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Get SMART! Student Mastery
Achieved in Reading with Technology
Need some strategies so that no child is left behind in reading? Get SMART!
Student Mastery Achieved in Reading with Technology will demonstrate how
technology can reach all learners when teaching your students to read. The
course focus is on strategies for teaching specific reading skills such as
sequencing, determining main idea, summarizing, compare/contrast, examining
author’s craft, identifying tone/mood, meaning of figurative language,
inference, and cause/effect relationships according to the NCSCOS for grades 2-5
with technologies such as WiggleWorks, KidPix, Inspiration, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft PowerPoint, the Internet, Classroom Performance System (CPS) and the
Elmo. Participants will leave with a list of resources, sample lesson plans, and
wonderful ideas for integrating reading instruction and technology.
Target Audience: 2nd – 5th grade classroom teachers, reading specialists, media
specialists
Limit: 15
Presenters: Angie Nall, Donna Martin, Cindy Cooper, Guildford County Schools
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Room: Tryon South
Becoming a Modern Day Pirate:
Using GeoCaching to Understand Community, Project-Based Learning and Emerging
Technology
Participants will embark on a GeoCaching adventure in the surrounding area using
handheld devices equipped with GPS capabilities. Via the GeoCaching hobby,
participants will discover how to introduce students to their own communities
and the exciting locales found there. Participants are asked to use information
to create a multimedia presentation in which they explain their selection of a
GeoCache location. In order to create this they will utilize web resources for
research and data. Teachers will participate in each of these student activities
as well as a critical analysis of the planning and learning involved and how it
applies to their specific curriculum. They will also address how to assess and
evaluate such projects and tie to student achievement.
Target Audience: General
Limit: 15
Presenters: Acacia Dixon, Instructional Technology Consultant, NC DPI
Sue Phillips, Instructional Technologist, Duplin County Schools, NC DPI
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Room: College
Bring Your Own Laptop: Create a
Standards-Based Website
Does your website validate? Is it accessible? Want a hands-on experience
learning how to create websites that will validate? That are accessible? Bring
your own laptop, text files and images. We will teach you how to use your own
content to develop a website based on W3C standards. Software needed: Macromedia
Studio (Dreamweaver & Fireworks). Don’t have the software? No problem! Before
coming to the conference, download a 30 day trial from Macromedia at: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=studio
. Charge up your laptop; bring an extra battery if you have one. Power strips
and extension cords will be provided.
Target Audience: Intermediate Skill-level, prior web creation experience
recommended, some knowledge of HTML helpful but not required
Limit: 20
Presenters: Ouida Myers and Melanie Honeycutt, NC DPI
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Room: Tryon North
An Architectural Framework for
Building Your Infrastructure Strategy A Valuable Session for Improving and
Optimizing Your School-Based Network and Network Services
Your school network and applications are becoming more and more critical to
education delivery. Tight budgets, increased complexity, a growing number of
assets, and a lid on staffing require you to do more with less. In this session
you’ll learn the critical concepts you must employ to go from “putting out
fires” to planning a more reliable, available, and manageable network,
including:
- Directory Services Design and Management – Want a simpler method for controlling network access while managing resources and users?
- Server Upgrades and Application Migrations – Looking for a way to shorten the window on patching, upgrading, testing and rolling out new applications and software versions?
- High Availability and Security – Wish your student records, teaching applications, online curricula, and e-mail were more available and secure?
- Server Management, Consolidation, and Virtualization – Need to increase computing horsepower and capacity without increasing your network management workload or TCO?
- Portal Technologies – Are users demanding better and faster ways to communicate with each other, parents and administrators?
Limit: 60
Presenters: Ritchie Blunt, Data Networks Solution Architect and Colleen Beale, Data Networks Engineering Manager
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Room: Harris
Formative Evaluation of
Education Technology Projects in Schools
Would you like to improve the implementation and impact of your technology
projects? Would you like to provide evidence for project continuation? Formative
evaluation can help! In this session, the Technology in Learning (TIL) Program
at the SERVE Center at UNCG will share materials and resources to use for
evaluation of projects that implement technology in teaching and learning
settings. The materials are designed to help educators understand the basic
elements of project evaluation and assist them in drafting and implementing
plans for evaluating the implementation and impact of their projects.
Target Audience: General
Limit: 50
Presenters: Nita Matzen, Project Director, Jeni Corn, Education technology
Specialist
Technology in Learning Program at SERVE
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room: Independence
Balanced Literacy and
Technology
This preconference session
is full. If you’d like to place your
name on the waiting list, please email
ncaect@carolina.rr.com.
Are you required to teach balanced literacy model? Are you looking for ways to
enhance your instruction of the balanced literacy model and incorporate
technology in the model? Then this session if for you! The seminar features
lessons learned during a two-year initiative to enhance instruction in New York
City elementary school balanced literacy classrooms through the use of
technology. Examples of promising practices generated by teachers and
professional developers will be presented and discussed. Participants will also
have hands-on opportunities to explore promising practices related to reading
and writing instruction that can be applied to their elementary and middle
school classrooms. This session has been presented at the 2004 International
Reading Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Target Audience: Teachers, literacy coaches, technology specialists
Limit: 15
Presenters: Dana Wilber Cammack, Assistant Professor Dept. of Early Childhood,
Elementary, and Literacy Education, Montclair State University
Naomi Cooperman, Director of Curriculum Teaching Matters, Inc.
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room: Sharon
Electrifying Your Staff
Development
**Session voted one of the 10 best at NECC for the past three years!
Does your staff development need a lightning bolt jolt? Learn new methods and
strategies to create this transformation for your campus or district. The
workshop will address different learning environments, best practices for
integrating technology into the curriculum and ideas for increasing teacher
productivity and professional status. Ideas that are presented can be adapted to
the various educational environments that are represented at the conference.
Target Audience: All Levels, Teachers, Technology Coordinators, Staff
Developers, Administrators
Limit: 50
Presenters: Joan Gore, Instructional Technology Specialist and Janet Corder,
Coordinator Instructional Technology, Lewisville ISD and Carroll ISD
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Room: Independence
Blogging History in the 21st
Century
Participants will be introduced to NiceNet, a blogging tool for classrooms that
also allows students and instructors to share links, documents, and other files.
The classroom blog is a closed environment, accessible only by an alpha-numeric
“Class Key” that the teacher provides to students. Students create individual
accounts. In addition to typical blog features such as the ability to
chronologically reverse posts, reply, and create new topics, both students and
instructors have access to a private messaging feature. In addition, students
are enabled to author posts, and the teacher has the ability to manage posts
with simple edit and delete features.
Target Audience: Teachers using or desiring to use blogging in their classrooms
Limit: 15
Presenters: Chris Hall
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Room: Sharon
Extend Your Reach: Be a Leader
in Collaboration with LEARN NC!
Trying to extend your reach and work with all teachers in your school? Want to
make your program and resources integral? Make a plan! You will be better
equipped to collaborate, make connections, integrate information and technology
skills and make your program central regardless of discipline or grade level,
using the strategies and tools in this hands-on workshop. If collaboration is a
major item on your personal growth plan and you want to get started planning and
developing these skills, this is a great place to start. You will leave with a
plan for effective outreach tailor-made to meet the needs of teachers and
students in your school!
Target Audience: Building level media specialists and instructional
technologists, all grade levels
Limit: 15
Presenters: Melissa Rihm Thibault and Kim Campbell, LEARN NC
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Room: Morehead
Technology Tools and Strategies
for Teaching Writing with LEARN NC
This preconference session
is full. If you’d like to place your
name on the waiting list, please email
ncaect@carolina.rr.com.
Have you taken the time to review the cool, free, easy-to-use tools for
integrating writing into your classes? This hands-on workshop introduces you to
several cool tools and techniques for motivating students to write in any
classroom at any grade level, all available through the new LEARN NC website!
Target Audience: General
Limit: 15
Presenters: Bobby Hobgood, Director of Teacher Development, LEARN NC
Melissa Thibault, Associate Director, LEARN NC
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room: Morehead
Teaching and Learning with
Apple Technology
There’s always something new at Apple, right? For the last 26 years Apple has
created new technologies that have benefited both students and teachers, and
this year is no exception. Come join us for a fast paced review of what’s new
from Cupertino. Using the North Carolina Standard Course of Study as a starting
point, we will integrate Apple’s newest technologies into familiar lesson plans
that will result in a new set of creative learning experiences for students.
Target Audience: General
Limit: 20
Presenters: Janice Adams, Educational Development Executive, Apple
Dr. Barry Adams, Educational Technology Consultant
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Room: Trade
Teaching and Learning with
Apple Technology
There’s always something new at Apple, right? For the last 26 years Apple has
created new technologies that have benefited both students and teachers, and
this year is no exception. Come join us for a fast paced review of what’s new
from Cupertino. Using the North Carolina Standard Course of Study as a starting
point, we will integrate Apple’s newest technologies into familiar lesson plans
that will result in a new set of creative learning experiences for students.
Target Audience: General
Limit: 20
Presenters: Janice Adams, Educational Development Executive, Apple
Dr. Barry Adams, Educational Technology Consultant
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room: Trade