Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  201 RCC

 

Interactive Virtual Field Trips

EducateVia360 creates web-based interactive virtual field trip libraries. Our field trips align with the Common Core principal of 21st Century Learning skills. Using today's technology we allow students and teachers to explore the natural wonders and historically significant locations around their state.     Each field trip includes: important facts, narration, self graded quiz, pictures, some video and links to other resources. From the NC Executive Mansion to the Battleship NC - your students can visit these sites 24/7/365 using any computer/iPad in your school.

Target Audience:  K-12

Educate Via360, Inc.

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  202 RCC

 

Common Core and Mobile Devices in the SMART Classroom 

Common Core and Mobile Devices are here!  Learn how to incorporate Common Core and Mobile Devices in a SMART classroom.  We will first show how EducAide Common Core Software can seemlessly work with interactive boards.  Next, we will disucss using SMART response with any web enabled device such as tablets, phones, and iPads.

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

Lee Walls, Educational Solutions, Camcor

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm 

Location:  203 RCC

 

Discover. Connect. Learn. Digital Content and Discovery  

When digital exploration and discovery takes place-anywhere, anytime-it’s easier to inspire in your students a lifelong passion for learning. Follett Software will present features and real-life applications of Destiny to enable you in creating and enhancing the digital learning experience in your district, school, library, and classroom.

Target Audience:  K-12

Bob Rinaldi, Follett Software

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm 

Location:  204 RCC

 

Insight 360 Student Assessment and Collaboration System 

Insight 360 is the ultimate classroom instruction system designed for mobile devices. It naturally guides educators and students into research-backed best practices through a fully integrated system and intuitive devices. By seamlessly integrating instruction and assessment, Insight 360 supports educator’s best practices and accelerates student understanding. In short, Insight 360 is where instruction meets assessment.

Target Audience:  K- 12

Ryan Orehek, eInstruction

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm 

Location:  205 RCC

 

Keyboarding Skills in the 21st Century? Yes, they still matter! 

Keyboarding is an absolutely essential part of productive/efficient technology skills. Presentation includes: 1) Reasons/Supportive data to defend keyboarding in today’s school curriculum, 2) Sharing methods of successful implementation of keyboarding curriculum led by local teachers, 3) Current problems/solutions of web-based keyboarding, especially how to break Hunting & Pecking.

Target Audience:  K-12

DJ Ellsworth, Ellsworth Publishing Company

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm 

Location:  State B Marriott

 

An introduction to iTunes U Course Manager 

Learn how to create your own custom iPad courses on iTunes U and give your students a rich, immersive learning experience, no matter what subject you teach. See how one school is providing professional development for teachers from a distance for anytime learning.  Anthony will show his iTunes U course that he is using with his teachers and will demonstrate adding content and media to the course.

Target Audience:  K-12

Anthony Johnson, Rowan-Salisbury School System

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm 

Location:  State F Marriott

 

COMMON Practices that Get to the CORE of Great Instruction using Discovery Education Science Techbook 

This session will provide concrete examples and activities that meet the common core standards through science instruction.  We will explore how the resources available in the Discovery Education Science Techbook are easily utilized to enhance science instruction and address literacy skills through science journals and digital media.

Target Audience:  K-8th grades

Brad Fountain, Discovery Education

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  301A

"2012 NCTIES Grant Winner - Nicole Robinson, Tamara Presnell and Beryl Carroll

GRANT:  L.E.A.R.N.   - Literacy Enrichment And Reading with Nook"

This session will provide an overview of the use of Nook Tablets awarded to us from

a 2012 NCTIES Technology Grant. The Nooks were used to support and enhance a

7th grade English Language Arts and Social Studies unit. Six historical fiction novels

provide the base of the project. The novels were selected to provide cultural perspectives

for six countries. The students were members of Literature Circles and used the Nooks to

read the novels, take notes during reading, assist them during discussions, access online

sources for research and collaboration, record responses to discussion questions, and plan

and organize final products.

Information will also be provided on purchasing and managing content in the school

setting, teaching effective student use of the e-reader features, and using the device for

online evaluation.

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  301B

 

Managing Apple Devices in Plain English 

Our school district has implemented Apple products for the past three years, and has taken a strategic research and development approach.  We will share our challenges and successes in determining the best practical method for setting up and deploying iPads in the classroom.  We will discuss using the Apple Configurator versus using restrictions for deployment, managing devices, policies and procedures, and implementation.   We will also share materials we have developed to support deployment and apps that have been most successfully implemented.  This session will be open to discussion and sharing of your challenges and successes.

Strand:  Technology planning

Target Audience:  K-12, Administration      Skill Level:   All Levels       Platform:  All platforms

Beth Madigan, Pitt County Schools

Denise Hudson, Pitt County Schools

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  302A

 

Building Teacher Capacity through a Systematic Instructional Technology PD Process 

All schools and districts are faced with the challenge of equipping teachers to integrate technology effectively. This task is more challenging in districts with limited personnel to facilitate teacher growth in the use of instructional technology. Learn about one district’s dynamic process for empowering teacher leaders whose role is to provide instructional technology professional development through trainings, modeling, and ongoing support. Presenters will share how they identified teachers’ instructional technology needs and established, trained, and empowered a group of teacher leaders to meet those needs. Come learn instructional technology PD practices, strategies, and processes that can work for you.

Strand:  Professional development

Target Audience:  Other      Skill Level:   All Levels       Platform:  All platforms

Cindy Geddes, Newton-Conover City Schools

Jayme Linton, Lenoir-Rhyne University

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  302B

 

#DontHateTheHashtag 

New to Twitter? Convinced there's little more to tweets than sharing what you ate for breakfast? Leave your preconceptions at the door and discover how Twitter can actually help you become a better educator. Be schooled in the way of the hashtag. Explore unknown regions of the Twitterverse. Emerge with a new appreciation of the power social media takes on in the hands of educators.

Strand:  Professional development

Presentation: https://projeqt.com/matthewwinner/donthatethehashtag

Target Audience:  K-12      Skill Level:   Beginner       Platform:  All platforms

Matthew Winner, Longfellow ES/Howard Co Public Schools

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  302C

 

Composing Digital Games 

This session explores questions related to our capacity to teach and to create digital games. There has been a steady stream of inviting applications that seek to teach children and adults to learn computer programming. One of the incentives is the capacity to create games, including both collaborative and competitive games. What teaching tools are available for this type of composition? Games though require more than the structure that computer programming can provide; they require composing a wide range of media elements. What digital media skills does digital game composition require? How does such knowledge support Common Core goals?

Strand:  Gaming

Target Audience:  Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration      Skill Level:   Beginner       Platform:  All platforms

Bob Houghton, Western Carolina University

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  303

 

Crowdsourcing Your PD 

With limited time and budget, school library media coordinators and instructional technology facilitators can meet some of their professional development and professional learning community needs through online resources like webcasts and social media.  This session will address professional learning community development and virtual PD resources for school library media coordinators and instructional technology facilitators.

Strand:  Professional development

Target Audience:  K-12, Administration      Skill Level:   Beginner       Platform:  All platforms

Kathryn Parker, NCDPI

Ouida Myers, NCDPI

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  304

 

When The Internet Chooses You:  Memes, Viral Videos, and Internet Subculture 

Ermahgerd! How often have you heard excited chatter in the hall about the latest hit on YouTube?  Ever wunder what's funny about cats and why they haz bad English skillz?  Well, hide your kids, hide your wife and stahp wondering. Come have a laugh with this primer on the best and worst of the Internet!

Strand:  Other

Target Audience:  Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration      Skill Level:   Beginner       Platform:  All platforms

Lucas Gillispie, Pender County Schools

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  305A

 

Building a community of readers with Edmodo. 

In this session you will learn how an elementary school librarian uses Edmodo and Voicethread to create a daily dialog about books and reading with students and teachers throughout the school.  Learn how to use Edmodo and Voicethread to build excitement about books through book talks and book trailers, reading lists, author chats and more.  Go beyond the library walls and communicate with 21st Century students in their classrooms through Edmodo and Voicethread book clubs.  Create pre and post assessments through Edmodo and Voicethread showing the impact the school library media coordinator has on student achievement.

Strand:  Web 2.0

Target Audience:  K-12      Skill Level:   Intermediate       Platform:  All platforms

Christine Tuttell, Bugg Creative Art and Science Magnet Elementary

Heather Daughtery, Bugg Creative Art and Science Magnet Elementary

April Foley, Bugg Creative Arts and Science Magnet Elementary

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  305B

 

Code Your Class With QR Codes 

This session will provide step-by-step instruction for creating many types of QR codes for a variety of subject areas and across multiple grade levels.

Strand:  Technology planning

Target Audience:  Elementary      Skill Level:   Intermediate       Platform:  All platforms

Angie Sigmon, Shuford Elementary

Ashley Arndt, Shuford Elementary 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  306A

 

Session Cancelled - BRIDGES: Bringing Relevant Inquiry Discovery to Grow Elementary Scientists 

How do you get middle school students to connect using technology for something other than the latest gossip? How do you move the elementary science curriculum out of the textbooks and into the laboratory? You create BRIDGES that Bring(ing) Relevant Inquiry Discovery to Grow Elementary Scientists. This collaborative effort connects middle school students to governmental agencies, local resources and elementary school students.  Using various available technologies and field experience opportunities middle students developed into citizen scientist, volunteers/amateurs who partner with scientists to answer real-world questions, and built the foundations of the BRIDGES.

Strand:  Project-based learning lesson/unit planning

Target Audience:  Elementary, Middle      Skill Level:   All Levels       Platform:  All platforms

James Pate, Bee Log Elementary

Sharryl Hagerman, Yancey County Schools

Nelda Phillips, Cane River Middle School

 

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  306B

 

Trials and Tribulations of One Schools Launch of BYOT 

Bill Gates once said, ''We're changing the world with technology'' and at J.V. Washam Elementary we are shooting for this goal by creating a  'Bring Your Own Technology' forum. Come join us to learn about the trials and tribulations we have encountered along with how we have worked to solve them! Our goal is to share our journey with others and be able to talk about the ways that we are trying to create an environment that is rich in meaningful authentic  technology integration.

Strand:  Professional development

Target Audience:  K-12, Administration      Skill Level:   All Levels       Platform:  All platforms

Jill Thompson, J.V. Wa

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  306C

 

Here and App. There an App. Everywhere an App, App. 

There are new iPad apps everyday ... too many to count. Join me to hear about some of the latest  apps. If you have a few apps to share please feel free to share them in the session!

Strand:  Professional development

Target Audience:  K-12      Skill Level:   Beginner       Platform:  Mac

MaryAnn Sansonetti-Wood, Richland School DIstrict Two

Chuck Holland, Richland School District Two

 

 

Concurrent Session  4

Thursday, March 7, 2013            1:30pm-2:20pm

Location:  402

 

Featured Speaker:  Tammy Worcester

Tammy's Favorite Technology Tips, Tricks, & Tools.  

There are so many new technology gadgets, apps, and websites, that it is nearly impossible to keep up. In this fast-paced session, Tammy will share her favorite newly-discovered tips, tricks, and tools for teachers and students.