Summer Workshop Agenda
Week One: Portland
July 8-13

Day

7:30-8:30
8:30-10:15
10:30-12:00
1:30-3:00
3:15-5:00
7:00-9:00

Sun 07/8

Arrive in Portland
Informal Reception

Mon 07/9

group
breakfast

Welcome to Portland

Introduction, Overview, Logistics
8:30am - 9:00am

9:00am - 10:15am
Webquest introduction
Facilitator "show and tell" with technology.

Location: DT

Webquest introduction

Components of a webquest.

Preview Astoria activity
What we will be building toward.

 


Location: DT

Intro to Building WebQuests

Storyboarding websites
Looking at successful webquests, evaluating webquest.

(whole group)




Location: HT

Basic Web page building

1. How the Internet works
2. Basic HTML
3. File/Folder structures and site organization

(split groups)





Location: HT

Resource Room
Open 7:00-9:00

Sign up for 1/2 hr. tech mentoring.

 





Location: DT

Tues 07/10

group
breakfast

Intro to Netscape Composer

1. Formating text (headings, fonts, color, lists)
2. Page layout basics
3. Tables
Basic tables
Using tables / page layout
4. Navigation structures
5. Making Links

(split groups)

Location: DT

Poster Session
Set up & Logistics


Resource Room Open

(poster content and topic entered in matrix template for all to see, for resources links on project website)

 



Location: DT

Concurrent Sessions

Remote Sensing /Arc View

Photoshop Elements

Quicktime VR panoramas

(3 sessions)

 




Location: HT

Concurrent Sessions

Remote Sensing /Arc View

Photoshop Elements

Quicktime VR panoramas

(3 sessions)

 




Location: HT

Poster Session

7-9 PM

Local Programs

(content, discipline, standards, grade-level matrix template for all to see, for resources links on project website)




Location: DT

Wed 07/11

group
breakfast

District Planning

Lessons based on the use of the CD-ROM by roles.

Naturalist, Historian, Geographer

(3 sessions)





Location: DT

Netscape Composer

1. Adding graphics
2. Using graphics as links
3. Using animated graphics
4. Web page elements of style
5. Image Maps
6. Efficient and quick loading web pages

(split groups)


Location: DT

Concurrent Sessions

Arc View analysis
(georeferencing images, using gps waypoints, reprojecting data)

Photoshop Elements advanced
(layers, text, effects)

Quicktime VR scenes/objects

Front Page/Dreamweaver

Location: HT

Concurrent Sessions

Arc View analysis
(georeferencing images, using gps waypoints, reprojecting data)

Photoshop Elements advanced
(layers, text, effects)

Quicktime VR scenes/objects

Front Page/Dreamweaver

Location: HT

Resource Room
Open 7:00-9:00

Sign up for 1/2 hr. tech mentoring.

 







Location: DT

Thrs 07/12

group
breakfast

Break Out Groups

Strategies for Technology Infusion (barriers and challenges)

Rediscovery Teachers as Change Agents (how appropriate use of technology facilitates learning).


Location: DT

Break Out Groups

Models of Technology Infusion.

Dissemination at Local Districts (models of appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning in local contexts).


Location: DT

Additional Web Publishing Issues

1. Hosting your website
2. FTP basics (download, upload)
3. Updating your site

(whole group)

 



Location: HT

Building Webquest Pages

(website work time)

Presenting local web quests
(peer presentations in small groups)







Location: HT

Poolside Dinner:

Evening Presenter
Glen Kirkpatrick ODOT, mapping, LCTrail, geology, indians.

 





Location: DT

Fri 07/13

group
breakfast
Field Trip

(TBA: Larry and Judi)

3 options to be announced at workshop

Designing web-activities
Pedagogy and assessment techniques, rubrics.


(whole group)




Location: HT

Presentation

Local Lewis & Clark visits
Larry & Judi





Location: HT

Sat 07/14

Depart for Astoria (check out of Doubletree)
  • Sessions labeled grey are concurrent sessions where you will have ample choices of technologies you wish to explore further. In others you will all be together for demonstrations, discussions, or break out groups.