Meeting Room 202 (Technology Showcase)

Thursday 4:15 - 5:00 p.m.

What’s New in SMART Notebook 10: A look at the new features of Notebook Collaborative Learning Software?

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Discover the new tools and tricks in the latest version of SMART’s amazing Notebook software including the Magic Pen, Active Alignment, Perfect Shape, Fill Effects Tools and more.

Greer Dickerson, Smarter Systems

Meeting Room 307 (Technology iShowcase)

4:15pm-5:00pm

What’s New in iLife ‘09

Want to bring the sights and sounds that inspire students into the classroom? Join Apple to learn the new features in iLife ’09. Using these powerful tools, students can easily create and share media-rich digital projects that will enhance the learning process.

Apple, Inc.

Meeting Room 201

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Using NASA Teachologies to Build an Out-of-this-World Math and Science Curriculum

Learn how to tap into NASA technologies to construct a sturdy foundation for your math and science curriculum. We’ll explore technology resources that can help motive students and deepen their science and math knowledge as only NASA can. Participants will receive resources for use in their classroom.

Judy Walker, UNC Charlotte

Target Audience: Middle

Meeting Room 301A

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Wikis and Creatures AND Students, Oh My!

Integrating technology into a Montessori classroom with 3-4th graders has never been this much fun! See and hear how a teacher and media specialist worked together to create a cross curriculum project that was messy, fun and educational! Using the classsroom wiki, model clay, Frames and Spore, students created dinosaurs, explored their habitats and made group presentations.

Lynne Hudson, Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School

Beth Ryan, CEMCS

Target Audience: Elementary, Media Specialists / Technology Facilitators

Meeting Room 301B

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

You'll Flip Over This!

Join us as we combine the informational gathering and technologically based Big 6 research with ActivBoard and podcasting to explore the realm of endangered species and what organizations are doing about it!  Come see how students used Big 6 to create Flipcharts and how we tied this into the state Content Writing Assessment.

Links:

http://sites.google.com/a/rock.k12.nc.us/ncties-you-ll-flip-over-this/

Angel Holland, New Vision School of Math, Science, and Technology

Jane Walrod, Media Specialist

Merea Bridges, Instruct. Tech. Specialist

Target Audience: K-12

Meeting Room 302A

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Deal or No Deal: A MultiMedia Blitz

Dust off those freebies that reside on your computer and on the web. Come to this MultiMedia Blitz for ideas on how to make them sparkle and make your students shine. Deal or No Deal! Bring your computer along for the fun. Handouts are on the web.

Julia Chisholm, Forsyth County

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12

Meeting Room 302B

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Constructing Digital Storytelling...It's Elementary

Looking for a way to remodel those tired old show-n-tell days and boring book reports into the 21st Century? In this session we will share a year long professional development we conducted for elementary teachers. Let’s learn about using Photostory 3, MixBook, and VoiceThread for digital storytelling in all areas of the curriculum.

Links:

digitalstorytelling.gastoncountyschools.wikispaces.net

Teresa Thomassen, Gaston County Schools

Teresa Henley, Gaston County Schools

Target Audience: Elementary, Administration

Meeting Room 302C

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Pitfalls Ahead! Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism.

In a high-tech information world, students easily stray over the line from original work to plagiarizing.  The NC Graduation Project requirement has put greater emphasis on this problem.  A new DPI Web site on plagiarism will be shared that focuses on instructional strategies, policy guidelines, and useful resources for avoiding plagiarism.

Gerry Solomon, NC DPI

Vinetta Bell, NC DPI

Target Audience: K-12, Administration

Strand: ICT Literacy

Meeting Room 303

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Express Yourself!  Taking Formative Assessment to the Next Level

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Are you ready to take assessment to the next level? In this session, you will have hands-on experience with formative assessment using Activexpression, Promethean’s newest student response system.  These formative assessment opportunities go beyond multiple choice and delve into higher order questioning, peer assessment, and so much more!

Kathryn Vaughn, Promethean, Inc.

Target Audience: K-12

Strand: Student Assessment

Meeting Room 304

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Making Sense of Second Life

Heard of Second Life and wondered how it could help you as an educator? Maybe you've even signed up and created an avatar, but never quite understood it's usefulness.  Join me, Julie Sugarplum, to learn more about how Second Life can be used in Education.  We'll explore various learning opportunities from classrooms to educational islands.  I'll also share some tips and some basics to getting started.  Plenty of time will be allotted for your questions and door prizes will be given!

Links

http://ncsleducators.pbwiki.com/
http://ncsleducators.ning.com/

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dhsnqfw4_42gj5txswj

Julie LaChance, Northwest Cabarrus High School

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Meeting Room 305A

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Make Your Budget Go Further, Through Strategic Resource Management

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Follett Software Company is the leading provider of K-12 information and resource management. Join us to learn about a wide range of proven software and service solutions designed to help districts manage instructional resources and other assets more effectively and use the power of data to make decisions that impact achievement.

Larry Bennett, Follett Software Company

Kent Bishop, Follett Software

Target Audience: K-12

Strand: Improved Student Achievement through Resource Managerment

Meeting Room 305B

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Online Professional Learning Communities: Building Your E-Leader Plan

Participants will learn about resources available through NCVPS/Learn and Earn Online for establishing online professional learning communities to help them integrate e-learning into their schools and districts. Attendees will observe two online communities in which they can participate.

Bryan Setser, NC Virtual Public School

Adam Renfro, NC Virtual Public School

Meeting Room 306A

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Hawk Radio - 104.5 FM - New Town Elementary School

Learn how a team of 4th & 5th grade elementary students create and produce a daily radio show for our school that is broadcast to our car rider line and made available for download from our school web site.

David Kafitz, New Town Elementary School, Union County Public Schools

Ian Anderson, Student Radio Station Manager

Taylor Gates, Student Radio Station Manager

Danell Kearns, Technology Associate - NTES

Zach Mayor, Student Radio Station Manager

Laura Shanahan, Student Radio Station Manager

Target Audience: K-12

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Meeting Room 306B

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Using Wikis in your Classroom

In this workshop, you will learn what a Wiki is and its purpose.  You will set-up a free Wiki using PBWiki.  We will also explore different ways that Wikis can be used in the classroom

David Hooper, Root Elementary

Target Audience: Elementary

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

PBwiki+Presentation.ppt

How+to+Create+a+PB+Wiki.ppt

How+to+edit+your+PB+Wiki.ppt

How to Add Students to your PB Wiki.ppt

How to Insert a Video into your PB Wiki.ppt

Wikis in Plain English Movie 

Meeting Room 306C

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

What's in the World Book Web for ME--a Teacher, a Student, a Parent?

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From AIG to Differentiated Instruction; from college to kindergarten--The World Book Web can help you!  Learn about using primary sources to stimulate interest or how to make a time line; learn to save your unit of study or research in an ''electronic folder''; learn new imaginative activities or have new printable worksheets correlated to state standards.

Barbara Mayo, World Book, Inc.

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Meeting Room 402

Thursday 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

To Use or Not to Use...That is the Question.

How should educators use the work of others? What is fair use really? Come learn about Copyright law, Fair Use and the new Creative Commons licensing.In an age where knowledge is power, we will share important information on how to use and share your knowledge and the knowledge of others.

Marlo Gaddis, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

Jackie Pierson, Winston-Salem/Forsyth Co. Sch.

Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Other, Media Coordinators

Strand: Information skills

Construction Zone

Connect with others in the Construction Zone located near the front entrance. 

4:15 - 5:00 p.m.

Poster Sessions

ZONE 1

How NC's New Frameworks will lead to Higher Student Engagement and Achievement

North Carolina's new FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE Initative is moving teachers out of their comfort zone and into a bold, new world.  In this session, we'll show you how to apply 21st Century skills in the classroom, using WEB 2.0 tools to create interdiscipliary lessons that engage students in authentic learning.

Presenter:  Theresa Bell, Centers for Quality Teaching & Learning

ZONE 2

1 Picture + 5 Sentences = Movie

Participants will be shown how to quickly and easily turn poetry, riddles, paragraphs, or any other type of writing activity into a movie using just one digital image, 5 simple sentences and PhotoStory3.  Step-by-step directions and examples will be given that will spark excitement.

Links:

http://bcs-itc.wikispaces.com/PhotoStory+3

Presenter:  Conni Mulligan, Buncombe County Schools