Friday, November 16: 9:45-10:45
Sessions 211-230
Session: 211 Title: Do You Need a
Second Life?
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Doug Johnson, Mankato Schools, Minnesota
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 1, Seats: 260
Simulated 3-D environments like Second Life are being called Web 3.0. How do
teachers and librarians get started using these new tools, what might they
find in these worlds, and what are the learning opportunities such
environments might present?
Session: 212 Title: Making Wireless Networks Work in 10 Easy
Steps
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Brent Williams, Kennesaw State University ETTC
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 2, Seats: 260
Wireless networks are an essential part of educational environments in
schools and at home. Installed correctly, wireless networks provide fast,
flexible, and secure communications for students, teachers, and
administrators. However, poor installations are common and result in
frustration and potential security issues for everyone. This session will
focus on 10 easy steps that school systems, teachers, and students can take
to make the most of their wireless network environment. This session is
appropriate for all technical levels. "
Session: 213 Title: Hidden Treasures and Tools: Using Office in the
Classroom
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Gail Lovely, Gail Lovely Consulting
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 3, Seats: 260
Use the tools built into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to create learning
materials or to provide learning opportunities to students. Remember the
things you forgot Word can do and learn new ways to use PowerPoint and Excel
to your advantage.
Session: 214 Title: The Good Bad and the Ugly: Learning How
to Take Effective Digital Pictures
FEATURED SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Leslie Fisher, Fisher Technologies
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 4, Seats: 400
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: 215 Title: Ensuring Eighth-Grade Technology
Literacy through a Free Online Assessment
Presenter(s): Lisa Watkins, Sandra Richards, and Roberta Reasoner, Georgia
Department of Education
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 5, Seats: 400
In this GaDOE session, learn how GaDOE's Georgia Virtual School and Title
II-D plan to develop and roll out an eighth-grade technology literary
assessment free to schools throughout the state of Georgia. Its relation to
Title II-D, technology literacy standards, the assessment tool, and
evaluation reports will be discussed.
Session: 216 Title: 21st Century S.T.A.R.S.
Presenter(s): Gail Hendrix, Cobb County Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 6, Seats: 260
Whenever a teacher announces a research project, the announcement is often
met with an audible groan from students and an inward groan from the
teacher. Use technology (hardware, software, Internet) in every phase of the
research process (thesis, planning, determining appropriate resources,
taking notes, citing resources, product submission, evaluation) to increase
student engagement, lessen teacher paperwork, and meet curriculum,
technology, and information literacy standards. Receive ready-made plans,
templates, and rubrics that can be adapted to accommodate multiple subject
areas. Shine like one of the 21st century S.T.A.R.S.
Session: 217 Title: Formative Student Assessments Using
Technology
Presenter(s): Hayley Rechtorovic, Thomaston-Upson Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 7, Seats: 260
The session will include how to use Activstudio and Activotes as assessment
tools and will show how to read and print results. My students and I will
show how the use of technology in assessments is a fool-proof way of seeing
what concepts the students have grasped and what might need to be re-taught.
Session: 218 Title: The New Look You've Been Waiting For
Presenter(s): Karen Minton and Katie Gohn, GALILEO
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Salon 8, Seats: 260
Get a sneak peek at the new GALILEO interfaces with a new, friendly look and
feel for all K-12 grade levels. The Kids interface (elementary), the Teen
interface (middle school), and the High School interface have been designed
with lots of user testing and feedback from the K-12 community to make
GALILEO a more intuitive and appealing environment for students.
Session: 219 Title: Our NOBLE Endeavor: New Opportunities
for Better Learning Environments
Presenter(s): Steve Mashburn, Forsyth County Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Swiss 1-2, Seats: 88
Forsyth County Schools has adopted ANGEL as our online Learning Management
System (LMS). We have implemented it in all four high schools this fall and
will implement the LMS in all eight middle schools in the winter. The LMS
allows teachers to post assignments, assessments, discussion boards,
surveys, and multimedia in an online repository for students and parents to
access this material 24/7. ANGEL is an integral part of our New
Opportunities for Better Learning Environments (NOBLE) Endeavor, which
attempts to transcend the limitations of time, space, and resources in order
to help students achieve their greatest potential. As the first school
system in Georgia to make a commitment to an LMS for all secondary school
teachers, we are striving to assure that for our students, the learning
never stops.
Session: 220 Title: Technology for Learning: Charting a New
Path for the 21st Century
Presenter(s): Gary Shattuck, Newton County Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Swiss 3-4, Seats: 88
This session will give a quick review of past technology in schools in order
to learn why they failed to transform learning. This discussion will evolve
into how technology should be used in order to facilitate learning in the
21st century and why this time we must be successful. Consideration will be
given to the debate between Integrated Learning Systems (drill and practice)
and more innovative uses to technology that enhances critical thinking and
problem solving.
Session: 221 Title: GPB Education Technology in Education
(TIE) Network
BYOL SESSION
Presenter(s): Katherine Aiken, Georgia Public Broadcasting
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Kenyan 1-2, Seats: 88
Have you heard about the GPB Education Technology in Education (TIE)
Network? This FREE network provides collaborating and professional
development opportunities for Georgia educators. If you want to interact
with other Georgia educators who are excited about technology, then you
won't want to miss this session. Current TIE Network members will discuss
the benefits of the network, the regional events sponsored by GPB Education,
and the online community, including a website with teacher-created
technology projects and more.
Session: 222 Title: Share the Best!
Presenter(s): Lynda Byrne, Columbus State University ETTC, and Kathy
Politis, Georgia Department of Education
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Kenyan 3-4, Seats: 88
Georgia classrooms are being transformed! Educators from across the state
are adapting educational technologies to their performance- and
standards-based classroom teaching. What's being done in your school? Pour
yourself a cup of coffee, have a seat, and bring ideas and strategies being
implemented in your school. Let's share some of Georgia's best initiatives
in this relaxed, open, roundtable discussion. Catch the excitement!
Session: 223 Title: Mathematics, Children's Literature, and
Internet Activities
Presenter(s): Deborah McAllister, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
and Shirley McDonald, Catoosa County Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Italian 1-2, Seats: 88
Participants will view websites that link mathematics activities and
children's literature for elementary grades. Links include authors' sites,
online stories and activities, lesson plans, and summaries. Activities are
correlated to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards with
each of the ten curriculum standards represented by several books and
websites.
Session: 224 Title: 1:1 Computers on a 7:1 Budget
Presenter(s): Van Montesclaros, Columbus State University ETTC
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Italian 3-4, Seats: 88
Schools on tight budgets need to make the most of existing computers. For a
fraction of the cost of new computers, a little-known solution may make it
possible to put up to seven students on a single computer simultaneously.
It's called nComputing, and it just might stretch your current computing
resources. Attend this session to get an overview of how it works
technically, and see if it can help you improve your student-to-computer
ratio.
Session: 225 Title: Rolling Out a Dual-Purpose Computer Lab
Presenter(s): Cindy Bird and Edward Gowen, Macon State College ETTC
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: German 1-2, Seats: 88
During this transitional time, instructional labs need to be flexible to
meet the training needs for Windows XP and Vista operating systems. This
session will cover adapting a single lab to both operating systems, along
with Office 2003 and Office 2007.
Session: 226 Title: Open-Source Classroom Applications That
Are Ready for Prime Time
GaDOE SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Presenter(s): Jim Klein, Saugus Union School District, Santa Clarita,
California
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: German 3-4, Seats: 88
Every day, educators read and hear more about open-source applications that
could be used in the classroom and wonder if they should jump on the
open-source bandwagon. This session will consider specific examples of the
"best" open-source applications being used and how they might be integrated
into the curricula. Learn about some of the most popular applications, as
well as programs that are not as widely used but have the potential to
become significant in the near future. Discover how innovative school
districts have implemented open-source programs at the classroom/desktop
level and what they have learned from the experience.
Session: 227 Title: My Seatmate Lives in China: The Global
Collaboration Imperative
Presenter(s): Vicki Davis, Westwood Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Australian 1-2, Seats: 88
In days when the media polarizes nations, this high school teacher has seen
greater cultural understanding and technical proficiency through Global
Collaborative Projects such as the Horizon Project (horizonproject.wikispaces.com)
and the Flat Classroom Project (flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com). Find
out how it's done, why it's beneficial, and where she predicts such projects
need to go in the future. (Winner ISTE's Award for Best Online Learning
Project 2007)
Session: 228 Title: LDAP: Hook Up Your Users to Everything!
Presenter(s): David Millians, University of Georgia ETTC
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Australian 3-4, Seats: 88
It'd be fun to try things like Moodle, Drupal, and other open source tools,
but managing hundreds of new users won't be fun. Learn some tips on
connecting web apps to your existing databases of users and how to avoid
multiple logins.
Session: 229 Title: Picture This! Simple Digital Photo
Activities for K-5 Students
Presenter(s): Melanie Holbrook and Candace Frazier, Rockdale County Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Spanish 1-2, Seats: 88
This session will provide examples of quick and easy digital photography
activities completed by K-5 students. You will receive a handout with 101+
ideas for photography activities and projects you can do tomorrow with very
little advance preparation. Internet links, hints, cheap publishing
techniques, and more will also be shared. Today's students have been exposed
to digital and video images all of their lives. In order to compete for
their attention, our lessons have to be colorful, interactive, and
fast-paced. Digital photography projects are fast, versatile, and compliment
a wide variety of academic subjects and learning styles, especially visual
and kinesthetic. Aside from the immediate benefits, the products of these
lessons are wonderful tools for reinforcement and review.
Session: 230 Title: Get the Max Out of Your Flash Drive
Presenter(s): Debbie Valdez and Adam Meador, Buford City Schools
Time: Friday, 9:45 - 10:45, Location: Spanish 3-4, Seats: 88
You all have them—iPods and flash drives—but do you get the max out of
them? What if you needed to access a Word document but did not have a
computer with Word on it? You could use a portable app. These offer you the
freedom to move among computers that do not have the software you use on a
regular basis. There is a variety of portable apps available including an
office suite compatible with Microsoft Office, a web editor, a sound editor
and recorder, an image editor, a calendar, and many more. The best part is
that they are free! Come to this session to learn where to download them and
how to use them. Someone will win a flash drive!
