Second Baptist School TechFest 2016

Wednesday

November 9

2016

PRESENTED BY SECOND BAPTIST SCHOOL

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck is the inspiration for this year’s TechFest. In her book, the author discusses the idea that every person tends to lean toward a certain mindset when learning a new task, attempting something difficult or coping with failure. The two mindsets, fixed and growth, were discovered by Dweck after decades of research.

People with a fixed mindset believe they are born with basic abilities like intelligence or talent and these traits are set and cannot be developed. People with a growth mindset believe that these basic qualities can be expanded through hard work.

How do you feel about integrating technology?

Do you think you’re not “techy” enough?

At TechFest 2016 you’ll learn infinite possibilities. Stretch and develop your technology knowledge. Change your fixed mindset. Tap into your very own growth mindset!

schedule 8:00 8:30 8:40 9:50

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Registration and Breakfast Welcome - The Hall EdCamp: The Unconference - The Hall Session 1 The Communications Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make - Rm 108 21 Challenges for the 21st Century Teacher - Rm 113 Meeting Teachers Where They Are - Rm 114 Campus Tour - Atrium Session 2 Sway this Way! - Rm 108 SBS Digital Badges - Rm 113 Campus Tour - Atrium Lunch - The Hall Session 3 BeeBots in PreK and Kinder - An Adventure in Coding! - Rm 108 Have You Had Enough Paper? Give ‘em a Smore!

- Rm 113

Sphero in the Classroom - Rm 114 Tips and Tricks for Using iPad in the Math Classroom - Rm 115

Learning on Mac - The Hall Blended Learning - Centers and Meaningful Technology Integration - Rm 139 Session 4 The SAMR Method: Infusing Technology into Teaching & Learning - Rm 108 Underwater Robotics - Rm 113 Sphero in the Classroom - Rm 114 Be Current and Creative with Your Photos - Rm 115 iBooks Author in Education - The Hall Session 5 Using Adobe Creative Suite in the Classroom - Rm 108 Sphero in the Classroom - Rm 114 Seesaw: Fun on the Digital Playground - Rm 115 Swift, Xcode and the Mac - The Hall Using Makey-Makey in the Classroom - Rm 139

map of events

9:50 AM

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SESSION 1

9:50 - 10:40 AM

THE COMMUNICATIONS MISTAKES YOU DON’T WANT TO MAKE - RM 108 • Shari Durrett - Second Baptist School • Suggested for all levels • Everyone makes mistakes! They can be so frustrating, even embarrassing. Learn how to avoid the most common communication mistakes whether interacting with your team, colleagues or community.

21 CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHER - RM 113 • Melanie Ochoa and Pam Arceneaux - First Baptist Academy • Suggested for all levels • Learn a new way to do professional development. Melanie and Pam have created challenges that teachers are required to do each month to earn professional development credit.

This is relevant and allows teachers to do it when it applies to their classroom. Through this, they’ve been able to build an in-house library of resources from their very own teachers. Come challenge yourself and your teachers!

SESSION 1

9:50 - 10:40 AM

MEETING TEACHERS WHERE THEY ARE - RM 114 • Ashley May - Alief ISD • Suggested for all levels • Personalized learning is not just for students.

This session will look at a variety of ways to personalize professional development for teachers and staff. Using a combination of web tools and a leaning management system, you can customize professional learning experiences for all of your staff. Come learn how easy it can be!

CAMPUS TOUR - WWV ATRIUM • SBS Admissions Team • Suggested for All Levels • Take a walk around the Second Baptist School campus to see technology in action! We will stop in a few classrooms at the lower, middle and upper school levels, as well as take a brief tour of the library and technology center.

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SESSION 2

10:50 - 11:40 AM

SWAY THIS WAY! - RM 108 • Sharon Kemnitz - St. Agnes Academy • Suggested for all levels • Learn how to create a presentation using Microsoft Sway. With Sway you can create interactive and dynamic presentations. Sway is shareable and can be used for exciting group projects. It seamlessly works with Onenote, OneDrive, Twitter, your camera roll and Flicker.

It is easy enough for grade school students and robust enough for older students. All work is done online and can be used on all devices, and the best is it’s free! Come see how fun it is to make a Sway.

SBS DIGITAL BADGES - RM 113 • Melissa Herring - Second Baptist School • Suggested for all levels • Learn about the SBS Digital Badges program.

SBS uses digital badges to promote tech integration, train teachers and staff on new tools, and provide a fun learning environment for those interested in stepping up their tech game in the classroom.

SESSION 2

10:50 - 11:40 AM

CAMPUS TOUR - WWV ATRIUM • SBS Admissions Team • Suggested for All Levels • Take a walk around the Second Baptist School campus to see technology in action! We will stop in a few classrooms at the lower, middle and upper school levels, as well as take a brief tour of the library and technology center.

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LUNCH

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11:45 - 12:45 PM The Hall

1:50 PM

2:55 PM

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SESSION 3

12:50 - 1:40 PM

BEEBOTS IN PK AND KINDERGARTEN - AN ADVENTURE IN CODING! - RM 108 • Ruth Hanson and Christine Wardwell - Duchesne Academy • Suggested for Lower School • Ever wonder how to introduce the thinking behind coding to your PK and kindergarten classes? Learn about how to use the BeeBot robot in curriculum and how those skills will help both in the classroom and in computational thinking. Also, learn how to set up a fun Hour of Code BeeBot Experience. Participants will be able to play with the BeeBots on different mats to experience what the students learn.

HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH PAPER? GIVE ‘EM A SMORE! - RM 113 • Ashley May - Alief ISD • Suggested for all levels • This session will focus on how to use Smore to create digital newsletters to share information with parents, students and staff. Accounts are free, and participants will leave inspired to begin using this tool in their own instructional setting.

Come learn how to create newsletters, share information and complete student projects using Smore’s beautiful templates. The addition of the Smore Classroom (an upgraded feature) allows teachers to create student accounts, which make viewing student products as easy as logging into the platform.

SESSION 3

12:50 - 1:40 PM

SPHERO IN THE CLASSROOM - RM 114 • David Millage and Danielle Hammernik - Sphero • Suggested for all levels • Sphero robots are designed to inspire curiosity, creativity and invention through connected play and coding. Powered by the Lightning Lab app, you can learn to code, complete handson activities and share your creations with the community. Come join Sphero at TechFest, program a robot and learn what all the fun is about! *Max per session: 30 educators TIPS AND TRICKS FOR USING IPAD IN THE MATH CLASSROOM - RM 115 • Jennifer Massey and Brittany Clayton - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Middle and Upper School • In this session, Jennifer and Brittany will discuss apps that are available to create and present interactive lessons in the math classroom.

They will model tips they have learned to make creating a lesson more efficient, how to display the lesson while presenting and how to export a lesson to share with colleagues or students.

In addition, they will walk through a few math apps that are useful in the classroom. Attendees should bring an iPad, if possible.

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SESSION 3

12:50 - 1:40 PM

SESSION 4

1:50 - 2:40 PM

CONTINUED

BLENDED LEARNING - CENTERS & MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION - RM 139 • Michelle Young - Yorkshire Academy • Suggested for Lower School • This hands-on centers rotation model will allow educators to experience targeted mini-lesson within small groups using iPads. Michelle will rotate through a variety of planned centers.

Attendees will be introduced to APPS for centers in Math, Language and Art - Yorkshire will prepare 5 iPads with 4 teachers to a group for the session. *Max per session: 20 educators LEARNING ON MAC - THE HALL • David Hernandez - Apple Education • Suggested for all levels • Every Mac comes with powerful apps for classroom productivity. Pages helps make book reports and term papers compelling with stunning visuals and professional layouts.

Keynote draws the class’s full attention to presentations, whether you’re animating cell mitosis or seeing Mars from the eyes of the Curiosity Rover. iMovie lets you easily edit field trip footage into a cinematic trailer complete with music, titles and special effects.

If you’re looking to collaborate with colleagues using different OS environments, it’s easy to share a document link via iCloud and make edits together from any Mac or PC browser.

Additionally, the Mac App Store is built in, so there are thousands more apps from education software developers to help students and teachers explore almost any subject.

THE SAMR METHOD: INFUSING TECHNOLOGY INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING - RM 108 • Janet Coe -The Woodlands Christian Academy • Suggested for all levels • The SAMR Model was developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura as a way for teachers to evaluate how they are incorporating technology into their instructional practice. As a reflection tool, the SAMR model aides teachers as they reflect upon how they are using technology in their instructional practices. This presentation introduces the SAMR model and illustrates relevant examples of practical lessons.

UNDERWATER ROBOTICS - RM 113 • Javier Saavedra and Samantha Morris - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Middle and Upper School • An interactive workshop for educators that provides a basic introduction to underwater robotics. Educators will learn how to use STEAM to design and fabricate an underwater robot.

SPHERO IN THE CLASSROOM - RM 114 • David Millage and Danielle Hammernik - Sphero • Suggested for all levels • Sphero robots are designed to inspire curiosity, creativity and invention through connected play and coding. Powered by the Lightning Lab app, you can learn to code, complete hands-on activities and share your creations with the community. Come join Sphero at TechFest, program a robot and learn what all the fun is about! *Max per session: 30 educators SESSION 4 CONTINUED >

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SESSION 4

1:50 - 2:40 PM

SESSION 5

2:55 - 3:55 PM

CONTINUED

BE CURRENT AND CREATIVE WITH YOUR PHOTOS - RM 115 • SBS Communications Team • Suggested for all levels • Learn how to make your pictures better! Join professional photographer Marlo Wise and the SBS communications team for a practical session on picture-taking. Learn best practices and put your new skills into action!

IBOOKS AUTHOR IN EDUCATION - THE HALL • David Hernandez - Apple Education • Suggested for all levels • iBooks Author for Mac lets you create engaging Multi-Touch books, projects, lab notebooks and other learning materials for iPad or Mac. Design interactive learning experiences that map to your curriculum and class level. Add photo galleries with captions and images that students can pan and zoom in to. Drag and drop video, historic speeches, music and even 3D models to help students hear, see, touch and better understand concepts. Students can use iBooks Author to create their own books, reports, lab guides and field trip logs.

USING ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE IN THE CLASSROOM - RM 108 • Kathrine Gilmer and Nora Ripple - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Upper School • Kathrine and Nora will provide practical ways for teachers to utilize Adobe Creative Suite in the classroom, whether it’s to edit photographs, create graphics, or to put together professional looking posters or packets.

SPHERO IN THE CLASSROOM - RM 114 • David Millage and Danielle Hammernik - Sphero • Suggested for all levels • Sphero robots are designed to inspire curiosity, creativity and invention through connected play and coding. Powered by the Lightning Lab app, you can learn to code, complete handson activities and share your creations with the community. Come join Sphero at TechFest, program a robot and learn what all the fun is about! *Max per session: 30 educators SEESAW: FUN ON THE DIGITAL PLAYGROUND - RM 115 • Jordan Sandefur and Kelsey Adams - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Lower and Middle School • During the 2015-2016 school year SBS first grade students and teachers piloted the Seesaw for school digital portfolio program. This session will discuss how to use the Seesaw tool in your classroom, demonstrate its ease of use and discuss how Seesaw provides a new means of school-home communication.

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SESSION 5

2:55 - 3:55 PM

CONTINUED

USING MAKEY-MAKEY IN THE CLASSROOM - RM 139 • Courtney Kilgard and Kara Leppard - The Briarwood School • Suggested for all levels • Makey Makey is an Invention Kit for Everyone.

It is an electronic invention tool and toy that allows users to connect everyday objects to computer programs. Using a laptop with a USB port students will be able to create many things.

Attendees will be shown activities that are used in the classroom and spend time hands-on with the Makey Makey. The Makey Makey can be used to show everything from simple circuits to collecting data from science investigations.

It can also be integrated with programs like Scratch for extra excitement. Attendees will need to bring their own device with a USB port.

SWIFT, XCODE AND THE MAC - THE HALL • David Hernandez - Apple Education • Suggested for Upper School • Coding unlocks creativity, develops problemsolving skills and prepares students for future careers. Swift is a powerful programming language created by Apple developers to make writing code simple and intuitive. It’s a perfect first language for teaching real-world programming. Xcode 7 has everything students and teachers need to start building their own incredible apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Discover resources that will help jumpstart your Swift app development program at your school.

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ABOUT SBS Established in 1946, Second Baptist School provides a world-class education for the leaders of tomorrow. SBS is a learning community for over 1,100 students (PK - 12) who enjoy a breadth of educational opportunities - from customized learning experiences to technological advancement. The mission of SBS is to train students in areas of knowledge that will allow them to understand clearly, to think deeply, to judge wisely, and to have the courage to live their lives on the great principles and convictions of biblical truth as they engage in an innovative and digitally-based global community.