Friday, 9:45 am - 10:45 am
Session#: 199 Title: Digital Library of Georgia Update
Presented By: Edward Johnson - GALILEO-Georgia's Virtual Library
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 40 Location: Room 106 Strand: Elem. Secon. Media
The presentation will update educators about the latest developments at the Digital Library of Georgia, including a preview of its newly redesigned website as well as a brief tour of some new and upcoming digital collections.
Session#: 201 Title: Pre-Reader Friendly Technology Lessons for Small and Large Groups
Presented By: Margaret Dery - Clayton County Board of Education
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 40 Location: Room 303 Strand: Elem.
The session is designed to provide teachers with techniques and lessons that can be used to teach pre-readers about technology. Participants will learn how to introduce technology in large group settings using one computer, how to incorporate technology into center activities, and how to use these same techniques to assist English Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) students in becoming familiar with technology terms. The software programs modeled will be limited to standard windows software packages such as Word and Paint. Emphasis will be placed on creating meaningful technology lessons that incorporate multiple content standards and provide the student with a tangible product when completed.
Session#: 202 Title: Sci-Fi Real World Learning
Presented By: Jeffrey Rosen - Cobb County Schools
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 230 Location: Room 306 Strand: Secon.
The attendees will see how many of the concepts taught in the science and math classroom play a role in the field of robotics and engineering. Many of the standards that are required are found in this field and can excite the student learning process. Session leaders will share how their school turned robotics into a course of study of its own and created an extra-curricular team that competes on the national and international stage in robotics.
Session#: 203 Title: Battery Powered Learning: Exploring 1:1 Possibilities
Presented By: Herman Wood - Cobb County School District
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 120 Location: Room 308 Strand: ALL
Teaching with technology constantly in the hands of learners changes the landscape of learning. Students can instantly go to source data and subject experts as the teacher introduces new material and new skills. Read and recall give way to critique and evaluate. Copy the assignment means subscribe to the class calendar. Give a book report becomes make a movie of a scene in the book. Reading a chapter from the book about a war changes into communicating with someone who was a veteran. Looking at patterns in a book to learn about Geometry changes to creating a digital record of patterns found around us. Reading the lyrics of historical music becomes listening to that music. Reading about the thirteen colonies turns into building a website to convince people from Europe to join one of the colonies. Hand in your paper becomes upload your file. Participants will explore some of the possibilities when digital natives (students) enter the classroom with the tools they crave in-hand and interact with digital immigrants (teachers) using those same tools, some for the very first time.
Session#: 204 Title: Classroom Making Changes, Making it Work
Presented By: Jennie Viers - Kennesaw Educational Technology Training Center
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 110 Location: Room 309 Strand: ALL
The focus of this session is to review preparations for a wireless classroom. This requires looking at instructional management and technical issues. As our schools go wireless, instructional delivery changes. This session will focus on what is needed to prepare teachers and students to use laptops in the classroom.
Session#: 205 Title: Painless Publishing: Public Relations in the New Millenium
Presented By: Janice Casey - Camden Middle School
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 50 Location: Room 310 Strand: Media
This one hour workshop will show media specialists how to do simple, colorful newsletters and brochures for the media program that will draw parents and community members to the media center and the school. In addition, using the posterprinter and digital camera, participants will be taught how to make banners and posters that can lead to greater positive exposure of the students and events held at the school. The media specialist will become the catalyst for a new type of public relations. Finally, the media staff can offer poster-sized prints at proms, graduations, and other ceremonies for a small fee to patrons while earning big profits for the media program. Using a little imagination and ingenuity, public relations in the new millennium can be a no-lose proposition.
Session#: 206 Title: Rockdale Virtual Campus
Presented By: Katherine Williams - Rockdale County Public Schools, Doug Arnold - Salem High School - RCPS
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 50 Location: Room 312 Strand: Admin. Tech. Secon.Rockdale Virtual Campus (http://rockalevirtualcampus.com) is a customized system-developed platform for the delivery of online courses and resources. Using Open Source Software, this platform has been developed for a tiny fraction of the price of comparable commercial platforms used by many school and colleges. The use of Open Source has allowed for the creation of available features such as online forums, a calendar, document hosting, and participation monitoring. Currently, this platform is being used for both innovative student instruction at the high school level and for professional development course delivery. The first step in the development of quality and rigorous computer assisted instruction is to utilize a blended approach to instruction, with the students receiving online content and participating in online discussions and activities while in a classroom environment with a teacher/facilitator present as further instruction or assistance is needed. With the staff development courses, a blended approach is also being used with the students meeting face to face and in the online environment for alternating weeks. Implementing using this instructional model should lead to the development of online course delivery that is student-centered, thorough content, and participatory on different levels.
Session#: 207 Title: Centers Aren't Just For Kindergarten
Presented By: Allison Hanson - Level Creek Elem. in Gwinnett County - UGA Graduate Student, Sandy Turner - Holt Elementary; Gwinnett County - UGA Graduate Student
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 55 Location: Room 313 Strand: Elem. Secon. Special Media
This session will be led by two elementary educators, Allison Hanson and Sandy Turner, who are currently enrolled in the Technology Integration Program at the University of Georgia. The target audience will be K-8 educators primarily; however, ideas and suggestions will also be given to high school educators who may be interested in using technology learning centers. Participants will be instructed on how to create and facilitate student technology learning centers that support curricular objectives. The session takes educators through the process of surveying the learning needs, planning the scope and sequence, finding appropriate resources, forming the PowerPoint interface, and managing the centers, assessments, etc. Participants will observe online samples of the process of creating technology learning centers as well as receive web addresses for online resources that will help enable them to create their own centers.
Session#: 208 Title: Developing Community-Based Projects Using Cutting-Edge Technologies
Presented By: Ian Johnson - Walton County School District, Paulette Johnson - Clarke County School District
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 55 Location: Room 324 Strand: ALL
This session presents three great examples that have proven to successfully connect classroom learning with the community using technology. One example includes the involvement of your Partners In Education through a video project. Another example is the Local Hero Project. The final example is The Internet Travel Project. Session attendees will receive handouts of all the projects included in the presentation and will be shown a website for additional materials. Attendees will see video clips of the Partner in Education project, visit the Local Hero project online, and view an InTech portfolio that includes the Internet Travel project.
Session#: 209 Title: Supporting the Georgia Performance Standards: Top Ten Resources
Presented By: Lisa Meyers - Armstrong Atlantic State University
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom A Strand:
The new Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) necessitate a different approach to teaching and learning as well as different resources for both teachers and students. Discover the top ten available resources to support implementation of the GPS. Acquire specific strategies for addressing the GPS in your classroom and school.
Session#: 210 Title: Making the Most of Your PC - Productivity Tools that Work - Repeat
Presented By: Brent Williams - Featured Speaker
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom B Strand:
Not enough time in the day to get everything done? Make better use of technology at hand to be more productive and have some fun! This session is for anyone, especially technology professionals, who need or want to get more done and be better organized. This session will demonstrate how your PC and/or PDA can be better used to organize, process, and manage a wide array of information, tasks, and projects. There are simple things you can do with software you have (or can download), to get more out of your personal technology to be more productive, creative, eliminate drudgery, and to enjoy what you do!
Session#: 211 Title: The Octopus Odyssey: Literature-Rich WebQuests, PowerQuests, and Inquiry-Based Learning
Presented By: Annette Lamb - Featured Speaker
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom C Strand:
Do you feel like an octopus trying to manage multiple classroom books or reading projects at once? You don't need eight arms to be effective. Instead, you need eight strategies for engaging your students and promoting a love of reading and inquiry. This session explores practical, technology rich projects that will engage students in reading.
Session#: 212 Title: A Look at the Future: What's Hot for Tomorrow
Presented By: Virgnia Jewell - Clarke County
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 130 Location: Ballroom D/E Strand: ALL
Did you ever wish you had a crystal ball so you could make the right purchasing decisions for tomorrow? This session will cover some of the newest technologies destined to make a big impact on the K-12 market as well as revisioning some of the vintage technologies. The session will focus on the four I's: Information- How to find out what's coming, your best sources both print and online, Improvement- How to take that information and see how it fits into increasing student achievement in your district, specifically working as a team at the district level, Innovation-How to add new technologies and retool some old ones to address the needs of your schools, covering the process needed to drive change, Inspiration-How to spark your staff to change, covering a plan for mentoring and transforming your staff. The session will cover three projects currently in pilot phase in one district and talk about how to think out of the box to come up with great solutions to address some of the enormous challenges facing us with NCLB, the new Georgia Performance Standards and the ever changing needs of our students. The use of MP3 players to teach language, the use of IP video in the classroom and taking advantage of the web for everything from on-line curriculum guides, to document translation, to online media automation options are some others topics to be addressed.
Session#: 213 Title: Effective Telecommunications for School Systems
Presented By: Bette Swilley - DeKalb County Schools
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 75 Location: Suite A Strand: ALL
The DeKalb County School District was CHALLENGED by the school community to provide a comprehensive voice communications system that could transition with technology advancements and provide increased access for administrators, teachers, parents and community. The school system had SPLOST funding to assist with the implementation and many challenges to consider. This session will take participants through challenges, solutions, and evaluation. What was thought to be an impossible task became a cost-effective solution. The overall solution has taken DeKalb Schools from a maximum of 2500 calls at any one time to over 85,000 calls in an 11 hour day with 10,000 users, 30,000 phone numbers, one area code, voice mail for everyone, 911 capability from any site, total connectivity throughout the entire system, 10 automated call distribution centers, and total transportability over the entire system. And the best news is -- DeKalb is SAVING $$$$ and providing much more.
Session#: 214 Title: Palm Handhelds: From Cool to Tool!
Presented By: Keith George - B. B. Comer Memorial High School
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 75 Location: Suite B Strand: ALL
Once nothing more than digital phone books, Palm-powered handhelds now offer real competition for both laptops and desktops. This session seeks to create Palm-empowered educators by demonstrating a variety of software and hardware accessories for handhelds designed for the classroom. From managing contacts and organizing your time to carrying a mobile library of administrative documents and manuals, handhelds can make any teacher's day easier. For students, the benefits can be endless. Handhelds provide the low-cost possibility of one to one computing. The vast availability of inexpensive software applications allows tech savvy teachers to take students to the lesson. In this session educators will be introduced to a variety of applications that will assist them in managing their classroom. Lesson planning, discipline, and assessment can all be made easier with handhelds. Students and teachers alike can utilize several handheld applications to create and edit word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even databases. Collecting and analyzing data while in the field or lab is reason enough for using handhelds. This session does not seek to train teachers in any one program, but rather, to introduce them to the many uses of handhelds in the classroom.
Session#: 215 Title: BatterUP - FREE to SCHOOLS - Web-Based, Research-based Math Tournament
Presented By: S. David Vaillancourt, EdD - Virginia College Online
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 75 Location: Suite C Strand: Tech. Elem. Special Media
BatterUp is a research-based Integrated Learning System (ILS) designed to reinforce 1st through 8th grade students' basic math skills. This web-based math tournament accelerates the learning process by making it fun for the student and efficient for the teacher. The program objectives are correlated to the latest National Standards for student assessment. A 2003 university study detailed significant learning improvement for students over the six-week research period. The program has the ability to accommodate a whole class in individual or group work, or in a combination. A robust database records system, in conjunction with behind-the-scenes statistical analysis, provides assessment, evaluation, diagnostics and remediation for individual students. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and metric measurement units are the areas of mathematics addressed in this proven ILS.
Session#: 216 Title: Home Computer Security and Privacy: Verification and Prevention - Repeat
Presented By: Patrick Crispen - Featured Speaker
Time: Fri. 9:45 am - 10:45 am Seats: 800 Location: Monument Strand:
In this fast-paced presentation, which is a continuation of Home Computer Security and Privacy: Firewalls and Exploit Management, you will be shown how to verify if your computer is really safe from attack; how to protect your home computer from viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses; how to erase, and even prevent, spyware and other malware; how to block pop-up ads; and even how to protect your privacy as you surf the Internet.