GaETC 2002 - CONCURRENT SESSION # 11 (127-139)
Thursday, 12:00-1:00

Featured Speakers
Bonnie Bracey
Christopher Curchy
Douglas Johnson
Keith Kyker

Brooks Coleman (Presented by Maximus)


Session #: 127
Title: Budgeting for Mean, Lean Times
Presenters(s): Douglas Johnson
Room: Chatham BallRm A
Strand: Featured Speaker
Based on a track record of building, obtaining and administering excellent library/technology budgets on both a building and district level, the presenter discusses current funding realities facing schools, gives a short primer on school district finance, describes six types of budgets, outlines the three elements of effective budgets, and suggest ways media professionals can increase their influence in the budgeting process.

Session #: 128
Title:  Community Partnerships: At a Glance
Presenter(s):  Bonnie Bracey
Room: Chatham BallRm B
Strand: Featured Speaker
Partnerships with parent and community groups, universities, and others play a critical role in making schools true centers of learning in their communities. Partnerships can include: Community Learning Centers -- where K-12 schools provide space for adult education, child care and health services, and community events; Volunteer Programs -- where community members and business volunteers connect students to the real world. This session explores the Lucas Foundation resources on community as a resource for teachers.  (Repeat of session 89)

SPONSOR KEYNOTE
Maximus

Session #:  129 (v)
Title: Blast Off to New Horizons . . . Maximus and Schoolmax Leading the Way into the 21st Century
Presenter(s): Brooks P. Coleman, Jr
Room:  Chatham Ballroom C
Strand:  Corporate Sponsor
What a difference 100 years make!  Our work tools have changed from pencil and paper to megabytes, and we’ve only just begun.  Seventy-five percent of the technology we will use in the year 2015 has not even been invented yet!  If educators are to survive this tremendous change, they must find new and innovative ways to meet the needs of their consumers, train their employees, and prepare for the 21st century.  Our speaker, Dr. Brooks P. Coleman, Jr. will entertain, inform and give us a formula that will help us be successful and become the HEROES and SHEROES of this wonderful changing world.


Session #: 130
Title: Putting the “New” in News Shows
Presenters(s):  Christopher Curchy and Keith Kyker
Room: Auditorium
Strand: Featured Speaker
Is your news show ready for an update?  You’re guaranteed to leave this session with ideas for spicing-up your school news show with video segments, graphics, sets, music, and more.  Topics include: ideas for news show segments, eye-catching graphics, creative news show openings, simple sets, and affordable teleprompting systems.  Learn how to integrate your computer into your school news show.  This session is useful to the novice who is just beginning news show production, and the news show veteran who is always looking for new ideas.

Session #: 131
Title: Have Buddy, Will Travel.
Presenters(s): Monica Radcliff
Room: 100 - 101
Strand: Professional Development
Based on the Flat Stanley Internet Project, Travel Buddies are the latest craze to enhance our classroom’s curriculum. Join us and meet our world travelers

Session #: 132
Title: How to Write and Conduct an InTech Replacement Program on your Campus
Presenters(s): Carol Horner, Nancy Langdon
Room: 102
Strand: Professional Development
What is InTech?  Why do your own program?  How do you write the proposal and get it approved?  What are the evaluators really looking for?
Handout: 124 KB PowerPoint presentation

Session #: 133
Title: Prewriting to Publishing: Technology Throughout the Writing Process
Presenters(s): Bette Seeley, Diane Barfield
Room: 103
Strand: Classroom Integration
This session will demonstrate how to implement technology in all five steps of the writing process through an interactive writing and publishing activity.

Session #: 134
Title: Information Literacy and How to Evaluate What You Surf on the Net
Presenters(s): Walter Laude
Room: 104
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Do your students believe everything they find on the net?  Examine the five standards of Information Literacy as a training tool for critical web evaluation.

Session #: 135
Title: Fernbank Science Center:  Science at a Distance
Presenters(s): Valora Richardson, Doug Hrabe, Ed Albin
Room: 105
Strand: Distance Learning & Telecommunications
Come and see a demonstration of Fernbank's automated telescope that allows students and teachers to remotely access the telescope and imaging system.

Session #: 136
Title: Technology Infusion in High Schools: A Formative Assessment Case Study
Presenters(s): Bernadette Peiffer, David Jackson, Marsha Friedman
Room: 106
Strand: Assessment, Accountability, & Standards
This interactive session will chronicle the three-year efforts of one high school to use formative evaluation (conducted by a team of teachers with an outside evaluator) to inform and assess its technology infusion project.  A multi-media presentation will detail the teacher-created technology infusion project and report on assessment results in the areas of academic achievement, best practices, and project modifications based on qualitative feedback and quantitative results.

Session #: 137
Title: Internet Webcasting: Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum!
Presenters(s): Mike Callinan
Room: 200
Strand: Multimedia/Media Production
How can technology be used to support school activities as diverse as football, fine arts, and computer science? This session outlines Internet Webcast creation.

Session #: 138
Title: Collaboration Without Consternation
Presenters(s): Jenny Norris
Room: 201
Strand: Library/Media
High School Media Specialists - Are you tired of fighting with teachers to find out what is going on in their classrooms?  Learn how to make teachers want to collaborate with you!

Session #: 139
Title: Electronic Portfolios for the 21st Century - It's the Name of the Game!
Presenters(s): Monica Pierson, Jeff Olney
Room: 202
Strand: Assessment, Accountability, & Standards
Electronic portfolios are not only useful but fun to create!  Portfolios are an ideal medium for displaying student achievement or to highlight your professional career.

SPONSOR SESSION
United Marketing Associates

Session #:  173 (v) Title: Technology Based Reading Intervention that Works!
Presenter(s): Chris “Bullethead” Donnelly
Room:  Gwinnett
Strand:  Corporate Sponsor
Learn how reading-delayed students achieve, on average, a comprehension increase of 2 ½ grade levels after 25 hours (six months time on task) of using the Academy of Reading.


SPONSOR SESSION
Dell

Session #: 174  (v)
Title:  WIRELESS:   Voice and Data to the Classroom Portable Today
Presenter(s):  Mandy Allen, Dell Computer, and Jay Buckalew, SSI
Room: Greene
Strand: Corporate Sponsor
Wireless has leaped to the forefront for schools where laptops and mobile carts make accessing networks seem boundless. However, we have yet to link those classrooms located in portable trailers. Implementing a wireless network to remote facilities and thereby providing full access to students of those same resources available to core facilities requires minimal design and  all within affordable costs. To ensure equity of instruction to all students providing network access to remote facilities is a must. Come listen to case studies where Dell has implemented 11mbs connections to remote sites. Using our solutions remote connections can be easily attained and supported as part of the schools total LAN/WAN connection.


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