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Brainstorm 2016: What Inspires Us!

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A partnership of JMU M. Ed. in Educational Technology, SVTC and VSTE

Reaching out to educators in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond

April 8, 2016

This event is sold out. Contact karen_richardson@vste.org to be added to the wait list.

From google to flipping to coding and more...Brainstorm 2016 truly has something for everyone. Check out the DRAFT schedule here: https://brainstorm2016whatinspires.sched.org/

Location:
Memorial Hall,James Madison University, 395 South High Street, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Parking Information:
Brainstorm participants will be permitted to park in C8, R9 and C13 Lots between the hours of 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM on April 8. No parking permits will be necessary. The lot is located directly behind Memorial Hall on South Willow Street.  Check the map for help with locating Memorial Hall and the parking lot.

parkingmapjmuNOTE: All regulations for JMU students, faculty and staff will remain in effect, and students attending the event are required to park in appropriate student parking lots with a JMU parking permit. Regular enforcement will continue in other parking lots, and guests may receive parking citations if parked in restricted lots. Guests are prohibited from parking in specialty spaces such as Service Vehicle spaces, handicap spaces without proper permit, or expired meters. They are also prohibited from parking in Fire Lanes.

Campus Map: http://www.jmu.edu/map/buildings/MEMH.shtml

Photography:
Brainstorm 2016 is held in a public space, therefore we do not prohibit participants, exhibitors, sponsors, or news organizations from photographing conference activities. VSTE, SVTC and James Madison University reserve the right to use images taken at the Conference with your photograph and/or likeness on social media and/or in future marketing materials. We are NOT responsible for individual attendee’s use of your image or likeness.

Big Deal Book, January 4, 2016

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Big Deal Book

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources, grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Engage in Inquiry, Nurture Leadership, Partner with Parents & More.

Here are just a few highlights from this edition. Click the link below to learn more about them and find lots more:

Share Groundbreaking Educational Programs

Returning for a fifth year, the $200,000 Follett Challenge will highlight and reward the most innovative K–12 programs that teach21st-century skills to students. Schools or districts, public and private, in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply. Submissions are open to all K–12 educators and Parent Teacher Organizations. To participate in this year’s contest, entrants must complete an online application and upload a three- to five-minute video describing their program. Deadline January 29, 2016

Create with Code

Young children, aged 5–7, can use ScratchJr, an introductory programming language, to create their own interactive storiesand games. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves—and then use the graphical programming blocks to make their characters come to life.

Ensure Success for All Students

On January 18, 2016, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. (ET), Big Deal Media’s Amazing Resources for Educators community onedWeb.net will host an interactive, collaborative webinar, sponsored by Quill.com, titled “Ensuring Success for All: Strategies for Bringing Out the Best in Students in Poverty, and Students Who Struggle with Language and Learning.” In this webinar, the 2015 National Teacher of the Year will share her experiences in Title I middle and high schools, as well as her work with refugee students, English learners, and students in intervention classes.

Big Deal Book, January 4, 2016

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The Conference is Over…

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but the learning continues. Check out the resources being shared in VSTE's Google Plus community.

Don't miss all the video at the VSTE YouTube site.

And #vste15 was busy on Twitter:


Big Deal Book, December 1, 2015

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Big Deal Book

VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources, grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Engage in Inquiry, Nurture Leadership, Partner with Parents & More.

Here are just a few highlights from this edition. Click the link below to learn more about them and find lots more:

Spot Clues to Crack the Case

Historical Scene Investigation (H.S.I.) offers an engaging way for students to investigate history through primary documents and images. H.S.I. presents students with historical cases to “crack.” Each of the 13 cases provides students with clues to analyze in order to form a conclusion to each investigation. The clues for each investigation are in the forms of primary documents and images, as well as secondary sources.

Nurture Leadership Qualities

Girls Thinking Global (GTG) has launched an online professional learning community on edWeb.net to help educators and organizations connect and converse about ways to nurture leadership qualities in adolescent girls and young women. The GTG community will host a series of free webinars to share stories and ideas for initiatives that will make a difference in girls’ lives.

Explore the Art of Conflict

The Newberry Library’s Digital Collections for the Classroom website features primary sources from the Newberry’s holdings, contextual essays, and discussion questions. Newberry Teacher Consortium collaborates with scholars, university faculty, and classroom teachers to develop the collections in this growing resource for classroom use.

Big Deal Book, December 1, 2015

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Big Deal Book, November 16, 2015

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Big Deal BookVSTE partners with Big Deal Media to bring you the best in online resources, grant and competition opportunities and more. In this edition, you can Spark Imagination, Inspire Self-Expression, Encourage Inquiry & More.

Here are just a few highlights from this edition. Click the link below to learn more about them and find lots more:

Share Creative Approaches to Learning

Next Vista works to help students and teachers share creative approaches to learning, and as part of that effort, Next Vista invites educators and students to take part in the Creative Storm educational video contest. To enter, simply put a little creativity into a video teaching any concept one might encounter in elementary, middle, or high school, and keep it to 90 seconds or less. Deadline: December 18, 2015

Learn the Fundamentals of Digital Driving

Just as motorists take driver’s education to learn how to recognize and react to road situations, digital-age students need a course in how to navigate precarious situations online, such as cyberbullying and copyright infringement. That’s what led ISTE to develop the Digital Driver’s License (DDL) project, a free and easy-to-navigate resource that schools or individuals can use to teach and measure digital citizenship proficiency.

Send a Spacecraft into Orbit

Rocket Science 101 is an iPad app offered by NASA to help students understand how rockets work. The app also helps students understand the differences between the four types of rockets most frequently used by NASA. In Rocket Science 101, students can build all four rockets in a jigsaw-like activity and then virtually launch their rockets.

Big Deal Book, November 16, 2015

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