Colorado Technology In Education (TIE) Conference Info

Announcements

May 15, 2007

Attention: The next planning meeting is scheduled for May 18 (Friday) at 6:00pm at the Saxby's in Loveland (west of I-25 on 34 in the Chili's shopping center). See below for more info.

General notes

Note: This page was moved from the corresponding section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JimHutchinson?action=recall&rev=34 since this seems like a better place. But the wiki.ubuntu.com pages referred to from there need to be moved or linked to differently from here - e.g. people's home pages and pages like http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AstronomySampleLessons Perhaps there is already a place for the latter pages or perhaps they should be organized as subpages of a "SampleLessons" page here?

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JimHutchinson Jim Hutchinson], a media specialist at Windsor High School in Colorado, signed up to give a 3-hour presentation on "Open Source Solutions for Classroom Instruction" at Colorado's Technology In Education (TIE) Conference in June 2007. We will also have an Ubuntu booth at the conference. This page is for organizing the presentation, demos and booth.

See more info about the conference itself on the TIE web site [http://www.tiecolorado.org/]

Date and Time

• Conference Dates: June 19-22, 2007

• Place: Copper Mountain, Colorado

• Our Session: Open Source Solutions for Classroom Instruction

• Session Time: June 19, 2007 @ 1:00 - 4:00 pm

• Session Room: Wheeler C, Copper Station, 50 seats, Windows Lab

Related teams and web pages

• ["Edubuntu/Launchpad/Teams"]

• EdubuntuSchoolSupport

• ["BETTShow2007"]

• [https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-study-content Launchpad edubuntu-study-content team] - to create lesson plans and training for teachers

• [http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/school-advocacy/C/index.html Edubuntu School Advocacy pamphlet for 7.10]

Planning Meetings, Goals and Updates

Goals Developed at Planning Meeting on May 9

• Develop an overall presentation model with handouts and other materials as appropriate
• Develop a list of ed apps and sample lessons/tutorials (volunteer below by May 14)
• Develop a wiki (on appropriate host such as Ubuntu) to collect and organize content and as a point of access for conference attendees and anyone else
• Develop a list of community members willing to assist school and district personal in their area with Ubuntu or ed related FOSS (ie. mentors or adopt-a-school model)
• Assess hardware needs during TIE session (ie. thin-client server with apps)
• Assess hardware needs for booth or table throughout the entire conference

Next meeting is scheduled for May 18 (Friday) at 6:00pm.

We will meet at Saxby's in Loveland. It is located just west of I-25 on highway 34 (aka Eisenhower) in the shopping center with Chili's, Mimi's Cafe, and Chic-Fil-A. They have free wireless internet so bring a lappy and your ideas. Even if you are not into education we next experts to help guide us.

OBJECTIVES:

• Identifying ed apps (I’d like to find 20+ good apps)
• How to write a short lesson
• Appropriate location to host the lessons
• How to involve the broader FOSS community
• Staffing booth/table at TIE
• Alternative to running a thin-client during the FOSS session (the TIE overlords are not open to us bringing our own server)
• Others?

Community (CoLoCo) Opportunities to Help

In order to give FOSS and Ubuntu as much publicity at the TIE conference as possible, we are in need of volunteers. There are several ways in which you can participate.

I AM PLANNING TO ATTEND THE FOSS SESSION AND HELP

If you would like to lend a hand during the actual session on June 19, please add your name and contact info (launchpad page, email, etc) below including if you plan to stay for one or more days and whether or not you are interested in finding others to share the cost of lodging.

• CoLoCo Members Helping at TIE
  Name	Contact Info	# of Days	Share Lodging
  Jim Hutchinson (session presentor)	[https://launchpad.net/~jimhutchinson]||June 18-22	No
  David Overcash (CoLoCo Lead)	[https://launchpad.net/~funnylookinhat]||June 18-22	No
  Bryan Gartner (session presentor)	[https://launchpad.net/~bwgartner]||June 18-22	No
  Leon Jaimes (volunteer)	[https://launchpad.net/~slyride]||June 18-20	No
  Neal McBurnett (volunteer)	[https://launchpad.net/~nealmcb]||maybe||No

I CAN HELP DEVELOP LESSONS OR TUTORIALS OF SOFTWARE PACKAGES

Another way to help is to select an application that has education merit and develop a lesson and/or tutorial for participants to use during the session (stay tuned for an example).

Begin by selecting a content area and application (those listed are only suggestions - feel free to add others) and assign yourself to it. Once you have a lesson developed, add a link to the lesson. All lessons and tutorials will be collected later and developed into a coherent page.

To choose topics it can be helpful to review the Colorado State standards (learning objectives) for your subject areas. These are categorized by grade level at http://www.education-world.com/standards/state/co/index.shtml#fine

Pay close attention to the deadlines.

• May 14: Assign yourself to an application(s)

• May 28: Develop and publish your lesson(s) (your own wiki is fine for now)

• June 4: All lessons tested and proofed (do not proof your own)

• June 11: All lessons considered final and ready for the public

OPEN SOURCE APPS FOR EDUCATION: Technology in Education - CoLoCo/HP Project::

• Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Science
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Astronomy	Celestia	WirtWolff	AstronomySampleLessons
  Astronomy	Stellarium	WirtWolff	AstronomySampleLessons
  Chemistry	Kalzium	JimHutchinson	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Math
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Geometry	Kig	JimHutchinson	TBA
  Statistics	r	JimHutchinson	TBA
  Arithmetic	Sudoku	unassigned	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - History
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  History/Geography	KGeography	WirtWolff	HistorySampleLessons

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Music
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Composition	Lilly Pond	unassigned	TBA
  Composition	hydrogen	unassigned	TBA
  Ear Training	Solfege	unassigned	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Art
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Graphic Design	GIMP	unassigned	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - PE
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  ?	?	?	?

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Technology
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Typing	?	?	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Ed Games (drill and practice)
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Various	Jeopardy	Bryan Gartner	TBA
  Math	?	?	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Web Collaboration
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  Web Design	Nvu	unassigned	TBA

  Sample Lesson Plan Assignments - Other
  Subject	Application	Owner	URL	Proofed By
  ?	?	?	?

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