Thursday, November 15:
1:45-2:45
Sessions 134-152
Session: 134 Title: E-books, E-Learning, E-Gads!
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Doug Johnson, Mankato Schools, Minnesota
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 1, Seats: 260
The practical e-book, already here in many forms, will have a significant
impact on our schools, libraries, and our profession. Learn what a real
e-book might contain, based on current products and trends along with
strategies for staying relevant as a physical presence in our schools and
students lives. Fore-warned is fore-armed!
Session: 135 Title: You May not Be a Blogger or a Podcaster,
but Your Students Are
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Meg Ormiston, Tec Teachers
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 2, Seats: 260
What? Many educators don't know if blog and podcast are nouns or verbs; yet
our students are spending countless hours doing both. We can block and
filter all the school day, but as educators we need to know what is going on
and help students understand the long-term effects of what students are
doing online today. All blogs or podcasts are not bad, but students need our
guidance to help make good choices as they craft their messages online. If
you are also a parent, this is a must-attend session!
Session: 136 Title: ABCs, 123s and WWWs: Using the Internet
in Early Learning
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Gail Lovely, Gail Lovely Consulting
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 3, Seats: 260
Explore and examine examples of excellent online resources and activities
for young learners. Focus on WHY these interactive sites are great and HOW
to integrate them into learning experiences in PK-2. Classroom/Technology
management and resource selection is the focus of this session.
Session: 137 Title: Crispen's Guide to What's New and What's
Next
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen, California State University
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 4, Seats: 400
Face it: It's hard enough to understand the technology we already have and
darned near impossible to know what new technology will be worth our time
and (more importantly) our hard-earned money. In this one-hour presentation,
Patrick Crispen dons his futurist hat and helps you cut through the
technology fog to get a sneak peek at some new technologies just over the
horizon.
Session: 138 Title: Command Microsoft Windows from C:
Leveland Get Ready for Server Core, Part 2 of 2
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Mark Minasi
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 5, Seats: 400
This session is a continuation of the Command Microsoft Windows from C:
Leveland Get Ready for Server Core, Part 1 of 2.
Session: 139 Title: Digital Videomaking from the Dark Side:
Photo Story, Movie Maker, and Premiere Elements on Windows XP
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Hall Davidson, Discovery Educator Network
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 6, Seats: 260
The engaging tools of videomaking have now expanded exponentially, with
dead-on simple mediamaking on Windows machines, from the very basics of free
Photo Story to the inexpensive power of Premiere Elements. From the Web,
download video resources, pull them into editing programs where students
rewrite the narration for real learning before exporting for projects. Leave
with a passcode unlocking hundreds of web-based videos. Finally, something
really neat from the Windows world: great titling, greenscreen effects, and
other cool stuff! Get turned by the dark side!
Session: 140 Title: It's Elementary: 25 Ways to Integrate Technology into
the Curriculum
Presenter(s): Stephanie Branson and Lori Dunagan, Fulton County Schools
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 7, Seats: 260
In this session, participants will explore 25 ways to seamlessly integrate
technology into an already jam-packed curriculum. Participants will discover
ways to implement Best Practices through the use of technology. The
presenters will showcase and model the use of interactive whiteboards,
iPods, PC tablets, digital cameras, scanners, and much more. Participants
will leave with information they can use immediately across the content
areas.
Session: 141 Title: Birds of A Feather: (G)eorgia
(E)ducational (T)echnology Together
LEADERSHIP SESSION
Presenter(s): Jill Hobson, Forsyth County Schools
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Salon 8, Seats: 260
GET Together with us to vote on officers for the the Georgia Educationall
Technology Organization! Members will be able to vote and all those
interested in instructional technology in Georgia are encouraged to attend
to learn how to join.
Session: 142 Title: Teacher Websites That Work: Segue CMS
Presenter(s): Angie Bowen and Karl McElwain, Banks County Schools
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Swiss 1-2, Seats: 88
Segue is really a collaborative learning system. It has a granular
permissions structure that allows site owners to assign individuals or
groups to be collaborators and specify precisely what content, page, or
section of the site they can view, discuss, edit, or delete. Contrast this
to e-learning systems such as WebCT or Blackboard in which faculty post the
majority of a course's content with tools available only to them. With
Segue, students can contribute as much as the instructor (or more) to a
course website. In addition, students can make their own websites that can
be associated with a course website or can build a websites for their own
personal use, such as a Weblog or an e-portfolio.
Session: 143 Title: How to Define and Assess Student
Technology Proficiency
Presenter(s): Emily Nichols, Colquitt County Schools, and Laura Hunt,
Learning.com
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Swiss 3-4, Seats: 88
Are our students as tech savvy as we think they are? Sure, they can
multi-task with iPods, cell phones, YouTube, and MySpace, but can they
design an effective presentation or create a graph in a spreadsheet? In
order for schools to turn out graduates who are proficient in technology,
districts must first have an accurate means of measuring students'
technology literacy. This presentation will help you understand how to
accurately define and measure technology proficiency to guide your
assessment efforts. You will find out how Colquitt County and other
districts are using Web-delivered authentic assessment tools to gauge
student technology literacy and how they are using the important data they
gain to inform instruction and meet NCLB accountability requirements.
Attendees will receive a trial log-in.
Session: 144 Title: The Digital Camera Dilemma: Point,
Shoot, Now What?
BYOL SESSION
Presenter(s): Kristina McBride, Kennesaw State University ETTC
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Kenyan 1-2, Seats: 88
Most elementary schools now have access to digital cameras. Join this BYOL
session to learn what to do with those digital images that you or your
students have taken. I will share my favorite easy-to-use, free or
dirt-cheap resources that will help you organize, edit, and publish your
digital images. See examples of how P-5 teachers can use this form of media
to enrich their classrooms. To make this session more beneficial, I
recommend that you visit http://picasa.google.com/index.html to download
Picasa onto your laptop. Be sure to visit the system requirements link for
Picasa. Also, you will need to have digital images available in order to
work with some of the online resources I will share with you.
Session: 145 Title: eWalking through Observations and
Assessments
Presenter(s): Jill Harman and Martha Ann Todd, Meriwether County Schools
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Kenyan 3-4, Seats: 88
Use handhelds (Palm/Treo, Smartphone/Blackberry) for classroom observations
and student assessments. Custom templates can be made online and shared
among users for download to handhelds. Completed observation/assessments are
uploaded to the website for analysis and detailed reports. Templates can
have checklists, number and text entries, rubrics, counters and timers,
scales, pull-downs, and variations. Data can be exported to Excel and other
software.
Session: 146 Title: Enhancing Student Problem Solving
through Databases
Presenter(s): Phillip Horton, Covenant College
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Italian 1-2, Seats: 88
Creating and using a database develops classification and organization
skills and encourages careful thinking and attention to details. This
session will explore ways of using databases to enhance students'
problem-solving skills. Participants will build a simple database in Access
and locate and convert instructionally relevant databases on the Internet.
Session: 147 Title: Making Sense of Math and Science
Technology
Presenter(s): Jeremy Williams, Pioneer RESA ETTC
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Italian 3-4, Seats: 88
Ever wonder what's available for middle school classrooms? We will explore
graphing calculators, data collection devices, probes, sensors, electronic
resources, and many more ready-made products to enhance instruction and to
connect with today's students in math and science. Participants will learn
how to supplement curricular materials and align with the GPS.
Session: 148 Title: GeorgiaStandards.Org Moves Online with
Professional Learning
Presenter(s): Scott Wilson, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: German 1-2, Seats: 88
Come to this session to get a sneak preview of how GeorgiaStandards.Org
(GSO) is working with other GaDOE divisions to provide an online,
collaborative learning space for professional development. GSO is currently
underway with a couple of pilot projects, and plans on an expanding level of
coverage. This session will illustrate a variety of instructional and
collaborative activities including discussion forums, chats, podcasts, video
vignettes, downloadable print-based job-aides, Best Practices, and live
online sessions via Elluminate. A variety of easy-to-use content development
tools will also be briefly discussed.
Session: 149 Title: Improving Efficiency and Securing the
Online Environment
Presenter(s): Michael Richards, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: German 3-4, Seats: 88
With the increased use of Online Learning comes the increased risk of
cheating, plagiarism, and copyright violations. This session will discuss
ideas to help reduce and prevent these activities from occurring. This
session will also discuss ideas to help communication in your organization
to be more efficient and to move all staff members to the intended goals
through the use of orientation and group forum courses.
Session: 150 Title: DPM: Finally, an Easy Approach to Backup
and Data Recovery
Presenter(s): Brian Trent and Michael Simpson, Houston County Schools
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Australian 3-4, Seats: 88
Are you looking for an easy, reliable, fast, and inexpensive method for
backing up your Microsoft servers? Would you like to give users the ability
to recover their own data without contacting technical support? Come see how
two high schools are delivering continuous data protection using seamlessly
integrated disk media and giving users the ability to access data even in
the event of a server failure.
Session: 151 Title: Award-Winning Curriculum Connections
Presenter(s): Suzanne O'Brien and Kathie McDavid, Fulton County Schools
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Spanish 1-2, Seats: 88
Come see how students at Alpharetta Elementary are making movies, creating
their own stories, and putting it all together to create their own websites.
Learn how their teachers inspired them to imagine, create, and develop high
level technology projects that integrate into their everyday curriculum. See
how these projects were created and what resources were necessary to make
them successful in winning a national technology contest.
Session: 152 Title: Math and Science for the 21st Century
Presenter(s): Viki Adams, Pearson
Time: Thursday, 1:45 - 2:45, Location: Spanish 3-4, Seats: 88
The PISA and other international assessments have shown that US students are
falling further and further behind their counterparts in other countries,
particularly in mathematics. This session highlights the ways in which
Pearson is committed to preparing the next generation of learners for global
competition in this critical area. Through spiraling, standards-based
digital curriculum, students are able to develop their math abilities—
from fundamental concepts to complex problem-solving skills. A variety of
learning styles will be addressed, as students receive essential instruction
tailored to their needs. We will explore the resources that allow teachers
to more effectively target their classroom instruction and monitor student
growth. With timely progress data available to administrators, teachers, and
parents, schools will have the support they need to achieve student success
in math.
