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BYOL Sessions: Presenter: Lori Lopez, Fort Worth ISD (TX)
 * BET on Technology: Bilingual Educational Technology

Bilingual websites offer meaningful ways to enhance learner skills and concepts. We’ll show you sites you can use in your classroom.

Go to her website for various games and activities in a variety of languages. [|www.lorilopez.info]
 * Gaming and Social Causes: A Marriage Whose Time Has Come

Presenters: Debra Sprague, George Mason University Kathy Bohnstedt Mary Kayler

Explored free online games and simulations designed to help students understand complex social issues such as environmental, health, poverty, peace education, government, immigration and diversity.

Go to [|www.etherpad.com/gaming] to get a list of the websites which are divided up by elementary, middle, and high school as well as social issues. If you have trouble downloading it, email me. [] This site helps students create games of their own. You can use these various engines to build a game: Flash, Squeak, Google, Alice, Squidoo. [|www.tutpup.com] website for math games that was suggested.

Presenter: KarenWester, Franklin Township School (NJ)
 * Creativity and Communication: Using Tux Paint as a Learning Tool

Introduced how to use Tux Paint, a free tool to create and communication. A lot like Kidspiration, and other “paint/draw” applications. Did not seem as flexible and user friendly as what we have we SMART and Kidspiration. Would not use it to replace these. You can control the various buttons, much like Kidspiration. [|http://nets4students.wetpaint.com] A website addressing the National Educational Technology Standards.


 * National Day of Writing: October 20.

This event has been created by NCTE to celebrate the integral role of writing in all our lives. For more details, go to __www.galleryofwriting.org__

I created a gallery for our school to use this fall. I will send out "invitations" to our students, and they can post any piece of writing they wish. As a curator, I will be responsible for editing each piece before it is displayed in our gallery which is called: Writers of Wildwood Elementary.