Meeting Room 304 (Featured Speaker)

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Building Your Professional Learning Community in Second Life

Learn why Second Life is a perfect venue to meet, collaborate and communicate with educators around the world and in your own backyard. Kathy Dryburgh (SL) will take you on a whirlwind tour of the different types of sites available in Second Life, share her personal and professional experiences, and provide an overview of an ongoing project with nine other schools and educational agencies. If bandwidth allows, the presentation will be conducted live in Second Life.

Kathy Schrock, Featured Speaker - Administrator for Technology, Nauset Public Schools, Orleans MA

Meeting Room 402 (Featured Speaker)

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge

RSS is a powerful yet fairly untapped tool that educators can use to easily track many sources of information and knowledge. But it's also evolving into an effective way to connect people and ideas in ways that we've be unable to before. Using RSS, we can not only read what others write, we can read what they read, and even read what they create in easy, time-saving ways. This session will take a look at the tools and strategies that can make RSS an integral part of every educator's professional development and practice.

Will Richardson, Featured Speaker

Meeting Room 202 (Technology Showcase)

Friday 8:15 - 9:00 a.m.

Welcome to Activsoftware Inspire Edition!

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Promethean’s next generation of teaching and learning software has been designed by teachers for teachers, creating our very first user-generated solution – and we couldn’t wait to share it with you!  Activsoftware Inspire Edition delivers amazing functionality and exciting new features, making learning journeys more fun than ever before.  Available exclusively to Promethean Planet members, our tailored preview specifically invites feedback, offering you the opportunity to shape the future of the de facto educational platform of tomorrow.  Come join us to see this exciting next step in Interactive Teaching and experience for yourself these “Inspiring” features! 

ONE standardized platform across all age ranges, all interactive whiteboards, all operating systems (MAC, Windows, Linux)

FAMILIAR, friendly interface enabling greater ease of use

FAMILY of Learner Response Systems

FREE to all Promethean Planet members (Oh, and it’s FREE to join Promethean Planet!)

Leo Gallant, CSI Technology Outfitters

Meeting Room 307 (Technology iShowcase)

Friday 8:15 - 9:00 a.m.

Stay in Touch - Apple's iPod Touch in Education

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See the new capabilities of Apple's exciting iPod Touch and it's use in the education. Students get 24/7 ubiquitous learning just by reaching into their pocket.  From eBook readers to language instruction to graphing calculators to media and web browsers, students have access to information tailored specifically for them.

Apple, Inc.

Meeting Room 201

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Scholastic Keys Unlock the Kid in Microsoft Office

Scholastic Keys provides elementary students with a kid-friendly interface with Microsoft Office to promote learning in a fun way.  This session will show you the many ways a teacher can enhance lessons in all areas.  This program also has a drawing component and text-to-speech feature.  Templates and student work samples will be provided.

Barbara Sasso, Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools

Erin Mulhern, Winston Salem Forsyth County

Target Audience: Elementary

Meeting Room 301A  (This session replaced GETTING IT WRITE -- WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM)

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

CALLING ALL FUTURE NCTIES PLANNING VOLUNTEERS

Come and meet NCTIES conference chair EJ Escobar and our incoming conference chair, Barbara.  We will host an open forum to discuss new and exciting opportunities to offer at future NCTIES Conferences.  Bring yoru thoughts and ideas for a collaborative conference designing session.

NCTIES Board

Meeting Room 301B

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Effective Integration of Technology and Social Studies

We offer an all you can teach smorgasbord of technology applications for the eighth grade Social Studies classroom. Our buffet selections will include Moodle, Quia, Interwrite software, Photostory, and a variety of internet resources.

Jennifer Drury, Canton Middle School

Joshua Simmons, Canton Middle School

Target Audience: Middle

Meeting Room 302A

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Comparing Moodle, Blackboard, SharePoint

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Moodle, Blackboard, and Sharepoint offer so many features it’s not always clear which is right for your school. Join us as we compare them in three key areas: course management, curriculum management, and collaboration. Walk away with a clearer picture of each package and which might be best for you.

Colleen Beale, Data Networks

Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Other, Technical

Meeting Room 302B

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

eduphoria! Has 3 New Applications Your District Can’t Live Without!

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Come see 3 amazing applications - Workshop is a Professional Development management system that streamlines staff course registration and portfolios. Appraise can be accessed via a web browser, allowing principals and teachers to work on appraisals from school or home. Helpdesk is a powerful service management system with an educational focus.

Sonya Glasper, eduphoria! Inc

Target Audience: Administration

Meeting Room 302C

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Virtual Field Trips--Show Your Students the World!

Virtual field trips combine pictures and narration to bring the world to your classroom--on a budget!  Learn to make these simple teaching tools using photos and free software like Audacity and Windows Movie Maker.  You'll leave with instructions, sources, and a few sample field trips to get you started.

Victoria Meredith, Holbrook Middle School

Audra Robertson, Holbrook Middle School

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

Presentation Files -  http://robertson23.pbwiki.com 

Meeting Room 303

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Get It Out There!

Expand your students’ learning community by utilizing successful web publishing platforms to integrate project, problem and inquiry based approaches with 21st Century Skills. Sites to broaden student audience beyond teacher and classroom, showcase authentic assessments, and promote responsibility for making worthwhile contributions are explored. Resource CD for 1st 25 participants.

Jayne Stevens, Jacobs Fork Middle School

Leslie Farris, Colleague

Tamara Kirby, Colleague

Target Audience: K-12

Meeting Room 305A

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

The Copyright Conundrum

The Internet has provided easy access to a broad array of resources but has complicated the rules for using them. Join us as we navigate the choppy waters of copyright and simplify the process of sorting out the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Along the way we'll mix a few metaphors and stir up a little controversy.

Daniel Sparlin, NC DPI

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

Meeting Room 305B

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Results from North Carolina's 1:1 Learning Initiative Pilot: The First Year of Implementation

This session will present information gathered for an evaluation study of the first year of implementation of North Carolina's 1:1 Learning Initiative involving eight high schools.  Session presenters will share a description of this innovative state-supported 1:1 pilot effort, the research design, and results from the first year of the project.

Handouts:

Presentation

Resources

Jessica Huff, NC State/The Friday Institute

Ruchi Patel, NC State/ The Friday Institute

Target Audience: High, Administration, Technology Coordinators, Staff Development Coordinators, Library/Media Specialists, Policy Makers

Meeting Room 306A

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Online Collaboration: Using Skype in Schools

In this North Carolina Teacher Academy lead session, you will learn about Skype – a (truly) free communication tool. Fully supported chat, video conferencing, file sharing, and remote desktop access are just some of the features that Skype offers. Learn how to flatten the world through conversations without boundaries.

Dan Froelich, North Carolina Teacher Academy

Target Audience: K-12

Meeting Room 306B

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Eye of the Beholder

Flip camera videos and PhotoStory will enhance student projects created in a collaborative lesson between the art teacher and media specialist. Integration of digital photography and Web 2.0 tools are used to create digital portfolios and online art galleries using students' original art work. This can be used to create projects across the curriculum.

Sharon Gibson, Statesville Middle

Courtney Coady, Statesville Middle School

Target Audience: Middle, High

Meeting Room 306C

Friday 8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Take 3…Cut! Make Movie Magic with Frames

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Learn how creating original animations to meet curriculum standards can enhance student understanding and promote higher order thinking skills. Discover how students can share content in a meaningful way and transform illustrations into movies. Participants will explore sample projects and learn the basics of integrating animation into their curriculum immediately.

Scott Loomis, Tech4Learning

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle

Construction Zone

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

8:15 - 9:00 a.m.

Second Life Meet & Greet

http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/93/83/30