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Session: 115 Title: Using Scanners, Digital Cameras, and Video
Presenter: Leslie Fisher, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 1 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
Tired of taking blurry digital pictures, scanning documents the size of small buildings, or getting seasick watching your videos? The presenter will show some of the most effective rules to follow for your digital, scanning, and video endeavors. Techniques, editing, and resolution will also be covered.

Session: 116 Title: Designing Technology Integration Projects for Students (TIPS) by Integrating the ISTE NETS Standards into Teaching and Learning
Presenter: Tonya Witherspoon, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 2 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
Technology can be a powerful tool that can transform teaching and learning, or it can be a very expensive pencil and paper. The ISTE NETS provide an excellent guide on how to integrate technology effectively in classrooms. This session will share examples of technology used in PK-12 classrooms connected to curriculum standards and the ISTE NETS that empower learning and provide students and teachers with tools that go far beyond paper and pencil.

Session: 117 Title: Inspiration and Kidspiration in the Classroom
Presenter: Tammy Worcester, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 3 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Administrative
Do you have Inspiration (or Kidspiration), but you're not sure how to use it effectively with your students? Or maybe you're thinking about purchasing it and want to learn more. This session will begin with a quick "how to" overview and then will feature dozens of creative student projects that take advantage of these ideas.

Session: 118 Title: Patrick Crispen’s Complete and Total Waste of Time
Presenter: Patrick Crispen, California State University, Featured Speaker
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 4 Seats: 800
Strand: Internet Audience: Instructional PK-12
Yeah, yeah. The Internet is a great tool for education, radically altering the . . . blah blah blah. What about the FUN stuff? In this humorous, fast-paced, session, participants will get a first-person tour of dozens of websites and tools that have no redeeming social value whatsoever--other than the fact that they’re just darned fun.  Handout

Session: 119 Title: Got Data?
Presenters: Joanna Vahlsing, Governor's Office of Student Achievement; Amanda Ferster
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 5 Seats: 800
Strand: Research/Assessment/Accountability Audience: Administrative
CRCT, GHSGT, EOCT, AYP, GOSA Report Card are just a handful of the data sources that are available to Georgia schools and school systems. This session will provide insight into the data sources, tools, and best practices available to help schools and school systems with their data analysis and reporting. Also, an overview of the 2006 Data Utilization Guide and updates regarding Georgia's Single Statewide Accountability System (SSAS) will be presented.

Session: 120 Title: GEOdigital Folios
Presenter: Gail Hendrix, Cobb County
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 6 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional 6-8
Participants will learn how to open the doors of their middle school social studies classrooms to the world through a variety of websites, photography, and music, which can be used to assist students in developing a digital portfolio of projects that demonstrate their learning. These projects include authentic writing assignments, examination of primary documents, podcasts, iMovies, blogs, and more.

Session: 121 Title: Free Software for Class Websites
Presenter: Freeland Abbott, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 7 Seats: 260
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments  Audience: Administrative
This session will focus on a discussion of two open-source (free!) tools for class websites. Both are fast and easy, and require far less wizardry than may expected. Wikis are great for collaborative writing, for example, as a class-wide collective project, or a school-wide manual. Moodle is a course management system, offering on-line assignments, notes, quizzes, grading, etc.; it can be tailored for individual or group projects and feedback.

Session: 122 Title: Increasing Student Achievement Through Online Tutoring
Presenter: Angie Bowen, Banks County
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon 8 Seats: 260
Strand: Best Practices Audience: Instructional PK-12
The SkillsTutor program is an online, supplemental teaching tool that offers basic skills instruction for K-Adult. It is diagnostic and prescriptive, aligned to Georgia Performances Curriculum Standards, which satisfies requirements of No Child Left Behind, and is helping schools across Georgia meet basic skills improvement goals. This presentation focuses on how
educators can use the proven online technology program SkillsTutor, currently used by over 30 million learners nationwide, to improve students' fundamental skills.

Session: 123 Title: What's New with Britannica Online School Edition
Presenters: Rick Lumsden, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vendor; Phil Cox
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Swiss 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Library/Media Audience: Instructional PK-12
All Georgia schools have Britannica through GALILEO, plus home access. Participants in this session will explore K-12 materials correlated to Georgia Performance Standards and Britannica’s collection of encyclopedias (elementary, middle, and high school), multimedia and videos, current magazines, Spanish language materials, primary source documents, teacher resources, and student activities.

Session: 124 Title: Classroom of the 21st Century: Now and "Near" Future
Presenter: Brett Eaker, Hart Inc., Vendor
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Swiss 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 2 1st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-5
This presentation will show attendees the styles of software that teachers will be using in the new age classroom. Included will be group instruction for answering questions via PDAs; on-line resources for competition among classes, schools, and districts; research integration of real-time data and information into the curriculum, and a trilog of instructional programs for whiteboard teaching.

Session: 126 Title: Powerful Science Instruction with PASCO's New Xplorer GLX
Primary Presenter: Richard Briscoe, PASCO scientific, Vendor
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Kenyan 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: 21st Century Learning Environments Audience: Instructional PK-12
Get your hands on the newest innovation in science datalogging: the Xplorer GLX. The GLX is equipped for remote graphing and stand-alone analysis with or without a computer. Attend this session to see how PASPORT probeware can help your students gain a deeper understanding of science.

Session: 127 Title: Teacher and Parent Collaboration: The Key to Student Success
Presenter: Wallace Reeves, Houston County
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Italian 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Leadership/Organization/Policy Audience: Administrative
The greater the parent participation in the educational process, the higher the student's achievement. So, how can today's teacher effectively communicate individual student achievement and needs to parents on an ongoing basis? Technology provides the only answer. Houston County has been a leader in the field of providing up-to-date information on student
performance to parents via the Internet. The presenter will discuss issues of information security, staff support, and parental acceptance and also share tools such as the on-line Parent Information Center, integrated teacher voice and email, voice-based student progress reporting, and performance outcomes.

Session: 128 Title: Using Adobe Photoshop Album, Starter Edition 3 - Another Great Freebie!
Presenter: Susan Walraven, Coweta County
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Italian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Multimedia Audience: Instructional PK-12
Digital photography is changing the way many of us teach. From personalizing instruction and documenting progress to building websites and photo stories, we use our cameras everyday to make teaching and learning more fun, more exciting, and more relevant. One important rule, however, seems to hold true: Great pictures make great products. (And the converse is also true!) Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3 is a free download from Adobe that makes a lot of sense. While it will enable you to edit photos, just as many other utilities do, the real beauty of this program is organization. From your thousands of photos, find that one perfect shot of Mt. Rushmore in 15 seconds or less. In this session, participants will learn to use the month-at-a-glance calendar tool as well as the tag and classify sorting tools.

Session: 129 Title: Network Documentation: Why Do We Need It?
Presenter: Tommy Matanane, National Science Center ETTC
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: German 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
Why is Network Documentation necessary? What is required? Topics in this session include basic network topography, building a network, using MS Visio to develop drawings, network closet layouts, school LAN equipment topography, IP schema and listing, documented network equipment configuration, and network asset inventory.

Session: 130 Title: Bridging the Gap: The Online Advanced Placement Program at Georgia Virtual School
Presenters: Rebecca Earnshaw, Georgia Department of Education; Jeannie Barden
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: German 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: eLearning Audience: Administrative
In this session, participants will learn how the AP program at Georgia Virtual School increases student participation in Advanced Placement courses by using online learning to bridge the gap between rural school systems and their suburban counterparts. GAVS offers 17 AP courses that adhere to the College Board guidelines and are taught by AP certified teachers. Participants will also learn about the technology resources GAVS offers to local schools to assist them in building and enhancing their own AP programs and the benefits of AP courses to students and their schools.

Session: 131 Title: Differentiate Instruction with Standards-Based Online Resources That Match Every Student’s Learning Needs
Presenter: Thomas Bain, netTrekker d.i., Vendor
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Spanish 1-2 Seats: 88
Strand: Internet Audience: Instructional PK-12
Participants will learn how netTrekker d.i. can help them differentiate instruction to meet individual students’ learning needs with educator-selected, standards-based online resources. They will learn how Cobb County is using netTrekker d.i. to integrate technology, standards, and online resources into daily curricula.

Session: 132 Title: Win with a TIE
Presenters: Vanessa Ellison, Whitfield County; Sonya Thompson
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Spanish 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Professional Development Audience: Instructional 6-8
Participants will learn about the TIE (Technology Integration Education) Program and how it connects all members of the school community in the use of technology for academic achievement. The TIE Program was created by the Media Specialist and Technology Lab Instructor at New Hope Middle School. TIE includes professional development opportunities provided to
teachers by colleagues at their own school, an incentive program to encourage the teacher use of technology in the classroom, and the SWAT (Students Working to Advance Technology) team.

Session: 133 Title: Deploy Microsoft Windows Updates using WSUS
Presenter: Dwayne Trouille, Valdosta State University ETTC
Time: Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Australian 3-4 Seats: 88
Strand: Networking/Technical Support Audience: Technical
This presentation will demonstrate how network administrators can centrally manage and even automate the deployment of Windows XP updates and patches using WSUS (Windows Server Update Service). Today security is paramount and ensuring that Windows XP/2000/2003 computers are running the latest critical patches and Service Packs can be challenging for network administrators. Windows Server Update Services provides a means of downloading Windows patches to a local server so Network Administrators may test, then deploy selective patches throughout the network. This presentation will cover how to install, configure, and manage critical Windows updates using WSUS.