Sessions 2011

Session 1 10:30 – 11:30
Room Presenter Session Title Session Description
228 David Warlick Hacking Your Classroom: An Unconference Session You gained some insights from the keynote about the ‘Native’ learning experience. Here is a lightly structured unconference opportunity to learn by sharing your own ideas about applying responsiveness, conversation, value, and mistake-based learning into your classrooms — helping students to become relentless, resourceful, and habitual learners.
203 James Gill Media Rich Classroom Websites – helping ESL Students and their Parents In this session we will be looking at ways to use a classroom website that will benefit your average student, with a focus on offering help to the ESL students in your class.  I will also be showing how classroom websites offer the parents of ESL students a way to support their children when working with them at home.
204 Ryan Cho In the Palm of Your Hand – Using Technology found in the average Cell Phone, Ipod, and (sometimes) Laptop to Engage and Empower This session will focused on using social media and technology found in the average cell phone or ipod to engage and empower students in class projects and facilitate them to self organize around school and community action projects.  Concrete applications to school leadership groups as well as general secondary school classroom teaching will be explored.
205 Brian Kuhn The Social Networking Experience This session will introduce you to the use of social networking and in particular, twitter,
Through hands-on experience – attendees must bring their laptop – you will create your PLN, participate in tweets, follows, searches, retweets, and share ideas, quotes, websites, and videos with your PLN. Be sure to read  http://www.shift2future.com/2010/10/tweet-link-and-learn.html prior to attending and sign up for your twitter account.
206 Paul Klintworth Technology Integration Projects In Elementary This will be a whistle stop tour of some of the projects we covered throughout last year across the curriculum. Applications will include Capzles, Prezi, Glogster, Animoto, Photovisi, PhotoStory 3, as well as commercial software from 2Simple.
207 Comrie David Challenges facing the 21st Century Distributed Learning Teacher The option of taking an online course from one of the 53 virtual schools in the province has continued to expand as more and more students and school districts embrace distributed learning as an alternate to taking a face to face course in a brick and mortar school. This workshop will address the current issues of class size and composition/working and learning conditions for distributed learning teachers. As well as any other current challenges. This will be an inter active workshop.
219 Liz Schulze Consciousness in Consumer Society: Using Media to Enhance Critical Thinking How can technology be used as a means to develop critical thinking, helping us to analyze media’s influence on our perceptions of the world around us? In this workshop, join us as we reexamine routine responses to media saturation with experiments, screenings, and interactive activities. Discover techniques to engage your students in critical explorations of the hyper-consumer environment we all inhabit.
223 Brian Carlson Transform Your Website into a True Learning Community Edline is changing the way schools communicate by transforming their websites into an online Learning Community Management System, a single solution that evolves with the growing needs of your district and connect everyone associated with your school.The Edline solution is easy to learn, easy to use and has generated real results for thousands of schools in the United States in both student success and time and money savings. Learn first-hand how we engage parents in the classroom and empower teachers to create an exciting and collaborative learning environment for students. If you are looking for ideas on how you can quickly improve your school’s website, you will not want to miss this session!
229 Ray Steigvilas Digital Movie Making using non-linear editing software Using  Non-Linear Editing Software, I will show you how video, pictures, sound, and titles can be put together to make a movie which can be put on a dvd and uTube.  This can be useful for making a video for a yearbook, a class field trip, class presentation, science demos, etc
230 Shawna Thirkell Kerpoof – a wonderful free website by Disney, for making movies, storybooks. pictures, cards and more! Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative.
It is so much fun and easy to use – kids are motivated to spell, draw, create.  You can register your class so that they each have a secure login and can save things to share with others or save to their own backpack.		 Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:Make artwork (even if you aren’t good at drawing!)
Make an animated movie (really! it’s easy!)
Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
Tell a story
Make a drawing
Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
232 Sarah Wickstrom Digital Classrooms & Presentations that Work Do you want to inspire, engage, and prepare the digital generation with technology tools? Come learn about digital classrooms and presentations that work. Have you ever wanted your own blog, wiki, web space, or other online service?In this seminar we will be looking at using prezi, a web based flash tool that can maximize content both for students and teachers.  Second we will look at edmodo, an effective classroom based social learning network that any teacher can use to extend the learning in their classroom. This free site can be used to enhance classroom communication for teachers and students on a secure social network. You can post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, and even post grades.  Edmodo stores and shares all forms of digital content- bogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more.Come see how the latest tools can support programs, address the diverse needs of learners and enhance classroom life.  Both secondary and elementary students will be represented.Start exploring how you can use this powerful tool in your classroom immediately.Please bring a laptop
236 Darren Yung Digital Game Development – Student Engagement, Ownership & Collaboration I will share my experiences teaching a games development course at the high school level.  I will show some of the student projects as well as the tools the students used to collaborate with each other.
237 Kirsten Urdahl-Serr Supporting Online Learners The goal of this action research was to improve the intake process for School District No. 42 distributed learners to proactively identify at-risk learners who would require support to complete online coursework. A secondary goal was to improve communication between school-based support personnel, the online instructor, the students, and parents. As a result of this study, it was projected the that majority of School District No. 42 Personal Planning 10 distributed online learners would feel prepared, confident, and supported while using an online learning environment to complete coursework.

Session 2-1 12:30 – 1:30
Room Presenter Session Title Session Description
228 David Warlick A Gardener’s Approach to Learning Educators around the world are now engaging in daily self-directed professional development. Utilizing an emerging suite of interactive and collaborative web tools and techniques, we are cultivating learning networks and knowledge gardens by connecting with other professionals, mining the greater global conversations, and mapping out libraries of ideas and content.
204 Ryan Cho Facilitating the Conversation – Strategies to Help Students Unpack Modern Issues in the New Technology Landscape Are bloggers journalists?  Does creating a Facebook group has the ability to affect tangible change in the non-digital world?  Should unrestricted Internet access be a basic human right?  This workshop will focus on facilitation techniques and tools to help students unpack and engage in issues that have emerged out of new technology and allow them to formulate their own opinions and to decide for themselves.  Great for humanities classrooms (Socials, English, Social Justice).
205 Lisa Jakeway iPods in the Elementary Classroom Are you interested in using iPods with elementary students? In this session the presenter will describe the pilot project with Grade 1 to 4 students. The goals of the project were to improve student engagement, reading fluency, and attitude towards reading through the use of iPods.
Library Michelle Iulianella New and On the Horizon: The Latest Innovations for Teaching and Learning from SMART Technologies This session will take an interactive, systematic journey through the use of new and emerging SMART technologies in the classroom. The session will include how integrate the new SMART Response VE into teaching, removing barriers to learning and collaboration with the new Bridgit Software App for the Ipad,  and new innovations for Notebook Math Tools, SMART Sync, the SMART Table and new SMART Audio 2.0, all within the context of the classroom environment. Participants will also have a glimpse into what can be expected next from SMART. The session is relevant to educators from K-12. Please bring your mobile devices to this session!
207 Comrie David Challenges facing the 21st Century Distributed Learning Teacher The option of taking an online course from one of the 53 virtual schools in the province has continued to expand as more and more students and school districts embrace distributed learning as an alternate to taking a face to face course in a brick and mortar school. This workshop will address the current issues of class size and composition/working and learning conditions for distributed learning teachers. As well as any other current challenges. This will be an inter active workshop.
219 Angus Stuart Aboriginal Astronomy Kit An overview of resources available online and in the SD 36 Aboriginal Astronomy Kit,Both digital and hard resources will be featured that can provide students with Aboriginal content and integrate science and cultural learning outcomes.Much of the material will be of particular interest to primary and intermediate teachers.
237 Drew Murphy Understanding the Best Ways Use Web Content Increase your own productivity while personally engaging your students with great web content. New web tools let you build compelling online activities around web content in minutes. This presentation shows how to combine familiar teaching methods with new web tools to create focused online lessons around virtually any web media that can be personalized in any number of ways.Give trips to the computer lab more direction and purpose or make your online teaching more relevant and engaging. Once you know how, any web content can be transformed into a meaningful, personalized online activity for students and a productivity gain for you.

Session 2-2 12:30 – 2:30 (2 hour Hands-on)
Room Presenter Session Title Session Description
203 Amanda Ballard Digital Storytelling – Bringing student portfolios into the digital age Digital storytelling is a powerful tool that can enhance student learning and give students a platform to demonstrate their knowledge in a creative and engaging way.  In this workshop, participants will be guided through the creation of their own digital story using iMovie which they can then use to teach their own digital storytelling unit.  Lesson plans and tips will also be available so that teachers can confidently lead their students (at any grade level) in creating digital stories, essays, or poems.
223 Michael Cochrane Open School BC and Blackboard This school year Open School BC is offering the next generation of learning management systems (LMS) to DL programs in the province. After months of playing in the new sandbox, Michael will demonstrate some of the differences between Blackboard and WebCT, and highlight the similarities. He will show how the Online Admin Tools work with the new system, with a complete review of the course management system and the tools that come with Blackboard. Come see one of the popular Open School courses as it appears in Blackboard, and learn how easy it is to create a course.
229 Iain Greensmith Integrating Web GIS into the Classroom Engage your students with leading edge technologies such as a Geographic Information System (GIS) through the use of Web maps and applications.  Attendees will work through a lesson and be introduced to free resources that highlight how GIS can be used to enhance critical thinking skills and improve technological literacy.
230 Phil Macoun An introduction to Scratch in the classroom. Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share them on the web.  Workshop participants will be shown examples of Scratch being used in the classroom and learn how to use Scratch to create digital stories.
232 Jon Hamlin 1 Hour Websites The session will focus on developing free Google online tools into effective and useful classroom applications. The primary focus will involve using Google Sites to develop the framework for a useful teacher website. We will also delve into the incorporation of Google Docs and apps into these sites. Participants will be required to sign-up for a Google account before the session, if you already have a GMAIL or YouTube account, you are ready. If not, visit https://www.google.com/accounts/ and sign up for free.
Library Lab Daniel Wiebe Technology in the Classroom. Computer teachers can work along side classroom teachers, and use technology to lessen the workload and deliver curriculum in a different and hopefully engaging way. Some ideas will be presented, using some inexpensive software, and time will be given to try them out.

Session 3 1:45 – 2:45
Room Presenter Session Title Session Description
228 David Warlick Visual Literacy: A Broader Perspective on Data Our world experience is being archived, indexed, and measured, and this massive quantity of information and data has a story to tell. This presentation will explore data visualization and infographics as classroom tools. Perhaps the coolest thing on the Internet today, participants will witness many examples of this unique intersection between the content areas, mathematics and art, and learn how teachers and learners can utilize some of these techniques to make their world of numbers sing.
205 Orwell Kowalyshyn iPod, iPad, iPhone…oh my! Gowalla, Loopt, and Yelp! Do you Bump? New to the exploding world of “iDevices”? Feeling left behind? Learn about this community of over 100 million devices and its phenomenal library of over 260,000 + applications. The computer is evolving and the age of mobile information literacy, on demand anywhere and anytime is upon us. Take this highly fun and informative session and discover the vast number of tools and resources to enhance your personal enjoyment and professional development network. Participants will learn about applications from iBooks to Wolfram Alpha. WARNING: Apps are addictive, attend at your own risk!
206 Dennis Wong Blender: Open Source 3D Program Blender is a free open source 3D program available on all major operating systems. This hands-on workshop will show participants how to model 3D objects using various techniques. Links to additional resources and tutorials will be provided that will allow teachers to fully implement the program in an Information Technology, Digital Media, or Technology classroom. All participants will need to download Blender 2.56 or later from blender.org and install the program on their laptop. In addition, participants will need to bring a mouse with a middle scroll button. Note: Blender has completely changed its interface since last year. Those who attended my workshop in the past may want to attend this one to see the latest changes.
219 Carol Todd Overview and Demonstration of Assistive Technology Software Applications for Resource Students (reading, writing) Teachers supporting resource students with learning challenges can learn about technology software applications that can support skills related to reading and writing. E-readers and word prediction software will be looked at. There will also be overviews to software applications that are available on the web (free or through subscriptions).
Cancelled Lisa Read Holy hybrid, Batman! Web 2.0 to goCANCELLED A presentation on how I use Web 2.0 tools such as Moodle, blogs, and a variety of local and web-based applications in my  Social Studies 9 classes. A projector and a plain white board are all the “smart” you need to run an engaging, adaptable and technology-appropriate class, regardless of how much or what kind of technology you have.
236 Janet Gregory Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Join Janet Gregory, Education Account Manager – Adobe Systems, and hear about new, affordably priced Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 solutions for your school or district. CS5.5 software and supporting resources help K–12 educators teach creativity, collaboration, and communication skills that prepare students for rewarding career paths. Using industry-standard tools, students learn to create print, web, video, mobile, and interactive content. Free, yearlong curriculum sets—available at the online Adobe Education Exchange—help your teachers implement the solutions in the classroom.
237 Rod Peters Best Practice for Online Course and Content Development. Capitalize on your expertise by making the most of what the web has to offer. Celebrating the death of the read and regurgitate education model, we will journey through a brief history of online course development and venture into where we are today. We will explore best practices for maximizing the use of technology in your online classrooms. The perspective will be delivered from an asynchronous online course delivery view, but could easily be adapted to your synchronous classroom needs. We have only scratched the surface of what can be done for our students and have the ability to go much further without working 60 hours a week. A simple technique for making the most of what can be accessed via technology and synthesizing it with our own expertise as professional educators can bring to the table.
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