Wednesday, November 14: 4:30-5:30
Sessions 59-76
Session: 58 Title: The Good Bad and the Ugly: Learning How to Take Effective
Digital Pictures
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Leslie Fisher, Fisher Technologies
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 1, Seats: 260
Leslie Fisher has been fortunate enough to learn her digital photography
skills from some of the biggest and brightest in the industry. This
presentation will go over examples and methods to take better digital
pictures. Everything from composition, lighting, flash techniques, and
point-and-shoot camera settings will be discussed. Time permitting, Leslie
will show you some of her favorite Photoshop tips to help you enhance your
digital images.
Session: 59 Title: The Best of Bonk!
Empowering Models and Ideas for Teaching Online
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Curtis Bonk,
Indiana University
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 2, Seats: 260
This presentation is a full motion and full color, information rich,
animated, engaging, humorous, eye catching, warp speed, motivational,
entertaining, and highly empowering look at how to teach creatively online.
Included, of course, will be discussions of emerging technologies such as
podcasts, wikis, or blogs. The presenter will also highlight his TEC-VARIETY
model for online motivation as well as his R2D2 model for addressing diverse
learners and their learning preferences. And he will do so from a
learner-centered perspective wherein different blended learning formats will
be revealed. Dozens of innovative and empowering online learning ideas will
be presented in this session.
Session: 60 Title: ABCs of Web 2.0: Avatars, Blogs, and
Collaborative Wikis
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Annette Lamb, Lamb Learning Group
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 3, Seats: 260
Recently a whole new generation of web-based social, collaborative, and
interactive technology tools have emerged with cute names like avatar, blog,
podcast, wiki, and gliffy, allowing students to easily work together to
reach learning goals. With these new opportunities comes the need to apply
information skills within each subject area. How do we evaluate the content
that comes from blogs and wikis? How do students cite these resources? How
do we assess student postings or collaborative works? How do we design safe
environments? What kinds of assignments make best use of these engaging
technologies? As an increasing number of the websites incorporate these
dynamic features, it becomes increasingly important to know the ABCs of Web
2.0. In this session, we'll try out each of these technologies and identify
realistic, practical applications for teaching and learning across the K12
curriculum.
Session: 61 Title: Engaging Your Students with Free,
Internet-Enabled Tech
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen, California State University
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 4, Seats: 400
With budgets being stretched to the breaking point, and with your precious
time being sapped by more and more externalities each day [*cough* NCLB
*cough*], how can you engage your students without breaking the bank or
requiring you to spend years learning how to be a specific academic topic
guru? Well, as silly as this sounds, the Internet may (and I said may) hold
the key. In this one-hour presentation, we'll visit over a dozen free
Internet sites and resources that you can use immediately to engage your
students.
Session: 62 Title: Accelerating School Improvement:
Technology Enabling Differentiation
LEADERSHIP SESSION
Presenter(s): Ann Ware, Brian Blanton, and Steve Thompson, Henry County
Schools
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 5, Seats: 400
Differentiation of instruction is provided to support students according to
their instructional needs, including modification of content, process,
product, and learning environment. Teachers' ability to differentiate
instruction remains critical to meeting the needs of each student.
Instructional technology tools can accelerate the process of differentiation
of instruction. An alignment of instructional technology tools will be
provided in the areas of content, process, product, and learning
environment. Samples of related job-embedded professional learning will be
provided.
Session: 63 Title: The iPod as MegaVCR: Media Libraries in
Your Pocket
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Hall Davidson, Discovery Educator Network
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 6, Seats: 260
Move megadoses of media into the video iPod. Free and fee curriculum media
downloads work seamlessly in iPods. Story and display PowerPoints, video
podcasts, animations, and PhotoStories! Create scavenger hunts and
curriculum contact lists—a media library in your pocket. Use those mounted
TVs or projectors for easy media. The basics of how and wow!
Session: 64 Title: Using United Streaming Video Segments for
Bell Ringers
Presenter(s): Michael Horn, West Georgia RESA ETTC
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 7, Seats: 260
Participants will learn how to identify standards-based United Streaming
video segments that will be downloaded for use as Bell Ringers or class
reviews.
Session: 65 Title: Engaging Students in Mathematics
Presenter(s): Andrea Bennett, Coffee County Schools, and Mimi McGahee,
Valdosta State University, ETTC
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Salon 8, Seats: 260
The Title IID Grant 2004 entitled eMath is now in its final year. During
this time my classroom has transformed into an interactive environment where
students are doing math. Not only are they doing math, but they are enjoying
it too. Data shows student improvement and has led to movement from
self-contained instruction to team teaching. Yes, even at the third-grade
level! Come benefit from our lessons learned.
Session: 66 Title: Accessing Websites Correlated to GPS for
Grade Six Mathematics
Presenter(s): Shirley McDonald, Catoosa County Schools, Ooltewah, Tennessee;
and Deborah McAllister, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Swiss 1-2, Seats: 88
Participants will view various resources at websites correlated to the
Georgia Performance Standards for grade six mathematics. Resources include
sites that can be used by a teacher in the classroom and/or students in a
computer lab. They can also be shared with parents to use at home.
Session: 67 Title: Using Technology to Differentiate Math
Instruction in the Classroom
Presenter(s): Sonya Glasper, Tom Snyder Productions
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Swiss 3-4, Seats: 88
To be literate in math, students must develop math fact fluency and
comprehension. Learn about two software programs that support the goals of
math fluency and comprehension. FASTT Math builds fluency and automaticity
in a systematic, research-validated program. GO Solve Word Problems improves
student comprehension of word problems through the use of graphic
organizers. Both programs provide a self-paced, structured, and motivating
environment that automatically adapts to the progress of each student. This
session will cover the foundations, features, and implementations of each
software program.
Session: 68 Title: Moodle Features for Teachers
BYOL SESSION
Presenter(s): Vernon Gray, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Kenyan 1-2, Seats: 88
This session introduces the open-source Moodle (www.moodle.org) Content
Management System as a free alternative to paid online course delivery
services like WebCT and Blackboard. Teachers will be given a hands on
demonstration of creating a course, uploading content, creating online
lessons and assignments, delivering online tests, and using web-based forums
and journals for online collaboration, as well as numerous other tools and
features available in Moodle.
Session: 69 Title: I Get It—Thanks to Atomic Learning
Presenter(s): Luba Lewytzkyj, Atomic Learning
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Kenyan 3-4, Seats: 88
Do you need to learn or teach word processing, desktop publishing,
multi-media production or how to effectively use Blackboard or Moodle? Do
you want to learn how to integrate new technology skills into the classroom?
Atomic Learnings library of more than 26,000 movie tutorials and media-rich,
project-based lesson plans and workshops can help.
Session: 70 Title: Screencasting
Presenter(s): Kenneth Clark, Georgia Southern University
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Italian 1-2, Seats: 88
We live in a visual age. Instead of telling a student how to perform a task,
why not show them? Screencasts offer a compelling way to pack a lot of
information into a narrated video. Screencasts have many uses in the K-12
setting. They can demonstrate technical tasks or illustrate concepts that
are conveyed better through pictures and sounds. PowerPoint presentation can
be converted to a video format and distributed to students for viewing on a
computer screen or an iPod. This presentation will provide participants an
introduction to screencasting and how it can be used in the K-12 classroom.
It will cover the what, why, and how to get started. Examples of screencasts
will be shown and sources of screencasting software will be provided.
Session: 71 Title: Student Productions: Almost LIVE from
Your School
Presenter(s): Debbie Mclean and Nancy Wyszynski,, White County Schools
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Italian 3-4, Seats: 88
Via middle school media enrichment class or high school technology class,
students can produce morning announcements for your school. Using PowerPoint
and iMovie, students create a daily show featuring the pledge, lunch menu,
school events, CRCT Word of the Day, This Day in History, green screen, and
more. Shows may be produced in as little as one 45-minute time slot, 24
hours in advance. In broadcast teams, students cross curriculums with all
academic subjects by producing a morning news show. There are no boundaries
to student achievement. This session will provide units of instruction,
lesson plans, grading rubrics, equipment forms, examples, and production
tips. Students learn team-building, real-life job simulation, and technical
applications.
Session: 72 Title: Windows Vista Caveats
Presenter(s): David Millians, University, University of Georgia ETTC
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: German 1-2, Seats: 88
It's here, it's big, and it's really pretty, but it's also got a lot of
things you need to be aware before you think about migrating to it.
Management, financial, equipment, and training needs will all be discussed
so that when it's time to plan, you'll be on the right track.
Session: 73 Title: Zimbra Server: An Open Source Messaging
and Collaboration Suite
Presenter(s): Dwayne Trouille, Valdosta State University, ETTC
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: German 3-4, Seats: 88
Zimbra Server is an open-source solution that can provide email, calendar
sharing, document sharing, and more. Like most open-source solutions, Zimbra
runs on various flavors of the Linux Operating System, which can be
difficult for beginners. This session will help those new or just beginning
to use Linux better understand how to successfully install Zimbra Server on
a Linux-based computer. Areas of discussion will include best practices for
installing the Linux Operating System to better support Zimbra and detailed
steps on installing the Zimbra Server.
Session: 74 Title: Network Consolidation
Presenter(s): Brad Rudisail, Rockdale County Schools
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Australian 3-4, Seats: 88
Less is indeed more with network consolidation. Using current technologies
such as SANs and Virtual Servers, organizations can now accomplish what has
been touted for years, minimizing hardware and support costs while
maximizing network resource efficiency and allocation. Learn how Rockdale
County is embarking on a whole new paradigm in network infrastructure, which
will provide significant cost savings for the future. These savings will not
only save school systems money, but allow them to allocate future technology
funding to accomplish technological aspirations that seem impossible to
address today with the high cost of hardware replacement. The legacy
physical network model is growing too expensive for the K12 environment, and
a model such as that of Rockdale County is the clear formula for the future.
Session: 75 =Title: Two Thumbs Up: A Review of the 2007
Georgia Movie Academy
Presenter(s): Rea Spradley, Heart of Georgia RESA ETTC, and Carl Dekker,
Columbus State University ETTC
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Spanish 1-2, Seats: 88
Grab your popcorn and head off to the movies as we review the myriad of
student-produced videos submitted in the 2007 Georgia Movie Academy (GMA).
You'll be amazed at the quality of these student productions and will be
inspired to start a team of your own for the 2008 competition!
Session: 76 Title: Discovery Education Streaming: From
Superintendent to Student
Presenter(s): Helen Maddox, Paulding County Schools
Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:30, Location: Spanish 3-4, Seats: 88
Technology in the classroom constitutes a blessing and a puzzle. One
solution began with my research of Discovery Education streaming videos and
the three to five percent increase in scores for students. After sharing
this information with our system superintendent, and with a beneficial
relationship between Georgia Public Television (GPB) and UnitedStreaming, we
developed an implementation strategy to rollout UnitedStreaming. Our
approach can work for both large school systems and those with a small staff
development department. This presentation will share information with
Georgia educators about how they can activate their subscription to
Discovery Education streaming (paid for by GPB), the rollout process, demo
of the website, and demonstrations on how to use Assignment Builder to
promote the production of digital projects by students.
