Thursday, 10:30-11:30
Featured Speakers
Christopher Curchy
Douglas Johnson
Keith Kyker
David Thornburg
David Byer (Presented
by Apple)
Title: Getting What You Ask For: Creating Effective Assessment Tools for Projects, Personnel and Program
Presenters(s): Douglas Johnson
Room: Chatham BallRm A
Strand: Featured Speaker
It's tough for students, teachers or administrators to give us what we'd like unless we can describe the end result and measure it's quality. This session will give an overview of the difference between evaluation and assessment, look at some authentic assessment tools used for a variety of purposes, and give the participant the chance to practice building a checklist and rubric. A bibliography of exemplary assessment sites is included.
Title: Jamming with Technology for Learning
Room: Chatham BallRm C
Strand: Featured Speaker
When musicians jam, they go through a process that has great relevance for students working on academic projects. They work as a team, but everyone solos. They help each other when needed, they move way beyond the original scope of the project, and learn many new things about the subject in the process. This session explores these and other rules of jamming from an educational context, and suggests that jamming makes a great tool for project-based learning, especially when the “instruments” of technology are included. Part musical performance, part lecture, and part intellectual jam session, this dynamic presentation models the principles it espouses. (Repeat of session 64)
Title: Your School Web Page – Showcasing the Best of Your School
Presenters(s): Christopher Curchy, Keith Kyker
Room: Auditorium
Strand: Featured Speaker
“In the 21st century, all schools will be on the Internet!” Great idea – now what? Ever feel like Fred Flintstone in a George Jetson world? Here’s your chance to learn how to make the most of your school’s space on the World Wide Web. Topics include: web-site design, content creation, and organizational ideas. Also: learn about student-created web-pages that will look great on your web-site, and make Mom and Dad proud. This session takes you past the animated GIFs and the lunch menu, and gives real advice for making your school web page a useful tool for teachers, administrators, parents, and the community. Appropriate for all experience level
Apple
Session #: 115 (v)
Title: We Only
Get One Chance . . .
Presenters(s): David
S. Byer
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Strand: Sponsor Keynote
We only get one chance with
our kids in schools today. Ask any teacher. Ask any parent.
So how has technology measured up in helping to build the most conducive
learning environments possible? HAS it measured up? Does it
even matter? This presentation will tackle these questions and explore
very real opportunities for fulfilling technology's potential to help make
that one chance the best chance.
Session #: 118
Title: QuestTech Georgia
Presenters(s): Jerrie Cheek, Monica Radcliff
Room: 100 - 101
Strand: Professional Development
Based on the international competition, ThinkQuest, QuestTech Georgia allows educators to coach teams of students as they create curriculum-oriented projects that evolve into Web-based learning presentations.
Session #: 119
Title: Walking the Walk with Teachers and Technology
Presenters(s): Kathryn Bailey, Brain Meeks
Room: 102
Strand: Professional Development
Draw on the professional skills of teachers. Use teams and mentors. Encourage technology-based cross-curricular activities. Incorporate video projects and laptops. See amazing results!
Session #: 120
Title: Computer Cafe - Serving Practical Technology Ideas for the Classroom
Presenters(s): Cyndi Sexton, Audrey Williams, Rhonda Hicks
Room: 103
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Today's menu includes: mouth-watering management strategies, scrumptious software applications, tasty teacher tool ideas, and rich resourceful Web sites.
Handout on website
Title: Paint Shop Pro: Professional Graphics on an Educator's Budget
Presenters(s): Suzan Haigler
Room: 104
Strand: Internet Programming & Design
Want professional web site graphics or multi-media presentations but have a limited budget? Discover PaintShopPro - powerful software for a small investment.
Title: A Computer for Every Student! And it Speaks!
Presenters(s): Andrew Kramer
Room: 105
Strand: Classroom Integration
Text-to-Speech can vastly improve the writing of your students. We'll demonstrate this and other writing specific features of the wireless Laser PC6. Mobile labs of talking PC6's will change computing at your school.
Title: Effects of SmartMath on Math Achievement
Presenters(s): Robert Collins, Daniel Johnston
Room: 106
Strand: Assessment, Accountability, & Standards
SmartMath students outperformed control students on all measures: ITBS, Stanford-9, and CRCT. Learn how SmartMath can produce outstanding gains in student achievement.
Title: Using Digital Video to Increase Student Performance
Presenters(s): Anthony Cooley, Mickey Hudson, Stacey English
Room: 200
Strand: Classroom Integration
How do you motivate the tough to teach? Simply engage your students with digital video and see how this technology can increase student achievement.
Title: A Smorgasbord of High School Activities
Presenters(s): Debbie Valdez, Lynn Loo
Room: 201
Strand: Classroom Integration
Come enjoy a sampling of quick student projects using Time-lines, Inspiration, PowerPoint and Webpage editors.
Title: Demonstrating Gladiator Leadership When the Matrix Has You
Presenters(s): Phillip Hibbert
Room: 202
Strand: Technology Planning
War is Hell . . . So is Technology. This session will focus on the impact of emerging technologies in Cobb County classrooms. Integrating Emerging Technologies can be a double edged sword. E learning, PDAs, wireless solutions, Voice over IP, and Internet II all bring with them a wealth of opportunities and new challenges. Come explore these new trends along with the legal, support, and classroom implications that go hand in hand with innovation.
United Marketing Associates
Session
#: 170 (v) Title: Multi-Sensory Early Learning Equipment from LeapFrog
Presenter(s):
Susan Cherry & Joe Massaro
Room:
Gwinnett
Strand:
Corporate Sponsor
Come
learn about the LeapPad, a multi-sensory early learning device. LeapPads
will be given away during this session.
SPONSOR SESSION
Dell
Session #: 171
Title: Network
Performance Assessment
Presenter(s): Jay
Buckalew and Ruston Russell, SSI Corporation
Room: Greene
Strand: Corporate
Sponsor
Based on our expertise and
industry practices, a Network Performance Assessment evaluates your
network needs and compares them to the current network infrastructure.
It evaluates existing methodologies and procedures, and existing management
system capabilities. With this assessment, a network manager can prioritize
network issues, build justifications for necessary improvements and evaluate
the network's capability of handling future growth. We provide complete
documentation of your infrastructure and identify bottlenecks that can
cause slow client responses on your LAN. Come see a demo of our LAN Analyzer.
Updated 3/18/02