Thursday - 12:45 - 1:45
Curing Your Student Email Headaches
Palace E
Darci Lindgren & Mark Elder, Holy Family Name & Gaggle.Net
Gaggle.Net makes it easy for you to provide both a safe and educational experience with email. Learn how content filtered email for your students can be absolutely FREE! Explore facets of utilizing student email and learn about implementing, managing, and integrating this powerful communication tool. Hear about liability issues schools face and leave with new insights to safety and compliancy issues.
Web-based Keyboarding (Gr. 1-6, middle, College) & Ten-Key Data Entry
Heartland A
Barbara Ellsworth, Ellsworth Publishing Company
Online keyboarding means no EPC course software to install or maintain. Self-paced; students work from school or home. NO PAPERS TO GRADE, HANDLE, OR TURN IN TO TEACHER. Progress & Grade reports, Total Practice time (student effort) are viewed by teachers from Internet. Special software feature keeps students' eyes on textbook, not hands or screen. Can disable Backspace key. Formatting textbooks FREE to EPC users. More.
Wiki, Wiki!!
Palace B
Derek Anderson & Derek Anderson , Madison High School
Come explore appropriate classroom uses for the infamous wiki. Learn about ways to implement and integrate Marzano's strategies using wikis in your classroom. See some uses of wikis in a cross- curricular setting. Includes lesson ideas and strategies for integration.
Online Testing: A Study of Students' Perspective
Omaha Lobby
Amjad Abuloum, The Hashemite University
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the online testing experience of the Hashemite University from a student perspective. Around 258 undergraduate students representing most academic fields during the second semester of the academic year 2006/2007 were surveyed using the Students' Perceptions of Online Testing Instrument (SPOTI), a 33-item Likert scale questionnaire.
Tell Your Camera What Kind of Picture You Want
Palace A
Rick Williams, ESU 2
Wondering what all those dials and buttons do on your SLR (single lens reflex) camera? Have a point and shoot camera that you want to know how to set it to get the best pictures? If you have an adjustable SLR, you will learn how to balance shutter speed, aperture, flash, exposure compensation and ISO to achieve your best picture. Even in a high school gym shooting action pictures.
Promoting Our Community-- Past and Present
Palace C
Colleen Thatcher & ESU 11/Minden Learning Web Team , Minden Public Schools
Students in grades 4-12 develop good writing, collaboration, and storytelling skills to produce digital videos, podcasts, and DVDs the city can use to promote our community. Students go into the community to research and gain an appreciation for their heritage. Come see examples and learn how you can implement this project in your classroom. Team members: Colleen Thatcher, Karen Space, Joann Paulsen, Jane Blum, Anna Peterson, and Katie McClemens.
Using iMovie To Increase Students' Interest In Reading
Palace D
Emmy Fiala, Barr Middle School/GIPS
Library/Media Specialists will see the use of iMovie as a way to present booktalks to students at the middle level, although K-12. This presentation also incorporates the use of: Comic Life, iPhoto, and Keynote. In addition, the session will include a project demonstration of the use of iMovie by students. In the iMovie, the students present booktalks they have created based upon their own favorite books.
Integrating Tech4Learning Software in the Elementary Classroon
Salon D
Lynn Behounek & Randal Miller , Ralston Public School
Elementary Media Specialist and an Elementary Art Teacher will share useful ways to use Tech4Learning Software in the Classroom. Practical application will be demonstrated during the presentation focusing on MediaBlender and Pixie. Student examples will be shared.
Build Your Own Curriculum Resource Website
Salon C
Christina Eutsler & Christina Eutsler Christy Hewitt, Grand Island Public Schools
Imagine this... a website that has all the resources your students need for the curriculum they are studying. You might be thinking to yourself, IMPOSSIBLE! But it is true and you can develop this resource yourself for your classroom. Two Grand Island Public School teachers will show you how they developed a website for their social studies curriculum and how it has been implemented in their classroom.
HD meets SD in Distance Learning
Heartland B
Frank Forrestt, Cytek Media Systems, Inc.
Distance Learning in education has allowed schools and communities to break down geographical boundaries. This expanded classroom environment allows for greater reach of message and maximum utilization of resources. Enhancing the SD classroom with HD will increase participation, improve clarity and improve content sharing. This session will demonstrate the latest classroom controller and the marrying of HD with the Standard Definition Classroom.
21st Century Network Infrastructure
Omaha Room
Gary Needham, Kearney Public Schools
As many schools are upgrading or replacing their original networks, considerations of VoIP, security systems, HVAC, wireless, video/distance learning, new cabling specifications, scalability, and others creep into the planning process. This panel discussion will visit those issues and more. Please come with questions and your own contributions!
Get your weekends back!
Palace G
Ricardo Varguez, Westside High School
Assessing for the 21st century. This session will address some ways to grade smarter. Learn to lighten your workload and prepare your students better with these strategies for smart assessment. The presenter will have tips for everyone from the beginning computer user to teachers in one-to-one districts.