Lightspeed Training, pm session

Stevens Point
Sleep Inn and Suites
American Drive

Update known program- can go to specific things like itunes to use but kill its applications (no store, no streaming) REports>Programs>Executed Known Program can click on them to limit specific access and control

Can limit how much CPU security agent scan can take. Security Agent>Security Agent Properties set can reduce this so it does nto take 100% CPU

Security Agent Property Set- local admin of the machine can modify security agent properties unless the Properties>Secutiry agent>default security agent property set> make sure to enable disallow security agent properties. Donm't make changes to the individual agent because it will stop taking updates.

Can shut things down. Security Agents>Network Domains>Lightspeed can go to computer and then can make changes and kill applications in use

Can change individual people's access by going to policies>policy management>tiered admin policies then go to policy assignments to assign, you can browse active directory then

Lightspeed Training-am session

databases>shared tables>content filter categoriesto see local block and local allow, other descriptions of categories. Must search for a specific site to see why it is blocked.

parked- pages without content on there

Students can currently change the names of sites they go to for the reports

New release- can have individual teachers and staff block and allow sites on specific computers

Desktop content filtering set to servers and other servers (basic CIPA compliance) Properties>Security Agent>Default properties set

content guide- reports on websites when they are off network- currently no charge, not necessarily in the future

Block non-Http is good for secured proxy sites. This will enable looking at the IP address and getting it to work. properties>content filter>default content filter category property set

Can't use the challenge request and the grey listing

Beysian aggression may be to high. 50 is most common, should not be above 65

Whitelist only whitelists for you, you have to go into the admin to do it for the whole network
Properties>spam mail blocker> whitelist you can add things there, senderemailaddress*cccp.com

Refreshing page- check your internet options, temp internet files, settings, make sure it is set to automatically, this is so you don't have to refresh the page in the reports session

Spam mail pattern- spam, virus, or ham (good mail), give it a name, can have it analyze the message itself or do one mannually, can do up to 4 conditions, can block external IPs to block from specific countries. This would be good to look into!

We have message journal to archive the emails

Reports> Message Journaling>Search MEssage Journal> they all have a doc id, once it is archived it cannot be deleted, stays in 7 years, space may be an issue. Go to proerties to see where it is stored. You can move directories to some other archive to deal with space issues. Find out if we are archiving attachemnts, a backup server needs to ba a lightspeed server with the client and SQL on it. Spam is not archived.

WEMA Session 3- The New Tools of School

John Pederson- The New Tools of School presentation
Currirulum and Technology Coordinator- taking over for David Jakes who is unable to be here
jpederson@cesa3.k12.wi.us
http://Pedersondesigns.com

RSS- Really Simple Syndication

1. Del.icio.us: social bookmarking
del.icio.us/pedersoj/wema07
Can subscribe to other people's del.icio.us accounts
huskycloud.com- creating clouds

2. Flickr: sharing and saving digital photos and content
Creative Commons- alternative to full copyright. (attribution, noncommercial, no derivative, share alike) basic tenets. The people have indicated the level of their own photos.
Dumpr- can black and white them and make them as a coloring book! Makes great presents for kids. bighugelabs.com are ways to edit your photos. Zazzle- another Flickr link. pick a picture, order prints, then zazzle. You can then get it printed on a real US photostamp. This is an actual working stamp. They have some other really cool options as well. The interestingness.

3. tumblr. : blogging platform to use
class blogmeister- David Warlick
edublogs
eduspaces.net- kind of like myspace for education. They will give you the software for free to load on your own server.
yackpack- voice messaging software

4. wikispaces:
Wolrd is flat project on Vicky Davis' blog

WEMA Session 2 Podcasting

http://www.tylerschroeder.net/keith/

Keith Schroeder- Podcasting in the Library

Exemplary podcasts-
1. Willow Web
2. Bob Sprangle Resources, esp Room 208
3. EPN- Educational Podcast Network
4. Mr. Mayo Podcasts -has some great songs for learning

Internet safety is a huge concern for students. Should get the school on the same page. isafe is a good free curriculum. Netsmartz and cybersmart. His district is focusing on different dates for it next year. Needs to be a whole curriculum.

Need to spend time on copyright and appropriate usage for kids. EFF: Bloggers and Intellectual Property
Medford Copyright kiosk

Equipment needed:
1. good microphone- USB microphone is good, can have more than one microphone if you get an inexpensive mixingboard.
2. Microphone filter (some free on the Internet) can put a nylon over a net in front of the microphone.
3. Editing Software
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Garageband- better software, but is Mac based
4. Music www.music.podshow.com podsafe music network, can use it specifically for podcasts, listed by genre and is copyright free to use
5. Recordable MP3Player/Digital Voice Recorder
6. RSS feed- RSS feedburner to push the information out the subscribers.
Don't have to go out to the webpages. RSS feed turns in the assignments to you. Works iwth blogs and podcasting. They don't have to turn anything in then, teacher goes out to access it.

TeacherTube- educational videos and also reviewed

How do we make a podcast?
-room 208 has a kids talking about how to make a podcast.
- use the music people for sound resources because they know

Need to then convert the file to mp3. This is important. Audacity will do this. It is the one he prefers.





TheM Word Marketing Libraries
Booktalking with the Book Dragon

WEMA- Keynote THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS- Deneen Frazier Bowen

The keynote speaker is Deneen Frazier Brown:http://www.deneenfrazier.com/

Book- The Internet For Your Kids

Belle Epiphanie by Cybil, age 16

Stat team- the kids record ideas before it is purchased. REcord things. Different grades on the stat team.

Net Day speak up, look into this.

Taking it Global TIG Tig-ed people come together to talk about what people are doing to make the world a better place.

Civ 4- online

Ask kids questions using their tools, story around the data.

Listen to students- students are using tools to express themselves, otherwise are saranwrap kids, etc.

Act with students differently- under the radar kids, 88% of drop outs have passing grades. They check out, not drop out. No one knows what they are doing outside.

"sending our students beyond where we are now or have ever been." Diane Lewis

www.actwith.com

WEMA- CAndace Flemming- Just the Facts Ma'am: Everything I write is True

Biographies- The subjects become members of the family. Ben Franklin was fun to have around, Eleanor was more difficult to live up to. Looks for little facts that are interesting and that make the people more personable to kids. So they can relate to.

Went to a ceremony for FDR at the library she was at and ended up meeting a personal friend of Eleanor and got invited over to eat there and got a wonderful amount of personal stories.

Reading Mrs. Uldrich- Boxes For Katie, fiction has a nugget of truth, story based upon her mother.

Muncha Muncha Muncha- based on real life experiences of trying to get the rabbits out of the garden. Sequel to this book is Tibby Tibby Tibby Hide! which is based on a 3rd grade experience. Then there is the third one- asking the kids for ideas for what to do. A 3rd grader said "take them on vacation, he has to get away to the beach, but..."

Eavesdropping- getting lots of ideas from listening to others.

www.candaceflemming.com

Does school visits.

WSRA- Christopher Paul Curtis- Getting people to read

Told stories about his experience and how it relates to his writing and being a visiting author...

WSRA- Sneed B Collard III Writing Children's books

Adoptive author program to mentor individual students in Wisconsin- Wisconsin Arts Board

-sent in articles to childrens mags (Highlights, Cricket, etc)
-wrote books in what is educational background was in (biology)
-Monteverde Costa Rica, went and studies what scientists were doing and wrote a nonfiction book and a picture book about it, tropical cloud forest, clear winged butterflies, canopy walks
-Lizard Island- Great Coral Reef, one night great spawning event

Butterfly Count- fictional picture book
Start a butterfly garden at school- couple of square yards

Prairie Builders- shows that individuals can make a positive contribution to the environment.
Flashpoint- 6-9
Dog Sense 4-6

Picture book authors get about 5% of the selling price of the book

He does his own photography (about 75% of the pictures in the nonfiction books)

Society of Children's Book writers and illustrators www.scbwi.org good place to go for info on publishing

Find companies that publish books clase to what yours is
Companies get 20-30 thousand unsolicited manuscripts a year

Don't get an agent

can send illustrated portfolios to publishing companies as well

WSRA- New Internet Literacies for Teachers and Students

Will Richardson Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts

Read Write Web Technologies. Web 2.0

weblogged.wikispaces.com (wiki presentation) He uses wikis instead of powerpoints to give his presentations.

No one is really teaching kids how to learn in these ways, evaluating sources, hypertexts and building communities online. This is oing to be how they are going to be learning in the future, but no one is teaching them how.

Next years kindergarten class is going to graduate in 2020. We need to develop a 20/20 vision for them.

No one is really changing what they are doing now to prepare for their furtures.

Reading- need new types of reading strategies for nonlinear texts. Many are very distributed. Things are not all in one place or tied up with a bow. So we ned to think of reading in a new way.

We need to look at patterns of thoughts, discussions, conversations. Need to synthesize information.

They become the authors of their own texts to bring the stuff together in s self organized way.

Ask the kids the question- how does my teacher learn? Many kids will not be able to answer that quesiton. How do we do this? It is not very transparent.

Google Reader- Can help to subscribe to RSS feeds. Can be blogs, newspapers and more.

Google news- can RSS google searches in news on that site and have it sent. Global so points of view from around the world can be sent to email.

Set up an RSS feed. Blogsearch.google.com First thing he had his journalism students do. Building connections and networks around the informaiton. Do continuous learning 24/7 and build their own communities. can also subscribe to images the same way. Figure out what you are passionate about and jus tsubscribe to it.

PageFlakes- you can build your own site newspaper using RSS. Can use Flikr photos and Youtube videos as well. When they are tagged for them.

Reading needs to be editing now. Kids need to be able to edit. Assess whether it is appropriate, ethical, valid, etc. They need to package it themselves.

Self organization. Use a social bookmarking site. We need to be the librarian of what we find. Folksonomies. They work on tags and keywords assigned to the information that we find. del.icio.us site to save posts or sites. Fill out the form with url, title and notes.

Google's Moon Shot- The New Yorker. Google wants to digitize every book ever published. This is a really good article. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070205fa_fact_toobin

fanfiction.net what other people have written on books.

Convergence Culture is a good book. Get it.

Writing becomes different as well. Write in video, audio and more.

Torex- LA teacher with video. ewverything that my kids do has wings. Goes beyond the classroom.

WSRA- Christopher Paul Curtis keynote

Authors get paid about 10% of the book proceeds. Person who designed the cover initially was paid more. (Picture is worth a thousand words)

• Watsons Go To Birmingham- entered into 2 contests and was rejected for both, but then was published anyway.
• Bud, Not Buddy- 5 year old daughter has copyrighted lyrics in it Bucking the Sarge- took 4 years to write.
• Mr. Chickee's Funny Money- started it at the same time as Watsons book. Mr. Chickee's Messing Mission- continuation of the detective story
• NEW BOOK-- Elijah of Buxton- his favorite book. Terminus of the UG Railroad (BUXTON). Book about slavery. Peripherally because it is about a free community. Claim to fame- 1st child born free there, threw up on Fredrick Douglas. Published in October 2007

Process of writing- gets the character in his head and goes from there.

WSRA- Read Alouds

Afternoon Workshop- Steve Layne

Reasons to read Aloud

• -its fun especially for kids who don't do text well
• -positive experience with text
• -don't need to assess kids with everything they do with text all day long
• -a good book read well will do more for all the disenfranchised kids than all the levelled books that the publishing companies can push out
• -kids can comprehend through hearing than they do by reading
• --bringing them sentence structure, vocabulary and more at a higher level than they can read on their own
• -reading skills are improved and reinforced
• -positive attitudes are fostered towards books
• -it broadens interests and tastes (need to make sure we don't read only genres we love best)
• -imagination is exercised and background experience is built
• -reading maturity develops
• -reading independence is promoted
• -lifelong readers may be developed

Alliterate readers- graduating more of them than ones who can't read

Establishing A Successful Read Aloud Time

• -make a do not disturb sign and use it
• -make seating decisions that are simple and clear
• -Plan a significant amount of time for reading and discussion for the first 2-3 days of a new book,launch the book well.
• -be strategic and make appropriate choices to get them all information. But the trust of the reluctant readers first, dooms novel good for reluctant boy readers
• -plan carefully for the end of the book, longer session with lots of time
• -don't let the sub read the novel out loud when you are gone, give them other text
• -select an amount of time and consistently read aloud at that time. Don't make it contingent upon their behavior
• -don't let read aloud be the first thing you cancel if you get behind
• -rules of consistent behavior
• -guide them in making predictions, conclusions and mental images, students don't see anything in their heads during read alouds
• -don't make them follow along in a classroom sets of books, let them choose to do so if they would like
• -situations like students finishing the books ahead of them, student who asks to draw during reading time
• -let them know that you can't wait to read aloud to them every day

Books!!! Every book is for everybody to know

• Moose Tracks- Karma Wilson, Jack E. Davis. picture book
• Oonawassee Summer by Melissa Forney. chapter book intermediate
• This Side of Paradise by Steven Layne. chapter book intermediate
• My Brother Dan's Delicious by Steven Layne- good for working on persuasive writing
• Deathwatch by Rob White- good for middle school (like most dangerous game)
• P is for princess a Royal Alphabet

Art of Reading Aloud to Kids

• Work on reading expressively
• take risks
• highlight relavent reads

Selecting books for read aloud times

• -try to read from every genre and id it for students
• try to read only what you love to read
• Never NEVER read a book that you have not read in its entirely- its hard to lead someone someplace you've never been

(Neil Shusterman author look into it)
inservice- ways to cultivate lifelong learning, ways to cultivate a love of reading

WSRA Conference- Opening Keynote

I attended the WSRA Conference (Wisconsin State Reading Association) Feb 8-9, 2007 in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Steven Layne- Balconies and the power of teaching.

Great new book called LOVE THAT BABY about sibilng rivalry.

Literacy and Technology Today and in the Future- Don Johnston

WSRA Conference, Milwaukee
Session One

40% of students at the 5th grade level read 2 or more grades below grade level.

70% (READING NEXT REPORT) of all students at junior high and high school need remediation and comprehension help.

CAST- Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age

A lot of the informaiton in this presentation is repeat info.

NIMAS- National Instructional Materials Standards (electronic file) available in a standard text files with all materials.

New Wisconsin Promise

Hello! I am at the New Wisconsin Promise today and am presenting in a half an hour!!

I will include more information here as time goes by.

Here's how to contact me:

•To Contact me: jscott@tigerton.k12.wi.us
•By Phone 715-535-4050
•By blog: www.janelseduthoughts.blogspot.com
•The presentation materials can be downloaded tomorrow at www.tigerton.k12.wi.us/promise/
•I have more resources, if you want something, just ask me. I can email it to you.
•I will be publishing many of the resources on lulu (www.lulu.com)