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*Featured speaker sessions are bolded
| Date & Time | Title and Presenter | Description |
| March 24 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CT | WLAN Design Concepts Workshop | Register for this free workshop |
| March 24 7:00 PM CT | Engagement Activity | |
| March 25 8:30 – 11:30 AM CT | Visit Exhibitors | |
| March 25 9:00 AM CT | KEYNOTE Breaking Bold: Living the Relationship Habits that Matter, with Weston Kieschnick | Join Weston Kieschnick as he shares key relationship habits that can be leveraged to engage kids, improve learning and change lives. |
| March 25 9:45 AM CT | Networking | |
| March 25 10:00 AM CT | Breaking Bold: Implementing Relationship Habits that Matter, Weston Kieschnick | Kicking it up a notch on this morning’s session, Weston will share implementation strategies for putting key relationship habits into action TODAY! |
| March 25 10:00 AM CT | Cyber Security Amongst Friends – Panel Discussion, DJ Sayles (Fortinet) | This session is sponsored by Fortinet and will include a few customers to discuss the solutions they are using from Fortinet with Q&A. |
| March 25 10:00 AM CT | Early Literacy in 3D, Dayna Derichs & Kerri White | We explore the magic of 3D design by empowering young learners to develop stories with character, plot and setting and printing them in 3D. |
| March 25 10:00 AM CT | Hot off the Press: Updates & Insights from Google for EDU, Anne Nash (Google for Education) | Interested in the newest news on Google for Education? This session will provide key updates and insights directly from the NE Google team. |
| March 25 10:00 AM CT | Physical Computing with Python, Kimberly Ingraham-Beck | Come see how we use physical computing to teach a one-semester high school Python class. STEMBots, Microbits, Raspberry Pis, Tello drones. |
| March 25 10:30 AM CT | Visit Exhibitors | |
| March 25 11:00 AM CT | Hybrid Collaborative Learning Made Flexible and Easy, Dustin Frank (KCAV) | Both SMART Learning Suite and Vivi offer screen mirroring, video, & feedback tools that allow for highly engaged learning environments. |
| March 25 11:00 AM CT | Should You Trust Your Cybersecurity?, Kyle Thompson, Dan Clark & Rob Gospodarski (Pine Cove Consulting) | Cybersecurity has involved creating a security perimeter and trusting that everything inside is secure. New challenges erode this perimeter. |
| March 25 11:00 AM CT | Teacher Tech Tok Seeking out Opportunities for Micro PD, Lindsay Zilly | Calling all life long learners! In this session, explore edu resources, tools & strategies I learned from a very unlikely place: Tik Tok |
| March 25 11:00 AM CT | Unplugged Thinkers in Computer Science, Sara Schnell | Elementary students use unplugged activities to gain a deeper understanding of CS through computational thinking, collaboration, and play. |
| March 25 11:00 AM CT | Use This not That! Practical Copyright Friendly Resources, Nancy Minicozzi | Help students learn what content they can use in their digital products and how to cite it. A variety of free resources will be shared. |
| March 25 12:00 PM CT | Going Cross Curricular with Google Earth, Donnie Piercey | Come learn some innovative cross curricular lesson ideas about what your students can do with Google Earth OTHER than finding their house! |
| March 25 12:00 PM CT | Project-Based Learning in a Remote Learning Environment, Jen Schneider | Learn how 150+ public school students researched, collaborated, and created their own passion projects while learning from home. |
| March 25 12:00 PM CT | Ransomware Prevention, DJ Sayles (Fortinet) | This session will focus on next generation Anti-Virus, real-time remediation, and automated responses. |
| March 25 12:00 PM CT | Screencastify for Leaders: Using Video to Communicate, Nefertiti Dukes (Screencastify) | Join Screencastify for a webinar about using video to clone yourself and help the teachers you serve. |
| March 25 12:00 PM CT | What’s New from Apple Education, Presented by Apple, (Live Only) | Join us for an exclusive virtual roundtable discussion about how Apple products can support learning and teaching in your school or district |
| March 25 1:00 PM CT | Augmented Reality in Every Classroom, Santha Walters | Augmented Reality (A.R.) can be used in every subject at any level. Learn how to create personalized A.R. lessons with ARMakr and EyeJack. |
| March 25 1:00 PM CT | Hindsight is 2020 when 2020 is in Hindsight, Andrew Easton (ESUCC) | Join us as we explore how teaching during the pandemic shifted our collective capacity in areas such as SEL, asynchronous learning, and more |
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| March 25 1:00 PM CT | Which Pension Option will You Choose and Why?, Brian Luther & Chelsea Slavin (Compass Financial Resources) | Nebraska Educator Retirement Planning Workshop |
| March 25 1:00 PM CT | Zoom Your Stories to Life: Virtual Storytelling, Theresa Jensen (NILA) | Zoom video and other digital tools and resources for synchronous and asynchronous digital storytelling in the world language classroom. |
| March 25 2:00 PM CT | Becoming an IT Hero: How to Pay Less for Apple Hardware, Keith Ryskoski (Diamond Assets) | Offset the cost of your new Apple hardware. Explore timing, sustainability practices, and maximizing your trade in value. |
| March 25 2:00 PM CT | “E” What? Esports? Tell Me More!, Matt Hinkel & Nate Simons | Have you heard about esports? Join some Nebraska esports coaches to learn what it is and how you can get started the easy way. |
| March 25 2:00 PM CT | Introducing Google’s Certified Coach Program, Anne Nash & Amanda Del Balso (Google for Education) | Join Google for Education and NETA to learn more about how we’ve partnered together to help instructional coach become Certified Coaches. |
| March 25 2:00 PM CT | STEAM Power, Tim Needles | Learn fun, creative, project-based STEAM projects and fundamentals featured in the book STEAM Power from ISTE. |
| March 25 2:00 PM CT | There’s no Place like Chrome, Tricia Louis | Click your ruby slippers together & you will be transported to the wonderful world of Chrome! You will be a chrome wizard after this session! |
| March 25 3:00 PM CT | NETAGo Podcast | |
| March 25 4:00 PM CT | 30 Time Saving Tips for Teachers, Presented by Apple (Live Only) | Join Apple to discover 30 Time Saving Tips for Teachers. |
| March 25 6:00 PM CT | Adobe Creative Educator Level 1 Workshop, Tanya Avrith | Join us for the Adobe Creative Educator Level 1 workshop. In this 90 minute session, educators will review the creative process, what it looks like across the curriculum, and how to evaluate creativity in various subject areas. At the end of this session, educators will earn their Level 1 Adobe Creative Educator badge, which is aligned to Credly and Acclaim badges. They will also receive a professional development certificate for 3 hours of work (which will include the assignment for the session — a graphic) |
| March 26 8:30 – 11:30 AM CT | Visit Exhibitors | |
| March 26 9:00 AM CT | Create Augmented Reality with these 5 Tools, Jaime Donally | Get ready for an AR creation session! We will explore new resources and a variety of tools to create AR using apps and the internet. |
| March 26 9:00 AM CT | Ignite Your Learning – Series 3 | In this session, presenters will have 5 minutes and 20 slides to Ignite Your Learning and thinking about a variety of subjects and topics. |
| March 26 9:00 AM CT | Students as Social Media Storytellers, Josh Allen & Heather Callihan | This session will highlight and give examples of student created content that shares your school’s story for your community. |
| March 26 9:00 AM CT | The Future of WiFi in Education, Kyle Thompson & Clayton Wiffen (Pine Cove Consulting) | Join Pine Cove and Ruckus Wireless as we unpack the trends in Wi-Fi, dive into the emergence of network analytics, and touch on CBRS. |
| March 26 9:00 AM CT | Timing Your Trade In: How to Maximize Your Residual Value, Keith Ryskoski (Diamond Assets) | How to maximize the residual value of your Apple fleet to create a sustainable technology plan. |
| March 26 9:30 AM CT | Visit Exhibitors | |
| March 26 10:00 AM CT | Achieving Entire School L1 Google Educator Certification, Oliver Bantam, Rob Meyers, Anne Nash (Google for Education) | Want your staff to be recognized for their amazing use of the Google for Education products? Learn how 2 principals did this in a year! |
| March 26 10:00 AM CT | Data Breach Response Training, Sean Cottrell | This interactive presentation puts you in the driver’s seat for a simulated data breach. |
| March 26 10:00 AM CT | Easily Build Virtual Reality Meeting Spaces, Jaime Donally | Get easy, practical ways to connect, collaborate, and create virtual reality meeting spaces without expensive equipment and advanced skills. |
| March 26 10:00 AM CT | Everything I know About PD I Learned from Jimmy Fallon, Lindsay Zilly | What do teachers & comedians have in common? High degree of creativity, great eye for detail & excellent communication skills, for starters! |
| March 26 10:00 AM CT | How to Ensure Continuous Learning, Heather Miller (Renaissance Learning) | Today’s classroom is rapidly evolving. Learning is taking place in new ways. Educational tools should serve the teacher not replace. |
| March 26 10:30 AM CT | Visit Exhibitors | |
| March 26 11:00 AM CT | 5 Ways to Reimagine Digital Assessments, Holly Clark | Time to rethink what our assessments can and should look like and unpack the information they provide about student learning and growth. |
| March 26 11:00 AM CT | Cyber Security Awareness for Students and Staff, DJ Sayles (Fortinet) | This session will review readily available options developed in alignment with NIST guidelines: NIST 800-50 and NIST 800-16. |
| March 26 11:00 AM CT | Differentiation for All, Jenna Krambeck-Reeh & Matt Moore | How do you use Google Tools to differentiate & accommodate for your students? Come for resources, tools, and ideas for your students today! |
| March 26 11:00 AM CT | Websites to Develop Student Discourse and Conceptual Understanding, Lenny VerMaas | Open Middle, Which One Doesn’t Belong, Picture equations, Cube conversations, Estimation 180 are a few of the sites we will experience. |
| March 26 11:00 AM CT | What to Expect from Your Apple Hardware Trade in Partner, Keith Ryskoski (Diamond Assets) | Trading in your existing fleet of hardware can appear to be a daunting task. What should you expect from a quality trade in partner? |
| March 26 12:00 PM CT | Audiovisual for a New Time in Education, Dustin Frank (KCAV) | See the most popular AV solutions deployed in our 5-state area, including a variety of cameras, microphones, webcams, and audio solutions. |
| March 26 12:00 PM CT | Going Deeper with Flipgrid, Holly Clark | Discover ways to go deeper with Flipgird. We’ll experience Fliphunts, Flipgrid AR and see the power of Individual Grids, Mixtapes and more. |
| March 26 12:00 PM CT | Infinite Campus Student Information System, Steve Bohlender (Infinite Campus) | See Infinite Campus in action! We will cover standards-based and traditional grades, scheduling, attendance, behavior, reporting and more! |
| March 26 12:00 PM CT | Keeping Relationships at the Heart of Technology, Stacey Muller | Come learn with our first and fifth grade buddies as we share our experiences fostering peer relationships across grade levels through the use of technology. |
| March 26 12:00 PM CT | Motivating Students to Improve Reading Fluency with Read Live, Claire Hayes (Read Naturally, Inc.) | Learn how Read Live uses curriculum on a technology platform to support fluency, vocabulary, comprehension & phonics for struggling readers. |
| March 26 1:00 PM CT | Creating Collaborative Coaching Connections, Nikki Schafer | How can we work together to support and lift up the educators around us? These unique tech tools can help educators connect and grow. |
| March 26 1:00 PM CT | Google Assignments – The LMS Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed, Jason Schmidt | Google Assignments allows teachers to integrate the powerful collaboration and feedback features of Workspace seamlessly into their LMS. |
| March 26 1:00 PM CT | Managing Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome in ONE!, Stephen Mirante (FileWave) | FileWave is built to empower IT throughout the device lifecycle of imaging/provisioning, deployment, management, maintenance, and security. |
| March 26 1:00 PM CT | MAP Reading Fluency & MAP Accelerator: NEW From NWEA, Dan Henderson (NWEA) | MAP Reading Fluency & MAP Accelerator will be demonstrated in this presentation. See how they can assist students and teachers! |
| March 26 1:00 PM CT | Unlock the Full Potential of Digital Learning, Jeremy Jackson (ClassLink) | As schools continue to increase the number of digital resource, learn how single sign-on and analytics are essential for digital learning. |
| March 26 2:00 PM CT | KEYNOTE Staying Personal & Authentic in the Midst of Adversity, Tom Murray | Together we can work to create meaningful opportunities when we hyper-focus on the things that matter most. |
| March 27 9:00 AM CT | Coffee & Conversation – Top Notch Tech Tools for Merriment and Adventure, Abby Fitzgerald & Jen Schneider | |
| March 27 10:00 AM CT | ClassKick (Portfolio Version) Middle/High School, Sarah DeWispelare | Showcasing how to use ClassKick portfolio in a math and ELA setting for Jr/Sr High school classrooms. |
| March 27 10:00 AM CT | Common Sense Media #DigCit Lessons With Google Tools, Darci Lindgren | Full demonstration of finding a Digital Citizenship lesson, copying files to Google drive, and tying into Google classroom. |
| March 27 10:00 AM CT | Sketch Up, Stephanie Dannehl | Discover how 5th-grade students create 3D objects using SketchUp and integrate the 3D objects with emerging technologies. |
| March 27 11:00 AM CT | Change is Good in the Library, Lynn Behounek | Covid has changed the day-to-day operations of the media center. What am I going to keep doing because it worked! |
| March 27 11:00 AM CT | Keep up with Technology, Rebecca Topp | Come learn about Google Keep and how it’s more than a list maker. |
| March 27 11:00 AM CT | Promote Self-Assessment and Reflection with Google Tools, Beth Terry | Formative assessment should be more work for the student than the teacher. Let’s use Google Tools to explore how students can take the lead. |
*Schedule is subject to change