Wednesday, 12:30-1:30

Session: 1 Title: Setting Up a School or Home Wireless Network
Presenter: Brent Williams, Kennesaw State University ETTC, Featured Speaker
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 1 Seats: 260
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Administrative
Wireless networks are great if they are set up correctly. They offer the speed and flexibility that everyone finds
appealing. Set up incorrectly, wireless networks become nightmares; they can be slow and unreliable and can randomly
disconnect users. This session outlines the things you need to know about setting up a wireless network the right way.
Whether for school or home, you will learn a great deal of valuable information.

Session: 2 Title: Multimedia and Millennials: Using Images, Sound, and Video to Empower Learning
Presenter: Tonya Witherspoon, Featured Speaker
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 2 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Students today are hard-wired and have grown up in a world full of media. Educators can use this ability to their advantage by incorporating media in their instruction to create dynamic student-focused learning environments. This session will share how to use multimedia resources on the Internet and basic productivity software (such as PowerPoint, Word, PhotoStory, Inspiration/Kidspiration, email, iTunes) that include audio, image, and video tools that can become powerful learning tools in the classroom. Participants will learn how students, teachers, and parents can add another dimension to teaching and learning in the 21st Century.

Session: 3 Title: Rev Up Your Reading & Writing Classrooms!
Presenter: Tammy Worchester,  Featured Speaker
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 3 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Want some clever ideas for using computers in your reading and writing classrooms? This session will feature dozens of quick and easy tools and activities that you can use immediately! We will explore a series of innovative activities through which you will learn how to use the Internet and other electronic tools to support literacy, word processing, and the publishing of students' work.

Session: 4 Title: Crispen’s Guide to What’s New and What’s Next
Presenter: Patrick Crispen, California State University, Featured Speaker
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 4 Seats: 800
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Face it: It’s hard enough to understand the technology we already have and darned near impossible to know what new
technology will be worth our time and (more importantly) our hard-earned money. In this session, the presenter dons his
“futurist” hat and helps cut through the technology fog to get a sneak peek at some new technologies just over the horizon. Handout

Session: 5 Title: Georgia Virtual School: Reinventing the Classroom
Presenter: Kristie Clements, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 5 Seats: 800
Strand: eLearning  Audience: Administrative
On May 4, 2005, Governor Sonny Purdue signed the Georgia Virtual School Bill, O.C.G.A. 20-2-31, into law, establishing the first official state virtual school. This session will provide insight into the program's policies and procedures,
highlighting the opportunities and options it provides to all Georgia students. In addition, challenges and successes of
teacher and local training and community and student preparation will be discussed.

Session: 6 Title: Using Creative Technology Tools to Promote Rich Learning Experiences
Presenter: Tom Kelly, Tech4Learning, Inc., Vendor
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 6 Seats: 260
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-12
In this session, participants will learn how they can use creative technologies to improve understanding in their
classrooms. Through projects such as clay animation announcements, dynamic slideshows presentation, websites, and virtual local history tours, they will explore the possible curriculum connections they can make with technology projects. Student-created projects will be discussed in respect to brain research and how they apply to Georgia State curriculum and technology standards. Participants will see first-hand how these projects were created and what resources are necessary for their successful implementation in a classroom environment. Participants will leave the session with valuable image and technology lesson plan resources like Pics4Learning to implement these user-friendly creativity tools in their classrooms.

Session: 7 Title: Tackling the Test with Technology
Presenter: Pam Nutt, Spalding County
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 7 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices  Audience: Administrative
Integrating Smart Boards, Sympodiums, and a small computer lab located in the media center have increased the test scores on standardized tests and provided the students at Moore Elementary with more hands-on knowledge of the subject matter and improved computer skills. The presentation will include slides of teachers using the equipment in their classrooms and examples of websites visited during class activities. The principal will present information from an administrator's point of view.

Session: 8 Title: Destination Reading
Primary Presenter: Ann Crawley, Riverdeep, Vendor
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 8 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
Learn how Riverdeep's Destination Reading makes reading relevant and exciting by engaging students with individualized, appropriate, and sound content. This K-8 series, built on the latest research from the National Reading Panel, The Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, and The Alliance for Excellent Education, provides teachers with instructional tools that work with students from emergent literacy through comprehension acquisition. Through diverse texts, Destination Reading provides a comprehensive PreK-8 Reading program. The powerful Learning Management tools help teachers target each students individual needs.

Session: 9 Title: LiveText: A New Way to Create, File, Store, Present, and Mentor
Presenter: Louise Tolbert, Muscogee County
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Swiss 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Professional Development Audience: Instructional PK-12
Bring order to the paper blizzard with the use of LiveText! LiveText is an Internet-based system for storing and sharing
files. Find out how to file, present, create, and share newsletters, handbooks, lessons, videos, images, slide shows, and
many other artifacts. Learn how LiveText is being used by the mentor teachers in the Muscogee County School District.

Session: 10 Title: The VitalSource Library: Digital Content for a New Kind of Student
Presenter: Mike Hale, VitalSource, Vendor
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Swiss 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Learn how computers can aid in the delivery and use of trusted, respected resources in the classroom. VitalSource Library is a rich library of digital works designed to be a foundation for active learning. It contains basic references, classic works, historical and cultural documents, and links to many other important resources. Carry this enormous, rich collection wherever you carry your laptop.

Session: 11 Title: Intervention Solutions with Interactive Software to Engage Learners in a Diverse Middle and High School Math Classroom
Presenter: Rudy Neufeld, Neufeld Learning Systems Inc., Vendor
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Kenyan 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional 6-8
Participants will learn how to use interactive software to improve the understanding and scores for wide varieties of
learning styles. The presenter will share specific strategies for integrating technology into the existing mathematics
curriculum. Participants will receive a CD of examples along with corresponding lesson plans that can be used immediately within a wide variety of learning environments.

Session: 12 Title: Texas Instruments and the 21st Century Classroom
Presenter: Ned Colley, Texas Instruments, Vendor
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Kenyan 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Attend this session to see how TI technology and GPS-aligned resources can create more effective classroom instruction as well as improve your students? conceptual understanding and critical thinking skills.

Session: 13 Title: Curriculator: Standards-Based Lesson Planner
Presenters: Larry Stoudenmire, CSI, Vendor; Burt Lancaster
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Italian 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Research/Assessment/Accountability Audience: Instructional PK-12
Developed as a Web-based application, Curriculator is designed to assist educators in the review of state standards and to develop/share/review lesson plans based on those targeted standards. Principals and teachers can track which standards have been met to make sure their school’s lesson plans meet state educational standards and encompass No Child Left Behind.

Session: 14 Title: Integration of the Digital Camera into the Instructional Process
Presenter: Kenneth Clark, University System of Georgia
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Italian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-12
Participants will learn innovative ways to use a digital camera in a classroom. Integration of digital images into the
instruction process will be illustrated with examples from actual K-12 classrooms. The presenter will discuss the
importance of designing the learning experience to be relevant to the child’s world and the ways in which the digital camera can bring that world into the classroom.

Session: 15 Title: Network Security and Disaster Recovery Plans
Presenter: Cathy Toth, Cartersville City
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: German 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Technical  Audience: Administrative
How secure is your school's network? What will you do if your network is breached? Do you have a disaster recovery plan in place should something happen? In this session, participants will learn techniques used to secure a network. The presenter will discuss a layered approach to security and how to handle a breach if it does occur. A disaster recovery plan will be reviewed and a discussion of how it should be written and tested will follow. A checklist for the disaster recovery plan will be distributed to attendees.

Session: 16 Title: Owning Your Own Internet Domain
Presenter: John Martin, DeKalb County
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: German 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Internet Audience: Technical
Do you want to own your own website? Are you running out of Web space on your school account? This session will show you how to set up your own Internet domain, find and choose a Web host, and manage your own website. Stop just browsing content and start providing it!

Session: 17 Title: Historical Blogs
Presenter: Tina Jenkins, Cobb County
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Spanish 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Internet Audience: Instructional PK-5
Attend this session to learn how to use student blogs to teach children about historical figures. Through an example of a
blog about Harriet Tubman, you will see how third-graders created a blog using a diary format and other applications. The blog included art work, writing, a podcast, and Kidspiration websites.

Session: 18 Title: Making the Reading-Writing Connection with Clicker 5
Presenter: Deborah Barrows, Crick Software Inc., Vendor
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Spanish 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia  Audience: Instructional PK-5
Discover the flexibility of Clicker 5 to effectively merge reading and writing skills, enabling students of all abilities to
become successful learners. Words are brought to life with Clicker’s multimedia features, enabling teachers and students to create interactive resources such as e-books, which include text, images, sounds, and video. An easy-to-use sound recorder allows students to develop their speaking, listening, and storytelling skills. As well as creating new resources, teachers can access hundreds of free teaching and learning materials on LearningGrids.

Session: 19 Title: GeorgiaStandards.Org: A One-Stop Shop for Educators
Presenter: Kathy Politis, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Wednesday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Australian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
Participants in this hands-on presentation will discover printable versions of the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS),
instructional units and tasks aligned to the GPS, and GPS training materials, as well as a multitude of educational
resources. In addition, participants will learn how to sign up for a MyGeorgia Department of Education portal login and tour the applications and services now provided through MyGeorgia Department of Education's portal access.