W20: Improving Instruction Through the Use of Weblogs
Presenter: Anne Davis
Affiliation: Georgia State University
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Australian 1-2 Seats: 24 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
This session will focus on the attributes of blogs that foster the promise of good pedagogy in our classrooms. Blogs are unique in the ways they offer teachers incredible possibilities to build on the pedagogy. Best practices, guidelines, responsibilities, evaluation and reflections from four years of blogging with students will be discussed. Effective use of web tools with blogging will also be a component of the session.

W21: Digital Video Editing featuring Sony Vegas 6.0 / Vegas Movie Studio
Presenter: Greg Hales
Affiliation: Macon State ETTC
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Board Room 1 Seats: 20 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Sony Vegas offers features not available in any other digital editing software program. Loop play enables extremely intuitive, real-time preview and adjustment of transitions, image processing effects, titles and program audio elements. The instructor, with more than 20 years editing experience, has used Sony Vegas for nearly five years professionally. Lots of great tips and tricks here!

W22: Creative Use of PowerPoint and Excel to Extend and Refine Learning in the Classroom
Presenter: Carol Bohannon
Affiliation: Gwinnett County Schools
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Board Room 2 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Learn creative ways to use the technology already available at your school. Use Excel and PowerPoint to increase student understanding of Georgia Performance Standards in Math and Science. Math topics include decimals, exponents, fractions, proportions, geometry, and problem solving. Science topics include mitosis and cell division, plant germination, gas laws, atomic structure, plate tectonics, and three-dimensional ocean floor mapping. Rationale: When students create visual representations, they use problem-solving skills to isolate and define a problem, then to create a solution. Research shows that combining visual and verbal information increases long-term memory. This hands-on workshop will include templates on a CD and an instruction packet.

W23: Google Labs: Exploring Google’s Technology Playground
Presenter: Kristina McBride
Affiliation: Kennesaw State ETTC
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Board Room 2 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Ever wonder what goes on inside the Googleplex? Did you know that the engineers at Google spend twenty percent of their time working on their own projects? Some of their favorite ideas are showcased at labs.google.com. In this hands-on workshop you will visit Google Labs and play with some of the latest prototypes and learn more about some of the graduates of Google Labs. These technologies include Google Notebook, Google Trends, Google Page Creator, Google Suggest, Google Reader, and more.

Thursday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00

W24: Movies Made Easy with Windows XP Movie Maker
Presenter: Nisa Peek
Affiliation: Kennesaw State ETTC
Thursday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Australian 1-2 Seats: 24 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Digital video production is a powerful way to motivate students, energize learning, and encourage higher level thinking in students. The development of a video is an ideal product for the culmination of a project-based learning experience. Videos could include formats such as newscasts, documentaries, infomercials, video postcards, or interviews.

W25: Finding and Obtaining Funding
Presenter: Curt Cearley
Affiliation: West Georgia ETTC
Thursday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Board Room 1 Seats: 20 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Participants will leave the workshop with a digital listing of funding sources, and current funding opportunities with a response deadline at least 30 days away. In addition to these listings, participants will review objectives of funded activities, write objectives for future funding, and learn how to review source documents to determine fit with funding priorities. Presenter will provide tips to improve the opportunity to obtain funding for projects within schools.

W26:  A Quick Sketch of the Future?
Presenter:  Daniel Rivera
Affiliation:  First District ETTC
Thursday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Board Room 2  Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Sketchup is a wonderfully easy, extremely powerful, and incredibly intuitive tool that lets you create almost any 3D object you desire. With Sketchup, you can quickly create rectangles, cubes, arcs, and stretch, move, or rotate them to create truly complex forms. Sketchup then allows you to share your creation with the world, even exporting them into Google Earth with proper scale. You can even download other people’s creations, view them in Google Earth, or modify them in Sketchup. With Sketchup, you can truly experience geometric concepts in a hands-on, meaningful way. The program gives you measurement feedback (and even includes a tape-measure tool) and makes geometry come alive. There are also plenty of educational resources for this program. And the best thing is...IT'S FREE!

W27: Teaching with ActivStudio – Taking Flipcharts to the Next Level
Presenters: Linda Spudic and Lynne Purcell
Affiliation: Forsyth County Schools
Thursday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Board Room 2 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Engage 21st Century learners with hands-on/minds-on teaching using Promethean ActivBoards. Teachers who can create simple ActivStudio flipcharts will learn how to create even more dynamic ones. Participants will learn how to link to other flipcharts, other programs, as well as websites. Participants will learn how to work with layers and see through layers. Participants will become comfortable using power tools, and voting buttons. Leave with at least one flipchart that you can use tomorrow.

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