OTEN Inspiration Conference in Forest Grove, Oregon, on September 25,2010

Along with other MAT colleagues, I attended a half-day conference on technology in education held at the Berglund Center at Pacific University.  Tim Lauer was the opening Keynote Speaker.  He presented an interesting historical overview of the use of technology in the classrom.  He also described a class project from his days as a teacher at Buckman Elementary School, where his students constructed a hovercraft and posted their project on the web.

I also attended a session on Using Technology in Social Studies Classrooms, presented by Jeff Barlow from Pacific University.  He described a class project where his students set up a web site for black Korean War veterans.  He shared his outline of how to implement such a project.

Finally, I attended a session on using GoogleApps in the Classroom presented by Willamette's own Steve Rhine.  He demonstrated the usefulness of several Google applications, plus a few non-Google applications, all of which are free and readily avialable.

A good conference--I only wish that I could have attended more sessions!

An audio summary of these sessions is available using the Yodio link embedded above (also available at:
http://yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=hXFn9QlMx56GvHUhbToA5J).