Illinois Education and Technology Conference

Presentations

Below are details of last year's IETC 2012 Conference.  This page will be updated with 2013 information at a later date.

 

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PRE-CONFERENCE FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS - Wed., Nov. 28, 2012

  • iPad iLearn: Tap into the Magic -- 8:30am-3:30pm in Plaza A
  • Think Differently about iPad Management -- 8:30am-3:30pm in Plaza B 
  • Becoming an iAdministrator to Strengthen Your Leadership and Management Skills (Administrator Academy credit session) -- 8:30am-4:00pm in Plaza C 

 

GENERAL CONFERENCE DAYS - Thurs., Nov. 29 and Fri., Nov. 30, 2012

Below is a list of IETC 2012 General Conference sessions.

 

You may view the IETC 2012 program booklet, program booklet changes and an updated schedule here. 

 

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 General Conference Concurrent Sessions:


1st Half: Rethinking the Role - The District's Technology Leader / 2nd Half: IL-CTO Meeting (2 hours)
5 Sure Strategies, Using the TI-84 to Boost Student Performance on the Math Portion of the EXPLORE/ACT (2 hours) (Canceled 11/28/12)
50 in 50
Amazing (photographic) stuff I can do with my iPad/iPhone! (2 hours)
Arts & Education Exchange: Bringing the arts to every Illinois student
Bridging the Learning Gap with iAuthor
Bronze Sponsor Session: Windows in the Classroom: Windows 8 and More (2 hours)
Calculate and Search Real Data Using Wolfram Alpha
Come One; Come Small: "Apptivities" for Small Groups
Computer-based Geometric and Generative Art: A Fusion of Art, Math, and Computer Science
Content Specific Apps for Mobile Learning and More (2 hours)
Create Videos that Inspire with Movie Maker
Digital Differentiation (2 hours)
Digital Literacy in an ELA Curriculum Review
DIY Technology and Low Cost Alternatives
Education 2.0 with 1:1 Learning
Elevate Education with Edmodo
Enhancing Mathematics Instruction and Connecting to CCSSM in 1 to 1 Classrooms (2 hours)
Extreme Makeover: Revolutionize Student Projects with Free Web-based Resources
Facilitating Meaningful Online Discussions
Featured Presentation:  A Conversation with Gary Stager
Featured Presentation:  How Tinkering, the Maker Culture and Reality TV are Transforming Learning
Featured Presentation:  Keep It Clean!
Featured Presentation:  So I Have Firefox...Now What?
Featured Presentation:  Websites I Found So You Don't Need To
Featured Presentation:  You Get What You Pay For?
From Apps to Application - Part 1
From Egg to Flight
From Mediocre to Magnificent: Transforming a Library to a Media Center and Beyond
Get Snapping with QR Codes
Going Digital - Digital Portfolios With Elementary Students
Going Google In Your School
Gold Sponsor Session:  Engaging Learners with SMART Notebook 11
Gold Sponsor Session: Thinking of Flipping your Classroom?
Gold Sponsor Session: What Does it Mean to be Media Literate in the 21st Century?

New add to program booklet 11/28/12:  Google Apps -- The Basics (And More!)

Google Earth, GPS and Educational Mapping

Hoverboards and Economics in Virtual Worlds Elementary Education
How long does it REALLY take to build a one to one program?
Hyperstudio5 for Midwestern 5th Graders
IlliniCloud Updates - State of the Art Computing for K-12
Illinois Veterans' and Community Story Portal
Introducing Meraki Systems Manager:  Manage Your PCs and Macs from the Cloud!
iMovie in an iPad Classroom
Integrating Project Based Technology in the Content Area
Integrating Technology into the Daily Five
iPad Basics, Tips & Tricks for Everyone (2 hours)
iPads in 6th Grade Science
iPads in the Classroom
Just Connect!
LEARN with a Strong PLN
Learning 24/7
Never Miss a Sound
O'ER, The Land of the Free
Planning for Online or Blended Learning
Preserve Your Sanity: Purposeful Online Discussions to Avoid Instructor and Student Burnout
Retrograde to Prograde, Document Management
Screencast Before You Flip - Tips and Tricks for Making Your Own Instruction Videos
Screenr: Record & Replay the Action on Your Desktop
Silver Sponsor Session: Intel's Learning Series, Open Source Teaching Tools,  and Grant Resources and Tips
Silver Sponsor Session: Protecting Data as the Data Center Evolves from Physical to Virtual to Cloud
SMART Boards, Video, and Student Learning
STEM in the High School Science and Math Classrooms
Strengthening The CORE: Technology Meets PBL
Student Led IEP's: Process and Student Example
Student Response Systems (2 hours)
Tap the Screen: Technology Integration in Our Students' Lives
Teacher Toolbox for Connected Learning
Technology of the Common Core (2 hours)
The Evernote Workflow (2 hours)
The Future of Education: Experiences from the Flipped Classroom
There's an App for That! Mobile Device Possibilities
Tips and Tricks for More Exciting SMART Board Lessons
Using the Arts in the Common Core
Vendor: Adobe and Education - A Partnership for the Future
Vendor: Cloud-based NETWORKING - A real discussion and comparison
Vendor: Flipping, Blending and 1:1'ing with Canvas
Vendor: Friends, Buddies, and Followers: Connecting Teachers and Students
Vendor: Inspire Literacy through Innovation-iLit
Vendor: Keyboarding Online--Real Skills! NO Hunting & Pecking!
Vendor: Managing 1-to-1 Computing Data Chaos
Vendor: Open Records Law Session
Vendor: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
We've got the HOTS for iPads (2 hours)
Webquests How and Why

 

Thursday's Poster Sessions, 10:35am-11:15am:

Adopting a PBL Approach in a STEM Course
An In-Depth Look at Natural Disasters Around the World

Desktop Virtualization - Seeing is Believing

Digital Yearbook 2012-2013

Documentaries and the Red Carpet
Edmodo in the Classroom
Engaging Students Digitally
iDiscover the World with iTourWrist  
Let's Talk About Math: Blogging Common Core
Problem-Based Learning in the 1:1 Classroom
Sandburg Elementary Student News Team
Sometimes You've Got to Flip It
The Way Clark County Worked Oral History Project
Using GPS in Local History
Using Web 2.0 to Improve Instruction
Websites and Wikis for Wellness

 

 

Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 General Conference Concurrent Sessions:


A SMARTer Way to Assess your Students

New add to program booklet 11/9/12:  A Tale of a School and their Androids

A Technology Adventure with Cool Tools
Assessing how SMART your Students are with Smart Response (canceled 11/9/12)
BrainPOP Jr. - From Novice to Pro
Bring Your Data Into FOCUS!
Bronze Sponsor Session Make Mobile Device Management Easy; Keep Mobile Device Use Safe and Effective
Build Your Own Prezi
Common Core Research the "Easy" Way
Create, Collaborate and Innovate with iPads
Creating Animation For Teaching and Learning (2 hours)
Creating Online Portfolios and Journals in an Algebra Class (2 hours)
Creative Collaborations:  Inspiration, Interactive Learning Experiences and Digital Special Collections (2 hours)
Desktop Virtualization Made Easy!
Edmodo - Teaching and Learning Through A Social Network
Eliminate the Walls of Your Classroom: Virtual field trip ideas and resources
Featured Presentation:  Dare to Believe: Problem Based Learning with ICTs (Prezi Presentation)
Featured Presentation:  Movies, Screencasts, and Presentation Zen: Embracing Visual Literacy in Education
Featured Presentation:  Set the Table for Student Achievement
Featured Presentation:  The Digital Citizenship Project
Featured Presentation:  Wings and Webs: Transforming Our Teaching Through Social Media
For Pete's Sake!

From Apps to Application - Part 2

New add to program booklet 11/9/12: Getting (to) the HOTS With Student Response Systems

Gone Google!
Google Spreadsheets and Forms
Greenscreen Magic
Hallway Heroes!  Student Created Anti-Bullying Project
Hidden Treasures in Google Spreadsheets and Forms
I Can iPad Year 2 - More knowledge, more power!
IBL + HOTS with Social Networking = Building 21st Century
iPad iCompose iPlay (2 hours)
iPad Integration: How to Enhance and Expand Student Learning
Let Your Students Voices be Heard Around the World
Let's Play Math
Loving Livebinders
Making Sense of the NETS
Managing and Acquiring eBooks
Me and my iPad: How I use my iPad to be a more productive and effective teacher
Mobile Styled Web Pages
Moodle Soup for Chickens
My Principal gave me a cart of devices and I am scared to death...HELP!
Not Everybody Has an iPad - What apps can everybody use to support special education?
O'ER The Land of the Free:  Make Your Classroom Available Anytime, Anywhere (2 hours)
Objective Focused Technology Integration
Phone System/PBX
Prezi:  An Advanced Tool for Teacher/Student Presentation
Professional Development in a 1:1 District
Read, Write, Play!  (Canceled 11/9/12)
Reading with the iPad in a High School Special Education Class
Stay Connected and Engaged with Schoology
Strategic Planning and Accountability: Toolbox for Illinois Educators (2 hours)
Teaching Common Core with the Library of Congress (2 hours)
Teaching with Digital Cameras
Technology & FedEx Days
Technology Icebreakers
The "Techno" Teacher
The Moon Over Us
The One iPad Classroom
The Presence of Computer Language in the Modern School and Economy
Third Graders Have iPads, Now What?
Utilizing Schooltube and YouTube in the Classroom to Enhance Curriculum and Showcase Student Work
Vendor: Aruba Networks 'Wireless to Support One-to-One Programs'
Vendor: Classroom Instruction Empowered Through Easy to Use Common Core Assessment
Vendor: Elevate Your Content: Using Schoology to Digitalize, Align, and Engage
Vendor: Internet Filtering for Mobile Device Programs
Vendor: One-to-One 101:  What you need to know before you invest
Vendor: Reading for Meaning-Fluently
Vendor: We Are Watching You
What's New in Moodle 2
What's with the QR code?
Your iPad is not Alcatraz, you can break it out of jail

 

 

IETC 2012 presenter handouts are posted on the IETC Ning.

 

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