ICE Conference 2011
Exhibitor Information

All the information you need for registering as a vendor, reserving a booth at the ICE Conference, or submitting an advertisement in one of the conference booklets can be found by clicking the following links:

• Welcome Letter

• General Exhibitor Information

• Other terms and conditions

• Advertising Information
   
• Charts (illustrating the breakdown of our attendees by facility as well as by position)

• The floor plan for the Exhibit Hall will help you choose the section you would like your booth. As in the past, you will select your booth by section.

Booth Application - ICE Conference 2011

Professional Development Resources Page

Here are some links to a variety of web sites, professional journals, and online resources that members of the ICE Professional Development committee have recommended for members to explore. If you have suggestions for other resources that you feel should be included here, please send your ideas to the ICE Office.

	Atomic Learning is a subscription service that ICE provides at no extra cost to all members as one of the many benefits of joining the organization. Atomic Learning’s online training resources teach you “how do I do that” through a library of thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and “how do I apply that” training that can be used as an integral part of a professional development program and a valuable curriculum supplement. Atomic Learning makes it easy to learn new technology and encourage technology integration in the classroom
	Transforming Education through Technology. THE Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology. Launched in 1972, THE Journal was the first magazine to cover education technology.
	eSchool News is both a monthly print newspaper and an online newsletter that provides information necessary to help K-20 decision-makers successfully use technology and the internet to transform North America's schools and colleges and achieve their educational goals. It is a great source for up-to-date news about technology trends and current legislation that involves technology issues that may affect educators.Click this link for information about adding an RSS feed to eSchoolNews so that you can stay informed about current technology issues.
	This is a great resource to read about content-rich sources of grants and other attainable funding for their special programs and plans, rich resources for 21st century skills, professional development training opportunities, free and inexpensive finds including standards-based lessons, inexpensive materials and help with research and assessment. ICE provides printed versions twice each year and sends out the HTML version twice each month to all members.
	The International Society for Technology in Education: Technology in Practice, ISTE’s continuing Webinar Series, will feature nearly forty highly engaging Webinars over the course of 2009-2010. Each Webinar will feature a Web 2.0 tool or innovative technology of wide appeal to ISTE members and non-members alike. ISTE webinars will highlight practical tools and strategies to help educators most effectively improve the educational experience and capture value from new and existing technology investments.
	The Library of Congress site is an outstanding source of primary documents, photographs, maps, and many other resources that can be used by teachers at all grade levels. Visit the LOC site to find ready-to-use classroom materials and professional development curriculum resources. Be sure to look at the sections titled "Lesson Plans," "Collection Connections," and "Presentations and Activities."
	Education Week is published by a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization whose primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education. This free online journal covers local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade.
	Classroom 2.0 is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. The hosts encourage you to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues. You will also find opportunities to participate in a variety of valuable and informative Webinars.
	Recipes4Success is a subscription service that provides a comprehensive set of online resources designed to help infuse technology into your curriculum. Recipes4Success supports technology integration, providing tutorials and just-in-time references for common classroom software titles. These materials also work well as the foundation for professional development classes and training sessions.

2010 Conference Information

The 2010 ICE Conference was held in February and was a great success. The information posted on this page is for informational purposes only and does not pertain to the upcoming 2011 Conference. Please watch this ICE web site for new information about the 2011 Conference as it is posted in the months ahead.

General Registration Information: ICE Conference 2010

Conference Fee Payment/ Payment Deadlines

ICE accepts payment via purchase order number or credit card. Conference fees must be paid prior to the conference. Credit cards will be charged for conference fees immediately. Only those registrants who have paid their registration fees by Wednesday, February 3, 2010 will receive their conference name badge and other credentials by mail. The name badge is the official "ticket" to conference sessions and events. Those who have not paid registration fees by February 3 should plan to pick up conference name badges and materials at a designated location upon arrival at the conference.
Please make checks out to "ICE" and mail conference fee payments to:

ICE Conference 2010
777 Army Trail Blvd.
Addison, IL 60101

Conference Fee Payment

Each registrant must complete the online registration form individually. If you secure your registration with a purchase order number, after you hit the "submit" button, you will be taken to an invoice page. Print that invoice and be certain to give a copy of the invoice to your business office to process and mail in payment. An invoice will not be mailed to you.

Group Payment Payment

Anyone wishing to attend the conference must register individually using this online registration system. Groups of people may share the same PO number to secure payment. For groups sharing a PO, simply collect the invoices from each individual sharing the same PO number. You may then submit one check to cover the conference expenses for that group of individuals.

Registration Deadline

Registration for most of the full-day and half-day workshops closed February 3 or when the sessions were filled to capacity. Registration for Tuesday and Wednesday Administrator Academy workshops and Thursday and Friday BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) workshops will remain open until February 10 or until the sessions are filled to capacity. Online registration for the Thursday and Friday general conference days will remain open through the conference on February 26, 2010.

Name Badge/Conference Materials Distribution


Like last year, conference name badges - your "ticket" to attend the conference - will be mailed only to those conference attendees whose registration fees have been PAID and RECEIVED in the ICE office by Wednesday, February 3, 2010. If you plan to secure payment with a purchase order number, it is your responsibility to print your own invoice at the end of the online registration process and submit it to your school for payment. Registrants who have not paid registration fees by February 3 or do not receive a name badge in the mail should plan to pick up conference namebadges/credentials .



Changes / Cancellation Policy


Please note that you will not be able to change or cancel any registrations in the system as of February 3, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Similarly, you will not be able to change or cancel any registrations submitted online after February 3, 2010.

If, after February 3, you find you cannot attend the conference sessions you registered for, you may send someone else in your place. If your namebadge is mailed to you, be sure to give your name badge to that replacement person, since your name badge is their “ticket” to enter the conference. When the replacement person arrives at the conference, he/she should go to the On-Site Registration counter and request an updated badge. If you have not received your name badge by mail, have your replacement person pick-up your namebadge upon arrival at the conference and request a replacement badge be made for him/her.

Note: If you need to change or cancel your registration prior to February 3, please send an e-mail to Allison Larsen, ICE Conference registration committee member, at ajlarsen@earthlink.net.

"A Learning Odyssey"
February 23-26, 2010
Pheasant Run Conference Center, St. Charles, Illinois 

Information about submitting applications for the 2011 ICE Conference will be posted on the main conference site in the weeks ahead. Please check back.

Dear Exhibitors

Welcome to the ICE Conference 2010! Last year was our most successful event yet with almost 3000 teachers and administrators attending. The Exhibit Hall sold out in early January. We received many favorable comments from our attendees about the help and information they received while visiting with the exhibitors. We invite you to join us again for the ICE Conference 2010.

Please follow each of the links listed below for information concerning the specifics of the conference.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me by email or phone.

Sara Taylor
Exhibits Chairperson
Phone: 630.628.1088
Fax: 630.628.5388
E-mail: sartay@iceberg.org

The schedules for the general conference breakout sessions, special Spotlight presentations, and poster sessions have now been finalized. You may click the links below to view or download the Thursday and Friday schedule grids so that you can see what sessions are offered during each time slot each day.

Thursday "At-a-Glance" Conference Schedule

Friday "At-a-Glance" Conference Schedule

If you would like to look at the detailed program listings to read descriptions of the sessions as they will appear in the printed program book that will be distributed at the conference, just click the links below to view or download the files:

Thursday Detailed Program Listings

Friday Detailed Program Listings

Now that registration for the full-day and half day workshops has closed, the ICE program committee has completed the scheduling phase and has announced the room assignments for these sessions. If you have registered for full-day workshop on Tuesday or Wednesday or a half-day workshop on Thursday or Friday, you can view or download the list of room assignments by clicking on the link below:

Room Assignments: Full Day and Half-Day Workshops

Please note that the workshop rooms are located in several locations in both the Pheasant Run complex and directly across North Avenue at the Hilton Garden Inn and the Advanced Center for Training (ACT). There is convenient shuttle bus service between all workshop locations. Here is a brief guide to the abbreviations used in the workshop listings:

ACT: Advanced Center for Training (connected to the Hilton Garden Inn building)
Hilton: Hilton Garden Inn
PR-GH: Gallery Hall (located at the far west end of the Pheasant Run complex)
PR: Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center

Our workshop schedule is as follows:

• Pre-Conference Workshops are all day sessions offered Tuesday, February 23, and Wednesday, February 24, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Pheasant Run Resort and the ACT Center across the street. Registration for these workshops includes lunch. Pre-registration for Pre-Conference workshops is required.
• Half-day, hands-on workshops are offered Thursday, February 25, and Friday, February 26, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Registration for these workshops does NOT include lunch. Pre-registration for these half-day, hands-on workshops is required. Some of these sessions are designated as BYOL ("Bring Your Own Laptop") sessions. Registration to the General Conference sessions before and after the half-day workshops is included.

If you would like to view complete descriptions of the workshops or other conference events, click this link or the image below to view or download the complete Pre-Conference book in PDF format.

Volunteers

Volunteer Benefits and Registration Instructions:
New Reimbursement Process for 2010!!

Apply to be a Volunteer

General Conference Registration fees will be discounted as follows:
Volunteers will be awarded a $75 reimbursement toward conference fees for each scheduled 2-3 hour block of time volunteered.  General Conference registrations for Thursday, February 25, and Friday, February 26, are the only types of registration that qualify for reimbursement in return for volunteering at the conference.  If you are scheduled and volunteer for two 2 hour shifts, you will receive a $75 reimbursement toward conference fees for the general conference on Thursday, February 25, AND $75 reimbursement toward conference fees for the general conference on Friday, February 26.

IMPORTANT: Registrations for pre-conference workshops on Tuesday, February 23, and Wednesday, February 24, and half-day workshops on Thursday, February 25, and Friday, February 26, do NOT qualify for discounts in return for volunteering.  General Conference registrations ($110/day) are the only ones that qualify for the volunteer discount. If you register for a pre-conference or half-day workshop, you will be responsible for paying the entire $150 for that workshop, even if you volunteer at the conference.

Special Note:  The volunteer reimbursement will be processed AFTER the conference and after you have fulfilled your volunteer obligation.


Volunteer Requirement:
In order to volunteer, you must be in good financial standing with ICE.  Anyone owing money to ICE for past conference fees will not be allowed to volunteer for the conference.


How to Register as a Volunteer:

Begin by signing up to be a volunteer by clicking this link to fill out an online application form so that the volunteer committee is aware of your interest in being a part of the program for the 2010 conference.

In addition, all volunteers must register online for the General Conference days on Thursday, February 25,  and/or Friday, February 26, and and pay the full $110 conference fees up front.  After the conference, if you have fulfilled your volunteering obligation, you will be reimbursed according to the guidelines outlines above.

Please register for the conference as follows:

1. Step 1:  Before beginning the registration process, be sure to have either a valid PO number or credit card number in front of you to cover conference fees.  Once you have that payment information, begin the registration process online.
2. Step 2:  Complete the online registration form and select the day(s) of the conference you will be attending. 
3. Step 3: Complete the registration form, select your payment option, and type in either your PO or credit card information.

Note:

If you are registering with a credit card, your credit card will be charged the full conference fee balance immediately. In March, 2010, after you have fulfilled your volunteering obligation at the conference, your credit card will be credited with a conference fee reimbursement of $75, or a check will be mailed to you, relative to the time you volunteered at the conference.  For example: If you register to attend Thursday and Friday general conference days (totaling $220) and volunteer one shift of 2-3 hours, your credit card will be reimbursed or a check will be mailed to you in the amount of $75.
If you are securing your registration with a purchase order, print your invoice for your records but do not submit this invoice to your business office for payment since the volunteer discount will not be applied to your registration account until AFTER you volunteer at the conference.  After the conference, an adjusted invoice will be e-mailed to you in March and the $75 volunteer discount will be applied to your general conference registration account.

THANKS!
Thank you for following these directions to ensure you will receive a $75 reimbursement for the 2-3 hour shift you volunteer. You will also receive a one year ICE membership AND a cool t-shirt as a thank you in addition to the reimbursement. If you have any questions about this registration process, please email Allison Larsen, ICE Conference registration coordinator, at ajlarsen@earthlink.net.

Hotel Accommodations

If you are coming to the conference from out of the area, we recommend that you make reservations to stay at Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center--the same facility that we use for all of our conference events.

If you wish to book a room at special conference rates, click here to go to the reservation page that has been set up for people who want to book a room at the conference rate. Please note that the deadline for booking rooms at this rate is Tuesday, February 2, 2010.

Win an upgrade to a Whirlpool Suite! A new opportunity that we have added to the conference arrangements this year is the chance to win an upgrade to one of the outstanding Whirlpool Suites at Pheasant Run during the conference. To be eligible, just book your room before the deadline on February 2, 2010. We will draw three names from the list of people who have reserved rooms by that date and award each of them with a free upgrade.

Pheasant Run Information

Here is some information from the Pheasant Run web site:

Located at Chicago's doorstep and within easy reach of O'Hare International and Midway Airports, the resort is set on 250 beautiful rolling acres in historic St. Charles. With luxurious guest rooms, extensive meeting and conference facilities, exceptional entertainment and cuisine, two outstanding golf courses and a renowned spa, the resort is the perfect setting for a family vacation, weekend getaway, corporate retreat or exquisite wedding.

At Pheasant Run Resort & Spa, you can simply Do More.

Resort Features:

• Ideal location less than one hour from Chicago with easy access to O'Hare International (ORD) and Midway (MDW) Airports
• Beautiful 250 acre setting in historic St. Charles
• 473 luxurious guest rooms
• 33 spacious suites including penthouse, whirlpool, honeymoon and executive suites
• Mario Tricoci Hair Salon & Day Spa
• 36 holes of championship golf including a resort course and Robert Trent Jones, Jr. links course at Prairie Landing, plus driving range and pro shop
• Two theaters featuring productions by Chicago's acclaimed Noble Fool Theatricals
• Zanies Comedy Club
• Several restaurants and lounges
• More than 100,000 square feet of meeting space including 45 meeting rooms, two expo centers, three distinct ballrooms, 320-seat tiered auditorium and state-of-the-art training center
• 3 pools including an indoor/outdoor pool plus whirlpool
• Fitness center
• WIFI high speed wireless Internet access in all guest and meeting rooms

Conference Ning and Wiki Sites

In conjunction with the conference information posted here on our web site, we also maintain two other social networking sites that we encourage you to use before, during, and after ICE Conference 2010.

ICE Conference Ning:This site currently has over 800 members and many more will join as the date of the conferendce draws closer. This Ning site is a great place to learn more about featured speakers, share ideas with other ICE members, and access a wide variety of photos and multimedia resources.

ICE Conference Wiki Site:  Each year, we create a special wiki site to use as a repository for a variety of materials that conference presenters upload to share with others. The 2010 ICE Conference wiki is now up and running, and we will continue to add new information about featured speakers and other conference events in the weeks ahead.

Volunteer Information

Volunteer session information for ICE Conference 2011 will be posted later this summer--please check back.

General Registration Information: ICE Conference 2011

Registration Information for ICE Conference 2011 will be posted later this summer--please check back.

2010-1011 Calendar

August 28 - Board Meeting 9 AM
Butterfields Restaurant (Ogden & Naperville Road)

September 18 - Board Meeting 9 AM
Butterfields Restaurant (Ogden & Naperville Road)

October 16 - Fall Mini-Conference
Lisle Junior High School

November 13 - Board Meeting 9 AM
Butterfields Restaurant (Ogden & Naperville Road)

January 29 - Board Meeting
Lunch Meeting - after attending NICE conference, location tbd

March 5 - Board Meeting 9 AM
Butterfields Restaurant (Ogden & Naperville Road)

April 16 - Spring Mini-Conference
Lisle Junior High School

May 21 - Board Meeting 9 AM
Butterfields Restaurant (Ogden & Naperville Road)

If you are interested in taking an active leadership role in ICE COLD, please contact us or just show up for a meeting.

Be sure to Check out the ICE COLD blog site for more information on all of our events this year.

Participant Information

List of Demonstrations for TECH 2010:

Parking Information :

Tech 2010 Press Clippings

Newspapers across the state of Illinois have printed or posted news articles with information about the student/teacher teams that are participating in the TECH 2010 event at the Capitol Building in Springfield on May 6. Here are brief summaries of the articles with links to the full articles on the newspaper web sites:

Tripp Elementary School (Buffalo Grove, IL)
Tripp Elementary School in Buffalo Grove, is among approximately 100 schools statewide that will participate in the annual TECH 2010 Students for the Information Age event on May 6 at the Illinois State Capitol Building in Springfield. From approximately 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., students will show the public, and elected members of the Illinois Senate and the House of Representatives, how technology is being used in the classroom to improve achievement. Computer workstations will be set up in the Capitol building rotunda so students may show how technology has helped them with their schoolwork.
Click here to read the full article.

Joliet West High School (Joliet, IL)
Joliet West High School is among approximately 100 schools statewide that will participate in the annual TECH 2010 Students for the Information Age event on May 6 in Springfield. Taking part in the demonstrations locally are students Jeff Williams and Raeanne LeCuyer . The "Joliet Civil Rights Oral History Project," reflecting blacks' fight for civil rights in Joliet during the 1960s is the topic of the presentation.
Click here to read the full article.

John F. Kennedy Elementary School (Spring Valley, IL)
John F. Kennedy Elementary School, in Spring Valley, is among about 100 schools statewide participating in the annual TECH 2010 Students for the Information Age event on May 6 at the Illinois State Capitol Building in Springfield. Taking part in the demonstrations locally are Sam Lucas and Lorenzo Olivares, both third-grade students, and their teacher Ryan Crawley. The technology project will have the students using imovie through Apple computers to create an autobiography about themselves. This will include doing voiceovers, selecting background music, sound effects, the pictures in the video and the writing of the autobiography itself.
Click here to read the full article.
 

North Greene Jr. High School (Roodhouse)
North Greene Middle School keyboarding and computer technology teacher Aubrey Bushnell was expecting a simple slideshow with just a few pictures. Her students went above and beyond. Now eighth-graders Wes Elliott, Jessica Lawson and Autumn Cole have the opportunity to go to Springfield on Thursday to share their work with state legislators for TECH 2010. “It’s an amazing opportunity that our students don’t often have,” Bushnell said. “I am very excited to be selected, but it’s also nerve-wracking to know we’ll be up there.” “We’ve been doing a lot with technology so we were really excited for the chance to show off what we’ve been doing,”  said Principal Cindy Carlson-Rice, who applied the school after a cross-curricular effort in the fall that integrated learning about the Holocaust in all subjects. “We hope for continued legislation for the addition of technology to the schools.”
Click here to read the full article.

Chrisman Elementary School (Chrisman)
The purpose of TECH 2010 is to show how Illinois is preparing students to succeed in this Information Age. Students will demonstrate for lawmakers and the public the creative ways technology is used to enhance and accelerate students’ achievement. The importance of this event lies in making the public aware of the central role technology has come to play in  schools and generating support for its adequate funding. Chrisman special education teacher Cathy Spung, submitted a proposal to present information about interactive white boards and the positive impact they can have in classrooms. Her proposal was selected through an application process from entries across the state...At the elementary level, technology expands the walls of the traditional classroom, bringing in people, places, and events from across the globe. Without the understanding and support of the public and the legislature, adequate funding for education technology is hard to come by, and without it, Illinois cannot remain competitive in the global economy, claim TECH 2010 organizers. The Chrisman Parent Teacher organization has worked hard to put SMART Boards in classrooms and the Unit 6 Board has supported the effort. Spung wrote a grant to supply funding for her classroom SMART Board.  “It is an honor to be selected,” stated Spung, “Chrisman Elementary is pleased to support and be part of Tech 2010: Students for the Information Age.”
Click here to read the full article.

Glenn Westlake Middle School (Lombard)
Who Says Girls Don't Do Math?  Three Glenn Westlake Middle School (GWMS) girls proved that statement wrong on May 6 when they participated at TECH 2010, and demonstrated to legislators in Springfield, IL, how Math savvy girls can be. Corie Allen, Courteney Grosser, and Carla Briones worked at lunchtime a few days a week for two months combining their math and technology skills to create a math quiz on a SMART board. A SMART board is an interactive whiteboard that connects to a computer and uses a touch-sensitive display. Users control computer applications directly from the display, write notes in digital ink, and can save their work just like on a standard computer. The three girls even went a few steps further by incorporating an interactive website and recording a short video to be a part of the presentation.
Click here to read the full article.

El Sierra School (Downers Grove)
A team from El Sierra School headed down to Springfield May 6 to share a multi-media presentation on their class’ “I AM” writing project during TECH 2010. Diane Claver’s third-grade class first tackled writing “I AM” poems, then worked together to compile them into a multi-media presentation using Keynote software. Students Abby Casmere and Luke MacKinnon represented the class in Springfield. “It’s exciting and engaging for the students to start a writing project with a pencil and piece of paper and move into working on the computers, taking pictures of each other, recording their voices and pulling it all together to present their poems,” Claver said. The group occasionally came across a glitch or setback, but that gave them the opportunity to investigate, troubleshoot, and get to know the computer programs better and learn along the way, she said.
Click here to read the full article.

Cairo High School (Cairo)
The Cairo High School Tech Team received a $500 grant from Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative in November, along with $500 additional matching funds from Cairo Public Utility Co., to create a DVD Conservation Video. The video focused on ways Cairo residents could conserve energy and the use of electronic devices and conservation. The project was accepted for presentation at TECH 2010, a lobbying effort sponsored by Illinois Computing Educators and a technology fair of projects from classrooms across the state of Illinois. Cairo High School was selected for Illinois Legislative Senatorial District 59, which is represented by state Sen. Gary Forby.
Click here to read the full article.

Illinois School (Park Forest)
Illinois School in Park Forest was among approximately 80 schools statewide that recently participated in the annual TECH 2010 Students for the Information Age event at the Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield. The students showed the public and elected members of the Illinois State Senate and the House of Representatives how technology is being used in the classroom to improve achievement. Computer workstations were set up in the Capitol Building Rotunda so students could show how technology has helped them with their schoolwork. Taking part in the demonstrations locally were sixth-grader Cori Burke, eighth-grader Kirsten Burke, learning technology specialist Carol Gockman and teacher Stephanie Newman. The students demonstrated storytelling of fables through clay animation.
Click here to read the full article.

Hickory Creek Middle School (Frankfort)
Students demonstrated to the public and elected members of the Illinois State Senate and the House of Representatives how technology is being used in the classroom to improve achievement. Computer workstations were set up in the Capitol Building Rotunda so students could show how technology has helped them with their schoolwork. Taking part in the demonstrations were three eighth graders from Hickory Creek Middle School, Hanna Samawi, Julia Heichel-Kaffel, and Shannon Jordan, along with technology instructor Jason Smit. Through the use of PowerPoint, creating tables, hyperlinks, Podcasting, graphic design, and blue screen movie making, the students created a “website” for a virtual tour company. They created their own tour company name, chose a location and found ten destinations that a tourist could visit on vacation. Students provided some information about each destination, included a picture and used PhotoShop to make it look like they were really at the described location. The students also used Audacity to create two audio reviews of their company and created a blue screen movie encouraging customers to sign up for a tour while making it look like they were really at the destination.
Click here to read the full article.

Braeside Elementary School (Highland Park)
Howard Templer and several students from his fourth grade class at Braeside Elementary School in Highland Park were invited to attend the Tech 2010 demonstration at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on May 6, to demonstrate their "World Elections" classroom project. Tech 2010 is a not-for-profit initiative that showcases actual classroom technology projects to state legislators, business leaders and the general public. In their classroom project, Templer's students read about several different tall tale characters, and chose one to represent based upon the character's traits and leadership capabilities. The characters were part of one of the three political parties in the fictitious Hyperbole (the Women of the World Party, the Giants Party, and the Laborers Party). Students presented their candidate to the class, and then the rest of the class voted for the winner of each party. Each student was assigned a state, and given that amount of electoral votes.
Click here to read the full article.

Louise White School (Batavia)
Louise White School in Batavia is among approximately 100 schools statewide that participated in the annual TECH 2010 Students for the Information Age event on Thursday, May 6 at the Illinois State Capitol Building in Springfield. Students demonstrated to elected members of the Illinois State Senate and the House of Representatives how technology is being used in the classroom to improve achievement. Taking part in the demonstration were fourth graders Maggie Nally, Maggie Kamphausen and Katie Thomas all in Mrs. Donat’s fourth grade class. Mrs. Hanrahan, LRC director worked with students using Photostory to create movie “Book trailers” for Caudill Book Nominees. The purpose was to encourage students to read and highlight books they enjoyed. 
Click here to read the full article.

SpICE Meetings: 2009-2010

Here is a listing of the planned meeting for the members of the SpICE chapter for the current school year. Be sure to watch this page for updates and look for additional information on the SpICE blog. The link to the blog can be found in the menu to the left.

October 21, 2009 : "What's New? More on Web 2.0"; 3031 Stanton Drive--District 186 Technology Center

December 9, 2009: "Holiday Delights!"; 3031 Stanton Drive--District 186 Technology Center

January 20, 2010: "Google Wave"; 3031 Stanton Drive--District 186 Technology Center

March 10, 2010: "Shout Out to the Classroom"; Williamsville Jr. High

May 12, 2010: "New Technology in the Classroom"; 3031 Stanton Drive--District 186 Technology Center

The Springfield District Film Festival was highlighted. Premiere Night is May 13 at 7 p.m. at Springfield High School.

The May 12th meeting highlighted exploring options for learning new things. These options are featured in the current SpICE blog.

 The iPad was shared. iPad apps as well as iPod apps were explored.

We did not have time to explore the video on the new application Siri. This personal assistant might be the beginning of something new for portable technology.