Seminar Sessions
MONDAY SESSIONS, June 22
Links
By EAST
What is missing from Summer Seminar? Excitement, bonding, movement. You spoke, we listened. Get ready for an entertaining and energy driven session with co-facilitators.
Hosting a GIS Day
By CAST
GIS Day is a great way to promote awareness of GIS in your school and in your community and celebrate the ways in which geospatial technologies enhance our lives.
Whether you’re hosting a GIS Day for the first time or the tenth, this session will help you find resources, plan events, and publicize your GIS Day to make it a success.
EAST @ EACC
By Debbie Feagin, EACC
Description: Informational presentation on how EAST is working at a post secondary level. Sharing best practices and challenges during the first year of implementation.
Arkansas Delta Oral History Project and EAST: A Perfect Fit!
By Mary Meacham, Brinkley High School EAST
The session will describe the organization and goals of the Arkansas Delta Oral History Project. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville representatives will show/describe
projects from the last three years and will discuss the basics of how to train students to get oral histories and how these histories can be taken from 'the page to the stage'.
I will talk about how this project has been a perfect for my EAST classroom and what it has done for my students. This project fits the EAST philosophy perfectly and even if a
school is not eligible to formally participate, all facilitators will get ideas about how their EAST program can help preserve their community's history.
Digital Audio In Service Projects: Grab the Fruit By The Foot!
By Dustin Summey, Russellville High School EAST
This hands-on session will give you the keys to becoming more familiar with FL Studio, the loop-based music creation software designed for people with no musical background.
We will also audition other digital audio tools and conduct a discussion about harmonizing digital audio with service projects. Come ready to pass notes.
Hopefully we won’t get in treble. It will be a fruity fun time!
TUESDAY SESSIONS, June 23
Connections
By Melissa Gallegos, EAST
This, on your feet, session is bursting with strategies to connect you with your students on an individual level and help your students develop strong cohesive teams.
Be ready for anything. And remember… what happens at Summer Seminar stays at Summer Seminar.
EAST: Could This Be Perfection?
By Jerry Prince, EAST
Who could ask for more? I mean, students can decide what you want to do, when they want, where, how and with whom. They have input into grading, rules and guidelines
along with opportunities to explore, experiment, lead, follow, teach and learn. And yet in this perfect world there is the occasional problem of motivation? What’s up
with that? Let’s look closer...
EAST Night Out
By Melanie Ridlon, EAST
The second annual EAST Night Out is set and our goal is for 100% nationwide participation! This event (targeted for Tuesday, October 6th or within the week of October 5th)
provides a prime opportunity to inform your local community on what your EAST Classroom has to offer. During this session, hear from peers on their experiences last year
and gain details for the event in 2009.
Sharing Spaces: EAST and Workforce Technology
By Dave Fisher, Department of Workforce Technology
An overview of the advantages for your school, classroom and students by adding the Workforce Technology component to your EAST program. This session is geared for
Arkansas participants.
CENSUS 2010: A New Portrait of America
By Gary Underwood, U.S. Census Bureau
This session will provide information about the decennial census to be conducted in 2010. The census is a count of everyone living in the United States every 10
years and is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Census data are used to distribute Congressional seats to states, to make decisions about what community services to
provide, and to distribute $300 billion in federal funds to local, state and tribal governments each year. The session will also provide information about American
Fact Finder, your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
Podcasting in the Classroom
By Jeremy Kratz, Arkansas Department of Education
An overview of current trends in educational podcasting, including examples from around the web, suggestions for using podcasts in EAST, and details on the Arkansas
Department of Education’s podcasting plans.
Maps, Mashups, and Web 2.0: Keeping Current with Geospatial Technologies
By CAST
This past year we offered a couple of student training sessions that covered the ins and outs of web-mapping "mashups", which combine data from multiple sources,
including your own, to create a single, easy to use map. Here's a chance to learn what mashups are all about, and get a chance to create some simple ones yourself
using Google's "My Maps". If you don't already have a Gmail or other Google account, be sure to sign up for one (free at
www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount before the Summer Seminar.
WEDNESDAY SESSIONS, June 24
Quick Video Tips: Planning shooting and Editing a Small Documentary
By Mark Giese, UALR School of Mass Communication
This workshop will provide you with basic planning, shooting and editing techniques that will help you document your EAST Project or Program. It will provide basic
planning visualization strategies. Teach basic shooting, composition and framing techniques. I t will provide editing based story-telling strategies to pull your program
or project documentary together into a smooth professional-looking piece.
Evaluating and Mapping Community Forests
By Patti Erwin, Urban Forestry Coordinator
Trees provide many benefits to a community that can be demonstrated through tree evaluation and mapping. To insure these benefits are provided communities must learn how
to manage their urban forest. The tree inventory data collected will be mapped and describe tree management needs. Data will be analyzed to quantify the value of annual
environment and aesthetic benefits such as energy conservation, air quality improvement, CO2 reduction, storm water control, and property value increases.
How to use Geocaching in EAST Classroom and Community Projects
By CAST
Geocaching can be an effective and engaging technology tool to help your students develop projects through discovery learning, earth and geology caches, historical
and cultural features, math building caches for teacher/student events, and provide geocache resources for community self-guided tours. Using a GPS for Geocaching can
allow your students to experience technology to provide a community resource and educational opportunities in a whole new way. Don't forget the possibilities to provide
interactive art, graphic, and mapping opportunities for developing community caches. This is not all, so join in the fun way to stimulate an EAST outdoor discovery project
through Geocaching.
Open Discussion
By EAST Facilitators
Three open discussion sessions to choose from each working through different topics related to the EAST Classroom. How do the busiest facilitators find time to take on
collaborative projects? How is it possible to manage massive projects both in scope and number? Lots of students want to work, but none want to document – now what?
I have too many seniors, not enough girls and need more variety of students – but how? Be prepared to participate in an active discussion, voice your concerns, share ideas,
and leave with solutions.