Session #: 140
Title:  The Future of School, The School of the Future
Presenter(s) Norma Thornburg and David Thornburg
Room: Chatham BallRm C
Strand: Featured Speaker
The science fiction of our youth has become reality today.  Many of us who remember Armstrong’s first steps on the moon marvel at the recent high-resolution images of active volcanos on Io.  The exploration of artificial life in classic films like Blade Runner provides a backdrop for our thinking about the cloned animals of today.  And, in the face of these tremendous changes in the past twenty or thirty years, we have the institution of school that remains largely recognizable (on the surface, anyway) to any time traveller from the 19th century.  This session explores the deeper questions about how schools might look and be organized in the future, with the perspective that a clear sense of vision can provide us with a roadmap to guide us in our practice today as we prepare young people for a world unlike any we could have imagined just a few years ago.  We all have dreams of the school of the future.  Come explore how to turn dreams into realities.

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Session #: 141
Title: Technology Projects and Plans
Presenters(s):  Christopher Curchy and Keith Kyker
Room: Auditorium
Strand: Featured Speaker
Time to get your teachers REALLY excited about using technology to enhance their curriculum!  Learn how to incorporate technology into themed activities and lessons.  Provide an integrated learning experience for students and a satisfying teaching experience for instructors. This session features project plans, ideas, and activities you can use at your school or media center.  Student-created examples will be shown. Great for classroom teachers, technology instructors and media specialists.  Appropriate for beginners, with new ideas for seasoned technology veterans, too.

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Session #: 142
Title: Marco Polo - Excellent Internet Content
Presenters(s): Jeannie Hancock
Room: 100 - 101
Strand: Library/Media
The WorldCom Foundation sponsors partnerships of high quality web-based resources for classrooms (without advertisements) and training programs with free classroom materials.  If you are looking for great resources for core curriculum areas and fine arts as well as highly practical handouts, this session is for you!

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Session #: 143
Title: Going to the Source:  Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources
Presenters(s): Judi Repman, Lynn Futch, Renae McNeely
Room: 102
Strand: Classroom Integration
Online primary sources allow students to become eyewitnesses to history.  Discover motivating age-appropriate resources and learn how to incorporate them into exciting lessons.

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Session #: 144
Title: Award-winning Student Web Pages
Presenters(s): Virjean Griensewic, Beth Christensen, Sue Krohn
Room: 103
Strand: Classroom Integration
Strategies to improve community-based student-created home pages will be shared, based on our past team-teaching experiences and awards our students have won.

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Session #: 145
Title: HighTech Booktalking:  Using Power to Make Your Point
Presenters(s): Kathleen Baxter
Room: 104
Strand: Library/Media
In this laughter-filled session, participants will be energized and inspired by these great tips for getting kids interested in reading by using PowerPoint.
Handout A: 21 k Word, Handout B: 27 k Word

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Session #: 146 (v)
Title: Cool Tools for Mobile Learning
Presenters(s): Adair Caperton
Room: 105
Strand: Classroom Integration
Learning "anytime, anywhere" becomes a reality with wireless laptops and exciting learning tools, such as  digital cameras, USB microscopes, USB scanners, and USB probeware tools for science investigations.

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Session #: 147
Title: Blazing a Trail:  Seamless Technology Integration From National Standards to Individual Classrooms
Presenters(s): Peggy McRae, Charity Roberts
Room: 106
Strand: Assessment, Accountability, & Standards
National Education Technology Standards and House Bill 1187 Technology Requirements.  Quality Core Curriculum Technology Strands and InTech.  How can Georgia educators successfully and seamlessly integrate mandates from varying entities into a single effective classroom delivery method that promotes quality instruction through a technology medium?  Come find out how we did just this in Toombs County!

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Session #: 148
Title: How Did You Do That With A Digital Camera
Presenters(s): Kenneth Clark, Alice Hosticks, Jackie Bedell
Room: 200
Strand: Multimedia/Media Production
See how simple it is to create panorama movies, object movies, and time-lapse movies with a digital camera and insert them into presentation programs.

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Session #: 149
Title: Project W.R.I.T.E.
Presenters(s): Aileen McNair, Mimi McGahee
Room: 201
Strand: Classroom Integration
Third and fourth grade students translate local history into multimedia projects as they work to improve reading and writing skills.

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Session #: 150
Title: Your School on the Internet for About $100
Presenters(s): Patrick Hlavaty
Room: 202
Strand: Administration
Your school can have web presence for under $100 for the first year and about $60 a year after that.

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SPONSOR SESSION
United Marketing Associates

Session #:  176 (v) Title: The New A+LS v3.0: QCC Standards Based Assessment & Content / EFA Grants
Presenter(s): Yvonne Ruwe
Room:  Gwinnett
Strand:  Corporate Sponsor
Come see the newest version of The A+nywhere Learning System and how it provides Internet deliverability with true standards management to state curriculum.

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SPONSOR SESSION
Dell

Session #: 177
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.

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Updated 3/18/02