Submitted by: Lynnettee Fetters,
Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School
Conference Program - Archive Listing
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow, Today
Program Description: Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow, Today is a collaborative effort with the education community to identify essential design principles for the 21st century high school by focusing on relationships that matter most: those between students, teachers, and curriculum. Come to this session to learn more about a concept we call Challenged Based Learning.
Program Title: Continue the Conversation with Dan Pink
Program Description: Discuss why "high tech" abilities are giving way to "high concept" and "high touch" talent. Explore further the six essential aptitudes necessary for thriving in this emerging world. Uncover why the widespread search for meaning is perhaps the greatest recruiting challenge – and the largest business opportunity – of our times.
Affiliated Organization: Keynote
Presenter: Daniel Pink
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: IT Virtualization in an Education environment
Program Description: Dive into the pros and cons of virtualization for your IT server and client infrastructure. Learn about the 8 phases of virtualization and how to make them work in your environment
Affiliated Organization: TBD
Presenter: Nick DArchangelo
Co-Presenter(s): Eric Lamp
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Enabling the Green Data Center
Program Description: Learn how NetApp technologies like Thin Provisioning, De-Duplication, Snapshots, RAID-DP and Writable Snapshots (FlexClone) can reduce your storage footprint and reduce costs in your computing environment. In some environments, like server virtualization, NetApp will guarantee you use fewer disks to help reduce power and cooling requirements.
Affiliated Organization: TBD
Presenter: Nick DArchangelo
Co-Presenter(s): John Reckner
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Meeting Kids Where They Are
Program Description: This presentation explores ‘best practices’ of educators who utilize technology tools and integration concepts to enhance the learning experience by providing project-based activities that promote collaboration and differentiation to develop 21st century skills, while meeting identified 'special needs' of the students.
Affiliated Organization: South Middleton Area School District
Presenter: Sharonn Williams
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Preparing future teachers-what does the future hold?
Program Description: Educational technology is dynamic and we have to make the decisions about preparing the future teachers in the classroom to use it effectively. What makes up a quality educational technology program? Join us for a discussion of what we are doing and have some input as to what the future teachers should know...
Affiliated Organization: Juniata College
Presenter: Kathleen Jones
Co-Presenter(s): David Fusco
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Improving Student Presentations
Program Description: This interactive session will allow participants to focus on assigning presentations that require students to demonstrate confidence and competency over content while creating powerful presentations that promote digital citizenship.
Affiliated Organization: School District of Springfield Township
Program Title: Will VMware solve all my power/cooling problems?
Program Description: Virtualization offers IT professionals the opportunity to consolidate and be energy efficient. Power and cooling reduction are initial benefits, but other technologies such as IP telephony and other applications can quickly absorb the reductions. Find out about new technologies in Power and Cooling that can adapt to your changing environment.
Affiliated Organization: Upper Dublin School District
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Leasing: Meet Financial Reqs of IT Spending
Program Description: Learn more about how leasing can stretch shrinking technology dollars while creating refresh cycles and management efficiencies that bring order to IT operations. Learn to use leasing as a financial framework to lower the overall cost of use/ownership and provide total life cycle management.
Affiliated Organization: Spring-Ford Area School District
Presenter: Garry Spohn
Co-Presenter(s): Steve Bland, Nick DArchangelo
Strand(s): Policy/Planning/Funding, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Everyone can get a Mini-Notebook
Program Description: The emergence of the mini-notebook has redefined the classroom for the technologically innovative schools in PA. Let’s explore the how to decide which mini-notebooks work for which classrooms and how to fund the program. What success has been found? What to expect? How they have used them to start?
Affiliated Organization: Derry Township School District
Presenter: Al Harding
Co-Presenter(s): Ellen Holtz
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Google Docs in the Classroom
Program Description: Do you know that Google provides free applications, called Google Documents, that can be used to create, edit and share documents, spreadsheets and slideshows online? Learn how students can create and collaborate and how they can add or edit content to the same file simultaneously all through Google Documents.
Affiliated Organization: Spring Cove School District
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Introduction to the Standards Aligned System
Program Description: The Pennsylvania Standards Aligned Systems (SAS) is a collaborative product of research and good practice that utilizes six distinct elements (Clear Standards, Fair Assessments, Curriculum Framework, Instruction, Materials & Resources, and Interventions) which if utilized together will provide schools and districts a common framework for continuous school and district enhancement and improvement.
Affiliated Organization: PDE
Presenter: Scott Jay
Co-Presenter(s): Sean McDonough
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Standards/NCLB, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Instructors' Satisfaction with Online Teaching
Program Description: Our study examined instructors’ levels of satisfaction with various aspects of online instruction. Results of a satisfaction survey of instructors at selected colleges and universities who have taught, or are teaching, online and/or onground will be presented.
Affiliated Organization: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Program Title: Who is Podcasting for Education and How?
Program Description: This session will focus on finding and using podcasts in the K-12 classroom by identifying sources for K-12 appropriate podcasts, looking at hardware to facilitate the use of identified podcasts, and reviewing teacher projects. This session will NOT focus on creating podcasts but rather podcasting classroom examples.
Affiliated Organization: Crawford Central School District
Program Description: A parent/coach/teacher team focus on the question often asked about project based or inquiry learning: How do you assess students? Discussion will include the focus on planning assessments first, the creation of varied performance assessments, and the pitfalls of assessing such work. Questions and dialogue are encouraged among participants.
Affiliated Organization: Punxsutawney Area School District
Program Title: Think Outside the Board; Creative Smartboard Uses
Program Description: Is your whiteboard still a "puzzle"? Let me "put the pieces together". By using a few applications and thinking SMARTer, you’ll engage students with these interesting, curriculum-based ideas. We’ll cover creative uses for your Smartboard. This presentation will be given by a 2008 Pa Keystone Educator and Smartboard certified instructor.
Affiliated Organization: Propel Schools
Presenter: Joseph Oliphant
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Electronic Portfolios with Acrobat 9 Professional
Program Description: Learn how to use the ePortfolio capabilities in Acrobat 9 to enable students & faculty to easily organize and collect information from a variety of sources into a media-rich PDF Portfolio, collaborate and share documents & portfolios in real time, & collect & manage feedback into a single PDF document.
Program Description: Adobe Acrobat delivers powerful solutions for improving classroom efficiency and enhancing communication throughout your educational community. Easily create and distribute curriculum, media-rich lesson plans, project materials, and homework assignments. Adobe Acrobat simplifies and streamlines administrative processes.
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist, All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Student Technicians...........An Untapped Resource
Program Description: What is the most untapped resource in school districts regarding tech support? STUDENTS! A Cohort 1 CFF school satisfied the need for expanded IT support by harnessing student technical skills launching a Student Technician Program. Details discussed: organization, procedures, monitoring, record-keeping, grades, projects, ethics and many caveats.
Affiliated Organization: Shanksville-Stonycreek School District
Program Title: Learning with Videoconferencing in Kindergarten
Program Description: This interactive session portrays research results about kindergartners’ meaning making while participating in an astronomy interactive videoconferencing program with a British primary classroom. Discussion will provide educators with an opportunity to discuss implications for their own classrooms.
Affiliated Organization: Duquesne University
Presenter: Debra C. Burkey Piecka
Strand(s): Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: CFF Teachers Voices: Comments from the CFF Surveys
Program Description: The CFF Survey solicits teachers’ comments within a primarily quantitative instrument. These comments provide teachers the opportunity to express their responses to (and concerns about) the CFF Program. Roughly 30% of teachers choose to provide a narrative comment about the program. In this research, we analyze teachers attitudes and beliefs.
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania State University
Presenter: Robin Clausen
Co-Presenter(s): Luis Almieda, Jeanne Vilberg
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Imagine, Create, Think, Learn: Programming 4 Kids
Program Description: Schools must teach students to be shapers, not just users, of technology. Learn how you can use programming languages such as HTML, Scratch and Logo to help students learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while fostering the development of problem-solving strategies, critical thinking skills and creativity.
Affiliated Organization: Owen J. Roberts School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology Leadership & Implementation
Program Description: CoSN, created the Small District Technology Leadership Initiative to help the ever-expanding role of the Small District Technology Leader. This session highlights CoSN’s work with small school districts sharing best practices in the areas of leadership, community support, staffing, budgeting, & professional development.
Affiliated Organization: Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Programming Microcontrolers with MS Students
Program Description: Math, Science and Technology classes can all be enhanced with the addition of a "Basic Stamp" microcontroller. Students can start with simple circuits and programs and then research and build more complex projects with different inputs, outputs and processes.
Affiliated Organization: Sharon City School Distirct
Program Title: Using PowerPoint As A 21st Century Learning Tool
Program Description: This presentation will focus on using PowerPoint as an interactive learning tool rather than a presentation tool for students. Student projects will be demonstrated in the areas of single slide multimedia, interactive lessons, and PowerPoint games. Projects will also focus on meeting the needs of various types of learners.
Program Title: Moodle and the First Year CFF Teacher
Program Description: How do I implement a Moodle (a Learning Management System) site? How can my teachers quickly begin using it? This presentation will share how a CFF Teacher and Coach learned, tested, and implemented the use of a Moodle in the classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Sharon City School District
Program Title: Info2Go - Learning Through Vodcasts
Program Description: Campus faculty, students and staff produce short, high-quality video podcasts delivering content of interest to college students. Topics include physics lessons, library research tutorials, public service announcements about preventing identity theft and more. Users can download the vodcasts, so they are personal, portable and convenient to view.
Affiliated Organization: Penn State University - Beaver Campus
Program Title: A Google Docs Workflow That Really Works
Program Description: In an effort to go completely paperless in their classes, these teachers are using the free online Google Docs application to share, collect, and organize everything from lab manuals to guided reading questions and notes. Students and teachers collaborate on a single online document, rather than multiple paper or emailed versions.
Affiliated Organization: Lancaster Country Day School
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Professional Development: A Multifaceted Approach
Program Description: Learn about a district’s approach to providing options and opportunities around all avenues and venues for professional and administrative staff development. During the workshop, we will discuss needs analysis, motivation strategies and return on investment.
Affiliated Organization: Cornwall - Lebanon School District
Presenter: Jason Murray
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: A Life or Death Application for Google Earth
Program Description: Learn how a group of environmentally-conscious high school students used a simple GPS tracking device and the free Google Earth software to track the survival rate of various species of trees planted around a local creek. See the color-coded overlays and high-quality satellite photos.
Affiliated Organization: Lancaster Country Day School
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Videoconferencing for an Educational Choice
Program Description: Come and learn how 17 school districts in Beaver and Butler Counties have partnered to combat declining enrollment and offer students choices! See how your school can use Interactive VideoConferencing and online Learning to maximize the level of school programming for your students.
Affiliated Organization: Beaver valley Intermediate Unit/ IU 27
Program Description: Are you interested in exploring online virtual worlds? What are the possibilities for professional and social networking? What are the possibilities for incorporating virtual worlds into your instruction? This workshop will provide very basic information and resources for starting a learning community to explore Second Life together.
Affiliated Organization: Northwestern Lehigh School District
Presenter: Anne Bender
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Seven Deadly Assumptions
Program Description: There is so much technology available for the classroom that sometimes we get so excited to use it that we base everything we do around the technology. Come join the discussion and learn how to use the technology more effectively!
Affiliated Organization: Midd-West School District
Program Title: The results of web 2.0 tools in the classroom
Program Description: In the summer of 2008 Harrisburg University conducted an educator’s workshop, “Web 2.0 in the Classroom.” Workshop participants implemented web 2.0 technology into their classrooms as part of completing the course work. Attend this presentation to hear about the web 2.0 implementations including benefits, obstacles and learning outcomes.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology, Assessment & Professional Development
Program Description: Catasauqua Area School District will share its experience with the following technology-based assessment and professional development strategies designed to improve classroom instruction and increase student achievement: mClass DIBELS handheld technology, 4Sight Benchmark Assessments, Study Island, and FREE online professional development.
Affiliated Organization: Catasauqua Area School District
Presenter: Christina Lutz-Doemling
Co-Presenter(s): Kathy Kotran
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Standards/NCLB, Mobile/Wireless Technologies
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Clay Animation: Students' Creative Problem Solving
Program Description: The process of creating clay animation requires students' to plan, cooperate, collaborate, and solve problems. Using a digital still camera learn what is needed to have your students experience how to create a “movie” based upon literacy illustrations, science experiments, math concepts and social studies events while having fun.
Affiliated Organization: NJAET - New Jersey Association for Educational Technology
Program Title: Credit Card E Bill/E Pay solutions &PCI Compliance
Program Description: Accepting credit card payments for any fees, even school lunch programs, creates new cost saving opportunities, but requires strict compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. ECSI and Sierra w/o Wires will show how you can implement cost effective E bill/E pay systems including PCI 12 step compliance reviews.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Assisitive Technology Resources in Pennsylvania
Program Description: The Center for Independent Living of North Central PA, an Assistive Technology Resource Center funded by Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology through Temple University would like to share Assistive Technology resources available to Pennsylvanians. These resources include free borrowing, funding exchange and reutilization programs.
Affiliated Organization: Center for Independent Living of North Central Pa
Program Title: Best Practices for the Effective use of Technology
Program Description: Technology itself is not a learning solution. Learning technologies can only truly impact the classroom as a tool to support instructional strategies. Attend this presentation to learn about considerations and techniques for increasing the positive results from learning technology integration.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Authentic Learning-Making 21st Century Connections
Program Description: The presenters illustrate how Authentic Learning is instructionally, fiscally, and politically correct, and the most logical and practical method to engage students and faculty in STEM. Participants are encouraged to bring best practice examples (print or digital media) of Authentic Learning in support of 21st Century Skills for discussion.
Affiliated Organization: New Kensington-Arnold School Distri
Program Title: Public Broadcasting&Potential Ed Tech Implications
Program Description: PPTN, a state agency with 8 public TV stations, will provide an overview of learning content, digital asset management, multimedia delivery platforms, and other services and offerings available through PPTN and its public broadcasting affiliates
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Public Television Network (PPTN)
Presenter: Luc Miron
Co-Presenter(s): Sylvia Strobel
Strand(s): Media Centers, Technology Leadership
Audience(s):
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: 50 Ways to be a Blogger
Program Description: Blogs are a wonderful communication tool, but can also be so much more. This presentation will present 50 different ways teachers and students can use blogs and blog elements for communication, group projects, class information, course websites, resource libraries, and collaboration activities.
Audience(s): 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Getting Parents Involved in Internet Safety
Program Description: This presentation will describe various approaches taken by 2 districts and an IU to raise awareness among parents on the topic of Internet Safety. In one district, student survey results were shared with parents as well as board members as a way of recruiting attendees to a parent specific awareness workshop.
Affiliated Organization: Huntingdon Area Middle School
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: The Value of Collaborative Learning Solutions
Program Description: Collaborative learning solutions are evolving and heavily influence the arrangement and pedagogy of education. Find out what you need to know to make informed decisions about the collaborative technologies available, and the way power users from leading districts use them. Receive “The Value of Collaborative Learning Solutions” white paper.
Program Title: They Aren't Peas in a Pod: How We Use Podcasting
Program Description: How do teacher use podcasting in the classroom? A quick lesson on how to build a podcast using GarageBand or iMovie. Explore actual examples of how podcasting has been successfully implemented into core subject areas in our school district.
Affiliated Organization: Punxsutawney School District
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Building Online Courses using the QM Rubric
Program Description: Quality Matters (QM) is an “inter-institutional improvement model for assessing and assuring
quality of online courses.” This session will illustrate how the QM rubric has been used as a guide for developing online courses.
Affiliated Organization: California University of Pennsylvania
Program Title: Losing Control and Gaining Enthusiasm
Program Description: Talking the language of teenagers in any classroom can be difficult, but many students are more readily buying into subject matter when they are able to utilize technology. Come see how students explored cultural, social, and environmental topics through the use of Web 2.0 tools, movies, podcasting, and video-conferencing.
Affiliated Organization: Eastern Lebanon County School District
Program Title: Web 2.0 - Online tools for the classroom
Program Description: Do you know what Web 2.0, Google Documents, Google Tools, Blogs/Podcasts and are? Have you wondered how they could benefit the K-16 classroom? Did you know many Web 2.0 tools are FREE? If you have ever asked yourself these questions, then this is the presentation for you!
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Lecture-Capture technology and Socrates Project
Program Description: Learn how state of the art lecture capture technology accessible and affordable is being utilized. CourseCast gives students on demand access to indexed lectures podcasts video, enabling them to experience or revisit entire lectures, to focus on segments of their choice. Learn Socrates Project benefits. Free lecture-capture software. Best practices
Affiliated Organization: Cornwall-Lebanon School District
Program Title: Integrating Promethean Boards in your classroom.
Program Description: A hands on Promethean Board training geared towards Classroom For the Future teachers. Getting started and using the board in your classroom.
Affiliated Organization: East Stroudsburg Area School District
Presenter: Carrie Panepinto
Co-Presenter(s): Karla De Leon
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Mining the Mind Map for Differentiation
Program Description: The problem: Over 30% of people think best visually, but don’t know how to harness this intellectual asset to learn.
The solution: This high energy workshop presents practical methods for teaching a learning skill that matches how many learners naturally think. These strategies will target gifted, traditional and remedial learners.
Affiliated Organization: School District of Philadelphia
Presenter: Jesse Berg
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Streaming Video in the Classroom and Schools
Program Description: Live web based video recording of classes using mogulus.com (including daily recording of classes) for multiple purposes: new teacher training, self-improvement, embedding clips into any CMS, and for use with absent students. School and community wide video announcements (live streamed or on-demand) are possible too.
Affiliated Organization: Central York School District
Presenter: Nathan Hammond
Co-Presenter(s): Debbie Bieber
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Advanced Things You Can Do With Moodle
Program Description: Explore streaming Audio and Video directly from moodle or through embedded streams; importing Quiz questions with text or with audio and video; granting students extra role permissions/functionality; looking at the Gradebook and Mobile Moodle and adding 3rd party modules to moodle.
Affiliated Organization: Central York School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Web 2.0 Tools as a Door to Collaboration
Program Description: Are you finding "common time" a challenge to collabroation? This workshop will explore the use of effective collaborative techniques with web 2.0 tools to provide opportunities for collegial growth eliminating "common time" as an obstacle for staff collaboration.
Affiliated Organization: Pleasant Valley School District
Presenter: Joseph Kondisko
Co-Presenter(s): Penny Derr
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Implementing a CMS:Lessons Learned, Best Practices
Program Description: Any district-wide technology implementation is fraught with potential pitfalls and adopting a website content management system (CMS) is no different. Attend this session to learn the accumulated wisdom of several school districts, small and large, that implemented a CMS over the past 12-18 months.
Affiliated Organization: PowerIT, LLC
Presenter: John Raymond
Strand(s): Technology Leadership
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Teaching World Languages Asynchronously
Program Description: In this presentation, a 21st Century Cyber Charter School world language teacher shares the experiences using technology to successfully deliver asynchronous Mandarin Chinese programs to students. Examples of student work will be shown. The process of implementation and the technology used in the asynchronous environment will be demonstrated.
Affiliated Organization: 21st Century Cyber Charter School
Program Title: Cisco Physical Security Solutions for Education
Program Description: Make the most of video system investments and gain new security capabilities with Cisco Physical Security solutions. Scalable Web-based software and broadcast-quality hardware integrate with existing analog and network-centric systems to facilitate faster incident response and resolution.
Affiliated Organization: Council Rock School District
Presenter: Matt Frederickson
Co-Presenter(s): Mike McCafferty, Nick DArchangelo
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Experimental Flaws Revealed Through Technology
Program Description: This presentation will consist of outlining a high school chemistry experiment on freezing point depression that incorporates Vernier equipment, PowerPoint, and web-based forums such as Moodle that allow students to share experimental results and find ways to improve upon experimental flaws via interpretation of data and group collaboration.
Program Description: So, your school is too small to close the digital divide? Open discussion on how to meet the needs of 21st century students. Through open-source/platform programs of Web 2.0, purposeful addition of equipment, and the willingness of our faculty, you'll see where we were, where we are, and where we're headed.
Affiliated Organization: Loyalsock Township School District
Presenter: Matthew Johnson
Co-Presenter(s): Eric, J Gee, James, L Ellis
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: On the road to web 3.0: RSS feeds and mashups
Program Description: Web 3.0 is starting to appear on the horizon. In my presentation I will show examples of applications that already incorporate some ideas that are expected to be the new semantic web. I will focus on the increased use of RSS feeds and mashups, which are a first step towards Web 3.0. The creation of an advanced mashup will be demonstrated.
Program Title: Interactive Science Concept Maps (Inspiration 8)
Program Description: Learn how to use the program Inspiration 8 which is available on CFF laptops in the inquiry based science classroom. Incorporating video, audio, animations, and student work into an interactive concept map. Excellent way to conclude a unit, allows students to experience differentiated learning as well.
Program Description: When searching for information, students generally use Google and only the first sources listed. This presentation will focus on skills students should have in order to find the best information on the web. Various search engines will be demonstrated as well as techniques for verifying the validity of websites.
Affiliated Organization: Central York School District
Presenter: Sue Sheffer
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Frazier School District’s Portal & the Community
Program Description: Learn about Frazier School District’s successful use of Edline's website and portal solution utilized by students, parents, faculty and administrators. Frazier’s improving student performance with increased parental involvement, enhancing internal communication and reducing costs by easily publishing grades, homework, news, calendars and more.
Affiliated Organization: Frazier School District
Presenter: Susan Guiser
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: PowerPoint: From Pointless to Powerful
Program Description: PowerPoint is taken beyond the basics. The focus will be on using advanced features to enhance the teaching and learning process. Participants will learn to create non-linear PowerPoint presentations for use in the classroom with features such as screen tips, hyperlinking, Web-based templates, and more!
Affiliated Organization: Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Program Title: Online Learning: Are We Ready for It???
Program Description: As online learning continues to grow in the K-12 educational arena, many questions remain unanswered by major stakeholders. This session will provide an open forum to discuss the concerns that need to be addressed in order for online learning to be successful.
Affiliated Organization: Wilkes University
Presenter: Deana Patson
Co-Presenter(s): Christy Savakinas, Stephen Cheskiewicz
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Moodle Magic-Collaborating in a Creative Community
Program Description: A hands-on exploration of Moodling within a collaborative community of Moodlers globally. Information, ideas, and a network will provide strategies to Moodle with others.
Affiliated Organization: Northbrook District 28/Global Classroom
Presenter: Laurie Korte
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Case Studies in Technology and School Reform
Program Description: Microsoft, CaseNEX and PDE have produced 16 case studies and professional development. Free of charge, each case contains issues, perspectives, and actions in technology and high school reform. They were filmed across the Commonwealth in schools integrating technology with the CFF Grant. This session introduces these case studies and modules.
Affiliated Organization: CaseNEX and Microsoft Partners in Learning
Presenter: Diane Reed
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Project Connect
Program Description: Using the newly developed “Standards Aligned System” from PDE's EdHub, various technologies, and field experiences, Project Connect supplies K-12 teachers with exemplary web resources aligned to state standards. Learn how this partnership builds experiences and resources for our classrooms.
Affiliated Organization: York College of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Rebecca Speelman
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Standards/NCLB
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Students’ online behavior? Are they at risk?
Program Description: Children have always been savvy at testing boundaries and computer networks have never been an exception. How to ensure safe, appropriate web browsing for students.
Affiliated Organization: This is educational
Presenter: Michael Argast
Strand(s): Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Digital Cameras in the Elementary Classroom
Program Description: Digital images can be powerful learning tools. Begin to explore what you and your class can do with digital images. Use Photostory3 and create a digital story, create class books, design a scavenger hunt to reinforce key concepts and ideas, create a digital quilt, or use one of many online tools to turn your picture into a learning tool.
Affiliated Organization: York Suburban School District
Program Title: Laptops and the Changing Teacher Workload
Program Description: How not to get buried by your suddenly productive students. Laptops can make students extremely productive, but merely increasing the volume of work for students (and teachers) is not the answer. Shift to “teaching as engineering learning environments” (Dylan Wiliam), and avoid the digital worksheet trap!
Affiliated Organization: Upper Merion Area HS
Presenter: David Montalvo
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Changing the reality of professional development
Program Description: Educational research has failed to produce significant changes in classroom practice and ineffective teacher professional development offerings continue to widen the research-to-practice gap. The purpose of this presentation is to present an innovative process used in the design of a blended professional development course for K-12 teachers.
Affiliated Organization: Red Clay Consolidated School District
Presenter: Andrea Ray
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: SMART Boarding 101: Become a SMART Teacher
Program Description: Come see/experience the newest SMART Board Technologies software/hardware. Discover how this technology will seamlessly transform your classroom. Learn content-based ideas for your classroom, how to interact with your computer, classroom management, some advanced SMART Boarding techniques, and how to get one for your classroom! Plus get KLIK-ed!
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist, All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Literacy in a Digital Elementary Classroom
Program Description: How exciting it is to see your story come to life in a book or movie! This session will demonstrate how to use digital photos, video and numerous online activities to empower and engage elementary students in reading, speaking and writing.
Affiliated Organization: York Suburban School District
Program Title: Turning information overload into useful knowledge
Program Description: This presentation examines how students can use web 2.0 technologies to shape their learning environment. Focusing on Election 2008, students collaborate asynchronously using Google Apps, Wikis and RSS applications to organize and transform information into useful knowledge that can then be put to use for a school-wide debate and election.
Affiliated Organization: New Hope-Solebury School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Digital Storytelling using photostory3
Program Description: Help your students breathe life into their digital presentations by adding music, narration, motion, and more. Photostory3 is open source software that is easy enough for a second grader to use.
Affiliated Organization: North Hills School District
Program Title: Making the Digital Playground Safer!
Program Description: Predators, bullying, and other online threats are making more and more headlines. The ELCO school district will share statistical information of national and local student online behavior and the steps the school district has put in place that has successfully transformed the online behavior of the school’s students.
Affiliated Organization: Eastern Lebanon County SD (ELCO)
Presenter: Robert Boltz
Co-Presenter(s): Robert Boltz, Juliette Golden
Strand(s): Technology & Ethics
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Final Cut Pro - Tips and Tricks
Program Description: For teachers of video production using Apple's Final Cut Pro, I'll show you some tips and tricks I've learned to speed up your production and add creativity to your student's work. Tutorials will be available on the web for future viewing.
Affiliated Organization: Wyomissing Area School District
Presenter: Michael Farrara
Co-Presenter(s): Michael Farrara, Michael Farrara
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: MS Office 2007 Tips and Tricks for Educators
Program Description: Learn to use MS Office 2007 as an innovative classroom tool to improve your productivity and engage your students in collaborative activities. This workshop will address new possibilities available with the 2007 versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and will offer suggestions for classroom projects.
Affiliated Organization: NJAET
Presenter: Stephanie Harakal
Co-Presenter(s): Donna Armstrong
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: PEPPM's Website-New Look & Important New Features
Program Description: PEPPM has made a dramatic update to its website (www.peppm.org.) This presentation will demonstrate and explain how this new shopping and buying opportunity is like no other contract service in the country. Expanded product descriptions, new searching capabilities, online quote requests, how to videos and shopping lists are just a few enhancements.
Program Title: SSR Meets RSS: Making Reading Time Relevant
Program Description: Give sustained silent reading a digital update. The Web is overflowing with relevant and interesting text. Connect your students to blogs and allow them to subscribe using RSS and an aggregator such as Google Reader. Finally, add writing reflections using educational blogging tools to truly promote literacy.
Affiliated Organization: York Suburban Senior High School
Program Title: Instructional Tech. Adoption Models in Higher Ed
Program Description: This review examines instructional technology adoption models (ITAMs) used in higher education to engage faculty use. Through an examination of 54 models, it is revealed that ITAMs ignore issues of pedagogy and are mostly developed for an alternative audience and environment, outside the realities and characteristics of higher education.
Affiliated Organization: Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science
Presenter: Patricia Baia
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Computer Game Design Using Scratch
Program Description: Learn basic videogame design concepts using the freeware program SCRATCH created by MIT Labs. Scratch is designed to help develop 21st century skills by introducing important mathematical and computational ideas. Will share experience of using it in Middle School classroom and IU summer camps.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester Area School District
Program Title: Wiki/Podcast Idea for Media Centers
Program Description: A middle school librarian will demonstrate a successful, dynamic wiki she created with her students to recommend/review good books for their peers. A middle school technology coach will then demonstrate how you can create a similar wiki at your school for free.
Affiliated Organization: Southern Lehigh Middle School
Presenter: Corry Robbins
Co-Presenter(s): Michael Pauling
Strand(s): Media Centers
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: It's a Final Cut World
Program Description: Thousands of creative educators and professionals worldwide have made Final Cut Pro -- now an industry standard -- their first choice for editing. Here we will explore the industry impact of Final Cut Studio and why Apple's Certified Pro Training program for Education is a benchmark for assessing proficiency in specific Apple Pro applications.
Affiliated Organization: Apple
Presenter: Bob Trikakis
Strand(s): Media Centers, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Mac OS X Sys Imaging & Deployment Best Practices
Program Description: Mac OS X and OS X Server feature excellent software for system imaging, diskless boot and centralized software updates. Apple Remote Desktop adds system management and reporting. Learn best practices using the tools available for mass deployments of laptops, dual-boot Mac and Windows labs running on Mac hardware.
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: Matt Little
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Mac OS X Sys Imaging & Deployment Best Practices
Program Description: Mac OS X and OS X Server feature excellent software for system imaging, diskless boot and centralized software updates. Apple Remote Desktop adds system management and reporting. Learn best practices using the tools available for mass deployments of laptops, dual-boot Mac and Windows labs running on Mac hardware.
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: Matt Little
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: OS X Directory Services for Technical Coordinators
Program Description: The powerful Directory Services structure of Mac OS X allows system administrators to manage network users and volumes. Learn how to make Directory Services respond to your every command and return the information your network seeks. See how to best manage users to keep your systems running smoothly and securely.
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: James Garringer
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Introducing Mac OS X v.10.5 "Leopard"
Program Description: Packed with more than 300 exciting new innovations, Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" features a completely new Finder and Desktop environment, making it even easier to quickly browse and locate your files; Time Machine, a revolutionary new automated backup and recovery utility; Spaces, an exciting new way to manage desktop windows; and much more!
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: Andre Downer
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Introducing iWork '08 - Classroom Productivity
Program Description: iWork ’08 provides three powerful tools for the classroom: Pages, a streamlined word processor that’s perfect for everything from history reports to newsletters to writing stories; Keynote, Apple’s industry-leading application for creating cinema-quality presentations; and Numbers, an innovative new spreadsheet for calculating and organizing data.
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: Steve Zalot
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Introducing iWork '08 - Classroom Productivity
Program Description: iWork ’08 provides three powerful tools for the classroom: Pages, a streamlined word processor that’s perfect for everything from history reports to newsletters to writing stories; Keynote, Apple’s industry-leading application for creating cinema-quality presentations; and Numbers, an innovative new spreadsheet for calculating and organizing data.
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: Steve Zalot
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Welcome to iLife '08 - Digital Media for Education
Program Description: Rediscover creative new ways to integrate attention-grabbing multimedia into your classroom with iLife '08! The suite features major upgrades to iPhoto, GarageBand, iDVD and iWeb and a completely new version of iMovie, all with features specifically designed for education.
Program Title: iPods & Podcasting for Teaching & Learning
Program Description: Discover podcasting, an exciting new way for students and teachers to create, publish and distribute their own dynamic educational content, in the classroom, or around the world. With podcasting, students, teachers and parents can have anywhere, anytime, access to the latest educational audio and video content, on a Mac, on a PC or on an iPod!
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: David Marra
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: iPods & Podcasting for Teaching & Learning
Program Description: Discover podcasting, an exciting new way for students and teachers to create, publish and distribute their own dynamic educational content, in the classroom, or around the world. With podcasting, students, teachers and parents can have anywhere, anytime, access to the latest educational audio and video content, on a Mac, on a PC or on an iPod!
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: David Marra
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: CyberSafety: A Higher Ed, K-12 Partnership Model
Program Description: Over the past year, Millersville University and Penn Manor School District have collaborated on a large-scale community initiative focused on keeping kids safe online. This session outlines our unique Higher-ed, K-12 partnership and provides a sampling of the Internet Safety programs and content delivered to students, parents and the community.
Affiliated Organization: Penn Manor School District & Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Program Description: Interactive Whiteboards for Large group instruction will demonstrate 3 levels of usage. This presentation is not brand specific. I will provide practices that can be used on any interactive surface.
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Engaging Students with Multimedia Tools
Program Description: Learn how to use "Clickers", PowerPoint, and other tools that will create a 21st century classroom for your students to be engaged. We will show you the many tools and some uses of them. Using your already created lessons you can make them more interactive, creative, and engaging for you and your students.
Affiliated Organization: EAST STROUDSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT
Presenter: KARLA DELEON
Co-Presenter(s): CARRIE PANEPINTO
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Triple-Ex: Expand and Extend for Excellence
Program Description: Using collaboration and critical thinking strategies to create meaningful connections and deepen learning. There will be an emphasis on differentiating instruction through extended thinking activities and expanding student options. Expect philosophical discussion as well as active participation in the session.
Affiliated Organization: Danville Area School Disrict
Program Title: Preparing Future Teachers for Online Teaching
Program Description: Nearly every teacher certified today will be asked to teach or use online instruction in his or her future. This presentation will illustrate how to embed and offer curriculum that dually prepares teacher candidates to design, teach, assess, and mange a class both online and on-site.
Affiliated Organization: Saint Vincent College
Presenter: Veronica Ent
Co-Presenter(s): Elizabeth Ferris
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Going From A Senior Project to a Graducation Plan
Program Description: Changing from the "Salsa" syndrome of Senior Projects to a 4 year online Graduation Plan can be a very difficult transition to make within a school. We will discuss our rationale for the change, lessons learned, what we have uncovered, and ironing out the bumps in the road and where we go from here.
Affiliated Organization: Ellwood City Area School Dist
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Ending Copyright Confusion
Program Description: Copyright and fair use can be confusing to navigate! This introduction to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education will explain fair use. The participants will engage in examining scenarios, analyzing real student work and exploring fair use of resources for images, audio, & video.
Affiliated Organization: Temple Media Education Lab
Presenter: Kristin Hokanson
Co-Presenter(s): Katie Donnelly, Renee Hobbs
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: So You Want Your Own Moodle Server...
Program Description: You've been exploring the idea of providing your district with a Learning Management System. You decided to give Moodle a try, but need some help setting up the server. This is the workshop for you. We will demonstrate the installation step-by-step from OS installation through adding Moodle modules.
Affiliated Organization: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Moodle Tips and Tricks
Program Description: This session is for educators who are already familiar with Moodle and are looking to take their courses to the next level. Tips on customization, organization and usablity will be shared.
Affiliated Organization: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit
Program Description: Scientific inquiry is recommended by the Natl Science Teachers Assn for grades K-16. This project-centered experience includes an essential question, ecosystems, digital cameras, microphones and Nova portable computers. It promotes active participation, self-motivation, project ownership and an understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge.
Affiliated Organization: Hatboro-Horsham School District
Program Title: Motivate With Mushers - The Classroom Iditarod
Program Description: Thanks to unbelievable mushers, dogs, volunteers, and the power of technology, you can bring the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to your classroom. Learn how to share the Iditarod by integrating technology into standards-based, collaborative, and highly motivational projects that will spark interest in even the most reluctant learner.
Affiliated Organization: Council Rock School District
Program Title: Teaching in Virtual Worlds (Second Life)
Program Description: This presentation will explain what Second Life is, how it can be used for educational purposes, and what the faculty and IT support staff are doing at IUP to support the use of virtual worlds for teaching. IUP is the 4th most visited higher education site in Second Life.
Affiliated Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Audience(s): 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: PIMS - A year in review and coming attractions
Program Description: The Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS) is PDE's integrated data collection, data warehouse, and data reporting application. This session will review the first year's collections and lessions learned. We will also look at the changes that are being implemented this year. Time will be alotted for questions and answers.
Affiliated Organization: PA Department of Education
Program Title: Video Analysis in a Physics classroom
Program Description: This session will include the application of video capture and data analysis to bring real world applications into the classroom. The primary software we will demonstrate is Vernier’s LoggerPro. This presentation will focus on applications to the high school physics classroom, but could be adapted to other disciplines or levels.
Affiliated Organization: DuBois Area High School
Presenter: Ken Evans
Co-Presenter(s): Jennifer, L Keith
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): 9-12
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Become a Techno-traditional Teacher
Program Description: Technology has revolutionized our educational systems. As an integral component of the curriculum, it is a chameleon-like tool that can be used with any content. Join author Tony Brewer for an informative look at how to use technology in ways that are quick, easy and best of all fun!
Affiliated Organization: Brewer Learning Center
Presenter: Tony Brewer
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Leaping the Digital Divide with Digital Imagery
Program Description: Incorporating digital imagery into our lessons is a terrific hook to engage and inspire students to utilize technology in every way possible. This fun and exciting session with author Tony Brewer will show you the how and why of the engaging use of digital imagery in your classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Brewer Learning Center
Presenter: Tony Brewer
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Catasauqua Brings 21st Century Skills to the Class
Program Description: Catasauqua High School CFF teachers will showcase a variety of Web 2.0 tools and how they are using them in the classroom. Walk away with different ideas of how to motivate the students in your classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Catasauqua Area School District
Program Title: PAIUnet “Connecting Learners…Accelerating Results”
Program Description: Teaching and Learning is about to be transformed in Pennsylvania as students and teachers throughout the state create, communicate and collaborate over PAIUnet, the new statewide education network.
Come and learn how this valuable new resource can make learning relevant and exciting for your students and for you!
Affiliated Organization: PAIUNet (PAIU)
Presenter: John Branson
Co-Presenter(s): Lawrence O'Shea, David Martin, Derrick Mergen
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist, All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: How To Handle E-Discovery Requests
Program Description: Understand the latest technique for gathering evidence when it electronic data--how to comply with an E-discovery order, gather electronic evidence, and when it is appropriate to call in forensic experts for assistance. Also the importance of having destruction policies and why it;s critical that policies are strictly enforced.
Affiliated Organization: Data Security Organization
Presenter: Angie Singer Keating
Strand(s): Technology & Ethics
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Professional Development Outside The Box
Program Description: Professional Development is no longer a one shot, one size fits all learning experience. Districts are now looking for ways to differentiate professional development. Join the WCSD Academic Coaching Team and explore a plethora of technological professional development methods that could be implemented in your school district.
Affiliated Organization: Warren County School District
Presenter: Lisa Franklin
Co-Presenter(s): Susan Howe, Grace Backstrom
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: The New EDUpreneur
Program Description: In today’s difficult economy educators have to look beyond traditional means of funding for technology purchases. This session focuses on the tools educators can utilize to minimize funding shortfalls and tap into outside areas of support. Discover how an EDUpreneur seeks outside support for programs and forges alliances and partnerships.
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Make a wii Remote into a smart board - under $100
Program Description: So you have seen the youtube video. Now see it work in real life. This innovative way of using a wii remote to create a smart board will be demonstrated and teachers will be taught how to create this with just a few parts from a radio shack, a wii. A lucky few will get to take home a light pen created at the conference.
Affiliated Organization: New Hope Solebury High School
Presenter: Thomas McLaughlin
Co-Presenter(s): Drew Giorgi
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Media Centers
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Wiki's in your classroom
Program Description: What is a wiki? Yes, it's a Hawaiian word for fast, but it's also a collection of webpages that allows users to contribute content. See what a wiki is and how you can use it in your classroom to create collaboration.
Affiliated Organization: New Hope Solebury High School
Presenter: Thomas McLaughlin
Co-Presenter(s): Drew Giorgi
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: System 44
Program Description: Scholastic introduces a breakthrough in reading intervention for our most challenged readers in grades 3-12+. System 44 is highly motivating with age-appropriate adaptive technology, contains research-based phonics instruction, and validated screening and placement assessment.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Program Description: This class explores the value of Visual Literacy in the classroom and highlights free tools to teach it. Learn how to organize, edit, and create projects using digital images. All tools used are free. Get in touch with your creative side!
Affiliated Organization: Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12
Program Title: Creating eLearning Environment in the Clouds
Program Description: Schools are expanding costly network infrastructure and support to keep up with the demands for distance learning and course management. A fast growing trend is to purchase the eLearning software as a service (SAS)to eliminate upfront costs and increase efficiency. Presentation will include 3 case studies and a discussion of risk and rewards.
Affiliated Organization: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA (CHARLOTTE) AND GLOBAL CLASSROOM
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Digital-Age Literacy in Action - West Chester SD
Program Description: Our district has developed technology standards based on 21st Century Skills and ISTE NETS. These standards focus on Digital-Age Literacy, Effective Communication, High Productivity and Inventive Thinking. We have collected lessons from across the district and subject areas. These lessons use a variety of technologies and levels of Blooms taxonomy.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester Area School District
Program Title: Words of Wisdom from CFF Coach Interviews
Program Description: What makes a successful CFF Coach? How can we improve technology implementation? What would a coach do differently the next time around? This presentation will discuss the findings from interviews with CFF coaches giving you the benefit of their real life experiences.
Affiliated Organization: Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies
Presenter: Dolores Fidishun
Co-Presenter(s): Robin Clausen
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Deploying a Successful Data Driven Decision Making System
Program Description: This session will cover both the technology architecture and human process necessary to successfully deploy a data analysis and reporting platform in your district. Experience case studies from peers in Pennsylvania and see examples of successful Data Warehouse projects. Learn about the "softer side" of a successfully deployment.
Affiliated Organization: Follett Software
Presenter: Mark McKinney
Co-Presenter(s): Mark McKinney, Craig Smith
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Tech Camp – A Successful Model for Prof. Dev.
Program Description: Increasing technology skills & integration among professional staff during the summer can be a challenge. Enter “Tech Camp!” – a week-long event that focused on integrated instruction where teachers were given workshop choices & time to collaborate to improve integrate technology. This workshop will share planning & implementation strategies.
Affiliated Organization: South Western School District
Presenter: Alma Row
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Price is Right: FREE Online Resources for Teachers
Program Description: With all the clutter on the Internet, who has time to sift through it? Don’t! Discover a whole new batch of “treasures” that enrich instruction, increase productivity and are just plain cool to use! Participants will explore a myriad of free, easy-to-use online applications and resources that directly impact instruction.
Affiliated Organization: South Western School District
Program Title: Designing Flexible Online Instruction
Program Description: This session provides explicit teaching strategies to build a culture of learning in today’s classrooms. The session will share practices for creating instruction that harness Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and proven instructional strategies to launching traditional classrooms into digital format with powerful learning tools.
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: ALEKS and First in Math Online Programs
Program Description: WWW.ALEKS.COM: cost effective,online math tutoring;full course or strong supplement;grades 4-12;Remediation,Enrichment,PSSA Prep,etc...
WWW.FIRSTINMATH.COM: Innovative online program for grades 2-8;24®GAME series,basic facts,test-preparation,assessment,exciting competition. Improve performance and attitudes.
Affiliated Organization: Educational Technology Consultants/Suntex International
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: School 2.0 eToolkit: 21st Century Planning
Program Description: School 2.0 eToolkit provides free web-based planning and research resources and offline activities for facilitating community-wide planning of 21st Century Schools. Learn about Bandwidth Calculator, Transformation Toolkit of planning activities, self-assessment tools for principals and technology coordinators, and other useful tools available.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Digital Photography to Teach Mathematics
Program Description: Techniques will be presented on using digital photography to teach mathematical concepts like spatial relations, symmetry, transformations and
others that are often challenging for children to understand.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology in Turkmenistan
Program Description: Two Hatboro Horsham students and their teacher were the first US group to ever visit Turkmenistan as part of an educational exchange to teach technology skills. Check out their unique experience and how Hatboro-Horsham has created a real educational connection with Turkmenistan. See how you can get your school connected with Central Asia
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Information Literacy Skill & Pre-Writing Processes
Program Description: ACRL’s higher education information literacy standards map onto pre-writing activities. Identifying common ground between these standards and writing processes highlight a) curricular tasks jointly useful as teaching experiences, b) learning products useful for assessing student information skills and c) organizational missions with synergy.
Affiliated Organization: The Pennsylvania State University
Presenter: Alice Anderson
Strand(s): Standards/NCLB, Media Centers
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: ENHANCE CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION WITH TI-NSPIRE
Program Description: Participants will experience strategies illustrating TI-Nspire hand held and software enhancing classroom instruction. The ability to save and redistribute documents allows for increased interaction between student and teacher. The compatible software creates a transparent environment. .
Affiliated Organization: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
Presenter: DOYT JONES
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Standards/NCLB, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: ETE&C: How to Host Your Own!
Program Description: Does your district's professional development need a boost into the 21st Century? Hosting a district level technology conference can be an easy and stress-free experience. This session will provide you with a step-by-step approach to creating your own mini-PETE&C with minimal headaches and optimal success.
Affiliated Organization: East Stroudsburg Area School District
Presenter: Joseph Martin
Co-Presenter(s): Brooke K. Langan, Maureen Seidel
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: The Role of Instructional Technology Specialists
Program Description: The purpose of this study was to have k-12 instructional technology specialists and leaders identify the perceived responsibilities of their job and compare those identified responsibilities to their actual duties. Additionally, the research uncovered themes related to these responsibilities that inhibit technology integration.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: We get that for free? NEW Resources at netTrekker
Program Description: Come and check out all the NEW resources and collections available to you within your statewide access to netTrekker d.i. We will cover the best of netTrekker resources within the new collections (SMART, HotMath, etc.) as well as show new ways you can collaborate with these resources in your classroom using My Portfolio.
Affiliated Organization: netTrekker
Presenter: Dawn Crawford
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Professional Development - "Have it Your Way"
Program Description: Providing high quality professional development to over 12,000 teachers can provide logistical problems, especially when they are spread all over the state of Pennsylvania! This presentation will showcase the innovative ways blendedschools.net provides professional development to its rapidly growing membership of over 140 K-12 school districts.
Affiliated Organization: blendedschools.net
Presenter: Mark Radcliffe
Co-Presenter(s): Mark Gensimore
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: A discussion about web 2.0 tools in the arts
Program Description: Participants will work on a collaborative wiki to explore and discuss issues surrounding technology use in the arts classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Presenter: Jamie Kasper
Strand(s): Performing/Creative Arts, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Share your Voice with the World: Podcast
Program Description: Learn how to develop and create Podcasts to provide students with great supplemental content and bring excitement to the learning process creating their own. During this session I will discuss and demonstrate preproduction, recording, postproduction and publishing.
Program Title: Moodle and 21st Century DETAILS: A Constructivist
Program Description: Moodle and 21st Century DETAILS: A Constructivist Approach to Teaching - Move beyond using a Moodle as a repository for classroom information. This session focuses on how you can utilize 21st century results to better plan a more constructivist approach in the classroom and better integrate technology into the curriculum.
Affiliated Organization: Technology in Education Online
Program Description: A disconnect exists in many districts between technology and curriculum. The learning potential of Web 2.0 cannot be fully achieved unless these two balance technology concerns with learning opportunities. Come see how a team of technology and curriculum staff addressed the challenges and potential of the new tools.
Affiliated Organization: Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit
Presenter: Vince Humes
Co-Presenter(s): Katy Wolfrom
Strand(s): Technology Leadership
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: The Interactive Classroom for Early Learners
Program Description: This workshop will focus on bringing technology to primary grades. I will discuss how to effectively implement podcasting, animation, on-line assessments and the Smart Airliner to primary classrooms.
Affiliated Organization: Governor Mifflin School District
Program Description: Come and find out how thousands of teachers have integrated BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. into their school day. Learn tips for how to make the most out of BrainPOP's online animated movies and quizzes. Brainpop spans seven subject areas including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts & Music, and Technology for grades K-8.
Affiliated Organization: BrainPOP.com
Presenter: Wesley Stannard
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): K-8
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Here, There & Everywhere: Tech for Administrators
Program Description: You buy technology and resources. But does your school use them effectively? Use data to increase achievement, steer professional development and increase differentiated instruction. Learn how to maximize classroom resources and craft strategies for elevating the instructional plan using data tools. Media library data will be the model.
Affiliated Organization: Discovery Education
Presenter: Matt Monjan
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Bend, Break & Bust it Loose:10 Ways to Engage Kids
Program Description: Jim Morrison encouraged his fan base to "break on through to the other side." During this session you will learn innovative ways to use DE streaming that will challenge and change your perceptions. Join us as we explore new and exciting ways to incorporate media and technology into the classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Discovery Education
Presenter: Matt Monjan
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Web 2.009 - Enhance Learning & Engage Learners
Program Description: Are you familiar with Skype, Bubblr, or Animoto? If not, then you definitely want to join us for the day as we explore various ***FREE*** Web 2.0 tools that you can use to enhance your lessons, engage your students, and support your professional development and learning. Explore the capabilities of over 30 tools and be ready to try them out on yo
Affiliated Organization: Ellenville Central Schools
Presenter: Nancy Sharoff
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Videoconference CoE for Teachers Overview
Program Description: This overview of the IU1 Videoconference Center of Excellence will focus on tools for classroom teachers as they incorporate the use of virtual field trips to enhance their students’ learning experience. These videos and procedures are directed at providing peer guidance for teachers as they implement videoconferencing.
Affiliated Organization: Intermediate Unit 1
Presenter: Stevie Kline
Co-Presenter(s): Kristin Van Strien
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Videoconference CoE for Administrators Overview
Program Description: An overview of the IU1 Videoconference Center of Excellence focusing on tools for administrators will be highlighted. These online videos showcasing various administrators are directed at providing peer guidance for successful implementation of videoconferences in schools to make learning interesting for students and enhance the overall learning
Affiliated Organization: Intermediate Unit 1
Presenter: Kristin Van Strien
Co-Presenter(s): Stevie Kline
Strand(s): Policy/Planning/Funding, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Program Title: Balancing Act: Web 2.0 Tools vs. Network Integrity
Program Description: Share your experiences, perspectives, priorities, policies, solutions and recommendations with a panel representing educators and network administrators. Gain a better understanding of the tension between implementing emerging Web 2.0 tools and demands placed on bandwidth, security, and reliability. Together we will develop guidelines.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Program Title: Wiki central: Transforming a traditional classroom
Program Description: This session highlights the focus on inquiry and collaboration in a science classroom. Participants will identify how traditional activities can be altered through classroom examples and examine the use of wikis and other tools for student learning and engagement. The reflection of challenges, assessment, and management are also discussed.
Affiliated Organization: Punxsutawney Area High school
Program Title: Die Hard in the Classroom: Making Movies in School
Program Description: This is an overview of practical filmmaking principles in the classroom to allow students to explore Creative Design Principles, Communication Arts, & Media Literacy. These educational & entertaining techniques address many standards including Arts and Humanities, Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, Mathematics, and Science & Technology.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century
Program Description: Are you looking for ways to connect your students to the wider global community? Project-based learning and Web 2.0 can be the answer. Learn how two classes, one from Pennsylvania and the other from the Korea, used Internet tools to communicate, collaborate, and create. This session will introduce the applications integrated to facilitate product
Affiliated Organization: Central Bucks School District
Program Title: 21st Century Researching with Diigo
Program Description: Learn how to harness the powerful research tools and knowledge-sharing community of Diigo to take your students’ researching capabilities into the 21st century. Through the new Teacher Console and educational accounts your students can safely access the bookmarking and annotation features of Diigo and can collaborate through secure class groups.
Affiliated Organization: Central Bucks School District
Program Title: Best Practices from Moodle Administrators
Program Description: Ready to take your Moodle management skills to the next level? Learn best practices from Moodle Administrators to boost your fluency with permissions, alternative roles, backups and archives, security certificates and encryption, pitfalls, hidden gems, and implementation strategies for schools. The session will end with lessons learned and Q&A.
Affiliated Organization: Chester County Intermediate Unit
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Sustaining Innovation with Diminished Funding
Program Description: Sustain innovative programs and technology despite economic recession and tax freezes. Plan to sustain CFF when state funding ends. Increase virtual field trips, and save field trip costs. See how schools get more software and learning materials without increasing budgets. The presenter's known for increasing services while reducing costs.
Program Description: Scratch is a free and innovative programming language developed by MIT that makes it easy for students to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art while addressing academic standards. This presentation will focus on the classroom use and practical academic research of this powerful design tool.
Affiliated Organization: Bloomsburg University/ Penn State University
Audience(s): K-8, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Puttin' on the Glitz or Transformational Change?
Program Description: The technology Gee Whiz Factor competes for our attention, but transformational change of teaching and learning must be our primary focus. Be the solution! Don’t be dazzled! Learn the fundamentals for transforming your classrooms, see real exemplars, and leave with a rubric designed to raise the bar for educational technology.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Presenter: Bill Dolton
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Balancing Act: Web 2.0 Tools vs. Network Integrity
Program Description: Share your experiences, perspectives, priorities, policies, solutions and recommendations with a panel representing educators and network administrators. Gain a better understanding of the tension between implementing emerging Web 2.0 tools and demands placed on bandwidth, security, and reliability. Together we will develop guidelines
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Presenter: Bill Dolton
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: E-rate: Easy as 1, 2, 3
Program Description: New to E-rate? Join us for an hour packed with E-rate information to help you pick up in the middle of the E-rate process. We’ll cover technology planning, competitive bidding, application submission, discounted bills/reimbursements, audits, where to get information, and more!
Affiliated Organization: PA Department of Education
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Beyond School Walls
Program Description: Create a quick, easy and free webpage online which excites and interests students and parents. This presentation will review how to connect a class webpage with news, calendars, videos, and more. The discussion will include how to choose elements which improve student learning and connect to local and national standards.
Program Title: Wikis: An Authentic Learning Experience
Program Description: Wikis provide a dynamic learning platform for students to create content, collaborate with peers and experts, and utilize web 2.0 tools. Blending 21st Century learning experiences affords students authentic learning opportunities. Explore sample wikis, the integration of web 2.0 tools, and free online resources.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Fablevision Fun
Program Description: Join us for a test drive of Stationery Studio and Smart Moves. Share your favorite Fablevision creativity stories. Hear the latest Fablevision news.
Affiliated Organization: Northern Lebanon School District
Program Description: A digital story should be more than a summary of learned facts. This session will showcase the value in the PROCESS of creating a digital story. Steps to creating a meaningful digital story will be shared, as well as tools for making stories.
Affiliated Organization: South Western SD
Presenter: Michelle Krill
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Media Centers
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: A Journey to Improve Teaching and Student Learning
Program Description: Can writing be improved through the use of mini laptops, Open Source software, Moodle journaling, Google Docs, wikis, blogs, and voicethreads? See how Derry Township is pairing technology coaching, ongoing professional development, research based teaching strategies and an open source mini laptop initiative with the goal of improving writing across
Affiliated Organization: Derry Township School District
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Tech to Differentiate and Engage learners
Program Description: Learn how Technology Integration Master Educators at Derry Township have more opportunities to differentiate and engage learners through the integration of technology into meaningful instruction. The ability to conduct formative assessments regarding student learning and use that knowledge to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learn
Affiliated Organization: Derry Township School District
Presenter: David Pegher
Co-Presenter(s): Dawn Yingling , MaryJo Coleman
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Standards/NCLB, Media Centers, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology Enhanced Early Literacy Instruction
Program Description: Learn how teachers at the Hershey Early Childhood Center are using technology to support and enhance literacy instruction. Through collaborative planning, professional development and ongoing coaching, master educators, media specialists and a technology coach have joined together to create rich, engaging technology embedded content.
Affiliated Organization: Derry Township School District
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Writing Successful Technology and Education Grants
Program Description: School technology demand increases, but traditional funding sources don't keep pace. Learn successful grant secrets to find high-probability grant sources, conceptualize fundable projects, write strong proposals, manage projects for success and invite follow-up funding. Presenter has received over $7 million in competitive K-12 grants.
Program Description: Examines how Google tools other than Google Search can enrich your curriculum, enhance classroom collaboration, and improve classroom management.
Affiliated Organization: Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Program Description: As K-12 online learning expands its popularity how do teachers learn to teach online? Through qualitative research the lived experiences of teachers were examined and best instructional strategies were identified. This session provides the online teacher best practice strategies to ensure a successful transition from "traditional" teacher to online
Affiliated Organization: Southeast Delco School District
Program Title: Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Update
Program Description: Join us for an informative session on the latest news in SIF. Learn about: Basic SIF concepts; Using SIF 2.0 to benefit your district and making sense of certification; Where SIF is at in PA and across the nation; SIFA University; How to implement SIF in your district; How to make use of your SIFA membership (yes, you have one) There will be Q&A.
Affiliated Organization: Central Susquehanna IU#16
Program Description: 21st Century Learning is even more achievable with the abundance of web 2.0 tools and more and more of these tools support the English Language Learner. Discover some web 2.0 tools and other resources to meet the key elements of 21st Century Learning and enhance the learning environment of English Language Learners.
Affiliated Organization: Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. 12
Program Title: Virtualization Can Transform Your IT Environment
Program Description: Join us as we discuss server & storage virtualization in K-12 schools. Discover how virtualization delivers greater flexibility and management ease than conventional hardware solutions. Topics include: how virtualization works to deliver cost-effective HA/DR, building blocks of a virtualized HA/DR solution, configuring a virtualized environment.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: iTunes U for the K-12 World
Program Description: Discover how schools can broadcast and access rich digital media.
Affiliated Organization: Fox Chapel Area
Presenter: Norton Gusky
Co-Presenter(s): Kevin Conner
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Curriculum Mapping- No Longer an Academic Lottery
Program Description: Quaker Valley School District has invested in the process of mapping their curriculum with the help of an electronic tool to allow for deep analysis. Through video clips and testimonials, see and hear how teachers collaborate and learn through the experience while gaining appreciation as to why a high performing school district might engage in suc
Affiliated Organization: Quaker Valley School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Wiki in the College Classroom
Program Description: How can Wiki be practically used in a college classroom? In a methods course in a teacher education program, Wiki was used to create a collaborative assignment, which replaced a paper-based assignment that students completed individually. Learn about student perceptions, performance, and the benefits and challenges encountered.
Affiliated Organization: Misericordia University
Presenter: Stephen Broskoske
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Higher Ed
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: The iPhone/iPod Touch Revolution
Program Description: Apple has changed the way we think about mobile computing. The iPhone and iPod Touch are a revolution and a quantum leap forward. This session will focus on the profound impact these devices could have on the teaching and learning landscape.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Program Title: Taking Your Classroom Blog and/or Wiki from Blasé
Program Description:
Use Web 2.0 widgets like mapclustr, weatherpixie, voicethread, bubbl.us, to name a few, to create an interactive classroom blog/wiki that students, parents, and families will want to visit often. Use the blog/wiki to immerse your students in a world of the web applications.
Affiliated Organization: Central Bucks School District
Presenter: Meg Griffin
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: 25 Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education
Program Description:
“Trick them into thinking they aren’t learning and they do,” says Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski, a teacher in the “The Wire.” Thousands of new websites come online each day. How can we find time to cull the best for educational use? Come explore 25 of the current best Web 2.0 applications.
Affiliated Organization: Central Bucks School District
Presenter: Meg Griffin
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Making the Grade with Concept Maps
Program Description: Assessing students’ learning from a concept map can be a difficult task. This presentation will review the different types of concept maps and appropriate assessment methods for each type. Participants will have access to exemplary concept map examples and rubrics to bring back to the classroom.
Program Title: Cartooning Content through Comic Life
Program Description: Motivate young writers, provide students the opportunity for creative projects in science, social studies, and other curricular areas, all through a cartooning program called Comic Life. Examples of projects completed by 2nd graders will be provided.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Presenter: Jennie Atienza
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): K-8
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Imagining a SecondLife: Avatars and Inquiry
Program Description: Meet AbrahamLincoln Magic, a SecondLife
incarnation of our 16th US President. Learn how MUVEs and Web 2.0
technologies can enhance and enrich historical inquiry.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Connecting Classrooms Across Continents
Program Description: Help your students understand diverse perspectives and cultures through real interactions and explorations with global audiences. Examine successful collaborative projects, which engage students in authentic and meaningful learning. Discover sources for partners, platforms for connecting, and Web2.0 tools to make collaborations successful. Chat wit
Affiliated Organization: Owen J. Roberts School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Making Partnerships Work for You
Program Description: Learn about unique partnerships advancing sustainability for the integration of technology in education. The presentation includes a blend of best practice examples and lessons learned based on extensive work in the public and private sectors. Participants will be encouraged to interact with the speakers and audience.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology and Response to Intervention (RtI)
Program Description: The Allentown School District is using technology and our Data Warehouse to assist us in the (RtI) Response to Intervention process. Examine Custom Reports that we have developed to aid in the identification, intervention and response process in a real time environment.
Affiliated Organization: Allentown School District
Presenter: Jeff Baird
Co-Presenter(s): Robin Powlus
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Last Year's Tools To Serve This Year's Needs
Program Description: This presentation centers on using the technology resources currently available in ways different than originally intended to increase student achievement, engagement, and learning. The panel presentation will explore how three practicing educators develop and re-imagine the uses of various software applications, electronic resources, and hardware.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Standards/NCLB
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: State Performance and Technology Audits of LEAs
Program Description: This presentation provides a summary level understanding of the IT reviews by the PA Department of the Auditor General done as part of the state audits of Pennsylvania's LEAs. It covers the history & evolution, an overview of the applicable auditing and IT standards, the process, the controls, & some common weaknesses noted in the audits.
Affiliated Organization: Department of the Auditor General Information Technology Audits
Program Title: Integration of Google Calendar into the classroom
Program Description: Applications that can range from students to administrators allow Google Calendar to provide a wide array of learning solutions. A discussion and demonstration of practical applications that allows you and your students to enhance learning through this free online tool will be a focal point of the presentation.
Affiliated Organization: Mifflin-Juniata Career & Technology Center
Presenter: Lynn Hummel
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: How SIF Can Work For You
Program Description: Edustructures, the recognized leader of SIF integration for K-12 education market, makes it possible for market-leading Student Information, Library, Transportation, Cafeteria and Directory solutions to reliably share data. Through SIFWORKS® integration platform, professional services, business relationships with technology providers and educators,
Program Description: Take a 21st century approach to using Google Earth and move away from the traditional 20th century create and present. You’ll have the opportunity to take your presentations to a different level. Learn how to turn a basic Google Earth tour into a self-guided, interactive learning experience.
Affiliated Organization: Selinsgrove Area School District
Program Description: Wouldn’t it be great if PC users could create music like Mac users? We can...for FREE! PC users can create their own music. PC users now have the same freedom to create music for class presentations, videos, and podcasts without leaving their PC environment.
Affiliated Organization: Selinsgrove Area School District
Program Title: Technology Student Associ. the Premier STEM CTSO
Program Description: A summary about Technology Student Association and how it can help schools and student achieve bettter results on the PSSA, learn leadership skills, and have greater success in life.
Affiliated Organization: PA Department of Education/TSA Facilitator
Program Title: Flip (Video) for West Chester University
Program Description: This session will focus on the design of an authentic video production project for undergraduate teacher candidates. Our goal was to help our teacher candidates understand the role of video as a teaching and learning tool, while at the same time creating authentic products for real schools.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Chris Penny
Co-Presenter(s): John Kinslow, Laryssa Nadolny
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: iSkills Assessment Venture
Program Description: What information and communication skills will students need in this 21st century digital society? How do we develop and assess projects that challenge our students to use these higher order and critical thinking skills in order to solve real world problems? Learn about our experience with the (ETS) iSkills Assessment.
Affiliated Organization: Ephrata Area School District
Presenter: Jane Englert
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: IT Security Primer and Q/A
Program Description: What are today's biggest issues facing the IT department, administrators, and end users? How can you get help determining where your points of vulnerability are and how to address them?
This presentation will cover these points and more, and include extensive time to ask questions of a certified IT security expert.
Program Title: eeLearning: Combining Moodle and Internships
Program Description: Experiential learning students learn from real world engagement. That learning is solidified given the opportunity to process and reflect. Using a Hybrid model, combining face-to-face engagement and online engagement using Moodle, experiential learning students have a unique opportunity to develop skills in an effective and efficient manner.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Program Description: Like playing hide and seek? What if you could teach your core content at the same time? Learn how to use geotagging with Google Maps and Geocaching using GPS units to transform your classroom into an empowering, exploratory environment and get your kids moving around and having fun.
Program Description: In an environment where 21st Century skills are essential, we must be careful to not over-emphasize the tools of technology, inadvertently losing focus on the skills necessary to become a globally productive citizen. Come learn how to integrate these tools invisibly in a technology-enriched collaborative, communicative, and creative learning envir
Affiliated Organization: Red Lion Area School District
Program Title: Assistive Technology that is Readily Accessible
Program Description: The assistive technology that is already available on your computer will aid those with visual or reading challenges. Find out more about the built-in accessibility technologies that are already on your computer; specifically in the operating system and programs such as Adobe Reader and the Microsoft Office suite.
Affiliated Organization: East Stroudsburg University
Program Title: Students Create an Historical Video
Program Description: This collaborative project involved 4th graders, high school media students and our historical society. The presentation will share the process of organizing, conducting, presenting, and producing a historical video. How to tips, production ideas, suggestions for funding, and community outreach opportunities for your project will be discussed.
Affiliated Organization: Mifflin County School District
Program Description: Looking to have students work across the curriculum? Come see how a science teacher and social studies teacher were able to get their classes to work together. We will show how to create and assess interdisciplinary collaboration across the hall, school, state or beyond into a reality.
Affiliated Organization: RED LION AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Program Title: Differentiating Instruction through Technology
Program Description: Participants will learn how technology can be used as a tool to expand learning opportunities and challenge students in mixed ability classrooms. Educators will learn how to create engaging, differentiated instruction lessons using a variety of technology and open source applications, such as Wikis, Voicethread, and Digital Storytelling Tools.
Affiliated Organization: School District of Philadelphia
Program Title: Curriculum + Creativity Tools = Connections
Program Description:
Elementary students at Tuscarora School District use a graphics program to illustrate curriculum concepts and topics. They illustrate, caption, and narrate science experiments, original stories, word problems, and social studies events. The final product is then shared with parents via a web page.
Affiliated Organization: Tuscarora Schooll District
Program Title: My First Year with a GenYES Student Tech Team
Program Description: Learn how to implement a student technology team from a computer teacher who started off doing it on his own, then brought in the expertise of the people at GenerationYES. Learn about student accountability, security, and how the blogs and wikis built-into GenerationYES reinforce 21st Century Skills.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Ning as a Professional Learning Network
Program Description: Harness the power of Social Networking in your district with a Ning network. Creating a Ning network as a “Professional Learning Network” sparks cross-district friendship, sharing, collaboration, and learning. Come and learn how to set up a Ning, some tips & tricks for getting started, and ideas for use.
Affiliated Organization: Wissahickon School District
Presenter: Dianne Krause
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Connecting your World Language Class to the World
Program Description: Bring your language learners into the 21st century by connecting them with the world. Through the use of Web 2.0 tools such as Wikis, Blogs, VoiceThread, Google Earth, Epals.com and others, you can not only connect your students with other language learners, but with target-language speakers from all corners of the globe.
Affiliated Organization: Wissahickon School District
Program Title: The Wiimote as a Low-Cost Whiteboard Alternative
Program Description: Learn how to build and use a Wiimote, a controller used with Nintendo's Wii game system, along with an infrared light and a projector to create a low-cost, go-anywhere whiteboard.
Affiliated Organization: Reynolds School District
Presenter: Daniel Hayne
Co-Presenter(s): James M Spatara
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: iPods and Language Learning
Program Description: By using iPods to enhance the speaking and listening skills of your students, you can create a diverse and differentiated language classroom. Envision your students becoming more excited about language learning! We will share how we got started, our iPod lab, and ways we are incorporating iPods in our language lessons.
Affiliated Organization: Unionville Chadds Ford School District/Unionville High School
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Classroom Websites as a Teaching Tool
Program Description: Learn about the various ways a classroom website can be used as an integral part of the learning environment. From providing safe links to research sites to providing skill reinforcement to posting student work, the classroom website can become more than just a parent communication tool. It can become a center for student learning.
Affiliated Organization: Greenville Area School District
Presenter: Janice Abernethy
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Creating Tech-Savvy, 21st Century Educators
Program Description: Learn how one district used an academy approach to transform their community of educators, administrators and students through comprehensive, interactive, and ongoing technology training. You, too, can fully integrate blogging, interactive whiteboards, multimedia, distance learning and student response systems into your K-12 environment!
Affiliated Organization: Garnet Valley School District
Presenter: Paul Sanfrancesco
Co-Presenter(s): Kate Black, Jason Andre
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology Staff Development That Works!
Program Description: How do you know if your technology staff development is effective? How can you gauge the technology skills and curriculum connections that your staff uses in the classroom? How do you take the global look at the K-12 learning environment through the lens of curriculum and technology integration? This district’s plan provides a systemic model with
Affiliated Organization: New Hope-Solebury School District
Presenter: Scott Radaszkiewicz
Co-Presenter(s): Dottie Katauskas, Jennifer Johnston
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Taking Formative Assessment into the 21st Century
Program Description: Formative assessment is a sound educational practice. It can be time consuming gathering and analyzing the multiple sources of data needed. This presentation will present an overview of formative assessment and see how technology can be used in formative assessment to assist teachers and students in making instructional decisions.
Affiliated Organization: Norristown Area High School
Program Title: Where in the World Do Kindergarten "Flat Kids" Go?
Program Description: Discover how a kindergarten teacher adapted Flat Stanley to create a versatile inter-disciplinary project that integrates varied technologies. Learn the steps to recreate or adapt “Flat Kids” in your classroom including creating & sending the kids on vacation, researching the places visited, then sharing learning with podcasting, PowerPoint and iMo
Affiliated Organization: Upper Merion Area School District
Program Title: Using Third Party Providers for Online Instruction
Program Description: Weatherly is one of the smallest school districts in PA but we offer 4 AP classes, 4 languages, World Geography, Earth Science and Environmental Science all online. We will look at both the positive and negative sides of online learning, and some of the surprises we were not expecting!
Affiliated Organization: Weatherly Area School District
Program Title: Using web-based rubrics to enhance learning
Program Description: This presentation will demonstrate building and using web-based rubrics. It integrates with open source program Moodle. Electronic rubric is a valuable tool for teachers and students. It standardizes and optimizes the grading process, saving time and allowing the teacher to send specific, tailored feedback to each student for each assignment.
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Moodle can do Web 2.0!
Program Description: Want to get in on Web 2.0, but don’t know how? Not allowed? Moodle can do many things that define Web 2.0: blogs, wikis, even folksonomy (tagging). A KTI will guide you through the process to configure moodle. Get your students engaged using 21st century technologies in a secure site.
Affiliated Organization: Hempfield School District
Program Description: Today’s students are growing up in a world (real and virtual) surrounded by technology. Participants will learn strategies to effectively integrate both hardware and software resources with everyday learning. Smartboards, handhelds, wikis, blogs, chat rooms (and more!) can all be used to engage and motivate students of all ability levels.
Affiliated Organization: Wallingford-Swarthmore School District
Audience(s): K-8, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Technology to Teach the Civil War
Program Description: This session for classroom teachers will use various Internet based resources in order to demonstrate how use technology to teach the Civil War. The presentation will include practical classroom examples, using technology to promote historical inquiry, Web 2.0 applications and data from the presenter’s doctoral research.
Affiliated Organization: Duquesne University
Presenter: Jim Beeghley
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Broadband PA: Act183 E-Fund
Program Description: Pennsylvania's telecommunications infrastructure will bridge the digital divide by providing access to high-speed Internet and eLearning in support of teaching and learning. A panel discussion of eFund awardees and PDE representatives will share their experiences as pioneers on how broadband connectivity is allowing them to share learning opportu
Affiliated Organization: PDE - Bureau of Educational Technology
Presenter: Jim Beeghley
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Meeting Lang. Arts Standards with Pod/Vodcasting
Program Description: This presentation will be both demonstration (creating a podcast of a scene from classic literature), presentation and discussion on how we have opened up our Language Arts curriculum to include 21st Century Tools of podcasting/public speaking and vodcasting/digital storytelling. This is one example of a class meeting the standards through develop
Affiliated Organization: Gettysburg Area School District
Audience(s): 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Virtual Worlds and Academics: Not a Hoax
Program Description: Programs like Second Life and Lively are sweeping the educational landscape by storm, but are they worth it? How does assessment take place in virtual space? How is student privacy maintained? Are students REALLY learning anything, or are they just playing computer games in class? This presentation will discuss the use of Second Life in the tea
Audience(s): 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Study Island
Program Description: Study Island is an entirely web-based PSSA prep program that uses multiple study modes, including interactive games, to teach and assess each skill outlined in the Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors. As students work through the self-paced program, teachers and administrators can generate detailed diagnostic reports that track individual and group pe
Program Title: A Shrinking Planet - Technology & Global Awareness
Program Description: Global awareness has a new urgency in our shrinking world. Technology, properly focused, can develop this important 21st Century Skill. This session will highlight the need for global awareness and a host of technology-supported projects and ideas that can put students in your district in touch with the world!
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: PATI - Pennsylvania Technology Inventory 2008
Program Description: This session will provide an overview of the results from the 2008 PATI surveys. Over 60,000 Pennsylvania educators participated in the surveys making PATI the most comprehensive education technology data collection project in the nation. The current state of education technology in Pennsylvania will be described and PATI 2009 will be previewed.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Online Collaboration on a Budget
Program Description: Attendees will be introduced to a number of free online tools to enhance collaboration. Many free tools will be shared so additional information on each resource can be found at Eduwiki.us. An open forum will be held at the end of the session for audience participation.
Affiliated Organization: South Side Area School District
Program Title: Building an Online Learning Program
Program Description: Attendees will see how South Side Area School District has built a successful Online Learning program. Example documents, policies and procedures will be shared. South Side’s Online Learning Coordinator will be available for an open discussion, sharing, questions and answers at the end of the session.
Affiliated Organization: South Side Area School District
Program Title: Global Connections for Elementary Students
Program Description: Videoconferencing opens the door for elementary students to experience the world outside of their school. This presentation will explore some opportunities available to young students and will provide some lessons learned for making a videoconference successful.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester Area School District
Program Title: Creating a 21st Century ACTIVClassroom
Program Description: Are you interested in discovering how to increase student engagement? Or maybe you are interested in helping your teachers increase student creativity, critical thinking and communication skills? Creating a classroom where 21st Century Skills are taught and embraced is an ACTIVClassroom. The Promethean ACTIVClassroom is a fully integrated teaching
Program Title: Do You See What I Mean?: Visual Literacy & Web 2.0
Program Description: Do you want to understand the impact of visual literacy on the learning process? Would you like to produce, instruct, and integrate digital media into your curriculum? Then this workshop is for you. This workshop is designed for those who have an interest in integrating Visual Literacy into their core content areas. Participants will explore the
Affiliated Organization: Ellenville Central School, Ellenville, New York
Program Title: Professional Learning Networks... SO Important!
Program Description: Finding a Professional Learning Network (PLN) is one of the best thing an educator can do! Having the support of others in your field is invaluable to your sanity. Whether virtual or face to face, find out how to find, start or join this important networking opportunity.
Affiliated Organization: Wallenpaupack Area High School
Presenter: Patricia Duncan
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Connecting Content with Google Earth
Program Description: Connect Google Earth to online resources for meaningful and authentic instruction in the content areas. Participants will engage in conversation about best practice with using Google Earth in the classroom Participants will learn how to expand the map markers to include text, video, web 2.0 tools, and audio extensions to enhance student learning.
Affiliated Organization: Central Bucks School District
Program Title: Alternate Assessment Using Emerging Technologies
Program Description: NO MORE Posters and Powerpoints! Create exciting and meaningful projects for your students using the newest technologies available. Web 2.0 tools as well as new computer applications are great, but WHAT can we do with them? This session will focus on EXAMPLES of how to integrate these into your lessons.
Affiliated Organization: Wallenpaupack Area High School
Presenter: Patricia Duncan
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Connecting Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
Program Description: Using one integrated tool your staff can build custom curriculums based on your district’s data that can automatically populate teacher lesson plans with objectives, standards, resources, rubrics, and assessments. A mapped curriculum is the critical foundation for successful student learning. Learn how it can be done in a digital environment.
Program Description: Wikis, blogs, etc. can easily be transformed from drab to fab. Glogster, a FREE web 2.0 tool, will help take your students to the next step in the publishing process. Once your students have posted work online, Glogster helps to enhance it by adding backgrounds, pictures, videos and graphic art.
Affiliated Organization: School District of Philadelphia
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Improving Elem. Writing Through Art & Animation
Program Description: Using tools like Blabberize, Voicethread and Photostory3, you can differentiate instruction and motivate your students at the same time. Give your students a permanent visual component and watch their writing come 'alive'! Your imagination is limitless as we create products and gain ideas for use in your classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Clarion Area Elementary/'07 Keystone Tech Integrator- '08 Facilitator
Program Description: Pennsylvania was selected as one of six states that received a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) planning grant from the National Governor's Association. Through this grant, the PA STEM Initiative was established and this presentation will highlight efforts to date. Statewide opportunities that link STEM to the PreK-12 and
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Program Title: Technology and Literacy – A Tale in Two Voices
Program Description: Need to find new techniques and technologies to entice students and teachers to embrace literacy in all content areas? The presenters will explore the need for literacy development and some emerging technologies available to achieve it through two lenses – that of the technology person and that of the literacy person.
Affiliated Organization: Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit
Presenter: Sharon Kinney
Co-Presenter(s): Beth Breiner
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Teeny Tiny Techies -Integration for Primary Grades
Program Description: What can 3rd graders do? This session will provide an overview of projects that third graders have completed using Word, Photo Booth, Garage Band, iPhoto, Graph Club, and other applications. Lesson Plans for each project will be provided. Ideas and examples for younger grades will also be shared.
Program Title: Teaching Computer Ethics using Case Studies
Program Description: This workshop will provide educators with the tools and processes to introduce computer ethics to middle and high school students.
Affiliated Organization: Council Rock School District
Presenter: Matt Frederickson
Co-Presenter(s): Tom Range
Strand(s): Technology & Ethics
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: If they are using a Proxy - Block EVERYTHING!
Program Description: The Sloan Alternative School students continually used proxies to bypass the districts security software. There seemed no way around it until the teachers changed their philosophy and used a program called Dan's Guardian to block all websites except the ones they permit.
Affiliated Organization: Council Rock School District
Program Title: Concept maps and Wiki wildness in Chemistry
Program Description: How I used technology to help investigate learning in the chemistry classroom...Looking at received and generated learning when using concept maps for stoichiometry and investigating the effects on student reasoning when they use a wiki to collaborate on conversion problems.
Affiliated Organization: Punxsutawney High School/Penn State University
Presenter: Jennifer Weible
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): 9-12, Higher Ed
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology use in a science classroom
Program Description: Actual teacher-tested projects used in a chemistry and physical science CFF classroom. Examples, handouts, and results will be discussed.
Program Title: Web 2.0 - Teaching and Learning in the Cloud
Program Description: The move to the cloud is the new computing trend. This will highlight some of my favorite web applications and services that are allowing this move to happen. I will demo some of the latest Web 2.0 sites and services Diigo, Cuil, Wordle, 280 Slides, Twitter, Animoto and UStream.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Christian Penny
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: 1-2-1 computing: Yes, you can do it!
Program Description: This is a must presentation to individuals who believe that 1-2-1 computing is not feasible due to cost. Variables e.g., time, computer hardware, software, training and support will be discussed.
Are you ready to cut your computer overhead in half? Come to this one... you will not regret.
Program Title: Leverage Your Network Power for Data & Assessment
Program Description: The investment you've made in your network can be leveraged as you expand what it can do for your district. Learn how you can implement a web-based Summative and Formative Assessment platform allowing all stakeholders to get the data they need by using the power of your Network. Scantron, a trusted partner in K-12 education, will help you create
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Email Archiving for Protection and eDiscovery
Program Description: Email systems have become an integral part of the operational systems in our organizaitons. We will discuss strategies for controling this information for backup/recovery/disaster recovery, mailbox and storage management, plus eDiscovery. The technology exists today and used without any user training, clients or performance impact on your mailser
Affiliated Organization: Mimosa Systems (Attending the event with ePlus)
Presenter: Scott Herman
Co-Presenter(s): Joel Blaiberg
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Technology to Differentiate Student Research
Program Description: Turn your research paper assignment into a technology research project. Explore the possibilities for using technology in your classroom to provide a differentiated approach when assigning research papers to your students.
Affiliated Organization: Southern Tioga School District
Presenter: Tom Nelson
Co-Presenter(s): Jason Fletcher, Angel Sember, Robin Glowatz
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Educational Web and E-mail Content Filtering
Program Description: Empowering teachers and students to be 21st century stakeholders in the educational process is essential. Through policies already at work at your district, students and staff can and should have an enjoyable experience without getting “shut down” or disconnected from the world when browsing the web or using their e-mail.
Affiliated Organization: Lampeter-Strasburg School District
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Back-channeling in the Classroom
Program Description: Can students be given a voice in classroom activities and discussions? Modify your lessons to encourage active student participation! These ideas will guide this presentation. Backchannels versus discussion groups, classroom issues, student needs, educational relevance, options for implementing, limitations, and activities will be discussed.
Affiliated Organization: West Shore School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology as a Tool in the Elementary Classroom
Program Description: It's elementary! Technology is an incredibly effective tool in the elementary classroom. Discover ways to help your digital natives explore, learn, reflect and connect using online tools.
Affiliated Organization: Wayne Highlands School District/Keystones
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Google Earth in Science and Social Studies
Program Description: Have your students create content that matches your curriculum. By using the GE templates, you and/or your students can make place marks and GoogleEarth tours with images and links. We will share the process we used and resources we created for middle school science and geography classes.
Affiliated Organization: Unionville Chadds Ford SD
Presenter: Meg Basillio
Co-Presenter(s): Robin Martin, Christina Brunschwyler
Program Title: Reading and Writing come alive with Web 2.0 Tools
Program Description: Do you want to add technology to your reading curriculum and are just not sure where to start? Join us to learn how to motivate students with free, safe technology. Your students will be thrilled to create comic books, record book-talks, and blog on the Internet about reading assignments.
Affiliated Organization: East Stroudsburg University
Program Description: In this interactive session, we will explore arts-specific and general tech applications that are useful to arts educators, including open-source applications. Participants should come with questions and ideas to share.
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Program Title: Wikis & Webquests - collaborate in Web 2.0
Program Description: Join me for an exciting hour of discovery and learn how to combine the inquiry-oriented lesson format of a Webquest with the ease of a wiki. Students will thrive in this Web 2.0 environment of collaborative learning that is easy to create and free to use.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Photography - Tips N' Tricks
Program Description: Looking to incorporate digital photography into your curriculum? This session will present examples, methods as well as tips and tricks that will enable you and your students to take better digital photographs. In addition, through the use of student-generated projects, we will discuss how digital photography can be incorporated into the curriculum
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Presenter: Chuck Ginter
Strand(s): Performing/Creative Arts, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Being Visually Literate In A Digital World
Program Description: Everyday we are bombarded with an ever-increasing number of digital images. At times making it difficult to “see the for forest for the trees.” This session will explore some of the fundamentals of “visually literacy” and how powerful communication and digital storytelling skills can be developed through the correct use of images.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Presenter: Chuck Ginter
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Google Docs From A Teacher Perspective
Program Description: This workshop is an overview of Educational Google docs. We'll discuss implementation, user management, security and how the services relate to our AUP. This hands-on workshop will provide lesson ideas, hints and pitfalls to avoid as we explore the implementation from a teacher perspective in a classroom setting.
Affiliated Organization: Warwick School District
Presenter: Jeff Rothenberger
Co-Presenter(s): Jeff, S Rothenberger, Fred, J Griffiths
Program Description: A NEO 2 and the 2Know! classroom response system one-to-one initiative provides students with keyboarding, writing, quizzing, and student response devices. Explore teacher-created and classroom-tested lesson plans and integration strategies at work in a true one-to-one initiative.
Program Title: New Media Narrative in the Classroom – From tools to assessment to social media
Program Description: Following from the keynote, Jason demonstrates tools and processes for implementing new media narrative projects in classroom activities in creative ways. He addresses media assessment, media grammar, and the role of research-based digital stories and media development in the curriculum. He offers ways for students to participate in the world of Web 2.0.
Program Title: Turning Inkjets into Electronic Whiteboards
Program Description: How much are you spending on printing? Our district used yearly savings in printing costs to purchase electronic whiteboards in elementary buildings. Total cost of ownership and long term savings in tech operations will be focus of workshop.
Affiliated Organization: Derry Township School District
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology for Special Education, Strategies and S
Program Description: Identify powerful new strategies to reach special education students and early learners. Try out activities for letter recognition, phonics, spelling, and reading. Develop targeting skills and play voice-activated games. Make music, practice literacy skills, and ask lots of questions! Free phonics software (worth $70) and great manual.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: On Track for Reading Success
Program Description: Chart a course for district-wide improvements in reading! Experiment with a research-based software series designed to break down reading into its essential building blocks. Take steps towards fluency with 2 different storybook reading programs. Implement a comprehensive research-based reading program with inclusion students. Free software ($69).
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Beep and Honk Your Way Into Learning - PreK-2
Program Description: Experiment with activities that develop critical IT skills such as mouse control and keyboarding. We’ll look at activities for visual discrimination, letter learning, and phonics, a. Internet permitting, we’ll wrap up with a visit to Elementary Zone. Free software program (worth $69), plus a subscription to Elementary Zone.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Banners, Posters, Bulletin Boards, and Newsletter
Program Description: If you love printed projects, then this is the seminar for you! Combine your favorite digital photos with the school’s logo to create a rousing banner for the lobby. Construct a newsletter and get easy tips for text and photo rotation. Experiment with paint tools. Free software ($199).
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Claymation Creations
Program Description: Using only a ball of clay and a digital camera, we’ll make a clay character come to life. Shoot a sequence of digital photos to create frames of a mini clay-animated sprite. Transfer photos and assemble them into a looping cartoon. Free MultiMedia Lab V (worth $99).
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Digital Camera Workshop
Program Description: Join us for mini-photography assignments covering sports shooting, panorama, zoom and super-macro. Explore a photographic library and build a report that includes narration and sound effects. Use a paint program smudge out a frame, stamp down a border. Get budgeting strategies. Free software.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Take The Stage and Create Your First Podcast!
Program Description: We’ll plan, write, and perform a theatrical podcast in one hour, so bring your dramatic flair! Create a historical re-enactment, radio show or drama. Plan the episodes and characters. Write and record the dialog. Add sound effects and publish. Receive a great manual, plus a subscription to Elementary Zone.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Technology Tornado!
Program Description: Explore some of the most amazing technology innovations for education. Play a voice-controlled educational game. Then build a podcast and bring a dramatic scene to life. With a standard digital camera, we’ll take an extreme close-up of bugs and amazing panoramas. Free copy of MultiMedia Lab V.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: School Newspaper with Digital Cameras & Podcasting
Program Description: Get great tips and tricks for taking better photographs. Explore sports mode and learn how to “stitch” together panoramas. Create a one-page newsletter. Develop the masthead, set up columns, add digital photos and advertisements. Translate your newsletter into a podcast. Receive a great manual, Tool Factory Workshop.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Grant Writing for Beginners! - Opportunities and T
Program Description: Get your school noticed! We’ll look at each step in the process of generating a winning grant application. Review libraries of resources and identify grant opportunities. Explore fantastic fundraising websites and find downloadable free resources. Avoid mistakes, and get great tips. Receive guidelines and a list of available funding opportunities. 2-Hr session.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Policy/Planning/Funding, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Grant Writing for Beginners! - Opportunities and T
Program Description: Get your school noticed! We’ll look at each step in the process of generating a winning grant application. Review libraries of resources and identify grant opportunities. Explore fantastic fundraising websites and find downloadable free resources. Avoid mistakes, and get great tips. Receive guidelines and a list of available funding opportunities. 2-Hr session.
Affiliated Organization: Tool Factory
Presenter: Heather Chirtea
Co-Presenter(s): Mike Smith, Gordon Woodrow
Strand(s): Policy/Planning/Funding, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Integrating Databases Skills into the Curriculum
Program Description: Discover the fun in using curriculum-based databases with students! Learn to use filter and sort functions in Microsoft Access and Excel to create map-skills exercises, diversity-awareness lessons, critical thinking activities and more using sixteen curriculum-related databases. (Databases are available in the ISTE publication, Database Magic.)
Affiliated Organization: Methacton (retired)
Presenter: Sandra Dounce
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Standards/NCLB
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Email Archiving and the New Open Records Laws
Program Description: School districts are now required by law to archive email. Come learn the essentials about email archiving and what features you should consider when choosing an email archiving solution. This session will cover different types of archiving available, the importance of spam and virus protection as it relates to archiving, and much more.
Affiliated Organization: Gaggle.Net
Presenter: Greg Richman
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Tech Wizards - The New Face of Prof. Development
Program Description: Bring a new look to your professional development - students! Learn how a group of sixth and seventh graders in 8 school districts transformed professional development and technology integration by teaching teachers as part of the Tech Wizards program.
Affiliated Organization: Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: PhotoStory in Your Classroom
Program Description: Bring your students' stories to life! Using this free resource, learn how easily you and your students can create digital stories.
Affiliated Organization: Eastern York School District
Program Title: Strategies for Integrating Educational Gaming
Program Description: Educational games are useful instructional tools. This presentation is designed for those interested in integrating educational games with a focus on PowerPoint games across curriculum areas. Explored is an overview of educational gaming, advantages and cautions, resources, and procedures, strategies and guidelines on playing in a classroom setting.
Affiliated Organization: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Michael Ruffini
Co-Presenter(s): Michael ,F. Ruffini
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s):
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Using Read Naturally SE to Improve Reading Fluency
Program Description: Read Naturally’s research-based fluency development strategies have led to their adoption by school districts nationwide. Learn how the Software Edition – based on teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring – is used to improve the fluency and comprehension skills of struggling readers. This session is a demonstration and is not
Program Title: Providing Access / Protecting Students
Program Description: SharePoint allows teachers and students the ability to collaborate online in a controlled environment. Those attending the session will understand the process and how to create a safe environment for teachers and students using collaborative spaces in the classroom and across curriculare areas, buildings and districts.
Program Title: Enabling 21st Century Science Education
Program Description: Join us for this workshop and learn how to prepare your students for the future: 21st Century science education using 21st Century science methods and tools. Deliver authentic 21st Century science experiences by combining standards-based content and relevant professional development with innovations in modern, electronic measurement.
Affiliated Organization: PASCO scientific
Presenter: Lara Sharp
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Interventions for Success: A RTI Model
Program Description: The session will focus on the multiple intervention strategies Cousino uses in addressing students who are not learning. Using a customized computer based program of credit recovery, Cousino has achieved an 80% success rate. Furthermore, collaboratively developed peer mentoring, character education, mandatory tutoing, and conflict resolution progr
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2009
Program Title: Internet Safety - What students MUST know!
Program Description: Despite all our warnings and efforts, the problem of Internet Safety continues to exist, due mainly to the naivety of the Middle Level student. They are smart enough to lie but not shrewd enough to be consistent when lying. Learn where and how students are making their mistakes.
Affiliated Organization: Retired - Council Rock Sch Dist
Presenter: Chuck Favata
Strand(s): Technology & Ethics, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s):
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Dave’s Mobile Show-and-Tell
Program Description: David will present and demonstrate the latest and most amazing mobile gadgets offering mini-critiques of each. The assortment changes but have included the cellphone that offers unlimited free calls; folding memory card that eliminates the need for wires or card readers; getting free cellphone Directory Assistance, and the iPhone.
Program Title: Network Management and Security for K-12
Program Description: This presentation will touch on best practices, techniques and tools needed to manage and secure your network resources in a K-12 environment.
Affiliated Organization: Micro Technology Groupe, Inc.
Program Description: Now that the Year 11 E-rate funding window has closed, what's next? Learn from Pennsylvania's E-rate Coordinator how to navigate through the PIA review process, what forms need to be filed next, when you can expect to receive your funding, and what changes you can expect for the future years of E-rate.
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Internet Safety: A Practical Guide for Parents
Program Description: A presentation designed by students for parents outlining strategies to help parents increase internet safety on their home computers, helpful websites, Tech Tips, Social Networking, Internet Benefits/Concerns, and Cyber Safety/Crime. Student skits, the PA state police, and other notable presenters will be among the presenters.
Affiliated Organization: Mifflin County School District
Presenter: Michael Gerhart
Co-Presenter(s): Karen Galbraith
Strand(s): Media Centers, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Engaging & Assessing with Audience Response System
Program Description: Is there a way to "wake the sleeping" in your classroom and get an idea if you're "getting thru" to your students? You betcha! Find out how you can turn your PowerPoint lectures into stimulating interactive sessions in any curriculum using TurningPoint Audience Response Systems.
Affiliated Organization: Northampton Community College
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Claymation meets the young writer
Program Description: What inspires a writer to write or an artist to create? Essential questions such as these are what drives a unit using iMovie to create a narrated claymation project. Examples of the final product as well as the process for implementation in the elementary classroom will be discussed.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Program Title: A Survey of AUP Language in PA District Policies
Program Description: Explore how Pennsylvania School districts handle internet Acceptable Use Policies. Parental signatures? Student signatures? Different access levels based on age or grade? So many options, so many students, so much information on the Interent that isn't related to the curriculum!
Affiliated Organization: Kutztown University
Presenter: Carrie Gardner
Strand(s): Policy/Planning/Funding
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Writing Rules! Online Writing Instruction
Program Description: Writing rules! It's a key to academic success and work success. See and experience Bytes of Learning's new online writing curriculum -- called Writing Rules! -- that provides students interactive instruction in basic composition and grammar.
Affiliated Organization: Bytes of Learning Incorporated
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: The PIMS SIF Pilot
Program Description: A pilot project for collecting PIMS data using the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) vertical reporting choreography is scheduled for this spring. This session will describe the plan in detail, illustrate the various steps involved in the process, and give a status report of activities so far.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: ProCurve Tools for Securing Your Network
Program Description: ProCurve makes it easy and cost effective to centrally define and apply policy-based network access rights so the network automatically adapts to the needs of users and devices as they connect, validate the integrity of systems connecting to the network, and detects and automatically responds to threats, such as virus attacks, inside the network.
Affiliated Organization: Chichester School District
Presenter: Tim McGrath
Co-Presenter(s): Dodson Dietrich, Nick DArchangelo
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Consolidate Storage & Achieve Archival Compliance
Program Description: Product experts will discuss how Symantec Enterprise Vault, with a NetApp storage solution, can help improve the performance of your messaging systems, lower the cost of ownership of your architecture, achieve cost-effective compliance by minimizing the chance of downtime and data loss, and manage legal discovery efficiently with rapid recovery of critical documents
Affiliated Organization: Owen J. Roberts School District
Presenter: Richard Galley
Co-Presenter(s): Frank Taubenkraut, Nick DArchangelo
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Cisco Unified High Speed Wireless for K12
Program Description: Give students and staff the freedom to perform all the tasks they would normally do on a classroom’s wired network—from anywhere on campus. The solution enables new high speed (300Mbps) wireless network connections to a variety of devices, making school resources more widely available and improving collaboration among students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
Affiliated Organization: Lampeter Strasburg School District
Presenter: Lester Stoltzfus
Co-Presenter(s): Mike McCafferty, Nick DArchangelo
Program Title: Adapt Today's Data Center to Meet Tomorrow's Needs
Program Description: Cooling and power problems in Server and Network Rooms are discussed and solved with an eye toward planning for future. See how other school districts have solved these problems and how they are planning to support future IT growth. Energy Efficiency and Sustainability will also be addressed.
Affiliated Organization: Manheim Central School District
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Integrating Technology into Pre-service Education
Program Description: The presenters developed an e-text/e-course for N-12 preservice teachers focusing on math and science.
Affiliated Organization: Temple University
Presenter: David Fitt
Co-Presenter(s): D. James Gilmour, MaryAnn Heverly
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: What the Heck is Web 2.0?
Program Description: In this session you will learn how the World Wide Web has moved from a research-based medium to one of personal communication using Podcasting, Blogs and Wikis. Learn how Web 2.0 is changing how the world communicates and students learn.
Affiliated Organization: Brewer Technology and Learning
Presenter: Tony Brewer
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Conducting Computer Forensics in Education
Program Description: With the increased use of computer technologies in our schools, situations may occur which requires obtaining and analyzing digital information for use as evidence in civil, criminal, or administrative proceedings. This Computer Forensics workshop is designed to bring understanding to the educational community about this topic. There will be a mix of practical information and demonstration of various Computer Forensics tools.
Affiliated Organization: Berks County Intermediate Unit
Program Title: Moodling Along - The Conversation Continues...
Program Description: Moodle as a course management system continues to have tremendous potential in the K-12 classroom in addition to higher education. Join in the conversation, I'll highlight what we have done with Moodle in the college setting and how I prepare future teachers to work in Moodle when they go into the K -1 2 schools, but we want to hear from you too... How are you using Moodle and what is the potential?
Affiliated Organization: Juniata College
Presenter: Kathleen Jones
Co-Presenter(s): Dave Fusco
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Teachers Behaving Badly - Violating Copyright Law
Program Description: Professional development programs need to address copyright in the digital age. Teachers should model acceptable behavior in the classroom including conduct that doesn't violate copyright law. This session presents legal issues content in an interactive gameboard setting. Participants will enjoy reviewing copyright and plagiarism topics and will enhance their knowledge of legal and ethical issues.
Affiliated Organization: Albright College
Presenter: Karen Jogan
Co-Presenter(s): Michele Mislevy
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology & Ethics
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Learning Never Ends in the 24/7 Classroom
Program Description: Can 24/7 learning truly be implemented? Just because your students might be learning 24/7 doesn't mean you need be awake 24/7. This session will look at ways you can collaborate and provide content to your students anytime. Simple podcast, discussion board, communication and assessment tools can ensure students receive content when they need it.
Program Title: Faculty Development: The Next Generation
Program Description: How can you provide flexible learning opportunities to faculty who are constantly “on the go”? Part of the solution is providing synchronous and asynchronous methods that faculty use in their class everyday. This session will explain how to use Blackboard and the Elluminate Live web-conferencing system to fulfill this need.
Affiliated Organization: Northampton Community College
Presenter: Amy Roche
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Literacy in the technological World
Program Description: Jill was recently awarded the National Milken Educator Award. A 9th grade Literacy Specialist, she provides monthly in-service sessions to faculty to help them incorporate literacy strategies across the curriculum. Jill will share some of the cross-curricular reading activities she uses to help students of all levels become strategic readers.
Program Description: Demonstration and practice using NEO (NASA Earth Observations), an online tool for accessing archive data from NASA satellites for classroom presentations or student projects.
Affiliated Organization: NASA
Presenter: Peggy Maher
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Distance Learning for Educational&Workplace Skills
Program Description: Participants will learn how distance learning can help out-of-school youth and adults overcome barriers to obtain the academic and soft skills needed for workforce and post-secondary education success. Learn how you can partner with the Pennsylvania Department of Education Bureau of ABLE’s Distance Learning Project to provide enhanced educational opportunities at no cost for your learners.
Affiliated Organization: TIU 11-ABLE Distance Learning Project
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: English Language Learners have Arrived
Program Description: The ELLs have landed in my district. How can I help them succeed? Where do I begin? I need help. Learn how a totally web-based solution can assist move your ELLs from conversatational language to academic skills.
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Integrating Technology K-5
Program Description: Lenski Elementary, the school featured in the book IT's Elementary! Integrating Technology in the Primary Grades, has progressed from using technology once a week to infusing technology into all instruction. Learn how they did it and see student work. All student projects will be available on the web for your use.
Affiliated Organization: Littleton Public School District
Program Title: Web 2.0 and Open Source - What You Need to Know!
Program Description: Collaborative content tools, wikis, RSS feeds, Ajax, blogs, mashups, social networks, and more. What are these things? How are they are being used? What you should know about them in the school environment? Also, open-source products, Moodle, Ubuntu, and others. How schools are using them? How easy are they?
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Prior Knowledge Predicts Performance
Program Description: Using technology K-8 to unearth prior knowledge, check comprehension, and differentiate instruction. Examples include use of the Classroom Performance System, Microsoft Student Learning Kit, surveys, discussion boards, and wikis.
Affiliated Organization: Colonial School District
Presenter: Stephen Price
Co-Presenter(s): Barbara Grugan - 6-8 Kevin Willson -SpcEd, Brian Adams - K-3
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): K-8
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: So You Want Your Own Moodle Server...
Program Description: You have been exploring the idea of providing your district with a Learning Management System. You decided to give Moodle a try, but need some help setting up the server. This is the workshop for you. We will demonstrate the installation step-by-step from OS installation through adding Moodle modules.
Affiliated Organization: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit
Presenter: Daniel Berger
Co-Presenter(s): Thomas McClain, Kathy Jones
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Training Teachers to use Assistive Technology
Program Description: An assistive technology workshop was conducted by Lock Haven University in collaboration with Center for Independent Living of North Central PA (CILNCP). Twenty five device kits were borrowed from the CILNCP. The results of the workshop indicated that the workshop was a positive learning experience for the students.
Affiliated Organization: Lock Haven University of Pennsylva
Presenter: Latha Bhushan
Co-Presenter(s): Misty Dion, Sally Lima
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Teaching in Virtual Worlds (Second Life)
Program Description: Second Life and other virtual worlds are being used by more than 200 colleges and universities and many high schools to enhance courses with online content and online communities. This session will explore how IUP is creating educational content and opportunities for their students in Second Life. IUP's Crimson Island and Archaeology Island are providing educational material for their students.
Affiliated Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Audience(s): 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: SAFARI Montage: Next Generation of Digital Media
Program Description: SAFARI Montage is a digital media distribution and digital media rights management system from Library Video Company. Come see how much more there is to it than "just" delivering broadcast-quality world-class educational video to your desktop for true integration of multimedia resources with classroom instruction.
Affiliated Organization: Access Fiber Solutions
Presenter: Dale Roades
Co-Presenter(s): Al Harding, Francis Nevill
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Media Centers
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Email Management Pain? We Have the Remedy!
Program Description: Email is the one application no organization can live without, and the top "pain point" for every IT department. Our session will demonstrate how adding archiving strategies to your backup process can speed backup and recovery, reduce expensive primary storage, control mailbox size, ensure compliance, and more. Please join us.
Affiliated Organization: Data Networks
Presenter: Colleen Beale
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: The Textbook! What About the Textbook??
Program Description: Have we really restructured education and integrated technology if our curricula are still driven by textbooks? Select this session if you would like to learn more about current practices with textbooks and online content. Part of the session will be spent defining the optimal content and it's delivery.
Affiliated Organization: Northern Lebanon School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Save Money & Increase Productivity w/ Virtual PCs
Program Description: Learn how schools are saving money, increasing student and teacher productivity and better utilizing internal resources through virtual desktops. Hewlett Packard CCI (Consolidated Client Infrastructure) and VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) offerings can provide a true classroom for the future with reduced and centralized management.
Affiliated Organization: Interboro School District
Program Description: Moodle can differentiate instruction, provide rich opportunities for classroom interaction, incorporate a wide variety of teaching modalities, and can also be developed as an online resource tool for you and your students. Leave with a wealth of ideas and a new plan to engage your students as well as refresh the outlook of your lessons.
Affiliated Organization: East Stroudsburg Area School District
Program Title: School Improvement: Assessment & Data Analysis
Program Description: NCLB and the need for schools to make data-driven decisions requires school administrators to collect and manage student assessment data. Using a database management tool makes it easier for schools to comply with state and federal data reporting requirements, and easier for administrators and teachers to analyze student achievement and teacher performance.
Affiliated Organization: Technology Consultant, Montgomery C
Program Title: Experience Learning in Virtual Worlds
Program Description: Take your professional development to the next level by exploring the virtual world of Second Life. This presentation will review the basics of getting started in Second Life and hot spots for the education community. The discussion will include hardware requirements, safety issues, and resources on the web.
Affiliated Organization: Chester County Intermediate Unit
Program Title: Interactive Software to Understand and Enjoy Math
Program Description: Do you have students who struggle with math? Learn about software that helps students develop meaningful understandings of numeration, fractions, algebra, percent, integers, equations, probability, exponents, graphing, measurement and geometry. Sign up for a free demo CD.
Program Description: Attendees will learn all about the new aspects of the ED Hub portal including individual secure access to the ED Hub through user provisioning, integrating applications into the portal to allow for a seamless single sign on experience, creation and uses of an Education Directory including search features based on users signing up with the ED Hub, and finally, explore additional communities of practice that will help grow ED Hub.
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Program Title: syncronous learning with AMVONET Virtual Classroom
Program Description: AMVONET Virtual Classroom is a syncronous learning tool that allows students and teachers to interact in real time over the internet, as if they are in a real life classroom. Using various modules in the software itself students and teachers can communicate effectivly by using the video/audio conference module, text chat both private and public, screenshare, create quiz and much more
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: iLibrary: Not from Apple But Twice As Sweet
Program Description: Apple, Amazon and Starbucks have taught us that 24/7 service and a good cup of coffee make folks happy. School librarians are listening. Research happens ‘round the clock. Grab a latte and explore one high school library’s efforts to provide new skills, resources and tools to its 21-st century users.
Affiliated Organization: Danville Area High School
Presenter: Michael Nailor
Strand(s): Media Centers
Audience(s): 9-12
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Google Docs - Using on-line authoring tools
Program Description:
Participants will learn of the recent Google Docs tools - word processing, spreadsheet, presentation. Participants will learn how these tools can be used to bridge the gap between home and school, different platforms and different applications/versions. Participants will collaborate on a word processing document, a spreadsheet and a presentation then they will view the results of publishing the presentation. Participants will experience applications of these tools by students, teachers and administrators.
Affiliated Organization: State College Area School District
Presenter: Jane Sutterlin
Co-Presenter(s): Debra Kerr
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Embracing Technology and Engaging Youth
Program Description: Participants will be introduced to the Youth Engaged in Technology (YET) curriculum that focuses on Website development, robotics, GPS/GIS, and technology-based service-learning projects. Hands-on activities are incorporated throughout the curriculum. Each participant will leave with CD-ROM that contains the curriculum along with additional curriculum resources.
Affiliated Organization: The Pennsylvania State University
Presenter: Phillip Hoy
Co-Presenter(s): Daniel Perkins, Teresa Batterson
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Claymation in the Visual Arts Classroom
Program Description: Claymation is a wonderful cooperative learning activity suitable for many educational settings. Students integrate art, technology and language arts skills into their productions. Students become writers, performers and stage hands while creating their animations. This presentation will show you the basics of setting up a low cost animation station in your classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Upper Moreland School District
Presenter: Dwight Dulsky
Strand(s): Performing/Creative Arts
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: IPS and Network Security Deployments
Program Description: Review of IPS, SPAM, WebFilter, and Network Security technologies and associated deployment techniques associated with intelligent defense mechanisms.
Affiliated Organization: InTouch Managed Solutions and Servi
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: ISTE NETS•T Refresh: The NETS•T in Pennsylvania
Program Description: Know how the ISTE NETS•T should fit into Pennsylvania education? Got ideas about how these standards should be involved in teacher education? How will the current NETS*T revision possibilities affect education and teaching requirements in PA? In this interactive session, collaborate to create a plan for NETS•T in PA.
Program Title: ISTE NETS•T Refresh: Respond to the Preliminary Report
Program Description: Here is your opportunity to collaborate with other educators on the ISTE NETS for Teachers, as well as to the preliminary results of the refresh effort. Provide your input to create the best possible national standards for both current and pre-service teachers. Bring your laptop (if you have them!)
Affiliated Organization: International Society for Technolog
Program Title: ISTE NETS*T Refresh: Progress So Far
Program Description: Across the country, groups interested in technology in education have taken the cue from ISTE to discuss the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, and provide input for updates for these standards. In this session, ISTE leadership will present these preliminary results and request your feedback as well.
Affiliated Organization: International Society for Technology in Education
Program Title: Getting Started with Learning Management Systems
Program Description: This presentation will identify online instructor competencies as they relate to the deployment of online courses; provide an overview of features, capabilities, and strategies in LMS-supported courses that will promote a better learning experience; and share the results of a recent faculty investigation of current LMS systems.
Program Title: Data-informed Instruction for Classroom Teachers
Program Description: How does “data-informed instruction” look at the classroom level? Research shows that teachers who consistently use data to guide instruction are more effective. How can teachers readily leverage data to inform instruction and make adjustments? This session will demonstrate how you can transform a variety of data into relevant information.
Affiliated Organization: Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3
Presenter: Linda Muller
Co-Presenter(s): Susan C. Voigt, Raymond Tranguch
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Standards/NCLB, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: PEPPM-Your One Stop Shopping Center for Technology
Program Description: This presentation overviews PEPPM's latest "Catalog Contracts" and provides step-by-step instructions on how to shop online, build a cart of products, print a PEPPM quote, and then fax your purchase order to PEPPM using our 800 number. Shopping for technology with low prices and bid protection has never been easier.
Program Title: Legal strategies in complex IT procurements
Program Description: Districts have little guidance in the statutes or case law on how to conduct a complex information technology solicitation. Mr. Warren has assisted governmental and private entities for over 20 years and has developed strategies for enhancing the process that pass legal muster and improve the potential for positive outcomes.
Affiliated Organization: Outside general counsel to PASBO; s
Program Title: Do The Crime, Do The Time: Copyright for Educators
Program Description: A recent study showed that many educators are not properly informed about the Fair Use Guidelines for Copyright. Join us for a lively, interactive session about what you can and cannot do. We’ll get you to a comfort level, and give you the resources to take back to your classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Westmoreland IU 7
Presenter: Matthew Dancho
Co-Presenter(s): Kevin Conner
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology & Ethics
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: A Tech Sampler Available Only Through Your Library
Program Description: Do you know what technology-based programs are available through your school library? Come and hear PDE and IU staff give an overview of the great FREE resources available for your school!
Affiliated Organization: PA Department of Education
Presenter: Lynn Moses
Co-Presenter(s): Crystal Patterson, Lynn Ann Wiscount
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Using CFF Tools to Engage Reluctant Learners
Program Description: The presenter will share lesson ideas that have worked to engage reluctant (and not so reluctant) learners in her English and writing classes and still meet the standards. This includes the use of Comic Life, iPhoto, iMovie, wikis, moodle, and podcasts to name a few.
Affiliated Organization: Warwick High School, Warwick School District
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Classroom Websites as a Teaching Tool
Program Description: Learn about the various ways a classroom website can be used as an integral part of the learning environment. From providing safe links to research sites to providing skill reinforcement to posting student work, the classroom website can become more than just a parent communication tool. It can become a center for student learning.
Affiliated Organization: Greenville Area School District
Program Description: From the horrible sound of grating fingernails across the blackboard to the fascinating sight of moving objects across a Smart Board, do not let the paradigm shift happening in today’s primary classroom leave you in the “chalk dust”. This presentation will introduce you to one district’s implementation of Smart Boards into their classrooms.
Affiliated Organization: Tuscarora School District
Program Title: Classrooms for the Future Equipment Solutions
Program Description: See the equipment solutions offered by Apple and CDW*G for the Classrooms for the Future program. Representatives from the two partner companies will discuss the equipment components offered through the state contract and will take questions.
Affiliated Organization: Pa Department of Education
Presenter: Holly Jobe
Co-Presenter(s): Brent Frey, Ellen Holtz
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s):
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Classrooms for the Future – District Stories
Program Description: Classrooms for the Future is Governor Rendell’s innovative High School reform project designed to change instructional practices in English, math, social studies and science classrooms and increase student engagement and achievement. Panelists will share their Classrooms for the Future implementation experiences, the challenges they met and results after a year of the program.
Affiliated Organization: Pa Department of Education
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Classrooms for the Future: Preliminary Results
Program Description: How do we determine the effectiveness of 1:1 computing environments in Pennsylvania High Schools participating in the Classrooms for the Future program? This session will discuss the finding of the first year Classrooms for the Future evaluation as well as the tools used including surveys, observations and interviews used to answer critical questions.
Audience(s): 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: PATI: The Sequel
Program Description: This session will hilight the results of last year's PATI survey of over 50000 Pennsylvania educators and provide a preview of this year's improved process. Also included will be a sneak peek at the reports that will be available to those schools and districts who participate in this year's surveys.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: The REAL Work of 21st Century Skills
Program Description: This session will describe implementation strategies for 21st Century Skills. Pennsylvania initiatives such as Getting to One and Classrooms for the Future include building 21st Century Skills as a goal. What are these skills and how do we leverage technology to nurture self-directed learning behaviors or improve critical thinking skills?
Affiliated Organization: Metiri Group
Presenter: Ed Coughlin
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Gab on!
Program Description: Learn how to use www.gabcast.com to record podcasts right through your phone! Host your podcasts on your free gabcast channel or transfer them to your wiki or other website. Post important class information or use in student assessment -- gab on!
Affiliated Organization: York Suburban School District
Program Title: Funding for Distance Learning in K-12
Program Description: Schools constantly struggle to purchase and maintain technology. Find out where the money is, how to get it, and how industry partners such as Polycom are willing to help. This presentation will provide detailed descriptions of available funding sources and offer strategies for successfully responding to grant RFP’s and foundations.
Program Title: Measuring the Value of Investment in Tech for K12
Program Description: K-12 technology leaders are under increasing pressure to justify current and proposed technology expenditures. Much as corporations use Return on Investment (ROI) to evaluate the worth of these projects, schools should perform a similar evaluation. Learn about CoSN’s breakthrough work to help district level technology decision makers assess the costs and evaluate the benefits of proposed technology investments before making costly, time intensive decisions and commitments. Hear the results from three school districts that have used the VOI methodology to make sound choices about education technology projects, and to better articulate the costs and benefits of these proposed projects.
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Advanced
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Reinventing Technology to Make A Difference
Program Description: Most of the research on effectiveness of technology in education concludes that to date most technology has been “over-promised” with little impact on learning. Yet, some important research is also showing that with strong leadership, strong vision and a commitment to quality professional development, ICT in education can be transformative. By sharing his experiences across the world, Keith will explore where we have been, where we are today, and what actions you can take to use technology to make a difference.
Affiliated Organization: Consortium for School Networking (C
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Essential Skills for the District Tech Leader - Part 1: Framework
Program Description: O.K., you are the person in charge of technology at your school district. What are the essential skills that you need to succeed? Where do you turn to continuously expand your knowledge base? While the responsibilities of CTO’s vary by district, CoSN has developed a Framework of Essential Skills for CTO’s. Learn about the Framework of Essential Skills then participate in an interactive exercise to identify your strengths/weaknesses.
Affiliated Organization: Consortium for School Networking
Presenter: Irene Spero
Co-Presenter(s):
Strand(s): Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Essential Skills for the District Tech Leader - Part 2: Leadership in Small School Districts
Program Description: What does it look like to be a leader when you “wear all the hats”. Hear about some case examples, and listen to some leading PA small district tech leaders.
Affiliated Organization: Consortium for School Networking
Presenter: Amy DelCorvo
Co-Presenter(s):
Strand(s): Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Essential Skills for the District Tech Leader - Part 1: Framework
Program Description: O.K., you are the person in charge of technology at your school district. What are the essential skills that you need to succeed? Where do you turn to continuously expand your knowledge base? While the responsibilities of CTO’s vary by district, CoSN has developed a Framework of Essential Skills for CTO’s. Learn about the Framework of Essential Skills then participate in an interactive exercise to identify your strengths/weaknesses.
Affiliated Organization: Consortium for School Networking
Presenter: Irene Spero
Co-Presenter(s):
Strand(s): Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Essential Skills for the District Tech Leader - Part 2: Leadership in Small School Districts
Program Description: What does it look like to be a leader when you “wear all the hats”. Hear about some case examples, and listen to some leading PA small district tech leaders.
Affiliated Organization: Consortium for School Networking
Presenter: Amy DelCorvo
Co-Presenter(s):
Strand(s): Technology Leadership
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Internet as platform - Web 2.0 for teachers
Program Description: This session will cover some of the latest Web 2.0 applications/services including Google Docs, Vox, Netvibes, delicious, and flickr. There will be discussion on how Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way we interact and how we can use these tools to enhance teaching and learning.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Christian Penny
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Nanotechnology Literacy is Crucial
Program Description: Nanotechnology has often been thought of as playing a key role in the next industrial revolution. This workshop will be an overview for interested attendees to take a first step toward nano-literacy, to learn about classroom resources that are available to them, and to gain an understanding of the unique post secondary opportunities available in Pennsylvania
Affiliated Organization: Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization
Presenter: Robert Ehrmann
Co-Presenter(s): Amy Brunner, Bill Mahoney
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Differentiating Instruction with the Pennsylvania Technology Integration Mentors
Program Description: This session will provide an overview of the Getting to One Technology Integration Mentors program. Mentors will share their experiences as pioneers about how differentiated instruction, data driven decision-making and leadership support technology integration within their districts and across Pennsylvania.
Affiliated Organization: Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21
Presenter: Cathy Groller
Co-Presenter(s): Jim Beeghley
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Learning Through Authentic, Multimedia Cases
Program Description: Case studies provide a meaningful bridge connecting education theory to professional practice. Teachers and leadership focus on cases that mirror real problems and actively engage in problem-solving and consensus-building. Join CaseNEX, a unique case-based, online professional development provider, and experience a hands-on introduction to a powerful case-based, course simulation.
Affiliated Organization: CaseNex
Presenter: Mercedes Cordero
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Broadband PA: Act183 E-Fund Year 3
Program Description: Pennsylvania's telecommunications infrastructure will bridge the digital divide by providing access to high-speed Internet and eLearning in support of teaching and learning. A panel discussion of eFund awardees and PDE representatives will share their experiences as pioneers on how broadband connectivity is allowing them to share learning opportunities across distances.
Affiliated Organization: PDE - Bureau of Educational Technology
Presenter: Kathleen Brautigam
Co-Presenter(s): Jim Beeghley
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Tell It Like It Is – Digital Storytelling
Program Description: Digital storytelling is an engaging means of integrating technology into the classroom curriculum. Participants will become familiar with the elements and techniques of effective digital storytelling, as well as explore sample projects that help improve student's reading and writing skills, improve math, social studies, and science learning.
Audience(s): Pre-K, K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Moodle in the Making
Program Description: The making of what you ask? Discover how to use Moodle as a tool for enhancing your regular classroom. Blogs, Wikis, Class Discussions, Group Projects, and Multimedia: The best of web 2.0 in one convenient location for your classroom. Learn to use Moodle for optimizing student participation, achievement, and interest.
Affiliated Organization: Forest Area School District
Program Title: CFF: We Have All Of This Cool Stuff, Now What?
Program Description: Schools receiving the CFF grants may feel overwhelmed on how to efficiently administer the project. The Shanksville-Stonycreek School District shares a two year recipient’s perspective on how to effectively administer several phases of the CFF project including: installation, troubleshooting, implementation, marketing, modeling, and empowering faculty. Presenters will model examples of Shanksville’s educational uses of the CFF equipment.
Affiliated Organization: Shanksville-Stonycreek School Distr
Presenter: Marty Petrosky
Co-Presenter(s): Gary Noble
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Leadership
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Arts-rich Learning , A Mouse Click Away
Program Description: Schools can significantly enhance integrated-arts learning (and expand gifted services) by relying on free & nominal cost online resources. This session, co-presented by a classroom teacher and noted PA composer, will show how schools are using technology-based programs to provide unique and innovative learning activities for (K-8)students.
Affiliated Organization: Partners in Distance Learning
Audience(s): K-8, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: 1 To 1: Active Learning with Technology
Program Description: Technology, when integrated directly into classroom instruction, can provide an active & motivating learning experience. Teachers will demonstrate how they use an interactive whiteboard, LCD projector, wireless student laptops and Apple Remote Desktop networking software to present content, monitor student achievement and meet curriculum objectives in an interactive & engaging format.
Affiliated Organization: Western PA School for the Deaf
Program Description: Providing student’s the option to control their learning, how they learn, what they learn, and where they learn is not only the student’s right, but the responsibility of teachers, principles, superintendents, and school boards. This presentation will share distance learning strategies and methods that promote meta-cognition and 21st century skills.
Affiliated Organization: West Chester Area School District
Program Title: Infusing Technology in the Middle School Classroom
Program Description: Participants will learn techniques to infuse technology in the Middle School Classroom. Ideas range from Podcasting, I Web, Online Portfolios, Classroom Newspapers, to Blogging. Successful teacher lessons will be shared with the group. An open discussion forum will be offered so participants can share their ways of infusing technology in the classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Lower Merion School District
Program Title: Social Software- New Tools Bring New Possiblities
Program Description: Social software can provide a highly interactive, educationally rich environment for teachers and students worldwide. Today we not only consume information from the Internet, we are contributors of information. All Internet participants have the potential to become teachers and producers of content as learning becomes personal, authentic, and highly individualized. Social software includes wikis, blogs, podcasts, instant messaging, and any system that allows communication that also emphasizes the richness of personal interaction instead of the technologies that make the interactions possible. In this presentation we will discuss our experiences in creating an open professional development environment.
Affiliated Organization: Quakertown Community School Distric
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Baltimore City's Effective Use of Blackboard
Program Description: We’ll show you how the Baltimore City Public School System is using Blackboard to integrate technology into the K-12 classroom, access its dynamic curriculum, deliver professional development, and differentiate instruction. Our teachers are providing a more engaging learning environment by utilizing Blackboard as a means to effectively engage students in learning and increase student learning.
Affiliated Organization: Baltimore City Public School System
Program Description: Read About is an adaptive reading technology program designed to compliment a school's core reading program for students in grades 3-8. The goal of the program is to enhance comprehension and vocabulary understanding of nonfiction text in the broard content areas of science, social studies and contemporary issues. Read About provides a differentiated approach to support struggling readers and enrichment for more advanced readers.
Program Description: Ever wanted to capture your lessons in video format so students could review as needed?? If so, vodcasting upgrades podcasting by capturing the screen of any computer or smartboard activity and creates a finished movie. Attendees will gain an understanding of equipment and process needed to vodcast in their classroom.
Affiliated Organization: Franklin Regional School District
Program Description: Podcasting provides educators the ability to record activities, lessons, or mini-lessons and place them on the Internet for others to download or listen to. Attendees will gain a step-by-step process that will have them podcasting for close to free within a week of returning to the class!!
Affiliated Organization: Franklin Regional School District
Program Description: Learn about how to apply the Fair Use Guidelines of U.S. Copyright Act for educational uses of copyrighted materials. Includes tips for Technology Coordinators and others who provide guidance to teachers in the use of digital copyrighted resources within classrooms.
Affiliated Organization: West Shore School District
Program Description: Web2.0 tools being used with elementary students? Absolutely! Learn how many of the common web2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, skype, iChat, and podcasts can enrich learning for elementary students.
Affiliated Organization: Wayne Highlands School District, Keystone Technology Integrator
Program Title: Podcasting II HOW to create a video podcast
Program Description: Last year we presented WHAT podcasts were created by our student podcasters. This year is a requested follow-up to explain HOW we created them. We will explore the steps from the brainstorming and planning, to the filming, to the editing using iMove, and finally publishing to the web.
Affiliated Organization: Ellwood City Area Schools
Presenter: Frank Falotico
Co-Presenter(s): Anna Dimeo
Strand(s): Performing/Creative Arts, Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Using Technology to tell a Story
Program Description: Digital storytelling is incorporating media (including sound, digital images, video, etc.) revolving around a theme to present information. This session will demonstrate ways of incorporating digital storytelling into the classroom. This session will provide participants with examples of student digital stories and how they can be used in the classroom.
Program Title: Video Phone Technology to communicate w/ the Deaf
Program Description: For many years, communication with the Deaf and hard-of-hearing has been accomplished with the TTY device that would transmit typed text across a telephone line to another caller with a TTY device. Today, video phone technology is replacing the TTY as the communication device of choice for the Deaf.
Affiliated Organization: Scranton State School for the Deaf
Program Description: Why does the state ask for data and what happens to it once submitted? EDEN is the US Department of Education version of PIMS [the PA Information Management System]. Learn what data is currently collected and what LEA and School level data is slated for collection in 2008. Be prepared!
Affiliated Organization: PA Dept of Ed, Bureau of Ed Technology
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Online collaboration using netTrekker d.i.
Program Description: Using the unique collaboration tools within netTrekker d.i. we will work with trusted resources to create shared search information, focused web activities, portfolio examples and class folders.
Program Title: Tech Gambles:When to Hold'em When to Fold'em
Program Description: Investments in emerging technology can seem like a good bet but later fold for big losses. Understanding technology emergence and challenges to adoption and integration can give you the edge. Analyzing risks, potential, and required change with strategies for knowing and beating the odds will make your school a winner.
Affiliated Organization: DeSales Universtiy
Presenter: Lujean Baab
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s):
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Keeping it Real: Project-Based Tech Teaching
Program Description: Explore how a unified student project integrating multiple authentic assessments (project-based learning activities) is used to teach technology applications. Offers lessons learned, suggestions, and age appropriate examples.
Affiliated Organization: Clarion University
Presenter: Jeffrey Wardlaw
Strand(s): Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Pro Apps in the Classroom: Final Cut Studio
Program Description: Creativity and innovation have become cornerstones for teaching and learning. Storytelling with video, audio, photography, and motion graphics have become skills necessary to succeed in 21st century careers. Professional grade, industry standard applications can play an important role in career skill development and school-to-work initiatives. Come and see how Apple's Final Cut Pro and the Studio Suite applications can tap students' creativity while developing marketable skills in professional non-linear video editing. Hear how Apple's Authorized Training Center for Education program can industry-certify your faculty AND students to provide a complete, modern course curriculum.
Affiliated Organization: Apple, Inc.
Presenter: Steve Zalot
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: A Positive Solution to K-20 Copyright Concerns
Program Description: Does your school address copyright issues through threats of punishment? Another "Don't" in a catalog of don'ts. Overcome negativity with a positive approach to empower teacher and student use of media legally. Support multimedia and traditional projects through creative and open content that's copyright-safe from fantastic websites we'll share.
Program Title: OLPC Live: The World's Most Interesting Technology
Program Description: The global One Laptop Per Child project was developed by leading technology and education experts, and repercussions of its advanced hardware and software design will affect schools from Hong Kong to Harrisburg. See live demonstrations of operating system and software for writing, publishing, communication, research, music and creativity (ages 6-14).
Affiliated Organization: CAPE
Presenter: Scott Garrigan
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Writing Successful Technology and Education Grants
Program Description: School technology demand increases, but traditional funding sources don't keep pace. Learn successful grant secrets. We'll cover finding high-probability grant sources, conceptualizing fundable projects, writing strong proposals, managing projects for success and inviting follow-up funding. Presenter has received over $7 million in competitive K-12 and higher education grants.
Program Title: Managing Geek Central: Leading IT Professionals
Program Description: IT professionals develop, design, and support technology that is critical to your organization. Explore how these knowledge workers (geeks) deliver value to your organization.
Managing technology well really depends on managing the professionals who deliver the technology solutions. Session will provide insights into nature of “geek” work (a.k.a. technology services)
Affiliated Organization: Cornwall-Lebanon School District
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: StudyWiz: Implementation, Training, and Features
Program Description: StudyWiz, an international course management program, allows students to transfer files from home to school and vise versa, is reasonably priced with outstanding Tech support, is user friendly, allows for parent access, and is a perfect fit for a one-to-program . Learn more about this program and tips for implementation.
Program Description: Chinese is one of the hottest languages to learn in our global economy. If your school took part in a modern world language program, would your technology be ready for the challenge? Learn how school districts readied their computers for Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Russian instruction in the CAPE Online World Language Institute!
Program Description: By transforming the 2D web into a highly engaging and interactive 3D environment, virtual worlds have exciting implications on the future of education. Learn how Second Life is being used by educators and join a discussion of how these technologies can transform distance education and stimulate professional learning communities.
Affiliated Organization: Montrose Area School District
Program Description: There's no mistaking society’s shift in focus from thriving on competition to the need for collaboration. Communication and conversation are among the keys to learning. Learn how to use emerging technologies to build community, foster collaboration and creativity. Learn ways to get students to connect to one another, information and the world.
Affiliated Organization: Upper Merion Area School District
Program Description: Whether traveling around your school, around the country, or around the globe, let technology take you there. Follow fifth graders on their interdisciplinary adventures as they explore and interact with their world using rich online resources including Nettrekker, UnitedStreaming, Google Earth, Discovery.com, Blackboard, Nicenet, and the Creative Connections Project.
Affiliated Organization: Germantown Academy - Independent School
Program Title: Improving Literacy Through Technology
Program Description: Do your students dilike writing? Hate to read? Engage them with today's technologies and they'll be writing and reading before they know it. Students collaborate on creating traditionally illustrated texts and then, using digital photography and online freeware,they transform their text into a visual media appealing to their "digital native" sides. This system has allowed the non-reader, non-writer students to collaborate and feel ownership in our literacy community.
Affiliated Organization: Central Bucks School District
Program Title: Web 2.0: What Is It and What Do We Do With It?
Program Description: Web 2.0 tools provide wonderful collaboration opportunities among individuals and create open learning environments. Posting information in a blog, work collaboratively in a Wiki, sharing conversations in podcasts, interacting in virtual worlds, or creating mashups of electronic resources are ways teachers and students are changing the classroom experience.
Affiliated Organization: Bloomsburg University
Presenter: Mary Nicholson
Co-Presenter(s): Helmut Doll
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Administrator 2.0 Academy
Program Description: Blogs blocked? Wikis weaned? Podcasts poo-pooed? Learn about the strategies employed by a Teacher-Administrator pair in educating district administrators about the 2.0 world and the value it can bring to your students...both inside the classroom and out!
Affiliated Organization: Mt. Lebanon School District
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, and Podcasts
Program Description: Web 2.0 makes available a rich collection of tools which has the potential to enhance the teaching and learning process. A collection of suggestions on how to apply such tools as Wikis, Blogs, and Podcasts will be discussed and guidelines for classroom activities will be distributed.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Electronic Government Documents: Capturing and Keeping
Program Description: In the 21st century where more and more government information is being produced only electronically various solutions and trends are emerging to capture and keep our national and state information. Government documents librarians from the State Library of Pennsylvania will demonstrate trends, problems and ideas to capture and keep government information.
Affiliated Organization: State Library of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Kathleen Hale
Co-Presenter(s): Mary Spila
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Pro Apps in the Classroom: Aperture
Program Description: Creativity and innovation have become cornerstones for teaching and learning. Photography, and graphic image manipulation have become skills necessary to succeed in 21st century careers. Professional grade, industry standard applications can play an important role in career skill development and school-to-work initiatives. Come and see for yourself how Aperture, Apple's professional digital photography solution, can promote communication and collaboration skills in any discipline, including the creative arts, for further education exploration and career path development. Hear how Apple's Authorized Training Center for Education program can industry-certify your faculty AND students to provide a complete, modern course curriculum.
Affiliated Organization: Apple,Inc
Presenter: Steve Zalot
Strand(s): Performing/Creative Arts, Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: OS X System Imaging and Deployment Best Practices
Program Description: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server come with excellent software for system imaging, diskless boot and centralized software updates. The addition of Apple Remote Desktop adds system management and reporting. Third-party partners also have software that works with Mac OS X to make system deployment easy.
Affiliated Organization: Apple,Inc
Presenter: Matt Little
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management
Audience(s): Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Bending directory services to your will with OS X
Program Description: Directory Services allows system administrators to manage network users and volumes. Learn how to make Directory Services respond to your every command and return the information your network seeks. Hear the best configuration, management, and troubleshooting tips from people who have gained mastery over integration with Open Directory, Active Directory and Novell.
Affiliated Organization: Apple,Inc
Presenter: Matt Little
Strand(s): Infrastructure/Security/Management
Audience(s): All
Level: Intermediate
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Introducing Mac OS X v.10.5 "Leopard"
Program Description: (Apple Lab)
Packed with over 300 exciting new innovations, Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" features a completely new Finder and Desktop environment, making it even easier to quickly browse and locate your files; Time Machine, a revolutionary new automated backup and recovery utility; Spaces, an exciting new way to manage desktop windows; Dashboard with Web Clip, to create your very own Dashboard Widgets; iChat, for high-quality videoconferencing, remote slideshow and presentation delivery; and significantly updated versions of Spotlight, Safari, iCal, QuickTime, Automator and Mail. Leopard combines these, plus many more incredible new features, with unprecedented ease-of-use and robust, cross-platform networking, all built upon a rock-solid, modern, secure, UNIX-based foundation.
Program Title: Introducing iWork08-Productivity for the Classroom
Program Description: (Apple Lab)
iWork ’08 provides three powerful tools for the classroom: Pages, a streamlined word processor that’s perfect for everything from history reports to newsletters to writing stories; Keynote, Apple’s industry-leading application for creating cinema-quality presentations; and Numbers, an innovative new spreadsheet for calculating and organizing data. Get your hands on this exciting, new, academically powerful software suite and energize your classrooms!
Program Title: Pro Applications in the Classroom - Logic Studio
Program Description: Creativity and innovation have become cornerstones for teaching and learning as well as skills necessary to succeed in 21st century careers. Professional grade, industry standard applications can play an important role in career skill development and school-to-work initiatives. Hear for yourself how Apple's new Logic Studio can energize a music curriculum with unique tools designed by audio professionals. Hear also how Apple's Authorized Training Center for Education program can industry-certify your faculty AND students to provide a complete, modern course curriculum.
Program Title: Inspiration and unitedstreaming – Perfect Together
Program Description: Combine the power of Inspiration with extensive unitedstreaming content to create dynamic, interactive concept maps to capture students’ imaginations. See sample Inspiration maps, learn about this powerful yet simple process and work along on your laptop if desired (Inspiration software & a unitedstreaming account needed to try it).
Affiliated Organization: Caley School/Upper Merion Area School District
Program Title: Putting Relevant Data into Teacher's Hands
Program Description: Performance Pathways is one of the fastest growing nationally recognized leaders in providing assessment and curriculum technologies and services to K-12 schools.Serving over 100 districts across PA, Performance Pathways solutions - Performance Tracker, Assessment Builder, and TechPaths help school districts make Data-Informed Decisions that can lead to increased student achievement.
Program Title: Transforming Teaching & Learning With Studywiz
Program Description: (Apple Lab)
Do you want to use some of the tools your students use but haven't found a way to incorporate it into an instructional setting? Are you afraid that using disparate tools on the internet won't let you manage how and when a student accesses these tools? Do want a solution that allows you to deliver podcasts, blogs, eLockers, RSS feeds, assignments, assessments and have complete management, oversight, and detailed reporting capabilities? Want to know how these tools change teaching and learning around the world and in the US? Attend this session to learn how Studywiz has been helping educators transform teaching and learning throughout the world
Program Title: Introducing iWork08-Productivity for the Classroom
Program Description: (Apple Lab)
iWork ’08 provides three powerful tools for the classroom: Pages, a streamlined word processor that’s perfect for everything from history reports to newsletters to writing stories; Keynote, Apple’s industry-leading application for creating cinema-quality presentations; and Numbers, an innovative new spreadsheet for calculating and organizing data. Get your hands on this exciting, new, academically powerful software suite and energize your classrooms!
Affiliated Organization: Apple,Inc
Presenter: Steve Zalot
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Media Centers, Mobile/Wireless Technologies
Audience(s): All
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Welcome to iLife08-Digital Multimedia for Educatio
Program Description: (Apple Lab)
Re-discover creative new ways to integrate attention-grabbing multimedia into your classroom with iLife '08! The new iLife '08 suite features major upgrades to iPhoto, GarageBand, iDVD and iWeb and a completely new version of iMovie, all with features specifically designed for education. In the classroom, over the internet or as part of a dynamic presentation or podcast, iLife '08 offers today's students exciting new digital multimedia content creation tools that are powerful, fun and easy to use. Explore iLife '08 today!
Program Title: iPods and Podcasting for Teaching and Learning
Program Description: (Apple Lab)
Discover podcasting, an exciting new way for students and teachers to create, publish and distribute their own dynamic educational content, in the classroom, or around the world. With podcasting, students, teachers and parents can have anywhere, anytime, access to the latest educational audio and video content, on a Mac, on a PC or on an iPod! Learn how easy it is to get started in the exciting world of educational podcasting today!
Program Title: Blogging to Think More Like a Teacher
Program Description: Participants will learn how pre-service teachers discovered how to “think like a teacher” by comparing the blogging process to the game of Rummikub and analyze the process of how blogging scaffolded this transformation through skill, luck, and intuition. Pre-service teachers include: Jason Leiter, Megan Woods, Evan Gaffney, & Lauren Schaeffer.
Affiliated Organization: Gettysburg College
Presenter: Divonna Stebick
Co-Presenter(s): Carol Rinke
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Audience(s): Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Using Web 2.0 in the Social Studies Classroom
Program Description: This presentation will demonstrate how web 2.0 tools can be used in the high school social studies classroom. Specifically we will demonstrate examples of students working collaboratively in groups using a collection of tools including wikispaces, youtube, teachertube, delicious, flickr, digg, blogger, igoogle, voicethread and several other innovative tools.
Program Description: This hands-on session will give teachers the opportunity to see student response systems (SRS) in action. We will demonstrate how to create, deliver, and collect information using two different SRS. Participants will see results instantly and we will engage in a discussion about possible uses.
Affiliated Organization: Hatboro-Horsham High School
Program Description: An e-Mission is a simulated, problem-based, learning adventure delivered to your classroom via distance learning technology. A live hook up to “Mission Control” will be featured along with one school’s experience in getting administration, teachers, technology staff and students “on board” for this exciting educational experience.
Affiliated Organization: Ancillae-Assumpta Academy
Program Description: This program reviews iPods, and newest iPod touch and video Nano models, podcasts and podcasting in school libraries. Included is an overview of both audio and video podcasting. Though the main focus is within libraries, the presentation will also feature a look at other applications of this technology in schools.
Affiliated Organization: William Penn Charter School
Presenter: Douglas Uhlmann
Strand(s): Emerging Technologies/Trends, Media Centers, Mobile/Wireless Technologies
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Google Documents as a classroom tool
Program Description: From collaborating on documents to developing presentations, this free service developed by Google does it all. This presentation will explore how Google documents, presentations, and spreadsheets can be created and used in a classroom environment.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Administration/School Board/Business Officer, Higher Ed, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Technological Literacy vs. Technology Literacy: What is the Difference?
Program Description: Often times technology education standards and technology literacy are assumed to be one in the same. True that the two are inherently related, but yet they are distinctive. This presentation will explore these similarities and differences. In addition time will be spent discussing how students’ mastery of technology standards supports the development and application of students’ technology literacy in other content classrooms.
Affiliated Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Educatio
Program Description: Looking for a place where you can blog, chat, share resources, learn about things like Second Life and connect with educators from all over the globe? Well, this is your session. We’ll explore the 100% free resources available through the Discovery Educator Network website which was selected by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) as the best professional development website for 2007.
Affiliated Organization: Discovery Education
Presenter: Steve Dembo
Strand(s): Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Audience(s): All
Level: ALL
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: 50 Ways to Spin a Digital Story
Program Description: An in-depth overview of the digital media available in Discovery Education Streaming and 50 different ways to tell digital stories using it. DE Streaming provides your classroom access to thousands of videos, images and audio clips. Learn how to integrate them into cutting edge Web 2.0 sites to make your students' digital stories come alive!
Program Title: Director’s Cut: Digital Media & Premiere Elements
Program Description: Allow your students to make real-life connections to their learning by having them become part of the show. This session will demonstrate how to use online media, a green screen and some special effects in Adobe Premiere Elements to create digital movies where your students are the stars.
Program Title: Google Earth: The Whole World in Kids' Hands
Program Description: Google Earth is more than a powerful, free tool for teachers! See how your students can use the virtual globe to create guided multimedia tours and learn through text, images, video and spatial relationships. Step-by-step project guide, student planner and assessment rubric included.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Creative Animation and Game Programming for Kids
Program Description: Students, scouts and campers 8 to 16 can design interactive art and stories, animations and games with Scratch, a FREE graphical programming language from MIT. Scratch projects feature music, sounds and images appealing to different learning styles. Receive sample projects with full instructions to stimulate creative thought and logical problem-solving.
Audience(s): K-8, 9-12, Technology Director or Coordinator/Instructional Technologist
Level: Introductory
Conference Year: February 2008
Program Title: Streaming with the STARs
Program Description: In January thousands of STAR Discovery Educators from all across the globe voted for their favorite free online resources. In this fast-paced, content-rich session, we’ll count down the top ten most popular free online resources and show you how teachers are using them in their classrooms.
Program Title: 50 Ways to Use Discovery Education streaming
Program Description: When it comes to integrating digital media into your classroom, the possibilities are endless. In this session, you will learn powerful ways to integra
