Using Fathom to integrate middle school mathematics and science. The workshop will include Investigations in frog jumping, spaghetti bridges, and factors that affect a pendulum swing.

Explore models and examples of using web 2.0 tools like wikis, blogs, glogster, twitter, and more in the classroom. Discussion will focus on the lesson plans, objectives, and goals of the lessons as well as the outcomes. Time will also be spent working with the tools and finding resources to expand your lessons. Bring some of your own lesson plans to tweak and adjust. We will collaborate to build lesson together. Grades 4-12

This hands-on workshop will expand teachers’ technology tool belts in the area of everyday classroom use with a focus on literacy. The leaders are a sixth-grade language arts teacher and a technology integration coach. Attendees will get hands-on practice with tools to use with students right away. Specific areas of literacy addressed include: reading comprehension, reading fluency, organization, writing skills, editing, and word choice. We’ll also review how these tools can assist teachers in both differentiating instruction and improving classroom management. Software tools discussed include: MS Office, Audacity, Jing, WordPress. Websites include: Wordle, Diigo, Animoto, Etherpad and MindMeister. We'll also look at classroom uses of Google Docs, a category unto itself.

Any content-area teacher can easily transform writing instruction into a powerful tool for science and social studies learning. Author Carol Baldwin shows you how to create short fiction as a winning strategy for use beyond the language arts classroom. Her interactive, fun workshop gives you ready-to-use strategies which students love. Be ready to create outside-of-the-box characters and settings, have fun, and learn strategies which you can implement immediately in your classroom.

"5 ""Tools to Know"" This interactive workshop will introduce web tools for every educator to know. We'll explore five tools & gadgets - Diigo, RSS feeds,Google Education Edition, Voicethread, and Webspiration. Workshop participants will collaborate on how to use these tools in their schools. We'll also explore any tools of interest to the crowd. All of our work will be shared on the virtual component of the NCAIS conference."

"Forsyth Country Day School’s search for a solution to go completely digital with online content required transcending commonly known technological avenues. During our exploration, we found that independent schools were similar to us across the country in that they too have been and continue to struggle with providing an online presence for their students in a manageable, consistent, and reliable way. Whether it be a fully virtual experience, a hybrid online offering, or a place to simply stash digital resources for the classroom, we’ve seen many attempts by software companies to satisfy these needs and additionally to create an efficient design, an instructionally sound product, and to provide a simple user experience. The open-source Moodle platform is perhaps the most recognized of these learning management systems (LMS) and no doubt everyone has heard of the handsomely priced Blackboard product. Of course there are numerous other LMSs as well that achieve an online presence; however, good schools seem to find school-wide implementation prohibitive due to issues with all of these offerings. Generally, it’s a problem of an overly complex system requiring the burden of days of teacher and student training, duplication of effort by the teacher, an inefficient interface, or even technical details. I propose to demonstrate a new LMS that was designed from the ground up to increase efficiency for the digital teacher, allow for simple creation and use of custom and open source content, and to consolidate systems (ie. curriculum mapping and gradebook programs). With this LMS, teachers will have the ability to intelligently map curriculum objectives to content, grade work in an exceptionally fast manner, create custom content with minimal clicks, and find a drag and drop friendly framework to outline their entire course. Administrators will have the flexibility to witness reports that are drawn from the underlying data connected to the course’s assessments. These reports show student performance and allow observations into how well course objectives are satisfied and how responsive faculty members are in responding to students. In this 1.5 hour workshop, participants will have the ability to enroll in a fictitious course to witness firsthand how a student and a teacher would use this new alternative in learning management systems.

This session will address "going global" with your students from your own classroom. We will discuss setting up a Skype account, contacting other teachers and schools world-wide, tips for implementation, and ideas for enhancing learning and teaching through this video-conferencing medium. Join us!

Recent developments in brain science have given us the key to better teaching. At this workshop attendees will be introduced to a teaching method called Modeling Instruction, which has been used successfully in the sciences for over ten years to promote better retention and the ability to transfer knowledge to new situations. The visualization of concepts at the center of Modeling Instruction brings about these improvements. Your presenters have adopted this method into two different Humanities disciplines (History and English) and will share their experiences in an interactive session that will include reflections on classroom results and suggestions on how to get started in this innovative teaching method.

See the new capabilities of Apple's exciting Portable and Mobile Technology and it's use in education. This is a great time to be a student! Technology is making learning more exciting and fun for all learners. Classroom work is no longer confined to the classroom! Students have 24/7 ubiquitous learning by using their computer, iPod, or their iPhone to work where they want or when they want. Apple is at the core of this emerging direction for teaching and learning. The Mac is now the number one computer in schools and on college campuses. Join Apple to explore some amazing tools with amazing features.

"CSI TECHNOLOGY Collaborate, Share, Infuse TECHNOLOGY Looking for more ways to integrate technology into your K-5 classroom? Looking for new ways to share and collaborate? WELL...we've got an ""APP"" for all that! Join Sherri Ausbon and Cindy Fordham for a dazzling, fun-filled, creative session for using web tools, digital resources, and more to integrate technology into your classroom."

This session is designed to share my journey from tablet novice to in-house OneNote evangelist. When I received my tablet, I felt sure that it could help me integrate the personal connections with students that I value with the infinite capabilities of a laptop. But how? Stylus-based input combined with the organizational and synching capabilities of OneNote has completely transformed how my classroom functions and how I teach and interact with my students. OneNote helps unorganized teachers and students alike to keep themselves organized and buys class time that would ordinarily be spent printing, copying, or emailing for instruction.

"Are you tired of PowerPoint? Ready to think outside the slide? With Prezi, a Flash-Based presentation program, you get a blank canvas to make that presentation with pizazz. After a brief discussion of how we've used it with our Upper School Composition Classes, including lesson plans and a rubric, you'll spend the rest of the time working on your own Prezi on the topic of your choice. Bring your laptop and we'll create your free account and get to work!"

See the new capabilities of Apple's exciting Portable and Mobile Technology and it's use in education. This is a great time to be a student! Technology is making learning more exciting and fun for all learners. Classroom work is no longer confined to the classroom! Students have 24/7 ubiquitous learning by using their computer, iPod, or their iPhone to work where they want or when they want. Apple is at the core of this emerging direction for teaching and learning. The Mac is now the number one computer in schools and on college campuses. Join Apple to explore some amazing tools with amazing features.