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Session 60
Title: Tourbus' "Next 21"
Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen
Room: Monument Room
Strand: Featured Speaker
Completely new for 2003, and based on Patrick Crispen's wildly popular Internet Tourbus' Top 21 presentation from last year's GaETC conference, this one-hour tour of the Internet will introduce you to some of the greatest websites in the world, sites that will help you both in and out of the classroom.  If you are looking for a presentation that will give you information that you can start using TODAY -- and, more importantly, if you are looking for a presentation whose information you can easily steal and share with your friends and fellow faculty -- DON'T MISS THIS PRESENTATION.

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Session 61
Title: Turning Dreams into Reality: Using Technology to Address the Needs of All Children
Presenter(s): Annette Lamb
Room: Ballroom A
Strand: Featured Speaker
Our children have gifts, talents, challenges, and dreams. Technology can help you develop effective, efficient, and appealing learning experiences to address the individual needs of your students. This session will explore strategies for infusing a wide range of technology tools to meet diverse needs while still focusing on essential questions and standards. Learn to differentiate learning experiences by selecting channels of communication (i.e., text, visual, auditory) and technology-rich activities that meet the diverse prior experience, skills, and speeds of your students. Finally, promote critical and creative thinking through the use of webquests, powerquests, and other challenging, inquiry-based technology-rich projects.

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Session 62
Title: Copyright and Legislation
Presenter(s): Gary Becker
Room: Ballroom B
Strand: Featured Speaker
This session provides Information on the Digital Millennium Act and its impact on education and libraries as well as the TEACH Act in relation to distance learning.  Pending copyright legislation will be discussed as well.  Handout (html)

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Session 63 (v)
Title: Learning to Stay Alive in the Marc Jungle
Presenter(s): John Carbonara
Room: Ballroom C
Strand: Library/Media
Learn about fast and efficient solutions to clean up your existing library automation system databases, vendor data disks, and MARC records downloaded from the Web to improve patron search results!

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Session 64
Title: Reading Achievement Module: Leading the Way So No Child Is Left Behind
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Holmes, Tricia Cooling
Room: Ballroom D-E
Strand: Administrative - Professional Development
RAM, a scientifically-based, technology-enhanced preparation program for K-3 reading teachers, provides research-based strategies and high-quality instructional materials presented in a modified online course.

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Session 65 (v)
Title: ACTIVate Your Classroom
Presenter(s): Lisa Dubernard
Room: 306
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Promethean presents ACTIVboard, the ultimate interactive whiteboard teaching system for groups, including ACTIVstudio and our wireless interactivity peripherals, the ACTIVslate and ACTIVote devices.

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Session 66
Title: An Online Model for Providing Alternative Teacher Certification
Presenter(s): C. Blaine Carpenter, Rhonda Hefner-Packer, Pamela Harwood
Room: 308
Strand: Distance Learning
The Teacher Certification Program allows educators with certificates to pursue add-on certification in Interrelated Special Education in as little as one year through online distance learning.  Electronic handout (1.3 MB pp file)

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Session 67
Title: GLC: What's Old, What's New, and What's Coming Soon
Presenter(s): Susan Sams
Room: 309
Strand: DOE
What changes have been made to Georgia Learning Connections?  What changes are in the plans for Georgia's curriculum website?  Come join the excitement!  Electronic handout (website link to download zip file)

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Session 68
Title: Literacy Collaborative and the Media Center:  A Match Made in Heaven!
Presenter(s): Susan Grigsby, Lisa Harton
Room: Suite A
Strand: Elementary/Pre-K
Learn how Literacy Collaborative integrates the media center with classroom objectives.  Get the program basics and proven collaborative projects to bring back to your school.

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Session 69 (v)
Title: Ensure the Security of Your Network and Your Employees
Presenter(s): Ken Fee
Room: Suite B
Strand: Network Infrastructure/Technical Support
Discover how to safeguard your networks with firewalls and intrusion detection.

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Session 70
Title: High School Projects That Work for You and Your Students Too
Presenter(s): Debbie Valdez, Lynn Loo
Room: Suite C
Strand: HS Science
Come see several examples of ways to integrate technology into the high school curriculum.

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Session 71 (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!

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Session 72 (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.

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Session 73 (s)
Title: SchoolMax Sponsor Session
Presenter(s): Sponsor SchoolMax
Room: 312
Strand: Sponsor

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Session 74 (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.

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Session 75 (s)
Title: Let Your Computers Help with Intervention (Grades 1-12)
Presenter(s): Chris Donnelly
Room: 305
Strand: Sponsor
Turn your school’s computers into intervention tools. The researched-based Academy of Reading and the new Academy of Math have proven in Georgia that struggling students’ reading and math skills improve four times as rapidly using technology-driven intervention.

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Session 76 (s)
Title: Enhance Your Elementary Curriculum with High Quality K-5 Online Resources
Presenter(s): Joel Petersen, Nancy Clark
Room: 303
Strand: Sponsor
Strand: Sponsor
Energize your elementary curriculum with high-quality online resources customized for K-5. Teach with cross-curricular themes and find QCC standards-aligned resources, interactive games, and more.

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Session 77 (s)
Title: 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!

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Session 78 (s)
Title: Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom
Presenter(s): SBC
Room: 107
Strand: Sponsor

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Session 79 (v)
Title: Reading Fluency and Assessment: A Technology Solution
Presenter(s): Virginia Stoner, Ken Hodges
Room: CP Exhibit Room
Strand: Administrative - Curriculum
Join ELS, Inc. to learn more about using technology to assess and develop reading fluency.  The Visagraph, an eye movement assessment tool, and Reading Plus, a technology solution for building reading fluency will be demonstrated.

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Session 80
Title: Let's Go to Birmingham in 1963!
Presenter(s): Robin Gower, Lori McCoy
Room: CP Lanier
Strand: MS English
Learn how to use integrated technology in a literature-based classroom.  This session provides instructions on creating a webquest and demonstrates the integration of a webquest into the curriculum.  Electronic handout (website link)

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Session 81
Title: Let's Go on a WebQuest!
Presenter(s): Joyce Castronova
Room: CP Walnut
Strand: Elementary/Pre-K
Use the Web to create an inquiry-based, self-directed learning environment in your classroom.  Webquests are a great way to bring inquiry-based, self-directed learning into the classroom while utilizing the vast resources available on the Web.

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Session 82
Title: Project SITE at West Georgia
Presenter(s): Tamara Ogletree, Curt Cearley
Room: CP Preservation Hall C-D
Strand: Administrative - Curriculum
Changing teaching starts with higher education faculty.  Learn what Project SITE at the College of Education at West Georgia is doing toward that end.

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Session 83 (v)
Title: Addressing NCLB Requirements with Data Warehousing
Presenter(s): Eric Johnson
Room: CP Preservation Hall A-B
Strand: Assessment/Accountability and Standards
Learn how the required reporting for No Child Left Behind can be efficiently addressed through the implementation of a properly constructed data warehouse.

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Session 84
Title: Chattahoochee Valley A to Z Website
Presenter(s): Linda Lewis
Room: CP Mercer
Strand: Multimedia /Media Production
Do you want to learn how to excite, motivate, and focus students using multimedia and interactive learning?  You must attend this workshop!  Excellent for grades K-12.

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Session 85
Title: Kids, Science, and Database: A Natural Match
Presenter(s): Janet Caughlin
Room: CP Wesleyan
Strand: MS Science
Today's kids need to know how databases work.  They'll learn about them as they use or create the AppleWorks and Access science databases that you'll see in this presentation.

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Session 86
Title: Live News Broadcasting
Presenter(s): Carolyn Caldwell, Mary Nix
Room: CP Preservation Hall 1
Strand: Multimedia /Media Production
What do fifth-graders, gizmos/gadgets, and some wieldy wires have in common?  Learn how your students can plan, operate, train, and manage your daily news broadcast.  Get the "how-to's" straight from the horse's mouth!  Electronic handout (website link)

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Session 87 (v)
Title: Literacy and Technology: Enhancing the Reading and Writing Curriculum
Presenter(s): Heather Friedman
Room: CP Preservation Hall 2
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Are you challenged to motivate students in your language arts curriculum?  Learn ways to seamlessly integrate AlphaSmart technology while building students' reading and writing skills.   Hear success stories, lessons ideas you can use tomorrow, and take sample activities home with you!

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Session 88
Title: GALILEO in the Classroom:  Grades 3-6
Presenter(s): Leslie Pratschler, Karen Minton
Room: CP Preservation Hall 3
Strand: Library/Media
GALILEO's new Kids' Page provides an interface designed for users in grades three through six; this session provides an overview of the Kids' Page's functionality.

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