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=Welcome to the ROE 2011 Fine Arts Break Out Session!= **This wiki was designed to allow us all to share the materials we brought to the session.**

Notes from our session:

 * Schools need assistance in using websites because of blocks set up by the school. Many do not allow for or have a process in place for opening websites and making them available for student use!
 * How can we help these schools to open websites for educational use?
 * Use the Common Core to support your fight for more online use!!
 * Colleges EXPECT that students know how to use these technologies - how do we justify banning websites and other new technologies AND get our students ready for college????
 * Could IVCC help with explaining the NEED for using technology and having access to various websites in the classroom?
 * Are our high school's tech policies too stringent? Facebook and other social media has a bad reputation, but why are sites blocked that could enhance teaching and learning?
 * Fear of litigation or prosecution seems to be driving some of the blocking. Where is the education for students/teachers/parents that could help to aleviate that fear and provide tools to help students to understand and block cyberbullying and predation?
 * Music/arts blocked!
 * Streator High School has policy that provides for allowing websites to be 'unlocked' with an explanation/justification of the educational use of the website. A simple form is sent to the tech director. To date all requests have been honored.

**The following includes ideas of technology we use with students!**
Applian Technologies - Free download of Freecorder 5 software to easily download YouTube videos for classroom use.

TechSmith/Jing- Free download for Jing for quick and easy screenshots and screencasts.

Glogster - Free for educational use with paid upgrades available. Create interactive 'poster' style presentation that easily link to video clips and external websites. Glog examples: Saint-Saens Biography Colombia Critical Pedagogy

Prezi - The zooming presentation software. Turn a power point into a prezi! Give presentations some movement and color! Prezi examples: Technology in Secondary Music In Support of K-12 Theatre Norway More Theatre Less Drama

Wordle - Create your own word clouds (see 'Creativity Wordle' above)

PhotoStory3 A better way to create presentations! Add music, narration and movement! Photostory explanations, tutorials, and examples from a school!

Free RealPlayer - download videos and music/manage music and videos

MusicTheory.net - work through music theory/create tests - lessons and content

Digital Voice Recorder - record student work during rehearsals - especially good for hearing specific players using small clip-on mic (Olympus @ Radio Shack is very inexpensive; larger recording models available - more expensive)

Turnitin.com - anti-plagiarism site (fee based): students submit work, the program checks other work and on the web for any similar wording in work Several free sites will provide a limited version of plagiarism checkers: duplichecker; Plagiarisma; The Plagiarism Checker Facebook - Streator HS Band, Mendota HS Band have Facebook pages used for promoting the band, but also instructionally to post video of practice, photos, information about events, and communicate with parents, students and alumni

Alert Now and Connect Ed - (many other versions) to send voice messages or texts to students and/or parents for reminders about events and cancellations

Twitter - (Streator High School has a Twitter account) connect Facebook and Twitter - a member can have texts sent to them (follow [username on Twitter] and text to 40404)

SmartMusic (fee based) - subscription based recording - students must submit practice sessions,etc.. helps students practice and provides accountablility

MOBI - (equipment cost) tablet and overhead wall mount technology with projector that allows for student engagement - creates a smart board on a white board - allows for tablet(s) to interact with the board from anywhere in the classroom

Keynote Speaker Joe Fatheree'a Webpage - connect students with technology. The keynote speaker provided several examples of using video with students. His webpage provides links to several of these videos as well as to the websites that support the technology.