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Session Title

Presenter

District/

Employer

Audience

Skill Level

Description

Auditorium

 Keynote Follow-up

Mali Bickley and Jim Carleton

 Elementary, Higher Education, Library / Media Specialist, Secondary

 All

Spend additional time with Mali Bickley and Jim Carleton learning about their pioneering and innovative work.

300 (Lab)

Photoshop Basics

Brett Barbarick

Raymore - Peculiar High School

Higher Education

Beginner

This class will take you through the interface of Photoshop as we create text and photo effects. This class will be hands on and a brief representation of some of the things you can do with Photoshop.

301

Exploring MOREnet's online resources

John Riley

MOREnet

Elementary, Higher Education, Library / Media Specialist, Secondary

Beginner

This session is designed to familiarize participants with the the features and interfaces of EBSCO, Newsbank and MOREnet’s two newest resources Gale Discovering Collection and Learning Express Library. Join us for an overview of these exciting new tools and learn how they can be valuable resources for you and your students.

302 (Lab)

Using Multimedia to Enhance Literacy

Joy Munsen, Julie Jensen

R7 Lee's Summit School District

Elementary, Secondary

Beginner

Technology can be a powerful resource for enhancing traditional literacy lessons. Come to this session to experience the creation of a student multimedia writing project using PhotoStory 3. Participants will explore a variety of interactive pre-writing tools and, then, will be shown how to harvest free images and sounds from the Internet. Finally, a visual representation of their pre-writing activities will be created using PhotoStory 3. Examples and resources will be provided.

303

The Semantic Web - The Hype, the Hope, the Hazards

Jim Van Horn

Univ of Central Missouri

Administrators, Higher Education, Library / Media Specialist, Secondary, Tech Coordinators

Intermediate

Tim Berners-Lee, the driving force behind the worldwide web, first presented his vision for the Semantic Web in the early 1990s. His model was for a web that included not only human readable content but information that can be processed by machines (computers) that provide logic and meaning - semantics. The marriage of the semantic web and learning objects has the potential to create an e-learning framework that will be flexible, personalized, and ubiquitous. To realize the potential for this marriage, authors of learning objects need to have an understanding of this emerging framework.

304 (Lab)

Podcasting in the Classroom

Joel Braden

Raymore Peculiar Schools

Secondary,

Beginner

Educators will learn how to create their own podcast and how to incorporate the podcast into their classrooms.

305

Assistive Technologies in the Digital Classroom

Kevin Whaley and Bret Howren

Staley High School, Winnetonka High School

Administrators, Elementary, Secondary, Tech Coordinators

Beginner

Presenters will explore how various audio/video devices, human interface devices, and free online tools can be used as assistive technology to accommodate diverse learners in the regular classroom.

307

Staff Training for the 21st Century

Curt Kelly

Independence School District

Administrators, Elementary, Secondary, Tech Coordinators

Intermediate

No more instructional manuals gathering dust! Participants will witness an innovative training model for staff, which will include how to implement tutorials accessible anytime, anyplace!

308

Using Technology and Differentiated Instruction

Janice Lile-O'Donnell

Kansas City MO School District

Elementary

Intermediate

Defining differentiated instruction. How educators may use differentiated instruction through technology. The differentiated & technology instructional methods will enhance learning and challenges for all students to a higher level of thinking. Through the use of integrating technology learn how to address multiple intelligences, learning styles, and meet specific needs of the gifted learners in a regular classroom. Providing learning activities by using technology and differentiated instruction to motivate students.

309

Successfully Implement Marzano Strategies Through Simple Yet Effective Instructional Technology Tools

Jerry Bernard and Tricia Scott

Kansas City Audio-Visual and North Kansas City School District

Elementary, Higher Education, Secondary,

Intermediate

This session is designed to equip classroom teachers with a practical and achievable plan for implementing the classroom instruction strategies of Robert Marzano through the strategic use of instructional technology tools. The session will focus on tangible classroom practices that support Marzano's research-based strategies.

310 (Lab)

Tell It Like It Is -  Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Doug Lyon

Tech4Learning, Inc.

Administrators, Elementary, Library / Media Specialist, Tech Coordinators

Beginner

Digital storytelling is an engaging means of integrating technology into the classroom curriculum. See effective elements and techniques which improve student's reading, writing and other curriculum area skills. Explore multimedia projects, videos, slideshows, and Web pages that demonstrate how storytelling can enhance early literacy engage students in curriculum content. See the applications used to create scenes for the stories, record narration, create a video or publish to the web.

311

Geoworlds: Using Second Life to Advance Real Life Learning

Donna Russell

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Higher Education,

All

This presentation will discuss the use of a 3D virtual learning environment to develop advanced geosciences content in urban high schools.

312

How I Outsourced My Memory

Dick Kahoe

University of Central Missouri

Library / Media Specialist, Secondary, Tech Coordinators

All

An important step in getting things done is remembering what it is you are supposed to do. Attend this session to learn how a mashup of hardware and software can be used to create your own cyber memory-enhancer.

313

Engage, Assess, Achieve - Experience CPS from a Student's Point of View

Lee Barger

Lee's Summit R-7 Schools

Elementary, Library / Media Specialist, Secondary

Beginner

Lee Barger & Kyle Pace Interact with an exciting technology making assessment easy and fun for teachers and students. The Classroom Performance System encourages whole class participation in a non-threatening environment and quickly checks for understanding. Each participant will interact with these features: Verbal, Teacher Generated, Fast Grade, Exam View, and Team Activities. The session will conclude with the features of the Reports function.

314 (Lab)

Easy Technology Projects for the Classroom

Amanda Kilgore

Raymore-Peculiar School District

Administrators, Elementary, Secondary, Tech Coordinators

All

This session will feature a gallery tour of the technology that I use with my students. There will be brief explanations of the technology use, lots of examples, and a space to edit and take the templates that you like.

315

Email Archive & Management Solutions

Skip Miller

Arcmail Technology/ChannelMakers

Administrators, Tech Coordinators

All

Why archive emails? Keep important business information: Email today contains discussions, agreements, documents, notifications, contact information, and many other kinds of critical business information. By automatically storing email records, businesses can ensure that they are not loosing or misplacing the information they need.

316 (Lab)

The Wonders of Google

Clifton Dancy

Raytown C-2

Administrators, Elementary, Library / Media Specialist, Secondary

Beginner

If you thought Google was merely a search engine you have many surprises in store. This session will illuminate you about all the wonderful applications provided free from Google and a peek into things yet to come.