 November 17-19, In Springfield, IL.  This conference is 17 th annual.  This conference was an exciting opportunity to discover how educators can be an active part of the information revolution. And to gain knowledge about how technology impacts education and to exchange ideas with others interested in meeting the changing needs of schools and students.

 Some Topics:  Fluid Environment for learning: Technology and Transformative Learning:  Help students shift from being passive receivers to active readers, evaluator, thinker, and innovators. The key is helping students understand how information and technology can be used to construct knowledge and convey complex messages through meaningful, technology-enhanced experience.  Digital Story telling to differentiate Process& Assessment:  Digital Storytelling differentiates teaching and learning by inviting students to create multimedia projects in all content area. Incorporating sound, text, and image, student practice content learning in multiple modalities.

 Increase students achievement while significantly reducing cost through Lumen Software's All-in- One student information system:  Strategies to meet the diverse needs of students on the bubble, under-performing students, and the over achieving students. It offered the web based solutions customized for educators and students that combines strategic and powerful data gathering with online resources.

 Preparing Students for their future. What they need for Today’s Technology and Global society:  It provided :1- examples of technological and global changes that will impact what students need to know and able to do; 2- insight into what the skills / knowledge students will need are; 3- what the nation’s most rapidly improving schools are doing to better prepare students for this changing world.

 Using technology to support High- Yield Instructional Strategies:  Has shown that there are nine categories of high-yield instructional strategies that have a strong positive effect on increasing student achievement.  Using Student Feedback to build technology rich:  It showed concrete ways to use your students’ feedback to help you build technology-rich lessons that work!

 Infusing Technology into Social Studies:  By Rena Shifflet, Illinois State Univertsity  This session provided strategies and resources using web tools that enhance student learning in the area of social studies and beyond.  Wiki: making students working together, discussion and post questions.  Glogster:

 you can have 100 students accounts for free and you can change students’ name for next year.  Students could see every thing in class.  You can import image, voice, and viedo.  Voki:  it is a service that allow you to post questions with voice of and dynamic character, and students can post the answer be recording their vices and post it.

 Voicethread:  3 ways to record vice:  By recording voice, by phone they call you back to record voice, and by type it.  Students could post pictures individually or collaborative work.  Teacher could post video as problems and each students post a solution.

 Xtranomal:  Digital storytelling.  Create animation cartoon using graphics.  Type in the dialog and then the computer read it.  Choose the characters.  Choose the background.

 Is all information online reliable ?  How can you find trustworthy sources of information online?  Strategies for recognizing bogus websites, and evaluating websites.  Who the owner for the website. ◦ Domain tools: whois.domaintools.com  Give all the information about creator.  We should look at: 1. currency.

2. Content. 3. Indicators of Quality. ( ) to test the reliability of the website. 4. Design. 5. Wikipedia: should be sure about citation and go back to it. 6. Contact information. Ex: 7. Currency: copyright. 8. Sources: biography at the bottom.