Technology Integration
Day 3 - Aug. 4

How to be "SMART" in the Classroom: Using SMART Technologies in the Classroom
Bill Ho & Rich Boettner, Hilliard City Schools
8 - 9:45 a.m.
See how Smartboards, Airliners, and SmartResponse systems are being used in a 21st century classroom as well as how it can be retrofitted into an older classroom.

Promise into Practice: What "New Literacy" and an Expanding Toolset Means for Our Teaching (and Learning)
Sara Kajder, National Presenter
8:30 - 11:15 a.m.
The shifts in how we define literacy and the toolset we use in our work as readers and writers make this an incredibly exciting (and sometimes daunting) time to teach. What does it mean to teach and learn in a classroom that values new literacies? Where are our students learning to read and write? What can we do with technology to engage, empower and evoke our students’ thinking, insights and knowledge – and how does that differ from what we have done before? As much as our talk will pose critical questions, the bigger goal is to explore practice. We’ll examine methods for co-constructing literacy practices alongside our students and think deeply about what learning means within those examples and contexts.

School-Home Communication Using Web 2.0 Technology
J. Beaver, Upper Arlington
10 - 11:15 a.m.
Discover examples of 21st century lessons and technology that foster communication and collaboration between school and home.

Get Your Students Online
Drew Barton & David Banyots, Hilliard City Schools
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT are examples of a Content Management System (CMS). Various ways to control classroom content via a CMS, using Moodle will be demonstrated. Examples include assignment submissions, quizzes, instructor feedback, wikis, chats, glossaries and forums.

New Literacies, New Questions, New Research: Making Meaning from Our Work in the 21st Century Classroom
Sarah Kajder, National Presenter
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
How do we know what is really working in our pedagogy when we integrate new ideas about learning, teaching and literacy; and, two, what does it mean to do research with (and not just of) adolescents? We’ll work with sample lesson study models, approaches for digital ethnographic work alongside students and ideas for leveraging new tools to understand our classroom work in deeper, richer ways – and in real ways that help us to articulate the response to “so what.”

Communication and Collaboration - Creating an Accessible Learning Commons for the 21st Century Digital Learner (A Knowledge Building Center)
Kathy Parker-Jones, Heather Savage & Betty Dangel; Hilliard City Schools
2 - 3:15 p.m.
Through a Knowledge Building Center, students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. A Knowledge Building Center is a place where classroom teachers, media specialists, technology teachers, other adult specialists, and students are engaged in collaborative inquiry and research to build topical expertise.

Online Learning for the Classroom: The Paperless Connection
Jay Smith & Jennifer Feeney, Hilliard City Schools
2 - 3:15 p.m.
Want to move your classroom into the 21st century and try an online approach? Learn how an online learning environment can make a difference.  Learn about using wikis, blogs, online journals, online quizzes, assignments, projects and more. These tools really help teachers connect with today’s students!

Pre and Post Testing Using Ecampus
Hilliard City Schools
2 - 3:15 p.m.

Real Reasons to Write: Working with Authentic Tools, Tasks and Audiences
Sarah Kajder, National Presenter
2 - 3:15 p.m.
It is an exhilarating (and daunting) time to work with student writers as the toolset is ever changing and continually creating new opportunities and audiences for students. This session will be a bit of a disruption, arguing that the “core” of what we do as writing teachers remains largely stable amidst the explosion of new tools and spaces for writers. We will explore student work in learning to write by writing (through blogs), exploring writing as a process (through wikis, jing, etc.), using writing to think (multimodal compositions), engaging with authentic audiences and purposes (through podcasts), connecting writing and reading (through issuu, Google docs. and lulu) and writing to see themselves (digital narrative).

Conference Reflections
Required for Ashland Credit Option
3:15 - 4 p.m.