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• What: The Tech Fair is celebration of the wonderful technology projects involving students from the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit. The fair is free and open to any interested student or staff member who wishes to share what they are doing with technology in their school.
• When: May 5, 2010 – 3:00 PM-7:00 PM
• Where: Edinboro University – Frank G. Pogue Student Center
• Cost: Free to participate and attend
• Registration: Visit the NPAECT site to register

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Thanks to all that participated in the contest this year. We can’t wait to see all the submissions and look forward to celebrating the talented students at PENNCREST! Look for the entries on the school websites in January 2010.

(Via the conference site) The K12 Online Conference is a FREE conference open to ANYONE by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

Conference Website: http://k12onlineconference.org

(Via the conference site) The preconference keynote will be posted online Monday, November 30th. “Regular week” presentations will be available for viewing the weeks of December 7 and 14, and will remain online indefinitely. Several LIVE events will also available during the weeks of the conference, and continue in 2010 through our twice-monthly EdTechTalk webcast, “K-12 Online Echo.” All upcoming events are listed on our conference Ning events page. Past / archived events are linked on our wiki, and also included in our “Fireside Chats” Ning group.

You can participate in this online conference synchronously and/or asynchronously. All sessions are archived for later viewing and use. In fact, you can browse and participate in sessions that were originally presented in 2006.

We hope that you can check-out the conference and all that it has to offer. There seems to be someone for everyone. Check it out and let us know what you think. Happy learning and sharing!

Image by Isaac Bowen

It’s time for the school website banner contest! Your buildling Technology Advisors should be receiving information about the contest this week. Be on the look out for flyers and announcements for more information about this exciting opportunity to share your talent with the world.

Take a look at past entries by visiting this Picasa Web gallery.

Photo by jillclardy via Flickr

This past week we worked with teachers from 5 different schools in IU5 on digital storytelling. The first day was spent telling stories around a camp fire, talking about audience, accessibility and tone of digital stories along with planning the story. The second day was spent finalizing the storyboard and then creating the same story in 4 different online tools – Voicethread, Picasa Web, Photobucket and ShowBeyond. Each tool allowed the storytellers to visualize and tell their story in different ways.

Here are the digital storytelling tools we used to tell ours stories:

• VoiceThread – http://voicethread.com
• Picasa Web – http://picasaweb.google.com
• Photobucket – http://photobucket.com
• ShowBeyond – http://showbeyond.com

Our agenda and shared materials can be found via this link – http://psdtech.pbworks.com/Tools-and-Resources-for-Digital-Storytelling-July-09.

Storytelling can really be brought to life through digital tools. They help express the story in ways that are not possible with traditional pen, paper and voice. Sharing your voice and stories digitally allows a wider audience to share in your experiences. Check out 50 ways to tell a story for 50+ examples of the same story told with different digital tools.