Thursday 3:15 - 4:15
Literature Goes Digital!
Palace C
Trish Finley & Joann Thurlow , Gifted Department/Omaha Public Schools
Literature Goes Digital! Participants in this break-out session will tell and gain ideas on sharing stories digitally. Tough Boris by Mem Fox and The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown will be highlighted. The palm pilot program Sketchy, clip art, and digital photos will enhance the creation of a colorful, digital story that will grab and hook the reader. Participants will leave excited, energized, and equipped for a digital Monday morning in the classroom.
Students - TECH Hub of Your School
Omaha Lobby
John Stritt & William Bolen , Educational Service Unit 10
Students can play a technical support role for your educational community as they acquire technical and personal skills through course instruction and demonstrate their understanding by providing technical support for their school. Find out how TECHS, an online technology course sponsored by ESU 10, provides a curriculum to move students from consumers of technology information into collaboration and sharing of information for their school.
Panel Presentation on Effective Online Communication
Palace E
Stacey Musil, Foundtion for Educational Services
Panelists are Jay Lutt, Superintendent, Farragut; Timothy Dodd, District Technical Coordinator, York; and Karen Dux, Grade 6 Teacher, Fairbury. They will discuss: -How they use online communication tools, including content management systems, news-focused websites, email newsletters, and interactive calendars -How using these communication technologies strengthen community support, increase parent involvement, and affect student achievement
Wausa Infomercial (still working on naming our project)
Palace B
Dawn Friedrich & Anne Vanness Billie Graham, Wausa Public School
K-12 students work collaboratively using technology to create an infomerical to generate interest in family life, commmunity life, and economic development for the town of Wausa.
Promethean Power!
Palace A
Julie Hamilton Dort & Angie Jones Angie Zimmerman, Saint Vincent de Paul
My Promethean Board connects me to the world through music, literature, art, history and much more. My students are taught by many famous explorers, philosophers, writers, presidents and mathematicians. We travel all over the world from Omaha to Spain in a matter of seconds. This is how we love to learn and teach. It's not just about technology, it's about developing life long learners. Please join us as we share the values of Promethean is our classrooms.
Smart Board Product Update
Holiday A
Dennis Pitzl & Rick Urwiler , Pratt AV & VIdeo
Covering Smart Board Basics, Sentio Student responce system & SynchronEyes Classroom management software
Video WEb Casting Your School Activities!
Salon D
Scott Johnson, Crete High School
Video Web Casting at Crete High School is web casting the school activities on the internet. We use
Ustream to upload the events to the Web. Viewers from all over the world are able to watch athletic
events as they happen. Crete has an audio mixer for controlling the sound input. This session will
provide you with a projected cost of equipment and the hardware requirements to web cast your
athletic events.
Interactive PDFs with Acrobat Pro--Amazing!
Palace F
Tom Dent, Adobe Educator
Realize the potential of using Acrobat Pro for creating student portfolios and promote collaboration
with commenting and review right on a PDF (with users of the free Reader as participants). With
Acrobat Pro you can create interactive forms that can actually be filled in and saved using the free
Reader software, and compile returned form data into a spreadsheet—perfect for compiling survey
information. See more PDF interactions too numerous to list!
Technology Integration: Raising the Achievement of Children of Poverty
Palace D
Bess Scott & Lou Anne Miller , McPhee Elementary School, Lincoln, NE
Often educators make assumptions about children of poverty, their ability to learn, and their access to technology. Learn about the systemic integration of technology at McPhee Elementary School which replaced teaching software and hardware with using technology as a tool to raise the achievement and performance of both students and staff. Using technology to increase family engagement in raising student achievement will also be discussed.
The NEW 21st Century PLATO Learning Solutions
Heartland B
Ike Moore, PLATO Learning
PLATO has developed brand new on-line full semester courses that have 60 -75 hours of instructional content mapped to Nebraska Standards. This is new research-based and newly developed Straight Curve Math, designed directly from NCTM's five focal points. This is a new curriculum focused on helping teachers teach math conception skills. Response to Intervention--you will be amazed at what we have developed. Your PLATO Team working for you.
Music Videos Unleashed
Salon C
Lisa Schmidt, Elmwood-Murdock Public Schools
Get students excited about researching historical figures using current music videos, Garageband, iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie. This project for the History classroom will get students excited about research, the synthesis of their information and the presentation of their research. Learn how to combine common research tasks in your classroom with technology to provide students an outlet for their creativity and knowledge.
Pairing Reading Interventions, Comprehension & Technology-Meeting Changing Needs of Education
Heartland A
Jim Strayer & Josh Poirier , Scholastic
Successful interventions for reading can be paired with technology to meet the diversity of student and teaching needs. Technology-based learning joins with engaging technology to teach content and comprehension. Come see how a multi-modal approach can help change lives of elementary through high school students.
Best Practices for Wireless Networks
Omaha Room
Brian Garey, Educational Service Unit 10
Is your wireless network not delivering the performance that you (and the users in your district) expect? We'll discuss how to get a wireless network that works for staff and students. Topics will include: Differences in wireless hardware, securing network access, how your wired and wireless networks affect each other, considerations for 1-to-1 deployments, multiple WLANs, ways to improve what you already have, and more.
iLife '08 in the Classroom
Palace G
Barry Sevett, Apple, Inc.
Bring the sights and sounds that inspire students into the classroom with iLife '08, featuring the latest versions of iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD. With these powerful tools, students can easily create and share media-rich digital projects, like historical documentaries, digital stories, or foreign language podcasts. See how to to enliven lessons, meet instructional standards, and empower students with 21st century skills.