Friday, 8:30 - 9:30

Session: 191 Title: MP3: Been Wanting to Dive into the World of MP3s?
Presenter: Leslie Fisher, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 1 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Have you been wanting to dive into the world of MP3? Do you have some MP3s and want to know how to use them in the classroom? Do you want to learn more about MP3 players and or software? This session will provide a bottom-to-top overview of what MP3s are, how to get them, how to play them on a computer, CD, or MP3 player, how to make sure you are downloading MP3s legally and safely, and how to use MP3s in the classroom.

Session: 192 Title: RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge
Presenter: Will Richardson, Connective Learning, LLC, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 2 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
RSS is a powerful yet fairly untapped tool that educators can use to easily track many sources of information and knowledge. But it’s also evolving into an effective way to connect people and ideas in ways that we’ve be unable to before. Using RSS, we can not only read what others write, we can read what they read, and even read what they create in easy, time-saving ways. This session will take a look at the tools and strategies that can make RSS an integral part of every educator’s professional development and practice.

Session: 193 Title: Blogging for Understanding
Presenter: Susan Silverman, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 3 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Good teachers are life-long learners. Participants will find out how some online project participants used a team blog to deepen their understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Learn how to create a team blog and integrate it into your collaborative projects. Click here for handouts.

Session: 194 Title: What's New and What's Different in the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Repeat)
Presenter: Patrick Crispen, California State University, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 4 Seats: 800
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
In late 2006 or early 2007, Microsoft plans to release the most significant Microsoft Office update in history. The presenter will introduce participants to the new Microsoft Office user interface and show what's new and what's different in Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, and much, much more.

Session: 195 Title: Active Directory Troubleshooting
Presenter: Mark Minasi, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 5 Seats: 800
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Active directories are pretty reliable--quite reliable, in fact--but sometimes things go wrong anyway. Domain controllers can get disconnected from other DCs, leading to replication problems and group policy failures. DNS can get stupid, leading to . . . well, leading to a wide variety of troubles. Administrators can be distracted while changing something in AD, laying waste to entire sections of AD, and creating a need for fast repair. And even IF none of those things happen, Active Directory is just a database, and even the best database needs a bit of database administration. Join a battle-scarred AD veteran in an examination of what can go wrong with AD, what to do about it, and maybe even have a few laughs in the process.

Session: 196 Title: Cool Tools for Media Specialists
Presenters: Jimmy Bostock, National Science Center ETTC; Brian Felker
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 6 Seats: 260
Strand: Library/Media Audience: Instructional PK-12
This session will highlight Cool Tools, the course for media specialists offered by the ETTCs. It will focus on tools that will help media specialists better serve the teachers in their schools. Participants will learn about the components of the course and will receive a few samples of the tools that are presented during the course.

Session: 197 Title: Music, Rap, Videos and Multimedia in a Math Classroom
Presenter: Irma Hendrix, Rockdale County
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 7 Seats: 260
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional 9-12
Participants will learn how the math classroom can be enhanced through music, raps, student-made videos, PowerPoint math review games, CBR, CBL activities, Geometer's Sketchpad, conic section activities, and TI-SmartView. Participants will receive CDs of activities.

Session: 198 Title: How Are Handhelds Used across the Country? 
Presenter: Janet Caughlin, Douglas County, Elkkhorn, Nebraska
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon 8 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
Handheld computers are in use in classrooms across the United States. Participants will see how teachers use their handhelds in elementary, middle, and high schools as part of their regular curriculum. This session will show the basics of using handhelds and demonstrate the software that teachers and administrators use. Handhelds and peripherals will be passed around the audience.

Session: 199 Title: GALILEO: The Library at Your Fingertips
Presenter: Karen Minton, University System of Georgia
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Swiss 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Library/Media Audience: Instructional PK-12
Over the past year, GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Library, has received a minor makeover. New functionalities and features have been added to GALILEO as part of the multi-year GALILEO Upgrade Project. These features include GALILEO Quick Search and Find It. This presentation will focus on the use of these new features and functionalities within the K-12 environment. GALILEO K-12 resources will be discussed and demonstrated, including Encyclopaedia Britannica Online School Edition, SIRS Discoverer and KnowledgeSource, Kids InfoBits, EBSCO Student Research Center, EBSCO Kids Search, and EBSCO Professional Development Collection.

Session: 200 Title: Design for Learning: Things They Never Told Us about Handouts
Presenters: Averil Loague, Alabama State University; Jo Alexander; Larry Vinson
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Swiss 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
This presentation will focus on learner-driven principles of graphic design. Technical computer skills are not the same as design skills. Teachers must use learner-driven principles of graphic design in creating instructionally effective classroom materials.

Session: 201 Title: The Harlem Renaissance to the Hyphy Movement
Presenter: BJ Snowden, Los Rios Community College
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Kenyan 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-12
Participants will learn how students can use a poetry anthology as a reference for creating a multimedia and multicultural portrayal of poetry. After reading and discussing each of the poems in the anthology, students work in groups to research, scan, or create digital images that will be presented with a reading of the poems.

Session: 202 Title: Creating an Online Professional Development Program: A Wealth of Options
Presenter: Nancy Howell, Cobb County
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Kenyan 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: Administrative
Time is at a premium with so many initiatives and training obligations, so the opportunity to provide training and resources in a timely manner is essential. This presentation offers a detailed plan for developing and delivering successful online courses and resources. By making smart choices in building an online team, developing pertinent courses, and providing useful resources for maximum effectiveness, participants will learn how to create learning opportunities that users enjoy.

Session: 203 Title: Developing Technology-Infused Interdisciplinary Thematic Units
Presenters: Bonita Williams, Columbus State University; Paulina Kuforiji; Rita Mitchell
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Italian 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Professional Development Audience: Instructional PK-12
The presenters will share thematic units that incorporate the new Georgia Performance Standards (GPS), technology, and high-level thinking skills. As part of an African Studies Project, the presenters gathered and analyzed information related to west African cultures and their connections to the history and culture of eastern United States of America.

Session: 204 Title: eMath, a Grant That Makes a Difference: Reflections on Two Years of Implementation
Presenters: Polly Diamond, Valdosta City; Kristy Herndon
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Italian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Best Practices  Audience: Instructional PK-5
This presentation showcases units developed as part of the eMath grant. The eMath Grant has made a great difference in the learning of children in two high-poverty, primarily minority schools in the Valdosta City System. One unit has been implemented, and examples of students’ work will be shared. The integration of technology and associated strategies has resulted in increased student performance and higher test scores.

Session: 205 Title: Preparing Stronger Students: Using Online Learning as a Vehicle For Student Improvement and Success
Presenters: Jamie Sachs, Georgia Department of Education; Stephanie Dunbar
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: German 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: Instructional 9-12
This session will focus on how online courses provide an experience for students that encourages strong communication skills, student/teacher interaction, and good technology skills. It will highlight tools found in learning management systems and focus on how they can be used to promote student success. In addition, this session will explore how the virtual teacher can interact with students to create a positive and trusting foundation for success.

Session: 206 Title: PCGenesis: Backup Processing and System Recovery
Presenter: Todd Williams, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: German 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
What are the risks? Make sure that your critical financial and personnel records are backed up and archived for retrieval to insure recovery with minimal data loss. Are there other backup options than tape? Topics for an appropriate backup policy include timing backups, incremental and full backups, retention, archiving, storage, and media replacement.

Session: 207 Title: RSSS: Really Simple Syndication Simplified
Presenter: Herman Wood, Cobb County
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Spanish 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Internet Audience: Instructional PK-12
What are those RSS and XML buttons that are all over websites? Participants in this session will look at what RSS is and how to use it, how to view it through web browsers and applications, how to create it, how to use it to communicate effectively with our stakeholders, and most importantly, how we can use it to help students as they learn the curriculum.

Session: 208 Title: Gadgets and Gear
Presenter: Leslie Smee, Georgia Tech
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Spanish 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Do you find it hard to keep up with emerging technologies and gadgets? This session will focus on several of the technologies currently available for use in the classroom. Some of these include pen scanners, GPS receivers, flash drives, digital cameras, and webcams. The various gadgets will be demonstrated, and ideas for use in the classroom will be shared.

Session: 209 Title: Library Media Georgia Department of Education Update
Presenter: Judy Serritella, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Friday, 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Australian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Library/Media Audience: Instructional PK-12
This session is appropriate for all library media specialists (K-12) and will focus on projects, policies, and programs at the Georgia Department of Education. Examples of topics to be included are Georgia Read More, GeorgiaStandards.org, Flexible Scheduling, and other policies that concern library media specialists.