| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Student Showcase: Nebo Elementary Robotics Club - We make Technology Come Alive! |
| Christopher Michaud, Paulding County Public Schools |
| Table 1 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| Description: The Nebo Elementary Fine Arts Robotics team combines the concepts of computer science with the principals of engineering in creating robots to perform simple tasks such as navigating a maze, moving and placing objects, and retrieving objects. The Nebo Robotics Team will also compete in the First Lego League Robotics competition this year. During the student showcase, Nebo Elementary Students will demonstrate their robots and programs they created using Lego Mindstorms NXT kit and Mindstorms programming language. Through the designing of mechanical robots students learn how to apply the concepts of simple machines, sequence, and input/output in a real world situation. Through writing programs for robots, students move out of the virtual world and into the real world as they must create, and troubleshoot code to direct their machines to complete missions. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Geo-palooza! |
| Tammy Corsetti, Martin Technology Academy of Math and Science |
| Table 2 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| Martin's GeoSpatial Technology club loves to GeoCache, and they have discovered that Geocaching is for every one. The next time you want to deliver your curriculum in an intersting way, consider taking your classroom outdoors and sending your students on a high tech treasure hunt. Our students will show you how to geocache with a short presentation, and then you can find a geocache using our GeoMate Junior hand-held GPS device. We'll show you how you can use Geocaching with your class to add a fun and exciting twist to your lessons. We'll also give you tips for starting up a GeoSpatial Technology club in your school. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Piecewise Pictures |
| Kasele Mshinda, South Atlanta School of Law and Social Justice |
| Table 3 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| Students use the six basic functions and transformations of those functions to create a replica of a still photo. Domain restrictions are included to enhance the likeness of the function art. This student product incorporates the use of the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, TI connect software to present the final illustrations. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Creation Tools: Using Web 2.0 tools to Show what we Know! |
| Teri Lance, Hall County Public Schools |
| Table 4 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| Synopsis: Students will present various projects they have created to demonstrate their mastery of 6th grade Georgia Performance Standards. Each project presented utilizes a web 2.0 tools that allow students to creatively demonstrate their knowledge on a topic studied. Tools presented include Weebly, Voicethread, Glogster, and many more. Details: Throughout the year students can choose from a selection of web 2.0 tools to create projects for the standard being covered. This showcase highlights some of the students’ favorite tools as well as the projects that stand out as superb in nature and presentation. Specific projects presented will likely be a poetry website created to highlight student writing on all the different types of poetry, Voicethreads created as a photo essay Response to Literature project, Glogs highlighting various grammar topics and reading activities, and others . Students will consist of 6th and 7th grade students who created the projects on display. Note: This session is loosely tied to a concurrent session application that would give teachers details on how to utilize the tools they see presented by students in this showcase. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Tech Fair Winner- Multimedia Applications |
| Brenda Street, Atlanta Public Schools |
| Table 5 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| In this presentation, two 4th grade students showcase a Microsoft PhotoStory describing 5 important reference sources in the media center: dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, and atlas. This is followed by an interactive, multiple-choice PowerPoint that quizzes the viewer on the reference materials. Wrong answers receive a "Sorry, try again" prompt, while correct ones receive "Great job, please continue. The PhotoStory is narrated by the students, while the PowerPoint employs Microsoft ClipArt and Sounds. This project addresses Georgia Standard ELA4W3c, and it won first place in 4th grade MultiMedia Applications at the Georgia Tech Fair held in Macon, GA, in March, 2011. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Tech Fair Winner- Project Programming Using Java, JSP, Tomcat, Automation Testing using HP QTP |
| Harsha Tambareni, Forsyth County Elementary, BigCreek school |
| Table 6 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| This project is web based application, designed to test the mathematics skills. User can enter two numbers, select the operation like Addition, subtraction etc. , submit the answer and validate the results. After submit the answer, this application will give the results with the time taken to answer the question. Also I will be showing how this application can used by multiple users simultaneously from multiple machines. This application also tested thoroughly using automation testing tool HP Quick Test professional. This project explains how we can save time and money using automation testing tools like HP Quick Test professional. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: iPad, iWrite |
| Stefani Ballard, Gilbert Elementary School |
| Table 7 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| Join us for a look into the amazing applications designed for iPads and other mobile devices. Making technological innovations such as the iPad and apps available for students to use during their writing lessons keeps them eager to add the next word to the page. The featured apps will allow students to work their way through the writing process while incorporating various elements such as, background, elaborate characters, audio, and animation into their completed projects. |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM |
| SESSION: Empowering Students with Web 2.0 to Create, Collaborate, and Communicate |
| Julie Ramsay, Jefferson County Schools |
| Table 8 Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30PM Capacity: 8 |
| Learn how over 300 students, in grades 3 through 7, from seven different states, connect and collaborate through writing and Web 2.0 tools to create student-driven projects across content areas by collaboratively publishing an online digital journal called The Coast to Coast Chronicles. Students will explain and demonstrate the tools they used to collaboratively plan each of the editions and share the many different tools they chose to publish their projects. Some of the tools used to complete the learning project are Wikispaces, digital photography, Moodle, Prezi, scanners, Voki, publishing software, Photo Story, Voice Thread, digital video, Wallwisher, TripWow, Playcrafter, Storyjumper, Wordle, Google maps, Audacity, ToonDoo and Skype. |