Dr. Tim Tyson has a passion for meaningful, authentic student engagement, and
technology is seen as a centerpiece for irresistible academic
achievement through creative, global, project-based learning
activities. He has now turned his attention to supporting the
profession on a national and international level by sharing his passion
and practical expertise for integrating technology into the entire
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Use email as an instructional tool! Using Gaggle.net, teachers will discovery the power of student email. Attendees will log in to a demonstration account at Gaggle and learn how to manage student accounts. Real-time filtering will be demonstrated. Appropriate for all levels and all content areas. Laptop required.
David Stott, Hillcrest Middle School
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In the age of the Xbox, Playstation, Ipods, the Internet, and myspace it's harder for teachers to keep student's attention in the classroom. Why not use some of this technology in our favor?
George Padilla, Parkland Middle School
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After
signing on to DataMart, participants will become familiar with the
web-based application. In addition, participants will use DataMart to
generate student lists so that instructional decisions can be made from
analyzing the results.
Elea Uraga, Program Evaluator
and Lizely Madriga
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After
signing on to DataMart, participants will become familiar with the
web-based application. In addition, participants will use DataMart to
generate student lists so that instructional decisions can be made from
analyzing the results.
Raquel Cortez, Accountability Database Specialist
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Google Application is a presentation intended to introduce participants to Web 2.0 tools. Participants will use online tools to collaborate, share, and create projects. Please bring your own wireless laptop.
Jose Meza, Tech Site Coordinator
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Rockets can be a great way to hook students into science and math concepts. The presentation will be "hands-on" and appeal to a range of grade levels.
Steve Snell, Homebound
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Students in grades one through middle school can create art, stories and animated movies using a simple 3D interface. Kerproof promotes greater technical fluency.
Staci Rojas and Elaine Gonzalez, Pasodale Elementary School; and Susana Cardenas, St. Patrick's Elementary
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Discover Thinkfinity in this session designed and customized for
classroom teachers, or other building-level educators who teach and
support K-12 students.
Janet Corder, TCEA
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The creation of an interactive white board using the wii remote. At a fraction of the cost and the benefits of a more expensive interactive white board.
Carlos Cordero and Jeff Bradley, Ranchland Hills Middle School
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We will demonstrate the basics about the Promethean Activboard. We will also share online resources for you to learn more about the Promethean Activboard and to download flipcharts ready to use in your classroom.
Lorena Olmos, Instructional Technology
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SchoolCenter 8.0. Have you noticed the new changes to SchoolCenter? Join us for a session covering these changes and revealing new features to help you use your website more effectively.
Cathy Chavez, Instructional Technology
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Come learn how to use Gradespeed more effectively. We will cover how to use the seating chart, run reports, add notes for parents to view in Powerparent and much more.
Robert Ferraro, Instructional Technology
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Immerse students into rich curriculum experiences. Combine research and imagination by creating engaging publishing activitites in all areas of the curriculum. Publish your students' stories, poetry, reports, etc. in a variety of interesting formats.
Cathy Chavez, Instructional Technology
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Computer Aided Instruction and Strategies for Struggling Learners |
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Presenters will demonstrate the use of Premiere Assistive Technology Suite as a tool for scaffolding instruction and building literacy skills. Participants will learn to use OCR, text-to-speech, word-prediction, spell check, auto summary, bookmarking, text disaggregation, and MP3 conversion to accommodate for learning differences while maintaining the integrity of grade level content.
Leslie Armbruster, Coordinator, Special Education Dept. Ricardo Castaneda, Julio Ortiz, Greg Haire
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 A presentation and demonstration of the 21st century classroom. The session will include Visual Presenters from Lumens, Multimedia Projectors and Interactive White Boards from Hitachi and Classroom Response systems from Renaissance Learning.
Kevin Copeland, Account Executive
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Atomic Learning provides a large online library of short, easy-to-understand tutorials. AL's innovative approach to software training focuses on answering the common questions when learning new software.
Larry Snyder and Irasema Padilla, Instructional Technology
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Learn how to create, present, and publish your work with style. iWork
'08 features three powerful applications for creating everything from
school newsletters, cinema-quality presentations, to completing a lab
report spreadsheet.
Alex Reyes, Instructional Technology
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Learn the basics of the award-winning digital lifestyle suite from
Apple. Learn how to use this multifaceted software to create
interesting and imaginative podcasts and vodcasts.
Larry Snyder, Instructional Technology
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Generate authentic assessments by having your students create podcasts of their nine-week lessons. Podcasting is an easy and comprehensive method of evaluating student learning at the end of each unit or term. Student created podcasts can be uploaded to the various websites.
Carol Viescas, Bel Air High School
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PD 360 is education's most comprehensive online professional
development tool. Teachers and administrators can use PD 360 to access
46 digitized Video Journal of Education programs-broken into hundreds
of fully indexed and searchable segments.
Linda Murray, Professional Development Coordinator
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Participants in this session will view the key features of MS Word 2007. A demonstration of its new user-interface screen and how to access frequently used commands and features will be shown. New terminology that is unique to this new version will be discussed, along with the system requirements to run it. These imformative sessions will help you transition to MS Word 2007 and give you tips on how to discover the capabilities of this software.
Fernando Marquez, Career and Technology Education (Secondary
Education), and Zenith Borrego, Central Offiice Library Services
(Instructional Technology Department)
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Come and learn how to make movies on the Windows side of your computer.
Movie Maker is a wonderful tool to enhance multimedia projects in your
classroom.
Fernando Marquez, Career and Technology Education (Secondary
Education), and Zenith Borrego, Central Offiice Library Services
(Instructional Technology Department)
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Missed Day 1 of the newly adopted Math textbook? Here's your last chance to navigate through the on line Teacher Edition (TE). Explore the different components that come with this new resource. It's all available on line!
Josie Saucedo, Instructional Specialist
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Join us at the Genius Bar!
From 8:00 am - 9:00 am, learn about Picnik, a free online image editor and creator. Add text, borders and other elements to your pictures. Download the changes and print or upload them to your webpage. From 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, learn about Smile Box, a free application to create and edit stunning images or slideshows with music for print or your web page.
Alex Reyes, Instructional Technology
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