Thursday, November 15
3:00-4:00
Sessions 153-171
Session: 153 Title: Libraries for the
Net Generation
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Doug Johnson, Mankato Schools , Minnesota
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 1, Seats: 260
Schools and libraries will be more effective if educators acknowledge the
unique attributes and preferences of the Net Generation and adapt
educational environments to suit students instead of trying to change their
basic natures. This session looks at the unique attributes of today's
students and proposes a Net Gen learning environment.
Session: 154 Title: Digital Storytelling: The Key to
Reaching Learners of All Abilities
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Meg Ormiston, Tec Teachers
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 2, Seats: 260
Instead of huddling around the campfire, experience the power of digital
storytelling with surround sound. Grab the students with powerful images and
storylines that reach their emotions and engage them in the curriculum.
Understand the process through careful study of various examples created by
teachers, professionals, and students. Create an action plan to bring
powerful digital storytelling to your classroom
Session: 155 Title: Web 2.0 Meets Grade 2.0
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Gail Lovely, Gail Lovely Consulting
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 3, Seats: 260
Explore the possibilities of Web 2.0 tools such as Skype, YackPack, and
BubbleShare in the primary classroom. Explore wikis and their possibilities,
examine online environments, and understand some of the implications of the
newer things in the online world for young learners. The focus is on
teaching and learning in the curriculum areas. This session will examine the
tools and share implementation strategies while focusing on curriculum
integration—not just whiz bang!
Session: 156 Title: Keeping Up with the Googlebots
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen, California State University
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 4, Seats: 400
Hardly a week goes by that the evil scientists at Google's secret labs don't
release some new or completely redesigned tool upon the unsuspecting public.
In this completely updated, one-hour presentation we'll attempt the
impossible: We're going to try to catch up with all of or at least most of
Google's latest inventions.
Session: 157 Title: Deploying Vista, Part 1 of 2
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Mark Minasi
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 5, Seats: 400
Every few years, Microsoft unveils some new technology to make deploying
systems easier, and it's usually not good news. Remote Installation Services
was nice, but it fell a bit short. So Microsoft went back to the drawing
board and created a panoply of new deployment tools, and here's the good
news: they’re pretty darn cool, and don't cost a cent. The only bad news is
that there's so much new stuff—ImageX, WIM files, WSIM, WinPE and a bunch
more—that getting started with these neat new tools can seem overwhelming.
Join Mark Minasi in a guided tour of what's new and cool in Microsoft
deployment tools. Ghost, watch out!
Session: 158 Title: Creating Effective PDF Lesson Plans
Easily
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Leslie Fisher, Fisher Technologies
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 6, Seats: 260
Maybe you know how to create a .pdf, but do you know it can also be an
interactive form? Multimedia Project? OCR? Data Collector? Leslie Fisher
will show you how to make interactive .pdf lessons plans and will highlight
all of the cool things that can be added to a .pdf. The class will conclude
with some online .pdf resources.
Session: 159 Title: Active Science Teaching with Promethean
Activstudio with Blended Tools
Presenter(s): Gautam Saha, Gwinnett County Schools
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 7, Seats: 260
Would you like to know how to pick the right tool for your classroom? Would
you like to know how to use the tool effectively in your classroom? How
about getting away from the concept of "using technology for the sake of
technology"? This session will show you how to unlock the power of
Promethean Activstudio in your classroom. You will learn about many powerful
but free open-source applications that blend and fit superbly with
Activstudio. When these tools are used appropriately, it will give your
students the "Aha! I get it now" feeling.
Session: 160 Title: Birds of a Feather for Technology
Coordinators/CIOs
LEADERSHIP SESSION
Presenter(s): Bailey Mitchell, Forsyth County Schools
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Salon 8, Seats: 260
The job of overseeing a school district's technology program has grown
exponentially in recent years as technology has become essential to learning
and the daily operation of schools. Interact with other technology leaders
to identify Best Practices and challenges to take instruction to the next
level where students are actively engaged, thinking critically, analyzing
information, communicating, and collaborating in teams—all hallmarks of
skills required for success in the 21st century.
Session: 161 Title: Effective Strategies to Facilitate
Online Learning
Presenter(s): Christina Clayton, Kennesaw State University
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Swiss 1-2, Seats: 88
Not really sure how to facilitate an online course? This session will
provide you with strategies to organize, create, and facilitate an online
course successfully. Strategies such as course design, effective online
communication, and innovative teaching techniques will be discussed. This
session is intended for anyone who is interested in online course
facilitation.
Session: 162 Title: Practical Uses of Assessment Data
Presenter(s): Sarah Odom, STI
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Swiss 3-4, Seats: 88
This session will pose various questions based on scientifically based
research that helps users of assessment data make better decisions.
Participants will then answer the questions using TestSCOPE reports within
STI Assessment. Participants will be able to identify not only what
questions to ask of their data, but where to find the data and what to do
with it.
Session: 163 Title: The Teacher's 21st Century Toolkit: Free Web 2.0 Tools
for Your Class
BYOL SESSION
Presenter(s): Jill Pless, Pioneer RESA ETTC
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Kenyan 1-2, Seats: 88
What technology skills do today's students need to be successful when they
exit school? What is Web 2.0? How can Web 2.0 tools be used in my classroom?
All of these questions and others will be answered in this BYOL session.
Explore a variety of tools for today's classroom. The tools presented in
this session will help teachers provide an engaging learning environment
that encourages student participation and discovery. Go beyond the typical
hardware and software found in today's classroom. Create an innovative
environment for your students that will help prepare them for their world
after school. Topics will include 21st century classrooms, professional
development, blogging, wikis, podcasting, open-source software, and webtop
applications.
Session: 164 Title: Email Archiving and the New Open Records
Laws
Presenter(s): Michael Kessler, Gaggle.Net
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Kenyan 3-4, Seats: 88
According to
the new federal rulings passed by the Supreme Court in December, 2006,
school districts are required to archive all electronically stored
information, including email, that could be considered evidence in the event
of a lawsuit. Many companies are providing archiving solutions for school
districts in light of these new laws, but often their terminology can be
confusing and difficult to understand. In this session, come learn the
essentials about email archiving and what features you should consider when
choosing an email archiving solution. This session will cover different
types of archiving available, the importance of spam and virus protection as
it relates to archiving, and much more. Come learn about the new Open Record
Laws and updating your district's email archiving policy.
Session: 165 Title: Eduphoria Has Three New Tools You Can't
Live Without! Come See!
Presenter(s): Gail Dinkelkamp, Eduphoria
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Italian 1-2, Seats: 88
SchoolObjects:
Workshop is a professional development management system that streamlines
staff course registration and portfolios. After the course is completed,
it's added to the teacher's portfolio along with teaching credentials, state
hours, GT credit hours, mandatory district hours—whatever you want to
track!SchoolObjects: Appraise can be accessed via a Web browser, allowing
principals to work on appraisals from school or home. Teacher self-reports,
observation documents, walk-throughs, summative evaluations, and
intervention plans are all stored in one location. SchoolObjects: Helpdesk
gives you the tools and the data to streamline any service department.
Tickets can be created for any department maintenance, technology, or
instructional technology. Anywhere a teacher needs assistance can turn into
a category and let you manage both requests and responses.
Session: 166 Title: Entrepreneurs in a Digital Classroom
Presenter(s): Chester Fuller, Rockdale County Schools, and Julia Fuller,
Henry County Schools
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Italian 3-4, Seats: 88
Participants will learn about digitizing the way students learn in business
education. In this entrepreneurship class students in a lab setting are
learning HTML and web design principles for creating their own home-based
business websites. Students are using the Internet to critique commercial
websites, as well as research about the role of entrepreneurship in society.
The presenter will share the technology-infused lessons aligned to the
Georgia Performance Standards and display examples of students' work. The
discussion will include lesson presentation ideas, lab management
techniques, and cross-curricular concepts. Participants will learn some
HTML, including ALT tags and forms. Attendees will receive packets
containing lesson plans and PowerPoints for use in their classrooms.
Session: 167 Title: Accelerating School Improvement:
Aligning Technology Solutions
LEADERSHIP SESSION
Presenter(s): Ann Ware, Brian Blanton, and Steve Thompson, Henry County
Schools
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: German 1-2, Seats: 88
Dr. Alan Bain in The Self-Organizing School: Next-Generation Comprehensive
School Reforms, reports that technology enables, empowers, and accelerates
the essential or core transactions undertaken by professionals. This session
will provide a practical application of what researchers are recommending to
accelerate school improvement. Alignment of technology-enabling solutions to
the district and school continuous improvement planning process will be
provided supporting the acceleration of school improvement. Examples of how
technology can enable components of GaDOE's Keys to Quality will be
provided.
Session: 168 Title: Credit Recovery Online: Helping Schools
Help Students
Presenter(s): Stephanie Dunbar and Jay Heap, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: German 3-4, Seats: 88
Georgia Virtual School, in collaboration with the GaDOE's Office of School
Improvement, is developing and implementing an online credit recovery
program that is free to Georgia public schools. This session will focus on
the progress and implementation of the program as well as on the strategies
behind its development. The online credit recovery development use core
academic courses as a basis for instruction while converting the material to
a teacherless, any-pace, any-time learning environment aimed at students who
have unsuccessfully attempted the course in either online or direct learning
models. Other GaDOE initiatives that the Georgia Virtual School is working
on will also be highlighted.
Session: 169 Title: The Data, Information, Knowledge
Hierarchy
Presenter(s): David Lamatina, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Australian 3-4, Seats: 88
This session will review the field of decision-support applications. Using
Ackoff's (1989) model of understanding, characteristics of applications that
support educational decision makers will be explored. Examples of converting
educational data into actionable information will be considered.
Session: 170 Title: Open
Source and Freeware Software vs. Commercial Software 
Presenter(s): Chris Giddens, Heart of Georgia ETTC
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Spanish 1-2, Seats: 88
Have you ever found software that will do exactly what you need for your
computer, classroom, or network, only to find out it costs way more than your
school district or business can afford? In this session, you will learn
about open-source alternatives to commercial software that can do just as
good or better and get the job done for you in your district or classroom.
Session: 171 Title: Video Production for Everyone: Tips and
Techniques
Presenter(s): Larry Moore, Columbus State University
Time: Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, Location: Spanish 3-4, Seats: 88
Create
exciting and student-centered video productions in all grade levels using
the tips and techniques described in this session. This session will
describe the video process from pre-planning through production and editing
to creating a DVD of your movie. Participants will learn about storyboards,
lighting, camera and sound techniques, capture and editing, special effects,
and compression. Plus, discover some simple techniques for directing
non-professional kids and adults. The session will use Apple's iMovie for
capture and editing, but the skills and techniques presented can be adapted
to any digital capture and editing program.
