Wednesday 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Session#: 37 Title: Microsoft Office System 2003 - The Next Generation of Microsoft Office
Presented By: Trish Bobst - Course Technology/Thomson
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 40 Location: Room 106 Strand: ALL
Are you wondering whether to upgrade to Office 2003 or just curious about the new features from the latest suite from Microsoft? Come see some of the new features such as the newer interface, more global implementation of Smart Tags and Task Panes, XML to give developers more flexibility and power, and other new applications.
Session#: 38 Title: Sell Your School Annual on the Web
Presented By: Charles Knight - Lamar County Comprehensive HS
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 40 Location: Room 107 Strand: Secon. Media
This session will offer techniques to develop webpages suitable for securing advertisement sales and yearbooks sales. Ways to get email orders for either later payment or credit card payment will be presented. Some knowledge of webpage building is helpful, but not necessary. This activity is independent of yearbook publishers. This is an idea session with some how-to directions included according to the audience needs.
Session#: 39 Title: Innovative Tools to Enhance Technology-Driven Learning
Presented By: Margie Brown - Georgia Institute of Technology, Therese Turman - Georgia Institute of Technology
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 40 Location: Room 303 Strand: Tech. Elem. Secon. SpecialFoundations for the Future (F3) is a collaboration of Georgia Tech researchers working with the federal government to ensure universal K-12 technology access in Georgia. The focus of F3 is to help accelerate the application of telecommunications technology for interconnecting K-12 schools for collaborative learning, remote access to educational facilities, and Internet-based resources. The Explorers Guild, the professional development component of F3, focuses on developing long-term relationships with Georgia educators and administrators. The monthly workshops offer participants the opportunity to learn new technology tools, cutting-edge applications to assist in the classroom, and strategies for increasing their funding base. The Explorers Guild encourages educators to move from traditional teaching techniques to technology driven experiences. The Explorers Guild provides practical, innovative, and interactive workshops to ensure that educators can successfully implement the workshop topics in the classroom. The presentation includes a brief introduction of F3 and the Explorers Guild and a demonstration combining video streaming technology with hands-on interaction. Participants will view archived workshop presentations on the F3 website.
Session#: 40 Title: Learn How netTrekker Integrates Technology, Standards, and Curriculum!
Presented By: Joel Petersen - netTrekker, Kathy Platt - Cobb County School District
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 230 Location: Room 306 Strand: ALL
Kathy Platt, Technology Integration Specialist for Cobb County will share how netTrekker, the award-winning search engine designed specifically for school use, helps students and teachers by delivering the best educational resources from the entire Internet to the desktop. NetTrekker supports teachers in implementing standards into core curriculum in the classroom by allowing them to quickly find supporting, high quality Internet resources. For students, netTrekker provides safe and engaging content that enhances the learning process. About netTrekker: a revolutionary Internet search engine created just for students, teachers and librarians and voted #1 for school use by educators, over 180,000 educator-selected resources organized around the K-12 curriculum and aligned to the Georgia QCC in a complete district solution, and only safe, relevant content aligned with your state academic standards including 18,000 lesson plans and learning exercises. NetTrekker can bring a whole new world of resources into the classroom every day to provide students with a universe of safe, relevant information.
Session#: 41 Title: Reaching for the S.T.A.R.S.'s (Students and Teachers Achieving Results)
Presented By: Dr. Regina Merriwether - DeKalb County School System
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 120 Location: Room 308 Strand: ALL
Brain-based strategies will be used in presenting information on how the Palm hand-held computer, Plato Pathways software, student watch groups, and learning teams have helped students in a low performing urban school reach for the S.T.A.R.'s. The Plato Pathways software packages have provided the opportunity for curriculum recovery. The student watch groups and the learning teams have served as an excellent means for teachers to rescue students before they fail. The Palm hand-held computer has caused a dramatic increase in our students organizational skills, technology skills and the amount of time spent learning during casual time. These intervention tools have helped create the necessary conditions that allow Students and Teachers to Achieve Results.
Session#: 42 Title: Take Charge of Your Tutorials with Camtasia Studio
Presented By: Gayle Esposito - DeKalb County Schools
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 110 Location: Room 309 Strand: ALL
Make professional looking screen recordings to add a new dimension to your teaching and training. You can easily record real-time videos of your screen; edit, enhance and publish them in Flash; CD-ROM and streaming video formats. Easy uploading to the web makes them widely available to staff and students. Learn about programs that will record, edit, and share videos of any action on your Windows desktop. Maximize your time by creating videos of the screen action rather than laboring over other time-consuming task, easily edit video and audio clip, and add
callouts and other props to your video to enhance your final product. Learn how the DeKalb County School System uses these tutorial recordings to support teachers and students in software and hardware training.
Session#: 43 Title: Gen Y: Improving your S.T.A.T.S
Presented By: Mimi McGahee - Valdosta State University, Sheila Hall - Valdosta State University/ETTC, Lori Miller
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 50 Location: Room 310 Strand: ALLThis presentation looks at how we can solve the dilemma of true technology classroom integration. The GEN Y course is alive and well in Georgia at your local Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC) and may be the quickest and most resourceful way to finally get us all the way down that 10 mile road. Generation YES (Youth and Educators Succeeding) is a program that focuses on today's new generation of youth as partners, and sometimes leaders, in bringing technology into the classroom. The Gen Y curriculum trains students to collaborate with teachers to produce effective technology infused lessons. Along with educators, students become agents of change, not mere recipients of that change. Students come away not only knowing how to use technology, but also knowing how to think, solve authentic problems, make decisions, be productive, and participate in collaboration.
Session#: 44 Title: Retention, Application, and Engagement through Multimedia
Presented By: Elizabeth Buyer - Tech4Learning
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 50 Location: Room 312 Strand: ALL
Visual communication is powerful and compelling. It is not only important to learn how to use it effectively for success in today's world, it is an important strategy for learning how students learn. Authoring in MediaBlender encourages and supports the deep reflective thinking that is necessary for meaningful learning. Help student ideas come alive. Participants will learn how MediaBlender can be used to help achieve classroom learning goals. According to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a public-private partnership, "Students will spend their adult
lives in a multitasking, multifaceted, technology-driven, divers, vibrant world." (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2002). Authoring in MediaBlender encourages and supports the deep reflective thinking that is necessary for meaningful learning. Participants will explore examples of student work from a variety of grade levels and in a variety of subject areas. See how MediaBlender can be used to engage learners in content, support-strong fiction and nonfiction writing skills, improve communication skills, and assess for understanding. Participants will also be introduced to resources and handouts that will help them implement effective multimedia project work.
Session#: 45 Title: Empowering Struggling Individuals: Technology to Support Learning
Presented By: Bonnie Hill - Freedom Scientific/LSG
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 55 Location: Room 313 Strand: ALL
It is a long established fact, supported by research and practice, that people learn, comprehend, and retain things better using multiple modalities. This presentation will demonstrate several strategies that will empower and support struggling students in reading, writing, studying, Internet research, and testing. With the aid of technology and digital text curriculum material will be transformed in ways previously impossible with only the printed word. Using WYNN literacy software as the technical 'vehicle', individuals with learning difficulties can receive the support needed to successfully access the general education curriculum. Information becomes more comprehensible when d visual and auditory presentation. Built-in tools will be used to further provide learning-challenged students the help needed to manage the writing, studying, and Internet research process. Using these tools, the demonstration will show how to incorporate well recognized study skills, such as, the SQ5R method of active study. This method helps students process, analyze, and synthesize information leading to better comprehension and mastery. Additionally, electronic aids to allow the writing process to flow and tools for Internet research in a multi-sensory environment will be explored.
Session#: 46 Title: Dynamic Co-Teaching Using the Latest 'ACTIVe' Technology
Presented By: Ann Browning - Upson-Lee North Elementary, Sharon Horn - Upson-Lee North Elementary
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 55 Location: Room 324 Strand: Elem. Special
When special education teachers collaborating with regular teachers use technology and literature together to teach lessons, they positively impact student learning. A study of plants comes to life when students label parts of plants on the ACTIVboard, view plant cells through a document camera, and watch a video from the Peachstar website. In addition, teachers will see how to integrate literature into a technology-based lesson plan.
Session#: 47 Title: Math Online? COUNT ON IT!
Presented By: Gail Lovely - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom A Strand: Elem. Second.
During this session, teachers will explore many exciting math Web sites. Teachers will learn about different Internet and computer-based projects in the area of math and how they can be integrated into other curriculum areas, as well. We will also discuss how to evaluate Internet and computer-based projects in these areas. Participants will learn how to develop their own plan for incorporating online Math projects, resources and activities into their classrooms.
Session#: 48 Title: Windows Security Update
Presented By: Brent Williams - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom B Strand: Tech
This session provides the latest information on attacks against Windows servers and workstations and how to stop them. Get help here! Windows operating systems provide great functionality and versatility. However, their popularity also invites a variety of attacks that can do great damage to your technology infrastructure. This session will examine current threats to servers and workstation and will present various solutions to reduce or eliminate potential damage to your environment. Whether you manage 100 servers or just your own PC, this session will help you.
Session#: 49 Title: Project-Based Learning with Technology
Presented By: Tammy Worcester - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 230 Location: Ballroom C Strand: ALL
Integrating technology effectively into the curriculum involves more than just showing websites instead of videotapes. It requires integrated technology projects where students gain content, critical thinking, and computer skills. In this session, participants will learn how to create integrated technology projects using the Building Block Model. Tammy will show practical ways to use the computer in each of the three steps of the model.
Session#: 50 Title: Promote Georgia III
Presented By: ETTC
Time:
Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Seats:
130
Location:
Ballroom D/E
Strand:
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.
Session#: 51 Title: Why you need a Centralized Library Automation Solution
Presented By: Bruce Price - Book Systems, Inc.
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 75 Location: Suite A Strand: Admin. Tech. Media
Atriuum, a web-based centralized automation software from Book Systems, Inc., frees school media specialists from maintenance responsibilities. It exceeds the functionality of stand-alone systems, while streamlining system maintenance and administration. Centralizing can help solve budget problems.
Session#: 52 Title: Converged Voice, Video and Data Services over Private Fiber Networks
Presented By: Tomi Selby - Information Transport Solutions, Inc.
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 75 Location: Suite B Strand: ALL
Everyday we encounter customers operating large and small networks needing an enterprise-wide infrastructure to serve as a foundation for emerging technologies such as Video conferencing, IP telephony, server farms, disaster recovery, and storage to meet these needs. High Speed Bandwidth, 100M to 1Gbps networks are available, affordable, eRate eligible and can help: reduce telecommunications costs for both data and voice circuits, increase available bandwidth between sites, provide distance learning and video conferencing capability between selected sites, provide and distribute reliable Internet access to all sites, and implement advanced voice services across the entire system. See how a robust fiber optic network connecting all schools and administrative locations is the future of K-12 wide area networks. Typically school system officials report a 20% to 40% reduction in telecommunications costs while greatly increasing capabilities. Converging voice requirements on to the data network using IP Telephony can dramatically reduce the number of individual phone lines required. Phone communications between connected sites occurs over the data network reducing the need for outside phone lines to facilitate internal communications.
Session#: 53 Title: Interactive Teaching Methodology with Beyond Question
Presented By: Joe Crawford - Cobb County School District
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 75 Location: Suite C Strand: Elem. Secon. Special Media
Participants will experience a hands-on demonstration of an interactive teaching methodology environment where the technology utilized by classroom teacher is integrated into the presentation. Participants will be actively involved in the demonstration, learning how to utilize their own district resources with the technology to create a seamless environment with the resources they have now and the interactive technology being presented. Strategies for teacher training will be incorporated into the session, and discussions will include the philosophy of combining this technology into the curriculum rather than having the technology be an additional tool. Examples of how teachers from elementary to high school have implemented this technology will be provided, and sample activities from their lessons will be used in the presentation. Participants will leave the session with information and ideas for creating an interactive learning environment in their schools and classrooms.
Session#: 54 Title: Creating Your Own Video Tutorials and Demonstrations Using Camtasia Studio 2.0 for Windows
Presented By: Patrick Crispen - Featured Speaker
Time: Wed. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seats: 800 Location: Monument Strand: ALL
Want to create interactive video tutorials and demonstrations that you can post online or burn to a CD but don’t have time to get a PhD in media arts? Camtasia Studio 2 is for you! Even if you have no multimedia experience, in this one-hour presentation you’ll learn everything you need to know to create your own instructional videos using the same multimedia software chosen by 98 percent of the Fortune 100. And while Camtasia Studio 2 isn’t exactly cheap [the education price is $149], you’ll also learn how you can get a fully-functional, 30-day working trial copy of Camtasia for free.