Are you looking for ways to use Google in your classroom? This hands on workshop will cover classroom ideas, strategies and tips for using Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Draw and Forms), Google Sites as well as popular apps and extensions to support learning in your classroom. Jamie Fath is a Google Education Trainer who went Google more than 10 years ago.
In this session we will focus on a variety of ways you can use Google Apps to be more efficient, communicate better, and build collaboration in your building. We will focus on google drive, sites, gmail, and calendar. All of these strategies have been implemented in school districts and proven to work! This session is led by Andy Crozier who is a practicing Superintendent and a Google Education Trainer.
In this session, teachers and administrators are introduced to a professional, online, app-building tool they can use to make their own mobile apps. They will learn that building apps does not have to be a tedious and daunting project. Our "coding to learn" approach gives students a platform that allows them to easily build a content-rich, visually impressive, and professional mobile app. The program, called MAD-Learn, enables students to quickly see the finished product, and use technology creation as a means of serving the community, solving problems, building entrepreneurialism, and sharing ones ideas with the world.
Outline:
1. Intro (Informational apps vs. Gaming apps, uses/examples)
2. Getting started (ideation and mind-mapping)
3. App creation (using the CMS)
4. Lab work
5. Sharing
Details:
The workshop will be divided into five parts:
1. Introduction (The importance of teaching mobile app development, the "Coding to Learn" approach, Informational apps vs. Gaming apps, uses/examples)
2. Getting started ("Learning by Design" approach elements such as ideation and mind-mapping are shown to be foundations for solid app development)
3. App creation (Using a user-friendly, professional online management system to create an app without any prior knowledge of coding)
4. Lab work (Working in groups or as individuals to create the framework for a mobile app, while gaining an understanding of a logo and color's relationships to marketing and branding, copyright considerations, and user interface)
5. Sharing of finished products with the whole group
Plan to attend this workshop on Chromebook management using Google Apps Admin Panel. Participants will have hands-on learning opportunities from basic-to-advanced management techniques for Chrome and Chromebook devices. Learn to manage 10 or 1000 Chromebook devices with ease.
Mitch Piekarski (ByteSpeed - Network Administrator) will present an “Intro to Server Virtualization” workshop to discuss various virtualization technologies, but will focus on VMWare’s free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) product. NOTE: This workshop will provide a BASIC overview of server virtualization.
Join Anna Archer from ByteSpeed for a 2.5-hour hands-on Digital Signage Training. Anna will help you learn the Rise Display signage platform so you can get your signage up and running quickly and efficiently.
In this session we will focus on structuring your classroom environment in order to get BIG results with the iPads you currently have. We will look at your current curriculum and discuss ways to utilize a variety of apps. This will be an interactive session with discussion and discovery time. Please bring your iPads!
You will learn to create stop-motion videos using a webcam and the free version of WeVideo. You can then create videos for your class or teach students to make them. Stop motion videos can be an excellent alternative assessment to be used in place of tests or essays! This session has the following very specific requirements:
1. Bring a laptop or Chromebook with a webcam. You need to know how to take a snapshot with the webcam and how to save and retrieve it before attending the session. Please, NO iPads, Android tablets, smart phones, or other devices! This session is geared toward Chromebooks and laptops only.
2. Before attending the session you need (these are very preferred but not necessary):
A) a Gmail account
B) Google Chrome browser
C) Camera App installed in Chrome Browser (from Chrome Web Store).
D) WeVideo app installed in Chrome Browser (from Chrome Web Store). If you are a GAFE school, have your GAFE administrator install WeVideo if possible - but not necessary.
Aerohive Networks will be demoing their Centralized Management System. HiveManager, an out-of-band Network Management System (NMS) for simple policy configuration, firmware upgrades, and monitoring of up to thousands of Aerohive 802.11n access points, switches, and routers. A revolutionary new user-interface makes it easy and intuitive to create and deploy unified LAN and WLAN policies across your entire network.
Come join us for “Appy Hour” to learn how to create, connect, communicate, and collaborate (4 Cs) with iPads! The presenters will share various apps that apply to the 4 Cs! Not only will the audience learn about various apps, but the presenters will also show personal examples done in the classroom and school library setting! There are apps galore, but we are choosing to focus on the very best of the best apps that can be applied and used in multiple content areas! You will leave this presentation with a plethora of apps, resources, ideas and confidence to implement! Come to our “Appy” place and leave inspired!
Come hear the Good News! The FCC has revamped the E-rate program to facilitate the classroom transformation to wireless, mobile learning. They have secured funding for Internal Connection projects [wireless, switches] and have made critical changes to the program. Are you a 60% school? A 40% school? You can now qualify for--and obtain-- E-rate funding for your wireless projects.
Speaker: Jean Mickelson, Education Specialist, Extreme Networks
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Lost -Emily Pottebaum
ADM
Refinery Design - Mason Clendenen
Oelwein
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North Polk
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North Polk
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Maquoketa
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Bergman Academy
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Ankeny
Learning doesn’t just happen within the four walls of a classroom, particularly in a 21st century classroom. Skype, Google Hangout, and Zoom are just three examples of many online video tools that allow us to break down the walls of our classrooms to connect with other classrooms across the United States, even across the world. Students can now take a field trip, virtually, without the obstacles of parent permission slips, administration approval, and financial cost! 4th Grade teacher Ben Feight and Pre K-6 teacher-librarian Sarah Staudt will show you the various uses, applications, and implementation of online video tools, specifically Skype, Google Hangout, and Zoom. Using online video tools can help open the classroom up to students in other towns, cities, states, and countries. It can even benefit those students with disabilities that cannot attend regular classrooms. Not only can online video tools be used in the classroom with students, but video online tools can also be used to lead and participate in professional development as educators and professionals. The audience will learn about Skype, Google Hangout, and Zoom, as well as see actual implementation and how to get started. Skype, Google Hangout, and Zoom all offer chances for students to reach outside the community they live in, which is highly stressed in the Iowa Core’s 21 Century Skills.
Mediacom Business is providing schools nationwide with Gigabit and beyond fiber solutions for data and voice services fueling programs like e-learning, distance learning, virtual field trips, centralizing student records, etc.
This allows schools in rural America to provide their students with an education that’s in line with schools in large metro areas who have this type of access at their figure tips.
And for budget conscious schools, these solutions are cost effective, more reliable, super-fast and more importantly managed and monitored by subject matter experts. It’s a win-win partnership especially with the heightened awareness around E-rate and other FCC/President Obama initiatives that are in the headlines today. In a real customer story series Mediacom Business traveled to Brewton, AL who struggles with the same concerns as schools in Iowa to show how important broadband is in the development of this generation of students and in turn changing the classroom environment. Broadband is critical to their success and Mediacom Business is powering the platform to do so.
Celebrating over 25years in education, New York Times Best Selling Author and Illustrator, Peter H. Reynolds, children’s advocate, creativity champion, and successful entrepreneur, will share his uplifting vision on how to inspire more creative classrooms and share his knowledge and love of the written word. Hear about Peter’s essentials to foster creativity and innovation in the classroom. See how technology allows one to make new connections, share new ideas, and see what else is possible. His message is served up in a delightful, touching and unforgettable style which is an entertaining blend of...his fanciful art work, live animation and a reading of one his books, The Dot, The North Star, Ish, or Sky Color. Peter will also share his one of his many animations, a story that matters and a story that moves along with his heart-warming tales of how creative educators dared him to make his mark. Peter’s words, illustrations, animations and actions remind us to:
Be Brave,
Be Original,
Be Inspirational,
Be Inspired,
Be Active,
Make it a Meaningful Journey
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St. Pius X
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Ankeny
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Marshalltown
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A-H-S-T
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WSR
The Elements - Zachary Campbell
Ames - HSAP
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West Central Valley Community
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Cedar Rapids
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Grinnell High School
Acid Base - Kyle Emery
Ames
Vlogging, is it a word we made up? No, we aren’t crazy! It is blogging, but with an added video component to make it “vlogging!”
Learn how we use blogging and vlogging in the classroom as a tool to engage and communicate! Sarah Staudt will share her journey of blogging, while Ben Feight will take it to a whole new level by talking about vlogging and how he uses it to engage his 4th grade students through guided reading, literacy practices, and through daily classroom activities!
Whether it is you, the educator, or your students, blogging and vlogging encourages, promotes, and fosters self-expression and communication. Audience members will learn what is blogging and vlogging, their purposes, why they are important, how they communicate what is happening in the classroom, how both tools show evidence of learning, and various other valuable applications. You will leave this presentation with confidence to implement blogging and vlogging in your classroom, as well as your own life, as an educator and person.
Flipped Class for Administrators
Learn from Flipped Class pioneer Jon Bergmann as he explains tips for administrators as they consider implementing flipped learning into their schools.
and Aaron SamsCome hear the Good News! The FCC has revamped the E-rate program to facilitate the classroom transformation to wireless, mobile learning. They have secured funding for Internal Connection projects [wireless, switches] and have made critical changes to the program. Are you a 60% school? A 40% school? You can now qualify for--and obtain-- E-rate funding for your wireless projects.
Speaker: Jean Mickelson, Education Specialist, Extreme Networks