274 - The iPhone Revolution: The Promise and Challenges
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Day: Thursday
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| Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
| Room: MR202 |
Presenter: Earle Holbrooks
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Description: This session focuses on the Telecommunications Revolution for the "Unplugged" Millennial Generation. We will explore the trends, mobilization of content and how new technologies impact and enable educators, parents, and "screen-agers" transcending the Physical Campus.
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18 - K12 Disaster Planning and Safety Best Practices
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Day: Thursday
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| Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
| Room: MR204 |
Presenter: Kevin Carman
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Description: This seminar will review best practices in school district emergency
response and school safety planning.
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6 - Novell to Microsoft... Is it time?
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Day: Thursday
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| Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
| Room: MR205 |
Presenter: Brian Daughhetee
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Description: Is your District considering the move from Novell to Microsoft? This session will cover the pros and cons of staying with Novell, converting to Microsoft or running a mixed environment. The purpose of this session is to help you gather all the facts you need to make an informed decision that is right for your District.
* NetWare to OES Linux Migration
* NetWare to Windows Server Migration
* GroupWise vs. Exchange
* Management systems: ZenWorks, SMS, LAN Desk and others
* What you need to make any migration successful
* Best Practices and Procedures
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23 - Interactive e-learning to Engage Students and Increase Class Participation
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Day: Thursday
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| Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
| Room: MR206 |
Presenter: Ann Brown
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Description: Three steps for using current technology to insure student engagement. Discover how to use interactive e-learning to increase class participation. The presentation examines the use of e-learning to teach interview skills and accountability. You will learn to incorporate technology to teach critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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27 - Engage Students in Exciting New Ways with Activexpression
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Day: Thursday
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| Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
| Room: MR207 |
Presenter: Leo Gallant
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Description: Are you ready to take assessment to the next level? Come and see what educators around the world are raving about with Promethean's newest student assessment tool -- Activexpression. Activexpression allows teachers to go beyond the traditional Yes/No, True/False, or multiple choice questioning and also now include things such as Likert Scales, Sort in Order, and confidence polling. In this session, be prepared to experience Activexpression in a hands-on environment and answer both prepared and ad-hoc questions.
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26 - Benefits of Account Provisioning and Single Sign-on
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Room: MR202 |
Presenter: Kelley Turpin
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Description: CSI will discuss the benefits and processes involved in Microsoft Active Directory and application account provisioning as well as Single Sign-on. Discover how the combination of a provisioning and Single Sign-on solution will positively affect all members of your organization, resulting in improved, time-saving responses and lower costs.
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23 - Interactive e-learning to Engage Students and Increase Class Participation
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Room: MR203 |
Presenter: Ann Brown
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Description: Three steps for using current technology to insure student engagement. Discover how to use interactive e-learning to increase class participation. The presentation examines the use of e-learning to teach interview skills and accountability. You will learn to incorporate technology to teach critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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18 - K12 Disaster Planning and Safety Best Practices
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Room: MR204 |
Presenter: Kevin Carman
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Description: This seminar will review best practices in school district emergency
response and school safety planning.
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7 - Moving into Response to Intervention (RtI) with EXCENT Enrich.
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Room: MR205 |
Presenter: David Larson
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Description: Introducing EXCENT Enrich, GET’s new student progress monitoring module. It tracks assessments, manages intervention activities, and targets data analysis to improve student outcomes. EXCENT Enrich provides teacher with efficient management of performance data for each student with data reports and charts.
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273 - Classroom Technology for Improved Student Performance
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Room: MR208 |
Presenter: Don Carte
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Description: The breakthrough for making use of technology in the classroom for measurable student gains has finally arrived! New tools for differentiated instruction and quantitative student performance are available now. See a new formulative assessment tool that is aligned directly to South Carolina state standards.
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13 - Build a Love of Reading with Paired Fiction and Nonfiction - ONLINE
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Room: MR207 |
Presenter: kappe manuel
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Description: NEW for Grades PK-3. BookFlix pairs fact and fiction so all children can build a love of reading and learning. Bookflix is a remarkable new online literacy resource that pairs classic fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic. Bookflix is perfect for use in the classroom, school library, or public library. GREAT FOR USE WITH INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARDS!!!
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14 - High Performance Computer Clustering (HPC) and Complete Network Management with sFlow
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
| Room: MR202 |
Presenter: Patrick Abrams
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Description: HPC products have not had an efficient way to provide detail in an Ethernet network without purchasing expensive external probes, or impacting performance. sFlow (RFC3176) enables the gathering of information from a network without any impact to performance. sFlow offers a methodology for embedding always-on packet sampling.
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274 - The iPhone Revolution: The Promise and Challenges
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
| Room: MR203 |
Presenter: Earle Holbrooks
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Description: This session focuses on the Telecommunications Revolution for the "Unplugged" Millennial Generation. We will explore the trends, mobilization of content and how new technologies impact and enable educators, parents, and "screen-agers" transcending the Physical Campus.
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28 - Data Replication and Recovery for Heterogeneous and Server Infrastructures
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
| Room: MR204 |
Presenter: Fred Reavis
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Description: A presentation on state-of-the-art enterprise-class data storage, replicaiton and recovery across heterogeneous infrastructures that is easy to manage and cost effective. You can replicate any block data across any storage architecture (FC SAN, IP SAN, DAS, or internal diesk) from any vendor, attached to any server (Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, or virtual machines), over any distance, using IP network. Discussion will include: Rapid Recovery of an Up-to-the-Second Replica of Producation Data Non-Disruptive, Heterogeneous Block Data Migration Cost-Effective, Tiered Disaster Recovery
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24 - “Why has Lightspeed's Total Traffic Control Become so Popular in South Carolina K-12 School Districts?”
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
| Room: MR205 |
Presenter: Al Rossi
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Description: Learn why Lightspeed Systems Total Traffic Control has become the software of choice by over half of all South Carolina K-12 school districts for content filtering, anti-virus, SPAM management, reporting, gateway and desktop security, bandwidth management, mobile filtering and email archiving. You don't want to miss this one!”
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16 - Dynamic Data Warehousing and the State Data Manager
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
| Room: MR206 |
Presenter: Aziz Elia
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Description: This presentation will detail the State Data Manager, a SIF-based system that allows real time or nearly real time collection of data or “All the Data – All the Time”. We will discuss the data collection rules; data validation and cleansing for improved district level reporting. We will review how core data will be collected from the SASI student systems at the districts sent to the state.
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22 - Ebooks: An Effective Tool for Learning
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Day: Friday
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| Time: 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
| Room: MR208 |
Presenter: David Wendt
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Description: Participants will learn how eBooks can be an effective teaching/learning tool for librarians, teachers, and students. Whether your goal is to help your students become independent readers, engage a classroom in whole-group instruction, or grab the attention of young learners, eBooks from Follett Library Resources are a cost-effective technology solution. There are no minimum order quantities; no contracts; no special handling, usage, or annual subscription fees; and no detailed technical requirements.
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