Thursday 10/15/2009 |
37 - What are Your Students Thinking? Taking Formative Assessment to the Next Level
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR202 |
Presenter: Kathryn Vaughn
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Description: Explore how to create opportunities for formative assessment in any classroom that go beyond multiple choice and delve into higher order questioning, peer assessment, and so much more! We will be using Promethean?s newest learner response system, ActivExpression, which can be used in any interactive classroom environment.
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42 - Leveraging Smart Phones as an Education Tool
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR203 |
Presenter: Linda Uhrenholt
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Description: Leveraging mobile devices and smart phones to improve student interaction and education as well as improving productivity and access from Administration and teachers.
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43 - Enable your Private Cloud for Students, Staff, Parents, and more
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR204 |
Presenter: Anil Rao
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Description: Easily and Securely provide Access to your user?s applications and resources all through a standard browser. Enable Single Sign-On to the resources whether it is Internet, Web, Windows, Files, and more. With this Identity driven capability, the user only sees their resources and gain an improved security posture. Staff and Parents also benefit with SSO access to their materials and ability to have drill down dashboards, classroom content, and more. Imagine being able to access text books and standardized questions online 7x24, Parents ability to see assessment results in detail, Teachers able to continue their activities whenever they need to ? Single Stop, Single Sign On. Come learn about how you can effectively eliminate desktop management and enable the Private Cloud for your district.
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149 - The Promethean ActivClassroom for Special Needs Students
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR205 |
Presenter: Danielle Stengel
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Description: As our numbers of special needs students increase in our classrooms ? students who have sensory, cognitive, or physical disabilities ? educators need to be able to access a larger set of skills as well as the tools to be able to meet their many diverse needs and learning styles. Promethean and CSI offer resources and tools that can meet these needs. This session will cover the use of the software and some engaging aspects, as well as the use of ActiVotes, ActivExpression, ActivWand, ActivSound, and more. Ms. Stengel will also discuss the use of certain sites, such as Tumble Books and Fun Brain, used by teachers that she has worked with in the last year that can assist these types of students.
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32 - Is Wireless Compromising Your Network Security?
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR206 |
Presenter: Dwayne MacKenzie
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Description: In this session we?ll examine the surprising ways wireless exposes your wired network and why air safety? measures aren?t enough to protect you. Then show you how to apply an appropriate mix of security measures that will let you offer the convenience of wireless without jeopardizing the security of your LAN.
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171 - Snow Leopard Client and Server
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR207 |
Presenter: Greg Hall
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Description: Mac OS X Server v.10.6 Snow Leopard? has everything you need to deliver standards-based workgroup and Internet services, providing an ideal solution for education. The amazing features in Snow Leopard Server make it easy to share contacts and calendars, collaborate on projects, access information remotely, create and distribute podcasts, and more.
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41 - Growing beyond SIF - Save time and get the most from your PowerSchool data.
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 1:45-2:45 AM |
| Room: MR208 |
Presenter: Brian Daughhetee
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Description: Meet Robert Olsen, Michigan?s Superintendent of the year in 2008. His District, Sturgis Public Schools, automates the flow of student data between critical applications such as SIS, food service, transportation, instructional, on-line and collaborative learning tools. Hear how Sturgis uses PowerSchool and Level Data to reduce data overhead? and get maximum efficiency out of district personnel. After a brief presentation, there will be a product demonstration.
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38 - Been Inspired Lately? Promethean's ActivInspire ? Software for ALL Interactive Classroom Environments
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR202 |
Presenter: Kathryn Vaughn
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Description: Promethean?s award-winning educational software ? ActivInspire ? sets the standard for 21st century interactive learning. Designed by teachers for teachers, ActivInspire makes interactive lesson planning and delivery easy for all teachers, while tailoring to today's multimedia-savvy student. Come see how to transform your classroom today!
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136 - AT&T Cloud Based Internet Security Services
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR203 |
Presenter: Dean Hyatt
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Description: AT&T now offers a suite of Cloud Based? Internet Security and Wi-Fi Services on the State of South Carolina term Internet contract. The Services include: Internet Protect? Service, AT&T Web Security Suite, AT&T Token Authentication Service, and Secure Email Gateway Service.
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44 - Dell/eInstruction Trick or Treat Challenge
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR204 |
Presenter: Mike Logan
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Description: Endure a 5 minute commercial to learn about all the new and exciting interactive classroom solutions that Dell and eInstruction are offering. Then, join us for some fun and participate in our hands on Trick or Treat Challenge. First 30 participants get an extra advantage to win! Good luck! (Over $3000 in prizes will be given!!!!!)
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170 - Window to Your World and Beyond!
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR205 |
Presenter: Leo Gallant
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Description: Do you have a Hankerin? for Adventure? Got the Travel Bug? Your students sure do, and now you can take them on these adventures while you?re teaching in the classroom. Welcome to Anywhere Teaching with the CSI Connected Classroom! Imagine teaching a unit on spiders and insects in Science while interacting with a puppeteer from Atlanta, or leveraging that great AP teacher to be able to teach in 2 schools at one time. Take your students from a static map and fly to that destination of historical significance without boarding a plane! Teaching in today?s classroom comes with almost unlimited possibilities no matter what your location is. In this session, you will learn how to communicate and teach in engaging ways with great tools you may already have but have never considered using. It?s an adventure your students will never forget!
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172 - Telepresence and HD Video Communications: The things you should know when evaluating a solution for your organization
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR206 |
Presenter: David Kuklinski
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Description: Telepresence and high definition video communications are the latest buzz words to take the business world by storm as corporations are striving to do more with less. Interestingly enough the mass adoption of video conferencing is also impacting the education sector in that connecting students to teachers in a face to face experience from remote locations is also a wonderful reality with video technology. Imagine a virtual field trip for your students to see a museum tour in New York City then dial into NASA for a tour of the space center all in one day, connect research students and subject experts immediately in real time for collaboration or witness a teaching surgical procedure in real time without ever leaving the lecture hall ? high definition video conferencing technology makes it possible. If you are evaluating video technology or are curious in the possibilities video has in education, please join us for this informative session, where you?ll learn: The key drivers for video technology in education; The elements that should be considered when evaluating solutions for you and your organization; How to deliver the maximum return on your investment in high definition video; How LifeSize can best guide you on your evaluation of a solution and implementation
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171 - Snow Leopard Client and Server
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR207 |
Presenter: Greg Hall
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Description: Mac OS X Server v.10.6 Snow Leopard? has everything you need to deliver standards-based workgroup and Internet services, providing an ideal solution for education. The amazing features in Snow Leopard Server make it easy to share contacts and calendars, collaborate on projects, access information remotely, create and distribute podcasts, and more.
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35 - Analytics: It is all in the Data
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Day: Thursday 10/15/2009
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| Time: 3:00-4:00 AM |
| Room: MR208 |
Presenter: Meaghan Kay
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Description: Data isn?t fun or exciting but it is crucial to the success of any online school. What questions does the school need to ask itself about data? What tools can be used to easily derive, analyze and present data? How can programs make data available just-in-time? to inform instruction and improve outcomes? Presenters will quickly overview two of the many tools available and show the depth and breadth of data and reports that may be produced. Uses for the data to drive continuous improvement shall be shared and solicited from the participants.
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