GaETC
2002 - CONCURRENT SESSION # 3 (23 - 35)
Wednesday,
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Featured
Speakers
Patrick Crispen
Douglas Johnson
David Thornburg
Hanna Flower & Pat
Biggerstaff (Presented by United Market Associates)
Session
#: 23
Title: Teaching Students
Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: A Technology Ethics Primer
Presenters(s): Douglas Johnson
Room: Chatham BallRm A
Strand: Featured Speaker
Studies show that misconceptions
abound about the appropriate use of technologies. This presentation
examines basic ethical issues, some ethical codes, actual case studies
when students have had to make ethical decisions, and techniques
teachers can use to promote ethical behaviors in the classroom.
Session
#: 24
Title: Designing Online
Learning Communities . . . on a Shoestring Budget
Presenters(s): Patrick Crispen
Room: Chatham BallRm B
Strand: Featured Speaker
Creating an online learning
community is pretty simple. Creating a GOOD online learning community,
however, takes a little work. This one hour presentation introduces
you to existing online learning communities, teaches you how to create
learning communities of your own, and shows you the rules and guidelines
that will help you make great online learning communities.
Session
#: 25
Title: Understanding
Generation.com
Presenter(s) : David
Thornburg
Room: Chatham BallRm C
Strand: Featured Speaker
Our children are natives
of the digital age, and we are the immigrants. Our accent colors
everything we do, including our teaching. This dynamic session explores
the dominant thinking modalities of today’s young people -- the action-oriented
generation deeply engaged in multi-tasking experiential volitional learning
as they surf the edges of urban chaos in their drive forward into a dynamic
future. Based on in-depth studies of youth culture, this presentation
examines several attributes of young people that can help us make sure
their minds are as attentive in the classroom as they are outside the schoolhouse
doors.
SPONSOR
KEYNOTE
United
Marketing Associates
Session #: 26 (v)
Title: Taking Learning
to the MAX! Real School Improvement
Presenter(s): Hanna Flower
& Pat Biggerstaff
Room: Auditorium
Strand: Sponsor Keynote
J. A. Maxwell Elementary
School, a Georgia School of Excellence and National Blue Ribbon School
of Excellence, is also a school-wide Title I school. The mighty MAX
is a Georgia Reading first school. Over the past four years, Maxwell has
received the following awards and recognition's: 2002 Georgia Title I Distinguished
School, 2000-2001 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, Georgia 1999-2000
School of Excellence, GA International Reading Association Exemplary Reading
Award runner-up, Pay for Performance recipient, member of the League of
Professional Schools, GA School Toolbox website, and has also received
commendations from the Georgia State Legislature and The United States
Congress for Outstanding Achievement in Reading. Four and a half years
ago, the Mighty MAX was a non-performing school with a rural minority population.
Within the first year of the new administration, ITBS scores began to soar
and students in kindergarten were reading. Come hear Principal Hanna
Fowler and Assistant Principal Pat Biggerstaff share their strategies for
success. These include the MAX A/B Day Block Schedule, three hours
of reading a day for every student, aligned curriculum and assessment,
School-Wide Discipline Plan, and the exciting, innovative, extensive professional
development plan that holds teachers accountable for student progress.
Session
#: 27
Title: Mobile Resource
Carts: Bringing Technology to the Classroom
Presenters(s): Gretchen
Thomas, Grover Dailey
Room: 100 - 101
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Rockdale County Schools
is using wireless laptops! This session will cover technical and
instructional issues related to implementing this new technology in K-12
classrooms.
Session
#: 28
Title: Portfolios for
a Successful CEO
Presenters(s): Gerald Burgess,
Curt Cearley
Room: 102
Strand: Professional Development
Moving your portfolio from
paper to digital format? Wondering what artifacts and articles to
place in that portfolio? This session explores the planning necessary
for a digital or electronic portfolio. Using the ISTE NETS and the
NBPTS, the facilitators will show how to analyze the standards to determine
the articles and artifacts that best highlight the educator’s abilities.
Digital and electronic portfolios are easier to manage and update than
paper portfolios, but are only as good as the planning that goes into them.
Get
the planning tips and assistance
you need to make that digital or electronic portfolio a reality.
Session
#: 29
Title: Technology Solutions
for Struggling Writers
Presenters(s): Sally Kemph
Room: 103
Strand: Special Education/Assistive
Technology
Low and high technology
solutions available for students struggling with writing in elementary
school will be demonstrated and strategies for implementation will be discussed.
Session
#: 30
Title: Browser Compatibility:
Does Your Website Rreach the Widest Audience Possible?
Presenters(s): Suzan Haigler
Room: 104
Strand: Internet Programming
& Design
Help your web site reach
the widest audience possible by addressing the issues of browser compatibility
before you start building.
Session
#: 31
Title: Using Handheld
Computers in K-12 Education
Presenters(s): Debra Pope
Johnson, John Rhodes
Room: 105
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Handheld computers are powerful
resources for teaching and learning. With increased availability
of software applications and peripherals they support virtually all subjects.
This workshop will give an overview of handhelds, specific education applications,
and supporting Internet websites.
Session
#: 32
Title: MediaTech: What's
It All About?
Presenters(s): Denise Hornsby
Room: 106
Strand: Library/Media
Integrating technology in
classrooms is no longer just an amusing idea. As discussed in InTech, it’s
imperative that we prepare students and educators on the how and why to
use technology tools and concepts applied in business, government, and
higher education. To meet these challenges, Media Specialists
must be knowledgeable of technology trends and practices as well as strategies
for sharing this information with teachers and their classes. Designed
to give media specialists the training they need to use equipment and skills
to support teachers, MediaTech can help! If you are curious about
MediaTech or anxious to take the next step beyond InTech, join us to learn
more.
Session
#: 33
Title: Developing a Digital
Yearbook on CD
Presenters(s): Michael Rhodes
Room: 200
Strand: Multimedia/Media
Production
Learn how our students,
for two years, have successfully created and sold a CD-yearbook without
having anything out-sourced.
Session
#: 34
Title: Tangerine, Nothing
Is Quite the Way It Looks.
Presenters(s): Denise Bennett
Room: 201
Strand: Professional Development
Using Internet Challenge
Activities to Motivate the "UnderReader" at the Middle School Level.
Session
#: 35 (v)
Title: Using the Results
of the Lexia CRT to Plan More Effective Reading Instruction
Presenters(s): Virginia
Stoner, Ken Hodges
Room: 202
Strand: Professional Development
This session will fprovide
information for interpreting the diagnostic information from the Lexia
CRT and will present the ELS Prescribing Guide to help plan appropriate
technology-guided reading lessons..
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