Slide 1

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 2

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 3

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 4

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 5

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 6

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 7

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 8

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 9

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 10

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 11

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 12

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 13

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 14

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 15

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 16

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 17

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 18

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 19

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 20

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 21

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 22

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 23

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 24

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 25

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 26

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 27

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 28

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 29

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 30

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 31

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 32

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 33

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 34

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 35

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 36

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 37

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 38

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 39

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 40

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 41

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 42

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 43

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 44

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 45

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 46

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 47

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 48

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 49

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 50

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 51

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 52

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 53

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 54

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 55

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 56

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 57

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 58

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

55

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

56

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

57

$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

58

QUESTIONS?

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

60


Slide 59

Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

1

Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
•
•
•
•

Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

2

Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

3

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

4

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

5

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

6

Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

7

Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

8

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

9

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

10

Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

11

GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

12

WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

13

Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

14

Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

15

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

16

Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

17

Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

18

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

19

Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

20

Make a Difference - SHARE
•
•
•
•
•

Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

21

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

22

SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
•
•
•
•
•
•

Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

23

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

24

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

25

HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

26

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

27

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

28

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

29

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

30

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

31

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

32

HOW – Publish (POD)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

33

SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference
– Published author!

34

SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

35

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

36

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

37

SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

38

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

39

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

40

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

41

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

42

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

43

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

44

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

45

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
•
•
•
•

Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

46

SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

47

SHARE – Publish (Blog)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

48

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

49

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

50

HOW – Publish (Wiki)

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

51

SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
•
•
•
•
•

Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

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The One Minute Millionaire
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$$ to Make Difference
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$$ to Make Difference
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$$ to Make Difference
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$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

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$$ to Make Difference
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QUESTIONS?

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Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

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Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

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Overview of Session
• Teaching to Make a Difference
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Why
Who is the Audience
What to Share
How!!
– The Conventional Way
– The ELECTRONIC Way
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Three Kinds of People
• Givers
• Takers

• Watchers

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

GET

• Takers

• Watchers

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

GET

WORRY ABOUT GETTING TAKEN

• Watchers -

WHINE

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers -

OPTIMITSTIC

• Takers –

PESIMISTIC

• Watchers –

APTHETIC

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers • Takers –

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

• Watchers –

NEUTRAL

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

GOOD GUYS

• Takers –

BAD GUYS

• Watchers –

OTHER GUYS

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

DOERS

• Takers –

TALKERS

• Watchers –

COMPLAINERS

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Three Kinds of People
• Givers –

LIFE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF

THEM

• Takers –

LIFE HAPPENS TO THEM

• Watchers –

LIFE HAPPENS INSPITE OF

THEM

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GIVERS
• People like being around
them
• Friendly - smile
• Spread kindness, happiness,
optimism
• Make a difference
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WHY
• For me…
– Makes me feel good inside
– Gauge my day - impact on others
(not how much I got done)
– Legacy

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Everyday LIFE Examples
• For me…
– Smile
– Greet people – “hi”
– Chivalry
• Carry a box, open a door
• Share a coat
• * Slushy day

– * Glass of water

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Everyday LIFE Examples
– Walk with me
– Share a book
– Toll Booth – Starbucks
– Shovel Snow
– Restaurant Tab
– Christmas at Walmart
– DonorsChoose.com
– Red Cross – Give Blood
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Make a Difference IDEAS
• Lessons – activities, instruction, coaching
• Craft – Something you do well or enjoy
• Insight
– Discipline Techniques
– Classroom Management
– Beginning the year Strategies

• Tricks and Tips
– Organization (Getting Organized with Microsoft
Outlook)
– Classroom Setup and Arrangement (Excel room
arrangement)

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Make a Difference IDEAS
• Attend meetings
– Community
– District

• Join a committee
– School (Choice?)
– District (Channel you passion)

• Listen and SHARE

(Fierce
Conversations, Susan Scott)

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Get Involved
• Volunteer
– www.volunteermatch.org
– 30,000 Nonprofit Organizations

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Get Involved
• Charity
– DonorsChoose.com
– Make-a-Wish Foundation
– Habitat for Humanity
– The American Humane Society
– The Salvation Army
– American Cancer Society

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Make a Difference - SHARE
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Students – Classroom
Building – Colleagues
District – Inservice, Committee
City – Event, Club
Region – Committee, Conference (NCCE),
Organizations

• Nation –
(NECC)

Organizations, Conferences

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SHARE – Present (Technology)
• PowerPoint
– Outlines your presentation
– Gives Direction
– Background Templates (Available
online – Learn to change Master
Slides)
– Looks Professional

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SHARE – Present (Technology)
• Always
– HAVE FUN (Excited… not nervous)
– Be Prepared
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Backup Files – CD, Thumb Drive, Email
Overhead Transparencies
Projection Devise (Check)
Bring your own laptop
Check the room out early!
Watch and learn from other presenters

– Be Yourself
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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Magazine
– 25,000 Magazines
– Choose an Interest
– Research the Topic
– Check for Accuracy
– Grab the Reader
– Submit, submit, submit

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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The BAD News
– 1/3 of high school graduates never read another
book for the rest of their lives.
– 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a
book last year.
– 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a
bookstore in the last five years.
– 57 percent of new books are not read to
completion.
– 70 percent of the books published do not make a
profit.
• (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

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HOW – Publish (Print)
• Book – More BAD News

– 80% of the United States population would like to
write a book
– Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours
watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14
minutes reading magazines.
– 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read
nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is
mystery and suspense. (19%)
– A bookstore browser spends an average of 8
seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15
seconds looking at the back cover.
• (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker,
Publishers Weekly, Para Publishing, www.parapub.com,
and www.bookwire.com)

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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – Even More BAD News

– 2 million text length manuscripts are circulated
each year.
– Publishing companies receive 3,000 to 5,000
manuscripts each week.
– 200,000 books published each year.
– 12,000 bookstores in the US
– A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
– A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
– Most authors end up making less than $1 per
book
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Book – The GOOD News

– Non-Fiction sells (Fiction sells if you are a famous
author)
– Readers are interested in reading about their
craft, job, hobbies, and travels
– Self Publish and make $$
• 5000 Books @ $ .80 = $ 4,000
• 5000 Books @ $10.00 = $ 50,000

– POD (Publish on Demand) makes it inexpensive
to test the waters
– Make you hobby, trip, or interest deductible…
write a book about it.
• (Source: Para Publishing - www.parapub.com)

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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Technology makes it
EASY to PUBLISH a
book
• Getting people to
buy the book is the
PROBLEM
– But… technology
helps you promote
your book

• Best BOOK

– Self-Publishing
Manual (Dan Poynter)

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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Krimsten
Publishing
Story

– Math system used in
class (Times Tables)
– Put it down on
paper
– Hired artist
– Website
– Wrote – edit
– PRINT
• Goal to teach students
the Times Tables NOT
$$
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SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Publish on Demand – What is it?
– Write book (Word processor)
– Upload it to publisher
– They print it (as many copies as
you want)
• 1, 10, 100 Copies

– You pay for each copy
– Or others can order the book

• www.lulu.com (Jim)
• www.blurb.com (Full Color)
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HOW – Publish (POD)

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SHARE – Publish (POD)
• Concerns

– Each book is expensive…
– The publisher does not promote it
(That’s up to you)
– Probably never make $$

• Reasons FOR using POD

– Book to print quickly
– Check layout and edit
– Best when you only need a few
copies
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– Published author!

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SHARE – Publish (Print)
• Lessons Learned

– If you want to write a book… write
it NOW!
– Use the Internet to PROMOTE it.
– Self Publish
• Use POD to see what it will look like
• Edit and spell-check

– Let someone else handle the
fulfillment
– People think of you differently
when you are published
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SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Website
– Available to zillions of people
– Finding your site among billions of
others can be a challenge

• Blog
– Quick
– Easy
– Flexible
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SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Wiki
– Editable by others
– Quick and easy
– Collaboration on steriods

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SHARE – Publish (Internet)
• Developing a Website
– Editors
• FrontPage (Expression Web)
• Dreamweaver

– Website
• Host templates
• Site-builder software

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Using a Blog for a website
– WeB LOG

– Digital Diary
– Self linking – archiving
– Community of Bloggers
– SIMPLE!
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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Blog)
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Simple – Type
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Simple to Edit
Automatically archives and
organizes
• ??? No Internet Access ???
• Use your cell PHONE!
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SHARE – Publish (Blog)
• Cell Phone Publishing
– Email or Text Message from phone
to publish to site
– Click picture
– Add text
– Send to site
– Auto publish
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SHARE – Publish (Blog)

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SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
• WIKI as Web Page
– Digital Document
– Collaboration
– Designed to be edited
– www.wikipedia.org
– www.wikispaces.com

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HOW – Publish (Wiki)

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HOW – Publish (Wiki)

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SHARE – Publish (Wiki)
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Simple – Word-like document
Simple to Edit
Add Pictures Quick and Easily
Add sound
Multiple people can edit / access
site

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52

The One Minute Millionaire
$$ to do good

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

53

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates
– Amazon.com (Amazon Associates)
– Link Share www.linkshare.com
– Commission Junction www.ci.com
– Single – www.bigbrainz.com

Technology Can Help YOU Make a Difference

54

$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

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$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

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$$ to Make Difference
• Affiliates

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$$ to Make Difference
• Google Ad Sense

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QUESTIONS?

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Technology Can Help
YOU Make a Difference
Alan Walker

Technology and Data Systems Director

Prosser School District

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