Sessions





__** Global Collaboration **__ // **Presented by:** Shannon McClintock Miller // // 1:00pm ( // via Skype // ) //
 * [[image:ShannonMiller.png]] || Shannon McClintock Miller is the district teacher-librarian and technology specialist at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, Iowa. She encourages her students to have a voice while learning, creating, collaborating, and connecting to others within their school and around the world.

This spotlight session will highlight the many ways that free and easy online tools can be leveraged to connect teachers and students by building and strengthening both local and global communities of learners. ||


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__** Getting Boys To Read Using Technology and New Media **__ // **Presented by:** Mike McQueen // // 10:45am, 1:00pm & 2:15pm //
 * [[image:MikeMcQueen.png]] || Mike McQueen is a teacher-librarian from Colorado, who works to bring the problem of boys and reading to the forefront of the discussion on literacy. “Getting Boys to Read” is the subject of his spotlight session.

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 __** Cracking the 'Native' Information Experience **__ // **Presented by:** David Warlick // // 10:45am //

We are teaching a brand new generation of learner. They have witnessed an emerging new information environment and have participated in shaping its landscape, seamlessly utilizing technologies that have come to define their culture. Their outside-the-classroom information experiences are deep, diverse, rich, and compelling — and understanding these experiences may be an important key to achieving more effective and relevant formal learning. What are the qualities of these experiences? What are their contexts? What might they look like if woven into the fabric of our schools, classrooms and libraries?


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 __** The Art & Technique of Personal Learning Networks **__ // **Presented by:** David Warlick // 1:00pm

As we work in a time of rapid change, with students who are digital natives, from within a dramatically new information landscape, the best description of the 21st Century teacher is Master Learner. Participants in this presentation will learn how to utilize a variety of new web-based applications to construct and cultivate personal learning networks. Educators will learn to attract information from other professional educators, experts in the fields of study, current news and news searches, student perspective, relevant resources from a growing library of web-based digital content, and other content sources to assist them in adapting to this age of change.


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__** Keeping the 'Love' in I Love To Read **__ // **Presented by:** Jo-Anne Gibson // // 10:45am & 1:00pm // This session will provide tangible examples of how to ramp up “I Love to Read” activities using technology as the “hook”. From relatively low tech examples to advanced tools such as Glogster, Vokis, Weebly Websites, QR codes and Animoto will be examined and discussed.
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 __** Video Games & 21st Century Literacie//s// **__ // **Presented by:** Devin King // // 10:45am & 2:15pm // How can educators gain relevancy in a students’ world dominated by video gaming? In this session the framework and educational potential for video gaming will be discussed. The focus will be on the implementation of games from The Legend of Zelda series into the classroom and their success in advancing literacy. Additionally, there will be some time given for attendees to demo video games and practice the learning principles discussed throughout the presentation.
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__** Design Matters **__ // **Presented by:** Darren Kuropatwa // // 10:45am & 2:15pm // How can teachers utilise the concepts Visual Design, Presentation Design, and Instructional Design to maximize the impact that their lessons have on student learning and achievement? Presentation technologies are integral to the teacher’s tool kit; how to best use these resources will be the focus of this session.
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__** Inquiring Minds Want To Know **__  // **Presented by:** Shauna Cornwell //   // 10:45am & 1:00pm // This session will provide an overview of Inquiry Based Learning and how the staff and students at Ralph Brown School have embraced Literacy with ICT. Participants will discuss and examine best practices in IBL and how IBL prepares students for the information age we live in.
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__** Digital Voices **__  // **Presented by:** Jamie Leduc //   // 10:45am & 1:00pm // Flip the classroom. Engage students with technology. Go mobile. In Sisler High School’s Digital Voices program students use a multi-disciplinary and technologically diverse approach to celebrate cultural diversity while experimenting with digital media.
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__** The Ed Tech Food Chain **__  // **Presented by:** Clarence Fisher //   // 10:45am & 2:15pm // In the wild, consumers live at the top of the food chain. In the technology world, however, being a consumer leaves you at the bottom - with the lowest skills. How effective schools move students up the food chain to become creators and producers will be the focus of the session.
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__** Visual Tinkering **__  // **Presented by:** James Dykstra & Teresa Gibbons //   // 10:45am & 2:15pm // Middle years and high school teachers will introduce BigHugeLabs.com’s photo website and present cool ideas for using it in Art, Photography and Social Studies.
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__** Caffeinate Your Presentations **__  // **Presented by:** Liz Loewen & Deb Duncan //   // 10:45am & 1:00pm // Delete those somniferous bullet points! Get activities and strategies to caffeinate your presentations and excite audience members in the process.
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__** Channel 7 Oaks - Community Internet Television **__ // **Presented by:** Marshall Mays & George Budoloski // // 10:45am & 1:00pm // The development of a community based internet television station will be the focus of this conversation. Channel 7 Oaks was awarded the 2012 Manitoba School Boards Association’s Premier Award for Innovation.
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__** Moodle Course Administration Software **__ // **Presented by:** Randy Tomchak & Justin McGillivray // // 10:45am & 2:15pm // What is Moodle? It is a course management system that helps teachers organize, deliver and administer their courses. Moodle, widely used by universities and colleges, is now making in roads into secondary education. Come check it out. It could change the way you teach.
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__** iPhonography **__ // **Presented by:** Raman Job //   // 10:45am & 2:15pm // Learn the ins and outs of iPhonography in this interactive, hands-on session.
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__** SMART BootCamp **__ // **Presented by:** Joan Badger //   // 10:45am & 2:15pm // Take your SMART Notebook skills to the next level in this advanced content development workshop. Participants will learn how to streamline lesson development and gain valuable knowledge to increase lesson effectiveness. Audience: K-12
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__** Tomorrow's Leaders Want To Learn: Why We Need To Teach Digital Citizenship NOW! **__ // **Presented by:** Chris Harbeck //   // 10:45am & 1:00pm // “Think Global Act Local” is a great slogan, but do schools do an adequate job formally teaching what it means to act responsibly in a digital world? This session will examine how to make students better global citizens in a connected world.
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__** Maple: Manitoba Professional Learning Environment **__ // **Presented by:** John Evans //  // 10:45am // This session will provide an overview of the brand new Manitoba Professional Learning Environment, an educational social networking platform that can be utilized by educators throughout Manitoba to connect, collect & share resources. Find out how you can gain access to this rich educational resource by attending this session.
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__** Expanding Classroom Walls **__ // **Presented by:** Georgette Nairn & Stacey Matsumoto // // 10:45am & 1:00pm // Opportunities to connect and collaborate with classes on a global scale are abundant. Global projects can create a high level of engagement in various curricular activities. This session, intended for Early Years educators (K-5), will examine a variety of projects and websites that can connect your classroom to the world.
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__** Window To The World **__ // **Presented by:** Erin Malkoske & Leslie Dent-Scarcello //   // 10:45am & 2:15pm // This session is for people who are new to blogging with students as well as for those who are looking for ways to make their classroom blog even better! Participants will learn the ins and outs of classroom blogging using Blogger and KidBlog.
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__** eLibraries: Why Not? **__ // **Presented by:** Rhonda Morrissette //   // 10:45am & 1:00pm // Would you like to explore the advantages and disadvantages of providing ebooks and audiobooks to students? Is Overdrive eLibrary the right platform for you? A demonstration and discussion of eLibraries will be the core of this session.
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 __** Building Your PLN/PLC **__ // **Presented by:** Phil Taylor // // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // How can educators build a PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network)? Phil will examine the use of Twitter, Diigo, Ning Educational Groups and will look at the potential impact MAPLE (Manitoba Professional Learning Environment) has had on Manitoba educators. You are encouraged to bring your personal technology.
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__** Teaching in a BYOD Environment **__ // **Presented by:** Roy Norris //   // 10:45am & 2:15pm // This presentation will outline many opportunities that participants can leverage the power that mobile devices could afford in their classrooms.
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__** Technology in Phys. Ed. **__ // **Presented by:** Blue Jay Bridge //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // How to use video analysis, QR codes and fitness related apps in Physical Education class to get students motivated to move.
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__** The School Bought An iPad: Now What? **__ // **Presented by:** Andrea Morphy & Jennifer Allan //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // Both Andrea (Resource Teacher) and Jennifer (Speech-Language Pathologist) will share how they have been able to meet student’s specific goals with IPad apps using a case study format. Case studies from an elementary school setting will be examined and discussed. Case studies will highlight students with exceptional needs. This session will be of interest to resource teachers and/or Speech-Language Pathologists.
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__** Share Their Voice **__ // **Presented by:** Landon White //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // Students have a voice regarding everything in their world. Using web tools such as blogs, wikis and podcasts teachers can engage students and allow them to truly share their voice.
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__** Classrooms As Radio Studios **__ // **Presented by:** Matt Henderson //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // Radio, arguably, is perhaps the most important creation in terms of human communication in the 20th century. Radio has enabled revolution, promoted social transformation, and provided us with a mechanism for authentic and collective discourse related to who we are and our purpose. Could you imagine what would happen if middle and and senior school students started to tap into this medium? In this session, participants will learn how to transform their classrooms into fully functioning and quasi-legal radio stations, while joining in a discussion about how to engage students, faculty, and staff for the purpose of affecting change in our society.
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__** ePub Authoring **__ // **Presented by:** Ron Nordstrom //   // 1:00pm // Textbooks of the future will be digital media read on tablets or similar devices. Although publishers are slow to convert from paper to digital, teachers can start to publish their own… for free. Discover how to produce the most amazing texts your students will ever see.
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__** Song Mosaics **__ // **Presented by:** Ryan Miller //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // Integrating music, song writing, technology and video across the curriculum is the focus of the session. Student voice and engagement will be seen in action.
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**__What Should Beginning Teachers Know About Using ICT?__** // **Presented by:** Mike Nantais & Reyn Redekopp //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // This session will begin with a brief overview of what the teacher education programs at Brandon University & University of Manitoba offer in terms of ICT in education. Participate in a discussion that could help shape the ICT programs at the BU Faculty of Education and the University of Manitoba.
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__** iPads & SMART Boards: Interactive & Collaborative Learning **__ // **Presented by:** Avril French-Varga //   // 1:00pm & 2:15pm // iPads are known to be a great personal tool for learning but how do we extend and engage students further to create collaboration with others? In this session participants will be able to experience how to use iPads in a collaborative way using SMART Bridgit Collaborative Software. Please download Bridgit Software for this session.
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__ ** Bring The Digital Novel Study Experience To Your 21st Century Library ** __ // **Presented by:** Heather Eby // // 1:00pm // As technology and digital tools transform how our students learn, it also affects how and what they choose to read. In this session, you will be introduced to the world of “Inanimate Alice”, a multi-sensory, interactive, digital novel study experience. This session will help educators bring the future of literacy into their library or classroom.
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__** You Can Be An Information Curator (and so can your students) **__ // **Presented by:** John Evans // // 2:15pm // The Internet is a vast resource of information with the quality of sources running from the good, the bad to the plain ugly. How do you filter through the noise? Better yet, what are the tools a teacher and/or their students can use to become curators of worthwhile information to share with others? This hands-on workshop will introduce participants the necessary skills to become information curators using a variety of free tools available to all.
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