W1: Creating Interactive and
Engaging Content with Adobe Captivate
Presenter: Patrick Crispen
Affiliation: California State University, Long Beach
Tuesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Australian 1-2 Seats: 24 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Want to know how to create your own, on-screen tutorials but don’t have
time to learn a complicated multimedia program? This workshop is for you!
In this quick-paced, hands-on, three-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to
create and edit your own screencasts using the latest version of Adobe
Captivate. You’ll also learn how to use Captivate’s branching tools to
create realistic, scenario-based simulations; how to create online quizzes
that test your students’ mastery of the topic you’re teaching; and even how
to create screencasts and simulations that are accessible to people with
disabilities.
W2: 44 Fun, Fast and Flashy Ways to use
Digital Cameras in the Classroom 
Presenter: Tony Brewer
Affiliation: Brewer Technology and Learning
Tuesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Board Room 1 Seats: 20 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Join author Tony Brewer to learn the engaging use of
digital cameras and Photo Story in your classroom. Each participant will
learn to create an exciting new way to introduce lessons. You will leave
with a clear understanding of how Photo Story presentations can become a
foundation upon which to build a library of fantastic, lesson-enhancing
presentations. For Windows XP users.
W3: Getting Started with Moodle
Presenter: Stephen Rahn
Affiliation: Kennesaw State University ETTC
Tuesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Board Room 2 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
In this workshop, educators will be introduced to the
popular open-source online course creation tool known as Moodle.
Participants will be given access to a live server and will be able to
create an actual course they can use.
W4: Seeing is Believing: The
Power of Information Visualization
Presenters: Jeff Giddens
Affiliation: First District ETTC
Tuesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Board Room 3 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Information visualization is a powerful means of helping
students comprehend complex concepts. Come learn how to make hard- to-grasp
ideas more understandable through the use of visual media. Using a number of
free digital resources dedicated to the creation of 3D models, virtual
worlds, and other effective instructional graphics, participants will learn
techniques for making learning more engaging and meaningful.
W5: Windows Vista in the
Real World
Presenter: Brent Williams
Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
Tuesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Location: Swiss 3-4 Seats: 24 Cost: $75 (Includes breakfast)
Windows Vista is a powerful and capable
desktop operating system that will eventually become commonplace in schools.
This hands-on workshop will take you through using Vista in a real-world
school environment, with a brief walk-through of basic features, followed by
focusing on Vista in a Microsoft domain, securing Vista, Vista Group
Policies, and more. Our objective will be to make sure you leave this
session knowing what it takes to have a successful Vista deployment in your
schools. This session is intended for anyone involved in the management,
deployment, or troubleshooting of school technology. Attendees should be
comfortable with Windows operating systems in general and familiar with
basic networking concepts.
Tuesday
Afternoon,
November 13,
1:00-4:00
W6: What’s New in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Presenter: Patrick Crispen
Affiliation: California State University, Long Beach
Tuesday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Australian 1-2 Seats: 24 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)|
Designed
for educators who already have extensive, hands-on experience with previous
versions of Dreamweaver, this fast-paced, three-hour, hands-on workshop
shows you how to take advantage of some of the latest features in the most
recent version of Dreamweaver. Topics include Spry widgets and effects, the
device preview tools, and an in-depth review of how to create and layout
pages using cascading style sheets.
W7: TI and the 21st
Century Classroom
Presenters: Matthew Bohon
Affiliation: Riverside Military Academy
Tuesday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Board Room 1 Seats: 20 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Come see the latest in classroom technology from Texas
Instruments. This is a hands-on workshop with lots of take home materials
and activities aligned to the new GPS.
W8: LEGO Education
Robotics: Programmed to learn STEM!
Presenter: Fred Stillwell, Kristie Brown
Affiliation: Cobb County Schools, LEGO Education
Tuesday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Board Room 2 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Teachers will have the opportunity to work with the new LEGO MINDSTORMS
NXT for Education. This is the latest addition to the LEGO Mindstorms
Robotics line. Meshing Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM)
with the latest in robotics technology, the NXT will provide an
unprecedented learning opportunity for your students. The topics of robotics
curriculum, competitions, and beginning approaches to LEGO robotics will be
covered.
W9: Forget
Paper Forms: Create Interactive Forms from Static Forms with Acrobat 8
Presenter: Mary Starke
Affiliation: Muscogee County Schools
Tuesday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Location: Board Room 3 Seats: 12 Cost: $75 (Includes
lunch)
Does your class, school, or district website use forms to collect
instructional or administrative data? Do these forms have to be printed out?
Is anybody tired of deciphering the handwriting on these printouts and then
having to type all this information into a document? Would you like for your
website visitors to be able to type their data into your online forms? Would
you like for them to be able to save their entered data in a pdf file, (even
though they are using the free Adobe Reader--not Acrobat)? Would you like
for the data from all respondents to wind up in one Excel file? In this
workshop, you will learn how to use Acrobat 8 to automatically recognize
fields in old static forms. This not-perfect-but-still-awesome procedure
will get you started with converting old forms into interactive forms. You
will also learn how to design different controls to collect data, how to
enable your website visitors to save their data, and how to configure a
submit button to collect the data the way you choose.
W10: Installing Joomla, an Open Source Web CMS System
Presenter: Jim Wright
Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
Tuesday Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
NOTE: Change in
Location: Kenyan 1-2 Seats: 24 Cost: $75 (Includes lunch)
Joomla is a powerful, open source Content Management System
(CMS) that allows you to build and maintain complex database driven
websites. Joomla contains dozens of features that you see on the web for
free—for example, RSS feeds, user management, blogs, FAQs, forums, polls,
calendars, printable page versions, PDF creation, and website searching. In
the workshop, you will learn how to install and configure Joomla, install
and set up site templates, understand user creation, permissions, and
configurations, and learn how to publish and manage online content.
