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AM-Keynote
PM-Keynote
This year's keynote speakers are:
David Warlick CBC Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist
"Running with the Pack; Tales from Behind the Screen"
Amber MacArthur Director of Media and Technology
in the Mankato Schools
"Whadda I Need That I Ain't Got?
Courage IS a Technology Skill"
Wendy
Mesley CBC Award-Winning Broadcast
Journalist "Running with the Pack; Tales from Behind
the Screen" TDavid Warlick, a 30 year educator, has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting, and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His web site, Landmarks for Schools, serves more than a half-million visits a day with some of the most popular teacher tools available on the Net. David is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, and has spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America.
Doug
Johnson Director of Media and Technology in the Mankato
Schools
"Whadda I Need That I Ain't Got? Courage IS a Technology
Skill"
Doug
Johnson has been the Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato
Public Schools since 1991 and has served as an adjunct faculty
member of Minnesota State University, Mankato since 1990. His teaching
experience has included work in grades K-12 in schools both here and
in Saudi Arabia. He is the author of four books: The
Indispensable Librarian, The Indispensable
Teacher's Guide to Computer Skills, Teaching
Right from Wrong in the Digital Age and
Machines are the Easy Part; People are the Hard Part. His
regular columns appear in Library Media Connection, Leading
& Learning and The School Administrator magazines and
his articles have appeared in over forty books and periodicals. Doug
has conducted workshops and given presentations for over 130
organizations throughout the United States as well as in Malaysia,
Kenya, Thailand, Germany, Qatar, Canada, the UAE and Australia and
has held a variety of leadership positions in state and national organizations,
including ISTE and AASL.
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M1-Personal Learning Net.
M2-Social Networking
M3-Literacy Analysis
M4-Whiteboards
M5-Powerpoint Online
M6-Cancelled
M7-GIS and GPS
M8-Lego Robotics
M9-Early Literacy
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AM Sessions (10:45AM - 12:00PM)
CODE
DESCRIPTION
M1
Using Web 2.0 to build your own Personal Learning Network with David Warlick
The Landmark Project Professional development, Web design, and Innovations Raleigh North Carolina
M2
Social Networking Isn't Just for Kids! with Tim Hawes System Vice Principal
M3
Using the Literacy Strand as a Springboard to Media Analysis with Kathy Gallagher Windsor-Essex C.D.S.B.
M4
Effective Use of the Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom: Differentiated Instruction and Effective Instructional Skills and Strategies with Bruce White, Bill Schreiter and Peter Dawson Thames Valley D.S.B.
M5
Turning your Powerpoint into an Engaging Online Resource with Paul Hatala IT Consultant HWDSB
M6
n/a with n/a
M7
Integrating GIS and GPS in the Classroom with Iain Greensmith and
Jean Tong
M8
Lego Robotics: A teacher’s journey with Elaine Ernewein Curriculum Support Teacher - Technology
M9
Supporting Early Literacy and Numeracy through SMART Technology with Lisa Cranston - Teacher Consultant Margo Sanger - Northwood Public School
Charlotte Cornel - Eastwood Public School
Lise Fellbaum - Gosfield North Public School
Debbie Demers-Hewitt - Victoria Public School
M1—
Using Web 2.0 to build your own Personal Learning Network with David Warlick
The Landmark Project Professional development, Web design, and Innovations Raleigh North Carolina
Redefine and retool your own 21st century education by
incorporating some of the current Web 2.0 tools into your own Personal Learning Network. During this session, morning keynote speaker, David Warlick, will elaborate on how this can be done and why you might want to do it.
This session will present Web 2.0 applications/concepts into a learning context, aimed at educators (teachers, administrators, governance) using these tools as learning literacy components.
Audience: All
Skill Level: Novice
Biography: David Warlick, a 30 year educator, has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting, and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His web site, Landmarks for Schools, serves more than a half-million visits a day with some of the most popular teacher tools available on the Net. David is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, and has spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America.
M2—
Social Networking Isn't Just for Kids! with Tim Hawes System Vice Principal
Social media like Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, and MediaWiki aren't tools that can be mastered from the sidelines! By definition, social media requires participation - you need to get your hands dirty! Come and find out about Commun-IT.org, an open social network for K-12 Ontario educators interested in harnessing the power of web 2.0 tools for their own lifelong learning and as a way of discovering the benefits of bringing these tools to your school.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Tim Hawes is a System Vice Principal with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, where he has worked as a teacher, consultant, and secondary VP for the last 11 years. His current responsibilities are for all academic computing as a manager in the "Business and Learning Technologies Department". Tim is also a member of the Ministry Advisory Committee on software (OSAPAC) and the Vice-President of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO).
M3—
Using the Literacy Strand as a Springboard to Media Analysis with Kathy Gallagher Windsor-Essex C.D.S.B.
Media Literacy the new strand in the Language document is the perfect
springboard to introduce teachers to the integration of technology with
the ministry curriculum. The framework presented will help teachers to
effectively use ideas from the eworkshop website and experience engagement
with several forms of media that contain messages for an intended audience
and purpose. They will be able to use these forms with their students to
encourage critical thinking, analyze a variety of multi-media and create a
variety of media texts.
Audience: Elem gr 1-6
Skill Level: All
Biography: Kathy Gallagher, as an experienced teacher, is currently part of The Board Strategy Team for the Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board. In her role as a Board Literacy Teacher she has been involved with providing in-servicing and the coaching of teachers in the implementation
of a Balanced Approach to Literacy. At every opportunity she uses her skills in technology to promote integration with the language curriculum. Most recently she was a part of the W.O.W. Project (Writing On Wireless) that focused on improving the writing skills in the junior grades using iBooks and MacBooks as a tool.
M4—
Effective Use of the Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom: Differentiated Instruction and Effective Instructional Skills and Strategies with Bruce White, Bill Schreiter and Peter Dawson Thames Valley D.S.B.
From this session you will walk away with a sense of what effective use of a SmartBoard in a classroom would look like. The following questions will be addressed..
How can a teacher incorporate differentiated instruction and instructional skills and strategies in to a SmartBoard focused lesson?.
What are the "Look For(s)" in the classroom when this is all working together?.
What are the different levels of use of a SmartBoard in the classroom as a teacher becomes more expert in incorporating the SmartBoard into the curriculum? .
You will also come away with a checklist of "Look Fors" and a list of web resources that you can incorporate into your SmartBoard lessons tomorrow..
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Bruce White, Learning Coordinator – Technology for Thames Valley District School Board, Visual Arts Teacher Secondary, Teacher Librarian Secondary and Smart Exemplar teacher.
Bill Schreiter, Learning Coordinator – Technology for Thames Valley District School Board.
Peter Dawson - Vice Principal and Learning Support Teacher, Lord Elgin P.S., SMART Exemplary Educator, presenter at Smart's Ontario PD Series, NECC, and various other technology conferences.
Have presented at MACUL , ECCO and RCAC in the past.
M5—
Turning your Powerpoint into an Engaging Online Resource with Paul Hatala IT Consultant HWDSB
Looking to turn your Powerpoint Presentations into engaging Adobe Flash Multimedia Resources?
This session will focus on how a Powerpoint Presentation can be turned into an invaluable online learning resource through the use of Adobe Presenter. See how menus, voice narration, buttons and more can be added, and how the final product is created and shared via Adobe Connect and other tools.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Paul Hatala is currently a Secondary Information Technology Consultant with the Hamilton-Wentworth DSB. Prior to this, he was the head of science at Ancaster High School in the HWDSB for 8 years. While teaching at Ancaster High, he co-taught a specialized interdisciplinary course combining Biology, Chemistry and a research credit which was unique within the province. As a huge part of this course, technology played an integral part of the delivery. From podcasting, to webblogging and Adobe Connect conference, Paul has brought technology to his students.
M6—
n/a with n/a
In the past, educators felt to master reams of data, they had to master Fathom - an excellent piece of software, if you remembered all the instructions. But with the use of Tinkerplot and even Quattro Pro, anyone can take control of 10s of thousands of pieces of data to help make evidence informed decisions.
Bring your laptops loaded with this software and get ready to play.
Audience: n/a
Skill Level: n/a
Biography: tba
M7—
Integrating GIS and GPS in the Classroom with Iain Greensmith and
Jean Tong
This session is aimed at educators who are interested in the integration of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and how they can be used together in a classroom setting. We will explore both technologies, highlight some best practices, examples from real world applications, and most importantly go over how these technologies can be applied into your classroom together.
Audience: Secondary
Skill Level: All
Biography: Iain is a GIS Analyst with the Schools and Libraries program with ESRI Canada. His role is dedicated to ensuring that educators have all the resources they need when it comes to software training, lesson development, and technical support. Iain has a Hon. BA in Geography from McMaster University, with specialization in GIS and Spatial Analysis.
M8—
Lego Robotics: A teacher’s journey with Elaine Ernewein Curriculum Support Teacher - Technology
Robotics is a popular and effective way for teachers to cover important areas of their Science, Technology and Math Curricula. Kids love it! They easily move from teacher directed tasks to independent learning projects. Robotic activities can help a teacher address many areas such as: learning styles, instructional strategies, problem solving and collaboration. This workshop will focus on the teacher’s journey from the introduction of
Robotics into a cross-curricular unit to the training of a Robotics Challenge Team. There will be samples of lessons, demonstrations,
classroom management ideas and resources.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Elaine Ernewein has used Lego Mindstorms in her Junior/Intermediate Science and Technology classrooms for several years and has found it to be a useful tool in reaching all students. She has presented workshops at the ROBOLAB Conference -Laurentian University and at the Interactive Technology in Education Conference -University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her students have participated in Robotics Challenges, Marsville Rover Projects and have worked with Mentors from MD Robotics (Canadarm). Elaine is currently a Curriculum Support Teacher for Technology with the London District Catholic School Board.
M9—
Supporting Early Literacy and Numeracy through SMART Technology with Lisa Cranston - Teacher Consultant Margo Sanger - Northwood Public School
Charlotte Cornel - Eastwood Public School
Lise Fellbaum - Gosfield North Public School
Debbie Demers-Hewitt - Victoria Public School
Join a group of elementary teachers as they share their experiences with a SMART board system as members of a GECDSB initiative. Learn how to enrich your literacy and numeracy programs and enhance your daily routines by captivating students with engaging, interactive activities. See how the vast amount of information available on the internet can easily be incorporated into all curriculum areas seemlessly using the SMART Notebook software. While the content is based from experiences in primary classrooms, all elementary educators will find ideas that could be adapted into their programs.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: This workshop is being presented by a team of educators from the Greater Essex County District School Board with varying assignments including Charlotte Cornel, librarian; Debbie Demers-Hewitt, Special Education Teacher; Lise Fellbaum, Grade Two Teacher; Margo Sanger, Early Literacy Teacher; and Lisa Cranston, Teacher Consultant for Early Years and Primary Programs.
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A1-Social Media
A2-Wikis
A3-Differentiated Instruction
A4-Comic Life
A5-Career Cruising
A6-Technology in Band Program
A7-Technology and Literacy
A8-Primary Literacy
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PM Sessions (2:15pm - 3:30pm)
CODE
DESCRIPTION
A1
Dos and Don'ts of Social Media and Using Web 2.0 with Amber MacArthur (Keynote Speaker)
A2
Use Wikis, Online Applications and Storage for a more Productive Classroom with Doug Sadler Information Communication Technology Consultant (K-12) Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board
A3
Using Smart Board Technology as a Tool for Differentiated Instruction with Alexandra Hutchison, Trevor Hammer
A4
Comic Life For Graphic Novels: Engage! Create! Publish! with Marilyn Legault, Ian Pellizzari Hamilton Wentworth D.S.B.
A5
Career Cruising’s Portfolio Development System with Judy Ferguson
A6
Using Technology in the Traditional Band Program with Isaac Moore Music Teacher Avon Maitland District School Board, South Huron District High School
A7
Technology and Literacy, The New Frontier with Colin Harris
Apple Distinguished Educator, Instructional Technology Specialist,
Apple Canada
A8
An Innovative Approach to Primary Literacy and Engagement with Johanna Lawler Talbot Trail Public School IBM
A1—
Dos and Don'ts of Social Media and Using Web 2.0 with Amber MacArthur (Keynote Speaker)
This is a follow up Question and Answer session to Amber MacArthur’s afternoon keynote address on issues related to Web 2.0 and Social Media. As a web journalist, MacArthur traces the impact of emerging technologies on the way we live, work and play, and makes it all fun, informative and accessible. This is an opportunity to ask questions/discuss the effects of today’s Social Media on our students from their perspective and from ours.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Amber MacArthur is a new media journalist and consultant. Currently, she is the co-founder of web production house MGImedia.ca, a New Media Specialist at Toronto TV station CP24, a host of weekly video podcast commandN.tv, a co-host with tech guru Leo Laporte of weekly audio podcast net@nite, and is also a regular contributor on CBC’s Spark. Amber also works exclusively with The Lavin Agency as a keynote speaker on the subject of how to use Web 2.0 technologies to build community and customer loyalty.
Prior to what she does now, she worked as a TV journalist on a national news program for Citytv. While at Citytv, she also hosted a current affairs TV program called Webnation, which was about how the Internet is changing the way we live, work, and play. Prior to Citytv, Amber was a host for two years at G4TechTV Canada on Call for Help, Torrent, and Gadgets & Gizmos. She has also worked as a Web strategist at Razorfish in San Francisco and Microsoft Canada in Toronto.
A2—
Use Wikis, Online Applications and Storage for a more Productive Classroom with Doug Sadler Information Communication Technology Consultant (K-12) Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board
An introduction on how web applications such as wikis, Google Apps (Tools2Go),and online storage can help make your classroom/school more
productive and engaging. See examples of wiki websites in action and how easy it is to build your own...
Google Apps gives students the power to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online. They will work on the same online documents at home and at school! A brief demo of WECDSB's version of Google Apps (Tools2Go) will be provided. See how your student's can collaborate and
work online with ease...
Finally, a demo of how online storage sites can be used to solve the problems of moving and viewing documents between home and school. No sign up, no email no and no problems.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Doug Sadler is an Information Communication Technology Consultant with the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board. His portfolio includes E-Learning, JK/K Report Card, Grades 1-8 Report Card, Markbook Grades 9-12 Report Card, and Teacher Web 2.0 Resources ( Wikis, Blogs, Tools2Go, www.sadwiki.wetpaint.com).
A3—
Using Smart Board Technology as a Tool for Differentiated Instruction with Alexandra Hutchison, Trevor Hammer
This session will showcase the use of Smart Board, streaming video technology and Google Applications as tools to engage students of English and Mathematics. Teachers will use innovative technology and software to motivate their tech-savvy teenagers with literacy tasks across the subject areas.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Alexandra Hutchison and Trevor Hammer both teach rotary intermediate subjects at Howick Central Public School in the Avon-Maitland District School Board.
A4—
Comic Life For Graphic Novels: Engage! Create! Publish! with Marilyn Legault, Ian Pellizzari Hamilton Wentworth D.S.B.
Learn how easy it is to use Comic Life software to create graphic novels, the hot genre that has books flying off the library shelves and has encouraged even reluctant writers to create and publish. Integration strategies and samples of cross-curricular applications will be provided, as well as helpful website links and how-to documentation.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Ian Pellizzari and Marilyn Legault are Information Technology Consultants for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Among their many duties is the assisting of teachers with the integration of technology into their programs. Comic Life is one of the tools in their arsenal to accomplish this.
A5—
Career Cruising’s Portfolio Development System with Judy Ferguson
This session will focus on Career Cruising’s Portfolio and Resume Builder tools as well as our Career Advisor Management System. Career Cruising and the Career Advisor Management System are available to all publicly funded elementary, middle, and secondary schools in Ontario.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Judy Ferguson is a former educator and counsellor. Judy provides Career Cruising training across Ontario.
A6—
Using Technology in the Traditional Band Program with Isaac Moore Music Teacher Avon Maitland District School Board, South Huron District High School
This presentation will focus on exploring new technologies available to the music educator that can be utilized in a traditional band program. Emphasis will be on exploring software and hardware solutions that can be utilized to enhance student achievement and engagement in the arts
Audience: Arts and Music Educators, Administrators, Technical Consultants.
Skill Level: All
Biography: Isaac Moore completed his Honours Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Education programs in 2005, gradutating from the University of Western Ontario. Hired by the Avon Maitland District School board in 2005, Isaac has become a heavy user of current technologies in his classes and extra-curricular activities to deliver curriculum and communicate with parents and students. Isaac is an Apple Distinguished Educator, a program that brings together a select group of expert educators who contribute lesson plans, ideas, and other resources. There are over 1200 ADEs in 22 countries who fulfill the roles of passionate advocates, authentic authors, trusted advisors and global ambassadors on issues relating to educational technology.
Isaac is currently a full time instrumental music educator working at South Huron District High School in Exeter, ON. The South Huron music program enjoys one of the highest levels of student participation and community support in the district. South Huron is also the only site in Huron County to be delivering the Ontario government's Specialist High Skills Major program in the area of Arts and Culture.
A7—
Technology and Literacy, The New Frontier with Colin Harris
Apple Distinguished Educator, Instructional Technology Specialist,
Apple Canada
In this session, participants will be shown how technology can be seamlessly integrated into their classrooms with a variety of new and innovative multimedia applications, and how they can enhance any classroom presentation or project.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Colin is an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Computer Resource
Teacher for the York Region DSB.
A8—
An Innovative Approach to Primary Literacy and Engagement with Johanna Lawler Talbot Trail Public School IBM
Come and see a dynamic piece of curriculum software for elementary literacy! Destination Reading is an interactive and comprehensive courseware offering that is being used in a growing number of school districts across Canada. See, in action, not only how two schools have used this product with SMART Board technology to achieve amazing results, but also learn how other schools across Canada are integrating it into their classrooms for differentiated instruction to improve student achievement.
Audience: All
Skill Level: All
Biography: Johanna Lawler is a Teacher-Librarian with the Greater Essex County District School Board. Johanna has her specialist in computers and librarianship and has been a Computer Contact for the two schools that she has taught at while with the Board. Three years ago Johanna was selected, along with other educators, to open one of Greater Essex County's well known theme schools. Talbot Trail Public School opened its doors two and a half years ago where Johanna started a library from scratch. Under the direction of the Board's Computer Consultant, Doug Peterson, Johanna began the process of demonstrating a variety of interactive white boards that would later be the standard in all of the schools in that district. It is through her extensive white board usage, that Johanna was introduced to Destination Reading. Since that time, Destination Reading has been a big hit at Talbot Trail through Johanna's library program. There are SMART Boards in virtually every classroom at Talbot Trail and teachers have become discriminating users in their selection and use of resources. This especially applies to the types of activities chosen to be used with the SMART Board.
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