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November 9-11, 2005 Georgia International Convention Center, College Park |
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Thursday, 2:30-3:30 Featured Speakers
Session 176 Title: DOE Update Presenter(s): DOE Staff Room: Monument Room Strand: Administrative Session 177 Title: Stellar Classroom Presentations: Promoting Active Thinking, Interaction, and Meaningful Learning Presenter(s): Larry Johnson, Annette Lamb Room: Ballroom A Strand: Featured Speaker Spinning graphics, bizarre sounds, and wild transitions are popular ways to spice up traditional lectures or boring slide shows, but they're not the best way to promote critical and creative thinking. Instead, engage your students through effective instructional strategies. PowerPoint presentations are plentiful in today's classrooms. Are yours stagnant or stellar? You don't need "bells and whistles" to produce a powerful presentation. Instead, you need an essential question, quality content, and motivating teaching strategies. This workshop focuses on the design and development of stellar presentations that promote active thinking, interaction, and meaningful learning. Session 178 Title: Copyright and the New Technologies, Part 2 Presenter(s): Gary Becker Room: Ballroom B Strand: Featured Speaker Continuation of the last session Session 179 Title: Point, Click, and Learn Presenter(s): Rhonda Hefner-Packer, Blaine Carpenter Room: Ballroom C Strand: Library/Media This session is designed for media specialists interested in learning about PeachStar's video streaming resources: more than 10,000 titles correlated to Georgia's QCC Standards. Electronic handout (192 KB pp file) Session 180 Title: What is AdmInTech? Presenter(s): Mimi McGahee, Janelle Hughes Room: Ballroom D-E Strand: Administrative - Professional Development AdmInTech is a web-enhanced course for effective school leaders designed to help them coordinate appropriate technology tools to meet the achievement needs of their students. Session 181 (v) Title: What's New with AlphaSmart for Secondary Schools? Presenter(s): Heather Friedman Room: 306 Strand: Emerging Technologies Investigate the uses of technology to expand learning opportunities in all middle and high school content areas. This presentation will focus on communication, data gathering and analysis, and assessment with portable AlphaSmart 3000 keyboards and Dana, AlphaSmart's Palm OS laptop alternative. Session 182 Title: Creating Curricular Websites Presenter(s): Gayle Esposito, Sherry Nix, Janice Dowling Room: 308 Strand: Multimedia /Media Production Increase student achievement while reclaiming valuable teacher time by creating a curricular website. Electronic handout (website link) Session 183 Title: Tips on Textbook Adoption Presenter(s): Gerald Boyd Room: 309 Strand: DOE Learn about the textbook adoption process this year for language arts for grades 9-12 and foreign language and ESOL, grades K-12. Learn also about the new e-Format textbook option. Session 184 Title: Make It and Take It with Technology Presenter(s): April McGuire Room: Suite A Strand: Elementary/Pre-K This session is designed for teachers to learn how easy it is to use computers for creating hands-on materials to use in their classrooms. Electronic handout (2.2 MB Word document) Session 185 (v) Title: Seven Habits of Highly Successful Instructional Technology Directors Presenter(s): Mark Hull Room: Suite B Strand: Network Infrastructure/Technical Support Discover habits that keep your technology running at peak performance. Hear some of the secrets we have learned from these Masters of Instructional Technology. Session 186 (v) Title: It's Never Too Late to Integrate: Probeware, the Path to Better Science Understanding Presenter(s): Alen Brown Room: Suite C Strand: HS Science Use PASCO's hand-held data logger and probes to examine a variety of physical phenomena. Create an inquiry-based, hands-on environment to safely and easily study light, temperature, voltage, current, and more! Session 187 (s) Title: Extending iMovie's Capabilities Presenter(s): Apple Room: 313 Strand: Sponsor Tools, tricks, and techniques to make iMovie do creative things you never thought possible. Session 188 (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 189 (s) Title: SchoolMax Sponsor Session Presenter(s): Sponsor SchoolMax Room: 312 Strand: Sponsor Session 190 (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 191 (s) Title: The Miracle in Monroe: The Most Successful Use of Instructional Technology Ever! (Grades 1-12) Presenter(s): Harvey Franklin, Dwight Manzy Room: 305 Strand: Sponsor Whatever you do at this conference, do not miss this session! The most inspirational and informative session at last year’s National School Boards Association Conference is right here, right now. Witness the miracle of what instructional technology can do. It saves kids! Session 192 (s) Title: Maximize Your Hardware Investment with Easy-to-Use Online Technology Tools Presenter(s): Ed McCullough, Nancy Clark Room: 303 Strand: Sponsor Learn how to integrate technology into your classroom with netTrekker, the trusted search engine for schools. Finally, a technology tool that teachers will actually use! Session 193 (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 194 (s) Title: Wireless Presenter(s): SBC Room: 107 Strand: Sponsor Session 195 Title: Old Dogs, New Tricks Presenter(s): Elizabeth Bennett Room: CP Exhibit Room Strand: Multimedia /Media Production Have trouble getting graphics for your media projects? Learn how Windows, Paint, and Web tools can create the right image to meet your needs! Session 196 Title: JASON, Where are You? Presenter(s): Claudia Rodriguez Room: CP Lanier Strand: MS Soc. Stdy Come discover the relationship between the JASON Project and geography. Voyaging from the rainforest to polar extremes, we'll explore activities and online resources. Session 197 Title: The X-Report: Experimental Reflection Portal Presenter(s): Anna Baldwin Room: CP Walnut Strand: Elementary/Pre-K Clemson University's Project CIRCUIT uses Compaq's iPAQ to investigate e-note booking in a science classroom at LaFrance Elementary. This session will demonstrate the X-Report using the latest handheld technology. Session 198 Title: Integrating Technology into Lesson plans Using Microsoft Office 2000 Presenter(s): Suzzanne Horton Room: CP Preservation Hall C-D Strand: Administrative - Curriculum This session will give a teacher countless ideas on how to use Microsoft Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access) in the elementary level. Electronic handout (website link) Session 199 Title: Affordable Assessment Tool Allows Teachers to Review Students' Scores Presenter(s): Ann Scott, Dave Peeples Room: CP Preservation Hall A-B Strand: Assessment/Accountability and Standards Murray County will demonstrate a student assessment system that allows teachers to sort and view reports of their current classes and test data on any category. Session 200 Title: Build Your Website to Reach the Widest Audience Possible Presenter(s): Suzan Haigler Room: CP Mercer Strand: Multimedia /Media Production Learn how to overcome the hurdles of web design: browser compatibility, accessibility/adaptability issues, and emerging technologies. Session 201 Title: Using Spreadsheets as a Problem-Solving Strategy Presenter(s): Janet Blanchette Room: CP Wesleyan Strand: MS Math Many examples of how to use spreadsheets as a tool to think at a higher level to solve real-life word problems will be presented. Electronic handout (website link) Session 202 Title: Creative Uses of Technology with Little or No Financial Resources Presenter(s): Velda James Room: CP Preservation Hall 1 Strand: Emerging Technologies Explore the power of free and low-cost software and resources. The presenters will demonstrate dynamic delivery systems created with little money and/or time. Session 203 Title: Alternative Software Solutions for Educators, Part 2: Productivity and Educational Resources Presenter(s): David Roger, Maidie Meckley, Vickie Moe Room: CP Preservation Hall 2 Strand: Administrative - Technology Directors/Coordinators/Specialists This session will present and demonstrate alternative productivity software and web-based resources as a cost-effective way of implementing technology in the classroom. Session 204 Title: What "QCC" Really Stands For: Quality Coverage of the Curriculum Presenter(s): Lynn Loo, Debbie Valdez Room: CP Preservation Hall 3 Strand: Library/Media Learn how the Media Center and technology can be integrated to help get QCC objectives covered. Sample schedules and lessons will be available. Updated 2/13/03 |