Breakout Sessions
Friday 11:30 - 12:30

Amazing Animation With Power Point Richard Gottner, King Science and Technology Magnet Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Use Power Point to its full potential! Students use connectors, scribble lines and basic shapes to make animated presentations. The presentations then came be turned into a movie for extra sound and special effects. Palace D Educator
Making Multimedia Classroom Magic Elizabeth Buyer & Doug Lyon , Tech4Learning, Inc. Tech4Learning, Inc. Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Visual communication is powerful and compelling. Learn how your students can utilize movies, sounds, and animations to share ideas and communicate understanding as they create and share MediaBlender projects. Come see cross-curricular, standards-based multimedia projects on topics such as rainforest conservation, historical events, fairy tales, as well as original writing in a second language. Includes lesson ideas and strategies for integration! Holiday A Exhibitor
Free Graphics Software for K-12 Darci Lindgren, Lindsay Holy Family Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Come and learn about many free tools available to create and edit grapics in your computer lab. Includes a full demo of a lesson plan using The GIMP photoshop clone. Palace A Educator
iPhoto 6 postcards from your classroom Robin Davis, Westside Community Schools Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Use iPhoto 6 to create FREE digital postcards/greeting cards for email or web pages. Incorporate photos and text to create a variety of professional looking digital postcards that can be converted to jpg, compressed and emailed or posted on a web page. Wow! Send your parents an email postcard from class showing a photo of that botched science experiment with a matching haiku! We will use iPhoto 6, and the free programs Grab and Preview. Palace C Educator
iMovie Projects: Utilizing technology to foster student creativity. Michael Brandon & David Stastny , Gretna High School Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Demonstration of a research project that utilizes iMovie to create a multimedia presentation. Great alternative for educators looking to engage student imagination while fulfilling many of the research requirements of today's curriculum. Palace B Educator
Infinite Campus - A better way to manage your student information data Nick Spehart, Computer Information Concepts Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Presentation Focuses On a Better Way to Store and Manage Student Information Data, Analyze Critical Student Information, and Provide Better Parent and Student Access to Data. Features fully Web based, centralized, robust functionality with proven performance. Unique deployment model and Data mining tool, provide Real-time analysis with intuitive user interface. Integrated State reporting, proves LOWER TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP! Tower A Exhibitor
LB 1208—all you ever wanted to know and more! Tom Rolfes, State of Nebraska/Office of CIO-NITC Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 LB 1208, passed by the Legislature in April 2006, brings about some of the most significant networking and distance learning developments in Nebraska educational telecommunications in over a decade. Attend this session to find out how these funding, policy and coordination changes can enable new educational opportunities for Nebraska K-12 and higher education students and instructors. Salon C Educator
PhotoShop Elements Tips, Tricks & Classroom Project Ideas Linda Dickeson, Lincoln Public Schools Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Take your students to the next level with digital photo editing tricks, from the pros and neat tips for using the Photoshop Elements tools. The session will also review combining images, clone stamping, working with layers (especially adjustment layers), animation, photo collages, posters and other techniques helpful for classroom projects. Palace F Educator
Gadgets! (Repeat) Leslie Fisher, Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Are you a gadget head? Do you surf the net or listen closely to geeks talking in hopes of hearing about a cool software product or gizmo? Leslie Fisher (Gadget Freak) will show you some of her favorite hardware and software gadgets that do everything from make your life easier to provide piles of fun. Hardware, software and even completely off topic gadgets will be discussed. Palace G Educator
Leopard: Mac OX 10.5 (repeat) Jeff Ochsner, Apple Computer Inc. Apple Computer Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 OS 10.5 - Leopard offers new features that build on the success of 10.4 - Tiger. Apple's new operating system is leveraging many open source projects to deliver a world-class UNIX-based solution that's both affordable & easy to deploy & manage. This session will explore new enhancements to Leopard, such as Time Machine, Spaces, iChat, Boot Camp, etc. We will look at many of the new technologies in Leopard, with particular emphasis on education. Palace E Exhibitor
Using Desktop Authority to Manage a Windows Network John Willoz & Stefanie Morrow , Papillion-La Vista Public Schools Papillion-La Vista Public Schools Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Papillion LaVista technical staff will demonstrate how they use Desktop Authority to manage the workstations on their networks. Omaha Lobby Educator
Using Apple Remote Desktop as a Teaching and Management Tool Carol Etherton & Rose Zlomke , Grand Island Public Schools Grand Island Public Schools Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 All Macintosh OS X computers ship with Apple Remote Desktop management software. Learn how to capitalize on the power of the software to manage networks of client machines. The presenters will share how to create management groups with scanners and lists, obtain workstation and network reports, manage clients, install packages, copy software, and observe and control user screens to provide instruction and technical assistance. Omaha Educator
Meeting Federal and State Mandates AND Meeting Students Unique Needs Kerry Kimple, Technology Resources Friday
11:30 - 12:30		 Several Nebraska Educators lead a round table discussion on meeting a multitude of goals through the use of a variety of online tools. Their flexible and scalable models have had a tremendous impact on meeting a variety of instructional needs while increasing test scores. Salon D Exhibitor