Hong Kong Academy
Are you looking for ways to integrate technology into your curriculum? Hong Kong Academy has developed a model in which a collaborative teacher integrator relationship provides a project driven framework for K-8 classroom teachers to integrate technology into their normal routines.Come and see 10 projects which are easy to implement, based on technology standards, appropriate in the K-8 grade range, and use basic tool software. You'll see drawing, painting, animation, slideshow, portfolio, spreadsheet, database, mind map, movie and claymation. These projects are appropriate for the PYP curriculum or other. Attending teachers will be given instructions to access directions, student handouts, evaluation rubrics and completed samples of work, everything you need to get started.

Hong Kong Academy
[This is a repeat of the other session with the same title.]
Are you looking for ways to integrate technology into your curriculum? Hong Kong Academy has developed a model in which a collaborative teacher integrator relationship provides a project driven framework for K-8 classroom teachers to integrate technology into their normal routines.Come and see 10 projects which are easy to implement, based on technology standards, appropriate in the K-8 grade range, and use basic tool software. You'll see drawing, painting, animation, slideshow, portfolio, spreadsheet, database, mind map, movie and claymation. These projects are appropriate for the PYP curriculum or other. Attending teachers will be given instructions to access directions, student handouts, evaluation rubrics and completed samples of work, everything you need to get started.

Park Place School
Organise your life electronically with Microsoft's Outlook. This course is for the beginner and will cover:
- Setting up Outlook from scratch
- Sending and receiving emails
- Using the tasks feature
- Setting up an address book
- Using the calendar as a "Teacher's Planner"
This will be a "hands on" session in a computer room.

Bangkok Patana School
Joe joined Patana in August 2005 as a class teacher with Year 5. He has previously taught in London as a primary teacher and geography co-ordinator.

Joe believes that an interactive whiteboard is a very powerful tool for any teacher. Joe has a Smartboard in his classroom and uses it to teach many curriculum subjects in memorable ways.

Come along to this session if you would like find out why Joe is so enthusiastic about this technology.

Hollywood International Ltd.
Imagine a lesson where every student is focused and motivated. ACTIVstudio2 helps to achieve just this by creating a collaborative classroom environment where teachers have the opportunity to produce and deliver truly interactive teaching material for their students

Josephine is a Product Specialist at Hollywood International Ltd based in Bangkok. She will demonstrate the functions and applications of the ACTIVstudio2 software which enhance teaching and learning.

Bangkok Patana School
Ready to take your Googling to the next level? Beyond the world of plusses, minuses, and quotes lies a whole universe of secret Google tips, techniques, and tools. This workshop introduces you to little known Google features like pipes, stop-word workarounds, full-word wildcards, and query modifiers -- features that will instantly make you the envy of your friends and the centre of attention at cocktail parties.

Lubbertus has had a wide range of teaching experience over the last 20 years, teaching and lecturing in UK, Singapore and Thailand. He joined Patana in 1999 as a support teacher and in 2000 became an ICT Assistant.

Apple
Junior Tan is the Senior Systems Engineer for Education in Apple South Asia region Participants will be led through a hands-on session on the creation of online learning modules and animations/panoramic teaching objects through the use of hardware like digital still cameras and kaidan rigs.

This will enable educators to easily create modules which are cross platform and viewable by students in school or at home for distance learning. For this hands-on experience, each attendee should come with at least one self-created PowerPoint presentation on a CD or thumb drive.

Bangkok Patana School
A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".
Blogs range in scope from individual diaries to news digests. They range in scale from the writings of one occasional author, to the collaboration of a large community of writers. Many weblogs enable visitors to leave public comments, which can lead to a community of readers centered around the blog;

How much do they cost?
Do they need feeding?

Everyone can have one, keep one, teach with one but you don't need to feed one! Come along and meet John, a blogger if ever there were, who will demonstrate how blogs can be used for teaching and learning.
The supporting site is here

Bangkok Patana School
[This is a duplicate of the other session with the same title.]
A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".
Blogs range in scope from individual diaries to news digests. They range in scale from the writings of one occasional author, to the collaboration of a large community of writers. Many weblogs enable visitors to leave public comments, which can lead to a community of readers centered around the blog;

Where can I get one?
How much do they cost?
Do they need feeding?

Everyone can have one, keep one, teach with one but you don't need to feed one! Come along and meet Brian, a blogger if ever there were, who will demonstrate how blogs can be used for teaching and learning.
The supporting site is here

Bangkok Patana School
How does the classroom teachers fully integrate ICT into teaching and learning outside the regular ICT lessons? How can the teacher effectively manage the use of that one computer in the corner of the classroom? Everyone has their own ideas of the answers to these questions and this session is intended to discuss, share and ponder these and other issues facing the classroom teacher in this high tech world. Participants are asked to come along with ideas and strategies that have worked for them - to enable good practice be shared and discussed.

David joined Patana in August 2000 to establish and lead the development of the new Elementary Division. His experience in the UK includes 17 years primary headship, latterly as Head Teacher of a large primary school in Sandhurst, Berkshire. David's training as an OFSTED inspector gives him a valuable insight into all aspects of school management and pupil performance.

International School of Bangkok
Middle school students at ISB have begun a new elective course in video journalism. The purpose of the course is to produce a program for middle school students that builds community within the school. The presentation willfocus on the implementation of the video journalism class, the challenges of producing a program with and for middle school students and examples of the content of the programs.

Bangkok Patana School
Eric is a member of the Bangkok Patana School staff and has a background in the computing and networking field. This session will show you how you can maintain your home PC. The demonstration will begin with an overview of how a computer works introducing the inards of a basic PC. This will be followed by a step by step guide to upgrading your PC configuring it for optimal performance.
The presentation will mainly cover ways to upgrade memory, CPU, hard disks, drives, video cards, all submitted in "lay man's terms".

The Global Classroom Connection
The Global Classroom Connection pairs two classrooms from different countries to spend a year as "sister classrooms" and interact via the building of a shared web site. With our very simple web building tools it is easy for even the most technically challenged to instantly start posting pictures, text and messages with their international partner class. The GCC offers simple entry level yet powerful technical experiences, a great opportunity to exercise language skills and an extraordinary opportunity for your students to make personal and potentially lasting connections with their peers in countries around the world.

Bangkok Patana School
Find out how a teacher has created an online resource bank for his Year 5 children using such software as Hot Potatoes to make quizzes. The Abiator Web Site contains information for parents and students in Tony's Year 5 class. Children can access from home and view their homework assignments as well as activities and learning objectives.

Tony is a New Zealand trained teacher who is now teaching at Patana. Have a look at http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator to see the subject of this session.

Bangkok Patana School
This session could be really exciting and is probably the first of its kind. It is aimed at teachers of Nursery and Kindergarten aged children who can see a need for some software to support early learning. The session will take the form of a workshop where an idea of what this software might look like and do will be discussed. A programmer and a designer will act as flies on the wall taking notes.

If all goes to plan, two weeks later, those who have attended this session will receive a CD through the post containing the software they have helped design.

Matt has agreed to chair this session. He is currently head of Kindergarten 1 at Patana.

Bangkok Patana School
Using freely available software participants will learn how to quickly create thumbnail galleries that link to photos, sounds and movie clips. These could be used as part of a website, or may be kept on a storage device such as a CD Rom. The web galleries are easy to navigate and will look very appealing within just a few clicks.
(Ideally participants should bring along a set of photos that they would like to use in their photo gallery, on thumb drive, CD Rom or similar.)

Bangkok Patana School
Students who use data logging equipment in science experiments have been observed spending much more time talking about what is happening and hypothesising what is likely to happen next. The fact that they are freed from the task of manually collecting data makes a contribution to this, but it is the immediacy with which the data is transferred to a graph which makes the difference. An added bonus is that pupils develop their ability to interpret graphs in a meaningful context.

Dan will demonstrate the ways in which Patana's Faculty of Science have used this teaching strategy to good effect over the last few years.

ICT Coordinator, KIS International School
Many schools are spending hundreds of thousands on technology equipment. But is that equipment being used well in teaching and learning? What are the components of effective computer use? What are the effective pedagogies that fit well with Information Age and technology-rich learning environments where the focus is not on the hardware and software? How about higher ordered thinking skills? How can we, as teachers, help the students in developing higher ordered thinking skills through ICT?
This session is for both ICT teachers and other subject teachers who use (or will use) ICT in their teaching.

Bangkok Patana School
Andrew is Physics curriculum coordinator at Bangkok Patana and will presenting several ideas he has for taking digital readings in Physics experiments.
Andrew will show how to film experiments using a digital camera, edit the images using a computer then shine on a whiteboard and physically take measurements to produce results.

Mobius Co., Ltd.
This presentation is a demonstration of a new technology that supports teaching. The eBeam Projection is a compact, portable, and easy to use device that turns your wall or whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard.

Attach the eBeam receiver to any flat surface, aim your projector and away you go. The entire system weighs less than a pound and can be set-up and calibrated by anyone in a matter of minutes. The three included mounting brackets give you the flexibility to mount it on just about any surface, so you can have an interactive whiteboard wherever you go.

Shrewsbury International School
Shrewsbury International School is probably the only school in bangkok that has a full time staff member taking care of elearning resources. neil has a background in graphic design and multimedia and has been creating systems for his school this year.

Neil asks the question about the definition of elearning as the starting point for this discussion group. Come along if you too have views about the concept of elearning.

G.J.InfoTech Co.,Ltd.
G. J. InfoTechs main product, ELIS (E-Learning Intelligence System), is a powerful, intelligent, and instructor-lead E-Learning Management System that provides integrated course content for schools in Thailand.

ELIS manages the entire learning process from enrolling students and tracking their progress, to delivering tests and reports. It also manages the entire backend or the school-instructors portion from creation of mentors, grades, subjects, chapters, question banks, tests, and assignments.

We offer both SCORM compliant LMS where content can be added, using any authoring tool available in the market; as well as Non-SCORM compliant LMS, where custom content can be added, using our incorporated content creating tool.

ELIS can be operated on local Intranet as well as on the Internet where client-students machine would require only web browser to use the program.

British International School, Ho Chi Minh City
Learn how you and your students can use Excel and the Internet to create climate graphs, population pyramids and virtual landscapes. This is a powerful way to teach geographical concepts to students of all ages.

Roo, who has attended every previous TechEx, joined Patana in 1998 as Head of Year 8 and progressed with the students through to Year 13. He is currently Head of Student Welfare at the British International School in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, where he also teaches both Geography and ICT.

Bangkok Patana School
Lucy joined Patana in August 2003 and is now the KS3 Mathematics Co-ordinator. Her previous experience includes teaching Secondary Mathematics in the UK during which time she began developing teaching materials with Excel which she now uses with her Smartboard.

During this hands on session Lucy will lead you making interactive Maths activities and an infinite number of Maths worksheets (not strictly true as I'm sure there is a mathematical formula) using macros in Excel.

The Education Project Asia
This is a repeat of a presentation given at the International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) in Pattaya last April. It highlights free resources that are of practical help in Science teaching and learning ... all are ICT related or use ICT. Some are Internet based, some are software which can run on individual computers or networks and some will be paper-based.

Resources (free of course) to support teachers' continuing professional development will also be shown.It would help (but is not essential) if participants could have a look at http://www.shambles.net/science before the session.

This is designed to be of interest and relevance to both primary and secondary school teachers (K-12). These resources have the advantage that they can be used in schools or by individual teachers, students and parents at home. The session is also designed to be fun and functional.

Bangkok Patana School
Publisher 2003 lets you design and publish material for print, web and email with professional results. You can create impressive posters and worksheets using its professionally designed templates, or you can get creative and design your own. Publisher uses familiar Office tools, making it easy to get started and simple to use.

Ian will show you how to get started with this powerful but accessible application from Microsoft. This is a hands on session during which you will create your own publication.

APTECH Computer Education & Arena Multimedia
Macromedia Flash, apart for making animations, can also be programmed for more advanced interactivity using Action Script. This workshop is for those who have already mastered the basics of Flash and would like to try their hand at this type of programming.

• Introduction to Action Script


• Creating presentations with Action Script


• Complex mouse cursors


• Making a jet fighter game (if time allows)

Aptech Ltd., Asia's Leader in IT Education, has over 18 Years experience in IT Training.

Northbridge International School Cambodia
Flash is the software that enables the creation of those animations you see on web pages and in PowerPoint presentations. This session is for absolute beginners who would like to create curriculum based animations; water cycle, cell division, animated maps, etc. or have their students try it. Jim will lead you through the first steps of creating your own Flash animation. No previous Flash experience required!

Bangkok Patana School
This course will offer an introduction into the use of Flash for making state of the art web animations that are interactive. Mitch will lead participants through the making of some simple animations that move about the screen and change shapes as well as using interactive buttons to start up different actions.

Northbridge International School Cambodia
[This is a repeat of the other session with the same title.]
Flash is the software that enables the creation of those animations you see on web pages and in PowerPoint presentations. This session is for absolute beginners who would like to create curriculum based animations; water cycle, cell division, animated maps, etc. or have their students try it. Jim will lead you through the first steps of creating your own Flash animation. No previous Flash experience required!

Bangkok Patana School
You don't have to play the piano. You don't have to read music. You don't even have to have rhythm. If you know what you like when you hear it, you can make your own kind of music with GarageBand. Gavin shows how this software for Macs can be used to make music. The demonstration will be followed by an optional time to investigate the software for yourself.
Gavin is a Mac enthusiast who has supported many student projects.

Bangkok Patana School
Andy will demonstrate how to use Clicker 5 (the latest version). From making simple grids to writing Shakespeare's sonnets. He will show all you need to know to get Clicker working in your classroom!

Clicker is a powerful and incredibly easy-to-use writing support and multimedia tool, which enables you to write with whole words, phrases or pictures. It has won five BETT Awards, the 'Oscars' of British Educational Software - as voted for by teachers. It can be used to support any area of the curriculum.

Andy joined Patana in August 2004 as an ICT teacher. He has previously taught at the junior school in the UK and most recently at the Doha English Speaking School in Qatar. He is now head of ICT in the Elementary Division of Patana.

Bangkok Patana School
[This is a repeat of the other session with the same title.]
Andy will demonstrate how to use Clicker 5 (the latest version). From making simple grids to writing Shakespeare's sonnets. He will show all you need to know to get Clicker working in your classroom!

Clicker is a powerful and incredibly easy-to-use writing support and multimedia tool, which enables you to write with whole words, phrases or pictures. It has won five BETT Awards, the 'Oscars' of British Educational Software - as voted for by teachers. It can be used to support any area of the curriculum.

Andy joined Patana in August 2004 as an ICT teacher. He has previously taught at the junior school in the UK and most recently at the Doha English Speaking School in Qatar. He is now head of ICT in the Elementary Division of Patana.

Harrow International School
Google has brought technology and geography together in an application where you can zoom in on anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse.
In addition to displaying the cities and places that you choose to see, Google Earth can allow you to view specific restaurants, hospitals, libraries and schools, including driving directions and specific maps.
Gavin has kindly offered to show you how you can get this free download and get started zooming in on your house, your park or your school. Theres no mistaking Harrow School in Google Earth. Gavin will explain why.

British International School, Ho Chi Minh City
Google has brought technology and geography together in an application where you can zoom in on anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse.
In addition to displaying the cities and places that you choose to see, Google Earth can allow you to view specific restaurants, hospitals, libraries and schools, including driving directions and specific maps.
Roo has kindly offered to show you how you can get this free download and get started zooming in on your house, your park or your school.

Christian German School in Chiangmai
Google has brought technology and geography together in an application where you can zoom in on anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse.
In addition to displaying the cities and places that you choose to see, Google Earth can allow you to view specific restaurants, hospitals, libraries and schools, including driving directions and specific maps.
Gavin has kindly offered to show you how you can get this free download and get started zooming in on your house, your park or your school.

American School Bangkok
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. This sessions will be a review of the latest offering from Google - its predecessors and potential uses

Bangkok Patana
The TI-83 was released in 1996, it is one of the most used graphing calculators for students (especially those in secondary or high schools). In addition to the functions present on normal scientific calculators, the TI-83 includes many features, including function graphing, statistics, trigonometric, and algebraic functions.

Mike will demonstrate some of the features of this family of calculators and the session will be of particular interest to Mathematics and Science teachers. Mike leads the Mathematics Faculty at Patana and regularly uses Texas graphing calculators with his students.

If you have a TI-83, TI-84 or similar please bring it along.

International School Dhaka, Bangladesh
Handheld computing provides affordable, any where any time technology for problem solving, interaction, collaboration and productivity. This session focuses on how to implement a handheld program and realise the full potential of one-on-one computing for teaching and learning. Julie Lindsay is Head of Technology at ISD and coordinates the HIFE in the middle years program. Come and explore real curriculum integration strategies using Palm OS computing including lesson ideas using a range of educational software and discover management and implementation ideas that will get your school started with handheld technology.

Bangkok Patana School
Last year, the Year 6 teachers at Bangkok Patana School decided not to produce the kind of show they had done in previous years but to make a Hollywood style movie! The children acted, sang and danced while filming took place and the final product was shown to children and families at a local Bangkok Cenema.

Ashley will tell the story of how the film came to be and then show you the edited feature film. Popcorn will be served as you are entertained and inspired by Help!, The Movie, based on the Beetles/sixties theme.

Bangkok Patana School
One of Jackie's roles is the CAS (Community, Action, Service) Co-ordinator at Patana. She has led many projects where Senior Students have worked with the local Thai community. This session will focus upon the issues surrounding the implementation of a successful Community Service project. Jackie will lead a round-table discussion for those interested in bridging the digital divide, the gap that exists between those who have and those who do not have access to technology. Come along if you would like to participate in the discussion.

Bangkok Patana
Hy-Tek's Meet Manager is the most widely used meet management software in the world. It has been used for many country's Olympic Trials, World Cups, and National Championships. Also Meet Manager is being used all over the world to run summer league dual meets, High School and College dual and double dual meets, invitational meets, Masters Meets, Disability meets, all types of meets. Reports are beautifully designed and you have the flexibility to re-word every report title and every column header any way you want, in any language.

Patana uses this product most effectively and Peter will demonstrate its functionality. Peter joined Patana in August 2002 as the Head Swimming Coach. His previous experience includes many coaching positions with schools and clubs in Canada.

BCIS, Phuket, Thailand
Clive would like to preview the development of IGCSE Information Technology on-line using the feature rich Moodle Open Source Virtual Learning Environment. The on-line environment has been introduced at BCIS this year for four IGCSE IT classes being taught by three teachers and thus far has been warmly received by all participants.

Clive would like to share his work with like-minded forward thinking teachers. This is not a "technical" or Moodle installation workshop but is firmly focused on course development and delivery using the extensive features Moodle has to offer.

Clive Roberts has been in Thailand since 1991 teaching ICT in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Pattaya. He is now in his sixth year at BCIS, Phuket (formerly Dulwich International College). Clive is currently completing his final unit "Technologies for Learning" for an MA in International Education through the University of Bath in the UK.

Ruamrudee International School
When a desktop or laptop computer is used in conjunction with a television (or two televisions), it creates a less expensive alternative display format (as opposed to using a video projector of some sort) to do and/or support "on-the-fly" lessons. Either directly linking a desktop/laptop to a television (or using an adapter) to allow this transfer of information to what is seen on the computer screen creates an interactive, improvisational classroom learning environment.

Using this format depends on several factors, one of which being the ability of the teacher to constantly remind themselves that improvising at any given time is imperative to show the students the usefulness of this projection of information. Therefore, reminders and familiarity with the internet and search engines are critical to making this method successful in the classroom.

Bangkok Patana School
Books or computers? Even in well-stocked libraries, many students head straight for the keyboard rather than going to shelves of books which are age-appropriate and designed to serve their likely needs. Without guidance, these students will often search the Web with more enthusiasm than discrimination. There are times when an Internet search can bring valuable results not obtainable elsewhere, but you must ask the right 'questions'. Gerald will host an "Open House" session in Patana's Resource Centre and help you to search the Internet intelligently and more effectively. If you are up for a challenge you will enjoy this opportunity to tackle one of the quests Gerald has prepared to test your digital searching skills

Bangkok Patana School
This is a repeat of the previous "Information" session

Books or computers? Even in well-stocked libraries, many students head straight for the keyboard rather than going to shelves of books which are age-appropriate and designed to serve their likely needs. Without guidance, these students will often search the Web with more enthusiasm than discrimination. There are times when an Internet search can bring valuable results not obtainable elsewhere, but you must ask the right 'questions'. Gerald will host an "Open House" session in Patana's Resource Centre and help you to search the Internet intelligently and more effectively. If you are up for a challenge you will enjoy this opportunity to tackle one of the quests Gerald has prepared to test your digital searching skills

Bangkok Patana School
This is a repeat of the previous "Information" session

Books or computers? Even in well-stocked libraries, many students head straight for the keyboard rather than going to shelves of books which are age-appropriate and designed to serve their likely needs. Without guidance, these students will often search the Web with more enthusiasm than discrimination. There are times when an Internet search can bring valuable results not obtainable elsewhere, but you must ask the right 'questions'. Gerald will host an "Open House" session in Patana's Resource Centre and help you to search the Internet intelligently and more effectively. If you are up for a challenge you will enjoy this opportunity to tackle one of the quests Gerald has prepared to test your digital searching skills

Bangkok Patana School
This is a repeat of the previous "Information" session

Books or computers? Even in well-stocked libraries, many students head straight for the keyboard rather than going to shelves of books which are age-appropriate and designed to serve their likely needs. Without guidance, these students will often search the Web with more enthusiasm than discrimination. There are times when an Internet search can bring valuable results not obtainable elsewhere, but you must ask the right 'questions'. Gerald will host an "Open House" session in Patana's Resource Centre and help you to search the Internet intelligently and more effectively. If you are up for a challenge you will enjoy this opportunity to tackle one of the quests Gerald has prepared to test your digital searching skills

Bangkok Patana School
Using the proven power of visual learning, Inspiration® helps teachers and students of all ages strengthen critical thinking, comprehension and writing skills across the curriculum. Students build graphic organizers to represent concepts and relationships and use the integrated outlining capability to further organise ideas for reports.
John joined the Learning Support team at Patana in August 2001. His career has included Special Needs posts in the UK as well as teaching agricultural sciences in Zambia and Papua New Guinea.

NIST
Maggie recently moved to NIST after teaching for many years at the International School of Amsterdam. She will show projects created by students from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 5 and discuss how IT can be fully integrated into the entire elementary school curriculum.

Bangkok Patana
Is your school server snail pace? Can you watch 750Mb mpeg videos files anywhere in your school without the CD? Learn how to link and utilise the hard drives of the computers on your school intranet to quickly access large files without going through the server directly.
Brian is a Science teacher who has organised the digital resources for the Science Department so that they are easy to find and add to.

Garden International School
This session will be a demonstration of Maths Packs 1,2,3, Primary Games 1,2,3 Teaching Money and Teaching Time software. I discovered this software at the BETT exhibition in London and it has proved to be excellent software for teaching Maths (interactively) across the primary age range. KS3 maths teachers may also find the software of interest. There are dozens and dozens of activities and games for teaching whole classes or for the children to use independently.

Ruamrudee International School
Designed for beginners, this seminar aims to provide teachers with information and skills necessary to introduce robotics into their programme. This seminar talks about how to get started with robotics, some of the various options available, and in particular how to use the PIC16F84 programmable chip to build basic robots. Aimed at upper Middle school / High school teachers.

Iteachnet.org/Rose Marie Academy
Iteachnet.org has been empowering "early adopters," teachers willing to use the Web for their teaching, since 1995. Since then it has started a student Webzine, a teacher's Webzine, and Open Source Schools, a journal investigating the use of open source and free software in education. In 2000, we founded Schoolforge, the international coalition fostering free and open source technology and content in education. Now, iteachnet wants you to join it in its next journey: to continue and update its commitment to teacher collegiality and student and parent communities and to bring the methods as well as the content of open source to education with your support. Come see how you can help.

Iteachnet.org/Harrow International School
This session is a repeat of the session iTeachnet 1


Iteachnet.org has been empowering "early adopters," teachers willing to use the Web for their teaching, since 1995. Since then it has started a student Webzine, a teacher's Webzine, and Open Source Schools, a journal investigating the use of open source and free software in education. In 2000, we founded Schoolforge, the international coalition fostering free and open source technology and content in education. Now, iteachnet wants you to join it in its next journey: to continue and update its commitment to teacher collegiality and student and parent communities and to bring the methods as well as the content of open source to education with your support. Come see how you can help.

ISB
This session is a repeat of iTeachnet1

iteachnet.org has been empowering "early adopters," teachers willing to use the
Web for their teaching, since 1995. Since then it has started a student
Webzine, a teacher's Webzine, and Open Source Schools, a journal investigating the use of open source and free software in education. In 2000, we founded Schoolforge, the international coalition fostering free and open source technology and content in education. Now, iteachnet wants you to join it in its next journey: to continue and update its commitment to teacher collegiality and student and parent communities and to bring the methods as well as the content of open source to education with your support. Come see how you can help.

iTeachnet
This session is a repeat of iTeachnet1

iteachnet.org has been empowering "early adopters," teachers willing to use the
Web for their teaching, since 1995. Since then it has started a student
Webzine, a teacher's Webzine, and Open Source Schools, a journal investigating the use of open source and free software in education. In 2000, we founded Schoolforge, the international coalition fostering free and open source technology and content in education. Now, iteachnet wants you to join it in its next journey: to continue and update its commitment to teacher collegiality and student and parent communities and to bring the methods as well as the content of open source to education with your support. Come see how you can help.

Ruamrudee International School
The original goal of this workshop was to introduce a critical method of study designed to encourage students of diverse backgrounds and abilities to think more independently about literature and film. Specifically, the method is meant to help students uncover on their own certain underlying structural strategies within a text and the relationship these strategies might have to thematic content. However, because the workshop relies heavily on a multimedia presentation, complete with video, music, pictures and sound, I believe it provides teachers of all disciplines and levels, as well as administrators with an opportunity to experience an entertaining and effective model of the use of technology in the classroom.

Bangkok Patana School
Lubbertus has had a wide range of teaching experience over the last 20 years, teaching and lecturing in UK, Singapore and Thailand. He joined Patana in 1999 as a support teacher and in 2000 became an Early Years ICT Assistant.

Worms, virus's, Trojan's, phising, hackers! You've heard all of these terms a million times, and it is getting harder and harder to keep any system and yourself, safe. Even the best system is vulnerable, look at MasterCard losing 4 million account details in June 2005. Although there are no guarantees that you will always be safe, Lubbertus will show many programs and methods to help keep your HOME computer safer, and your details private, and all of them will be free. However, this is for your home computer only, so please do not try these on your schools intranet. Leave that to the professionals. All of the software Lubbertus will show are free, and each attendee will receive a CD of all the programs.

Bangkok Patana School
Madeleine will talk about the main theme of our conference - integrating ICT into the curriculum. What are the essential ICT skills that all students need in Secondary School? How can they be delivered and assessed? Madeleine gives some practical examples that include "Five steps to a successful research project", "Art and IT", "Spreadsheets for the real world", "Websites as e-portfolios", "Movie making in the curriculum" and more.

Bangkok Patana School
Madeleine will talk about the main theme of our conference - integrating ICT into the curriculum. What are the essential ICT skills that all students need in Secondary School? How can they be delivered and assessed? Examples include "Five steps to a successful research project", "Art and IT", "Spreadsheets for the real world", "Websites as e-portfolios", "Movie making in the curriculum" and more.

New International School of Thailand
As a senior student from the New International School of Thailand, I have been running a robotics club for the past three years, using LEGO Mindstorms kits. There is much to be gained from the use of robotics in IT education. The club is called NITRO or, the "NIST Interschool Tactical Robotics Organization". (the interschool part is still not quite realized, but I needed an extra vowel) As far as I know no school in Thailand has a club like this, and I think it is quite unfortunate.

There is much to be learned from this rapidly expanding area of technology. Through robotics, it has been possible to instill a passion for science (including physics), technology, engineering, math, computer programming and creative problem solving. We run competitions monthly, and I try my very best to introduce robotic construction and programming at a deeper level into the NIST curriculum.

Now I have offered to make a presentation about the use of robotic kits in education. I wish to share the things I have learned with others, who can help take this cause further in our region. This is my first time presenting for educators.

I hope to cover the capabilities of LEGO robotics, the programming aspect (coding environments), robotic activities that are suitable for the classroom, as well as logistical issues such as prices, software/driver issues and storage which may be of interest to educators.

New International School of Thailand
This is a repeat of the LEGO Mindstorms 1 session.:
As a senior student from the New International School of Thailand, I have been running a robotics club for the past three years, using LEGO Mindstorms kits. There is much to be gained from the use of robotics in IT education. The club is called NITRO or, the "NIST Interschool Tactical Robotics Organization". (the interschool part is still not quite realized, but I needed an extra vowel) As far as I know no school in Thailand has a club like this, and I think it is quite unfortunate.

There is much to be learned from this rapidly expanding area of technology. Through robotics, it has been possible to instill a passion for science (including physics), technology, engineering, math, computer programming and creative problem solving. We run competitions monthly, and I try my very best to introduce robotic construction and programming at a deeper level into the NIST curriculum.

Now I have offered to make a presentation about the use of robotic kits in education. I wish to share the things I have learned with others, who can help take this cause further in our region. This is my first time presenting for educators.

I hope to cover the capabilities of LEGO robotics, the programming aspect (coding environments), robotic activities that are suitable for the classroom, as well as logistical issues such as prices, software/driver issues and storage which may be of interest to educators.

Bangkok Patana School
You have been using Excel for a couple of years now and are happy with it. What you may not realise is that there is so much more that it can do for you if you know the basics of using macros.

Robin will demonstrate the amazing things he has done with his mark book as a Mathematics teacher and Head of Year at Patana. You can't miss this one!

International School Bangkok
Movie making is a powerful way to make fundamental aspects of literacy visible to students and to help students become more visible and successful members of a literacy community. See for yourself in this presentation featuring my students' movie on archaeology, their reflections on the process and a movie I made documenting our struggles, insights and growth in understanding of literacy throughout the process. You'll gain insights and inspiration that can be applied to a wide variety of classes and outcomes.

Bangkok Patana School
Gavin is a Mac enthusiast. At this session he will present iMovie The Beginners Guide demonstrating how to easily edit your digital movie files to produce Oscar winning results.

Bangkok Patana School
Using freely available software (Web Questions 2) participants will learn how to generate interactive online quizzes which give immediate feedback to students - ideal for revision purposes.
In this session you will create a usable quiz. If you have any teaching materials you would like to bring along as a stimulus to your quiz, please do so. Questions are typically in a multiple-choice format and may include pictures.

British Curriculum International School
Can you operate effectively within the desktop environment? David will show how to manage and organise files and folders and demonstrate how to copy, move and delete files and folders. In adition he'll show how to work with desktop icons and to manipulate windows.

Bangkok Patana School
Nursery and Kindergarten children at Patana this year, for the first time, will have their attainment recorded and presented to parents using a new, custom built, online system. Not only will teachers’ comments be recorded but photographs, scanned work and short video clips will make this record of achievement very special.

This training session is aimed particularly at Patana Foundation stage teachers who would like to learn more about preparing digital photographs, scanned images and digital video for uploading to the web.

Bangkok Patana School
Nursery and Kindergarten children at Patana this year, for the first time, will have their attainment recorded and presented to parents using a new, custom built, online system. Not only will teachers’ comments be recorded but photographs, scanned work and short video clips will make this record of achievement very special.

This training session is aimed particularly at Patana Foundation stage teaching Assistants who would like to learn more about preparing digital photographs, scanned images and digital video for uploading to the web.

Bangkok Patana School
Roger joined Patana in August 2003 as the Head of Faculty for the Secondary ICT Department. His previous experience includes teaching posts in the UK and, most recently, at the British School Muscat, Oman where he was the Director of ICT. Last year Roger assumed a new role as the Assistant Principal for Secondary Curriculum.
Roger will demonstrate some of the ways online assessment can become practical everyday procedures using freely available packages.

Oliver is an English film maker who offers filmmaking workshops to schools. Ihe works through the key areas of the filmmaking process with the students so that hey learn how to make a movie from start to finish. The courses are tailored to fit in with needs of the syllabus. Oliver says "One of my recent projects was based on the subject of fantasy worlds, so the students designed their fantasy worlds and then acted within that world. The response from parents, staff and students was overwhelming. The children were also able to take a DVD home with them."

During this session Oliver will talk more about the projects he has done with children.

Bangkok Patana School
This will not be a presentation but a discussion for only those technicians who work with school networks on a day to day basis. The discussion will be lead by Noel Rodriguez, Network Administrator at Patana, and his colleagues who have spent many hours working in this area.

Bangkok Patana School
Peter came to Patana in 1995. He is the Network Systems Manager involved with the installation and networking of Patana's campus computer systems. Peter now leads a large department and is responsible for a huge system.

Peter will chair a roundtable discussion for all those doing similar jobs at International Schools in the region.

St. Mary's International School, Tokyo
“You've got a healthy, redundant mail server. Your DNS is set up properly. You're firewalled and virus-protected. Guess what? Your problems have just begun. Non-technological challenges to e-mail communication run the gamut from host blacklisting to students using your resources to send nuisance e-mails.”

DJ has been St. Mary's IT Program Manager for one year and is responsible for desktop support, website and database development, network and e-mail administration.. Previously he was a Business Analyst in Business-Aligned Technology for JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo.

This presentation is aimed at administrators and technicians and will reflect DJ’s experiences of keeping the mail flowing by overcoming DNS issues, blacklisting and viruses. He’ll describe complaints about malicious e-mails sent by students; legal issues with teachers using school e-mail to run private businesses and database privacy law. He will be looking more at policy issues than technical details (although he'll be happy to speak about technical issues in as much detail as his experience allows).

Bangkok Patana School
[This presentation will be in Thai] Khun Suraphon is a member of the team who have developed Patana's web based admin systems (BPSnet). He will show the system from an administrator's point of view so that those developing similar systems can benefit from the lessons learned by Patana along the way. This session is aimed at Buisness/Admin staff in International Schools.

iteachnet.org
Why does open source fulfil the mission of technology in the curriuculum better than anything else? This is a talk about open source software.

David taught at NIST from 1993 to 1998 in the English department and this was where he started iteachnet.org, a collaborative Webzine for international educators. In 2000 he started opensourceschools.org and in 2001 schoolforge.net.

David is an experienced keynote speaker and he has received the emTech award for contributions to technology in international education.

Bangkok Patana School
Doug is Patana's Webmaster. He started work at Patana in July 2000 when the web site consisted of only 12 pages. It has now grown to a mammoth school administration systems with thousands of pages of dynamic content.

Doug will describe the system and recall how it came to be.

The British School in Tokyo
This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to learn the basics of using sophisticated image manipulating/editing software for use as a cross curricular or subject specific tool. Learn how to improve image quality and colour as well as working with layers and text. The course is targeted at beginners with the option to move on to more sophisticated proceedures time permitting.

The British School in Tokyo
[This is a repeat of the other session with the same title.]
This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to learn the basics of using sophisticated image manipulating/editing software for use as a cross curricular or subject specific tool. Learn how to improve image quality and colour as well as working with layers and text. The course is targeted at beginners with the option to move on to more sophisticated proceedures time permitting.

Ruamrudee International School
Eric Jacklich (Middle School Technology Coordinator) and Gayathri Rao (Middle School, Science Head of Department) from Ruamrudee International School will lead this session in which they will share with you practical applications for your classroom.

"Podcasting" is making audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available online in a way that allows software to automatically download the files for listening at the user's convenience. They have recently become very popular with iPod owners since Apple included an easy podcast subscription service to its very popular iTunes program.

Please click here to listen to a preview.

International School of Manila
Heidi Oxley has spent 14 years of teaching in four countries and is now working at the International School Manila as the K-12 Physical Education coordinator.
She will be offering an open forum to discuss how her department has introduced polar pulse rate monitors and support technology in the curriculum. After 6 months use, find out how we put together an educational proposal, gained significant funding and implemented the products in our day to day program. What have the benefits been for students, teachers, coaches and parents?"

Bangkok Patana
Mark regularly produces professional looking PowerPoint presentations to enhance his Mathematics teaching. He uses advanced animation techniques and Math Type and Excel to make visual aids which outshine the text books.

This is a practical session which will particularly appeal to those teaching Mathematics, Science or Technology..

Mark joined Patana in January 2003 and is the KS5 Mathematics Co-ordinator. His previous experience includes teaching in the UK and for, fourteen years at Newton College, Lima, Peru where he was the IB and IGCSE Mathematics Co-ordinator
Click Here to see the document Mark will be recreating.

Bangkok Patana
Pro/DESKTOP’s comprehensive functionality, together with ease of use, makes it the perfect design tool for inspiring the next generation of innovators, in particular those students entering careers as scientists, technologists and engineers, who all need a baseline understanding of technology.

You can enjoy a quick learning curve and be off creating 3D, parametric designs in no time and here is your opportunity to get started. Come along to join Peter and his team for this hands on workshop.

Bangkok Patana School
With those with some experience of using Microsoft Publisher this course will introduce you to some of the more advanced features for efficient productivity. The session will cover such topics as headers and footers, contents and index pages and auto pagination etc.

Hugh joined Patana as an ICT teacher in August 2005. He has previous teaching experience in the UK and was Head of ICT at his last school before moving to Bangkok.

Bangkok Patana School
Teachers of any kind may want to record sound at one time or another. Maybe the music teacher recording Year 3 children singing, or the French teacher who writes "I am in the process of preparing vocabulary lists going with each unit of the French books, I was just wondering whether it would be possible to add the sound of the words so the children could just click on a word and hear it read by a native speaker? With the technology now available to us in schools you might wish to record children chatting about the books they have read for a podcast!

Rachel is the Elementary Music Co-ordinator at Patana and has experience of recording sounds for many purposes. She has kindly offered to share some of her secrets with you in this informal session.

Bangkok Patana School
[This is a repeat of the other session with the same title.]
Teachers of any kind may want to record sound at one time or another. Maybe the music teacher recording Year 3 children singing, or the French teacher who writes "I am in the process of preparing vocabulary lists going with each unit of the French books, I was just wondering whether it would be possible to add the sound of the words so the children could just click on a word and hear it read by a native speaker? With the technology now available to us in schools you might wish to record children chatting about the books they have read for a podcast!

Rachel is the Elementary Music Co-ordinator at Patana and has experience of recording sounds for many purposes. She has kindly offered to share some of her secrets with you in this informal session.

Ruamrudee International School
Schedule Star is the premier sports scheduling software; designed by an Athletic Director for Athletic Directors. It's your silent assistant, keeping your department organized and on-time - and more of your time your own. Schedule Star Now is Internet-delivered making it easily accessible by many people at the same time.

Dave will give you the overview of what this popular application can do.

iBegin Interactive Software
A brief overview of Sibelius music notation software and its use in schools. If you thought it was impossible for an advanced scorewriter to be easy to use, think again: you'll be astonished by Sibelius's intuitive design and uncompromising quality. You don't need a degree in computer science to use it, and you don't have to decipher huge manuals no-one can understand. In fact, you'll find that using Sibelius is 99% inspiration, 1% perspiration!

Bob Hayden-Gilbert is a professional musician, conductor, composer, arranger and teacher, who has been a musician since he was 3 years old. To find out more about Charles, visit http://www.original-works.co.uk or look in "Baron's Who's Who Of The World, Millennium Edition" or the "International Who's Who in Classical Music".

Bangkok Patana School
Lucy joined Patana in August 2003 and is now the KS3 Mathematics Co-ordinator. Her previous experience includes teaching Secondary Mathematics in the UK during which time she began developing teaching materials which she now uses with her Smartboard.

During this session lucy will demonstrate many of the ways she uses her Smartboard to make Mathematics teaching more effective.

iBegin Interactive Software
Most beginning wind instrumentalists have a weekly lesson, practise alone and have no recourse to their teacher until their next lesson.

The illustrated, interactive series of Begin® CDs takes beginning wind instrumentalists from the time that they open their instruments cases to being players of an intermediate standard. iBegin® allows students to practise with their own part or a synthesised full wind band, have recourse to interactive fingering charts and sound examples of notes, so that they can check to see that they're playing the right notes. iBegin® encourages students to practise by being accompanied by its interactive parts and scores, which allows for the tempo to be adjusted without altering the pitch of the music.

Beginners can also use iBegin® as a reference tool, as it contains illustrated instrumental maintenance instructions, basic music theory, basic instructions on how to use the Sibelius® notation program, an interactive fingering chart and interactive scales and arpeggi.

Teachers can use iBegin® to extend their students' learning time beyond the weekly lesson. iBegin® CDs can be used as a teaching tool by any teacher who is a music reader with some computer experience.

During this session Bob will give an overview of the software.

Bangkok Patana School
If your teaching is a bit 'open the text book', come along and find out how PowerPoint can help stimulate some excitement in class. Learn how to animate words and pictures. Maybe you'd like to add some sound too.

Justin is a Year 6 teacher who uses the latest technology very effectively with his children. Come along to this session to improve your skills creating dynamic visual aids.

Cambridge Education
Recently, the UK increasingly recognised the vital role that Leadership plays in the development of schools. The leadership offered in ICT is now acknowledged as being crucial in enabling schools to move forward with a new focus providing both teachers and learners with the opportunities that enable them to make best use of the technology available to them. Chris Thatcher has for many years been a pragmatic but innovative thinker in this area (as both a Principal in the UK and as a leader of the N.A.H.T.). He now works as an International Consultant for Cambridge Education (www.camb-ed.com) a leading provider in the UK of Educational Advice and Guidance and one of the key new companies working closely with Ofsted to develop the schools' inspection model introduced in the UK in September 2005. Cambridge Education are the only organisation inspecting independent schools in the UK.
Chris is based in Bangkok.
His session will identify the fundamental role played by school leaders at all levels in ICT development and raise some key points about the ways to move forward as a focused school community in the global communications age.

Bangkok Patana School
Mitch is the Cross Campus Advisory Teacher for ICT at Patana. He has worked with Teachers who have been using the new TabletPs in the classroom.

During this sessions Mitch will describe the pros and cons of using this new technology and will describe the way in which Patana is moving forward.

Bangkok Patana School
This is a round table discussion lead by Patana's Year 1 teachers. Cinders drew the short straw and was asked to chair the discussion. The Year 1 team have had TabletPCs for a year now have have found them to be of great benefit in so many different ways. Sign up for this session if you are interested in how this new technology can be used with young children.

Here is a quote from one of the teachers in the team "I use the TabletPC in practicaly every Literacy and Numeracy lesson that I teach at present. In particular it is an essential tool during Numeracy. Many of the number ideas we are trying to convey to the children can be explored through the TabletPC in a much more interactive and child centered manner. I was a doubter at first I must admit but now I would like to see the children all have their own tablet to work on in the classroom as there is so much more we can do through this medium."

Hong Kong Academy
With a rush of enthusiasm amidst visions of reform, technology moved into schools only to be dampened with questions of who, what, when, where and how. Schools moved through phases of too much equipment and too little teacher training, to designing of standards, to integration of technology. Currently many schools are now questioning how standards are being delivered, how to assure that standards are being met, and how to inform parents of technology progress.

Hong Kong Academy has developed a K-8 grade level database model that blends teacher integrator collaboration, integrated curriculum, technology skills based on standards, and archives of samples. This results in a continuously growing archive of digital ideas and an ongoing analysis of teacher/student progress.

International School Manila
Christian is a French native speaker with a MA in Applied Phonetics, currently
teaching HS French & IB French at the International School of Manila. His presentation is the result of many years of teaching languages with the help of technology. Issues addressed include:
- What do classes need to have.
- What can the teacher do with technology (examples of documents, grammar or cultural presentations,editing, etc...)
- Useful ressources to create and store (images, songs, maps, etc...)
- Assessments: students' presentation, final examination requirements.

Bangkok Patana
2D Designer is an excellent Graphics Design tool too. It is sophisticated yet easy to use. The ability to be user configured means that it can be used throughout the Secondary/High school. The built-in drivers for CNC equipment mean that it is at the heart of the vast majority of CAD/CAM systems in use in UK schools. TechSoft recommend that the software is used as the core drawing program for the entire school.

After an introduction to the software you are invited to try it out for yourself. This is a hands on session.

New International School of Thailand
Paul is the Technology Director of the New International School of Thailand. In this session he will lbe looking at The future of technology in education, doing some crystal ball gazing and a look at some of the directions that NIST is looking to go in. This will be a 30 minute presentation followed by a question and answer session.

International School of Bangkok
We all need to use a word processor from time to time and there’s usually nothing better than Microsoft's Word. Dennis will run this session showing you some basic tips about how to make your time spent at the computer more efficient. This session is not for the advanced user, but it is for the 95% of teachers who'd benefit from becoming a little more skilled in this area.

Dennis is an ICT teacher at the International School of Bangkok.

Garden International School
Is powerpoint just a hi-tech version of chalk and talk or can it be used more actively to promote learning?

A discussion forum intended to share good practice in using powerpoint for those who don't have interactive whiteboards. I will show my attempts to enhance the teaching and learning including ideas to make the use of presentations less passive for pupils in History. Areas covered will include starters, assessment for learning and modelling. Bring you own ideas too!

Although my own examples are based on History, it may be of some use to other literacy based subjects such as Geography or English. It will probably be best suited to those teachers who are not excessive users of ICT.


[James teaches History at Garden International School (GIS) which is currently the largest co-educational international school in Malaysia.]

Saigon South International School
Do you want to use your bookmarks at work and home? Would you like to share your favorite sites with your students and colleagues? Do you want to create discussion forums for your classes or do you want to create your own rubrics and make them available online? The Web provides a number of tools like these which many teachers still haven't explored. Come and join me! Let's explore some basic tools together that could make your classes more ICTaware.

Nemera
The WebEIM ( Web-based ERP System for Educational Institution management) system is currently being used in the USA, Europe, India and in one of the International Schools in Thailand. It tracks students, manages timetables and performs all of the other routine administrative tasks. The software can be customised to meet your needs.

This session will introduce you to the first Web-based ERP System for educational institutions in the world. If you are interested, the sales team will be on hand to answer your questions.

Ruamrudee International School
Wikis, WebQuests, and Blogs are not Star Wars characters. They are, however, useful tools in teaching. Fear not! We will introduce you to these fun Internet concepts.

A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet."

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order).

A wiki is a collection of interlinked web pages and photos, all of which can be visited and edited by anyone at any time .

Bangkok Patana School
We all need to use a word processor now and again whether it be for writing reports or creating worksheets. Most of us have had no formal training, we just picked it up as we went along. Roger has kindly offered to run this hands-on session during which we hope you will learn a few new tricks. He will cover formatting paragraphs, inserting clip art and using tables. He is also happy to answer your questions.

This workshop will allow you time to practise and develop your skills so that you will be more productive in the future.