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10:30am EDT

Exploring the Googleverse

Everyone knows that Google is a search engine, and we have all heard about how great Google Apps are but do you know about some of the undiscovered comets and supernovas in the Googleverse? Get out your telescope and get ready to explore some stellar resources that you can use as launching points to spark student research, creativity, cross-curricular projects and meaningful writing.

Highlights will include:

• The Google Art Project

• Google’s World Wonders

• Story Builder

Come learn how you can use these amazing resources to take your students learning to a whole new galaxy!

Moderators

Mike Lawrence

Education Leadership Executive, Jamf

Mike is an award-winning teacher, administrator and educational leader. He served as the CEO of CUE from 2005-2017, expanding the nonprofit’s impact. He also directed the California Student Media Festival (mediafestival.org) for a decade - an effort he continues to support as a... Read More →

Speakers

Chris Long

OCCUE - VP of Business, HBUHSD - Ed Tech

Chris Long is an instructional leader who is passionate about using technology to create collective and innovative environments to improve teaching and learning. With 18 years of high school physics teaching experience, Chris thrives when he is helping students and educators to ask... Read More →

Wednesday July 24, 2013 10:30am - 10:50am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

11:00am EDT

Better Feedback, Stronger Interactions and Faster Grading

Do you despise how much time it takes you to do your grading? Ironically, the research is clear that if you do not provide feedback, which causes students to re-think and improve their work, you are wasting your time.

Learn how you can get a free Canvas account that will help you be more effective than ever before. With Canvas, students can turn-in anything and you will have super-human abilities to provide rich feedback via voice comments, text, rubrics, voice-to-text, live video capture and attaching files. Even better, the interface for doing this transforms all of your assessments into conversations that can help deepen learning. There’s even an easy way to give students the ability to assess each other and do peer-reviews. And of course this is mobile friendly with awesome iOS and Android Apps.

Moderators

Mike Lawrence

Education Leadership Executive, Jamf

Mike is an award-winning teacher, administrator and educational leader. He served as the CEO of CUE from 2005-2017, expanding the nonprofit’s impact. He also directed the California Student Media Festival (mediafestival.org) for a decade - an effort he continues to support as a... Read More →

Speakers

Chris Long

OCCUE - VP of Business, HBUHSD - Ed Tech

Chris Long is an instructional leader who is passionate about using technology to create collective and innovative environments to improve teaching and learning. With 18 years of high school physics teaching experience, Chris thrives when he is helping students and educators to ask... Read More →

Wednesday July 24, 2013 11:00am - 11:20am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

11:30am EDT

Make the Web Work for You with IFTTT!

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: If THIS, then THAT. Using IFTTT, busy people like you can define triggers for actions that cause one valuable web tool to interact "automatically" with another.

Wondering, for example, how to get your new blog to auto-post links to Twitter? IFTTT is for you! IFTTT recipes can take advantage of 40 different web service channels (a full listing can be found here - http://ifttt.com/channels).

In this engaging CUE Tip session, you'll learn how to make the Internet work for you!

Speakers

Darren Draper

Director of Education Technology, Canyons School District

Director of Education Technology in the growing Canyons School District in Sandy, UT, USA. Husband, dad, leader, teacher, learner, presenter, tech-lover, tech-hater. Sometimes gets distracte

Wednesday July 24, 2013 11:30am - 11:50am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

12:00pm EDT

CollabraGoogle

Using Google Apps to create a collaborative classroom environment where students take charge.

Speakers

Mary Jones

Teacher

Wednesday July 24, 2013 12:00pm - 12:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

12:30pm EDT

Augmented Reality, with iPads, iPhones

Learn how to make interactive "triggers" out of things like a student's art work, or a photo. These "triggers" will allow passers by to hold their mobile device, (iPad,iPhone) up the trigger, like a QR code, and it will link to anything you want, such as a video of a student explaining what their work of art is about or how their writing was inspired. Augmented reality adds graphics, sounds,videos which will appear in your field of view and coincide with what ever you are seeing before you. Augmented reality is changing the way we view the world as information will appear magically in your field of view when you hold your mobile device in front of you changing what you see.

Speakers

Julia Leong

Technology Integration Specialist

Julia Leong is a technology integration specialist who develops innovative teacher professional development programs for school districts internationally. She inspires technology infused learning that engages teachers to examine their practice and encourages students to demonstrate... Read More →

Wednesday July 24, 2013 12:30pm - 12:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

1:00pm EDT

From Collector to Curator with Symbaloo

Using Symbaloo allows the learner an easy and accessible cloud-based tool to collect and curate web resources. In addition to enhancing productivity, it also serves as PLN reader and manager. The session will show basic capabilities and operation.

Speakers

Kenneth Jones

Teacher, Spring Branch ISD

Husband, father, friend, learner, teacher, hopeful Early Adopter, would be Flat Classroom facilitator, tryin' to be a Conceptual Age Aptitude Acquisition Opportunity creator.....

Wednesday July 24, 2013 1:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

1:30pm EDT

Open Badges Accreditation for Student Digital Leaders

A grassroots movement has led to Student Digital Leadership initiatives operating in a number of UK schools, both at primary (elementary) and secondary (high school) level. Until now there has been no mechanism to provide transferable recognition for the skills and achievements that students acquire in these roles. Mozilla's Open Badges technology offers an opportunity for addressing this, whereby students are able to collect badges for the roles they take on and display them on selected websites - for example, social networking profiles, job sites, online CVs and more ..
The session will describe how the SDL initiative is operating in UK schools, including the roles that students typically take on, and the design and development of the badging framework that helps define each badge/role.

Speakers

Glyn Barritt

Social Learning Manager, SSAT

SSAT organisation is now four years old and rebuilding its reputation for excellence in education support .. helping teachers and school leaders to meet educational priorities and to develop a vision in which the education system as a whole enables every student to reach their full... Read More →

Wednesday July 24, 2013 1:30pm - 1:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

2:00pm EDT

Make the Web Work for You with IFTTT!

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: If THIS, then THAT. Using IFTTT, busy people like you can define triggers for actions that cause one valuable web tool to interact "automatically" with another.
Wondering, for example, how to get your new blog to auto-post links to Twitter? IFTTT is for you! IFTTT recipes can take advantage of 40 different web service channels (a full listing can be found here - http://ifttt.com/channels).
In this engaging CUE Tip session, you'll learn how to make the Internet work for you!

Speakers

Darren Draper

Director of Education Technology, Canyons School District

Director of Education Technology in the growing Canyons School District in Sandy, UT, USA. Husband, dad, leader, teacher, learner, presenter, tech-lover, tech-hater. Sometimes gets distracte

Wednesday July 24, 2013 2:00pm - 2:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

2:30pm EDT

Creating Movie Trailers on the Fly for Fun and Adventure

In this session we will create an iMovie Trailer using an iPad and you. We'll see how creative we can get within a short period of time. This is a great way to introduce students to filmmaking. It is useful for creating things like Book Trailer, Movie Trailer, or Introductions.

Speakers

Kelly Dumont

Creative, Apple Fashion Place

Kelly Dumont is a former Education Technology Specialist for Canyons School District in Sandy, UT. He worked in that capacity for 10 years. Previously he he worked as a Curriculum Technology Specialist and taught 5th and 6th grade in Jordan School District. His job is to help teachers... Read More →

Wednesday July 24, 2013 2:30pm - 2:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

10:30am EDT

CCSS Apps

Learn about Common Core State Standards Apps that will help you keep track of the new standards. iTunes U, CCSS Look Fors, and CCSS Standards will be a few of the tips shared.

Moderators

Mike Lawrence

Education Leadership Executive, Jamf

Mike is an award-winning teacher, administrator and educational leader. He served as the CEO of CUE from 2005-2017, expanding the nonprofit’s impact. He also directed the California Student Media Festival (mediafestival.org) for a decade - an effort he continues to support as a... Read More →

Speakers

Dr. Christine Olmstead

Associate Superintendent of Educational Services, Orange County Department of Education

Thursday July 25, 2013 10:30am - 10:50am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

11:00am EDT

Easy Widgets for iBooks Authors

Learn how to create widgets for your iBooks Author projects using Bookry. If you are making books for iBooks these widgets are terrific and can help add more interactivity to your books. It is also a great way to get videos in your books without having to actually embed the video, thus keeping the size of your book files down.

Speakers

Kelly Dumont

Creative, Apple Fashion Place

Kelly Dumont is a former Education Technology Specialist for Canyons School District in Sandy, UT. He worked in that capacity for 10 years. Previously he he worked as a Curriculum Technology Specialist and taught 5th and 6th grade in Jordan School District. His job is to help teachers... Read More →

Thursday July 25, 2013 11:00am - 11:20am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

11:30am EDT

10 Writing Tools to Improve Student Writing

Show various tools and student samples of how students use various writing apps, automated essay scoring, and websites/web tools to improve student writing.

Speakers

Michael Lambert

Educator, Concordia International School

Michael currently teaches middle school students at Concordia International School Shanghai. As an ADE, coupled with a heart for the Greater China community, Michael has written several articles, served on the advisory board for the K12 Horizon Report and presented at numerous conferences... Read More →

Thursday July 25, 2013 11:30am - 11:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

12:00pm EDT

Telling the Story of Learning

Who tells the stories about all the great things happening in your school? Through multimedia creation, Student News Teams (in and out of the classroom) can share and celebrate your learning community! Literacy, communication, collaboration and creativity are at the heart of these student-centered initiatives that have sprung up around the world in all grade levels. Check out some easy ways to get started using whatever technology you have available and see how a powerful narrative can make a positive impact in your school! 21innovate.com/student-news

Speakers

Brad Wilson

Thursday July 25, 2013 12:00pm - 12:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

12:30pm EDT

Exploring the Googleverse

Everyone knows that Google is a search engine, and we have all heard about how great Google Apps are but do you know about some of the undiscovered comets and supernovas in the Googleverse? Get out your telescope and get ready to explore some stellar resources that you can use as launching points to spark student research, creativity, cross-curricular projects and meaningful writing.
Highlights will include:• The Google Art Project• Google’s World Wonders• Story Builder
Come learn how you can use these amazing resources to take your students learning to a whole new galaxy!

Speakers

Chris Long

OCCUE - VP of Business, HBUHSD - Ed Tech

Chris Long is an instructional leader who is passionate about using technology to create collective and innovative environments to improve teaching and learning. With 18 years of high school physics teaching experience, Chris thrives when he is helping students and educators to ask... Read More →

Thursday July 25, 2013 12:30pm - 12:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

1:30pm EDT

CollabraGoogle

Using Google Apps to create a collaborative classroom environment where students take charge.

Speakers

Mary Jones

Teacher

Thursday July 25, 2013 1:30pm - 1:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

2:00pm EDT

Augmented Reality with iPads, iPhones

Learn how to make interactive "triggers" out of things like a student's art work, or a photo. These "triggers" will allow passers by to hold their mobile device, (iPad,iPhone) up the trigger, like a QR code, and it will link to anything you want, such as a video of a student explaining what their work of art is about or how their writing was inspired. Augmented reality adds graphics, sounds,videos which will appear in your field of view and coincide with what ever you are seeing before you. Augmented reality is changing the way we view the world as information will appear magically in your field of view when you hold your mobile device in front of you changing what you see.

Volunteers

Dan November

Maintenance, November Learning

Jack of many trades, master of none.

Thursday July 25, 2013 2:00pm - 2:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

2:30pm EDT

From Collector to Curator with Symbaloo

Using Symbaloo allows the learner an easy and accessible cloud-based tool to collect and curate web resources. In addition to enhancing productivity, it also serves as PLN reader and manager. The session will show basic capabilities and operation.

Speakers

Kenneth Jones

Teacher, Spring Branch ISD

Husband, father, friend, learner, teacher, hopeful Early Adopter, would be Flat Classroom facilitator, tryin' to be a Conceptual Age Aptitude Acquisition Opportunity creator.....

Thursday July 25, 2013 2:30pm - 2:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

10:30am EDT

Read Books With Your Ears

Don’t have time to read a good book? Do you want to engage your students in the reading process by listening? Do you have a long commute and want to listen to something along the way? I want to tell you about how and where to get audiobooks. Free. Getting audiobooks is really easy. I’ll show you how to combine tracks from CD’s, add album art, add your audiobook to your phone and tell it to remember where you left off. From the public library to LibriVox to iTunes University there are books to read with your ears everywhere.

Speakers

Robert Gordon

Canyons School District

Education Technology Specialist, Canyons School District Robert is currently serving as UCET Past President, and working as a Canyons Educational Technology Team Lead. Formerly a clssroom teacher and Technology Integration Specialist for the NUES region. | Robert loves working with... Read More →

Friday July 26, 2013 10:30am - 10:50am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

11:00am EDT

CCSS Apps

Learn about Common Core State Standards Apps that will help you keep track of the new standards. iTunes U, CCSS Look Fors, and CCSS Standards will be a few of the tips shared.

Moderators

Mike Lawrence

Education Leadership Executive, Jamf

Mike is an award-winning teacher, administrator and educational leader. He served as the CEO of CUE from 2005-2017, expanding the nonprofit’s impact. He also directed the California Student Media Festival (mediafestival.org) for a decade - an effort he continues to support as a... Read More →

Speakers

Dr. Christine Olmstead

Associate Superintendent of Educational Services, Orange County Department of Education

Friday July 26, 2013 11:00am - 11:20am EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

11:30am EDT

From Collector to Curator with Symbaloo

Using Symbaloo allows the learner an easy and accessible cloud-based tool to collect and curate web resources. In addition to enhancing productivity, it also serves as PLN reader and manager. The session will show basic capabilities and operation.

Speakers

Kenneth Jones

Teacher, Spring Branch ISD

Husband, father, friend, learner, teacher, hopeful Early Adopter, would be Flat Classroom facilitator, tryin' to be a Conceptual Age Aptitude Acquisition Opportunity creator.....

Friday July 26, 2013 11:30am - 11:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

12:00pm EDT

Better Feedback, Stronger Interactions and Faster Grading

Do you despise how much time it takes you to do your grading? Ironically, the research is clear that if you do not provide feedback, which causes students to re-think and improve their work, you are wasting your time.
Learn how you can get a free Canvas account that will help you be more effective than ever before. With Canvas, students can turn-in anything and you will have super-human abilities to provide rich feedback via voice comments, text, rubrics, voice-to-text, live video capture and attaching files. Even better, the interface for doing this transforms all of your assessments into conversations that can help deepen learning. There’s even an easy way to give students the ability to assess each other and do peer-reviews. And of course this is mobile friendly with awesome iOS and Android Apps.

Moderators

Mike Lawrence

Education Leadership Executive, Jamf

Mike is an award-winning teacher, administrator and educational leader. He served as the CEO of CUE from 2005-2017, expanding the nonprofit’s impact. He also directed the California Student Media Festival (mediafestival.org) for a decade - an effort he continues to support as a... Read More →

Speakers

Chris Long

OCCUE - VP of Business, HBUHSD - Ed Tech

Chris Long is an instructional leader who is passionate about using technology to create collective and innovative environments to improve teaching and learning. With 18 years of high school physics teaching experience, Chris thrives when he is helping students and educators to ask... Read More →

Friday July 26, 2013 12:00pm - 12:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

12:30pm EDT

10 Writing Tools to Improve Student Writing

Show various tools and student samples of how students use various writing apps, automated essay scoring, and websites/web tools to improve student writing.

Speakers

Michael Lambert

Educator, Concordia International School

Michael currently teaches middle school students at Concordia International School Shanghai. As an ADE, coupled with a heart for the Greater China community, Michael has written several articles, served on the advisory board for the K12 Horizon Report and presented at numerous conferences... Read More →

Friday July 26, 2013 12:30pm - 12:50pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine

1:00pm EDT

A Culture Changing Professional Development Opportunity

For the last five years, the Reading Public Schools has offered an inhouse six credit graduate level course called Expanding the Boundaries of Teaching and Learning. This course, which originated from a course that Alan November teaches at Seton Hall University, is designed to shift where teachers become facilitators of learning and students become knowledge generators. Over the last five years over 100 teachers and administrators in the school district have taken the course. This single professional development opportunity has had a tremendous positive impact on learning and teaching in the Reading Public Schools

Speakers

John Doherty

Friday July 26, 2013 1:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
Plaza Ballroom 2nd Floor/Mezzanine