<blockquote><strong>Ask CUIP: What was your favorite session at the ICE2010 Conference on February 25th?</strong></blockquote>
<a title="russ bio" href="http://news.cuip.net/author/russ/" target="_blank">Russ</a>:  Three teachers from Stevenson High School gave a presentation on using <a title="wikispaces" href="http://www.wikispaces.com" target="_blank">Wikispaces</a> for their <strong>Anatomy Team Wiki</strong> (<a title="wiki" href="http://shs-anatomy-cat.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">website</a>).  These teachers gave an overview of how to use a wiki for collaborative student projects.  They explained how they set up template pages in the wiki for the students to complete.  One of the best parts of this project, according to the teachers, was the way students all learned to work together.

<a title="sara bio" href="http://news.cuip.net/author/sara/" target="_blank">Sara</a>: One great session that I attended was called "<strong>GPS in the Classroom</strong>" (<a title="ppt gps" href="http://www.icewiki.info/attach/1.0/Thursday-Sessions/GPS%20in%20Classroom.ppt" target="_blank">ppt</a>, <a title="gps classroom" href="http://www.gpsclassroom.com/" target="_blank">website</a>).  The presenter, Mike McGowan, talked about the use of hand-held GPS units in almost every subject area.   We learned that the relatively new sport of Geocaching is a great way to get students up and moving and excited about learning.  I don't know of any schools that CUIP is currently working with that has a set of GPS units, but if someone is interested, <a title="donors choose" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" target="_blank">DonorsChoose.org</a> would be a great place to start!

<a title="mitch bio" href="http://news.cuip.net/author/mitch/" target="_blank">Mitch</a>:   <strong>"</strong><strong>Blog Wild!"</strong> [<a title="blog wild" href="https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0Ad_wMKRcsD0xZGR3NGd2M3BfMjEzZnJybmJzY2M&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">presentation</a>, <a title="middle school student examples" href="http://avoca37.org/grade7/261/" target="_blank">student examples</a>] was a very interesting session Thursday at ICE-2010, presented by Chris Brown and Gail Soriano of Avoca School District 37 (Wilmette). These schools have implemented one-to-one student blogs, under a mandate from their board to use technology to increase authentic student and community interaction. With a set of organized guidelines and training for classroom teachers and the students, the tech leads have developed an ongoing program to sue WPMU-based individual blogging format as a platform for communication and a form of e-portfolio building.

<a href="http://news.cuip.net/author/shaz/" target="_blank">Shaz</a>:  I enjoyed Henry Thiele's presentation on "<a title="presentation" href="http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0Aexp41WsbkUKZGc3NmpjMmRfMjI3djgzOHI3bTk&amp;hl=en  " target="_blank">Visualizing Information: Absorbing Complex Information Through Images</a>" which looked at tools like Tag Clouds and Motion Charts as ways of engaging students and helping them to develop their understandings of how to interpret sets of  data.  Many teachers don't immediately think of text as "data", but that kind of approach might be very helpful to some of their students.

<strong>Photos from ICE2010 (Thursday, February 25th)</strong>:

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