Title:   Friday Nights in Georgia: Time to Showcase Students Using Technology
Presenters: Athens Academy
ETTC: University of Georgia
Date: Wednesday
Contact: Mike Callinan
Football games on fall Friday nights in Georgia are special times to showcase your students' extraordinary talents. Whether it's players demonstrating athleticism, cheerleaders showing spirit, or musicians sharing their music, now your technology-savvy students can showcase these talents to the world via a live streaming webcast. On September 9, 2001, Athens Academy was one of the first schools in the country to webcast live home football games. Each year, new students volunteer to learn and enhance these webcasts to include instant replay and pre-game and halftime shows of school activities that were viewed last season by grandparents in London, alumni in China, relatives serving on aircraft carriers at sea, and thousands of football fans across the state. This session will show you how to do it!

Title:  Technology Clubs as a Tool to Bridge the Digital Divide
Presenters: Naomi Elementary School, Paulding County
ETTC: Dalton State College
Date: Wednesday
Contact: Ge-Anne Bowdoin
This session will discuss ways to create, publicize, and promote a school-level Technology Club that can help your school bridge the Digital Divide for ALL stakeholders. The Technology Club from Naomi Elementary School , the CompuKats will be featured. Topics to be covered include: creating a vision for your club, podcasting, inviting the community's involvement, reaching reluctant learners with technology, how to make your Technology Lab SHINE, providing access to technology to enhance your community and more.

Title:  Elementary Student Programming with Scratch
Presenters: Nebo Elementary School, Paulding County
ETTC: Dalton State College
Date: Wednesday
Contact: Christopher Michaud
Scratch is a tile-based visual programming language for multimedia projects and games created by the MIT learning lab. Nebo Elementary students will demonstrate games and simulations they created to tell stories and demonstrate understanding of language arts and math GPS standards. Students began by writing a narrative for their game that introduced the characters, setting, problem, and solution. After creating their game and testing it, the students created webpages to convince other students to play their game. Through the creation of these games on Scratch, the students will demonstrate how to translate elements of story, character, setting, and action into mathematical expressions and programming logic. Nebo students will also teach participants how to create simple simulations and games using the Scratch platform.

Title:  Using PowerPoint and Moviemaker to Create Animated Movies
Presenters: Dugan Elementary School
ETTC: Dalton State College
Date: Wednesday
Contact: Christopher Michaud and Candace Queen
PowerPoint is a great tool for creating visual presentations. In addition, the graphic editing portion of PowerPoint provides a powerful yet easy platform to create 2D animated short films. These short films demonstrate integration of music, writing, and technology using Georgia Performance Standards. Students from Dugan and Nebo Elementary will demonstrate how they selected thematic music and created illustrations to create movies and tell a story. Students will also demonstrate topics such as blogging, auto-advance, sound, layering, timing, and converting PowerPoint movies to Windows Movie Maker.

Title:  First Place Technology Fair Winners
Presenters: Colquitt County High School
ETTC: Valdosta State University
Date: Wednesday
Contact:
The Student Showcase features teams of students from throughout the state who have created exemplary technology projects.

Title:  Classroom Without Walls: Global Collaborative Environments
Presenters: Westwood Schools
ETTC: Albany State University
Date: Wednesday
Contact: Vicki Davis
The students at Westwood Schools have been collaborating with students in China, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, and Qatar through wikis, podcast, movies, and blogs on the award-winning Flat Classroom Project and Horizon Project. See how the students did it.

Title:  The Writing Process: Publishing Creative Stories Using PowerPoint
Presenters: Joseph Martin Elementary School, Liberty County
ETTC: Armstrong Atlantic State University
Date: Wednesday
Contact:  Victoria Funston
This student showcase features student-produced creative writing projects. Each completed project will be displayed showing the writing process from pre-writing to publishing. Educators will be able to view the small steps leading up to the culminating product: a digital story that is enhanced with animation, student- generated art, and narrated with their own voices. Many of the projects included in this session are Georgia state and International Media Festival Winners.

Title:  Is Your Media Center a "Multimedia" Center?
Presenters: Parkwood Elementary School, Houston County
ETTC: Macon State College
Date: Thursday
Contact: Stacy Daly and Nancy Wilson
Tired of the same old way of introducing biographies, autobiographies, memoirs? How about those boring history facts: people and places? Come and see what we have done with our students, teachers, technology, and a variety of books and print materials. Learn to use a variety of multimedia tools such as Photo Story, Movie Maker, Biography Maker, Timeliner, Inspiration, and the World Wide Web to enhance any GPS lesson you are doing. Add some bells, whistles, and razzmatazz and ignite your students and teachers to read, write, sing, and soar!
 
Title:  Manhattan Project
Presenters: Peachtree Charter Middle School, DeKalb County
ETTC: Kennesaw State University
Date: Thursday
Contact:
Description: The Manhattan Project was designed to have a significant impact on World War II. The ultimate goal of this project was to create an atomic bomb to gain an advantage over the Axis countries. The successful completion of this project required the approval of President Franklin Roosevelt, the leadership of Major General Leslie R. Groves and the scientific application by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. While the use of these Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to a large scale devastation, it had a positive effect by demoralizing the Axis forces and preventing the death and injury of Allied soldiers and civilians of several countries. This led to the end of Japanese aggression.

Title:  Katrina More Than One Year Later
Presenters: Champion Theme Middle School, DeKalb County
ETTC: Kennesaw State University
Date: Thursday
Contact:
This student showcase features the first-place winner of the Georgia Technology Fair in the photography category. The photos are of New Orleans area more than one year after Katrina.

Title:  Plecwise Pictures
Presenters: North Atlanta High School, Atlanta City
ETTC: Kennesaw State University
Date: Thursday
Contact: Kasele Mshinda
Studng only equations and domain restrictions. They then send their pictures to the computer using a link and TI-Connect software in order to print out the completed image.

Title:  Students Using Inspiration
Presenters: Chapel Hill Elementary School, DeKalb County
ETTC: Kennesaw State University
Date: Thursday
Contact: Precious Goodson
Students will use Inspiration to create autobiographies and All About Me narratives. Students will create idea webs and outlines. Student work will be showcased on the class website. Pictures of students working on projects will be displayed.

Title:  Digital Science Fair
Presenters: Marietta Center for Advanced Academics, Marietta City
ETTC: Kennesaw State University
Date: Thursday
Contact: Jennifer Bundy and Susie Throop
Imagine a science fair project done digitally. Marietta Center for Advanced Academics students did not have to lug tri-boards to and from school this year for their science fair projects. Instead, they recorded all of their information in interactive PowerPoint presentations. Students will demonstrate their science fair projects. They will show how they hyperlinked video files, digital pictures, and data and then voiced-over their presentations. Teachers will explain the step-by-step instructions, including helpful hints to producing a quality digital science fair project. Judging was taken to a new level when judges were able to view each project at their leisure.

Title: We’re going on a Road Trip!
Presenter(s): Screven County Elementary School
ETTC:  First District RESA
Date: Thursday
SCES students will demonstrate how they work as a group to plan a family vacation to a popular attraction. Students will calculate a total trip cost by researching and estimating the cost of fuel, tickets, meals, and lodging. Students will show how they create PowerPoints to sell their vacation package to their classmates. This student-focused e-Math unit includes student reflections, bar graphs, pie graphs, Internet resources, calculator activities, and the use of Activstudio software. The integration of technology with Georgia Performance Standards will be demonstrated as these students represent SCES.