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November 9-11, 2005 Georgia International Convention Center, College Park |
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Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 Featured Speakers
Session 1 Title: Laugh and the Class Learns with You Presenter(s): Jeff Justice Room: Ballroom A-E Strand: Keynote Laugh and learn with Jeff. Jeff is serious about humor and how it can affect results in the classroom. Learn how to blend humor with knowledge to achieve powerful end results that last. You will find out valuable the tips and techniques on using humor to relax participants (and yourself), defuse anger, answer objections, focus the group's attention and make sure your important points find their mark with a lasting impression. Participate in laughter exercises that increase oxygen and creativity while releasing energy. Session 2 Title: Students as Teachers of Technology Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen Room: Monument Room Strand: Featured Speaker Until quite recently, most Fortune 500 companies had on payroll at least one technology support person for every 30 technology users. Would that it were so for schools. Instead, many schools are turning to a unique resource for their technology training and support needs: students. In this one-hour workshop we'll look at how, despite declining budgets, your STUDENTS can help you take your school's technology integration to the next level. Session 3 Title: Join the Beam Team: New Frontiers in Teaching and Learning Presenter(s): Annette Lamb, Larry Johnson Room: Ballroom A Strand: Featured Speaker Join the "beam team" and explore new frontiers of teaching and learning. No traffic jams, security lines, or costly tickets for this trip. All you need is a thirst for knowledge, a destination, and a guide to lead the way. From Palm Paradise to Internet World, remember it's the journey and not the destination that's most important. This session examines how technology can help you address important standards, meet individual needs, and engage students by taking you to new worlds of teaching and learning. Session 4 Title: Copyright Overview Presenter(s): Gary Becker Room: Ballroom B Strand: Featured Speaker This session provides media/library staff and other educators with a basic knowledge of copyright law in order to determine permissible and restricted activities and to answer specific questions related to their concerns. An overview of the law including purpose, the rights of authors, and the liabilities and penalties associated with the law will be presented. Categories of material eligible for copyright protection will also be discussed. Handout (html) Session 5 Title: MediaTech: Meeting the New Georgia Technology Requirement Presenter(s): Denise Hornsby, Shirley Sainz, Gwen Church Room: Ballroom C Strand: Library/Media This session will help explain how media specialists can meet the Georgia Technology Requirement by taking a technology course designed specifically for practicing media specialists. Session 6 
Title: Meeting the Special Georgia Technology Requirement Through the Course Exemption Option Presenter(s): Elizabeth Holmes, Sue Aiken Room: Ballroom D-E Strand: Administration - Professional Development All Georgia educators will meet the Special Georgia Technology Requirement by 2006. Many educators can satisfy the requirement by documenting their existing skills in an electronic portfolio. Session 7 Title: "Look, Mom, No Wires!" Presenter(s): Sherri Booker, Claire Brogdon Room: 306 Strand: Emerging Technologies That's right - NO wires attached! Come learn about the implementation and integration of the new wireless carts into the Cobb County School System. Session 8 (v) Title: Got Curriculum, Got Internet, Now What? Presenter(s): Lee Baird Room: 308 Strand: Distance Learning Plan and create online lessons, projects, and assignments. QuickMind.net offers the unique ability to create, customize, assign, and assess, all online. Session 9 Title: Georgia Learning Connections for Media Specialists Presenter(s): Susan Sams Room: 309 Strand: DOE The Georgia Department of Education's Georgia Learning Connections (GLC) resources are becoming a most necessary online curriculum resource for Georgia educators. Media Specialists are no exception! Learn how GLC content and functionality may be used to help streamline the daily operation of a media center. We'll explore customizable templates, newsletters, PowerPoints, calendars, technology tutorials, and much more. Come join us for an hour of exciting ideas! Electronic handout (website link to download zip file) Session 10 Title: Realizing Opportunities in Mathematics: Improving Student Achievement Presenter(s): Chandra Orrill, Ann Asaad, Vicki Rogers Room: Suite A Strand: Elementary/Pre-K Learn about Phase II InTech's solution to improving student achievement in mathematics for students in grades 3-6. This field test project uses synchronous and asynchronous delivery methods to guide teachers. Monica Radcliff will also be presenting. Session 11 Title: Practical Ways to Secure Wireless LANs Presenter(s): Kevin Beaver Room: Suite B Strand: Network Infrastructure/Technical Support This presentation discusses the vulnerabilities of 802.11 wireless LANs and the practical and proven methods for plugging the security holes. Session 12 Title: An Ingenerational Partnership in Technology and Service Learning Presenter(s): Gloria Duncan, Lois Taylor, Michael Duncan Room: Suite C Strand: HS Vocational Service Learning and Technology connect instructional strategies with "real world" activities and allow students opportunities to learn, explore, perfect, and implement practical applications. Session 13 (s) Title: Spotlight on Technology Success in Georgia Schools Presenter(s): Apple Room: 313 Strand: Sponsor Drop in for a “show and tell” and discover how schools, educators, and students are successfully using technology. Visit any of our six "Success Story" stations and chat with teachers and students about their incredible stories. View projects and movies about the use of digital media, wireless laptops for mobile learning, or a district-wide laptop initiative for all teachers. Talk to teachers who have proof that effective technology integration with project-based learning can positively affect student achievement. Walk away with great ideas for motivating students and for making your classroom hum with technology integrated into the curriculum! Session 14 (s) Title: Dell’s Electronic Interactive Classroom Presenter(s): Dell Room: 324 Strand: Sponsor This session will be a live demonstration of a number of electronic technologies, such as electronic whiteboards, projectors, wireless slates, and handheld remotes. Coupled with educational software, these electronic tools can electrify the classroom and make chalk and blackboards obsolete. As we enter the information age of the twenty-first century, we must embrace these electronic tools to ensure our ability to provide the student with the skills to locate and use the vast amounts of information available to us today. Door prizes will be given away during the session. Session 15 (s) Title: SchoolMax Sponsor Session Presenter(s): Sponsor SchoolMax Room: 312 Strand: Sponsor Session 16 (s) Title: Classroom Video Content Distribution Presenter(s): Micro Technology Consultants Room: 310 Strand: Sponsor Micro Technology Consultants will present a session on "Network Video For The Classroom.” Participants will view a live demonstration of how new and existing television systems can be used to enhance instruction. The presenters will show to how to distribute content such as PeachStar and cable TV to the classroom from the media center. Session 17 (s) Title: The QCC at Your Fingertips: The New A+ (Grades 1-12) Presenter(s): Yvonne Ruwe Room: 305 Strand: Sponsor Participants will learn about technology-based assessment and instruction with unique management and instructional software with QCC and CRCT standards embedded directly in the management system. Content can be delivered with IEP’s in math, language arts, portfolio writing, science, and social studies for grades 1-12. Session 18 (s) Title: Effectively Integrate Online Technology Into Your Curriculum and Classrooms Presenter(s): Joel Petersen, Nancy Clark Room: 303 Strand: Sponsor Put the power of the Internet into your curriculum and classrooms with netTrekker. Access high quality, K-12 online resources that align with QCC standards. Session 19 (s) Title: Riverside Publishing Sponsor Session Presenter(s): Riverside Publishing Room: 106 Strand: Sponsor Technology is becoming an important component of many statewide assessment programs. Come and see a web-based delivery system being developed for the State of Georgia by Riverside Publishing. Using this online system, teachers can select from and administer pre-developed testets measuring Georgia's Quality Core Curriculum (QCCs). Results are available immediately for instructional purposes. Come and experience this system firsthand! Session 20 (s) Title: Videoconferencing for Education Presenter(s): SBC SBC Room: 107 Strand: Sponsor Session 21 Title: Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology Presenter(s): Walter McKenzie Room: CP Exhibit Room Strand: Technology Planning Explore the possibilities of Gardner's theory as an important component in planning instructional technology integration. Electronic handout (website link) Session 22 Title: Fever the Integration of Science and Social Studies with Language Arts Presenter(s): Denise Bennett Room: CP Lanier Strand: MS English Language arts provides a great way to integrate technology skills across the curriculum. Session 23 Title: "E's on Down the Road": Creating Electronic Portfolios Presenter(s): Susan Speir, Shirley Batiste, Susan Murray Room: CP Walnut Strand: Elementary/Pre-K This fun and fast-paced session demonstrates the ease of creating electronic portfolios. Come ready to "E's on down the road" with e-portfolios. Session 24 Title: Hats Off! Introducing the Role of the School Technology Coordinator Presenter(s): Carol Cannon, Ellie Loudermilk, Heather Thompson Room: CP Preservation Hall C-D Strand: Administrative - Curriculum This session will present an effective management model using district-based resources. The STC is expected to make technology integration happen while keeping new visions and maintaining sanity. Electronic handout (website link) Session 25 Title: Using Teacher-Created Databases in Inquiry Learning Presenter(s): Kenneth Clark, Alice Hosticka Room: CP Preservation Hall A-B Strand: Assessment/Accountability and Standards This presentation will include a model for developing, using, and creating electronic databases for inquiry-based learning in K-12 classrooms to meet the Georgia Technology Integration Standards. Session 26 Title: Microsoft's Producer: The True Multimedia Kaleidoscope Presenter(s): Dwayne Trouille, Lynne Cater Room: CP Mercer Strand: Multimedia /Media Production Microsoft Producer complements PowerPoint 2002 by allowing users to capture, synchronize, and publish rich-media presentations. Effortlessly produce various media formats into a single synchronized presentation. Session 27 Title: Science Integrated with Mathematics for the Middle Grades, SIMM Presenter(s): Suzanne Evans, Jackie Sizemore Room: CP Wesleyan Strand: MS Math SIMM, Georgia's InTech Framework Phase II, supports middle-grades teachers as they develop learner-centered activities that build science and mathematics content knowledge through the technologies. Session 28 Title: Multimedia Technology Support for Teachers in the Field Presenter(s): Ryan Visser, Zack Adams, Chris Peters Room: CP Preservation Hall 1 Strand: Multimedia /Media Production This session will focus on ways that Clemson University is using multimedia on CD-ROM and the Web to assist teachers in learning to use classroom technologies. Session 29 Title: Lights! Camera! Budget? Tips and Tricks for Video Production on a Tight Budget! Presenter(s): Susan Grigsby Room: CP Preservation Hall 2 Strand: Multimedia/Media Production Get the low-down on low-cost video programs you can create at your school in spite of your small budget. Session 30 Title: Media Education in a Digital Information Age Presenter(s): Frank Baker Room: CP Preservation Hall 3 Strand: Library/Media The 21st-century classroom demands literacy instruction that is beyond reading just print materials. Media literacy education requires students to understand visual literacy and more. This session explores standard-based media education with a resourceFULL website and plenty of handouts. Updated 2/21/03 |