Presenter: Lea Iaricci, LCSI Title:
Creating Impressive Multimedia Projects with
MicroWorlds Extreme! Interactive!
Students use MicroWorlds Extreme to create multimedia
presentations, animated stories, and games while exploring mathematics, science,
language arts, and music. In creating their projects, students create
'smart and interactive' objects that may be shared
with others. This leads to an interesting
collaborative model for student projects while achieving expectations.
Presenter: Lea Iaricci, LCSI Title:
Write to Learn with Journal Zone
Kids
love online communications! Keep it focused with Journal Zone! Students
discuss journal entries with one another. Journal writing, illustration
and conversation across the curriculum improve student
writing, help students to think abstractly, and enable them to
comprehend and retain information.
Presenter: Peter Skillen and Annelies Groen
Title: Build your own 'Bots: Incorporating MicroWorlds
Software with Robotics
An
overview of how to design and build projects using the
latest MicroWorlds combined with LEGO® and Crickets Robotics. Crickets
are tiny robots that allow the user to control motors, lights, and
receive info from sensors. Crickets also 'talk' to one
another. Cross curricular applications will be demonstrated.
Presenter: Peter Skillen Title: Meet
the Standards while Respecting the Student's Desire to Know
This
era of information and communications technologies (ICT) supports
natural models of learning and further discredits the factory model of
education. Powerful tools exist for accessing and manipulating
information and also for supporting rich
communications among people. Practical classroom examples and
suggestions will be presented and discussed.
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