Thursday Morning, November 15, 9:00-12:00

W15:  Wide World of Wikis: Assessment, Collaboration, and Peer Review
Presenter:  Vicki Davis
Affiliation:  Westwood Schools
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location:  Australian 1-2  Seats:  24  Cost:  $75 (Includes breakfast)
Unleash the powerful cooperative learning environment of wikis in your classroom. Learn how to use, assess, and coordinate a wiki project. Learn how to integrate a wiki with your blog and the strategies for effective peer review. After you understand wiki basics, you will learn how the presenter-coordinated, award-winning classroom wiki projects with classrooms in five countries and the Flat Classroom project with a classroom in Bangladesh won first place in ISTE™s SIGTel Telelearning Award 2007.

W16:  Using Google Tools in the Classroom
Presenter:  Alan Preis
Affiliation:  Atlanta International School
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location:  Board Room 1  Seats: 20  Cost:  $75 (Includes breakfast)
In addition to a search engine, Google offers a number of tools including a word processor and spreadsheet, an online calendar, online maps, and an RSS reader. Best of all, it’s all free!  This session will provide a hands-on introduction to Google tools and how to use them in your classroom.

W17:  Meeting the Cyberthreat Challenge
Presenter:  Sue Dowling
Affiliation:  Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location:  Board Room 2  Seats: 12  Cost:  $75 (Includes breakfast)
While using the variety of communications technologies available, children are often inadvertently exposing themselves to cyberthreats. This workshop will provide an overview of these threats and a discussion of schools’ responsibilities. Participants will be introduced to techniques commonly used to find online information about individuals and how these resources can be exploited by nefarious characters. Hands-on activities will be integrated into the workshop. An overview of available resources for schools and families will be available.

W18:  Wii all Learn Together
Presenter:  Tina Sartori
Affiliation:  Computrac
Thursday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location:  Board Room 3  Seats: 12  Cost:  $75 (Includes breakfast)
This session will provide an overview on the growing trend of gaming as an instructional tool in the classroom. The research of leaders in this field such as Kurt Squire, Henry Jenkins, James Paul Gee, and Sasha Barab will be presented. Examples of educational games will be demonstrated to include the use of online gaming, simulations, and gaming systems such as the Wii. Each attendee will receive a CD that includes all information presented.

Thursday Afternoon, November 15, 1:00-4:00

W19: GPB: More Than You Can Imagine!
Presenter: Katherine Aiken
Affiliation: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Thursday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Australian Room 1-2   Seats: 24   Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
This session will focus on all of the cool free resources available to all Georgia educators from Georgia Public Broadcasting. This hands-on session will not only provide you with ideas and resources, but will also take you into the world of United Streaming. You will walk away with tons of ideas that can be implemented in your classroom immediately!

W20:  Digital Age of Learning
Presenter:  Sonny Magana
Affiliation:  Promethean
Thursday Afternoon,  1:00-4:00
Location:  Board Room 1   Seats: 20  Cost:  $75 (Includes lunch)
Description:  Today’s students live in a multimedia world. This demonstration will show the technology that has been integrated into daily instruction and the strategies teachers are using to reach digital students. During the presentation, we will present how technology is addressing the learning styles of all students and engaging them to succeed. Incorporating the right technology can motivate digital natives to become enriched with their learning.  In addition, with the right technology, teachers work collaboratively to build and deliver more engaging and enriching lessons.

W21:  Google Earth to Educators: An Introduction
Presenter:  Doug Hearrington
Affiliation:  Kennesaw State University
Thursday Afternoon,  1:00-4:00
Location:  Board Room 2   Seats: 12  Cost:  $75 (Includes lunch)
In this workshop, participants will become familiar with and learn to use the free Google Earth (GE) program as an educational tool. Participants will gain the ability to create place marks, tours, and map overlays as well as use tools with GE to calculate area, perimeter, distance, and make graphs to show things like population values of cities or states. Applications of GE for geography, math, science, English, and history will be discussed.

W22:  Photostory: Digital Story Telling by Students and Maybe Even Teachers!
Presenter:  Laura Gunter
Affiliation:  Freedom Middle School
Thursday Afternoon,  1:00-4:00
Location:  Board Room 3   Seats: 12  Cost:  $75 (Includes lunch)
Using free software, students can create stories using pictures, text, narration, and sound. Come learn how you can have your young learners (we have second graders doing it) creating digital stories in no time at all.  Once your students master it, they can teach their teachers how to use it!