Presentations | Awards
Presentations
- 2007, September: K-12 Computing Blueprint Webinar on Professional Dev't for Technolgy Integration
- 2007, SMS Summer Technology Institute, Springfield, Oregon
- Coordinated and lead presenter for 3 days of staff development workshop for educators. Subjects covered were effective web page development, iWeb, Podcasting, blogging, and literacy using web tools.
- 2007, Adobe Educator Institute, San Francisco, California
- Project Leader - "Geocaching Digital Safari"- Over 70 participants integrated GPS technology, geocaching, and digital documentation into the exploration of a local community's geography, history and arts. Using web 2.0 tools participants uploaded & worked with images and data pertaining to the study.
- 2007, NECC, Atlanta, Georgia
- Full-day workshop-"Creating a Virtual Journey: Easy Virtual Reality Digital Photography"
- Poster Session: Special Education Students Succeed with Podcasting and Web Pages!
- Poster Session: Powerful Vocabulary Development Strategies with Common Software!
- New SIG founding member and presenter at the "1-to-1 SIG" first annual meeting (one of a group of founding members)
- 2007 NCCE, Spokane, Washington
- Engaging reading opportunity with online software (Achieve 3000).
- 2007 Tech Forum Long Beach
- Effective use of technology tools by applying Marzano's research-proven methods to existing software tools
- 2006 NECC, San Diego, CA
- "Day in the Life of a One-to-One Learning Environment" co-presenting with Dr. Kyle Peck (Penn State & ISTE Board Member)
- 2006 Tech Forum Seattle
- Invitational presentation about "What we've learned in our laptop initiative"
- Effective staff development in a laptop initiatives
- 2006 Penn State One-to-One Conference
- Springfield Public School's first full year with a 1-2-1 program.
- Assessing the value of online learning programs used in the Springfield Middle School laptop program.
- Online Thinking Tools that focus on higher order thinking and critical thinking
- Starting a national network of one-to-one schools
- 2006 OETC Conference, Portland, OR
- Session: Intel Education "Online Thinking Tools" -Visual Ranking
- Session: Intel Education "Online Thinking Tools"- Seeing Reason
- Birds of a Feather Discussion Leader: One-to-One Laptop Programs
- 2005 OTEN Conference, Portland, OR
- Keynote Speaker
- Session: CSI Cemetery Scene Investigators
- 2005 NCCE Seattle, Washington
- CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigators
- Springfield Public Schools first months of a one-to-one laptop program
- 2004 Immersive Imaging Conference - Sedona, Arizona
- Session: Quicktime Virtual Reality in Education- The Geo-Literacy Project
- 2004 Intel International Science Fair, Portland, Oregon
- Project manager for designing and implementing of a geocaching event for the international Intel Teach to the Future directors and managers.
- 2004 NECC New Orleans, LA
- Session: CSI: Cemetery Scenes Investigators
- Session: QuickTime Virtual Reality in the classroom
- 2003 NECC: Seattle, WA
- The Geo-Literacy Project
- QTVR & Project-Based Learning half-day workshop
- Clay Animation poster session
- 2002 National Science Teacher’s Association Conference
- Clay animation modeling of plate tectonics- project based learning
- Received NSTA Earth Science Teacher of the Year award
- 2002 NECC, San Antonio, TX
- "Bringing History Alive with the Geo-Literacy Project"
- 2002 California Association of the Gifted (CAG)
- Clay Animation in the Science Classroom
- 2002 California Department of Education- Student Multimedia Showcase, Sacramento, CA
- 2002 Computer Using Educators (CUE)
- Using Excel for bitmapping (diagramming in science)
- 2001 California Association of the Gifted (CAG)
- Using Excel for bitmapping (diagramming in science)
- Clay animation modeling of plate tectonics- project based learning
- 2001 Computer Using Educators (CUE)
- Clay animation modeling of plate tectonics- project based learning
- 2001 NECC Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- Full day digital camera workshop with Intel Teach to the Future
Publications & Web Sites
Publications:
- Edutopia Magazine- November/December 2004 “Six Feet Wonder”- CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigators
http://www.glef.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1192&issue=nov_04
Web Sites:
- The Geo-Literacy Project: Started by Eva La Mar in 1997, started online in 2000. Co-directed with Linda Ferguson
http://www.geolit.org
- CSI (Cemetery Scene Investigators) WebQuest (authored by Eva La Mar and Linda Ferguson, co-directors of The Geo-Literacy Project);
http://www.csiwebquest.org
- Day in the Life of a One-to-One Learning Environment- an international project being co-directed by Eva La Mar and Dr. Kyle Peck at Penn State University
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