Thursday, November 15:
9:30-10:30
Sessions 96-114
Session: 96 Title: Make it Even
Better: Windows Vista Tips and Tricks
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Brent Williams, Kennesaw State University ETTC
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 1, Seats: 260
How many cool tips and tricks for Windows Vista can be jammed into one hour?
Come find out! This session is intended for new and seasoned Vista users
seeking tips and tricks that can make using Vista more productive and fun.
You will leave with a list of mostly free enhancements that make this great
OS even better.
Session: 97 Title: Paper-Trained Teachers in a Video-Game World
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Meg Ormiston, Tec Teachers
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 2, Seats: 260
Students today ARE different in many ways. It takes about 20 seconds of
trying to compete at Playstation with my son to realize we process
information in completely different ways. He zooms up a ramp and does a
trick, and I am still trying to figure out the controls. I am clueless
(direct quote from son) and I give up. My brain can't seem to keep up with
action on the screen while somehow commanding the players to do something
with the buttons on the controller. Luckily, science supports my
unscientific discovery that the brain has actually changed over the years
because of exposure to so many visual images. In the classroom, I am a
paper-trained teacher trying to help these visual learners learn the way I
do. Luckily there are some strategies you can start using immediately after
this session!
Session: 98 Title: If You Don't Have Students' Attention,
They Aren't Learning!
GEORGIA SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Shaun Owen, Columbia County Schools
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 3, Seats: 260
Are your students paying attention? When you are teaching, are their minds
wandering? Many teachers complain about the short attention span of their
students. These same teachers can be spotted at faculty meetings grading
papers and making "to do" lists. Let's face it! In this fast-paced world,
many of us become distracted and bored very
easily (myself included). If you can capture and maintain a student's
attention every day, amazing things can happen—tremendous learning and
growth can take place. After teaching many students' least favorite subject
for many years, I am convinced that we can make dirt interesting! I will
demonstrate how to engage students with the use of only one computer in the
classroom and one digital projector. I will also demonstrate how to create a
"paperless" classroom. You do NOT want to miss this presentation!
Session: 99 Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How Iternet Flters Work,
How They Don't Work, and How Students Bypass Them
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen, California State University
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 4, Seats: 400
Internet filters, those little programs that keep the students from looking
at alt.sex.beastiality.hampsters.duct-tape or www.whitehouse.com, are all
the rage. But how do they work? Are they as "perfect" as we have been led to
believe? How can your students get around them? This session takes you into
the deep underworld of Internet filters.
Session: 100 Title: DCs Get Better: Longhorn's New DCPROMO,
Read-Only DCs, and More, Part 2 of 2
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Mark Minasi
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 5, Seats: 400
This is a continuation of DCs Get Better: Longhorn's New DCPROMO, Read-Only
DCs, and More, Part 1 of 2
Session: 101 Title: Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google
Earth and Media - Part Two
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Hall Davidson, Discovery Educator Network
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 6, Seats: 260
Go beyond the basics. Go to the level beyond simple overlays and placemarks.
Create floating graphics, embed live webcams from their locations around the
world. Freshen up description boxes with pictures and paragraph breaks and
other syntax support. Learn to create flying tours and historical routes
with markers and media along the way. "Broadcast" rotating clips that change
every day on every school desktop! And learn why HTML really is your friend.
Session: 102 Title: "Anty Up"
Presenter(s): Jimmy Bostock, National Science Center ETTC
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 7, Seats: 260
In this session you will see how science and math can be taught together as
you participate in a hands-on activity where you will use graphing
calculators to determine the area of a leaf eaten by a leaf-cutter ant. The
use of graphing calculators, digital scales, interactive whiteboards, and
student response systems will be demonstrated in this session. Walk out
thinking differently about the integration of technology in a science/math
classroom.
Session: 103 Title: Cool for School: GPS Social Studies
Resources in GALILEO
Presenter(s): Lauren Fancher, GALILEO
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Salon 8, Seats: 260
Did you know that Georgia history comes alive in GALILEO? Or that GALILEO
offers many resources mapped to the GPS, such as the premier social studies
resource suite SIRS and the revered Encyclopedia Britannica? Learn more
about valuable content in GALILEO for K-12 education and new directions with
the GPS.
Session: 104 Title: Extending Learning with Student-Created
Music
Presenter(s): Kelly Stewart, Forsyth County Schools
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Swiss 1-2, Seats: 88
In this session, you will learn that everyone can create music. Most of us
can remember the words to our favorite songs from childhood, and with that
in mind, we will take lyrics that contain educational concepts that we make
up in class and set them to music we create with FREE software. You will
leave this session with a song to use to teach. The possibilities are
limitless for use in the classroom.
Session: 105 Title: School Improvement: Student Assessment
and Data Analysis
Presenter(s): Bill Harman, Montgomery County Schools, Rockville, Maryland
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Swiss 3-4, Seats: 88
This session will discuss how to create powerful student data analysis tools
and how schools can use this approach to help monitor student achievement.
Examine how schools have successfully devised plans that focus on improving
student achievement through effective and responsive teaching and learning
programs, including a sustained and consistent analysis of student
achievement, which makes use of both summative and formative data. Using a
database management tool makes it easier for schools to comply with state
and federal data reporting requirements and easier for administrators and
teachers to analyze student achievement and teacher performance.
Session: 106 Title: Second Life for Educators: An
Introduction
BYOL SESSION
Presenter(s): Doug Hearrington, Kennesaw State University
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Kenyan 1-2, Seats: 88
Learn about the potential educational applications of Second Life (SL), a
multi-user virtual environment, by creating an account and exploring this
exciting 3D immersive environment. Take a guided tour of some of the coolest
educational content in SL, learn to find content and locations that may
interest you, and learn to connect with others using SL for educational
purposes.
Session: 107 Title: An AUP is NOT Enough!
Presenter(s): Christopher Wells, Gwinnett County Schools
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Kenyan 3-4, Seats: 88
Protecting students and staff members as they use online resources is not
easy, and your policies should reflect a wide range of use of the school's
or district's technology. While having your students and staff members sign
an AUP is a great practice, this workshop takes a practical approach to
crafting school technology policies and procedures that can be implemented
and communicated effectively as well as build support for your
technology-based instructional activities. This interactive, engaging
session examines emerging policy and legal components of instructional
technology in our schools, as well as providing a template for current
policy evaluations. Additionally, lessons from Georgia's largest school
district will be shared to help you prepare effectively in your school or
district.
Session: 108 Title: The Interactive Classroom
Presenter(s): Julia Osteen and Mike Adam, Greater Atlanta Christian School
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Italian 1-2, Seats: 88
Looking for students to take on more responsibility for learning? Looking
for ways to make your classroom more interactive? Then this session is for
you! The workshop will explore teaching strategies and approaches that "tune
students in" to content and learning and the role technology can play. The
mission of the session is to "give it so they get it" with the goal of
turning "listeners into learners."
Session: 109 Title:
Supported Learning Beyond the Book 
Presenter(s): Bonnie Hill, Freedom Scientific/LSG
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Italian 3-4, Seats: 88
Whether your lessons are from a book, the Web, or a wiki, students with
difficulty reading may struggle with how to initially obtain information,
how to read it, how to comprehend it, and how to use it. While many students
face challenges in accessing print material in traditional format, there is
an option for improving student achievement through use of the Internet and
assistive technology. Using GALILEO and WYNN 5.1 text-to-speech software,
the presenter will introduce the software, conduct an Internet search, and
read webpages aloud using multiple modalities. Built-in tools will be used
to enhance comprehension of Web content, isolate and extract key
information, and provide strategies to assist with learning and writing.
Session: 110 Title: 2007 Data Utilization Guide
GaDOE SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Terris Ross, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: German 1-2, Seats: 88
The Data Utilization Guide is a resource for Georgia educators for data
interpretation, use, and analysis. It is meant to be a one-stop handbook
that includes introductory to advanced-level topics. Some of the topics
addressed within the guide include data-driven decision making and
assessment terminology, descriptions of Georgia assessments (and how to
interpret score reports), assessing students with disabilities, step-by-step
instructions on how to use the Georgia Online Assessment System, NAEP Web
Tools, Excel data analysis tools, automated macros that assist in the
disaggregation, analyses, and presentation of student-level data, basic AYP
terminology, and professional learning presentations to share with your
staff. This session will review the 2007 Data Utilization Guide updates as
well as demonstrate several Excel tools available to analyze assessment
data.
Session: 111 Title: Implementing Open Technologies: A Case
Study
GaDOE SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Jim Klein, Saugus Union School District, Santa Clarita,
California
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: German 3-4, Seats: 88
While open technologies are fast making inroads into education, few examples
of relevant, widespread implementations in a K-12 setting have been offered.
From infrastructure to classroom applications, this session will demonstrate
tangible benefits and real-world examples of open solutions in action on a
large scale. Discover the value of open technologies as well as their impact
on ed-tech innovation from the perspective of a large Southern California
school district with a well-established open technologies program.
Session: 112 Title: Exemplary and Exceptional Library Media
Programs: High School and Middle School Level
Presenter(s): Judy Serritella, Georgia Department of Education, Jill Rose,
Fulton County Schools, and Holly Canup, Jackson County Schools
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Australian 3-4, Seats: 88
Media specialists from the Exemplary and Exceptional Library Media Programs
on the high school and middle school levels will describe the application
process and discuss their library media programs. Jill Rose, Kathleen
Disney, Betsy Razza, Holly Canup, and Janis Hayden will present.
Session: 113 Title: Make Your Curriculum Come Alive with
Student-Created Clay Animations
Presenter(s): Dale von Kohr, West Georgia RESA ETTC, and Elizabeth Buyer,
Tech4Learning
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Spanish 1-2, Seats: 88
Clay animation is a highly motivating and effective way to engage students
in curriculum objectives while improving retention of important classroom
concepts. Clay animation bridges the gap between the tangible and the
technical, making it a perfect hands-on approach to learning. Students can
use it to explain chemical, physical, and biological process; recreate
historical events; summarize literature; and more. Come explore the process
of making clay animation, project ideas, classroom management strategies,
and assessment.
Session: 114 Title: Focusing Digital Media Resources to
Enhance Instruction
Presenter(s): Fred Whitehouse, Safari Montage - Library Video Company
Time: Thursday, 9:30 - 10:30, Location: Spanish 3-4, Seats: 88
Using digital video in instruction has become an imperative to reach and
prepare students for the 21st century. Managing digital resources has many
challenges: distribution, storage, digital rights management, tying to state
standards, easily tying to lesson plans and effectively focusing on
classroom instruction. Learn how Safari Montage, a video on demand system,
can help manage and focus these critical resources in your school or across
your district.
