ICE+2009


 * Feel free to list your favorite workshops from ICE 2009.**
 * Include a brief description and any noteworthy links.**
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toc =Pixie 2= This was a great full day workshop (Tuesday) on [|Pixie 2], a K-5 [|Tech4Learning] program affectionately known as "KidPix on Steriods." It is a licensed product but it is much cheaper than KidPix and has some AMAZING features - including more than 500 curriculum activities built in and full access to Pics4Learning. **Definitely worth considering as a purchase for the elementary schools**. In addition to a free copy of the Pixie 2 program we received their K-12 product, [|Frames], a more robust program for animated movies and digital storytelling - includes a clay animation kit.

=Live at the Library of Congress= This Thursday half-day BYOL session on the [|Library of Congress website] was also great. Charlene Chausis and Lisa Dettling (Stevenson High School) led a wonderful hands-on workshop that really only scratched the surface of this wonderful resource. If you have not spent any time yet at The Library of Congress website, you need to do so. But carve out a little time because the site is vast and deep. The primary sources and lesson plans for teachers are amazing.

=Copyright Wisdom for Music= This workshop knocked me back on my heels! The complete title of the workshop was //Copyright Wisdom for Music in Media and Technology// and Barry Britt presented the most concise, easy-to-understand and relevant copyright workshop I have ever attended. [|Click here to view Britt's presentation] - scroll to the bottom of the page to find the Copyright Workshop Presentation PowerPoint.

I now have a very different attitude toward this issue especially how it relates the ubiquitous infringement that is happening in schools and the liability this puts on school districts! A very viable and affordable solution is (and I must say that this was the most low key push I can recall from a workshop presenter who is sponsored by a company) that Britt is the force behind [|Soundzabound], a company that licenses a huge library of royalty free music especially for schools. **I think is important for us to look into Soundzabound**.

=Little Hands, Giant Reach= Steve Dembo is one of my favorite presenters. He brings his excitement and passion about teaching and learning to each workshop he offers. Any I always walk away with a bunch of new ideas. Dembo spotlighted some easy-to-use and FREE Web 2.0 tools and demonstrated how teachers are using them in their classrooms. He shared some of new Flickr mash-up tools, [|Kerpoof] (like KidPix, but Free), [|OsTube] (create your own YouTube), [|MyPlick] (share PowerPoint and Google presentations online) and a host of others including [|GCast] (probably the easiet way to make and post a podcast). Here's the [|link to Dembo's presenation] - scroll down to DEN AT ICE - 2009.

I also enjoyed //They Are Never Too Young To Learn// and //Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools// ([|Jen Wagner]) and //The Dynamic World of Google// ([|Anne Truger]).

- Fred Koch