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Concurrent Session 8
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Friday, March 6th
9:15-10:00
Meeting Room 402 (Featured Speakers)
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
A Conversation with Will & Dave
Perhaps the best word to describe learning 2.0 is "Conversations." Come and join Will Richardson and David Warlick in a conversation about teaching and learning in a flattening world.
Will Richardson & David Warlick, Featured Speaker
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Meeting Room 307 (Technology iShowcase)
Friday 9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
Facilitating Collaborative Learning with OS X Server
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Description: OS X Server provides a compelling, classroom-focused Web 2.0 environment that appeals to faculty, staff, and students. From ad hoc discussions via instant messaging to living documents housed within the OS X Wiki-Blog services, OS X Server can facilitate 21st century learning by providing a secure, reliable, collaborative environment. Join Apple to learn what features OS X Server can provide your school to promote information sharing in a secure, reliable, easy-to-use environment.
Apple, Inc.
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Meeting Room 202 (Technology Showcase)
Friday 9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
Express Yourself! Taking Formative Assessment to the Next Level
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In his book, Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work, Robert Marzano states that “research supports the conclusion that formative classroom assessments is one of the most powerful tools a classroom teacher might use”. Learn how to create opportunities for formative assessment in any classroom 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
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Meeting Room 201
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Robots to the Rescue!
Engaging our students in critical 21st century learning skills is no problem with the LEGO™ Mindstorm Robotics. We’ll be sharing our FIRST Lego™ League Robotics Challenge experiences to show how our students are using robots to tackle real world situations.
Links:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgbg9f7f_1ccwspsfx
Karen Hodges, J. Sam Gentry Middle School
Mandy Love, Meadowview Middle School
Kelly Waters, C.B. Eller Elementary School
Target Audience: K-12
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Meeting Room 301A
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Digital Storytelling with Animoto
Tired of seeing the same old PowerPoints and struggling with MovieMaker? Your students are, too. Animoto is a free-to-educators web-based program your students can use to make professional looking digital stories with music, photos, and captions. We will make an Animoto video in less than 10 minutes during the session.
Handouts:
Copyright Guidelines
Directions for Creating Animoto Project
Downloading Creative Commons Music
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Kelli Self, A. C. Reynolds High School
Leigh Conaway, English Teacher
Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12
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Meeting Room 301B
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Immersive World
Come learn about Appalachian State University's AETZone, an award-winning 3D virtual environment. From middle schoolers to doctoral students, citizens of the Zone work and learn together in this innovative environment. Participants will discuss ways to use virtual worlds in their own classrooms, and learn about opportunities to earn their Master's degress online in the Zone.
Amy Cheney, Appalachian State University
Target Audience: K-12
Strand: Emerging Technologies
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Meeting Room 302A
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Constructing a Voicethread
Learn how you or your students can create a multimedia project or presentation using the free web 2.0 tool Voicethread. Included will be adding photos, videos, recording comments and using the draw tool.
Handouts:
Voicethread
Barbara Crouch, Iredell- Statesville Schools
Sandy Eller, Iredell-Statesville Schools
Target Audience: K-12
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Meeting Room 302B
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
What's in your backyard?
Come see how much fun you can have with ''soil'' sent in from all over the world. An example of a lesson using the Activboard and hand-held microscopes to explore soil. Then amaze your students by using Google Earth to locate where our soil was sent from and chart soil data.
Merea Bridges, Rockingham County Schools
Honey Williamson, Bethany School Rockingham Coun
Target Audience: Elementary
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Meeting Room 302C
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
What's Cooking at eBistro?
Would you like to build an ePortfolio of your digital learning experiences and earn renewal credit for doing so? Drop in and check out what’s cooking in the eBistro kitchen. eBistro is a free online professional development tool for NC educators.
Donna Sawyer, NC DPI
Melanie Honeycutt, NCDPI, Consultant
Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration
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Meeting Room 303
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Reaching Every Student with Blended Learning: Changing Classroom Instruction with LEARN NC
How times have changed! Multimedia content brings the world into your classroom. Authentic online science collaboration makes your students researchers. Inquiry-based engagement with digital primary sources brings history to life. Time to reinvent yourself! Discover, teach and share with LEARN NC, and together we will reach and teach every student.
Melissa Thibault, LEARN NC
Lesley Richardson, LEARN North Carolina
Target Audience: Middle, High, Administration, Teacher Educators
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Meeting Room 304
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Information and Technology Skills Essential Standards Update
The Blue Ribbon Panel suggestions from the last year have resulted in a movement to redesign and implement new standards and assessments. Two of the first curricular areas to be revised will be the K-12 information skills and computer skills curricula. Attend this session to learn the timetable for the change, how it will affect your LEAs and schools, and how you can provide input on the change.
Neill Kimrey, NC DPI
Martha Campbell, NC DPI
Gerry Solomon, NCDPI
Target Audience: K-12, Administration
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Meeting Room 305A
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The Affect of Educational Video Games on Middle School Achievement
Do educational video games positively affect middle school student attitudes and achievement? This session will examine the results of studies by the University of Central Florida and at Cape Fear Middle School in Pender County, that demonstrate significant learning gains made when students used the DimensionM™ 3-D video game from Tabula Digita.
Links:
Presentation Link
Lucas Gillispie, Pender County Schools
Target Audience: Middle
Strand: Educational Gaming
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Meeting Room 305B
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
There's More Than YouTube
Let's explore sources of free online audio/video content, production tools, and sharing sites. We'll focus on moving students from being passive consumers toward becoming discriminating users and creative, responsible producers who help construct the growing body of online social media. Links to all sources will be provided.
Links:
http://tinyurl.com/b7l4up
Joanna Gerakios, Pitt County Schools
Tim DeCresie, Pitt County Schools
Target Audience: K-12
Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning
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Meeting Room 306A
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Integrate Geography Across the Curriculum using Internet Resources
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Learn strategies for using web-based content such as online maps, reference materials, lesson plans, and skill-building, interactive activities using Rand McNally’s online service and other Internet resources to help integrate geography into Social Studies, Science, Literature, Science and Economics.
Sharon Sherman, Rand McNally
Rob Arnold, Sales Consultant
Tony Gangone, Rand McNally
Mike Wood, Concord Woods Assc, Consultant
Target Audience: K-12
Strand: Professional development
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Meeting Room 306B
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
New Answers to the “Now What?” Question: Aligning Instruction with Assessment Results
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With the right tools, teachers can customize early literacy instruction to the needs of students. Learn about how research and development on the border between assessment and instruction has led to powerful new innovations that customize curriculum in response to real-time formative assessment data.
Debbie Owens, Wireless Generation
Target Audience: Elementary, K-12, Administration
Strand: Administration/leadership
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Meeting Room 306C
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Constructing a Multifaceted Project
Learn how to incorporate technology, reading, art design, writing, research, web research, objective thinking, and presentation into one multifaceted student project. This presetation will show you a project that gets students involed in multiple areas of technology that can be altered for any subject area.
Handout:
Outline
Ronda Robinson, Southside High School
Target Audience: Middle, High, Other, Upper Elementary
Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning
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Construction Zone
Connect with others in the Construction Zone located near the front entrance.
3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
Meet & Greet with Meg Ormiston
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Concurrent Session 8
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