Thursday, 9:30-10:30

Session: 96 Title: The Good, Bad and Ugly: Taking Digital Pictures Effectively
Presenter: Leslie Fisher, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Salon 1 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
This presentation will go over examples and methods to help participants learn how to take better digital pictures. The presenter has been fortunate enough to learn her digital photography skills from some of the biggest and brightest in the industry. Everything from composition, lighting, flash techniques, and point-and-shoot camera settings will be discussed. Participants will also learn some of her favorite Photoshop tips to enhance digital images.

Session: 97 Title: Using Robotics To Engage Students in Authentic Problem-Based Learning
Presenter: Tonya Witherspoon, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Salon 2 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Robotics is a tool that encourages students of all ages to explore, experiment, and experience STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in a hands-on constructionist environment. Participants in this session will experience the process of designing, building, and programming robots with LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System, discover how sensors can be used to gather data for analysis, and learn how this system supports student exploration and learning across the curriculum.

Session: 98 Title: Is This Really PowerPoint?
Presenter: Tammy Worcester, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Salon 3 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
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: 99 Title: Keeping Up with the Googlebots: What’s New at Google
Presenter: Patrick Crispen, California State University, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am 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: 100 Title: Georgia Department of Education Information Systems Update
Presenter: Travis Willard, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Salon 5 Seats: 800
Strand: Leadership/Organization/Policy Audience: Administrative
In this session, attendees will hear the annual Information Systems Update from the Georgia Department of Education.

Session: 101 Title: 10 Winners, Top 10 Activities Using the Activboard in My Elementary Classroom
Presenters: Lisa McGhee, Rockdale County; Rebecca Diaz
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: S alon 6 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-5
Got an Activboard? Now what? Easy-to-use, exciting activities will be shared in this session, with the how-to steps for creating your own flip charts. Take a CD home with you and modify the lessons shared in the session, or learn steps to create your own.

Session: 102 Title: Virtual Machines = Real Security: How to Use VM to Make a Better School Network
Presenter: Ernest Staats, Georgia Cumberland Academy
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Salon 7 Seats: 260
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Participants will earn about virtual machines and discover what they have been missing. The presentation includes a simple explanation and demonstration on how to leverage virtual machines to make networks more secure.

Session: 103 Title: Beating XBOX at Its Own Game
Presenter: Robin Sowell, Pierce County
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Salon 8 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional 6-8
This presentation will show attendees how to incorporate today's interactive technology to engage students in a multimedia environment in order to enhance learning. Attendees will be shown how to compete with the excitement of a video game with all the sensory appeal of a game, yet teach the task to the students. With the use of Unitedstreaming, interactive response devices, and interactive write boards, the instructor can make any lesson feel like the student has entered the world of Xbox or Playstation.

Session: 104 Title: The New Georgia Encyclopedia: Online Teaching Tool
Presenter: Kelly Caudle, New Georgia Encyclopedia
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Swiss 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Library/Media Audience: Instructional 6-8
Participants will learn how easy it is for both educators and students to use the New Georgia Encyclopedia, an authoritative resource containing articles, pictures, video, and audio in 26 subject categories covering Georgia's history and culture. In this session, participants will learn how to navigate the site and discover new ways of attracting students to classroom topics and homework.

Session: 105 Title: iLearn with iPods
Presenter: Tina Sartori, Computrac
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Swiss 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-12
In this session, participants will learn the many uses of iPods in the K-12 environment, including podcasting and phonecasting. Educators will receive a freeware version of podcasting as well as information about how to use iPods. Topics include basic iPod usage, lesson plans for iPods with samples for elementary, middle, and high, resources for freeware that can be used with iPods, a how-to guide to podcasting, a how-to guide to phonecasting, and grant writing for iPods. An iPod will be raffled to one attendee.

Session: 106 Title: Algebra + Geometry + Technology = Student Comprehension
Presenter: Marsha Sanders-Leigh, CEISMC
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Kenyan 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
In this session, participants will learn how to integrate algebra, geometry, and technology to increase student comprehension. Participants will participate in a model math lesson that integrates algebra and geometry and applies different technologies, including a SmartBoard, TI graphing calculators, Geometer’s Sketchpad, and Internet resources.

Session: 107 Title: Lessons Learned in a Wireless 1:1 Classroom
Presenters: Sheila Hendley, Valdosta State University ETTC; Mimi McGahee
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Kenyan 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional 6-8
Participants will learn about the trials, tribulations, and discoveries of implementing a 1:1
wireless environment. They will find out what worked best in an eighth-grade language arts classroom as well as what did not work and why. Discover classroom management techniques that will maximize instructional time and increase students' computer use. View logical classroom design features that promote desired behaviors and student achievement. Walk away with a clear sense of direction and a collection of some of the best available online resources for teaching and learning in all subject areas and at all levels.

Session: 108 Title: Adding United Streaming Video into Windows Movie Maker [Repeat]
Presenter: Michael Horn, University of West Georgia ETTC
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Italian 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-12
In this session, the presenter will demonstrate how to log in to United Streaming and download a video segment. Attendees will then be shown how to place that segment into Windows Movie Maker, how to edit video, and add narration and music.

Session: 109 Title: In the Palm of Your Hands
Presenters: Shannell Brown, Dekalb County; Nathaniel Haeck
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Italian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-5
This presentation is an innovative look at the use of the Palm Pilot as an instructional tool in a fifth-grade classroom. The Palm Pilot has a plethora of functions applicable to daily life. In the interest of providing a meaningful educational experience that ties real world applications to the classroom and captures the interest of technologically inclined students, the Palm initiative is a superb alternative to pencil and paper activities.

Session: 110 Title: 2006 Exemplary Library Media Programs
Presenter: Judy Serritella, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: German 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Library/Media Audience: Instructional PK-12
School library media specialists will discuss in this session how they developed their exemplary library media programs.

Session: 111 Title: Microsoft Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Program
Presenters: Cindy Bird, Macon State College ETTC; Edward Gowen
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: German 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Professional Development Audience: Instructional 9-12
Microsoft, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Education and the Educational Technology Training Centers, will provide five courses to assist Georgia schools with appropriate integration of technology. This session is appropriate for teachers of students aged 12 through 18 as well as ETTC staff who will be delivering this training to school system teachers, technical support personnel, and administrators.

Session: 112 Title: Moodle: It’s Not A Spicy Asian Dish
Presenters: Alan Gayton, Dalton State College ETTC; Randy Ware
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Spanish 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: Instructional PK-12
Want to build a course management system to provide online classes or an online environment to aid traditional classes? Want to do it for free? Want it to be easy? Moodle is your answer. This open source management system has all the features of the big boys, is supported by a large community, and can be set up in no time.

Session: 113 Title: Improving Online Delivery of Instruction: Using Personality Profiles as an Indicator
Presenter: Gerald Burgess, Albany State University
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Spanish 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: College
How is online learning improved or made worse by the instructor's teaching style and the students' learning styles? This session will focus on the relationship between personality profiles and instructional delivery in the age of online learning. Participants will create links from their personality profiles to their teaching methodologies and draw conclusions about best practices in light of their individual instructional methods.

Session: 114 Title: Open Source Email Server Solutions and Email Filtering Techniques for the K-12 Environment
Presenter: Jason Kau, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Time: Thursday, 9:30am - 10:30am Location: Australian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
The participants will learn about open source messaging/groupware solutions such as OpenGroupware, Open-Xchange, and Kolab. The presenter will also discuss an example of a custom email/messaging/group solution implemented in the Jasper County School District, which makes use of several open source projects: Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, dspam, MailScanner, ClamAv, and the Horde project. Participants will also learn about the various types of email content filtering that should be implemented for the K12 environment.