Instructional Technology

How can professional development structures be upgraded to implement curriculum mapping or any other major school improvement initiative?

How can teachers integrate Digital 2.0 applications into their training design and model 21st century skills for their staff?

During this session, participants learn strategies to help develop a professional development plan that provides focus and helps to sustain the work long term, including:

• How to craft realistic goals
• The importance of unpacking goals and beginning to draft an implementation plan
• Integrating Digital 2.0 tools to enhance the training and model 21st century skills

Exciting first experiences of PowerPoint have been transformed to teacher drudgery and student boredom.

How did we get here? Can we use PowerPoint more effectively? What other options are available?

This session explores these questions to help enhance a classroom experience.

Preparing students to embrace their civic duty to contribute to the virtual world in responsible ways is paramount.

This session helps educators build digital skills while understanding how to conduct themselves in a civil manner in the virtual space as professionals.

Gain a better understanding about the inception and implementation of social media tools from Google to Twitter to other emerging social networks in order to:

• Better understand their civic as well as ethical responsibilities in the digital realm
• Provide a real time overview of digital media
• Further develop critical and lateral thinking as well as just-in-time learning skills
• Engage and empower students to become active learners who are able to analyze, compare/contrast, and apply acquired knowledge
• Enhance your presentation skills on- and offline
• Improve collaborative problem-solving skills

Is this good instruction or is it theft?

The ready access of digital content has changed the teaching profession for the better, and made it much more complicated.

This workshop explores the murky legal realities of fair use and provides some guidelines for ethical and legal use of online resources for teachers and students. This workshop showcases how teachers can protect their own content.

This class was designed for those who wish they had more time for project-based learning.

The shift from breadth to depth with standards-based instruction creates opportunities for students to explore real-world problems and challenges, understand the relevance of what they are learning, and pursue their passions.

Take this session to leverage technology and blended learning strategies to empower students, facilitate collaboration, and inspire creativity.

With the next-generation science standards having such a strong focus on engineering, we continue to explore the use of the mobile devices in STEM content.

From apps that engage engineering skills to apps for building lab reports, this training shows how science class plus mobile device equals great fun and engaging ways to learn and build!

If you’re considering the deployment of a mobile device program, this hands-on workshop takes attendees from the planning stage through the implementation of a mobile device program.

Topics include: leadership, deployment strategies, network infrastructure, apps, content creation, curriculum building, paperless classroom, student engagement, building a support team, protecting devices, configuration and management of the mobile devices, and professional development strategies.

Attend to explore apps, iBooks, and courses that assist in designing a program at any level.

Notability is the go-to app for tens of thousands of students and educators across the world. When used to its fullest potential, teachers can easily organize lessons, presentations, PowerPoints, and notes to get the most from the app.

Integration with existing content is key, allowing for guided notes, worksheets, creative projects, diagraming, labeling, and so many more assignments to be created and distributed to students.

Learn hands-on from a teacher who has moved teaching from handouts to digital interactive!

With technology in the classroom, students sometimes tend to wander off and not focus on the lesson that is being taught. Nearpod, an all-in-one solution for the use of mobile devices in education, can keep students engaged. Users can control the flow of the presentation during a lesson without having to continuously redirect students.

This session will present Nearpod in a classroom to keep students engaged through various means of interactives easily created by the teacher with existing content. It will also include a hands-on opportunity to learn how to use Nearpod to build a presentation.

This workshop can be done with laptops or tablets (PC, Mac, Chromebook, iPad, Android, or Windows 8 Tablet).