Friday, 11:00 - 12:00

Session: 229 Title: Gadgets: Are You a Gadget Head? (Repeat)
Presenter: Leslie Fisher, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 1 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
Do you surf the net or listen closely to geeks talking in hopes of hearing about a cool software product or gizmo? The presenter will show you some of her favorite hardware and software gadgets that do everything from make your life easier to provide piles of fun. Hardware, software, and even completely off-topic gadgets will be discussed.

Session: 230 Title: Weblogs in School (Repeat)
Presenter: Will Richardson, Connective Learning, LLC, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 2 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
The almost limitless potential of weblogs as a teaching tool is fostering an explosion of innovative projects, partnerships, and techniques at every level of education from elementary school to graduate programs. The ease with which weblogs allow for publishing of content to the Internet makes them the perfect tool for bringing new voices into to the classroom and building true educational communities that go beyond traditional school walls. This session will highlight best practice uses of weblogs in schools and include resources on how to get started.

Session: 231 Title: Using Technology to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Classroom
Presenter: Susan Silverman, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 3 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-5
Technology has always held the promise of delivering instruction geared toward the unique needs of each student. Participants will learn how two new software programs, Fastt Math and Go Solve, support the goals of math fluency and word problem comprehension, using self-paced, structured, and motivating environments that automatically adapt to the progress of each student. Click here for handouts.

Session: 232 Title: Keeping Up with the Googlebots: What’s New at Google (Repeat)
Presenter: Patrick Crispen, California State University, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 4 Seats: 800
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Hardly a week goes by that the evil scientists at Google’s secret labs don’t release some new or completely redesigned tool upon the unsuspecting public. In this session, we’ll attempt the impossible: We’re going to try to catch up with all of--or at least most of--Google’s latest inventions.

Session: 233 Title: Active Directory Planning, Concepts, and Migration
Presenter: Mark Minasi, Featured Speaker
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 5 Seats: 800
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Just getting started designing your Active Directory structure? Or did you just get "dropped" into an existing AD shop? You've probably heard that there's something called an organizational unit, something called a domain--which is somehow different from an "ancient" old NT 4 domain--as well as forests and trees. And DNS fits in here somewhere; will you have to replace all of those DNS servers? In fact, the major message that most people seem to get about AD is the "Everything That You Know Is Wrong." Fear not, for two reasons: first, in many ways AD isn't that different from what's come before, and second, you can come to this session and have it all explained! You'll learn when to use domains versus when to use organizational units (as well as what they are), how to design your new name space, why having four types of groups is simpler than having two types of groups, how to lay out your sites, and, of course, what a site is in the first place. Then you'll find out about the two migration approaches, "in place" versus "clean and pristine," and which is right for you. Participants will see the AD introduction that got the presenter banned from Microsoft events!

Session: 234 Title: Digital Native: Do you Speak Technology?
Presenter: Anna Aigner-Muehler, Forsyth County
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 6 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
The Digital Native session strives to introduce foreign language teachers to the newest wave of technology to surface in Georgia schools--interactive whiteboards. Interactive technology is one of the newest enhancements for instruction. It offers both teachers and students a myriad of possibilities for the transfer, recognition, and implementation of knowledge. This
session will introduce educators to some of the facets of interactive technology in the foreign language classroom, including lesson and activity design, student engagement, and assessment. The ultimate goal is for educators to leave the presentation with a better understanding and enthusiasm about the role of interactive technology in today’s classroom.

Session: 235 Title: Keep it Simple! Digital Photography Projects Made Easy for K-5
Presenter: Melanie Holbrook, Rockdale County
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 7 Seats: 260
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-5
Digital photography projects aren’t about taking pictures, but using the camera as a tool to help students explore and understand other subjects. Today’s students have been exposed to digital and video images all of their lives. In order to compete for their attention our lessons have to be colorful, interactive and fast-paced. Digital photos are fast, versatile and complement a wide variety of academic subjects and learning styles. This session will provide examples of quick and easy projects you can complete with K-5 students. You will learn cheap ways to publish and share your projects, view Internet sites with great projects and resources for using digital photographs, and receive 100’s of ideas for easy projects you can use tomorrow with very little advance preparation.

Session: 236 Title: Science, Math, and Technology
Presenter: Mindy DiSalvo, DeKalb County
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Salon 8 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-5
Raising test scores isn't the only thing that children in two DeKalb elementary schools are raising. Last year, students at Kingsley and Oakcliff raised 13,000 rainbow trout! Small Fry to Go includes every student, Pre-K through fifth grade. Tied to state and national standards, this innovative program involves the whole community as it incorporates math, science, technology, language arts, and career education. The United States Department of Education and the National Public Broadcasting System have recently selected Small Fry to Go as a model science program because of its innovative and and research-based approach to teaching.

Session: 237 Title: Step into a 21st Century Classroom: Using Student Laptops, Interactive Whiteboards, and Other Technology-Rich Instruction to Motivate, Engage, and Reach All Learners 
Presenter: Lisa Beasley, Clarke County
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Swiss 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-5
This session will allow participants to take the role of students as they take part in a variety of teacher-tested activities that have been successful with elementary students. Topics will include websites, games, PowerPoint presentations, interactive whiteboards, student laptop use, basic technology tips, and troubleshooting, as well as alternative assessment methods.

Session: 238 Title: I Wish My Teacher Had These Tools When I Was in High School!
Presenter: Marc Lipson, Bibb County
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Swiss 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Administrative
Come to this presentation to see the technologies of today being used for today's mathematics students. This session will demonstrate the use of Texas Instruments' Wireless Navigator and SmartView Emulator and Smart Technolgies' SmartBoard and Wireless Airslate.

Session: 239 Title: Working Creatively With Documents: Adobe Acrobat for Teachers and Students
Presenter: Lars Leader, Valdosta State University ETTC
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Kenyan 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: Instructional PK-12
Acrobat easily transforms any content displayable on a computer into a creative and navigable presentation. Those attending this session will see how Acrobat can be used by students to create engaging electronic portfolios that include scanned pages, graphics, webpages, and other materials, all organized by bookmarks and other navigation devices. Participants will see examples of research bibliographies with links and learn how live websites can be downloaded and presented in PDF format.

Session: 240 Title: Create, Explore and Learn with Quia
Presenter: Pshantel Dean, Cobb County
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Kenyan 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: Instructional PK-12
Quia is a user friendly Web-based teaching and learning tool designed to help teachers foster learning in a fun and interactive way. Teachers can create online tests, interactive games, surveys, calendars, and webpages. With Quia class pages, teachers can post homework assignments, class schedules, contact information, and links to their favorite Web resources. Teachers can choose from 10 question types: multiple choice, true-false, pop-up, fill-in, multiple correct, short answer, initial answer, essay, matching, and ordering. Images and sounds can be embedded into the quiz layout. Your quiz can be entirely computer-graded, or you can choose to grade some parts, like essay questions, yourself. Students can choose from 16 types of enriching teacher-created activities, including flash cards, matching games, concentration (memory) activities, word search puzzles, hangman, and challenge boards.

Session: 241 Title: Got Video? Mentoring with iMovie
Presenters: Anissa Lokey-Vega, Georgia State University; Laurie Brantley-Dias; Jaime Weingart
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Italian 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Professional Development Audience: Administrative
This presentation will discuss ways in which a mentor teacher and beginning teacher may use digital videos to promote professional development. Teachers often use iMovie for student-created productions; however, it can also benefit teachers in their professional development. Professional development for beginning teachers can be enhanced by using digital video in conjunction with a reflection protocol.

Session: 242 Title: Enhancing Professional Development for Innovative Learning
Presenters: Therese Turman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Margie Brown
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Italian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Professional Development Audience: Instructional PK-12
Participants in this session will learn how to enhance their professional development with technology-based learning. The presenters will give a brief introduction of F3 and the Explorers Guild. The Foundations for the Future (F3) website will give the audience an opportunity to observe traditional learning experiences in a digital environment using video streaming technology. Participants will view archived workshop presentations on the Explorers Guild website. Handouts will also be used as a take-home resource.

Session: 243 Title: Wireless Infrastructure with Nortel
Presenter: Brian Afanador, Layer 3 Communications, Vendor
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: German 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Explore the fundamentals of wireless network implementations and gain an understanding of Nortel WLAN product features.

Session: 244 Title: Against All Odds: Wireless LAN that is Simple, Stable, and Secure
Presenter: David Confalonieri, Extricom Inc., Vendor
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: German 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Wi-Fi is a strategic enabler for education, but today’s wireless LANs present some serious obstacles. They are complex and require considerable expertise to maintain. Participants in this session will learn how this situation will change and how wireless is evolving.

Session: 245 Title: The FREEloader's Session on Educational Software
Presenters: Daniel Rivera, First District RESA ETTC; Jeff Giddens
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Spanish 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Internet Audience: Instructional PK-12
Do you ever wish you could be a kid again, wild and FREE? Remember the days of FREEloading from your parents? Do you ever wish you could just attend a conference and get FREE stuff? "But I go to the dealer's room!" you say. Yeah, but those are vendors, and nothing is really FREE. They give samples, and you pay in spam. This FREE session will FREE you from the burden of filling out purchase orders or emptying your wallet. There are oodles of FREE educational tools and software out there, all for the taking and user-friendly too. Participants will receive a FREE CD.

Session: 246 Title: Wow Them with the Internet!
Presenter: Mary Scott-Conger, Albany State University ETTC
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Spanish 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Internet Audience: Instructional PK-12
Keep your students engaged and learning while using these free websites. Teachers will find resources to enhance their standards-based classroom. As school budgets are cut, funding for software programs becomes nonexistent. Educators have to come up with creative ways to enhance the curriculum and engage student learning. The Internet has a wealth of websites that are free and easy to use to support instruction. In this session, we will look at several of these sites and learn ways they can be incorporated into your standards-based lessons.

Session: 247 Title: Protecting School Records, Information and Property with Cisco NAC Solution
Presenter: Rich Taylor, Cisco Systems, Vendor
Time: Friday, 11:00 - 12:00pm Location: Australian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Security has become a key issue for schools, parents and students. Administrative resources and data, such as student records, must be protected from individuals trying to modify or destroy information. Physical campus security is also critical to ensure safety of teachers and students. A comprehensive security solution such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems can protect information resources, while a campus-wide video surveillance system can help with physical security.