimedia, and more. We’ll also look at some ideas for a “one handheld classroom.”
Contact Information: vincent@mac.com - Are you new to using Palm™ or Pocket PC™ handheld computers with students? Are you having difficulty figuring out where to begin? Help is here! Jump-start your lessons using handhelds by learning about cross-curricular activities that are simple to do with students. These activities require only free software, handheld computers, and class full of eager learners. Explore how to engage students with digital dictionaries, electronic quizzes, virtual concept maps, fun games, and more!
Contact Information: wenusc@sc.rr.com - Lexington Elementary School in Lexington South Carolina uses handheld computers and the mClass software to improve reading fluency. The mClass Reading assessment program for grades K-3, allows a teacher to complete a Running Record assessment with a student one to one. The teacher uses a handheld for the assessment, transfers the data to a secure website and then retrieves information for both individual student and overall class reading level. This assessment takes the place of a tedious, paper assessment method presently being performed by teachers using Running Records in a Balanced Literacy classroom. E-books by familiar vendors such as Reading A –Z and the Wright Group are downloaded to the handheld, which make this company's product applicable to what the teachers are currently doing. It saves the teacher precious time and the assessment is more accurate.
Contact Information: cwhite@seaford.k12.de.us and mgoulet@seaford.k12.de.us - Come see these middle school social studies teachers "show-off" as they reveal how they use the Pocket PC to integrate video on handhelds. Examples and lesson ideas will be highlighted and sample student work will be showcased as well.
Contact Information: - This session will provide practical ways that administrators can take advantage of handheld technology. Participants will leave with multiple strategies on using handhelds for personal productivity, for data-driven decisions and to support teachers with instruction.
Contact Information: sgarner@seaford.k12.de.us and tfishburn@seaford.k12.de.us - This session will focus on the decisions that teachers and administrators will need to make in planning to implement a handheld program in a classroom or school. Topics will cover equipment selection, IT issues, professional development and building consensus for the project. Success stories and lessons learned from wrong decisions will be shared with the participants. Web support sites will also be shared with the participants that will help them in their decision making.
Contact Information: rhender@pgcps.org - This workshop will explore how basic handheld technology, software applications and cooperative learning techniques can be used to improve classroom instruction. Have you ever used: Think-Pair-Share, Zig Saw, or Numbered Head? Now consider using "beaming" cooperative activities as a part of your classroom environment. This technology will enhance your student’s collaboration and in turn positively affect their learning. So be ready to beam and share in collaborative groups and take home activities ready for classroom use.
Contact Information: thilligo@wcboe.org - Participants will become proficient with Word Pad. Entering new memos delete and beam memos. Editing, undo, cut, copy, paste, keyboard and Graffiti 2 Help will also be reviewed. Changing font and phone lookup will also be identified. Finally participants will also be proficient to categorize there memos. Participants will also become familiar with QuizWiz, beginning with receiving the program, how to import, send and even evaluate students’ individual scores. This program can be a resourceful use of review of information by the student. Students will be able to develop there own quizzes to beam back and forth and again can be used for warm-ups and reviews for major exams.
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The cost to attend the conference is $35.00. This includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks. To register download and complete the form below and submit by "snail-mail" to:
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Travel & Accommodations....Coming Soon! Salisbury University is located on the eastern shore of Maryland in the city of Salisbury. Use the links below for information on travel and lodging in the Salisbury, Maryland area.
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Please use the form below to contact us.
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| Dr. Steve
Garner Director of Technology, Accountability & Assessment Seaford School District 390 N. Market St Seaford, DE 19973 302 629 4587x279 sgarner@seaford.k12.de.us Dr. Regina Royer Carla Hurchalla Todd A.
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The event will take place on July 18, 2005 on the campus of Salisbury University. The conference will include a Keynote address, 50 minute concurrent sessions and 2 hour long hands-on sessions. You are invited to submit a proposal to present @ the conference. Presenters and a co-presenter will receive an honorarium of $50 for their efforts (as well as get your name in the program/web site and get a cool certificate). If you are presenting a 2-hour hands-on session a honorarium of $100 will be given. The submission deadline is February 28, 2005. If you have any questions e-mail tfishburn@seaford.k12.de.us . Thank you for considering submitting a presentation proposal. |
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© 2005 Mid-Atlantic Handheld Conference |
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Elliot Soloway & Cathie Norris to Present!
Introduction to a Palm Handheld Computer
(2 hour hands-on workshop....we will provide the use of handhelds) -
Integrating
Handhelds in the Science Classroom: No "Probe'lem"!
Picture This: Animation Applications
eBooks: Make'em & Beam'em -
Palm Pals
Handheld Applications for Middle School
Content Classes
We Did it Our Way!
eBooks: Make'em & Beam'em
Handhelds + Math + Bloom's Taxonomy = Loads of Learning
Putting Reading Assessment & Achievement
in Hand
Putting the Promise in Hand: Designing
Handheld Friendly Websites
Reading and Writing in the Palm of Your
Hand
Inspiration in the Handheld Classroom
The Principal's
Palm: How One Administrator is Using Handhelds
Leave it to Quiz Whiz
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