With the plethora of mobile devices, it only takes a few extra items to complete a mobile or video studio. Experience the portable studio in action.
Check out the Student Showcase in the main commons area. We have over 20 groups of kids who are anxious to show you what amazing technologies they've been working with at school!
Virtual Learning, Online Learning, Blended Learning -- What does it all mean? This session will explore how a school can begin the process of offering Virtual, Online, and Blended Solutions in their school and district. What are the considerations when creating these programs? How can these programs benefit schools and students? What are possibilities and what the pitfalls?
I will share my real life classroom experience using social media. I have had an excellent experience using social media in my classroom and would love to share with others. I've researched social media as a graduate school project in the IDET program at the University of Utah and would like to share issues, challenges and successes with other teachers to encourage them to be as social networking friendly as possible. I'd like to share the benefits of edmodo, twitter for students (and teachers), titan pad and a few other classroom friendly websites. I would love to be able to help teachers set up with accounts and mobile devices to begin using social networking to enhance their classroom and grow their Professional Learning Network.
Have you used UTIPS Core yet? Come and learn how to use the new UTIPS Core system to create instructionally sensitive assessments, share them with your colleages and review student-level and aggregate data. Access items aligned to common core state standards. Provide feedback to the USOE about what features you'd like to see in UTIPS Core and how you'd like to use the system to support your instructional goals.
Want a Interactive White board but don't have the money. Don't like the idea of being tied to the fron of the room. Lately I have using the Apple TV and the iPad as an alternative to one of the many types of interactive whiteboards currently available to instructors. This combination is amazingly magical. You will walk away with a different attitude towards the iPad in the classroom. You can find out all you need on my website.
In this session, participants will learn to use free software internet resources that will enhance classroom instruction.
Useful projects and activities to do with mobile devices. Sometimes it doesn’t matter whether you have a BlackBerry, iOS device or an Android, you can still get the job done even if there isn’t an App for that. This session will explore 3 ways to create projects in the classroom with almost any of the current generation of mobile devices. Projects include Picasa Web Albums, Quick Interview and GPS enabled scavenger hunts.
This presentation will be for SLPs, teachers and OT's. Shown or discussed will be a variety of apps in the area of Speech and Language to include apps for articulation, fluency, semantics, early language development and AAC. In addition, tools for adapting an iPad such as switch access, joystick,and accessibility features will be demonstrated for your students with complex learning needs and motor challenges.
An overview of creating a long term training and professional development plan. Strategies for designing a plan to get beyond training to curriculum integration. We will discuss how to measure progress and help teachers know the questions to ask for help. We will share with you some of the specific resources we have created for implementing Smartboards and Smart Response in the classroom. We will also show you how to use the same strategies for any other technology. If you are an administrator, tech leader, professional development coordinator, or team lead, this is the course for you!
Participants attending this session will be able to see how Ucet’s 2011 grant winners implemented their grant winning proposals: 1) Our Library Nook – The Future of the Book, 2) If iHad an iPad, 3) Flipping Presentations, and 4) Quest for 21st Century Learning.
Catch Them Before They Fall -- Do you know that most student who eventually drop out of school begin thinking about dropping out after they get their first low grade in middle school. This session will explore ways to "Catch Students Before they Fall" including skills remediation in reading and math as well as 6-week remediation programs and full course remediation solutions in all core subject areas. This session will show how schools can provide an environment for middle school students where failure is not an option, so that all students can stay on the path toward a successful high school graduation.
Boardmaker software from Mayer Johnson has been around for years and has been used faithfully by special educators. A year ago, Mayer Johnson introduced Boardmaker Studio, a new version of the software that allows teachers to quickly print out activities on paper or design interactive activities that can be used on a computer or with an interactive white board. This session will teach you how to create activities using fast and easy templates, design activities from scratch, create pictures for augmentative communication, and access thousands of free activities designed by educators from around the country through Mayer Johnson's Boardmaker Share. This software will help you spend less time preparing materials and more time working with your students!
Learn how to improve and save time when teaching your students and colleagues new technologies by using screen capture, screencasting, and screenshare programs. This presentation will review and demonstrate a variety of programs available for the Mac, PC and iPad. Free programs such as Jing, Screencast-0-Matic, Screenr, Sketchcast, QuickScreenShare, Show Me, ScreenChomp, and DuckLink, to name a few, can provide quick and easy solutions for creating and sharing short tutorials or lessons.
YouTube doesn’t have to be a place where viewers passively watch video. Free annotation tools allow content creators to provide interactive opportunities to engage content. The resulting video can be used as part of a flipped classroom model or to time-shift any kind of instruction.
The iPad comes with a variety of assistive technologies to help those with disabilities. This session will briefly cover VoiceOver, Safari Reader and more
Proloquo@go is a speech output application for the iPad. For some kids this program can be overwhelming and confusing. This class will focus on how to simplify the program and how to individualize it for the students with whom you might be working.
Come join us for an App-o-rama. We will be sharing our app-find resources, app evaluation ideas, our favorite elementary and secondary apps.
We want you to join us and share your favorite apps, too. We will learn from each other.
Do you struggle with behaviors that seem to come out-of-the-blue at home or in the classroom? Do you have students who just seem to be out of control or on overload? Our body and our brain need to be in sync with one another for maximum learning to take place. Come and learn how to help our bodies and brain sync with one another. We will have fun as we explore ways to help our students.
Pedagogy for teaching in a mobile learning environment incorporating Project Based Instruction, Problem Based Instruction, Classroom Instruction That Works, and other resources.
The iPhone is the most popular camera in the world. This session will present favorite iPhone photography apps and tips.
Comic Life is a terrific application for all levels and all subjects. See student samples and how to get started with Comic Life
Few deny the power of music in both learning and inspiration. How many of us learned the alphabet with the power of a song? This class is meant to instruct teachers how Apple's Garageband software may open up new avenues for learning. Even teachers who can't carry a tune in a bucket may benefit from these musical tools. Come see how poetry and songwriting can complement your teaching and inspire a few reluctant learners.
Virtual Learning, Online Learning, Blended Learning -- What does it all mean? This session will explore how a school can begin the process of offering Virtual, Online, and Blended Solutions in their school and district. What are the considerations when creating these programs? How can these programs benefit schools and students? What are possibilities and what the pitfalls?
Utah Education Network and the Utah Instructional Media Consortium provide a wide variety of really amazing resources for use in the classroom. Come learn how to download, sync and stream eMedia onto iOS, Android and other handheld devices. Also participate in a hands-on strategy for getting more out of the resources in eMedia. BYOD if you have one.
Maximize learning with online courses! Whether your model is blended, hybrid, completely online, or in a classroom, the ability to employ technology in a facilitated learning environment enables teachers and students to engage in a supportive learning environment.
Recognized by the United States Distance Learning Association with a 2011 Distance Learning Award, Education2020’s online learning system offers opportunities for students in grades 6-12 at both ends of the learning spectrum. Advanced students can take courses beyond their grade level or study subjects not offered. For students who are struggling, e2020 provides crucial supplemental and remedial support.
Students are engaged in the learning process through a completely multi-media online environment including animations, simulations, video-based presentations, vocabulary development, and exploration activities that support each lesson presented by a highly-qualified virtual teacher via recorded video. Online homework, evaluations, and other engaging activities reinforce student understanding ensuring content mastery.
• Core content
• Dropout prevention
• Targeted interventions
• Overage programs
• Credit recovery
• Credit advancement and AP courses
• Career education electives
• STEM courses
The USchool DistrictLA Awards acknowledge major accomplishments with demonstrated extraordinary results through the use of online, videoconferencing, satellite and blended learning delivery technologies.
“As a premier organization for the distance learning profession, we honor e2020, Inc., as an industry leader,” said Dr. John G. Flores, executive director of USchool DistrictLA. “e2020, Inc., has raised the bar of excellence and we are truly honored by its contributions to the distance learning industry.”
Come hear what others are talking about!
This session would cover in detail what Utah Education Network currently provides to education to help them filter internet content, mitigate AUP violations, and in general be CIPA compliant.
Using wiki pages in the classroom can help students collaborate and communicate. It also provides a place for students to find information about assignments and to complete homework. Learn about the characteristics of wikis, how to operate and manage them, and a variety of classroom applications including how to create a free wiki site to use with students.
Besides the conference the most powerful benefit is the monthly newsletter and frequent blog posts put together by our Newletter Editor, Nathan Smith. In this session Nathan will explain how he gathers the news and puts it out to UCET members and others.
Refreshments are served! A variety of cookies and drinks are available in the dining hall and student commons the half hour before our closing Keynote. Have a treat then come on into the auditorium for the closing Keynote.
Join us for the UCET App-O-Rama
iBooks Author is Apple's new tool for creating interactive multimedia books for iOS devices. This will be a brief demonstration of its capabilities.
In this session participants will explore using both physical and virtual Student Response System options to meet the challenges of implementing data driven instruction. Participants will gain familiarity with various tools within the TurningPoint software to help streamline collecting and analyzing student achievement data. We will also discuss various learning theories and teaching strategies that can be used to support student engagement and achievement.
With an influx of mobile devices flooding the market and educational institutions it is imperative that students and educators alike learn how to properly utilize these devices within the classroom and out. This presentation will discuss how to capitalize on the features that these mobile devices offer to be used for beneficial and interactive education, with some extra focus spent on securing and managing district owned devices.
Setting up a data collection system to chart student progress that is easy. This presentation will review the stages of learning as it directly relates to intervals for data collection and methods to document the learning itself through pictures, sound and video. In addition I can show how to incorporate technology for lesson plan components to make the content relevant to to classroom and students with very little effort using apps such as KSL weather. I also have started using a Go Pro camera system for science and communication to teach perspective.
I will let the attendees have a chance to practice a little with each device and if time is available to create a simple lesson that would use the device to either provide information or data collection
iMovie a fun, easy and powerful movie making and multimedia tool. Learn three "do-able” projects for students and teachers.
In this session we will create a movie trailer, music video, and a narrated slide show. In addition see how all the new features can help best tell your story.
Are you thinking about getting an eReader. Come learn about the features of some of the most popular new devices. Also learn how to get more out of and put more into the different devices. Public Pioneer provides books through your local library system and K-12 Pioneer has great resources for use on many eReaders. We will also discuss tools for converting PDF's to ePub and how to create ePub books with online and desktop tools. Come get your book on!
The purpose of this session is to inspire participants to use the new Common Core standards as inspiration for exciting and high-level technology projects. While the standards are able to provide a clear understanding of what students need to learn, they do not tell you HOW the students should learn these standards. While each student is different, the desire to be engaged and to use creative outlets are common amongst them all. Pixie3 is the creative tool that we will use to engage learners and collaborate our way through the new standards.
Learn some new tricks for using Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Search and more. We'll look at classroom management strategies, fun activities, and productivity tools.
Do you want to get video off the Internet or more specifically, YouTube? Would you like to be able to use a clip from your favorite commercial video in your classroom? How about having a DVD on your computer HD? We'll be moving fast, but will introduce you to tools that will do all this and more. Check out www.trainerob.com for the list of tools.
Now you have obtained that shiny new iPad to use in your classroom. Then the realization hits . . . how do you integrate? What are some awesome apps for students use? How can your iPad help you stay focused and on task as a teacher? Can I use my iPad to help my students master their basic math facts? Is it possible to improve fluency using an iPad? Some of my students have very poor penmanship, how can my iPad help? How do I turn my iPad into an interactive whiteboard? If you find yourself asking these questions, come find some answers.
Twitter as an instructional tool? Yes! Tweet props to your students, post the word of the day, hurl Elizabethan insults, the answer to a math problem, play by play historical events and much more. Walk away with simple to implement Twitter tips!
Come join us for an App-o-rama. We will be sharing our app-find resources, app evaluation ideas, our favorite elementary and secondary apps.
We want you to join us and share your favorite apps, too. We will learn from each other.
Learn how Washington County School District is meeting multiple needs through targeted online programs. To raise drop-out rates, Washington District has implemented a successful online credit recovery program utilizing two models: independent study and a more closely-monitored study hall approach. This program has achieved significant results as 80% of students have successfully completed their credit recovery courses and qualified for graduation. Come see why the unique structure of this program is generating such great results. In addition, the Washington District has also launched a summer school program that offers original and credit recovery over two summer sessions.
Apple has changed the process for creating content and posting on iTunes U. School Districts can now set up their own iTunesU sites. Learn more about this exciting change.
SUU or recertification credit. Come to the registration booth after the 7th session to pick up your recertification certificate or to fill out your application form or fill it out and print it in advance.
Application for SUU credit (Fill it it out and print before coming to the conference)
One of the best things about NASA is that YOU own the data. As a federal agency, all NASA sponsored scientific data is made publicly available on the Internet. The trick is knowing where to find it and how to use it. In this session, we will look at some of the NASA online data nodes, the types and formats of data available, where to find free software that can read the data, and how to use this data to meet national science, math, and technology standards in your classroom. You'll also learn about NASA programs that allow you and your students to become actual scientists to collect and analyze your own data.
Join us for our closing Prize Giveaway!
Enter to win several great prizes including: Nano iPod+ Watch Band, iTouch, Stylus, Flip Cameras, Roku Boxes, Apple TV, Converter Boxes, and more.
The grand prize is an iPad!
You must be present to win!
See you there!
