Sessions

Are you looking for new ways to provide differentiation in your classrooms? Is assessment a topic that is keeping you up at night? Learn how SMART solutions can help facilitate differentiation in multi-level classrooms and meet accountability requirements through the use of their unique assessment and reporting tools. || 803 || with no minimum order quantities; no special handling, or annual subscription fees. || 813 || processor (created in 1991). Some students need a little extra writing support. Red and green squiggly lines in every sentence and a complicated toolbar district struggling writers from the goal‹to practice writing. Write:Outloud also reads each letter, word or sentence as students type, highlighting word-by-word so they can hear for themselves if they¹re writing what they intend. Co:Writer is the industry standard in word prediction. This is the tool for your most struggling writer. Co:Writer works with any application that accepts text and helps students write what¹s on their minds with the right spelling and grammar. || 604 || You will discover: • How easy access is the key to e-book circulation • How e-books can be tracked and managed • How to receive important usage statistics along with your circulation reports • The difference between flip and interactive formats • The advantage of working with downloadable and hosted eBook and how they differ and more || 717 ||
 * Break Out Session 1 (9:15am -10:00am)**
 * Technology || Presenter || Summary || Location ||
 * QR Codes: Here, There and Everywhere! || Deborah Goodman || QR Codes are popping up everywhere from magazine advertisements to business cards, but have you thought about how to implement them into your classroom? Join me for an informative, hands-on session on how to get started using QR codes for educational use. If you have a Smartphone with a camera, iPod 4th Generation, or iPad2, go to your device's App store, search for a QR Reader and download to your device. However, you do not have to have one of these devices to attend this session. || 602 ||
 * Web 2.0- Beginner || Jill Darrough || 20 in 20: This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) session. 20 free, Web 2.0 tools will be presented in 20 minutes. The remainder of the session will be a time for creative play. || 419 ||
 * SMART Technologies: || Ginger Rutherford || A Solution to Differentiation and Accountability
 * Mimio || Kevin Powell || The session will begin by explaining the relationship between PolyVision, Quizdom, Mimio, and SKC Communications. Also many attendees will know my company as Mpact Systems. I will briefly talk about the merger and all the benefits of now being SKC Communications SE. For the most part I will be demonstrating Mimio. I will be showing the Teach, the Pad, The View, the Capture, and the Vote. I will also briefly dive into the software. || 801 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eBooks, Linking the Library to the Classroom || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Doug Romick || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Participants will learn how eBooks can be an effective teaching/learning tool for librarians, teachers, and students. Whether your goal is helping students become independent readers, engaging a classroom in whole-group instruction, or grabbing the attention of young learners,eBooks from Follett Library Resources are a cost-effective solution. Content includes graphic novels, big books, reference and popular fiction titles. eBooks are ideal for Interactive White Boards,iPads,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CDI Computers || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Russell Romualdo || CDI is an education focused organization in which our primary goal is to put resources back into your school. Explore ways to increase computer to student ratios without sacrificing reliability. Discover hidden income in surplus units. Recycle your ewaste in a socially responsible manner. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">814 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eInstruction Mobi and "clickers" || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Debbie Jacobs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">An independent survey states, “9 out of 10 teachers prefer to move around the classroom as they teach.” Mobi View is the latest mobile interactive whiteboard from eInstruction. It does everything a fixed interactive whiteboard does at a fraction of the cost. Plus, Mobi View™ is handheld so it delivers ultimate mobility and gives you full-classroom control with its touch screen. When you pair Mobi View™and CPS™ student response systems, you’ll receive real-time formative assessment feedback from anywhere in the room //from every student!!// Now you have insight into students’ performance during lessons so differentiated instruction can take place at the moment of learning! Come see how to make your classroom totally interactive and engaged! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">806 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Edmodo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Heather Collins || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Edmodo] is a Web 2.0 tool that allows teachers to safely share ideas, files, assignments, videos, projects, etc.with students and with other teachers in real time. It is a safe and secure social learning site for classrooms. Edmodo does not require student email addresses and only the people who have the group code can see the students. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">804 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Choosing your Instructional Technology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Brett Eaker || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you want to provide students with tutorials, test practice, teach them to read, get them to read, get them to practice, help in teaching, creativity? There are many ways to address student learning with instructional technology. Choosing the correct approach means better results for students and better dollar management. A quick overview of these options will be shown and discussed. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">606 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Digital Blue || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Danielle Lowery || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">We will be learning about the amazing Digital Blue! This incredible device takes pictures and videos. Now this may not seem all that cool until you consider all of the facts. The Digital Blue is actually a Digital Camera Microscope. This means that it takes pictures and videos of the things Under the microscope...things that are magnified 10, 60, or 200 times! Students can make their own wet slides, dry slides, or just use the ones already prepared. We can also take the camera off of the microscope stand and use it seperatly for viewing of loose specimens around the room. In addition to all of these amazing features, Digital Blue also allows you to manipulate the pictures and videos you take. These can then be uploaded to other programs, such as Power Point for the making of a presentation. We always have tons of fun, and hope you will enjoy yourselves as well || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">701 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">STEM || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">John Scarfpin || The Pitsco lab set up provides students with hands on experiences with Science and Math in a cooperative learning setting. Students are applying science, math, and engineering to real life scenarios. Come see how we are integrating topics such as alternative energy, applied physics, biotechnology, CADD, digital video, electrictiy, electronics, mechanics, robotics, forensic science, forensic math and much more. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">703 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Twitter and Wikispaces || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ashlee Tetreault || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This session will focus on varies ways to incorporate Twitter and Wikispaces in your classroom. The session will instruct you how to set up an account on Wikispaces and personalize it for your content. The session will walk you through how to use Twitter, set up your own account, and create a positive interactive learning environment for your students. This session will be taught collaboratively by two teachers. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">308 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gimp || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eileen Ferree || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Free Photo-Editing Software GIMP is a free photo-editing tool similar to Adobe Photoshop, which can be used for anything from simple red-eye reduction, cropping and image size or file format changing to full professional photo retouching. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Media Center Lab ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Glogster || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Grace Farmer || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Posters and presentation boards have always been a staple in classroom projects. With technology, many people say posters need to become a thing of the past… not at all! Glogster is a great online program that allows teachers AND students to create online, digital posters. This tool gives us many more opportunities of what to include on our "poster". Come check out all you can do with Glogster in your classroom. Not just for teachers, not just for projects… it has so many possibilities! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">615 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Qwizdom || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Phillip Henry || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Qwizdom combines standards-based RF technology with online assessment, curriculum and content sharing software to provide a complete instructional solution for the classroom. Participants will learn how lessons, quizzes and review games are presented with the instructor remote, how students answer questions on their hand-held remotes, and how teachers can manage and track group or individual scores within the software after students have completed a quiz or review game." || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">725 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Polyvision || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Craig Fetterolf || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our Education Consultant, Carissa Santasiero, will provide an introduction of the three-in-one PolyVision eno board utilizing our wireless solution to use as a dry erase board, interactive board and magnetic board. There will be an overview of the free software that is included with the board, demonstration of our eno mini as well as a demo of integrating the eno play to add an audio solution enhancing the learning capabilities. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">614 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Apple || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Janice Adams || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"iPad in the Classroom" In this presentation, you will learn how iPad technology is able to transform the contemporary classroom by providing learners with the tools needed to match unique learning styles. By coupling proven teaching strategies with powerful and engaging technologies, students and teachers can easily build an active learning environment that promotes lifelong learning - the prerequisite survival skill needed for the 21st century worker. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">617 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Moodle || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kenny Alphin || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this session, you will learn how moodle is effective in the classroom and how students may use it to stay engaged in the 21st century classroom. You will learn how pages are used, how to put them together and all they can do. Moodle is more than just a website; it is a linking component to the technology in the classroom! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">719 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Almost Paperless Classroom || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Caroline Godwin || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our classroom is a 1:1 classroom. Mrs. Godwin and her students will share how they use Web 2.0 Tools to limit the use of paper and make learning more fun. The students will be sharing everything from completing Accelerated Math digitally to using Animoto to share their understanding of concepts. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">720 ||
 * Adaptive Technology || Dave Butler || Co:Writer & Write:Outloud: Write:Outloud was the first talking word
 * GeoCaching || Gail Holmes || GPS technology can be found in cars, hand held GPS devices, smart phones, etc. Learn how this technology can be used in the classroom to engage students and create an active learning environment. Understand GPS technology, longitude and latitude and the environment as you search for caches using GPS technology. Discover, research and create an actively engaging learning environment with GPS technology and geocaching. || 722 ||
 * E-Books || Frieda Julian || Learn how to make your 21st century library work for you, your teachers and students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Break Out Session 2 (10:15am -11:00am)**

We all know collaboration is important, but have you ever wondered how to support it with all the new products that are in the classroom? Come learn why collaboration is more important than ever and how SMART products can meet the needs of your 21st Century learners. This session will focus on the basics of the SMART Notebook software as well as provide a glimpse into the new features of Notebook 11 (coming in April, 2012). Notebook 11 adds unlimited functionality through more features, web-based tools, and the Software Development Kit (SDK). Come learn how to easily transform your lessons into collaborative opportunities for all! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">803 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">helping students become independent readers, engaging a classroom in <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">whole-group instruction, or grabbing the attention of young learners, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eBooks from Follett Library Resources are a cost-effective solution. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Content includes graphic novels, big books, reference and popular <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">fiction titles. eBooks are ideal for Interactive White Boards,iPads, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">with no minimum order quantities; no special handling, or annual <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">subscription fees. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">813 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cheryl Nelson || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this session, we can show how moodle is effective in the classroom and how students may use it to stay engaged in the 21st century classroom. We will show how pages are used, how to put them together and what all they can do. Moodle is more than just a website, it is a linking component to the technology in the classroom! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">721 || suite. Most struggling writers spend less than one minute planning their papers‹mostly they don¹t know how to plan. Draft:Builder breaks the writing process down into three manageable chunks: brainstorming, note-taking and writing the first draft. Read:Outloud is a computer based text reader with its own built in fully accessible web browser. Built in text-to-speech reads any accessible text and study tools help students read with comprehension. These study strategies help student determine WHAT to highlight and model strategies in a variety of reading texts and writing strategies. || 604 || You will discover: • How easy access is the key to e-book circulation • How e-books can be tracked and managed • How to receive important usage statistics along with your circulation reports • The difference between flip and interactive formats • The advantage of working with downloadable and hosted eBook and how they differ and more || 717 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Break Out Session 3 (11:15am -12:00pm)** Are you looking for that extra something that will make your Notebook files really pop? Looking for techniques that will help you integrate multiple pieces of technology into a single lesson? Come explore some of the SMART resources and techniques used by teachers across the country to enhance their lessons and make students more active participants in the learning process. Time will be spent learning how to integrate the SMART document camera, SMART Response interactive response system, SMART Slate, and United Streaming videos into any lesson. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">803 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">helping students become independent readers, engaging a classroom in <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">whole-group instruction, or grabbing the attention of young learners, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eBooks from Follett Library Resources are a cost-effective solution. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Content includes graphic novels, big books, reference and popular <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">fiction titles. eBooks are ideal for Interactive White Boards,iPads, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">with no minimum order quantities; no special handling, or annual <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">subscription fees. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">813 || needs of today¹s diversified classroom with Simon S.I.O. and WordMaker® - developed in collaboration with Ted Hasselbring, Laura Goin and Patricia Cunningham. You will leave with knowledge on how this technology is used to develop fluency and automaticity in the areas of decoding, sight words and spelling. Start-to-Finish are ultra engaging, high-interest titles written for older student who are reading below grade level. Each title is universally designed so that you can support students with a computer book, paperback book or audio book. || 604 || You will discover: • How easy access is the key to e-book circulation • How e-books can be tracked and managed • How to receive important usage statistics along with your circulation reports • The difference between flip and interactive formats • The advantage of working with downloadable and hosted eBook and how they differ and more || 717 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Technology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Presenter  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Summary  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Location  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">QR Codes: Here, There and Everywhere! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Deborah Goodman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">QR Codes are popping up everywhere from magazine advertizements to business cards, but have you thought about how to implement them into your classroom? Join me for an informative, hands-on session on how to get started using QR codes for educational use. If you have a Smartphone with a camera, iPod 4th Generation, or iPad2, go to your device's App store, search for a QR Reader and download to your device. However, you do not have to have one of these devices to attend this session. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">602 ||
 * SMART Technologies: || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ginger Rutherford || Supporting Collaboration in a Technology Enriched Environment
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mimio || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kevin Powell || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The session will begin by explaining the relationship between PolyVision, Quizdom, Mimio, and SKC Communications. Also many attendees will know my company as Mpact Systems. I will briefly talk about the merger and all the benefits of now being SKC Communications SE. For the most part I will be demonstrating Mimio. I will be showing the Teach, the Pad, The View, the Capture, and the Vote. I will also briefly dive into the software. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">801 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eBooks, Linking the Library to the Classroom || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Doug Romick || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Participants will learn how eBooks can be an effective teaching/learning tool for librarians, teachers, and students. Whether your goal is
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eInstruction Mobi and "clickers" || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Debbie Jacobs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">An independent survey states, “9 out of 10 teachers prefer to move around the classroom as they teach.” Mobi View is the latest mobile interactive whiteboard from eInstruction. It does everything a fixed interactive whiteboard does at a fraction of the cost. Plus, Mobi View™ is handheld so it delivers ultimate mobility and gives you full-classroom control with its touch screen. When you pair Mobi View™and CPS™ student response systems, you’ll receive real-time formative assessment feedback from anywhere in the room //from every student!!// Now you have insight into students’ performance during lessons so differentiated instruction can take place at the moment of learning! Come see how to make your classroom totally interactive and engaged! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">806 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Edmodo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Josh Kitchin || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Edmodo] is a Web 2.0 tool that allows teachers to safely share ideas, files, assignments, videos, projects, etc.with students and with other teachers in real time. It is a safe and secure social learning site for classrooms. Edmodo does not require student email addresses and only the people who have the group code can see the students. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">804 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Choosing your Instructional Technology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Brett Eaker || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you want to provide students with tutorials, test practice, teach them to read, get them to read, get them to practice, help in teaching, creativity? There are many ways to address student learning with instructional technology. Choosing the correct approach means better results for students and better dollar management. A quick overview of these options will be shown and discussed. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">606 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Digital Blue || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Josh McGhee || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">We will be learning about the amazing Digital Blue! This incredible device takes pictures and videos. Now this may not seem all that cool until you consider all of the facts. The Digital Blue is actually a Digital Camera Microscope. This means that it takes pictures and videos of the things Under the microscope...things that are magnified 10, 60, or 200 times! Students can make their own wet slides, dry slides, or just use the ones already prepared. We can also take the camera off of the microscope stand and use it seperatly for viewing of loose specimens around the room. In addition to all of these amazing features, Digital Blue also allows you to manipulate the pictures and videos you take. These can then be uploaded to other programs, such as Power Point for the making of a presentation. We always have tons of fun, and hope you will enjoy yourselves as well. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">701 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Animation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Angela Kitchin || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Alice is a program that was created to help students learn basic computer programming techniques. The basic components are easy to learn and use and ideal for helping students animate a text they have read. The more advanced settings on Alice can also be taught to higher level and AIG students to create an advanced presentation with different scenes. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">726 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Making Online Quizzes with Google Docs –Forms– Creating Quizzes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kim Burch || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Docs is a favorite thing for many educators. It is a totally free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. In addition to being a stellar way to write, store and manage your documents and slideshows, is also a fantastically useful way to create online quizzes for assessment. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">719 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Web 2.0 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jill Darrough || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">30 in 30: This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) session. 30 free, Web 2.0 tools will be presented in 30 minutes. The remainder of the session will be a time for creative play. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">419 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Moodle || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Rosemary Steinman and
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">iPads || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ashley Alicea || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">My session is about how we incorporate the iPod Touches and ipads into our elementary curriculum. I was going to start with a brief overview of our "Apple journey" (the children have made a cute 4 minute video for this), but I'll focus on the activities we do of our video podcasts and using QR codes. Is doing two activities ok or should I just focus on just one? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">603 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Apple || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Janice Adams || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"eBooks - Emerging Trends" Without a doubt, the e-book revolution is growing not only for consumers, but also for education! What resources are available to us as educators today and how do they differ? Join Apple to see how you can move from just text and images on a static piece of paper to beautiful mult-touch books. Witness several amazing tools that allow anyone to create books with text, graphics, movies, and much more. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">617 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tweeter and Wikispaces || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kristen Bentzen || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This session will focus on varies ways to incorporate Twitter and Wikispaces in your classroom. The session will instruct you how to set up an account on Wikispaces and personalize it for your content. The session will walk you through how to use Twitter, set up your own account, and create a positive interactive learning environment for your students. This session will be talk collaboratively between two teachers. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">308 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gimp || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eileen Ferree || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Free Photo-Editing Software GIMP is a free photo-editing tool similar to Adobe Photoshop, which can be used for anything from simple red-eye reduction, cropping and image size or file format changing to full professional photo retouching. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Media Center Lab ||
 * Adaptive Technology || Dave Butler || Read:Outloud & Draft:Builder: These two programs complete the SOLO literacy
 * GeoCaching || Gail Holmes || GPS technology can be found in cars, hand held GPS devices, smart phones, etc. Learn how this technology can be used in the classroom to engage students and create an active learning environment. Understand GPS technology, longitude and latitude and the environment as you search for caches using GPS technology. Discover, research and create an actively engaging learning environment with GPS technology and geocaching. || 722 ||
 * eBooks || Frieda Julian || Learn how to make your 21st century library work for you, your teachers and students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Technology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Presenter  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Summary  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Location  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">QR Codes: Here, There and Everywhere! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Deborah Goodman || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">QR Codes are popping up everywhere from magazine advertizements to business cards, but have you thought about how to implement them into your classroom? Join me for an informative, hands-on session on how to get started using QR codes for educational use. If you have a Smartphone with a camera, iPod 4th Generation, or iPad2, go to your device's App store, search for a QR Reader and download to your device. However, you do not have to have one of these devices to attend this session. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">602 ||
 * SMART Technologies: || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ginger Rutherford || "Taking a SMART Notebook lesson from Blah to Aha!"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mimio || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kevin Powell || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The session will begin by explaining the relationship between PolyVision, Quizdom, Mimio, and SKC Communications. Also many attendees will know my company as Mpact Systems. I will briefly talk about the merger and all the benefits of now being SKC Communications SE. For the most part I will be demonstrating Mimio. I will be showing the Teach, the Pad, The Veiw, the Capture, and the Vote. I will also briefly dive into the software. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">801 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eBooks, Linking the Library to the Classroom || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Doug Romick || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Participants will learn how eBooks can be an effective teaching/learning tool for librarians, teachers, and students. Whether your goal is
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CDI Computers || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Russell Romualdo || Reliable mobile computing solutions get the most out of your technology funds. Get more computers in the hands of your students with CDI solutions. What is in it for Craven county? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">814 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eInstruction Mobi and "clickers" || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Debbie Jacobs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">An independent survey states, “9 out of 10 teachers prefer to move around the classroom as they teach.” Mobi Viewis the latest mobile interactive whiteboard from eInstruction. It does everything a fixed interactive whiteboard does at a fraction of the cost. Plus, Mobi View™ is handheld so it delivers ultimate mobility and gives you full-classroom control with its touch screen. When you pair Mobi View™and CPS™ student response systems, you’ll receive real-time formative assessment feedback from anywhere in the room //from every student!!// Now you have insight into students’ performance during lessons so differentiated instruction can take place at the moment of learning! Come see how to make your classroom totally interactive and engaged! || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">806 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Edmodo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Josh Kitchin || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Edmodo] is a Web 2.0 tool that allows teachers to safely share ideas, files, assignments, videos, projects, etc.with students and with other teachers in real time. It is a safe and secure social learning site for classrooms. Edmodo does not require student email addresses and only the people who have the group code can see the students. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">804 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Choosing your Instructional Technology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Brett Eaker || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you want tutorial, test practice, teach them to read, get them to read, get them to practice, help in teaching, creativity? There are many ways to address student learning with intrucational technology. Choosing the correct approach means better results for students and better dollar management. A quick over view of these options will be shown and discussed. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">606 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Making Online Quizzes with Google Docs – Form – Grading Quizzes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kim Burch || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For teachers, grading quiz results for papers manually is definitely a hard job. Google Docs provides a good way for teachers to create online quizzes for teaching and learning, you can view the last posts about creating quizzes and sharing quizzes with Google Docs. But teachers, do you know how to grade the quizzes automatically? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">719 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Digging Deeper into Instructional Technology || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Laura Moore || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this session we will look at ways we can incorporate the 4C’s of technology into our everyday lessons. We will visit a variety of websites that will help you enhance and reach out to all learning styles. These websites will continue to help you prepare your students for the 21st Century Partnership in today’s education and workforce. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">308 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">STEM || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Marlena Bleau || The Pitsco lab set up provides students with hands on experiences with Science and Math in a cooperative learning setting. Students are applying science, math, and engineering to real life scenarios. Come see how we are integrating topics such as alternative energy, applied physics, biotechnology, CADD, digital video, electrictiy, electronics, mechanics, robotics, forensic science, forensic math and much more. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">703 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Web 2.0 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jill Darrough || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">40 in 40: This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) session. 40 free, Web 2.0 tools will be presented in 40 minutes. The remainder of the session will be a time for creative play. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">419 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Qwizdom || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Phillip Henry || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Qwizdom combines standards-based RF technology with online assessment, curriculum and content sharing software to provide a complete instructional solution for the classroom. Participants will learn how lessons, quizzes and review games are presented with the instructor remote, how students answer questions on their hand-held remotes, and how teachers can manage and track group or individual scores within the software after students have completed a quiz or review game." || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">725 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Polyvision || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Craig Fetterolf || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our Education Consultant, Carissa Santasiero, will provide an introduction of the three-in-one PolyVision eno board utilizing our wireless solution to use as a dry erase board, interactive board and magnetic board. There will be an overview of the free software that is included with the board, demonstration of our eno mini as well as a demo of integrating the eno play to add an audio solution enhancing the learning capabilities. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">614 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Apple || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Janice Adams || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"iPad in the Classroom" In this presentation, you will learn how iPad technology is able to transform the contemporary classroom by providing learners with the tools needed to match unique learning styles. By coupling proven teaching strategies with powerful and engaging technologies, students and teachers can easily build an active learning environment that promotes lifelong learning - the prerequisite survival skill needed for the 21st century worker. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">617 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Audacity || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Carol Johnson || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Audacity is a free open source program that is used to create and edit audio. This session will show you how to implement this software into a project based classroom activity. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">726 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gimp || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Elileen Ferree || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Free Photo-Editing Software GIMP is a free photo-editing tool similar to Adobe Photoshop, which can be used for anything from simple red-eye reduction, cropping and image size or file format changing to full professional photo retouching. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Media Center Lab ||
 * Adaptive Technology || Dave Butler || WordMaker, Simon S.I.O. and Start-to-Finish books: Discover how to meet the
 * GeoCaching || Gail Holmes || GPS technology can be found in cars, hand held GPS devices, smart phones, etc. Learn how this technology can be used in the classroom to engage students and create an active learning environment. Understand GPS technology, longitude and latitude and the environment as you search for caches using GPS technology. Discover, research and create an actively engaging learning environment with GPS technology and geocaching. || 722 ||
 * eBooks || Frieda Julian || Learn how to make your 21st century library work for you, your teachers and students.