2014 ITEC Fall Conference

Learn how to use current and future educational technology to build a 21st Century learning environment that will increase achievement, parent and community involvement, educator efficacy, and school safety.

Join this interactive BYOD session to learn specific, easy-to-manage strategies that enrich the existing literacy curriculum in your schools. Emphasized will be ways to measure text complexity through crowd-sourced online tools, and interactive resources that help students succeed with complex texts and difficult vocabulary.

Read Naturally's research-based fluency development strategies have led to their adoption by school districts nationwide. Learn how Read Naturally's Technology programs based on Teacher Modeling, Repeated Reading and Progress Monitoring have improved the fluency, vocabulary and comprehension of students across all grade levels.

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.  

This session provides examples and demonstrations that shows how you can support meaningful instructional approaches that combines pedagog and instructional technology that you can use to support reading and writing outcomes in your schools today.   In this informative, non-technical session, discover how you can deliver compelling instructional technology supporting best practices.  Covered: Instructional Technology Do’s and Don’ts, Out of the box graphical organizers that support reading and writing, Instant Reading Wiki for Your Classroom with OneNote, and Real Time Coaching and Writing Feedback in Seconds.