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Wednesday, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Session#:
1
Title: Multimedia
Management Systems
Presented By:
Lee Assad - Rauland-Borg Corp.
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Seats: 40
Location: Room 106
Strand: ALL
Schools are looking at a
wide variety of technology solutions to improve student achievement. There
are a number of
studies and recent articles that show the use of
multimedia-based systems to improve student achievement. An
image-rich curriculum reaches more students, it
motivates and engages students in the learning process. For
teachers, a multimedia system can be an effective
tool to enhance teaching through visual literacy. School
management can use this technology to drive the
consistency of curriculum implementation across the school district
and address technology literacy goals for
students and educators. Technology can assist in the management of
copyright issues and the control of accessibility
to acceptable video material. These are just a few of the benefits
associated with a multimedia system within a
school.
Presented By: Paul Barkley - Mill Springs Academy
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 40 Location: Room 107 Strand: Admin. Tech. Media
Laptops are ubiquitous in
business. To prepare students for the future, schools have started to provide
teachers and
students with laptops. Many schools are
discovering the headaches involved with keeping a laptop program up and running. Technical and mechanical issues are
often poorly considered, if at all. Tips to smooth the laptop blues will be
discussed. Questions concerning individual
school issues will be entertained. Resources will be made available for many common and not so common problems.
Presented By: Janelle Hughes - Macon State College ETTC, Vicki Rogers -
Macon State College ETTC
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 40 Location: Room 303 Strand: ALL
In this session,
participants will learn about the course, R.E.A.L. Classrooms (Research-based,
Engaged, Authentic, and Learner-centered) coming soon to Georgia
educators. The course consists of three modules: Indicators of
Engaged Learning, Authentic Assessment Tools and
Techniques, and Authentic Teaching Strategies for K-12.
Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe provides the research base and unit design tools for the course.
Presented By: Lisa Meyers - Armstrong Atlantic State University
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 230 Location: Room 306 Strand:
This session will look at
existing research on technology's impact on student achievement. Specific
strategies and activities will be shared that allow for the most
effective use of technology. Topics covered include technology
management, LoTi levels, higher order thinking,
and project-based learning.
Presented By: Tracey Gunter-Rosen - American Heritage Academy, Jeffrey
Rosen - Cobb County School
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 120 Location: Room 308 Strand: Secon.
During this session
teachers will see how many of the physical science standards for middle and high
school can be
demonstrated in a hands on lab setting using the
Lego RoboLab robotics sets. This system is fun for both the student and teacher. As they learn the concepts
students may connect with other schools around the world and
participate in competitions.
Presented By: Lisa Beasley - Clarke County School District, Drew McNeely -
Clarke County School District
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 110 Location: Room 309 Strand: ALL
This session will begin
with an overview of the EETT grant including goals, equipment, and training.
This grant focuses on fifth grade math test scores.
Equipment in each classroom includes eight wireless laptops, an
ActivBoard, one set of ActiVotes (per school), a
scanner, a digital camera, a PDA, six Digital Blue digital video cameras, and a CD burner as well as several
software packages. All teachers received 50+ hours of training in
year one and 40 hours of training this summer.
All grant participants will participate in six additional days of training
and collaboration. Fifth grade teacher, Lisa
Beasley, will share how the technology provided by the grant has
changed her instruction and improved student
motivation. She will provide samples of work generated by herself and
her students. Lisa will show samples of how she
uses the interactive whiteboard and laptops to differentiate
instruction and increase teacher efficiency.
Presented By: Janice Pickett - Bibb Co BOE
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 50 Location: Room 310 Strand: Elem. Special
This session will include
a demonstration and discussion of online programs featuring a weekly newspaper
and functional math activities. The programs are
available by subscription. The programs offer age appropriate content
for upper elementary through high school special
education students. The highlighted resources have been used for
the past year in a high school MOID classroom.
News-2-You is a weekly online newspaper covering current news and topics of general interest. Teachers can
choose to print the paper for students utilizing different reading levels or
download the paper to be read out loud. Money
Instructor is a program that allows a teacher to customize worksheets to teach counting money. It also has
online activities for students.
Presented By: Charles Backes - Valdosta State University, Kenneth Ott -
Valdosta State University, Philip Brown
This presentation is
aimed at providing attendees with a model for successfully managing and using
student-directed,
asynchronous threaded discussion boards.
The focus of the presentation will be on providing a user-friendly discussion board format that encourages active
and frequent student participation, while allowing the teacher or
facilitator to monitor and manage the discussion
board without becoming overwhelmed. Several key components of
the model include the use of discussion leaders,
essential questions or discussion resources, discussion groups,
and a discussion summary tool. The information
presented can be applied to settings ranging from middle grade to
high school classrooms, post-secondary
instruction, staff or professional development, and community focus
groups. The presentation will provide attendees
with research-supported recommendations, along with practical
applications for immediate use depending on their
specific needs. Actual on-line threaded discussions will be used
as examples during the presentation to support
and demonstrate the information that is presented.
Presented By: Sonya Dunn - VC3, Inc., Tom Winterstein - VC3, Inc.
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 55 Location: Room 313 Strand: Admin. Elem. Secon.
Solve assessment problems
today. TestView integrates standardized test score data with demographic, class,
and teacher data. Users at the district, school, and
classroom levels now have a tool that tracks, charts, and manages
performance data! The award winning TestView is a
flexible, easy-to-use solution geared toward providing K-12 educators the ability to easily track and analyze
academic progress, automatically develop academic plans, allocate
resources, report on student performance, and
administer state/federal accountability mandates. In
addition, TestView saves time and reduces
paperwork for teachers and administrators. TestView lets teachers do what they do best -- teach! TestView was
originally developed for Richland 2 in Columbia, SC where it has been successfully used during the past five years,
resulting in a positive impact to the district. TestView is a flexible, easy-to-use tool that provides valuable information
and saves time for teachers and administrators. TestView helps teachers and administrators access standardized
test scores and student demographics, run standard and
customized reports, automatically create and
maintain academic plans for students, track 'No Child Left Behind'
progress, and analyze standardized testing
results. Experience this demo session to learn how TestView can be implemented in your district.
Presented By: Lisa Dubernard - Promethean
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 55 Location: Room 324 Strand: ALL
In this session,
attendees will see how they can create the perfect collaborative environment for
today's learners
that will allow teachers to assess student
learning on the fly, develop data driven instructio, and provide a way for teachers to create great lessons that allow for
student participation. Teachers will learn to efficiently use existing
resources to create student-centered lessons and
share these lesson plans with other teachers, thus raising the
level of professionalism. Come see for
yourself why the ACTIV classroom is becoming the standard for districts in
Georgia.
Presented By: Gail Lovely - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom A Strand:
ALL
Explore the wealth of
resources online to help you teach, and your students learn, in many areas of
literacy. Resources for phoneme awareness, phonics,
fluency, comprehension, and more will be shared. There will be a
good mix of resources and tools for teachers as
well as those to be used by students.
Presented By: Brent Williams - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom B Strand:
Tech
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!
Presented By: Tammy Worcester - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom C Strand:
ALL
In this fast paced
session, you'll discover many quick and easy to create projects that integrate
technology into all
areas of the elementary curriculum, using Kid
Pix, Inspiration, Microsoft Office or AppleWorks and the Internet.
Activities are aligned to the ISTE standards and
to the Multiple Intelligences. You'll leave with dozens of clever ideas you can use tomorrow in your classroom.
Presented By: EdTech Centers
The Georgia Educational Technology Training
Centers Phase III PROMOTE project focuses on teaching standards through
project-based learning. Teachers integrate project based learning and modern
technologies to improve student learning. The PROMOTE Georgia project provides
students in grades 2-12 the opportunity to develop an educational Web site
designed to instruct others about content standards applicable to their grade
level. We are delighted to have the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners from the
2003-2004 school year at this year’s conference.
Presented By: Rudy Neufeld - Neufeld Learning Systems Inc.
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 75 Location: Suite A Strand: Elem.
Many strategies will be
presented to show how technology can be integrated into the existing mathematics
curriculum as a learning tool to enhance, expand,
and embrace curriculum. Interactive software will be used to help
students understand concepts in elementary
mathematics like: place value, counting, problem solving, ordering,
fractions, and decimals. Participants will
receive a CD and lesson outlines for a number of lessons which will be
discussed. This material can be used in regular
classes as well as in remediation, resource, and intervention
settings. These strategies can be used in a
classroom with one computer and a more teacher-centered approach or
in the lab situation with a more student-centered approach.
Presented By: Ron Richard - Adobe Systems Inc.
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 75 Location: Suite B Strand: ALL
This session will focus
on the proper creation of Adobe PDF files from a variety of sources including MS
Office, the
Internet, image files and general applications
that support printing. Once created, a PDF file can be used in a
collaborative environment where ideas can be
shared easily with simple annotation tools or used in an 'electronic
whiteboard' environment where any document can be
projected in full screen mode for the class. The increasing
usage of Acrobat as the primary tool for
electronic portfolios will be addressed. Particular attention will be given to
incorporating photos, video, and any sized
documents into a single file that can be accessed on any platform
including the web.
Presented By: Gary Cantrell - Fort Stewart Schools, Donna Smith - Fort
Stewart
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 75 Location: Suite C Strand: Elem.
This project began as an
effort to provide maximum exposure to technology and to support high quality
language arts
instruction. Language arts requires a
great deal of individual instruction and, as a result, needed a great deal of
time
to accomplish. Each class spends half of their
day with each teacher. The time in the language arts session is spent
participating in word processing, reading
accountability programs (Accelerated Reader), and online comprehension
instruction. During the math/science/social
studies session, students work with system-owned software, online
presentations, WebQuests, and project-based
science and social studies instruction. Math is individualized with each student accessing their specific lesson each
day and getting individual instruction as needed. Traditional small
and large group instruction is worked into the
schedule by dividing the students into groups with computer time being
a required part of each day. During this session,
participants will interact in this environment as students so that they
can experience technology integrated into the
overall classroom schedule. Participants will actually rotate
through
the different phases of a day with the related
technology. Participants will interact with digital cameras, computers,
print, and kiosk technology.
Presented By: Patrick Crispen - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Seats: 800 Location: Monument Strand:
The hardware side of technology can be intimidating, even to experts. This presentation helps you demystify some of the more common computer hardware you’ll find in some classrooms and in most big box retail stores. In particular, you’ll learn the difference between USB 1.1, 2.0, and Firewire; what Wi-Fi is and what’s next in the world of wireless Internet; what a megapixel is and how many you really need; why you don’t have a PVR at home but should; the difference between power surges and power spikes and how to protect your equipment from both; and much, much more. If you are overwhelmed by new technology, or if you are simply looking for an in-service that you can freely steal and present to your teachers back home, this workshop is for you. |
