Connect. Collaborate. Contribute.

Welcome and Introductions

Welcome to the CUE Community! Please introduce yourself here.

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Marisol Valles on November 14, 2008 at 1:40pm: Hello! This is Marisol Valles, Director of Operations with CUE, Inc. Welcome to the CUE Community! Please use this as your one stop shop to CUE! We are looking forward to the CUE Conference, March 5-7, 2009!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lori McDevitt on January 11, 2009 at 11:04am: Hello! I am new to CUE and am excited about attending in March in Palm Springs. My name is Lori and I am a 4th grade teacher in Roseville, CA (near Sacramento). Can anyone share with me some of the highlights from past CUE conferences, what should I make sure I attend, any speakers who shouldn't be missed, etc. This may be the start of an annual thing for me! It looks like I'll be a lucky recipient of the Smart Board later this year. I am also the lead tech "go to" gal at my school. I used to own a biz on video teleconferencing, so this is all very exciting to me. Hope to meet some of you once we all arrive.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jose Rodriguez on January 11, 2009 at 11:40am: I've attended a few CUE conferences over the past 12 years. Most workshops are pretty cool. I like to attend workshops by Mark Wagner, David Jakes, among others. I teach third grade in Los Angeles. I like to take workshops that provide resources to use right away in my classroom. Best of luck and hope to see you at CUE2009.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lori McDevitt on January 11, 2009 at 1:06pm: Thanks Jose. I'll make note of those speakers.

~Lori~; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andi on January 15, 2009 at 12:05pm: Hi, I'm Andi Hicks, Director of the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education. We have two Mobile Film Classrooms - production studios on wheels that bring digital-age technology right to the doorstep. We provide in-session and after school enrichment programs in the So. Cal area.

We were introduced to CUE last year and are eager to learn more about the members, activities and possibilities CUE introduces. Please check our website at: www.marypickford.com
looking forward to meeting you.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marie Sontag on February 20, 2009 at 12:18pm

Marie Sontag here from San Jose, CA. I've been attending CUE conferences for the past 12 years, and always learn something new. This year I'm presenting an introductory tutorial on Alice, the free 3D Animation program produced by Randy Pausch and his research team from Carnegie Mellon University. Bring a laptop, download Alice from www.alice.org before you come, and join us for a fun and interactive session - and leave with a critical thinking lesson you can use in social studies/language arts, grades 4-12, on Monday! (The session is Friday, 2-3pm, Primrose C)

Attachments:

AliceTutorialHandout.pdf, 241 KB

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sergio Mazzarelli on February 26, 2009 at 2:02am: Hello! My name is Sergio Mazzarelli and I teach English at Kwassui Women's College in Nagasaki, Japan. Along with Rushton Hurley, who teaches Japanese at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California, I will be offering a Bonus Session on Thursday, March 5, 12:30-1.30. Our title is "Digital Cameras, Wiki Pages, Two Schools, and a Great Project."

Our session will explain how we set up exchange projects in which our students discuss videos they make for each other. In particular, I will detail how to get students to produce video without video cameras: they can use still pictures from their camera phones or PowerPoint slides and combine them using software such as Windows Movie Maker (part of Windows XP and Vista), Photo Story 3 (free download), or iMovie (free with new Macs). The videos can then be uploaded to a video-sharing site (free) and embedded into a blog or wiki (also free). If you are interested in learning how to set up a video project or a video-based international exchange that is highly motivating for your students but costs little or nothing, don't miss our session.

English videos created by Japanese students and Japanese videos created by American students as well as written interactions between the two sides can be seen at http://slideshowexchange.wikispaces.com/

More information about creating videos out of still pictures can be found at my site: http://www.deepmoat.com/moodle/

English videos created by Japanese students who took part in our project are also available at http://www.youtube.com/user/orandazaka and http://teachertube.com/uprofile.php?UID=2370

Last but not least, an ever growing collection of educational videos created by both students and teachers from all over the world is available at my co-presenter's site: http://www.nextvista.org/

I look foward to seeing you at our session and also to learning a lot from as many as possible of the exciting presentations on the CUE 2009 program.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Candace Pauchnick on March 2, 2009 at 9:04pm: Hello. I'm Candace Pauchnick and I teach at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, CA. I teach two different types of courses. One is Human Psychology & Sociology and the other is high school English. I have involved my students with international epal exchanges for over seven years.

I will be presenting on Saturday,12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.in the Smoketree F Room

I will be sharing how I set up successful international epal exchanges for my students. Please visit my e-pal's project website: http://henry.sandi.net/staff/cpauchni/pals0506.html and also see my e-pal's blog site:
http://sites.epals.com/cpauchnick/

I will also be sharing about my International Literature Blog for high school students. Please visit my blog on this: http://sites.epals.com/pauchnickc/ Right now my students are exchanging blogs with China, Italy, and Brazil.

Here is my general classroom website: http://henry.sandi.net/staff/cpauchni

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris Jones on March 3, 2009 at 9:05am: Hello,

My name is Christine Jones and I am a consultant for CTAP Region 11. I will be co-presenting a session with Nancy Moore on Google Tools for Educators. In this hands-on session we will be exploring how Google's free online tools can help teachers develop content, organize and analyze data, and motivate students to use the web for research. Please visit our Google homepage to find out more: http://sites.google.com/site/toolsforeducators/

We are looking forward to seeing all of you at CUE!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by J Francoeur on March 3, 2009 at 1:46pm: Hello! I am a TOSA in Orange Unified and I need to share a room Thursday night...anyone?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Matt Cauthron on March 3, 2009 at 2:42pm: Hello all.

I'm Matt Cauthron. I teach photography, media, and digital imaging in the Digital Arts Technology Academy at Cathedral City High School, PSUSD.

I am co-presenting The Challenge-based Curriculum and the 21st Century High School on Friday in the Apple Theater and conducting the hands-on workshop, Better Images with Aperture, on Thursday in the Apple Pavilion.

Please visit The Digital Arts Technology Academy online!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Harry Keller on March 9, 2009 at 8:13am: Hello all. I'm Harry Keller, president of Paracomp, Inc. We deliver onilne science labs that are real rather than simulated. Our web site is www.smartscience.net.

As a scientist (Cal Tech and Columbia University graduate in chemistry, previous professor of chemistry at Northeastern University), I support the findings of the National Research Council in America's Lab Report. They insist that decent science lab experiences must use data, objects, and phenomena from the material world. I have set out to create online science lab experiences that do just that and at the lowest possible cost.

We now have over 150 such online units.

California poses a special challenge in accomplishing our goal. The UC "a-g" requirements state that lab experiences must be 100% supervised hands-on. This requirement has been around a long time, and much has changed in technology to make alternatives available. College students now commonly explore large online scientific databases as a science lab exercise, for example. The lead author of America's Lab Report uses this approach in her classes.

Is anyone else here in California interested in asking the UC to amend their "d" rule on science labs? One possibility would be to allow up to 50% of science lab experience to be any (including hands-on) experience that strictly abides by the National Research Council definition and that achieves all or most of their goals.

I believe that this approach would lower costs and improve the science experiences of our students at the same time.; ▶ Reply to This