ISTE2015 - Poster Session - Bridging The Digital Divide With A Racial Equity Lens

Thank you to everyone who stopped by during the poster session to chat about Bridging The Digital Divide with a Racial Equity Lens. So many great conversations about this important topic.

Resources
Pacific Educational Group
Saint Paul Public Schools Office of Personalized Learning
Project Tomorrow Speak Up Survey
Saint Paul Public Schools Racial Equity Department 
Universal Design for Learning Graphic Organizer

ISTE2015 Workshop - Publish Amazing Interactive Books With iBooks Author

iBooks Author is free software from Apple for creating interactive multi-touch books for the iPad or iBooks on the Mac.

Required:
Mac computer
iBooks Author
iBooks (on Mac) - optional
iPad  - optional
iBooks (on iPad) - optional

Resources:
In addition to the sample Philadelphia book and the workshop instructional packet, the following resources may be helpful.

Creative Commons Licensed Images
Morgue File
Wylie Image Search
World Images
Animal Photos
The Noun Project
Google Images Advanced Search - Free to Use and Share

Video
Format - MP4

Other Widget Creation Tools
Bookry
BookWidgets
iAD Producer
Tumult Hype


File Types
iba - editable iBooks Author file
ibooks - finished book - cannot be edited

Distribution
Dropbox
Website
iTunes - with iTunes Producer
iTunes U

Other Book Creation Tools
Book Creator App - Easily create multimedia ebooks on the iPad.

ISTE Ignite Speaker

I have been chosen to be an ISTE 2015 Ignite Session Speaker for the ISTE 2015 convention in Philadelphia.

"Enlighten us, but make it quick!" ~ Ignite motto

It looks like I will be really busy at ISTE this year as I was just chosen to be an Ignite Speaker at the beginning of the conference on Sunday afternoon.

My topic will be "How the iPad Transports Students Through Time and Space."

The Ignite format allows the speaker only 20 slides and requires that the slides advance every 15 seconds, making for a rapid-fire presentation designed to ignite or excite people about a topic in a short amount of time. I'm looking forward to the challenge as I have not done a presentation that follows this format previously and it seems like it will be fun!

ISTE2015 Speaker

Proposal selections for ISTE2015 were announced today, and I'm honored to be able to say that I will be a speaker at the next ISTE conference in Philadelphia this June.

Image Source

In fact, I received a triple honor of having three proposals selected and a fourth selected but on a waiting list for now!

I will be presenting on:

• 30 Plus Ways To Use Your iPad For Personalized Professional Development
• Bridging The Digital Divide With A Racial Equity Lens

I will also be doing a three hour workshop on:

• Publishing Amazing Interactive Books With iBooks Author

The fourth session that is currently waitlisted until space becomes available is a BYOD session:

• Easy Formative Assessment Options For Mobile Devices