Meeting Room 304 (Featured Speaker)

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Enhance your Digital foundation. The Good Bad and Ugly, Taking Digital Pictures Effectively

Leslie Fisher has been fortunate enough to learn her digital photography skills from some of the biggest and brightest in the industry. This presentation will go over examples and methods to take better digital pictures. Everything from composition, lighting, flash techniques and point and shoot camera settings will be discussed. Time permitting, Leslie will show you some of her favorite Photoshop tips to help you enhance your digital images.

Leslie Fisher, Featured Speaker

Meeting Room 402 (Featured Speaker)

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Building Learning Communities: Projects for the Global Classroom Connection

The presentation will provide background on six Community Projects and how to make a global connection. Projects allow students to learn 21st Century skills and prepare them to meet the demands of the global community and engage them in mastering core curriculum skills. Projects are models for driving education change and transforming educational institutions into model learning environments that cater to the broadest range of users and using collaboration tools.  Learn how to integrate digital programs into the classrooms with new knowledge, skills, and strategies that are critical to individual use of digital information resources. Join us and learn how to improve learning through Digital Media and Multimedia Magic.  Demonstrations will include Digital Storytelling, Podcasts, Web 2.0 and Blogs to teach 21st Century Literacy skills while gaining expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools.

Meeting Room 202 (Technology Showcase)

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

21st Century Learning in the Activclassroom

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Explore the use of 21st century technology and discover ways to bridge the gap between the way students live and the way they learn.  Attendees will experience developmentally appropriate learning opportunities and explore the pedagogy behind the technology-enhanced instructional strategies that transform learning in today’s classrooms.

Kathryn Vaughn, Promethean

Meeting Room 307 (Technology iShowcase)

Thursday 10:45 - 12:30 p.m.

21st Century Instructional Tools for the 21st Century Student

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Wondering how to integrate Web 2.0 tools and computers into classroom instruction? In this engaging hands-on science session you will see and hear how to use a variety of technological tools (MacBooks, Wikis, iChat, etc.) for classroom instruction to meet various student learning styles. Laptops will be provided for this session. Let the students do the work, while you facilitate the lesson. Inspire your students to become the creators and publishers of technology infused projects with real world connections.

Jose' Garcia, Greene County Middle School

**Note length of this session due to being hands-on.

Meeting Room 201

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Teach 21: Building Capacity

It began out of frustration, and with a simple question-''Where do we go from here?'' Come learn how one school is making change in how they do business and are learning how to meet the needs of a 21st Century school community.

Leslie McMillan, Bolton Elementary School

Sam Walker, Bolton Elementary School

Meeting Room 301A

See Kyle Blog: Using Your School's Mascot (or Other Furry Friends) to Introduce Blogging

Looking for ways to introduce blogging at your school? Come hear how a small green stuffed animal brought blogging to an elementary school – its students, parents, teachers, and administrators. We’ll share the story of Kyle the Crocodile, lessons learned, and how to adapt this project for your school. http://kylecrocodile.com

Matthew Clobridge, Sycamore Creek Elementary School

Abby Clobridge, Bucknell University

Meeting Room 301B

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Our Remediation Success Story!

K-5 students in Wake County enjoy using a web-based Reading and Math remediation and intervention program, Prescriptive Instruction, which has helped to reinforce necessary skills. Program coordinators will share successes and details of implementation for Summer School of 2007 & 2008 as well as a roll-out to over 80 schools during the regular school year.

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Trish Brown, Wake County Public Schools

Beckie McGee, Wake County Public Schools

Target Audience: Elementary, Administration

Meeting Room 302A

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Google and Classroom Management

Use Google for email, online documents, calendars, blogging, and everything else you need for a 21st century classroom.   

Wilson Diaz, Chapel Hill High School

Target Audience: K-12

Strand: Professional development

Meeting Room 302B

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Blogging for Students (& Teachers)

This session will discuss reasons for blogging, curriculum integration, how to create a blog (teachers and students), and multiple uses for the blog in the classroom and beyond.  Additionally, related technological resources will be given and demonstrated as well.

Teryn Bivens, East Millbrook IB Magnet Middle School, NCVPS, & WTCC (tbiv0105@gmail.com) skype: teryn.bivens

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration, Other, All educational staff and parents

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Documents:

25_FREE_Applications_That_I_Can_t_Live_Without.pdf

Blogging for Students and Teachers.pdf

Videos:

Education Today and Tomorrow.mov

Why Let Our Students Blog.mov

Top 10 Reason's to Use a Blog in the Classroom.mov

how to create a blog with blogger.mov

Adding a Google Gadget to your blog.flvAT.mov

Creating a Podcast with Blogger.flvAT.mov

How to use Blogger Mobile.mov

Meeting Room 302C

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

e-Learning for Educators: Online Professional Development that Works

Tired of sitting through professional development sessions that don't actually improve teaching?  Learn how online professional development can make you a better teacher.  E-Learning for Educators is a partnership between LEARN NC, UNC-TV, NCDPI, NCVPS, and the Friday Institute — the leaders in online learning for North Carolina.

Ross White, LEARN NC

Diane Lucas, UNC-TV

Target Audience: K-12, Administration

Meeting Room 303

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Interactive Video Conferencing:  A Beginner's Guide

The opportunities are multiplying for video conferencing in the classroom, professional development and for economical meetings.  This session will define terms, discuss costs and possible funding, and show examples of the kinds of resources available on the Internet.

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Gerri Batchelor, NCDPI

Meeting Room 305A

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Using Technology with Classroom Strategies That Work
Today’s students expect visual, hands-on, technology rich learning.  Teachers need to look at nontraditional teaching methods and explore ways to engage technology in the classroom.  In Using Technology with Classroom Strategies That Work, participants will discover technology based teaching strategies that correlate with Marzano’s “Classroom Instruction That Works”.
Cynthia Wilson, NC Teacher Academy
Glenn Gurley, NC Teacher Academy Trainer
Target Audience: K-12
Strand: Professional development

Meeting Room 305B

Constructing Collaborative Online Communities to Promote
21st Century Skills

Participants will be given strategies for purposefully approaching the use of online collaborative communities with teachers and/or students.  Online collaborative communities can be developed to provide interactive access to experts, gain cutting-edge 21st Century skills, provide opportunities for high quality and in-depth discussions, and foster a personal and dynamic dimension to enhance the learning experience.

Karen Creech, NC Virtual Public School

Amy Stanley, Johnston County Schools

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, Technology Facilitators

Meeting Room 306A

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Lights, Camera, Actioin - Enhancing Science Instruction with Student-created Digital Videos

2008 NCTIES Grant Winner    Lean how student-created digital videos can be used to motivate students to learn science concepts.  Participants will view examples of videos created by students using PhotoStory and MovieMaker software.  Participants will receive a list of free resources and instructions that can be used to instruct students in the creation of science videos.

Robert Pettis, Polk County Middle School

Meeting Room 306B

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Put Quia to Work for Differentiation

How to use your Quia.com subscription to help manage differentiating. Create activities for tiered/layered assignments. Learn how to organize and edit your activities, and how to encourage your whole school to join you. Kids love Quia, and the activities are easy to create, edit and share! Examples of layered homework packets will be available.

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Laura Smith, American Renaissance School

Kathy Shipman, American Renaissance School

Meeting Room 306C

Thursday 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Administrative Hacks! Simplifying the Job of Principals and Assistant Principals

Participants in this session will explore a number of software and Web 2.0 solutions that can make the job of being a school-based administrator easier. Some topics to be covered: Keeping an In-Box Empty, Using Web 2.0 Tools to Email Meeting Reminders, Software Solutions for Observations, Using a Principal Blog.

John Robinson, West Lincoln Middle School/Lincoln County Schools

Construction Zone

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

10:45 - 11:30 a.m.

Twitter Meet & Greet

http://www.twitter.com/ncties