| Carolyn Smith Jones | Lincoln Parish | Got Hard To Reach Parents...Use Technology! | This workshop will focus on strategies that will enable you to reach parents who normally do not participate in school activities. Come and explore the use of technology as a tool to enhance parental involvement. Handouts will be provided and door prizes awarded. This session is for all interested stakeholders. | Demo |
| Penny Warner | Lincoln | Be a WIZ @ Teaching | This session will show how to use a Free online teaching environment to teach students and record the session for those who are absent or for homebound instruction. This tool also allows you to provide individual instruction with students over the internet. | Demo |
| Penny Warner | Lincoln | IT's FREE | FREE stands for Fabulous Resources for Every Educator. The presentation will cover many online websites that offer free or almost free materials for educators to use in their classroom. Sites such as free online storage sites, online teaching environments, free online email for students, and other technology sites to make your job easier will be presented. Participants will be asked for input on sites they know that are not presented to increase our database of online resources. | Demo |
| Ben Martin | Grambling | Hands-on Introduction to the Moodle Learning Management System | This session will introduce participants to the software. Topics to be covered include login, tour of the course page, using editing tools, using the HTML editor, adding resources (links to web pages, creating web pages, adding documents, presentations, etc.), adding activities, and creating quizzes. | Handson |
| Rosemary Dillingham | Monroe City Schools | Look Who's Talkin' Now! | One Web 2.0 tool which is sure to get you talking...about "images, documents, and video," is VoiceThread. This session will demonstrate the educational value of this tool along with several other Web 2.0 tools such as VOKI and ClassChatter.com which can enhance the curriculum. | Demo |
| Thoy Leonard & Sharon Trisler | Franklin Parish & Catahoula Parish | ABC its easy as 123 | Use Animoto to create professional looking presentations in minutes! Learn how to create professional presentations in minutes using Animoto a free web tool for educators! Just - upload your own videos or pictures, select music, and voila' - your done! | Handson |
| Carolyn Jones | Lincoln Parish | PowerPoint Basics | The Scope of this workshop is to explore PowerPoint Basics. Come learn what you need to know to put together a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Get comfortable with typing onto slides, arranging text, adding new slides, and navigating in the PowerPoint window, etc. Handouts and certificates of participation will be provided and door prizes awarded. | Handson |
| Susan Gauthier | LDOE | License to Thrill: Technology Tools to Capture your Students' Interest | Join this mission to uncover a dossier of top secret technology tools which will enhance and support the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum. | Demo |
| Monica | Detel Compuer Solutions | SMART Games | Wake up your students and engage even the most reluctant ones! Use the SMARTinteracive whiteboard to play games! The presenter will show you where you can find them and teach you how to make your own. Bring your jump drives! | Demo |
| Jodie Moorhead | Monroe City Schools | Google - Powerful Tools for the Classroom | In this session, educators will see free Google tools to enhance student engagement and interaction by using Google Earth, Google Squared, Google Wonder Wheel, Google docs, and more! Google tools are a powerful classroom resource every teacher can use! | Demo |
| Nan Stephens/Janet LaBruyere | Region VII TLTC | New Ways to Wear an Old Hat | With these quick to learn and easy-to-use techniques, students can create an awesome PhotoStory with just ONE picture. Now what do you do with the 101 photos you have left? Display them using PhotoSynth. Hit the 'Submit' button, and the work is done behind the scenes for you. | Handson |
| Josh Vick | eInstruction | The Mobile Interactive Whiteboard | The MOBI provides teachers with a mobile device that mimics the Interactive Whiteboard. Providing proximity to the students again. See the research in Interactive environments and how the MOBI meets those findings. | Demo |
| Josh Vick | eInstruction | Interactive Students with Clickers | The CPS Pulse provides students the best and most used clicker for 14 years. With more reports and flexibility than any other clicker, the Pulse gives you the data and freedom to make better decisions. | Demo |
| Andy Snelling | WorldBook | What's New with The World Book Web | Demonstration on new and easy to use features as read a loud, Dramatic Learning and many new features of the World Book Web. How to use this site to be more effective in the classroom. Andy Snelling, Presenter World Book Inc. | Demo |
| Sonya Arender | Franklin Parish/Baskin School | You Have a Smart Board: Now What? | This session will cover the basic operations of a smart board, including opening the software and manipulating the tool bar and gallery items. Participants will be shown online resources for use with the smart board and ways to use the board to cover GLE's at various grade levels. Participants will develop smart board activities for use in their classrooms. | Handson |
| Nancy Thompson | Louisiana Public Broadcasting | BE MORE with LPB! | Louisiana Public Broadcasting provides many resources and opportunities to help parents, teachers, students, and caregivers learn and have fun! Come join us to learn about our website, professional development courses, educational games, parenting tips, electronic field trip,LPB Cyberchannel and much more! | Demo |
| Frank Bobo | Region 8 TLTC | Audacity in the Classroom | This session will be using Audacity to aid in the development of oral literacy in the classroom. | Handson |
| William e. Fletcher, Ph.D. | Tensas Parish School Board | Gadgets, Gadgets, and More Gadgets | technology Gadgets will be discussed. This session can be presented 2 times. | Demo |
| Cynthia Johnson | Tensas High School | Do you have insight in your class | Using INSIGHT in your classroom. this software program allows you to see what is going on in your classroom. | Demo |
| Janice Robinson and Beth Thurman | Ouachita Parish | Pack 'Em In With Publisher | This will be a demonstration of various classroom projects using Microsoft Publisher. Speakers will demonstrate how to make newsletters, candy bar wrappers, brochures and menus. | Handson |
| Sandra Tiffee | Concordia | Smart Board for Middle School | Smart Board Activities for Middle School Students | Demo |
| Craig Twaddle | Learn360 | Using Learn360 in the Classroom | Learn how to search for and incorporate digital content into you lessons. Learn how to create, upload and share user-generated content. | Demo |
| Mike Beutner | ULM | Basic Hands-On "Geogebra": Fun With Virtual Math | Geogebra is an amazing free application that can visualize math. You can create interactive "applets" for any level of math instruction. In this hands-on session, we will explore some of the basic tools for creating enjoyable "virtual maniplulatives". No previous knowledge of Geogebra is assumed! You will find examples here: http://ulm.edu/geogebra/ Let's explore this interactive tool, step by step. See for yourself how easy it is to get started! | Handson |
| Mike Beutner | ULM | Interactive Read-Aloud Online Audio Stories | The University of Louisiana at Monroe is creating a new series of read-aloud audio stories that are available on the Internet. In this session, we will explore a vision to employ interactive reading to boost reading abilities. You can even become an author! Let's apply this new technology strategy for encouraging reading! Here is an example of an interactive audio story: http://www.ulm.edu/aceadventures/03/index.html | Handson |
| Graduate Student Forum | ULM | A Panel On Current Open Source Applications For Learning And Teaching | In this series of presentations, a panel of graduate students will present brief descriptions of valuable and free learning applications available over the Internet to K-12 educators. Q & A follows each brief presentation, making this session an informal and interactive experience | Demo |
| Debbie Pender | Lincoln Parish | Getting Up to Speed with Office 2007 | See how Microsoft Office has changed, and why; Use the Office 2007 "Ribbons" to do what you're used to doing. See what the new file formats mean to you. | Handson |
| Tanya Anderson and Paula Yarbrough | Concordia Parish | Powerful Powerpoints | Teaching Grades 4-6 Math Teachers how to make their life easier by making Powerpoints using the online textbook. The Powerpoints Include an ILEAP/LEAP practice problem, homework answer key, and slides copied and pasted directly from the online book. | Handson |
| James Wall | Howard Technology | Affordable Classroom Technology | A demo of several different 21st Century Classroom technology products. All of which are available for less than $1000 each. | Demo |
| Donna Martin | Franklin Parish Schools | FlipCam/FlipShare Basics | This session is for beginners to learn how to use the FlipVideo Camera and FlipShare, but also for teachers who want to explore using the FlipCam and FlipShare with students to embed highly interactive projects within the comprehensive curriculum in any content area. | Handson |
| Merrick Morrow | Caldwell Parish School District | iPOD Apps | This session will highlight iPod Touch apps for use in the classroom. Participants will use iPods to experience apps that can be used in classrooms across the curriculum and in elementary, middle, and upper grades. Bring your own iPod Touch or use one provided at the session. | Handson |
| Jackie Myers | Monroe City | iGoogle - uGoogle | Teachers and Administrators: iGoogle do uGoogle? This session will emphasize setting up a "iGoogle" page, using the Google calendar, and using Google Docs and the great templates available. All of this is FREE! Door prizes for participants! | Demo |
| Marge Arnold | Monroe City Schools | Photoshop 8 | What's new in 8? This hands-on workshop will focus on recomposing, exposure merge, face recognition, on-screen guides, photo sync, on-line photo storage, and more. Come and experience all the new features with new lesson ideas to boot! Door prizes too! | Handson |
