Presenter: Dan Whisler Location: Sterling, KS @DanWhisler
Presentation Title: Energy 101: KidWind & the SHS Chevy Volt Project
Presentation Description: In this presentation I will use a presentation with videos imbedded to share how our energy-related projects combine STEM-related concepts in a PBL environment to help create a more student-centered learning experience. Real-life studies help make connections and create relevance for students. Through their study of these energy-related projects, students are exposed to environmental and economics lessons not possible simply by using a textbook. Videos will include me presenting background information (presentation) to help explain the projects along with videos of students working on various projects in the classroom to demonstrate the PBL approach being used.
Presenter: Michael Boll Location: Shanghai, China @autismpodcast
Digital Badges Part One: What Are Digital Badges Anyway? Introduction to Digital Badges, how they work and the Mozilla platform.
Digital Badges Part Two: The Tech of Digital BadgesLearn the tech behind getting started with digital badges.
Digital Badges Part Three: Bring Badges Into Your Classroom. Learn how to use digital badges in your classroom
Digital Badges Part Four: Bring Badges to Your SchoolTips on how to bring the digital badges program to your entire school or district
Digital Badges Part Five: The Future of Badges Digital Badges are just getting started. Take a look at what the future might hold.
Presentation Title: Bring Digital Badges To Your School or Classroom
Presentation Description: Badges, badges, badges. Fun, motivation, excitement. Ok, you get the point. Badges are a time tested (think like for 10,000 ago or more) method to bring out full achievement in students and adults. Everybody loves to receive recognition for things they have done.
The communication revolution (thanks Internet) means we can both give and display badges on a grander scale than ever before. My school is currently in a beta test stage for using badges with students and we would like to share our experiences so far.
This workshop will cover some of the ins and outs of using badges in and outside of the classroom.
Specifically:
* How it works
* Using Mozilla’s Open Badges Program
* How to issue badges
* How to display badges
* Badge use cases
* Setting up systems at your school to enable effective badge distribution
Additional Information:
Michael Boll is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Podcaster and Technology Coach at Concordia International School Shanghai. Michael enjoys helping educators, parents and students harness the transformative powers of technology.
Michael is an enthusiastic instructional designer and presenter. He works to make his courses and presentations information packed, slightly provocative and fun.
Michael has a teenage son with profound autism and is keenly interested in the special needs community and its population of diverse learners. This interest led Michael and his wife, Lori Boll, to open an innovative school in Shanghai (ShineAcademy.asia) for their son.
For more information about Michael, check out his website: www.michaelboll.me
Presenter: Chris Betcher Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Chris Betcher on G+
Presentation Title: Coding for Kids
Presentation Description: While not every student might want to write their own software, understanding the big ideas of coding is a skill that all students would benefit from, even the very young ones. Understanding the key ideas of computational thinking – identifying patterns, thinking algorithmically, manipulating data, solving real problems, etc – is an important step in helping our students build mastery over their world.
This presentation will take you on a guided tour through some of the resources available to your students to help them learn the principles of creating code. We’ll check out a range of desktop and iPad apps suitable for teaching very young students to program, through to tools and websites that can help your older students learn to hack code, and much more.
Additional Information:
Chris Betcher is an Australian technology educator with a passion for helping students master their digital world. He is the technology integrator at PLC Sydney, where he helps students and teachers use technology in meaningful and authentic ways. He has a curious mind, asks way too many questions, and likes to build cool stuff out of zeroes and ones. Connect with Chris at www.chrisbetcher.com.
Hear about and learn about some great educational technology apps that will change the way we learn, teach and lead. Join us for some insight on a student engagement, teacher productivity and using augmented reality in education.
Presenter: Carol Broos Location: Gurnee, IL USA @musictechie
Presentation Title: T3:Triple Threat in Tech: Art, Music, and Media
Presentation Description: Triple threat gridiron football is referring to a player who excels at all three of the skills of running, passing, and kicking. In theater, it is someone who can sing, dance, and act equally the same. In technology is it the ability to excel in creating your own artwork, composing your own music, then producing your own movies.
There are two interviews with educators that are triple threats, Tricia Fuglestad, a K-5 Art Teacher and Linda Keene, an architect and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Once you take the plunge to be a triple threat, by creating your own art, composing your own music and producing your own movies, it will change in the way you interact with all the arts. You will begin to create more, learn more, and share more.
Carol Broos describes her process of creating art, composing music, and putting the icing on the cake, producing movies.
Presenter: Betsy Hanger Location: Los Angeles @BHmindful
Presentation Title: Mindfulness and Neuroscience: How a Contemplative Curriculum for K-12 Students can Improve Focus, Connectedness, and Self-Regulation
Presentation Description: After Reading, Writing, and “Rithmetic, is Reflection the New “Fourth R”?
In this video presentation, veteran teacher Betsy Hanger will explore the uses of mindfulness training in elementary classrooms. She will describe the curriculum of Mindful Schools (www.mindfulschools.org), connecting the skills developed to the students’ experiences. Examples of students’ journals and mindfulness activities in the classroom will give teachers a realistic idea of this important new movement in urban education. Betsy will answer these questions: 1) What is mindfulness? (definition, origins in medicine, psychology) 2) Who does mindfulness help? (Challenges that mindfulness training addresses: brain slides) 3) What is the curriculum? (three sets of skills, with three examples for each drawn from student work) 4) What improvements can I expect if I do mindfulness training in my classroom? (research, anecdotal experiences: video testimony) Resources for learning more about mindfulness training in classrooms are appended.
Presenter: Katie Ann Wilson Location: Pratt, KS @katiann_76
Presentation Title: A Story + A Green Wall = 1 Amazing Transformed Digital Story….
Presentation Description: You will be learning how to transform a story into 1 amazing digital story through the effects of Green-Screen. I will walk you through how to create a Green-Screen effect story via iMovie. You will need to have a story, digital illustrations, iMovie, and a video recording device. For your digital illustrations you can use drawings and make them digital, create them on the computer, use photographs, or even a video clip. When you are all done you will have 1 AMAZING Digital story to share.
Additional Information:
I’m a life long learner!! I teach students & staff tech skills! I am the founder of the blog Diary of a Techie Chick & the Global Digital Scrapbook.
Presenter: Jeff Bradbury Location: New Jersey @TeacherCast
Presentation Title: Learn how to create a WordPress Website in less than 20 minutes
Presentation Description: Learn how YOU can create a dynamic WordPress website in less than 20 minutes. Jeff (TeacherCast) walks you through the steps and demonstrates how to choose a great theme, add posts, pages, widgets, videos, photos, and menu items.
