TechFest15

get plugged in 2015 • SECOND BAPTIST SCHOOL

Whether you’re new to education or you’ve been in the field for ages, being a plugged in educator is always in style. This year, get connected with a broad field of teachers and technology specialists while learning how to engage students in today’s digital world.

Collaborating with the larger technology community not only benefits your students, it benefits YOU! As you streamline lesson planning and maximize classroom time, fellow educators can help you along, sharing their successes and failures.

Few things change as often as technology does, and we hope TechFest is an opportunity to expand your knowledge, inspire one another and get plugged in with educators across the state. We are excited that you are here!

schedule 8:00 - 8:30 8:30 - 8:40 8:40 - 9:40 9:50 - 10:40

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11:45 - 12:45 12:45 - 1:35

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Registration and Breakfast Welcome and Giveaways - The Hall EdCamp: The Unconference - The Hall Session 1 Marketing Your School - Rm 108 OneNote Class Notebooks - Rm 113 Campus Tour - Rm 115 Session 2 Student IT Interns - Rm 113 Making Google Classroom Work - Rm 108 Campus Tour - Rm 115 Lunch - The Hall Keynote Zach Snow and Stuart Burt - The Hall Session 3 Writing to Captivate Your Audience - Rm 108 Cool Tools for School - Rm 115 3D Printing - You Can Do It! - Rm 114 Augment Your Classroom - Rm 113 The Online Classroom - Rm 139 iWork for You! - The Hall Session 4 Freedom in Learning - Rm 108 The Wonderful World of Noodle Tools!

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Digital Learning Objects for Your Digital Natives - Rm 115 Digital Storytelling with Aurasma - Rm 113 Apps You Can Implement TOMORROW - Rm 139

iWork for You! - The Hall

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MARKETING YOUR SCHOOL - RM 108 • Shari Durrett - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Administration • Let us help you market your school with social media and other e-marketing tools. Learn about our social media policies and experience.

ONENOTE CLASS NOTEBOOKS TAKE COLLABORATION TO NEW HEIGHTS - RM 113 • Lynn Luton and Janet Thorson - Duchesne Academy • Suggested for Middle and Upper School • With the advent of OneNote Class Notebooks, I am now able to create one notebook for each class and share it with my upper school math students. I am able to include all of the resources that I want or add them as I go. My students have quick and direct access to my class resources and can pull them into their notebook.

I can now view their work and make comments in fairly real time. This has been particularly helpful when I was away from school. Class Notebooks are allowing me to take collaborating with my students on their assignments to the next level.

CAMPUS TOUR - RM 115 • SBS Admissions Team & Technology 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 schools, as well as take a brief tour of the library and technology center.

STUDENT IT INTERNS: EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE HANDS OF STUDENTS - RM 113 • Janet Thorson and Eileen Ford - Duchesne Academy • Suggested for Upper School • A 1:1 program means many devices on campus, which translates to many devices to care for and fix. At Duchesne, we have brought students into the care and maintenance process through an upper school student-staffed helpdesk (the CAVE) and a middle school Junior CAVE club.

Students do everything from hardware repairs, to software troubleshooting, to offering classes to students and teachers on tech tools. Come hear from our students about what they value about the program, as well as from the adults involved about what the program entails.

MAKING GOOGLE CLASSROOM WORK - RM 108 • John Maklary - St. Laurence Catholic School • Suggested for Grades 4 and up.

• In this session, participants will be introduced to a working Google Classroom. Google Classroom is a free service that connects with Google Apps and is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly. Learn timesaving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized. Come see how I use this efficient tool in my classroom.

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CAMPUS TOUR - RM 115 • SBS Admissions Team & Technology 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 schools, as well as take a brief tour of the library and technology center.

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keynote

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ZACH SNOW AND STUART BURT Are your students truly involved in the decision making process at their school? Do your students feel like they play a role in affecting true change?

When planning the education of students, the majority of us listen to the voices of practitioners, administrators, and education experts. But what about those for whom education affects the most?

Educating students today should be all about including students in THEIR education. When students have a voice, authentic engagement will happen and you better be ready for awesome change at your school.

Learn how one district has engaged with their students, changed the community forever, and how you can get started. Zach and Stuart will show you how student voice has affected their district and how you can harness the true power of student voice!

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lunch

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WRITING TO CAPTIVATE YOUR AUDIENCE - RM 108 • SBS Communications Team • If you want to write content your readers will actually read, this session is for you. Improve your writing skills and better connect with your readers by learning a few easy tips. With the help of analytics, your message can stand out in a crowd. In this session, we will discuss how to structure your content to appeal to your audience.

COOL TOOLS FOR SCHOOL - RM 115 • Kelli Touchstone - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Middle and Upper School • Tired of the same old stuff? Fill your multimedia toolbox with shiny, new, and easy-to-use tools.

In this session you will learn about innovative digital resources for teachers and students to explore, create, present, tell stories, draw comparisons and visualize data. We will play with the multimedia tools from the Knightlab, learn about infographic makers, use social media apps and Google Maps to tell stories, and much more. Let’s make class more engaging for our students, and have fun while we are at it!

3D PRINTING - YOU CAN DO IT! - RM 114 • Alaina Scorsone, Ruth Hanson, and Sarah Drew - Duchesne Academy • Suggested for All Levels • This will be a panel presentation about the journey of our first year of 3D printing at Duchesne. We started with a student-led selection committee to generate excitement, then jumped head first into projects like designing and printing 3D prosthetic hands with students taking the lead in research and design.

3D printing at our school has generated a high level of excitement as students in all grade levels have been involved in the process, taking initiative under the eyes of a few brave teachers.

We will also share our 3D printing plans for next year and beyond.

AUGMENT YOUR CLASSROOM - RM 113 • Kara Leppard and Courtney Kilgard • The Briarwood School • Suggested for Lower and Middle School • Explore augmented reality apps and how they can enhance the classroom experience.

Augmented reality engages students in a completely different way. It allows them to interact virtually with various objects. Teachers will learn to enhance the lessons they are already teaching. Student created projects and presentations can also be enhanced with augmented reality. We will discuss apps such as Aurasma, 4D Elements, Virtual Frog Dissection, 3D Cells and more. We will show participants how to create their own augmented reality and discuss many applications for the classroom.

Participants can bring their own devices to experience these apps during the session.

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THE ONLINE CLASSROOM - RM 139 • Gary West-St. Pius X High School • Suggested for Upper School • In this session ideas will be presented on development of an online classroom for use in blended learning and guided instruction that goes beyond the traditional classroom using links to websites, videos, pictures, classic literature, cartoons, and a variety of projects and types of evaluation features. iWORK FOR YOU - THE HALL • David Hernandez and Brennen Pinchback • Apple Education • Suggested for All Levels • Learn about the new features with Apple Productivity apps - Pages, Numbers and Keynote, as well as the new iCloud features for collaboration and sharing.

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FREEDOM IN LEARNING: WISE CHOICES AND REFLECTION IN THE CLASSROOM - RM 108 • Jessica Campbell - Duchesne Academy • Suggested for All Levels • This presentation will be a summary of our school’s year long professional development with Powerful Learning Practice (PLP). How can we meaningfully incorporate technology into the classroom instead of just using tech to replace pen and paper? How can we encourage, and even maximize student buy-in to our lessons?

A group of teachers used the concepts of “freedom in learning” and “reflection” to begin answering these questions and create new lessons for our classrooms. This workshop will summarize personal experiences and provide helpful ideas, but also leaves room for discussion and questions so that teachers can modify and adapt these concepts to their own teaching style.

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NOODLE TOOLS! - RM 114 • Nancy Wahl and Grace Littlefield - Second Baptist School • Suggested for Middle and Upper School • Looking for a way to inspire students to engage in the research process? Come learn the in’s and out’s of Noodle Tools - the Smart Tool for Smart Research for students from elementary through college years! “NoodleTools is your instructional partner for differentiated teaching of literacy skills, critical analysis, sound reasoning, and collaborative group research.” Noodle Tools does much more than automate the processes of research. Noodle tools helps in teaching, assessing and promoting ethical research. It will provide helpful statistics and graphs for realtime student analysis. Ready to let go of note cards and folders? Come explore Noodle Tools.

You will be glad you did!

DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTS FOR YOUR DIGITAL NATIVES - RM 115 • Becky Martin - Second Baptist School • Suggested for All Levels • This presentation will show teachers how to create and use interactive digital learning objects to present chunks of course material for their students. Also, teachers will discover how to find and use these kinds of resources from learning object repositories such as Merlot.org.

Any and all subject matters can use this kind of technology to help engage their students and excite them about what they are learning. Teachers

can use these kinds of material to incorporate the principles of Universal Design for Learning to adapt all lessons for all learners. I am getting a degree in Digital Teaching and Learning and would love to share what I am learning with my fellow educators!

DIGITAL STORYTELLING WITH AURASMA - RM 113 • Wayne Cherry and Joanna Toups - First Baptist Academy • Suggested for All Levels • In his book From Achilles to Christ, Dr. Louis Markos posits that God prepared the hearts of the world through their myths, legends, and stories. By teaching students to see the hidden message of the Gospel in these stories, students earned a greater appreciation for the role storytelling plays in culture. All of this was transformed into an Aurasma project where students researched the story behind a constellation and created a piece of art that became an Aurasma trigger. When the app is held over their artwork, a short film of the student telling the story behind that constellation appears. In class, students looked deeper into these stories to find the Christian truths behind them and share them with their peers.

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ABOUT SBS Established in 1946, Second Baptist School

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APPS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TOMORROW - RM 139 • Loren Hopf, Second Baptist School and Kendall Stiefel, Beck Junior High • Suggested for Middle School • The goal of the session is to show teachers three things that they could easily implement into their classroom the next day. Attendees will use the student side of the apps/website. The teacher/ creator side also will be shown so that attendees can learn the process. If time permits, a small group workshop will be formed where attendees create on one of the apps suggested. Handouts will include detailed instructions for the teacher and also for the student. A list of ways that different content areas could use the apps will also be available. At the end of the session there will be a “think tank” for all attendees to share how they could see themselves using it. iWORK FOR YOU - THE HALL • David Hernandez and Brennen Pinchback • Apple Education • Suggested for All Levels • Learn about the new features with Apple Productivity apps - Pages, Numbers and Keynote, as well as the new iCloud features for collaboration and sharing.

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.

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