2015+Program

Schedule

 * ~ . ||~ 7:30–9:00 ||||||||~ Shuttles loop from Keystone Centre to CPRSS (park at the Keystone), and hourly thereafter. More about parking ||
 * ~ . ||~ 8:30–9:00 ||||||||~ Registration & Coffee ||
 * ~ . ||~ 9:00–10:15 ||||||||~ Keynote: Dan Buckley ||
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 * ~ A ||~ 10:30–11:30 ||~ Dan Buckley ||~ Workshops A ||~ Poster Sessions ||~  ||
 * ~ B ||~ 11:45–12:45 ||~ Dan Buckley ||~ Workshops B ||~ Poster Sessions ||~ <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Lunch 1 ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #c3eaef; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 50px;">C ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">1:00–2:00 ||~  ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Workshops C ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Poster Sessions ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Lunch 2 ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #c3eaef; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 50px;">D ||~ <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">2:15–3:15 ||~ <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Dan Buckley ||~ <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Workshops D ||~ <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">Poster Sessions ||~ <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #eeeeee; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">. ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #c3eaef; color: #c3eaef; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 50px;">. ||~ <span style="background-color: #c3eaef; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; width: 150px;">3:20-4:20 ||||||||~ <span style="background-color: #c3eaef; display: block; line-height: 28px; text-align: left; width: 606px;">Shuttles return to Keystone Centre ||

Keynote Follow up Dan Buckley Gymnasium || B1 Keynote Follow up Dan Buckley Gymnasium ||  || D1 Keynote Follow up Dan Buckley Gymnasium || Poster Session 1 Library || B2 Poster Session 2 Library || C2 Poster Session 3 Library || D2 Poster Session 4 Library || Lunch 1 || C3 Lunch 2 ||  || Technology in Middle Years Math Jess Carr Room 215 || B4 Technology in Middle Years Math Jess Carr Room 215 |||| C4-D4 Personalizing Learning with the new Blackboard LMS Donald Girouard & Denis Myers Room 215 || Career Exploration with Career Cruising Brahim Ould Baba Room 220 |||| C5-D5 Career Exploration with Career Cruising Brahim Ould Baba Room 220 || Center Based Math with Technology Infused Rebecca Thompson Room 216 |||| C6-D6 Center Based Math with Technology Infused Rebecca Thompson Room 216 || Make Your Classroom a Google Classroom David Nutbean Room 212 || B7 Technology to Support Today's Teacher Leah Obach & Devon Caldwell Room 212 |||| C7-D7 Utilize Wikis to Enhance Collaborating Projects Building a Teacher & Student Technology Tool Kit Kathy Spangler Room 211 || B8 Building a Teacher & Student Technology Tool Kit Kathy Spangler Room 211 || C8 Creativity Unleashed: Encouraging Personal and Creative Responses from MY Students Cory Nevill & Kathy Spangler Room 107 || D8 Creativity Unleashed: Encouraging Personal and Creative Responses from MY Students Cory Nevill & Kathy Spangler Room 107 || Just Instagram It! Zoe Bettess/Tara McLauchlan Bring your own device Theatre || B9 Just Instagram It! Zoe Bettess/Tara McLauchlan Bring your own device Theatre || C9 Story Maps / GIS for the Non-Geographer! Rob Langston/Stacey Bradley Room 205 || D9 Genius Hour Allison Greig Room 205 || Take Personalization to the Next Level with OneNote Marilyn Steier Room 209 || C10 Reimagine Teachning and Learning with Windows 8.1 Marilyn Steier Room 209 || D10 In the Cloud with Office 365 Marilyn Steier Room 209 || Story Maps / GIS for the Non-Geographer! Rob Langston/Stacey Bradley Room 205 || B11 What do YOU Want to Learn? Barry Dyck Room 206 |||| C11-D11 Communicating, Learning, and Connecting through Technology - A Whole-School Approach to Safe and Caring Schools Rosalind Robb, Kathryn Roberts, Val Noseworthy Room 206 || Outcome-Based Assessment and Evaluation Marnie Wilson Room 228 || B12 Outcome-Based Assessment and Evaluation Marnie Wilson Room 228 || C12 Tech Tips with Windows 7 Jon Forsythe Theatre || D12 Tech Tips with Windows 8 Doug Chalmers Theatre || Using Digital Storytelling: Photography with a Twist Meghan Reid Bring a device capable of taking pictures Room 204 |||| C13-D13 Using Digital Storytelling: Photography with a Twist Meghan Reid Bring a device capable of taking pictures Room 204 || Can You Grow a Loaf of Bread? Sustainability Education and Personalized Learning right in our Own Back Yard Roy Norris Room 208 || B14 Video Recording Apps for Physical Education and Athletics Jonathan Filewich & Trent Joye Room 210 || C14 Juno System in the Classroom Kaylie Whelpton Room 221 || D14 Can You Grow a Loaf of Bread? Sustainability Education and Personalized Learning right in our Own Back Yard Roy Norris Room 208 || What do YOU Want to Learn? Barry Dyck Room 206 ||  |||| C15-D15 QR Code Scavenger Hunt Teresa Vallotton Room 210 || Personalized Learning with Curriculum Constrants Brad Twordik Room 226 ||  || C16 Connected Kids: Inspiring Ideas for Personalized Learning and Sharing with ICT Leah Obach & Devon Caldwell Room 226 || D16 Personalized Learning with Curriculum Constrants Brad Twordik Room 226 || Education for Sustainable Development K-12 Anne MacDiarmid Room 222 ||  |||| C17-D17 Fitbits: Stepping into the Future Connie Thiessen Room 222 || Copyright and You John Finch Room 229 ||  || C18 Deeper Learning with the 6 C's Joan Badger Room 116 || D18 Copyright and You John Finch Room 229 || Lost in Makerspace Lost in Makerspace Assessing Physical Literacy Levels of Gr. 3-9 Students: Passport for Life Ralph Clark Room 111 || Our Journey Towards Inquiry-Based Learning: A Kindergarten Tale Connie Lowe & Eva Dowd Room 113 ||  || C20 Show What You Know Ron Nordstrom Bring your own iPad Room 113 || D20 Using Photovoice to Engage Students in Learning Karen Rempel & Chris Brown Room 115 || Creating a Cohesive Learning Community in a Multi-Age Classroom Jackie Gudnason Bring your own device Room 112 ||  || C21 Creating a Cohesive Learning Community in a Multi-Age Classroom Jackie Gudnason Bring your own device Room 112 || D21 Bryce Ridgen Room 112 || Professional Learning Communities within the Response to Intervention Structure Linda Jameson Room 227 ||  |||| C22-D22 Personalized Authentic Learning and Assessment in the Early Years Carole McCurry Room 225 || Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning Reynold Redekopp Room 106 ||  || C23 Google Classroom Brad Vandenberghe Room 211 || D23 Professional Learning Communities within the Response to Intervention Structure Linda Jameson Room 227 || Bryce Ridgen Room 115 ||  || C24 Creating eTextBooks to Support Self-paced Learners Reg Reimer & Cale Dunbar Room 223 || D24 Using Action Research to Improve Your Teaching Practice and to Become a Reflective Practitioner Mike Nantais, Jacke Kirk, Glenn Cockerline Room 101 || Personalizing Learning: A School's Journey Connie Davis Room 102 ||  || C25 Infusing Technology in a Personalized Environment Sue Penner Room 117 || D25 Education for Sustainable Development K-12 Anne MacDiarmid Room 228 || Using Action Research to Improve Your Teaching Practice and to Become a Reflective Practitioner Mike Nantais, Jacke Kirk, Glenn Cockerline Room 101 ||  || C26 Apps in Class Julie Brunel Room 108 || D26 Our Journey Towards Inquiry-Based Learning: A Kindergarten Tale Connie Lowe & Eva Dowd Room 113 || Get a Gig with GarageBand Ryan Miller & Andy McKiel Bring an iPad with Garageband Room 221 ||  || C27 Open-Source tools for the Music Classroom Personalizing Learning: A School's Journey Connie Davis Room 102 || Genius Hour Allison Greig Room 225 ||  || C28 Making Connections: Mathematics, Literature & Technology Sandy Margetts, Selena Empey, Tara Knoll, Tanya Van Damme, Tynelle Barkley, Hilary Wells Room 207 || D28 Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning Reynold Redekopp Room 106 || Deeper Learning with the 6 C's Joan Badger Room 116 ||  || C29 Using Technology to Support EAL Learners Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou Room 227 || D29 Get a Gig with GarageBand Ryan Miller & Andy McKiel Bring an iPad with Garageband Room 221 || Math Workshop Lorie Stutsky/Tana Janzen/Cindy Sobkow Room 223 ||  ||   || D30 Creating eTextBooks to Support Self-paced Learners Reg Reimer & Cale Dunbar Room 223 || Infusing Technology in a Personalized Environment Sue Penner Room 117 ||  ||   || D31 Ed. Tech. and the 7-12 ELA Curriculum Kent Schiltroth Room 116 || Video Recording Apps for Physical Education and Athletics Jonathan Filewich & Trent Joye Room 210 ||  ||   || D32 Free Web Based Courses: Digital Literacy and STEM Jennifer Dyck-Sprout Room 211 || Ed. Tech. and the 7-12 ELA Curriculum Kent Schiltroth Room 203 ||  ||   || D33 Apps in Class Julie Brunel Room Lab 108 || Open-Source tools for the Music Classroom Making Connections: Mathematics, Literature & Technology Sandy Margetts, Selena Empey, Tara Knoll, Tanya Van Damme, Tynelle Barkley, Hilary Wells Room 207 ||
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 Dan Buckley A continuation of the Keynote address. This session will be repeated in B1 and D1. Target Audience: Everyone 
 * A1 Keynote Follow up – (****Presentation, Single Session)**

A number of displays set up to highlight learning projects and activities. Target Audience: K-12  Jess Carr – Brandon School Division – Grade 5/6 Teacher Infusing technology into middle years math using Sumdog and other resources. Target Audience: Middle Years Math  Brahim Ould Baba – Staff Officer with MTS This workshop will present Career Cruising and how it could help the students to explore different career choices and know all the requirements for them. Target Audience: Senior Years, Administration, Guidance Counselors  Rebecca Thompson – Park West School Division, Grade 2 Teacher This workshop is on Center Based Math for K-3 with a manageable and simple technology infusion. As a Grade 2 teacher, I have been working on creating a math program centralized by centers designed to facilitate individual learning and allowing for authentic learning and assessment opportunities. This session will give you a hands-on approach into how to structure your math class using centers and infusing technology in a manageable way. We will look at classroom websites, math games, and creating math videos as a individualized or collaborative creative way to learn math outcomes. This will be a hands-on workshop where you will need to bring a laptop in order to get step-by-step instruction on some of the simple technology ideas I will be presenting. You will also need to have Windows Movie Maker and Audacity downloaded onto your computer. If you have any questions or need links for downloads please email me at:rthompson@pwsd.ca Target Audience: Early Years Math  David Nutbean – Portage la Prairie School Division, High school Teacher Google Classroom makes all the power of Google applications available to you and your students in your classroom. Using the power of Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom allows you to take the work out of sharing, collaborating, assigning, accepting, and returning assignments as easy as clicking a button. In this hands-on session, teachers will learn the basics of Google Classroom: setting up Classroom, making assignments, marking and returning assignments. Running your digital classroom has never been this easy. Target Audience: Middle and Senior Years  Kathy Spangler – Brandon School Division, Application Support & Training Specialist In a personalized learning environment having a variety of tools is essential for both teachers and students to use to deliver, acquire, demonstrate, and present. This session will focus on how to use a variety of tools starting from beginner to more advanced and will include examples of the multitude of ways these tools can be used. The presented toolkit will be available for you to take with you and continue to build upon. Target Audience: K-12  Zoe Bettess/Tara McLauchlan – Mystery Lake and St. James Assiniboia School Divisions, Grade 3, Grade 9-12 English This session will focus on a few specific ways Instagram can be used to show student learning, choice, and voice such as; a student created #mathphotoaday challenge. We will focus on a few helper apps such as; instavid, hyperlapse, picstitch, and instasize. We will finish up with play time to complete a "Instagram assignment." This assignment would be in a variety of subject areas and incorporate different helper apps. Prerequisite: Have instagram downloaded with an account in advance. Target Audience: K-12  Marilyn Steier – Microsoft Adjunct Professor Use OneNote, anywhere/anytime, work together and keep it together. Join this hands on session and learn how OneNote can be used to Personalize Learning in your classroom. Bring your own laptop or try out one of the new tablets with Windows 8.1. Imagine a binder with tabs and pages. OneNote is just that but is electronic, can be found in the cloud and can incorporate multimedia like audio, video and ink using the digitized stylus. Learning has never been more fun. Benefit for all teachers k-12 including special education, support staff and leaders within the school. OneNote is part of Microsoft's Office suite. Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Special Education  Rob Langston/Stacey Bradley –Brandon School Division, Grade 9-12 Teachers This session is designed to show teachers how they can use Esri's Story Maps to extend thinking and show understanding. These maps can be used directly with literature, created from personal experience such as creating a memoir, or to show understanding of concepts in science, history or geography. Target Audience: Middle Years, Senior Years  Marnie Wilson – Brandon School Division You've heard of outcome-based assessment... now, how can you ensure outcome-based evaluation? In this session, participants will review what is meant by outcome-based assessment and evaluation. They will also get a peek at the outcome-based gradebook tool Students Achieve. Target Audience: Early Years, Middle Years, Senior Years, K-12, Administration  Meghan Reid – Red River College, Pre-Service Teacher How do I build my teaching experiences? Be innovative! Creative? How about fun? Our students are part of a world that has gone digital, and it can be difficult to keep up. The great thing is, I have a tool for you that will allow you and your students to be engaged in innovative and creative learning. Originally coined “iPhonography”, this session is all about using photography to tell a story. Don’t worry, it is not restricted to iPhones, any smart device with a camera will do and if you do not have one sharing is caring (I will have a few devices to rent).This is hands on session includes a photo walk. Come create, learn, and innovate using digital photography and storytelling. The session's resources are here: http://bit.ly/1uWu78Z Target Audience: K-12  The “Grow a Loaf of Bread” Project took place from March to October of 2013, taking the form of a back-yard agriculture experiment connected to a blog about the experience. This back-yard inquiry learning project started with a simple question: How much wheat does it take to grow a loaf of bread?
 * A2 Poster Session 1 – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * A4 Technology in Middle Years Math – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * A5-B5 Career Exploration with Career Cruising – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * A6-B6 Center Based Math with Technology Infused – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * A7 Make Your Classroom a Google Classroom – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * A8 Building a Teacher & Student Technology Tool Kit – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * A9 Just Instagram It! – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * A10-B10 Take Personalization to the Next Level with OneNote – (Hands on, Double session)**
 * A11 Story Maps / GIS for the Non-Geographer! – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * A12 Outcome-Based Assessment and Evaluation – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * A13-B13 Using Digital Storytelling: Photography with a Twist – (Hands on, Double Session) Bring Your Own Device**
 * A14 Can You Grow a Loaf of Bread? Sustainability Education and Personalized Learning right in our Own Back Yard. – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**

What started out as a small family project grew into a blog that continues to be shared particularly among K-8 teachers and classrooms, and among K-12 teachers who want to see a practical and no nonsense approach to project based learning and discovery learning. This project and blog have also been highlighted by Dean Shareski of Discovery Education Canada as a powerful reminder that teachers are learners, and that teachers need to model learning for students.

In this session you will learn about how to set up a manageable project with a set of expected story arcs that also has a beginning (question) middle (process) and end (product, and new learning). You will also come to understand something of the “triple task” of completing the project, documenting the work in writing and photo/video, and editing it into a blog for sharing with others.

You will also learn exactly how much land it takes and how much wheat it takes to grow a loaf of bread. This is compelling for anyone involved in teaching about sustainability, agriculture, or about the responsible management of our natural resources. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Barry Dyck – Hanover School Division, Grade 9-12 Teacher What happens when you create a separate learning space for learners to explore personal interests and curiosities? I will share my master's research and learning experiences from four years of exploring personalized learning for high school students in a unique environment in a small, rural school.
 * A15 What do YOU Want to Learn? – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**

I will then invite discussion: To what degree should/can we create personalized learning? What may we gain or lose? Are there really things that everyone should know? What role does technology play? Target Audience: K-12  Brad Twordik – Brandon School Division, Grade 9-12 Teacher How do we provide Personalized Learning with such a content driven curriculum? I will provide an example of how it can be done and how to integrate technology into the project. This presentation will be followed by a round table discussion that focuses on the limitations of Personalized Learning at the high school level and gain some insight on how to overcome these through other educator's experiences. Target Audience: Senior Years  Anne MacDiarmid - Manitoba Education and Advance Learning Consultant This session will provide an in depth exploration of "What is Education for Sustainable Development" through the ESD website and by reviewing resources and highlighting where the ESD curricular connections are. It will assist educators in the planning and implementation of ESD in the classroom and provide support for ESD school planning. Audience: K-12  John Finch – Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning, Consultant With recent changes to Copyright Legislation in Canada, it is important that all teachers understand the new laws and the impact on teachers. A discussion of how you may use copyrighted materials in the classroom without infringing on the rights of copyright holders. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Heather Eby, David Wall & students – Pembina Trails School Division A Rasp­berry Pi is an inex­pen­sive com­puter the size of a deck of cards, yet it offers almost lim­it­less poten­tial for cre­ativ­ity and oppor­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents to learn cod­ing. What a great addi­tion they would be to your library “maker space!” Come join in a work­shop expe­ri­ence facil­i­tated by staff & stu­dents that will walk you through the ini­tial set-up of a Rasp­berry Pi, Arduino, Maker product and some fun, inex­pen­sive and cre­ative project ideas, and expose you to some basic coding. Target Audience: Middle Years  Connie Lowe & Eva Dowd – St. James Assiniboia School Division, Kindergarten Teachers This presentation will outline the steps of our journey from theme-based teaching towards providing personalized learning opportunities through inquiry-based teaching.
 * A16 Personalized Learning with Curriculum Constraints – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * A17 Education for Sustainable Development K-12 – (Presentation/Round Table Discussion, Single Session)**
 * A18 Copyright and You – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * A19 Lost in Makerspace – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * A20 Our Journey Towards Inquiry-Based Learning: A Kindergarten Tale – (Presentation, Single Session)**

Technology has helped us in planning, researching, documenting, and sharing our learning with the world. We will include information on Google Drive, PicCollage, Pinterest, Notability, Twitter and blogging.

We would love to share our learning with others who are thinking of making a shift and beginning the path towards inquiry-based learning. Target Audience: Early Years  Jackie Gudnason – Rolling River School Division, Grade 1-3 Teacher Are you teaching in a multi-age classroom? Do you find it hard to meet all of your students’ needs? Find out how Jackie Gudnason is using a 1:1 iPad ratio to help differentiate instruction, engage all learners, and create a cohesive learning community in a Grade 3 early years classroom.
 * A21 Creating a Cohesive Learning Community in a Multi-Age Classroom – (Hands on, Single Session) Bring Your Own Device**

Jackie is running a pilot program for Rolling River School Division. Hear about the benefits, challenges and unique learning opportunities this pilot program has created in a fun and engaging hour long session. Bring a smartphone or iPad, if you have one! Target Audience: Early Years  Linda Jameson – Brandon School Division, Learning and Development Specialist Have you heard of Professional Learning Communities and Response to Intervention, but you are still not exactly sure what these concepts mean? Would you like to have a better understanding of this vocabulary and how this process of collaboration works? This session is an explanation of what RTI is and how this process supports best teaching practices in all classrooms and for all students. Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Resource, Guidance  Reynold Redekopp – University of Manitoba, Professor In this session we’ll take a look at a number of easy to use web sites and apps that allow students to demonstrate their learning in ways that best suit their style. The apps and sites are easy enough to use that CONTENT becomes the main focus. Although not necessary, you may bring your own device to explore some of the apps.
 * A22 Professional Learning Communities within the Response to Intervention Structure – (Presentation/Demonstration/Round Table Discussion, Single Session)**
 * A23 Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning – (Presentation, Single Session)**

Platform: Web-based and iPad and some Android Target Audience: K-12  Bryce Ridgen – Rolling River School Division – Grade 9-12 Teacher Classroom technology has the potential to completely re-define learning. However, the way students learn must change in order to fully tap into this potential. My goal is to share some of the changes that I have made to incorporate 21st century skills into my 1:1 classroom. Student examples will be shared to illustrate a variety of ways that technology promotes collaboration, creativity, communication, global connectedness and most importantly engagement. Target Audience: Middle and senior years  Connie Davis – Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools, K-8 Teacher Librarian The Personalized Learning Implementation team from St. Mark School in Saskatoon will present a panel discussion regarding the shift to Personalized Learning in our school. Main topics include how we got started, false-starts and a safe place to refine, collaboration, explicitly teaching 21C Learning skills K - 8, case studies, personal/professional journeys, and what's coming up next. Each of 6 presenters on the panel will have the opportunity to discuss what 21C skills learning and personalization looks like so far in each division (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Learning Assistance, Teacher Librarian, Administration, Release teacher). We will briefly look at how we are using Dan Buckley's work to inspire our use of Learning Ladders. There will be time for Questions and Answers during the presentation. Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Itinerant Teachers  Dr. Mike Nantais, Dr. Jacke Kirk, Dr. Glenn Cockerline– Brandon University Professors In this session, the presenters, educational researchers with a wealth of K-12 teaching/administrative experience, will present an overview of the action research process, its value, and how it can help you become a truly reflective teacher. This practical session will use actual examples of action research projects and the presenters will engage participants in dialogue about how they can start their own research projects. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Ryan Miller & Andy McKiel – St. James Assiniboia School Division, Administrator and Consultant We all have songs stuck inside of us. While music has the power to bring people together across time and space, many teachers and students are afraid to unleash the power of their inner rock star. This session will provide practical strategies that teachers and students can utilize to use music as a medium for teaching and learning. Participants in this session will discover a variety of ways that iOS devices can be used in the classroom to record and share audio samples that demonstrate learning. Even you can turn these bits and pieces into a musical masterpiece that allows you to step into the spotlight at centre stage! Find out how easy it can be to turn your classroom into a studio where you can record your songs and instantly share them with an audience. Target Audience: K - 12  Allison Greig – Brandon School Division, Teacher How do we create an environment where all students are engaged, questioning, and passionate? Join this session to find out how one school has explored and implemented Genius Hour using Google's 20% philosophy, technology, and personalized learning. You will leave with ideas and tools to implement Genius Hour in your own classroom and a renewed spark for teaching and learning.
 * A24 Change: Re-imaging Learning in the Connected Classroom – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * A25 Personalizing Learning: A School's Journey – (Panel Discussion, Single Session)**
 * A26 Using Action Research to Improve Your Teaching Practice and to Become a Reflective Practitioner – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * A27 Get a Gig with GarageBand – (Hands on, Single Session) Bring your own device with Garageband loaded**
 * A28 Genius Hour– (Presentation, Single Session)**

This session is appropriate for K-12 educators but will highlight experiences in Grades 5 - 8. Target Audience: K-12  Joan Badger – St. James Assiniboia School Division – Consultant Digital is changing the roles of teachers from instructors to mentors and activators. In this session we will take a closer look at the 6 C's (creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, citizenship and character) and how we can leverage digital for deeper learning. Target Audience: K-12  Lorie Stutsky/Tana Janzen/Cindy Sobkow – Brandon School Division, Grade 1- 4 Teachers What is a math workshop? What is guided math and how can it be used to benefit the different learning levels in our classroom? How do we structure guided math in our room(weekly planning sheet, organization of groups)? Show an example of what a math workshop cycle would look like. Time would be spent at each station demonstrating the activities and how it works and basically what it looks like in action. Discuss the benefits of teaching math this way. Some simple suggestions to help get you started with guided math groups. Focus is on Grade 1/2, and Grade 3/4 math. Target Audience: Grade 1- 4 Mathematics  Sue Macfarlane Penner/Kathy Routhier – Winnipeg School Division, Grade 2 Teachers Want a learning environment change that balances teacher direction and student choice on how they want to learn and show their learning? See how a classroom can be personalized to easily infuse technology, promote student voice and encourage collaboration using tablets. Target Audience: Early and Middle Years  Jonathan Filewich & Trent Joye – Brandon University Pre-Service Teachers This presentation will focus on three video recording apps with the use of a mobile device. We will review Coach's Eye, Dartfish, and Ubersense and explain which is best for physical education and athletics. It is is not mandatory to have your own device or apps in time for the presentation. You may watch and make your decision afterwards! Target Audience: K-12  Kent Schiltroth – Fort la Bosse School Division, High School Teacher Incorporating Ed Tech into the 7-12 ELA curriculum. Target Audience: Middle and senior years  Madeline Lowe – Brandon University, Student The Internet is an excellent source for free programs that are useful tools for any music classroom. This presentation will discuss some of these programs, including Musescore and Audacity, and provide some activities that can be implemented immediately. Target Audience: Middle and senior years music education  Dan Buckley A continuation of the Keynote address. This session will be repeated in A1 and D1. Target Audience: Everyone  A number of displays set up to highlight learning projects and activities. Target Audience: K-12  Lunch will be served during B and C slots. Choose one of these times for your lunch. Target Audience: People who eat  Jess Carr – Brandon School Division – Grade 5/6 Teacher Infusing technology into middle years math using Sumdog and other resources. Target Audience: Middle Years Math  Leah Obach & Devon Caldwell – Park West and Fort la Bosse School Divisions, Grade K-2 Teachers When used effectively, well-designed technology tools enhance and personalize learning by supporting both teachers and students. In this hands-on session, participants will explore a variety of technology that, when thoughtfully selected, will foster the development of today's 21st century learner and teacher. Find out how and why teachers and students are using social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in education. Explore the educational uses for tools such as Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Research Autocollage. After seeing authentic examples of how each of these tools can be used in the classroom, participants will have time to sign up, explore and learn "by doing". Bring a device with you to take full advantage of this session! Target Audience: K-12  Kathy Spangler – Brandon School Division, Application Support & Training Specialist In a personalized learning environment having a variety of tools is essential for both teachers and students to use to deliver, acquire, demonstrate, and present. This session will focus on how to use a variety of tools starting from beginner to more advanced and will include examples of the multitude of ways these tools can be used. The presented toolkit will be available for you to take with you and continue to build upon. Target Audience: K-12  Zoe Bettess/Tara McLauchlan – Mystery Lake and St. James Assiniboia School Divisions, Grade 3, Grade 9-12 English This session will focus on a few specific ways Instagram can be used to show student learning, choice, and voice such as:; a student created #mathphotoaday challenge. We will focus on a few helper apps such as: instavid, hyperlapse, picstitch, and instasize. We will finish up with play time to complete an "Instagram assignment." This assignment would be in a variety of subject areas and incorporate different helper apps. Prerequisite: Have instagram downloaded with an account in advance. Target Audience: K-12  Barry Dyck – Hanover School Division, Grade 9-12 Teacher What happens when you create a separate learning space for learners to explore personal interests and curiosities? I will share my master's research and learning experiences from four years of exploring personalized learning for high school students in a unique environment in a small, rural school.
 * A29 Deeper Learning with the 6 C's - (Hands on/Round Table, Single Session)**
 * A30 Math Workshop – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * A31 Infusing Technology in a Personalized Environment (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * A32 Video Recording Apps for Physical Education and Athletics – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * A33 Ed. Tech. and the 7-12 ELA Curriculum – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * A34 Open-Source tools for the Music Classroom 9 (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * B1 Keynote Follow up – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * B2 Poster Session 2 – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * B3 Lunch 1**
 * B4 Technology in Middle Years Math – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * B7 Technology to Support Today's Teacher – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * B8 Building a Teacher & Student Technology Tool Kit – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * B9 Just Instagram It! – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * B11 What do YOU Want to Learn? – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**

I will then invite discussion: To what degree should/can we create personalized learning? What may we gain or lose? Are there really things that everyone should know? What role does technology play? Target Audience: K-12  Marnie Wilson – Brandon School Division You've heard of outcome-based assessment... now, how can you ensure outcome-based evaluation? In this session, participants will review what is meant by outcome-based assessment and evaluation. They will also get a peek at the outcome-based gradebook tool Students Achieve. Target Audience: Early Years, Middle Years, Senior Years, K-12, Administration  Jonathan Filewich & Trent Joye – Brandon University Pre-Service Teachers This presentation will focus on three video recording apps with the use of a mobile device. We will review Coach's Eye, Dartfish, and Ubersense and explain which is best for physical education and athletics. It is is not mandatory to have your own device or apps in time for the presentation. You may watch and make your decision afterwards! Target Audience: K-12  A number of displays set up to highlight learning projects and activities. Target Audience: K-12  Lunch will be served during B and C slots. Choose one of these times for your lunch. Target Audience: People who eat  Donald Girouard & Denis Myers – Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning Consultants This session will demonstrate how teachers can use the new Blackboard system with their face-to-face or online classrooms. There are many new tools that facilitate online learning including features that help to personalize lessons and control the release of content to students. Teachers will have the chance to explore some of the tools and features in this workshop. Blackboard Learn is free for teachers and their students to use. Prerequisite: Teachers must have a Blackboard account and a course or blank section to play with. Use the WBC Request System to gain access, []. Target Audience: Middle Years, Senior Years  Brahim Ould Baba – Staff Officer with MTS This workshop will present Career Cruising and how it could help the students to explore different career choices and know all the requirements for them. Target Audience: Senior Years, Administration, Guidance Counselors  Rebecca Thompson – Park West School Division, Grade 2 Teacher This workshop is on Center Based Math for K-3 with a manageable and simple technology infusion. As a Grade 2 teacher, I have been working on creating a math program centralized by centers designed to facilitate individual learning and allowing for authentic learning and assessment opportunities. This session will give you a hands-on approach into how to structure your math class using centers and infusing technology in a manageable way. We will look at classroom websites, math games, and creating math videos as a individualized or collaborative creative way to learn math outcomes. This will be a hands-on workshop where you will need to bring a laptop in order to get step-by-step instruction on some of the simple technology ideas I will be presenting. You will also need to have Windows Movie Maker and Audacity downloaded onto your computer. If you have any questions or need links for downloads please email me at:rthompson@pwsd.ca Target Audience: Early Years Math  Hanhsong Vuong – Winnipeg School Division, Grade 5/6 Teacher This workshop will provide participants with hands-on experience utilizing wikispaces as a teaching tool. It allows students to collaborate on projects in groups or as a whole class. The participants will be exploring the step-by-step approach to setting it up and targeting the intent learning outcomes. Target Audience: Middle Years  Cory Nevill & Kathy Spangler – Brandon School Division In this session participants will experiment with a variety of different ways that students can express their learning in creative and aesthetic text. Poetry, visuals and other creative forms will be included. Target Audience: Middle Years  Rob Langston/Stacey Bradley –Brandon School Division, Grade 9-12 Teachers This session is designed to show teachers how they can use Esri's Story Maps to extend thinking and show understanding. These maps can be used directly with literature, created from personal experience such as creating a memoir, or to show understanding of concepts in science, history or geography. Target Audience: Middle Years, Senior Years  Marilyn Steier – Microsoft Adjunct Professor Technology and Learning has never been more fun. Get hands on experience with the new Windows 8.1 and see what all the excitement is about. Learn how you can Personalize the new Windows to meet your needs and or the needs of your students. Have a look at the new tools that can move your classroom into the 21st Century. This session will be of interest to K-12 teachers, support staff and special education teachers. The presenter will bring 15 windows 8.1 tablets. Participants may also bring their own Windows 8 devices Target Audience: K-12  Rosalind Robb, Kathryn Roberts, Val Noseworthy - Manitoba Education and Advance Learning Consultants Youth and children are communicating, learning, and connecting through technology. While media attention often focuses on an ‘epidemic’ of cyber-bullying and exploitative behaviors, research supports that the majority of youth use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly. Nevertheless, some students make choices that end up hurting themselves and/or others. This presentation will share current research, developmental considerations, initiatives in Manitoba and tips on how to respond as a school to reports of incidents. Planning for safety through a whole-school approach will frame the session. Target Audience: K-12, Administration, School Counsellors  Jon Forsythe – Brandon School Division, Technician This session will consist of 3 areas of focus. The first section will review s Windows 7 tips and tricks that will make your computer user friendly. The second section will review several common issues that users of Brandon School Division computers experience and the solutions to remedy them. Finally, we will have a question and answer period. Target Audience: K-12, Admin  Meghan Reid – Red River College, Pre-Service Teacher How do I build my teaching experiences? Be innovative! Creative? How about fun? Our students are part of a world that has gone digital, and it can be difficult to keep up. The great thing is, I have a tool for you that will allow you and your students to be engaged in innovative and creative learning. Originally coined “iPhonography”, this session is all about using photography to tell a story. Don’t worry, it is not restricted to iPhones, any smart device with a camera will do and if you do not have one sharing is caring (I will have a few devices to rent).This is hands on session includes a photo walk. Come create, learn, and innovate using digital photography and storytelling. The session's resources are here: http://bit.ly/1uWu78Z Target Audience: K-12  Kaylie Whelpton – Park West School Division, Grade 9-12 Teacher This session will focus on discussing what a Juno System is and how I am presently using it in my high school mathematics classrooms and how it can be implemented into various classrooms. Group discussions will occur to discuss others' experiences working with Juno Systems. Target Audience: Middle and senior years  Teresa Vallotton – Brandon School Division QR codes are “machine-readable” codes composed of black and white squares BUT in the classroom they are so much more! Participants will discuss the intentional use of QR scavenger hunts, experience a math scavenger hunt first hand and then design a scavenger hunt for their students. QR codes can be used across grade levels and subject areas! All you need is your content knowledge and a desire to use technology to engage all learners.
 * B12 Outcome-Based Assessment and Evaluation – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * B14 Video Recording Apps for Physical Education and Athletics – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C2 Poster Session 3 – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C3 Lunch 2**
 * C4-D4 Personalizing Learning with the new Blackboard LMS – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * C5-D5 Career Exploration with Career Cruising – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * C6-D6 Center Based Math with Technology Infused – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * C7-D7 Utilize Wikis to Enhance Collaborating Projects – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * C8 Creativity Unleashed: Encouraging Personal and Creative Responses from Middle Years Students – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * C9 Story Maps / GIS for the Non-Geographer! – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * C10 Reimagine Teaching and Learning with Windows 8.1 – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * C11-D11 Communicating, Learning, and Connecting through Technology - A Whole-School Approach to Safe and Caring Schools – (Presentation/Demonstration, Double Session)**
 * C12 Tech Tips with Windows 7 - (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C13-D13 Using Digital Storytelling: Photography with a Twist – (Hands on, Double Session) Bring Your Own Device**
 * C14 Juno System in the Classroom – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C15-D15 QR Code Scavenger Hunt – (Hands On, Double Session)**

This session is designed for first time classroom QR code users. We will download a free QR code reader during the session - all you need to get started is your smart phone. Bring your own smart phone or tablet. Target Audience: Middle Years, Senior Years  Leah Obach & Devon Caldwell – Park West and Fort la Bosse School Divisions, Grade K-2 Teachers Discover how to take your teaching practice to the next level with new ideas to infuse ICT, personalize learning based on student interests and connect learners! By connecting kids to each other and the rest of the world, students have the opportunity to develop important skills and knowledge. A connected classroom enhances student learning by sharing with a real-world audience, empowering learners and improving communication. Explore real examples of how technology infusion can promote collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. Delve deeper into the pedagogy that supports 21st century learning and the tools that make it possible. Connected kids are engaged, excited about their learning, and eager to share it, and often these characteristics describe their connected teachers as well! Session participants will leave with an abundance of ideas and resources to begin and extend ICT infusion in their classrooms! Target Audience: Early and middle years ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies  Corinne Thiessen – Hanover School Division This session will expose the participant to the Fitbit and will discuss how the use of Fitbits can engage students in their personal fitness and can promote healthy active lifestyles. Fitbits are tracking devices that can be used to monitor steps, distance, and calories burned during the day. At night it can track your sleep quality and wakes you silently in the morning. Hanover School Division is in the middle of an Action Research Project where the Fitbit Flex is being used by Grade 10 physical education students. Participants can check out the Fitbit website at [|www.fitbit.com] Target Audience: Middle Years and Senior Years Physical Education  Joan Badger – St. James Assiniboia School Division – Consultant Digital is changing the roles of teachers from instructors to mentors and activators. In this session we will take a closer look at the 6 C's (creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, citizenship and character) and how we can leverage digital for deeper learning. Target Audience: K-12  Heather Eby, David Wall & students – Pembina Trails School Division A Rasp­berry Pi is an inex­pen­sive com­puter the size of a deck of cards, yet it offers almost lim­it­less poten­tial for cre­ativ­ity and oppor­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents to learn cod­ing. What a great addi­tion they would be to your library “maker space!” Come join in a work­shop expe­ri­ence facil­i­tated by staff & stu­dents that will walk you through the ini­tial set-up of a Rasp­berry Pi, Arduino, Maker product and some fun, inex­pen­sive and cre­ative project ideas, and expose you to some basic coding. Target Audience: Middle Years  Ron Nordstrom - Beautiful Plains School Division, Teacher We want our students to be creative. When they have learned something new, why should they all produce the same product to show their understanding? Why not allow students to build on their strengths and demonstrate their learning in different ways. Not all solutions involve technology, however this workshop will explore iPad apps and web applications that are effective for students to be able to demonstrate what they know. Suitable for teachers of middle years and high school students. Bring an iPad if you wish to explore some of the apps. Target Audience: Middle Years, Senior Years  Jackie Gudnason – Rolling River School Division, Grade 1-3 Teacher Are you teaching in a multi-age classroom? Do you find it hard to meet all of your students’ needs? Find out how Jackie Gudnason is using a 1:1 iPad ratio to help differentiate instruction, engage all learners, and create a cohesive learning community in a Grade 3 early years classroom.
 * C16 Connected Kids: Inspiring Ideas for Personalized Learning and Sharing with ICT – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C17-D17 Fitbits: Stepping into the Future – (Presentation/Workshop, Double Session)**
 * C18 Deeper Learning with the 6 C's - (Hands on/Round Table, Single Session)**
 * C19 Lost in Makerspace – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * C20 Show What You Know – (Hands on, Single Session – Bring your own iPad)**
 * C21 Creating a Cohesive Learning Community in a Multi-Age Classroom – (Hands on, Single Session) Bring Your Own Device**

Jackie is running a pilot program for Rolling River School Division. Hear about the benefits, challenges and unique learning opportunities this pilot program has created in a fun and engaging hour long session. Bring a smartphone or iPad, if you have one! Target Audience: Early Years  Carole McCurry – Brandon School Division – Kindergarten Teacher What does authentic learning and assessment look like in an early years classroom? Can we do one without the other? Teaching and assessing in an authentic environment makes connections for the students to the outside world and makes evidence gathering more valid. Target Audience: Early Years  Brad Vandenberghe – Southwest Horizon School Division, Grade 6 Teacher An introduction/overview of Google Classroom. How to connect all your students in one place. The presentation will include setting up your Google Classroom, How it Works, Ideas and Examples of how it can be used. Participants should have a Google account. Target Audience: Middle and Senior Years  Reg Reimer & Cale Dunbar – Brandon School Division, High school Teachers This session is about developing self-paced learning resources (Gr. 9/10 Science) in eText format. Although our initial objective in this project was to refresh existing printed guidebooks with online resources matched to outcomes, we also grabbed the opportunity to increase accessibility for students through the assistive capabilities of eBook readers, along with built-in assessments for learning. We’ll demonstrate eTextbook creation steps, from content creation to export and distribution on our school’s Learning Management System. Our eTextbooks were assembled in a web-browser, and can be played back on any platform. **Bring your own tablet or laptop to try for yourself.** Target Audience: Middle and Senior Years  Sue Macfarlane Penner/Kathy Routhier – Winnipeg School Division, Grade 2 Teachers This description is also found at A31
 * C22-D22 Personalized authentic learning and assessment in the early years – (Hands on, Double Session)**
 * C23 Google Classroom (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * C24 Creating eTextBooks to Support Self-paced Learners (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C25 Infusing Technology in a Personalized Environment (Presentation, Single Session)**

Want a learning environment change that balances teacher direction and student choice on how they want to learn and show their learning? See how a classroom can be personalized to easily infuse technology, promote student voice and encourage collaboration using tablets. Target Audience: Early and Middle Years  Julie Brunel – Fort la Bosse School Division, Grade 10-12 Teacher In this hands-on session, you will learn how to engage your high school science students using APPS in Class. You will create an I-Motion HD time-lapse video, an Aura using the APP Aurasma, a video using the APP Educreations, and a "Gami" using the APP Tellagami. Please bring an I-pad or device so that you can play along! Target Audience: Senior Years  Madeline Lowe – Brandon University, Student The Internet is an excellent source for free programs that are useful tools for any music classroom. This presentation will discuss some of these programs, including Musescore and Audacity, and provide some activities that can be implemented immediately. Target Audience: Middle and senior years music education  Sandy Margetts, Selena Empey, Tara Knoll, Tanya Van Damme, Tynelle Barkley, Hilary Wells – Brandon University Teacher & Students Literature is a powerful tool for engaging students. Stories capture students’ attention and imagination. Mathematics can be integrated into literature. A team of Brandon University early and middle years education students and a Mathematics Professor will share their "Editing Mathematics Literature" project via a visual presentation illustrating how they used PowerPoint to enhance the books they selected. Target Audience: Early and middle years math and ELA  Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou – Brandon University, Professor Increasing access to technology enables teachers to connect learning with students’ lives and interests. In this presentation, I will share three different mini projects that Grade 2/3 students engaged in using multiple digital technologies. The project took place in an elementary school with a large population of recently arrived as well as Canadian-born linguistically and culturally diverse students from Gambian, Hungarian, Indian, Mexican, Sri Lankan, Tibetan and Vietnamese backgrounds. I will discuss the affordances of multiple technological tools used in this specific classroom. The use of digital technologies changed the classroom dynamics and allowed the students access to identity positions of expertise, increasing their literacy investment, literacy engagement and learning. Target Audience: K-12  Dan Buckley A continuation of the Keynote address. This session will be repeated in A1 and B1. Target Audience: Everyone  A number of displays set up to highlight learning projects and activities. Target Audience: K-12  Cory Nevill & Kathy Spangler – Brandon School Division In this session participants will experiment with a variety of different ways that students can express their learning in creative and aesthetic text. Poetry, visuals and other creative forms will be included. Target Audience: Middle Years  Allison Greig – Brandon School Division, Teacher How do we create an environment where all students are engaged, questioning, and passionate? Join this session to find out how one school has explored and implemented Genius Hour using Google's 20% philosophy, technology, and personalized learning. You will leave with ideas and tools to implement Genius Hour in your own classroom and a renewed spark for teaching and learning.
 * C26 Apps In Class – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C27 Open-Source tools for the Music Classroom 9 (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C28 Making Connections: Mathematics, Literature & Technology – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * C29 Using Technology to Support EAL Learners – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D1 Keynote Follow up – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D2 Poster Session 4 – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D8 Creativity Unleashed: Encouraging Personal and Creative Responses from Middle Years Students – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * D9 Genius Hour – (Presentation, Single Session)**

This session is appropriate for K-12 educators but will highlight experiences in Grades 5 - 8. Target Audience: K-12  Marilyn Steier – Microsoft Adjunct Professor Anywhere/Anytime. On-line/Off-line. Connect like you have never connected before. Take a look at how Office 365 can take your classroom into the 21st Century. This session will demonstrate the various features of Office 365 and how you can leverage its use in your classroom. The discussion will investigate how YOU can move your classroom to the next level with the use of technology. Participants can bring their own device. Presenter will also bring a number of Windows 8.1 tablets for a hands on experience. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Doug Chalmers – Brandon School Division, Technician This session will consist of 3 areas of focus. The first section will review Windows 8 tips and tricks that will make your computer user friendly. The second section will review several common issues that users of Brandon School Division computers experience and the solutions to remedy them. Finally, we will have a question and answer period. Target Audience: K-12, Admin  The “Grow a Loaf of Bread” Project took place from March to October of 2013, taking the form of a back-yard agriculture experiment connected to a blog about the experience. This back-yard inquiry learning project started with a simple question: How much wheat does it take to grow a loaf of bread?
 * D10 In the Cloud with Office 365 – (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * D12 Tech Tips with Windows 8 - (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D14 Can You Grow a Loaf of Bread? Sustainability Education and Personalized Learning right in our Own Back Yard. – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * Roy Norris – Louise Riel S.D. - 9-12 Teacher**

What started out as a small family project grew into a blog that continues to be shared among K-8 teachers and classrooms, and among K-12 teachers who want to see a practical and no nonsense approach to project based learning and discovery learning. This project and blog have also been highlighted by Dean Shareski of Discovery Education Canada as a powerful reminder that teachers are learners, and that teachers need to model learning for students.

In this session you will learn about how to set up a manageable project with a set of expected story arcs that has a beginning (question) middle (process) and end (product, and new learning). You will also come to understand something of the “triple task” of completing the project, documenting the work in writing and photo/video, and editing it into a blog for sharing with others.

You will also learn exactly how much land is needed and how much wheat it takes to grow a loaf of bread. This is compelling for anyone involved in teaching about sustainability, agriculture, or about the responsible management of our natural resources. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Brad Twordik – Brandon School Division, Grade 9-12 Teacher How do we provide Personalized Learning with such a content driven curriculum? I will provide an example of how it can be done and how to also integrate technology. This presentation will be followed by a round table discussion that focuses on the limitations of Personalized Learning at the high school level and gain some insight on how to overcome these through other educator's experiences. Target Audience: Senior Years  John Finch – Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning, Consultant With recent changes to Copyright Legislation in Canada, it is important that all teachers understand the new laws and the impact on teachers. We will discuss how you may use copyrighted materials in the classroom without infringing on the rights of copyright holders. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Ralph Clark– Brandon School Division, Consultant This session will help teachers understand the importance of physical literacy and the role it plays in students being active for life. Participants will be introduced to Passport for Life, a free, online set of assessment tools for students in Grades 3-9. Student physical literacy information resulting from Passport for Life assessments can be used to target instruction to meet the specific needs of both individual students and the class. Target Audience: Early and Middle Years Physical Education  Karen Rempel & Chris Brown – Brandon University, Professors Photovoice is a research technique designed to learn about the lived experience of participants through the images they take. The purpose of this session will be to share, in an engaging way, how to use photos students take as a way of learning about who they are and what they believe in. Participants are encouraged to bring a device that is capable of taking pictures. Target Audience: K-12, Administrators  Bryce Ridgen – Rolling River School Division – Grade 9-12 Teacher Classroom technology has the potential to completely re-define learning. However, the way students learn must change in order to fully tap into this potential. My goal is to share some of the changes that I have made to incorporate 21st century skills into my 1:1 classroom. Student examples will be shared to illustrate a variety of ways that technology promotes collaboration, creativity, communication, global connectedness and most importantly engagement. Target Audience: Middle and senior years  Linda Jameson – Brandon School Division, Learning and Development Specialist Have you heard of Professional Learning Communities and Response to Intervention, but you are still not exactly sure what these concepts mean? Would you like to have a better understanding of this vocabulary and how this process of collaboration works? This session is an explanation of what RTI is and how this process supports best teaching practices in all classrooms and for all students. Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Resource, Guidance  Dr. Mike Nantais, Dr. Jacke Kirk, Dr. Glenn Cockerline– Brandon University Professors In this session, the presenters, educational researchers with a wealth of K-12 teaching/administrative experience, will present an overview of the action research process, its value, and how it can help you become a truly reflective teacher. This practical session will use actual examples of action research projects and the presenters will engage participants in dialogue about how they can start their own research projects. Target Audience: K-12, Administration  Anne MacDiarmid - Manitoba Education and Advance Learning Consultant This session will provide an in depth exploration of "What is Education for Sustainable Development" through the ESD website and by reviewing resources and highlighting where the ESD curricular connections are. It will assist educators in the planning and implementation of ESD in the classroom and provide support for ESD school planning. Audience: K-12  Connie Lowe & Eva Dowd – St. James Assiniboia School Division, Kindergarten Teachers This presentation will outline the steps of our journey from theme-based teaching towards providing personalized learning opportunities through inquiry-based teaching.
 * D16 Personalized Learning with Curriculum Constraints – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * D18 Copyright and You – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * D19 Assessing Physical Literacy Levels of Gr. 3-9 Students: Passport for Life – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D20 Using Photovoice to Engage Students in Learning - (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D21 Change: Re-imaging Learning in the Connected Classroom – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D23 Professional Learning Communities within the Response to Intervention Structure – (Presentation/Demonstration/Round Table Discussion, Single Session)**
 * D24 Using Action Research to Improve Your Teaching Practice and to Become a Reflective Practitioner – (Presentation/Demonstration, Single Session)**
 * D25 Education for Sustainable Development K-12 – (Presentation/Round Table Discussion, Single Session)**
 * D26 Our Journey Toward Inquiry-Based Learning: A Kindergarten Tale – (Presentation, Single Session)**

Technology has helped us in planning, researching, documenting, and sharing our learning with the world. We will include information on Google Drive, PicCollage, Pinterest, Notability, Twitter and blogging.

We would love to share our learning with others who are thinking of making a shift and beginning the path towards inquiry-based learning. Target Audience: Early Years  Connie Davis – Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools, K-8 Teacher Librarian The Personalized Learning Implementation team from St. Mark School in Saskatoon will present a panel discussion regarding the shift to Personalized Learning in our school. Main topics include how we got started, false-starts and a safe place to refine, collaboration, explicitly teaching 21C Learning skills K - 8, case studies, personal/professional journeys, and what's coming up next. Each of 6 presenters on the panel will have the opportunity to discuss what 21C skills learning and personalization looks like so far in each division (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Learning Assistance, Teacher Librarian, Administration, Release teacher). We will briefly look at how we are using Dan Buckley's work to inspire our use of Learning Ladders. There will be time for Questions and Answers during the presentation. Target Audience: K-12, Administration, Itinerant Teachers  Reynold Redekopp – University of Manitoba, Professor In this session we’ll take a look at a number of easy to use web sites and apps that allow students to demonstrate their learning in ways that best suit their style. The apps and sites are easy enough to use that CONTENT becomes the main focus. Although not necessary, you may bring your own device to explore some of the apps.
 * D27 Personalizing Learning: A School's Journey – (Panel Discussion, Single Session)**
 * D28 Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning – (Presentation, Single Session)**

Platform: Web-based and iPad and some Android Target Audience: K-12  Ryan Miller & Andy McKiel – St. James Assiniboia School Division, Administrator and Consultant We all have songs stuck inside of us. While music has the power to bring people together across time and space, many teachers and students are afraid to unleash the power of their inner rock star. This session will provide practical strategies that teachers and students can utilize to use music as a medium for teaching and learning. Participants in this session will discover a variety of ways that iOS devices can be used in the classroom to record and share audio samples that demonstrate learning. Even you can turn these bits and pieces into a musical masterpiece that allows you to step into the spotlight at centre stage! Find out how easy it can be to turn your classroom into a studio where you can record your songs and instantly share them with an audience. Target Audience: K – 12  Reg Reimer & Cale Dunbar – Brandon School Division, High school Teachers This session is about developing self-paced learning resources (Gr. 9/10 Science) in eText format. Although our initial objective in this project was to refresh existing printed guidebooks with online resources matched to outcomes, we also grabbed the opportunity to increase accessibilityfor students through the assistive capabilities of eBook readers, along with built-in assessments for learning. We’ll demonstrate eTextbook creation steps, from content creation to export and distribution on our school’s Learning Management System. Our eTextbooks were assembled in a web-browser, and can be played back on any platform. Target Audience: Middle and Senior Years  Kent Schiltroth – Fort la Bosse School Division, High School Teacher Incorporating Ed Tech into the 7-12 ELA curriculum. Target Audience: Middle and senior years  Check out the courses that EverFi has available for FREE to schools in Manitoba (financial literacy, STEM, digital citizenship), and see how web-based courses can support personalised learning.
 * D29 Get a Gig with GarageBand – (Hands on, Single Session) Bring your own device with Garageband loaded**
 * D30 – Creating eTextBooks to Support Self-paced Learners (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D31 Ed. Tech. and the 7-12 ELA Curriculum – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D32 Free Web Based Courses: Digital Literacy and STEM (Hands on, Single Session)**
 * Jennifer Dyck-Sprout – Everfi, Director of Implementation, Canada**

Target Audience: Math Teachers, Health Teachers, ICT Teachers, Teacher Librarians, Homeroom Teachers, Grades 4-9  Julie Brunel – Fort la Bosse School Division, Grade 10-12 Teacher In this hands-on session, you will learn how to engage your high school science students using APPS in Class. You will create an I-Motion HD time-lapse video, an Aura using the APP Aurasma, a video using the APP Educreations, and a "Gami" using the APP Tellagami. Please bring an I-pad or device so that you can play along! Target Audience: Senior Years  Sandy Margetts, Selena Empey, Tara Knoll, Tanya Van Damme, Tynelle Barkley, Hilary Wells – Brandon University Teacher & Students Literature is a powerful tool for engaging students. Stories capture a students’ attention and imagination. Mathematics can be integrated into literature. A team of Brandon University early and middle years education students and a Mathematics Professor will share their "Editing Mathematics Literature" project via a visual presentation illustrating how they used PowerPoint to enhance the books they selected. Target Audience: Early and middle years math and ELA
 * D33 Apps In Class – (Presentation, Single Session)**
 * D34 Making Connections: Mathematics, Literature & Technology – (Presentation, Single Session)**