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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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

LOC image Location

Kelli Self, A. C. Reynolds High School

Leigh Conaway, English Teacher

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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 whatâ™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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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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