Concurrent Sessions 77-95

Thursday, 8:15-9:15

Session:   77   Title:  Creating Powerful Professional Development Programs That Produce Results
Presenter(s):   Rem Jackson, Classroom Connect
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 1   Seats:  260   Featured Speaker
What is the secret to designing and delivering great professional development sessions? How do you determine what to focus on? How do you identify success? In this session you will learn strategies and discover new ideas to improve your training and enable you to get the results you’ve been wanting.

Session:   78   Title:  Camcorder 101
Presenter(s):   Chris Curchy and Keith Kyker, SchoolTV.com
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 2   Seats:  260   Featured Speaker
Looking to buy a new camcorder and confused by the hundreds of models and features, not to mention prices? Find out what features are a “must” when purchasing your school’s new camcorder. Get acquainted with simple student video projects and plans designed to make learning videography fun and interesting.

Session:   79   Title:  Georgia Performance Standards(GPS) Online Training Modules
Presenter(s):   Traci Redish, Kennesaw State University
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 3   Seats:  260
Come preview the GPS online training modules that supplement the face-to-face (f2f) facilitator training provided by DOE. Discuss possible GPS redelivery options that include both online and f2f training and could result in a cost savings for your district. Discover how easy Desire 2 Learn (D2L) is to use and how your teachers could benefit from using this online platform. Find out how you can get your district signed up today!

Session:   80   Title:  Google 201: Advanced Googology
Presenter(s):   Patrick Crispen, California State University
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 4   Seats:  800   Featured Speaker
Ready to take your Googling to the next level? Beyond the world of plusses, minuses, and quotes lies a whole universe of secret Google tips, techniques, and tools. This quick, one-hour workshop introduces you to little known Google features like pipes, stop-word workarounds, full-word wildcards, and query modifiers—features that will instantly make you the envy of your friends and the center of attention at cocktail parties.

Session:   81   Title:  Technologies that Motivate Children to Learn
Presenter(s):   Elliot Soloway, University of North Texas, and Cathleen Norris, University of Michigan
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 5   Seats:  800   Leadership Speaker
While we can dicker about the details, at its core, school is about helping children to be successful, and helping children to learn and to achieve. In order to learn, children need to be motivated and engaged. For the "kids these days," what deeply engages them is being continuously connected -- to each other, to their music, to their games, to digital things that they create. Outside of school, such connections are facilitated by technology -- cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, etc., which they use for text messaging, for remixing songs to create their own personal ringtones, and for expressing themselves through multiple media. Do we actually think that the kids these days are going to find paper-and-pencil assignments motivating? Most importantly, teachers can use their existing instructional strategies with these devices; with experience, we
find teachers adapting their strategies to better leverage the affordances of these task-appropriate, non-overwhelming devices. In our presentation we will describe classrooms -- urban, suburban, rural -- all around America where children and teachers are using these truly personal, palm-sized computers to pursue state-mandated curricula to learn and achieve.

Session:   82   Title:  Kicking It Up a Notch: Designing Lessons for a 21st Century
Presenter(s):   Lisa Dubernard, Promethean
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 6   Seats:  260   Vendor
Assessment can be an integral component of every lesson in a 21st century learning environment and can be used formatively to ensure student participation, determine if students are understanding concepts, and promote whole group discussions of an idea. During this session, participants will see great lesson ideas that incorporate Georgia Performance Standards and backward design principles and have lots of fun. This session will focus on developing pedagogically sounds lessons using Promethean's ACTIVstudio lesson development software on ACTIV boards using ACTIVote student response devices.

Session:   83   Title:  Pulling the Plug on Plagiarism
Presenter(s):   Laverne Hughes, Thomson-Gale
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 7   Seats:  260   Vendor
This session will introduce participants to the statistics, attitudes, and concepts related to plagiarism and offer a proactive approach to helping students avoid the temptation to cheat. All grade levels are welcome!  Participants will play an interactive game as they learn to identify all forms of plagiarism.

Session:   84   Title:  Creating a Meaningful Technology Professional Development
Presenter(s):   Gary Shattuck and Beth Sullivan, Newton County Schools
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Salon 8   Seats:  260
Learn how to create a technology professional development program that will move your school districts beyond InTech. All the emphsis since HB 1187 has been to get teachers to become InTech certified. What now? Develop a technology professional development program that provides for meaningful professional growth and exciting opportunities for your faculty and staff by using different certifications: MOUS, A+, Internet Professional, WebTech, and more. Newton County completely redesigned their technology professional development program to satisfy individual, school district, and community needs.

Session:   85   Title:  SeaMaven: A Virtual Oceanographic Haven
Presenter(s):   Joseph Baker, Dickerson Middle School, Cobb County Schools, and Jim Demmers, Georgia Tech
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Swiss 1-2   Seats:  88
Are you looking for engaging, real-world applications for the middle school classroom? This presentation will explore a virtual oceanographic world filled with activities, labs, and games that complement the new Georgia Performance Standards. SeaMaven provides users near real-time oceanographic data from the coast of Georgia. Discussion will be held during this session about the collaborative process between middle school teachers, scientists, and college-level researchers.
Electronic Handout - Link to pdf file on website

Session:   86   Title:  Incorporating Technology into the Gifted Classroom
Presenter(s):   Sylvia Harris, Stone Mountain Middle School
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Swiss 3-4   Seats:  88   Georgia Association for Gifted Children (GAGC)
This session showcases technology utilization in the gifted education classroom. The presenter will show how technology can be used in different disciplines to provide more of a challenge for gifted students. Participants will receive tips, strategies, and Web sites for meeting the needs of gifted students.

Session:   87   Title:  Taking Science Fair Global and Virtual: Crossing Geopolitical
Presenter(s):   Randall Spaid, Mercer University, and Stuart Fleischer, The American International School of Israel
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Kenyan 1-2   Seats:  88   Georgia Science Teachers Association (GSTA)
His Mentor is in Istanbul, the Judge is from Tallahassee, and the student studies in Jerusalem: Dynamic virtual science fairs. This session will showcase how we challenged 110 middle school students by taking the science fair "semi-virtual": connecting them with ementors, ejudges, science teachers, and graduate students from all over the world using computer-supported, collaborative learning tools. This elearning repository for science projects includes the ediary, interim experiment reports, and digital and video photographic gallery.

Session:   88   Title:  Geometer's Sketchpad Enhancing the Geometry Curriculum
Presenter(s):   Cheryl Hughes, Landmark Christian School
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Kenyan 3-4   Seats:  88   Georgia Council of Teachers of Math (GCTM)
This mathematics tool is ideal for integrating technology into the mathematics curriculum. Participants will learn how to use it effectively and appropriately in a variety of classroom learning experiences.

Session:   89   Title:  Utilizing Technology in a Literacy Curriculum
Presenter(s):   Reesa Smith, Vanderlyn Elementary School
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Italian 1-2   Seats:  88   Georgia Reading Association (GRA)
Literacy is taught in the K-5 curriculum using a variety of technologies as tools. For example, in KidPix students can type letters and create words and sentences with pictures. Students can also transition to Word to create paragraphs and stories using pictures. K-5 uses various Web sites and interactive books to read aloud with the teacher, read independently, and read in pairs. In addition, students create webs in Inspiration, and reports in Word or PowerPoint.

Session:   90   Title:  Electronic Resources to Enhance Georgia Studies Instruction
Presenter(s):   Laura McCarty, Georgia Humanities Council, and Toby Graham
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Italian 3-4   Seats:  88   Georgia Council for the Social Studies (GCSS)
The New Georgia Encyclopedia and the Digital Library of Georgia are two electronic resources for enhancing Georgia Studies teaching and learning. The New Georgia Encyclopedia features articles and secondary source content, while the Digital Library of Georgia holds digitized copies of photographs, letters, and other primary source documents. This session will introduce the sites and suggest options for using them in the classroom.

Session:   91   Title:  Library Media Services Update
Presenter(s):   Judy Serritella,  Georgia Department of Education
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   German 1-2   Seats:  88
This session is appropriate for all library media specialists (K-12) and will focus on projects and programs being developed at the Georgia Department of Education.
Electronic Handout - 6 MB PowerPoint file

Session:   92   Title:  21st Century Instruction and Benchmarking Using Interactive Technology
Presenter(s):   Edward Barnes, eInstruction
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   German 3-4   Seats:  88   Vendor
Utilizing Infrared and Radio Frequency technology, districts can now provide schools with a tool designed to give instant feedback and also provide an easy method to teach state standards dynamically using EXISTING curricula. Our patented Student Managed Assessment mode allows districts and teachers to administer paper tests that are instantly graded and return instant data on scores and standards that all schools and districts require. Our REAP (Real Time Evaluation of Academic Progress) program allows schools and/or districts to administer benchmark tests and have realtime data access in graphic output for standards, test scores, and demographic data.

Session:   93   Title:   Easy Rubrics + Rapid Grades + Clear Standards = Successful Performance
Presenter(s):  Michael Perry, East Paulding High School, Paulding County Schools
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:  Spanish 1-2   Seats:  88
By creating rubrics, standardized guidelines to measure the quality of students' projects, teachers and professors can remove the guesswork for both teachers and students on what is required to achieve a specific grade level. However, students are notorious for losing classroom handouts, and in large classrooms, paper distribution can eat up valuable teaching time. In this session, the speaker will describe how he was able to develop an automated system for the creation
and electronic distribution of rubrics. He will explain how the combination of database technology with an automated email system can be used across different computing platforms to expedite rubrics development and distribution, the grading process, and fast electronic delivery of grades to students.

Session:   94   Title:  Diverse Learning Needs? Technology Can Help
Presenter(s):   Connie McClellan, Waynesboro Primary School, Burke County Schools
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Spanish 3-4   Seats:  88
Today's teachers are responsible for meeting the needs of many diverse learners. This session will demonstrate how one first-grade inclusion classroom with seven special education students utilizes technology to meet their needs. The Waterford Early Reading Program is used daily to provide reading instruction that adapts to the individual learner. The program also reinforces skills taught in the classroom and is a time-saver for teaching specific skills for the CRCT.

Session:   95   Title:  Web Pages for Teachers Made Easy
Presenter(s):   Jeannie Barden, Georgia Virtual School, Georgia Department of Education
Time:  Thursday, 8:15-9:15   Location:   Australian 3-4   Seats:  88
Create a teacher Web page! Don't have time to create a teacher Web page? No problem! There are several quick, FREE, or inexpensive service providers with Web page templates for you to fill with your content. Worried about security? No problem! Choose one that is password protected. These really exist! Come learn how to create a quick, resourceful, Web page for your class to share announcements, post and turn-in assignments, and hold class discussions.