Meeting Room 304 (Featured Speaker)

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Beyond Copy and Paste - Building Integrated Technology Projects

How can we stop students from simply copying information from the Internet, pasting it into a word processing document, and turning it in as their own work? Come to this session and find out!  Teachers will leave this session with an expanded vision of how technology can be integrated into the curriculum, and will begin to think "outside the box" as they continue to build integrated technology projects of their own.

Tammy Worcester, Featured Speaker

Meeting Room 402 (Featured Speaker)

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Differentiated Instruction and Assessment with Technology

Take a look at learning styles and today's most current Web 2.0 tools to understand what differentiation looks like in a technology enhanced classroom.  Learn about the classroom structure that will reach all learners.

Links:

http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com/Technology+Driven+Differentiation

Vicki Davis, Featured Speaker

Meeting Room 202 (Technology Showcase)

Thursday 1:00 - 1:45 p.m.

Introduction to the SMART Board and the Notebook Collaborative Learning Software

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The SMART Board is one of the most amazing teaching tools available for classrooms today. However, if you’ve never used one, you may know little about its ability to enhance instruction and engage even your most challenging students. And, it’s Fun!

Greer Dickerson, Smarter Systems

Meeting Room 307 (Technology iShowcase)

Thursday 1:00 - 1:45 p.m.

Challenge Based Learning

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“Nearly one in three high school students in America this year will not graduate.” (Diplomas Count: Ready for What? Preparing Students for College, Careers and Life after High School. Education Week, June 2007.)

Traditional teaching and learning strategies are becoming increasingly ineffective with high school students of today. Join Apple to learn about an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. 

Apple, Inc.

Meeting Room 201

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Using iPods to Transform Learning and Teaching in the ESL Classroom

See the powerful role iPods are playing in our ESL classrooms.  In this session participants will see sample lessons using the iPods and learn about valuable resources for creating iPod lessons.  Participants will also learn how our district set up teacher training to incorporate the iPods into daily ESL instruction.

Links:

https://ipods4classrooms.wikispaces.com/

Nancy Mangum, Wake County Public Schools

Target Audience: K-12, ESL Teachers

Strand: Professional development

Meeting Room 301A

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Pageflakes: One Webpage to Rule them All.

Repurpose Pageflakes for the classroom. Learn to use a handful of Pageflakes' most versatile components to create a self-contained online lesson that is limited only by your imagination.  Gather blog posts, podcasts, videos, embeddable content, RSS feeds, webpage clippings and more in one customizable page.  Examples, resources, and reproducible handouts provided.

Links and Handouts:

RSS and Pageflakes

Pageflake Tutorial

Netvibes
http://sites.google.com/site/cuttingedgeclassroom/pageflakes
jasonmammano@gaston.k12.nc.us

Jason Mammano, Gaston County Schools

Kristen Williams, Gaston County Schools

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Meeting Room 301B

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Stone Soup

Second Graders participate in a cross curricular Paideia coached project based on the book Stone Soup.Students engage in research and activities learning about nutrition, health and regional hunger issues.Students impact the community through a service project that raises money and food donations for our community food closet.The project culminates with a performance and Stone Soup dinner.

Handouts:

Stone Soup Project Presentation

My Pyramid

Crystal Hartis, Vance Elementary School

Helga Graff, Vance Elementary School

Tricia Baker, Vance Elementary School

Cynthia Sellinger, Vance Elementary School

Target Audience: Elementary

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Meeting Room 302A

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Innovative (and fun)Tools for 21st Century Literacy Classrooms

This session will showcase technology tools for teachers to incorporate into their literacy instruction.  The focus is on everyday classroom uses (rather than long-term projects) to improve students’ communication and comprehension skills.  Specific areas of literacy addressed include: reading comprehension, reading fluency, organization, writing skills, editing, and word choice.

Sarah Hanawald, Greensboro Day School

Target Audience: K-12

Strand: Classroom integration

Meeting Room 302B

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Tools for Your Web 2.0 Toolbox

As teachers we know that one of the biggest problems with the World Wide Web today is its overwhelming riches.  Join us in this session to look at some of the best ''tools'' we've used to build our Web 2.0 foundation. Everyone will come away with their own toolbox of Web 2.0 resources.

Links:

http://sites.google.com/site/web2point0toolbox/

Karen Hodges, J. Sam Gentry Middle School

Mandy Love, Meadowview Middle School

Strand: Teacher Resources

Meeting Room 302C

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Freeware and Web 2.0, the cheapest way to integrate technology into the classroom

Each participant will receive a dvd of free computer technologies that can be integrated into the classroom.  The dvd is K-12 and is multidisciplinary.  Come learn some free solutions to common school technology problems.

Mason McDaniel, Millbrook Elementary

Target Audience: K-12

Meeting Room 303

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Help Students Collaborate and Visualize using Multi-Media Technology in the English Classroom

21st century tools, videos, music, art, and writing come together to help students gain information and lead them to collaboration. Students use VoiceThread and Blogs to collaborate and PhotoStory or MovieMaker to create a multi-media project. Teacher/Media collaboration, lesson/unit samples in satire and poetry, and tutorial links/handouts will be provided.

Links: 

Kerri BrownParker, Millbrook High School

Sarah McAlister, Teacher

Allyson Young, Teacher

Target Audience: High

Strand: Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Meeting Room 305A

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Computer Security - Why and How

This workshop will give you a good idea of how to secure your computer and why this is needed. We will discuss reasons why you need to keep things secure and not allow everyone on your computers.  We will discuss options for laptops and desktops for both Mac and PC.

John Warf, NCDPI

Target Audience: K-12, Administration

Meeting Room 305B

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Building Bridges: Leading Innovation in Your District

In today's Web 2.0/3.0 world with limited fiscal and personnel resources, it is leadership that makes the difference. Participants will gain a working knowledge of how to help foster innovation and 21st century learning in their districts and hear about pilot projects they can tap into from NC Virtual Public School.

David Edwards, NC Virtual Public School

Don Lourcey, NC Virtual Public School

Target Audience: Middle, High

Meeting Room 306A

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Digital Stories

NCTIES Grant Winner 2008

Have you ever wondered how you could improve your students' love for writing? Then come and learn how to build digital stories using the Keynote software and get your students excited about writing and sharing stories with others.  3rd graders will show you that it is not too complicated:-)

Handouts:

Digital Stories=Handout 1.pdf

Pat Hooker, North Davidson Middle School

Marley Knapp,

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle

Meeting Room 306B

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

''You've Got Mail'' The Write-ing Assignment

With the new Writing test for 4thand 7th grade students, we are trying to use email to get our students excited about writing. Our students have become short hand “text-ers” These students need to learn the correct way of writing.  This session will show participates how to use email to enhance students writing skills.

Handouts:

You've Got Mail

Susie Austin, Oakboro School/Stanly Academy Learning Center

Lisa Thompson, Oakboro School/Stanly Academy Learning Center

Target Audience: K-12

Meeting Room 306C

Thursday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Yes you can! Dive into making digital movies without belly flopping.

Two teachers with modest technology skills  will demonstrate how their 3rd grade students created claymation and multimedia movies using Tech4learning’s Frames software.  Learn how easy it is to make stop-motion animation movies and multimedia presentations. Once your project is finished, click one button to make it into a QuickTime movie.

Wende DaQuano, George Watts Montessori Magnet School

Cathy Carinder, George Watts Montessori Magnet School

Target Audience: Elementary

Construction Zone

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

1:00 - 1:45 p.m.

Plurk Meet & Greet

http://www.plurk.com/ncties