Concurrent Sessions 210-228

Friday, 9:45-10:45

Session:  210   Title:  Can a Wireless Network Really Be Secure?
Presenter(s):   Brent Williams, Kennesaw State University ETTC
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 1   Seats:  260   Featured Speaker
Wireless networks are becoming more and more popular. Their use in schools and by teachers and students at home is complicated by a need for excellent security. This session will discuss and demonstrate various security options for wireless network security - from the simple to the exotic. Can your wireless network be really secure? Find out in this session!

Session:  211   Title:  Photostory: An Innovative Way to Use Digital Cameras and the Internet to Enhance and Accelerate the Learning Process in the Windows Classroom
Presenter(s):   Tony Brewer, Brewer Technology and Learning Center
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 2   Seats:  260   Featured Speaker
Perhaps the days of Hyperstudio and PowerPoint are numbered, as a whole new family of multimedia tools are becoming available to teachers and administrators. This session will focus on one of those new FREE programs, namely Photostory 3. This innovative program allows users to insert up to 300 digital images, either from their own cameras or the Internet. In addition, you can narrate up to 5 minutes per picture, add text, background music and much, much more. This free program is for Windows XP users. Don't miss this session with humorist and author Tony Brewer.

Session:  212   Title:  Is This REALLY PowerPoint?
Presenter(s):   Tammy Worchester, ESSDACK
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 3   Seats:  260   Featured Speaker
Tired of the same old PowerPoint slide shows? If so, this is the session for you! During this session, you will gain tons of ideas for creative and innovative ways to use PowerPoint in your classroom. Ideas will include a variety of slide show and desktop publishing activities for all content areas grades 3 - 12.

Session:  213   Title:  Fixing Digital Images with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3
Presenter(s):   Patrick Crispen , California State University
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 4   Seats:  800   Featured Speaker
Is your computer or digital camera overflowing with image files so bright they look like they were taken on the surface of the Sun, so dark they look like they were taken inside a coat closet during a rolling blackout, or so covered with dust they look like deleted scenes from Lawrence of Arabia? This session is for you! This one-hour, PC-based workshop introduces you to Adobe Photoshop Elements, an affordable software package that helps you quickly and easily enhance almost any digital image or photograph. With Photoshop Elements you can transform useless images into something you'll be proud to display in your very own PowerPoint presentations, post to your Web site or Blackboard course, print on a color printer, or email to your friends and colleagues.

Session:  214   Title:  Beyond the Textbook:  Learning in the Digital World
Presenter(s):   Dr. Helen Soulé, Cable in the Classroom
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 5   Seats:  800   Leadership Speaker
As the US transforms itself into a global, information-based economy, schools are transitioning to new learning models centered around ubiquitous access to the internet and the growing wealth of digital content. In this presentation Dr. Soulé will explore the future of instructional content in a digital age and examine the opportunities and challenges that arise as we move into new environments where content is interactive, dynamic and responsive, rather than flat and passive.

Session:  215   Title:  Getting ACTIV in the Classroom!
Presenter(s):   Judith James and Jennifer Selfridge, Hightower Trail Middle, Cobb County Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 6   Seats:  260
Excite and invigorate young minds with a Promethean ACTIV board in your classroom! This session is designed for teachers by teachers to demonstrate an awesome piece of technology equipment that can not only make lesson planning easier, but can also create excitement in the classroom. The focus will be on the use of ACTIVstudio and ACTIV board in different subject areas and grade levels with opportunity for hand-on experience.

Session:  216   Title:  Tech-Enhanced Reading Endorsement = Highly Qualified Reading Teachers
Presenter(s):   Elizabeth Holmes and Tricia Cooling, Columbus State University ETTC
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 7   Seats:  260
The Educator Preparation for Achievement in Reading Professional Learning Program is a year-long professional development program that prepares educators to teach young children to read. It uses technology as a tool to support adult learning and is an invaluable resource for the teaching and learning of language arts in the primary grades and beyond. The program is designed for school systems that are interested in dramatically improving reading skill development. Schools that participate in the E-Prep Program commit to one academic year of practical and intensive site-based professional learning that includes five face-to-face workshops, online distance learning, application of evidence-based practices in the educator's own classroom with reading students, and discussions about their learning with colleagues and their course leader in online forums.
Electronic Handout - Link to Website

Session:  217   Title:  Supporting School Improvement with the Free IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit
Presenter(s):   Chris Thompson, Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Salon 8   Seats:  260
The Reinventing Education Change Toolkit, based on the work of Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, is a Web site created by IBM to help education professionals be more effective at leading and implementing change. This session will introduce participants to the Web-based toolkit and highlight how it is being used to support school improvement in Georgia through the Georgia Leadership Institute's work with districts across the state. Much of the Change Toolkit intentionally focuses on creating a process and structure that supports change, rather than on finding a single "right answer" to a question. In fact, most of the content in the Change Toolkit does not focus on specific educational practices, but looks instead at the organizational and structural aspects of schools and school districts--aspects that can help or hinder change. The Toolkit has a School Improvement section that will help you apply the Change Toolkit to key issues you might be facing, including learning alignment, quality teaching, data-driven decision-making, parental support, and community collaboration.

Session:  218   Title:  Student Publishing and Beyond
Presenter(s):   Donna Smith and Karrie Perrin, Toccoa Elementary, Stephens County Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Swiss 1-2   Seats:  88
Explore a variety of ways students are publishing using technology, both on and off the Web. Examine how classroom teachers are implementing the use of technology to enhance parent communication, to promote student-to-student communication, as well as publishing technology-based projects. Discover ideas for using student publishing as an authentic assessment and to expand the audience for your students' work.

Session:  219   Title:  Creating Digital Stories and Reports Using Photo Story 3
Presenter(s):   Susan Walraven, Northside Elementary School, Coweta County Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Swiss 3-4   Seats:  88
From kindergarten science to senior English, students should be able to use simple tools like Photo Story 3 to present information. Participants in this session will learn how to use this free download from Microsoft, see lots of samples, and share great ideas!
Electronic Handout - Word file

Session:  220   Title:  Video Production: How to Integrate Video Into the Curriculum
Presenter(s):   Cathleen Khaaliq, Tyron Richardson, and Michelle Madden, Atlanta Public Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Kenyan 1-2   Seats:  88
This session is designed for those individuals interested in integrating video into the curriculum. The session will explore the fascinating and exciting world of video production. Participants will learn exciting techniques pertaining to digital video. Presenters will demonstrate video creation from pre-production to post-production.
Electronic Handouts:  Word file #1, Word file #2, 4.71 MB PowerPoint file

Session:  221   Title:  21st Century Book Buddies
Presenter(s):   Ivan Zeitlin and Tamara Sperling, Settles Bridge Elementary, Forsyth County Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Kenyan 3-4   Seats:  88
In this session, participants will learn how primary and upper elementary grade level classrooms can collaborate on curriculum projects utilizing technology tools (Quickpad, laptops/desktops, Promethean ACTIVboard, and digital pictures). The focus of this session will be incorporating reading and writing through small-group activities that can be adapted to fit many curriculum topics.

Session:  222   Title:  New Teacher Support: Creating a School Technology Induction Program
Presenter(s):   Craig Ellison, Pepperell Middle School, Floyd County Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Italian 1-2   Seats:  88
An area-specific induction program, such as technology, could help improve work productivity, help relieve anxiety of new teachers, increase infusion of technology into the curriculum, and increase effective communication with staff members and parents. Areas covered in this session include how to determine the most critical technology issues to address, free internet surveys to poll the staff about technology concerns, examples of induction programs, and free software to help create dynamic training materials.

Session:  223   Title:  1:1 Computing: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating the Program
Presenter(s):   Virginia Jewell, Clarke County Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Italian 3-4   Seats:  88
This session covers the nuts and bolts of providing 1:1 computing including planning, funding, distributing, training, implementing, and evaluating results. Participants will learn how to plan for 1:1 computing by developing a shared vision, design a technical support process to implement and maintain, develop a professional learning track to insure appropriate standards-based use by teachers both curricular and NETS*T, develop a student training track embedded in the curriculum to assure achievement of curricular standards and benchmarks included the NETS*S standards, and develop a plan to assess and evaluate impact.

Session:  224   Title:  Data Sharing: The Security Mechanics
Presenter(s):   Walter Tong, Georgia Department of Education
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   German 1-2   Seats:  88
Information sharing is a term that is often used without consideration of the intricate issues of policy that impact the IT infrastructure, data categorization, identity management, and access controls. This will be an interactive discussion of these topics and associated issues.

Session:  225   Title:  School System Technology Plans
Presenter(s):   Charlie Jackson and Cindy Popp, Georgia Department of Education
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   German 3-4   Seats:  88
This session will provide information regarding the state and federal requirements for school system technology plans. Participants will learn why the technology plan components are required and how to include documentation that addresses the requirements. These components include the Planning Process, Student Needs, Vision and Mission, Current Reality, Gap Analysis, Goals and Benchmarks, Action Plan, Communication and Marketing, and Supporting Documents. Examples of exemplary responses for each component will be provided.

Session:  226   Title:  Launching The 21st Century Wireless School
Presenter(s):   Jeff Kelly, Upson-Lee Middle School, Dr. Maria Bradley and Patsy Dean, Gladden Middle School, Thomaston-Upson Schools
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Spanish 1-2   Seats:  88
Technology is a key component to increasing student achievement. Seamless technology integration is vital to educational reform strategy. Through the effective planning and implementation of the Wireless 1:1 State-wide Grant Initiative, Gladden Middle School and Upson-Lee Middle School are using technology to enhance education for all students. Due to the prior establishment of professional learning communities at Gladden and Upson-Lee Middle School, staffs were ready to meet this challenge.

Session:  227   Title:  Storyboarding PowerPoint to Video and DVD
Presenter(s):   Glenna Shaw, PowerPoint MVPs/Federal Government
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Spanish 3-4   Seats:  88
More and more folk are asking how to burn their presentations to DVDs. The reasons are obvious. First, PowerPoint is an extremely easy multimedia authoring tool that comes on many PCs. Second, DVDs have become very cost-effective to create and do not require a computer to play. PowerPoint and DVD provide an easy method of getting information to your students and can be viewed at home, as well as in the office. This session demonstrates how to turn your PowerPoint presentation into a storyboard of slides that can be used to create a video/DVD or animated gif file.
Electronic Handout - Link to Website

Session:  228   Title:  2006 Desktop and Laptop Technologies Roadmaps
Presenter(s):   Chee Pung Loy, InTel
Time:  Friday, 9:45-10:45   Location:   Australian 3-4   Seats:  88
What desktop and laptop technologies will give me long useful life and low Total Cost of Ownership? What should I buy next year? This session is to answer these questions. You will learn about the new and the advancements made in desktop and laptop technologies. It designed to help you to plan for your 2006 desktops and laptops rollouts regardless of which vendors
you purchase from.