As schools have quickly become the forefront for the "all wireless access layer" with the influx of wireless devices on a per student basis, an emphasis on performance, reliability, security, and cost is paramount. In this session, you’ll learn how a controller-less solution addresses those needs in order to cost-effectively enable the 21st Century WLAN classroom. Plus, you’ll hear all about Aerohive’s new StudentManager and TeacherView applications and how they can make computing in your classrooms and schools more efficient and manageable.
The National Educational Plan contains a list of goals and recommendations in five areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity, they are revolutionary! It will be interesting to see how or whether it gets implemented. Currently the National Educational Plan is unfunded. What steps can we take now to empower this bold vision?
The iPad is a revolutionary device. As a bridge between the students' real world and the digital content of today's learning, the iMulti-Touch screen lets students physically interact with applications and content, allowing all learners to access content in ways that work for them. It also provides those same learners opportunities to create multimedia projects that demonstrate their understanding of their learning.
New regulations for educator evaluation hold great promise and pose substantial challenges for school districts across the Commonwealth. This session will focus on components of the new system that will be implemented first, including educator self-assessment and collection of evidence, team and individual goal setting, effective use of rubrics that describe leadership and teaching practice at four levels of proficiency, and observation of practice. Participants will be introduced to components of the model evaluation system being developed by the Department in collaboration with key stakeholders.
We are all being asked to be more "innovative”. We have challenge grants willing to fund our efforts. We have new job titles focused on the topic. Everywhere we turn, the topic of Innovation seems to be front and center. And yet, with limited resources, pressures of accountability, and fear of failure prevalent in our cultures, meeting this call for innovation is not easy. This session will discuss innovation as a process, provide insights into creating a culture where innovation can thrive, offer examples of best practice and learning's from failure.
Videos, articles, images, oh my! In this session, you will explore a myriad of creative integration strategies for using Discovery Education media to motivate students, engage higher order thinking, support retention and transfer, and achieve curriculum learning goals. We'll also demonstrate new ways to utilize Discovery Education resources to create interactive lesson plans that support all curricular areas. This session is applicable to all curriculum areas.
What does assessment look like in a Digital Age classroom of Web 2.0 integration and multimodal projects? How do we distinguish between higher-order thinking and "bells-and-whistles?" We will explore the role of a "logic model" and backward-design principles and identify characteristics of effective assessments that measure worthwhile learning goals
Glogster EDU provides a platform for individuals to express their knowledge and skills with online multimedia posters containing text, videos, images, sounds, drawings, and any other data relevant to the topic of the poster.. This session concludes with demonstrating several students products of the “Biome Glogster Project” For more information, visit: http://75.149.141.51/school/east/East/Biomes_Project.html
This workshop will describe attempts to put together media literacy lessons for young students at a public elementary school. I will present the lessons and student reactions. I will then introduce many other possible media resources that elementary or middle school teachers can use to encourage critical thinking about media messages. These tools can also be integrated into other curricular areas such as language arts and social studies.
Integrating cutting edge meeting management methods with interactive technology, this workshop focuses on creating leadership teams that are responsive to the diverse needs of school districts. Participants will leave with effective tools and techniques that actively engage staff and develop democratic outcomes to build a 21st century school community.
As school committee members, educational leaders, teachers, and parents, we try to determine what's right and to act accordingly, and to lead by example for employees, students, and children confronted with their own ethical dilemmas. But how do we know what's right? The really mind-bending, spirit-testing decisions are those with more than one right answer, and those in which competing values are represented. This is especially more and more evident with the dilemmas that arise with the use and, at times, abuse of technology in our schools. This session will provide a model for thinking about difficult ethical dilemmas based on the work of the Institute for Global Ethics. The presenters will discuss how training in Ethical Literacy can provide tools for school leaders to think about values and ethical decision-making, as well as provide a framework for engaging staff and students in analyzing and resolving ethical dilemmas. This initiative can provide a long-term means for developing safe and caring school cultures, including addressing the problems that arise with the use of technology and with the anti-bullying concerns today.
Get beyond the buzz words surrounding self-directed learning and get your hands on some solid skills, tools and techniques you can use immediately in your classroom or online course.
In this workshop you will learn strategies to teach independent thinking skills and learn how to motivate, coach and empower students through the self-directed learning process. Come and gain insights and techniques to model with and teach to your students.
Post conference, 2 free webinar conference sessions will be provided to continue the conversation and assist you in further developing your self-directing learning strategies.
Join us and see how we are placing some of the responsibility of learning back into the hands of students. We'll show you examples of how students are embracing a multitude of web 2.0 applications to do research, demonstrate what they know, AND teach each other, including us!
Experience the integration of a wide variety of digital tools like avatars, forms, podcasts, videos, and slideshows to design a writing program. Learn about using technology to motivate students and differentiate the curriculum to address diverse learning styles.
This workshop will demonstrate how teachers have used GarageBand to create audio and enhanced video presentations for use by students outside the classroom. Through podcasting of the presentations students will be able to reinforce skills and content learned in the classroom, outside of the classroom environment.
Tomorrow's leaders will be able to mix and use media that is appropriate for the message they wish to communicate. Video production is part of this new communication skill set. Learn how to incorporate video on a shoestring, even using cinematic techniques to enhance basic literacy of reading and writing. Today's learners and leaders need to be versed in composing work across media platforms. This workshop focuses on the pedagogy of filmmaking as a process for developing deeper literacy skills, as well as multimedia projects that use a variety of easily available tools. Focusing on the process and production strategies provides the platform for composition in the new media landscape.
Do you want your students to collaborate with each other on reading and writing assignments or other projects? Would you like to be able to give your students instant feedback on writing, tests, and quizzes? Would you like your students to be able to continue their learning and have access to their work both in and out of school? Google Apps and Docs (Education Edition) provides both students and teachers with endless opportunities to accomplish all of these objectives.
In this workshop, you will learn about how many of the tools in Google Apps and Docs have been used to enhance student learning at the middle school level. These uses can be easily adapted for students of all ages. Google Apps provides teachers and students with a free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, website and data storage creator managed online. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. All resources are online and can be accessed at home or in school with no hardware or software to install or maintain. Come see how you can streamline and organize your lessons using this free web technology.
Implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, ELL students are provided the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge using creative and technologically driven tools. This innovative programming prepares ELL students for 21st Century learning and leading.Bring your own laptop.
Hands-On $25
Have you seen Thinkfinity lately? Come and see the new Thinkfinity Community with its social networking components and special are for MA trainers and teachers. Find out about the latest Verizon Thinkfinity resources and review one or more of the newly relaunched Content Partner Websites. The latest features of the homepag3e will be highlighted and a variety of Thinkfinity WOW resources will be shared.
Hands-On $25
The Cloud Cart is a project of the McCall Middle School Engineers Club and their adult mentors. Cloud Carts are state-of-the-art portable computer carts with no wires that fully integrate multimedia and embrace cloud computing. Students and teachers behind this innovative project will present the prototypes, describe the design process, their current use,and plans for the future.
The US Educational System is at a pivotal point as we work to create educational practices that support 21st Century Learning in a Global World. As technologists and film makers we would like to showcase the most forwarding thinking ideas. Our media campaign will heighten awareness of forward thinking educational initiatives that promote innovation; help students make direction connections between academic capability and life long career choices and emphasize the importance of mentoring.
The presenters will discuss specific aspects of their project and identify the ways in which educational initiatives may be featured as this multi-tiered media project moves forward.
Our state is fortunate to be leading and participating in an extraordinary array of projects that promise to better support and improve teaching and learning through the use of new technologies. A host of successful public sector proposals that include tens of millions of data and I.T. dollars and complementary private initiatives (e.g., from Gates, Carnegie, Hewlett, …) will deliver high quality multimedia resources for instruction, formative and summative assessments and a wealth of real time data to the doors of 80,000 educators across our state over the coming three years. What can we expect from these initiatives? How do we ensure that they are really useful to teachers and educational leaders? What do we need to do to get ready? This brief presentation will provide an overview of the technology opportunities and challenges ahead and set the stage for the more in-depth conversations we will convene over the coming months.
The expanding electronic connectivity of the world's populations, the increasing portability of work, and the entrance of new, low-wage workforces into the global economy have given rise to several studies and reports about the need for public education to change and increase student achievement in order to meet international standards. These reports suggest that America may lose its competitive edge as well as its leadership role in the world (e.g., Tough Choices or Tough Times, Education for Global Leadership). Superintendents and school districts have ample opportunities to infuse global education into their curriculum and programs. This workshop wil identify such strategies of implementation,
This presentation will focus on the use of technology to support 21st Century learning. The presenters will show examples of how districts maximize their investments in technology through a process of local data collection and analysis. The evaluation findings and results from this work will help inform the creation of new strategies for improving learner outcomes. The presenters will share ways to develop outcomes and indicators for effective technology integration at the classroom level by: • Measuring the impact of current technology integration initiatives • Fine tuning professional development programs • Creating and revising strategic technology goals • Building consensus among stakeholders for a vision for technology- supported 21st Century learning This spotlight session is an introduction to the upcoming MassCUE Evaluators Program designed for district teams and comprised of four intensive days of face-to-face professional development, with individual support beyond the four days. Each team will develop an evaluation plan with performance indicators and data collection instruments for a particular 21st Century learning or technology project of their choice.
By integrating technology into the classroom, teachers are able to increase student engagement and thus learning outcomes. In this session, we will explore specific strategies, tools and activities for achieving these goals. In particular, we will focus on those ideal for differentiated learning, formative feedback, collaboration, and creativity. The specific examples will span multiple grade levels and content areas. Teachers should be able to apply and adapt them for their own use. When possible, the session will be interactive, so participants may want to bring their own internet device to participate more fully.
Mac OS X Lion — the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system — offering more than 250 new features. Join us as we explore many of the new features with a focus on use in the classroom.
See replicable examples of thought provoking questions and intriguing scenarios leading to great lessons enhanced with technology. Powerful tools and resources will be highlighted including GoogleLitTrips, The Library of Congress, Gapminder, and the "WaybackMachine”, as well as exciting new resources not yet in existence at the time of this proposal.
This workshop will focus on how effective leadership can create an atmosphere to support the integration of 21st Century Skills. Emphasis will be placed on the journey that the Reading Public Schools has taken to build capacity as they effectively prepare our students for a 21st Century Global Society.
A Foundation for the Future: Massachusetts' Plan for Excellence in STEM Education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is the work of the Governor's STEM Advisory Council, announced October 2010. This session will bring attendees up to date about implementation and inform them of the role they can play to advance the STEM state agenda.
Primary sources are increasingly available on the Web and will become predominantly digitally based in the 21st century. As conventional, print-based text gives way to screen-based "multimodal" communication, educators must improve their skills of accessing, evaluating, and collaborating with digital primary sources. Come explore exciting resources and useful strategies.
Many of us are aware of helpful education-related blogs, but do not fully take advantage of the possibilities of making blogs part of our Personal Learning Network (PLN). This session will discuss the advantages of experiencing educational blogs, strategies for locating blogs of interest, and how to view, organize and share posts through Google Reader such as sharing posts with "followers” in your PLN, adding other content such as podcasts, photos and news feeds, and exploring and creating blog "bundles” to share with others. Attendees will also be presented with an overview of iGoogle as a means to create a one-stop PLN.
We will take a look at some short films by Peter H. Reynolds and FableVision with great messages and discuss what makes meaningful media. We will also talk about the importance of using a variety of ways to communicate effectively, including using story.
Learn how to design and deliver a blended learning Professional Development Program for staff using the the its learning Learning Management System. The benefits and challenges of a blended professional development program will be described and guidelines for the design and development of your own program for staff will be provided.
Have you ever heard from a student, "I understood it in the classroom, but when I went home, I was totally confused!" or maybe a parent who remarked, "I can no longer help with homework"? "Flipping" your classroom allows for more time to develop concepts and provide assistance where it is truly necessary. Instead of assigning homework, assign the lesson! Then the practice and application happens with the teacher.
Wixie is a valuable tool for integrating technology and several curricular areas and grade levels. Several projects will be demonstrated including a 2nd grade timeline slide show, a 1st grade diary, and 5th grade illustrations inserted into PowerPoint slides for PhotoStory.
This workshop presents a writing project undertaken by the entire sophomore class at Pingree School and involved judges from around the country. Learn how 2 teachers used multiple tech tools to facilitate this undertaking.
Who is the wizard behind the curtain and what skillset does he or she need to be effective? Technology is sometimes seen as a mysterious black box and technology administrators as alchemists or wizards. Well, come to this session to be demystified. During this session attendees will be introduced to the Framework of Essential Skills of the Chief Technology Officer K-12 published by CoSN.
Students today have instant access to information through technology and the web, manage their own acquisition of knowledge through informal learning, and have progressed beyond consumers of content to become producers and publishers. As a result, traditional teaching and learning methods are becoming less effective at engaging students and motivating them to achieve as learners in our classrooms.
In this session we will investigate and discuss Apple's Challenge Based Learning model where students actively engage in the process of creating real-world, rigorous, and relevant projects that are engaging and create opportunities for personalized learning. Participants will also be provided examples of how the iLife & iWork suites can support and enrich the experience in the classroom environment to produce exemplary & purposeful artifacts of learning.
The emergence of Web 2.0 presents a challenging balancing act for many K-12 IT administrators. Is your current firewall capable of handling the growing list of educational and administrative demands on your network, yet at the same time enabling you to effectively manage bandwidth and security while meeting regulatory requirements?
Attend this session to learn how SonicWALL Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization makes the job easy, with granular control and real-time visualization of applications to guarantee bandwidth prioritization and ensure maximum network security.
Utilizing the Big6™ information literacy skills model, LMC staff and students work together to create presentations with Pixie, our drawing software, which combines student drawings, text, and voice recording. Participants will become familiar with the Big6™ research model, learn the multiple steps in the process, and view student samples.
Come to this workshop to learn about a wide-range of iPad apps educators are using across the nation. Participants will discover numerous apps used for productivity, note-taking, mathematics, dictation, reading, health, music, news, reference, remotes, games, storage, and much more. And even those fun apps like Talking Tom can be used as a teaching tool. Participants will leave this session with a handful of no-cost to low-cost apps they won't want to wait to try out!
The famed VGA plug dies in 2013 because of DRM encryption, HDMI and Displayport. Learn to incorporate tools such as iPads, Blurays and VOD into your technology plans. Empower yourself with the knowledge of how to avoid expensive mistakes as you work towards building classrooms for today and tomorrow.
With advancements in science, the depth and complexity of topics covered in science classrooms has increased dramatically in the past few decades. Understanding key concepts in science curricula is essential for all students to become scientifically literate and responsible citizens in today’s society. The manner in which teachers deliver the curriculum has an enormous impact on the way in which students view science. Using nontraditional ways to allow students to explore and review content and extending inquiry beyond that which the classroom lab supports is easily done by incorporating open educational resources in the classroom. This blended learning environment brings students beyond memorization to conceptualization, and allows them to identify the significance of these concepts at higher levels. These types of resources also provide opportunities to investigate technology and appreciate its impact on society, as well as to explore STEM related careers. The open ended nature of many of these resources provides flexibility for students to apply scientific concepts in ways that are directly relevant to their own lives. Science open source resources will be shared; ways in which these resources can be directly implemented into the science classroom will be discussed.
A Wareham High School Literature class and a Plymouth South High School History class joined together to study the novel "The Grapes of Wrath” and the Great Depression. This enabled students from neighboring districts to create a single classroom where they could study and teach each other what they learned.
The Global Technology and Engineering Consortium (GTEC) addresses an urgent need: the development of the next generation’s global engineering workforce through team work across national boundaries and understanding diversity. The presentation will focus on how to build a relationship with a business partner and how to develop collaborative educational programs.
Green screen technology gives students an opportunity to place themselves anywhere in the world! These tools for learning give students opportunities to exhibit their writing to others, to use emerging technologies, and to communicate their research in a personally meaningful way (using Web 2.0 tools).
If you are you tired of hearing “Do we have to learn this?” or “Will this be on the test?” then it’s time to stop the madness. The age of getting your students to learn, that is internalize information, without them knowing it is here. Using mostly free online applications, student learning and reinforcing information is not as difficult as it once was. During this presentation participants will learn of and how to utilize resources that allow their students to learn, and provide a means to assess their progress. Sharing information is an imperatively necessary leadership skill, through learning how to teach others, students effectively learn how to better communicate and in this case through an electronic medium.
Somerville's Middle Grades Technology Project: 21st Century Skills and the creation of a digital portfolio
Microsoft understands your need to provide students with great communication and collaboration experiences while saving time and money. Live@edu delivers all of this and more while training students on the same software on which employers depend.
This session will showcase Hopkinton High School's newly created required course for all incoming freshman called Freshman Technology Seminar. The course was conceived as a way to provide all new students with the same knowledge and expertise in the tools and technology that HHS teacher would be using in their classrooms. The mission of this course is not only to prepare students for success in an online and blended learning environment, but also to help them understand the responsibility that comes with living and learning in today's technologically depended world.
New Century changes have impacted every facet of society: business, finance, medicine, communication, as well as education. Its monochrome arena is beginning to embrace colorful yet powerful Web 2.0 learning tools. Armed with these tools, teachers have an opportunity to provide authentic learning experiences creating engaging, relevant and personalized knowledge that meets the needs of all, as they develop skills necessary for a ‘flat' world. These new tools have also created a world where distance is ‘dead'. Students can collaborate with students across the globe as easily as they can engage in learning with their peers in the classroom just down the hall. This is a time of revolutionary change in education. Are you ready to be part of this change? During this session, we will share strategies to retrain faculty members in the incorporation of new pedagogy and globalized learning. We will address how, while students engage in collaborative global projects, they continue to meet content standards. Come join us as we share what can be attained in a globally connected education environment!
Organization, time management, research skills, study skills, memory aids. Too many students struggle with these executive functions. What tools are we offering students to help them overcome these challenges? Fortunately, portable devices are changing the landscape of options available to students. This workshop, geared toward the middle and high school student, will explore the numerous technology options which promote student success. Requirements: This session is for grade 6 - 12 general educators, special educators, technology support staff and adminstrators who are comfortable with using mobile devices and who have the capability to download apps to their devices. It is a hands-on session so participants will need to bring a mobile device (ie, iPad, iTouch, Droid or Smartphone).
Hands-On $25
Have you begun using Moodle with your students yet? If not, take this opportunity to set up your Moodle space today. This hands-on workshop will provide you with: access to your new Moodle space; a template to use for learning activities and; show you examples of how to immediately use this application with students.
Hands-On $25
In the session participants will create their own curriculum website using WIX. WIX is an online editor with a drag and drop interface that lets you build an interactive visual web site to access anytime anywhere. WIX allows you to not only add your own content but you can add pictures, interactive, text, maps, links, music, video files and more; in just a few simple clicks. Participants will be able to design a web site focused on a specific content lesson; and use a variety of web tools to make the site both interactive and collaborative.
Hands-On $25
ePub format texts include today's best sellers as well as Open Education Resource textbooks such as those found at CK12.org and other OER clearinghouses. There certainly is a host of content ready to be grabbed and made use of on the iPad in the classroom. But while the "taking" of ePubs off the web for local use is a great thing, the real power is in their creation. ePubs can include text, still images, audio files, and video - making true multimedia production in an e-book format a reality.In this session participants will not only learn where they can find rich free content for use on their iPad, they'll also learn how easy it is to create ePubs via Pages on a Mac. Sure, "make and take" may sound like days gone by, but this is a whole new level of Make and Take! You'll be amazed at what can be done.
Google is now offering Schools and Educational Institutions Google Apps Email FREE basic email services, hosted by Google, for all students and faculty/staff. Many institutions are seriously considering transitioning to Google Apps for their email, or using Google to augment their current in-house Email/Exchange/Groupwise environment for students. This transition “to the Cloud” has many implications, some good, some with things to think about. Come to this session to learn more about this option for your institution, and also understand the implications for your Budget, Compliance Requirements, and Email Management.
Universal Design for Learning – is a professional development concept that strives to make classroom learning accessible to all students, no matter their individual backgrounds. This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of UDL with a focus on the four key principles: curriculum, instruction, assessment and environment. This workshop will give an overview of the Equity and Excellence project at UMass Boston, and explore the impact of applying UDL strategies across the K-12 curriculum. Participants will leave with multiple UDL resources, including online tools and strategies for improving teaching and learning.
In August 2011 Beverly High School launched its 1-1 learning program. This workshop will focus on our program implementation including our rationale for the program, professional development, funding, communications, technical support, and current status. Presenters will provide a candid overview of our successes and challenges with this recent initiative.
Technology and great literature converge in a comic strip project. Presenters will discuss their Robin Hood project and provide a tutorial on creating comics using Comic Life and the iPad app Strip Generator. Participants will leave with the resources and steps for creating comics with students in English and social studies classes.
We must incorporate the best of what we know with the tools of the 21st Century to create expert learners. If educators are truly expert learners, it is time to demonstrate how we got there. Model life-long learning and embrace change. Come see how a little planning, a little training, a little risk-taking, and a big commitment to do what is right for kids have helped to transform the way our students learn. Let's talk about a day in the life of a 21st century student!
Participants will experience teaching models for exploring 21st century skills and career minded objectives in the Fine Arts. This workshop will describe an interdisciplinary unit in the arts which encourages collaboration, research, written and oral communication through a music business model known as 'Direct to Fan' used actively in the business community.
This workshop will feature examples from Massachusetts classrooms using technology to teach about international issues. Resources from Primary Source and Web 2.0 tools for connecting students to cultures and peoples around the world will also be highlighted.
Ever think about starting your own blog? Do you wonder where or how to start blogging? Are you interested in getting your students to blog? Come and learn about the wonderful world of ‘Blogging' in this beginners workshop.
We live in a digital world, and mastering the keyboard equips students with a life-long skill they need in university, workplace, and personal endeavors. Learn how to customize/integrate your curriculum, while saving time, energy and resources with this 100% web based keyboarding program. For instructional/title-one coordinators, administrators, and teachers.
Presenters will show examples of how Voicethread is creatively integrated into units of study - focusing on social studies in grade 4. Join us to get an understanding of Voicethread or for those using VT, some new ideas to include in your classroom.
There is a wealth of low-cost tools, such as iPads, apps, online resources, and low-tech aids that educators can use to help level the academic playing field---for students with disabilities, English language learners, struggling students, and others who are simply not meeting their potential. This session provides a demonstration of some of these tools, along with ideas for integrating them into the curriculum to enhance student learning. The presenters are instructors from the recent professional development institutes offered by DESE. Participants will come away from the session with ideas they can immediately put to use in their schools.
Join an open discussion about the paperless classroom. What does it look like? What does it mean to the 21st century learner in a global community? Share and explore tips, tricks, and innovative uses for tools like Google Apps for Education, Screenjelly, Sketchup, Xtranormal, Glogster, Twitter, and Comiclife.
Should teachers be in charge of educational technology? This workshop presents lessons learned suggesting that when teachers are in charge of educational technology, effectiveness improves. Participants join leaders in applying lessons learned to authentic learning objectives through new technologies enabling mobile learning and linking people and resources worldwide.
Three examples of how Westborough students are making global connections. 1. The Teddy Bear Exchange: Learning about different cultures through the eyes of a teddy bear. 2. Read Around the Planet: Foreign Language students practice their skills 3. Global Nomads: Learning about Haiti and helping a school rebuild
METAA, Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association, is the state chapter of CoSN (Consortium for School Networking). CoSN is the lead School Technology Administrator association in the country. CoSN believes that to maximize the benefits of technology solutions the district technology leader should be part of the executive leadership team of the education organization. Come to this meeting to hear about the vast array of resources CoSN and METAA offer for the technology leader professional.
Follow up session to morning keynote
Mac OS X Lion — the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system — offering more than 250 new features. Join us as we explore many of the new features with a focus on use in the classroom.
Google is now offering Schools and Educational Institutions Google Apps Email FREE basic email services, hosted by Google, for all students and faculty/staff. Many institutions are seriously considering transitioning to Google Apps for their email, or using Google to augment their current in-house Email/Exchange/Groupwise environment for students. This transition “to the Cloud” has many implications, some good, some with things to think about. Come to this session to learn more about this option for your institution, and also understand the implications for your Budget, Compliance Requirements, and Email Management.
This session will focus on the development of an enriched, curriculum based "Finance”, "International Business”, "Entrepreneurship”, "Hospitality" or "Culinary" Academy within your high school as a means of increasing your enrollments and sustaining your business education program. Organization, structure, student recruitment, maintenance, fundraising, membership benefits, post-secondary articulation, internships, and business partnerships will be discussed. The addition of a successful academy will increase your visibility and embed some roots, making it more difficult to reduce or eliminate your courses and faculty.
Drawing on practical examples from successful projects across Europe and the US, we will explore the design, execution and results of international collaboration projects on student engagement, achievement of local curriculum requirements, and development of leadership competencies.
Students learn what it means to be true global citizens through a multidisciplinary project that activates 21st century learning. This workshop will share experiences and strategies used by a team of teachers to implement a project based on www.Kiva.org, and culminating in student presentations using Glogster
Using learning management systems like Moodle allow for students to better connect with their teachers. Teachers also have the opportunity to extend the classroom beyond the normal period. Additionally, using a school iPhone/Android app you can connect with students in the same way they connect with each other.
A QR Code is a square, two-dimensional bar code that can store links and other information. They have been used primarily in industry, but have tremendous possibilities for classroom use. The applications used for scanning them or creating them are free. In this session you will learn about QR Code readers, QR Code generators for creating your own, and 50 educationally oriented ways to use them.
No longer a novelty, Digital Literacy is an ever-changing, lively, necessary reality. Come see how technology allows us to connect, communicate and collaborate within the confines of a demanding day. What can you try in YOUR classroom? Come experience a sampling of technology ideas ranging from functional to fantastic!
What are the eight learning areas in mathematics? What evidenced-based instructional interventions can be employed to support the continuum of learner differences in these eight areas? How can online tools support student learning in math? In this presentation, participants are invited to learn about how to apply interactive simulations and online tools to what research indicates are the most effective interventions and instruction in math. Using evidenced-based recommendations made by the Institute of Education Sciences and the MISTM project, participants will learn how online math simulations and interactive tools can support math instruction while improving student learning. Examples from NH ARRA 21st Century classroom projects will be featured.
Visual literacy is the use of visual representation to foster comprehension, meaning making, and communication. This session is designed help educators make more informed choices about "representation” in ways that foster creativity, promote the effective use of background knowledge, integrate technology, and enhance the learning experience for all students.
4MALITY (4 Coach Mathematics Active Learning Intelligent Tutoring System) is a web-based tutoring program that uses animated characters and multimedia presentations to teach mathematical problem solving skills to elementary school children. The workshop will discuss how this and other online resources can enable teachers to differentiate math learning for all students.
French Revolution X Egyptian Revolution: Twitter & Youtube transformed a learning experience beyond the classroom and to the entire world. Curriculum can no longer be taught in isolation if we expect our students to become global leaders. Through the use of social media, video and current events, curriculum can promote global awareness and participation.
Using Flash CS5 and the Android Development Package it is now possible to bring the development of mobile applications for the Android Market to your classroom. This workshop will provide the information for the necessary downloads of Android software and examples of integration of Flash CS5 for app development and deployment in computer education/technology classrooms. The workshop will provide example lessons and unique development tools available for free on the internet. Examples of tutorials and curriculum materials will be provided.
Revolutionize traditionally text based lessons with Glogster EDU's capabilities to craft unique Glog projects and lessons. Use "Glogs” as the focus for projects by integrating an array of media and web-based content to expand digital literacy. Develop Glogster EDU student projects and promote independent problem-solving, discovery, and exploratory learning.
Hands-On $25
This session will explore the use of the iPad to support Literacy, Writing, Math and Science for K-5 students. Participants will discuss the most effective strategies to extend and optimize learning using this engaging tool. We will briefly explore the research on iPad use and discuss the importance of matching the hardware and app features to learning outcomes. The proliferation of iPad apps makes the process of appropriate app selection formidable. Participants will be provided with a variety of digital resources to help them select effective apps.
Hands-On $25
This hands-on workshop will introduce teachers and tech integrators to basic animation software (FableVision's Animation-ish), USB tablets, and basic principles of animation integrated across the content curriculum and grade-levels, to help students visually represent what they are studying.
Hands-On $25
Hands-on training session dedicated to the application and exploration of Marzano's Nine Essential Strategies using iPad technology for high school learners. Emphasis will be placed on comparing and contrasting, summarizing and note taking, homework and practice, non-linguistic representation, cooperative learning, and cues, questions and advanced organizers.
Hands-On $25
The Cloud Cart is a project of the McCall Middle School Engineers Club and their adult mentors. Cloud Carts are state-of-the-art portable computer carts with no wires that fully integrate multimedia and embrace cloud computing. Students and teachers behind this innovative project will present the prototypes, describe the design process, their current use,and plans for the future.
Join the roundtable discussion about keyboarding instruction. With the introduction of the iPad and other keyboards, keypads and thumbboards, we seem to have taken keyboarding back to a two-finger operation. How do we feel about this? We will discuss other keyboards, keypads, and thumbboards that are widely used and what, if anything, we should teach about them.
Share what you do and think about teaching the keyboard/keyboarding. I will share how I teach keyboarding with a quick and easy strategy that will engage your students using an alphabet poem, software, and interactive online games to create a solid framework of QWERTY keyboarding skills for touch typing and other input methods.
This workshop will focus on best practice strategies for educating high school students about cyberbullying and the responsible use of technology. A panel of experts from the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC) will provide information about techniques, developed through research, used to educate high school students in the Commonwealth.
For more than 20 years, Apple has provided new and innovative solutions for people with disabilities, allowing them to access — and enjoy using — the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. Apple includes assistive technology in its products as standard features — at no additional cost. For example, iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac OS X include screen magnification and VoiceOver, a screen-access technology, for the blind and visually impaired.
During this session, we will be exploring the many ways Apple has implemented accessibility features into its hardware and software offerings.
In today’s “iEverything” world, powerful applications can be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time, and we can take advantage of the tremendous computing power that is available in consumer devices, such as smartphones and tablets. These devices can be issued by the school or district or brought from home by teachers, students and parents, but almost every IT department is experiencing the effects of unprecedented smart device adoption in their school or district.
Unfortunately, today's de facto controller-based architecture is based on an 8 year-old design that simply isn't up to the challenge of the “iEverything” explosion. Integrating this new world of mobile, virtual computing begins with selecting the right wireless access infrastructure. Devin Akin, Aerohive’s Chief Wi-Fi Architect, will discuss how IT departments can prepare their schools and districts for the wireless transformation with the right Wi-Fi architecture.
You have a passion and responsibility to make sure your learning community thrives, even as budgets are being slashed. Learn about solutions from Microsoft that can help you get the most value from your technology investments by helping you to improve communication, manage your infrastructure, and manage and report information to make better decisions
In this session you will discover how to easily get your students screencasting with no costs. Use readily available software, set up your own video channel and prepare to start publishing student led videos on any topic. This engaging format for students can allow educators to identify misconceptions in understanding, assess learning or create a tutorial library.
Have you realized what Google has to offer for educators and students through Google Apps for Education? This session will present an overview of Google Apps for Education and demonstrate innovative examples of how you can use free Google Apps with your students to prepare them for the collaboration and communication in the 21st century global environment. Come see why over ten million students and teachers are using Google Apps.
Capstone projects demonstrate mastery of global skills learned in high school years. Student Capstone Research reflecting leadership skills will be shared. Facilitated by the Math and Science Academy Advisors but designed and implemented by students, these projects model how student centered research creates independent leaders before they leave secondary school.
In this session, participants will engage in demonstrations and hands-on activities highlighting various ways of using web 2.0 tools with an interactive whiteboard (Mimio) in the classroom to help students learn. A Mimio will be used to demonstrate this but the workshop materials can be used with any interactive whiteboard.
Take 22 students, combine them together for 3 classes a day, add 3 energetic teachers and 1 nerd, stir together with iPads, and see what develops over four months. Is this a recipe for disaster or success? Come to our workshop and start to form your own opinion.
Presentation will highlight the following Most Popular Web Site categories for 2010 How security threats could leverage Web 2.0 How Social networking is consolidating online communications Overall evolution of the Web
Designed specifically with K-12 in mind, NBC Learn K-12 makes safe, standards-aligned video content available to teachers, students and even parents. Engage your students with real-world stories, based on your learning objectives and the interest of your class! Aligned to state standards, resources mapped to curriculum, safe and trustworthy.
When developing new teaching strategies, teachers primarily rely upon their fellow teachers for advice, guidance, and strategies. Come learn about school-based professional learning programs that empower teacher-leaders by combining face-to-face and online training. Participants will leave with concrete materials, strategies and examples for job-embedded, teacher-led, blended-environment professional development.
Drop by for a few minutes to do some networking with your business education colleagues and hear about the latest developments with the Massachusetts Business Educators Association (MBEA). You'll also have a change to learn about the some of the events that will take place at the National Business Education Association (NBEA) Convention in Boston from April 4 to 7, 2012.
The iPad is a revolutionary device. As a bridge between the students' real world and the digital content of today's learning, the iMulti-Touch screen lets students physically interact with applications and content, allowing all learners to access content in ways that work for them. It also provides those same learners opportunities to create multimedia projects that demonstrate their understanding of their learning.
This course focuses on utilizing an Interactive Whiteboard effectively in the classroom. It enablesMimio advocates opportunities to collaborate and share new and innovative ideas with other teachers.
Course objectives:
The goal of this course is to offer participants a broad overview of how to successfully integrate Mimio
hardware and software into every day teaching. Upon completion of this course, participants will be
able to:
1. Understand the various components of Mimio hardware and software
2. Use the tools available in MimioStudio Notebook to create interactive learning activities
3. Develop small and whole group activities using MimioStudio Notebook as the delivery system
4. Navigate and add content to the Mimio Gallery to contribute to lesson development
5. Add pre-existing content to MimioStudio Notebook to enhance lesson development
6. Share ideas and teaching resources with other course participants
At this workshop teachers will need be exploring the idea of electronic portfolios as a tool to showcase student learning using Hyperstudio. Teachers will discover first hand how to capture student work, discuss the benefits and challenges of electronic portfolios, and determine how to make electronic portfolios work.
In this fast-paced presentation, educators will be taken on a whirlwind tour of some of the best available learning apps for the iPad and iPod Touch. Presenter will give a one minute demo of 50 different apps that teachers and students can use in a wide variety of content areas.
Help your students' voices be heard and encourage them to be socially responsible by using an engaging software program which sparks creative thinking and boots technology literacy skills. See how students used Animationish, an easy-to-use animation software program, and Windows Movie Maker to create great bullying public service announcements.
Tired of writing traditional newsletters? Want to get your students involved more in the home-school connection? Come learn the basics of blogging. This workshop will teach you how to create an effective classroom blog where you can add posts, pictures and video as well as links to fun and engaging online educational resources.
Participants will have the opportunity to see how a social network (NING), classroom website, learning management system (It's Learning), writing/composition tools (Google docs/presentation, iLife tools, KidPix), and essential skills websites/programs (That Quiz, Lexia) are integrated into the school day for optimal student learning opportunities.
In this workshop we examine eBooks, eReaders and ways to take your documents and make them eReader. We explore options for both Macs and PCs. What an empowering process for a student, or an educator for that matter, to see their work on an iPad, Nook or Kindle.
The Figurative Language Project: Teachers will attend a hands on session where they will learn to use the animation program called Animation-ish by FableVision. We will utilize a drawing tablet, called Bamboo by Wacom, to create various animations that illustrate the meanings of figurative language. Examples of Figurative Language include simile, metaphor, personification and many more. If you would like to learn a brand new program along with a complete lesson that can be integrated into your classroom instruction tomorrow, then please join us and have some fun.
This session demonstrates how to guide students through the process of making movie trailers for a historical event. Students research, write, produce, edit, and present their own movie trailers taking into consideration the most important aspects of the historical event. Teachers will be taken through the step by step process of creating a movie trailer and how the project can be differentiated to meet the needs of most students. This workshop is simply a demonstration of the process, goals, and rationale behind making movie trailers in the Social Studies classroom.
This workshop demonstrates how technology is being used by classroom teachers to engage the elementary learner by accessing the curriculum in dynamic ways. Participants will hear about the process of releasing learning to both faculty and student, and how it is evolving, influencing change, and spreading from classroom to classroom.
Service-learning is a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. (National Commission on Service Learning) Georgia Clancy, a retired Business/Technology Educator, former CSL Coordinator, and member of the CSL Advisory Council to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will share strategies that Business/Technology Educators can use to engage their students and to build class-based, school-wide and district-wide CSL project support.
Join us to learn about our website: seedebate.org. You'll learn why it's an easy way to incorporate multiple curricular goals into your teaching and how your peers are using it now. ISTE standards and MA state technology guidelines are easy to meet with this single, free flexible tool.
Robotics is an excellent way to get kids engaged with all of the STEM subjects while also improving their skills as leaders and team members. This workshop will demonstrate some teaching techniques using the LEGO WeDo, Mindstorms, and Tetrix platforms, as well as the RobotC programming environment.
This iPad workshop is for teachers with students who struggle to access the curriculum and consequently fail to develop and communicate understanding. It will focus on managing the iPad, using native applications, and exploring third party curriculum-specific applications from iTunes. A number of specialized applications will also be demonstrated.
The way the world communicates is evolving. Consider what can happen when millions of virtual voices come together with a united purpose--the evidence is all around us from the grassroots presidency campaign website to recent political unrest around the world. Come explore with us the numerous ways educators can harness the power of online communities in their classrooms and how web-based communication will revolutionize education in the United States
How can blogs be used with students? We will demonstrate how we are using our blogs to scaffold student understanding of, and learning the appropriate and effective use of this communication tool. Using our own blogs we will walk you through creation, use and management of your own blog.
Hands-On $25
Join us for an iPad ADVENTURE -- from taking it out of the box to downloading apps from the iTunes App Store. The adventure begins with exploring the hardware and moving on to experiencing what you can do with your iPad -- customizing, shopping, and using the iPad in education.
Hands-On $25
Come learn how your students can create video projects for your curriculum area. You will walk away from this workshop with an example video you shot and edited, lesson plans, rubrics and the power to enhance your units of study with the most popular medium of today's global learners.
Hands-On $25
Now in our 10th season in Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots strive to be on the cutting edge of technological advances in the area of sports medicine and player performance. From being one of the first clubs to adopt in-house hydrotherapy rehabilitation to our new anti-gravity treadmill to real time access to magnetic resonance images, the goal remains the same – our commitment to ensuring the best care, recovery time and performance of our athletes.
The emergence of Web 2.0 presents a challenging balancing act for many K-12 IT administrators. Is your current firewall capable of handling the growing list of educational and administrative demands on your network, yet at the same time enabling you to effectively manage bandwidth and security while meeting regulatory requirements?
Attend this session to learn how SonicWALL Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization makes the job easy, with granular control and real-time visualization of applications to guarantee bandwidth prioritization and ensure maximum network security.
The iPad has been in the market for just over a year and this extraordinary device has found its way into many K-12 schools and HiEd institutions around the globe. As the iPad continues to enter classrooms at a rapid pace, now is the best time for IT directors and staff to learn about this new operating system and how to best support it. Geared towards IT support professionals, this session will focus on the methods and strategies used to deploy, sync and manage the iPad in an educational setting.
Teachers who are looking to prepare their students for life-long learning in a globally connected world should start living in that connected world now. Connecting to other educators
See how one teacher's challenge-based learning project (Disney Planet Challenge) transformed her classroom around a focused theme, unifying her class as they were empowered with purpose-driven technology skills. Projects included videos, podcasts, presentations, and Skypes. Challenge-based learning fosters an environment of collaboration, creativity, purpose, and an excitement for learning.
Clickers are among the biggest things in educational technology, but how are they useful for the average classroom? In this session, we are going to look at several types of response systems and discuss how they are useful to differentiate content and delivery and ensure that all students are engaged.
Become "tech savy” and learn the basics of your students Social Networking Lifestyle and how it's changing the education world both academically and socially. Learn ways to use technology to communicate more effectively with your students and ways you can keep up with the latest cyber issues.
With the emergence of mobile devices in education, how can we leverage apps to support all students in areas that may be challenging? In the current and next generation of students, learning how to use apps to personalize learning will be key so that they can be prepared for college and a career. In this session, you will learn how to use a set of apps that can level the playing field in reading, writing and organizing in a project-based, problem-based digital learning environment. Discover how apps like iHomework, Dragon Speak, iSpeak, iBooks, Typ-o, Web Reader, and Poppler Lite can be used to personalize the learning experience and at the same time, level the playing field (LtPF) for all students. Attendees are welcomed to bring their own device to this session.
What should be a celebration of contributors to our state turns into mass confusion for third grade researchers. Appropriate materials simply are not available. This workshop will share how 5th graders create podcasts and timelines for a library Wiki and iPods, resulting in a "green screen” sharing of knowledge.
You may not realize that you have a rich resource in your pocket, your cell phone. This workshop will encourage you to use your phone to create media resources . iPhone 4 will be featured, but the ideas and many of the apps may be used with other smart phones.
In this workshop you will see how we take student projects to the next level with web 2.0 tools .We will show you best practices from the start to the finish process. You will learn how we transformed student outcomes into collaborative projects that utilize real world skills. We will examine and discuss the process of transforming curriculum to meet today's global learner's needs. Attendees will leave this workshop with projects ideas and the needed resources to successfully implement these projects in their own classrooms.
We will take some time to explore the wide world of free software available to our students and their families. We will focus on how costs be lowered by using these free options.
Why do we need to start young and teach engineering at the elementary level? We have developing and implementing a preschool to grade 6 elementary engineering curriculum based on robotics. In this session, we share an outline of the curriculum and present some of the rationale, rewards, and challenges of developing and implementing the curriculum. Some of the challenges we examine are: sequencing the curriculum for early elementary, focusing goals, dealing with differences in readiness especially in kindergarten, and provided engineering challenges to very young students.
This popular annual presentation provides attendees with the most current advice on pricing and policies for technology licensing, content, etc. A wealth of FREE resources, giveaways and EXCELLENT Advice make this a very popular annual presentation
Mary Wiseman
Joanne Coughlin
Sterling Worrell
Georgia Clancy
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Joseph Celata
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Pat Larkin
Julie Elkan
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