2007 Presenters (2008 soon to come...)

Interactive Podcasting: Learn How to Apply Podcasting Into Your Classroom Setting

Presenter: Christopher Cooley, 7th Grade Math Teacher, Franklin Regional School District

Interactive Podcasting: Learn how to apply podcasting into your classroom setting
Summary: Attendees will learn how to podcast in a hands on manner. They will create their own accounts with a podcasting host, and with simple, easy to follow directions will be posting podcasts within a week!

For more information on Chris' presentation please follow this link, http://www.screencast.com/users/Cool-emath  

Presenters: Thomas DeMarco, Director of Student Acheivment, On Hand Schools / Norton Gusky, Director of Technology, Fox Chapel School District

Learn about a collaboration project (CEI) that started at the grassroots level and now has over 40 schools working together to continuously improve student achievement.  Focusing on student data see how these districts were able to obtain grant funding and are now sharing best practices.   Find out how your district can participate.

Good science activities require deep student engagement, but many interesting topics like ecology, genetics and climate change are difficult to explore in the classroom. Simulations permit students to investigate long-term phenomena like evolution and complex phenomena like global warming. We'll work with free simulation software that runs on Windows, Macintosh or Linux and comes with simulations appropriate for grades 4-12. Bring your own laptop!

Learn how you can take advantage of low-cost initiatives to empower your students, teachers and school. Provide teacher-led online Japanese, Chinese, Russian or Arabic to your students at any age from K-12, including dual-enrollment credit. Create memorable videoconference experiences (even if you don't have special VC equipment!). Engage teachers and students with compelling Web 2.0 applications. REALLY integrate laptops into your classes. CAPE, a statewide leader in education and technology, offers  all this as well as guidance on issues from cost control to transformative change.

Presenter: Stevie Kline, Technology Integrator / Teacher Trainer, Intermediate Unt 1

Do you still have educators who are reluctant to use technology?  Does your school have low bandwidth? Learn how just one still image can enhance classroom lessons, increase students’ retention and help integrate several content areas. Also explore the internet and locate areas where educators can safely find images.

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Presenter:  Dave Kassling, President, K&R Calendar System, LP

CollegeCal is a program developed by Dave Kassling, who was a graduate of Shady Side Academy in '02.  The product will be in use for the first time this fall, at both Shady Side and The Ellis School.  It is a revolutionary product that for the first time brings everything in a student's life to one page that can be "one-click" added to their personal, weekly calendar.  This includes classes, homework, sports schedules, campus events (speakers, plays).

Operation Safe Surf

Presenter: Dennis Guzy, Senior Supervisory Agent , Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

Internet safety is a challenge facing all schools. This program will demonstrate the dangers students face online and what schools can do to protect their students. It will feature discussions of online predators, social networking sites and cyber bullying. It is an interactive program, and attendees will receive lessons to take back to their schools.

Explore the advantages of using wikis and blogs in your classroom. The presentation will help you set up your own wiki and/or blog for use in your classroom.

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Session details an initiative to implement a universal accessibility program. Program planning, areas to examine, hardware and software demonstrations and more are part of the presentation.

Motivate your students to read and write more with weblogs! See how blogs allow teachers and students to expand classroom walls in new and exciting ways and communicate to an authentic audience of students, teachers, and experts across the curriculum and around the world. See how a couple of high school English teachers are using classroom blogs in meaningful and effective ways to encourage dialogue, literary analysis, peer-reviewed writing, and media literacy. Whether educational blogging is completely new to you, or you seek ways to incorporate the latest technology, this session will provide practical \"how-tos,\" the latest field research on blogs and efficacy to teach writing skills, and a glimpse of \"what’s next\" in weblog literacy.

In this presentation we will demonstrate some educational technologies that are researched and developed at CMU. In particular, participants will be able to experience a Tablet PC based smart Math Program and an electronic book reader with interactive features that can be used to measure reading comprehension.

For more information on Ananda's presentation please follow this link, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ab/TRETC07/

The presenters (Andrea Gearhart, Susan Hlebinsky, Debbie Kendrick, Erin Evan, and Dana Koebeda) will share with the audience the technological developments they have made to enhance the science experience for their students.  The team members will share projects and lessons that utilize annotated Power Point Presetations, the SMART Board, and Clickers.  We desire to share our successes with others!

Presentation Resources

Presentation Overview 

How I Use My Tablet PC Presentation 

Technology Integration Presentation

Erin's Presentation 

Using Inspiration to Inspire Visual Learning
Presenter: Rebecca Riberich - Peters Township School District

This presentation will show how to implement technology to assess visual learners.  With the help of Inspiration software, educators will learn new ways to tap into the world of visual learning through Inspiration...

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Presenter: Stan Strzempek - Fox Chapel School District and Jeff Bonifate - Fox Chapel School District

Podcasting is one of the hottest trends in multimedia.  Join us as we take you on a hands-on, fun-filled session in which you participate in the creation of a Podcast from start to finish. We will also demonstrate practical approaches you can use to create and integrate Podcasts into your classroom right away. Our goal is to allow you to leave the session and say, “I think I can Podcast”.
 

 Expanding Individual Choices through Technology

Presenter: Linda Conlon, Secondary Academic Specialist - Quaker Valley School District

While instructional technology can make the transmission of knowledge and activities in the classroom lively and engaging, it can also transform the way we “do school”.  This presentation focuses on ways the high school experience can change when the use of technology challenges time, space, and procedures leading to increased individualization of instruction.

21st century skills are essential for today’s learners.  Come learn how interactive videoconferencing addresses literacy in the digital age.

Presenter: Peter Scott - National Consultant - HarCourt Connected Learning 

 Digital storytelling is an exiting and motivating technology resource that assists teachers develop unique learning experiences for their students. Participants will be amazed at the power of this cross curricular tool, its ease of use, and the free development tools and resources that are available.

 Integrated Uses of Moviemaker

Presenter: Jim Brucker, 6th Grade Teacher - Fort Cherry School District

Moviemaker is a free program on windows and there are many uses for it in the classroom. It is an excellent medium to introduce new units with images and music.  It can be used as a digital storyteller with student narration.  Informative slides and video can also be imbedded into a production for direct instruction. 
 

Both computational thinking and computational tools such as modeling, simulation and visualiztion can enhance the way that secondary science in all disciplines is taught.  This session will review several programs being offered by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) for professional development that introduce computational approaches into the high school science curriculum.  These programs utilize the cutting edge technology that is used by research scientists today. 

Presenters: Dawn Crawfor - NetTrekker and Kevin Conner - Intermediate Unit 3

TREKS is an online webquest-like activity that you can use with your students.  netTrekker is a well-respected academic search engine, and when combined with applications like Google Earth, it can enhance and enrich those map locations.  Join us as we share ways to combine your saved search results and other web-based applications to make better use of the resources delivered through netTrekker.  Remember, netTrekker is FREE to ALL students, teachers, and parents of students in Pennsylvania!

Presenters: Bryan O'Black - Director of Technology - South Fayette School District

The Web 2.0 tools of RSS technology, newsfeeds and social bookmarking are transforming the way information is gathered and shared. As a component of the blogosphere and wiki environment, they are powerful technologies and an essential component of the educator’s toolbox in order to differentiate instruction. This presentation will explore the potential of using sites such as Bloglines and various podcasts to illustrate the value of instructing teachers and students to do utalize these tools.

Presenter: Mark Sylvia, K-12 Account Manager - Logical Choice Technologies

Attendees will see how an experienced teacher uses the Activboard, Activotes, and Activstudio software to create and deliver exciting interactive lessons and data driven instruction.