Workshops

media type="custom" key="21975038" **9th Annual BYTE K-12 Conference** February 22, 2013, Neepawa Collegiate, Neepawa, MB

Becoming the Digital Teacher David Nutbean Hands-on |||| C1 Movie Making, Using Green Screen and Adding Effects Kent Schiltroth Hands-on || Sharing SMARTer Strategies BootCamp Joan Badger Hands-on || B2 Sharing SMARTer Strategies Boot Camp Joan Badger Hands-on || C2 Wikispaces for the Classroom Sherree McLenehan Hands-on || D2 Weebly for the Classroom Sherree McLenehan Hands-on || How To Create a Video with Photo Story 3 Hanhsong Vuong Hands-on || C3 What are your Pinterests? Jennifer Borgfjord Hands-on || D3 Animoto: Taking Videos from Average to Amazing! Penny Wallace and Beth Norrie Hands-on || Web Page Creation with Weebly Laurie Robson Hands-on |||| C4 Six Easy Pieces Darren Kuropatwa Hands-on || Easy Video Creation Sylvie Tomoniko and Scott Freeman Hands-on || B5 Radio for Literacy and Revolution Cancelled |||| C5 Teaching Social Justice and Human Rights through Holodomor Education Val Noseworthy and Rosalind Robb Hands-on || Integrating GIS Web Technologies into the Classroom Steven Hills Hands-on |||| C6 Ignite Camp Donna Johnston Hands-on || Maple - The Manitoba Professional Learning Environment John Evans Hands-on |||| C7 What Can I Do With the New BlackBoard Learn? Howard Griffith and Donald Girouard Hands-on || Using Technology in the IEP and Student-Led Conference Process Kimberly Smith || B8 Connecting, Reflecting and Creating: Why We Blog Kirsten Landen & Tyler Letkeman || C8 Connecting, Reflecting and Creating: Why We Blog Kirsten Landen and Tyler Letkeman || D8 A Day in the Life of a Video Conference Teacher Paul Friesen || Infusing ICT into the ELA Curriculum Kent Schiltroth || B9 #pegeeks Blue Jay Bridge Hands on || C9 Building your PLN/PLC Phil Taylor || D9 Building your PLN/PLC Phil Taylor || Productivity in the Early Years Classroom Using iPads Linda Dinsdale/Kirsten Copeland/Nicole Olson Hands-on || C10 Classroom Blogging: A Window to the World Erin Malkoske || D10 Expert Projects: An Awesome Addition to Daily Five Erin Malkoske || Using iPads to support Daily 5 Nicole Kempthorne and Angela Kaastra || B11 ePublishing With an iPad Dianne Nordstrom Hands-on || C11 ICT to Improve Learning Nora Heschuk || D11 It’s not about the Apps it’s about the Pedagogy! Louise Langevin and David Juce || Creative Learning Experiences using your Digital Devices Janis Williams and Sherry Hannah Hands-on || B12 iPads in the Classroom Albert Krynski || C12 Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning Rennie Redekopp || D12 Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning Rennie Redekopp || Teach Like a Rockstar (for free)! Susan Barteaux || B13 Using Edmodo and Wikispaces in the Second Language Learning Classroom Joann Biehl || C13 Technology: It's More than Computers! Kent Lewarne || D13 iPad Support for Administrators Guy Williams || Storyfinding Darren Kuropatwa || B14 They All Have Computers…Now What? Teaching in a BYOD School Roy Norris |||| C14 Using iPads in the Classroom Jackie Sallows and Gary Sallows || Social Media for Schools: Admin uses and abuses Kevin Tutthill || B15 Copyright and Teachers John Finch || C15 I Gave them Permission to do What? John Finch || D15 Apple Survivors Group Keith Murray || Global Education - Flatten Your Classroom Eva Brown, Kate Hallett and Jennifer Kasprick || B16 Global Education - Flatten Your Classroom Eva Brown, Kate Hallett and Jennifer Kasprick || C16 Edmodo with Multigrade Classrooms and DE Barry Waldner || D16 They All Have Computers…Now What? Teaching in a BYOD School Roy Norris || Safe and Caring Schools in Cyber Times: Making Connections and Building Community Kate Roberts || B17 Personal Internet Safety: Best Practices John Hiebert || C17 But it worked at home! The Challenge of Managing IT in Education John Hiebert || D17 Basic Troubleshooting in the Classroom Ryan Ukno and David Citulsky || iPads in Music Creation Ryan Felstead || B18 Songwriting with Students Ryan Miller || C18 Creative Co-teaching Cancelled || D18 Teaching For 21st Century Learners Sophia Palahicky || But I Prefer Paper and Pencil Glenda MacPhee, Hylin Lee, Kim Chapman |||| C19 Little Hands, Big World Devon Caldwell and Leah Obach || The Ed Tech Food Chain Clarence Fisher || B20 Blackboard: New Online Possibilities for Middle Years Education Lee Van Cauwenberghe and Donald Girouard || C20 Expanding Classroom Walls Stacey Matsumoto & Georgette Nairn || D20 Expanding Classroom Walls Stacey Matsumoto & Georgette Nairn || Teaching For 21st Century Learners Sophia Palahicky || B21 My Flipping Classroom Britt Hainstock || C21 My Flipping Classroom Britt Hainstock || D21 Share Their Voice Landon White || Virtual BYTE - Expanding Our Reach (sign-up not required, please drop in anytime) Andy McKiel ||  David Nutbean – High School Teacher, Portage la Prairie School Division What is the Digital Teacher? The digital teacher applies a paperless pedagogy that involves keeping all aspects of teaching digital. In this hands-on session we will look at: finding, creating, converting, and maintaining digital resources, using network and internet resources for a digital workflow, creating a classroom website, using online workflows, and creating and using digital assessment. Platform: PC Edmodo: **ghzliy**
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 * A1 Becoming the Digital Teacher – (hands-on, double)**

 Joan Badger – Consultant, St. James-Assiniboia School Division Take your SMART Notebook skills to the next level in this advanced content development workshop. Participants will learn how to streamline lesson development and gain valuable knowledge to increase lesson effectiveness. This workshop is not for those unfamiliar with SMART Notebook. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **z53azi**  Hanhsong Vuong – Grade 8 Teacher, Winnipeg School Division The workshop provides the participants with a hands-on experience in using the Windows Photo Story 3 software to produce own videos. Participants will learn a step-by-step approach on how to insert photos and music, edit, apply effects and save the project so it can play back on Windows Media Player and most DVD players. Note: Participants need to bring a USB stick if they want to save the work. Participants should also bring ear buds or headphones to hear their videos. Platform: PC Edmodo: **lmje93**  Sylvie Tomoniko and Scott Freeman – Grade 5 and 6 Teachers, Beautiful Plains School Division Using online tools and simple editing programs, creating a movie in your class is not as daunting as it may seem. During this session, participants will explore different tools they can use to make videos. The hands-on component of this session will involve the use of handheld video cameras and demonstrate the ease of downloading and editing videos. This session is suited for participants who have little or no video experience. Platform: PC Edmodo: **b5p1m5**  Stephen Hills – Teacher, Assiniboine Community College Strategies for integrating Web GIS to support instruction, discussion, and extended learning on any topic. You will learn how to create and use Web GIS maps as a framework for understanding the geographic context of current and historical events, exploring issues of interest. Practical ideas for GIS activities, enhancing student learning and critical thinking skills are explored. Platform: PC Edmodo: **hxqmpe**  John Evans – Manitoba Education The Manitoba Professional Learning Environment - MAPLE is an online educational community sponsored by Manitoba Education to provide access to resources, professional learning services and opportunities for collaboration and interaction for educators in Manitoba. This session will be an introduction to the many features of the MAPLE platform. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **fdh0li**
 * A2, B2 Sharing SMARTer Strategies Boot Camp – (hands-on, single, repeated)**
 * A3 How To Create a Video with Photo Story 3 – (hands-on, double)**
 * A5 Easy Video Creation – (hands-on, single)**
 * A6 Integrating GIS Web Technologies into the Classroom – (hands-on, double)**
 * A7 Maple - The Manitoba Professional Learning Environment – (hands-on, double)**

 Kimberly Smith – Life Skills Teacher, Beautiful Plains School Division The presenter will explain how she uses technology to help students with special needs prepare for their Student-Led Conferences. This session will also explain how technology can help the special needs child lead their own meetings and how it can help give them a voice in their education. Platform: PC Edmodo: **87r7e5**  Kent Schiltroth – Grade 7-12 Teacher, Fort la Bosse School Division A high school ELA teacher will demonstrate how he uses the curriculum, simple audio/video equipment, and free software to find interesting ways of incorporating ICT into the classroom Platform: PC Edmodo: **0beemi**  Linda Dinsdale/Kirsten Copeland/Nicole Olson – Grade 1 and 2 Teachers, Brandon School Division As educators, we want our students to be engaged in their learning and motivated to produce meaningful work or projects. Join us for a hands-on session which showcases some of our students' work. Learn how to create engaging assignments with this amazing piece of technology. Walk away with ideas galore to use in Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Math. You are welcome to bring your own iPad for the “hands-on” experience. Some iPads will be available to try. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **mcjk69**
 * A8 Using Technology in the IEP and Student-Led Conference process – (presentation, single)**
 * A9 Infusing ICT into the ELA curriculum – (presentation, single)**
 * A10 Productivity in the Early Years Classroom Using iPads – (hands-on, double)**

 Nicole Kempthorne and Angela Kaastra – Early Years Teachers, Southwest Horizon School Division In this session we’ll be showing how we use ThreeRing, Droplr and iDiary for helping students collaborate and share their work with one another and with parents. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **moa88m**
 * A11 Using iPads to Support Daily 5 – (presentation, single)**

 Janis Williams – Consultant, Southwest Horizon School Division Learn how to use the iPad/iPod camera and basic drawing apps to encourage creativity and meet curriculum outcomes. Introduction to QR codes using learning experiences that share information and engage learners. BYOD: download the following free apps: Pic Stitch, Phonto, Pic Collage, Doodle Buddies, Scan. Platform: iPad, PC or Mac Edmodo: **o4cek8**  Susan Barteaux – Grade 3 Teacher, Beautiful Plains School Division You’ll discover where to access free online resources (printables, games, digital files etc.) that supplement teaching. These sites include some blogs and other teacher geared websites (such a Teacherspayteacher and Teacher's Notebook) in addition to Pinterest. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **wahjqf**  Darren Kuropatwa – Consultant, St. James-Assiniboia School Division In a word or two you remember the whole story: glass slipper, sour grapes, cold porridge. You remember more than the facts (a step mother and two step sisters, an absent father, a godmother) you remember the relationships and deeper connections between the characters (nasty step mom and sisters, warm but lonely friendships with the animals in the house, a dream of a better life). The challenge for teachers and students is not to find problems but to find stories. Powerful narratives, in a word or two, bring to mind a wealth of ideas and relationships; more than just facts. How can we find the stories that make our teaching sticky? How do we help kids find, and more importantly tell, the stories that make their learning sticky? We’ll look at some strong examples and send you on your way with a toolkit of ideas and practices to make teaching and learning sticky in your class. Platform: Mac or PC Edmodo: **2zv9am**  Kevin Tutthill – Administration, Fort la Bosse School Division As a school we have tried hard to utilize social media to stay in contact with our students and our greater community. We will look at what Elkhorn School has done and is trying to do with social media. We’ll share our trials, and tribulations, how we got to where we are and where we hope to go to. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **rf02tc**  Eva Brown, Kate Hallett and Jennifer Kasprick – Teacher Education Instructors, Red River College Provide your students with opportunities to develop skills to collaborate globally and to become competitive in a global economy. This session will outline the phases to flatten your classroom and provide examples and resources to implement global education into your curriculum. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **kv2hn2**  Kate Roberts – Manitoba Education Providing a safe and respectful environment for all in the school community involves strategic school-wide planning in the areas of prevention and response. Media framing of incidents and the role of technology has heightened the need to explore the complexities of the school’s role. An integrated, collaborative approach based on positive behaviour supports values, strategic planning and communication. The session will explore roles in the process as educators, students, families and communities work together providing the basic needs of safety and belonging in our schools. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **2gsv98**  Ryan Felstead – High School Teacher, Brandon School Division If you have an iPad, you have access to a very affordable version of GarageBand, the recording App from Apple. Record multiple tracks to layer voice, instruments, or sound effects to create music, radio plays, reader’s theatre or any audio recording. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **xj2wjy**  Glenda MacPhee, Hylin Lee, Kim Chapman – Grade 1 Teachers, Beautiful Plains School Division Are you still reluctant to jump on the technology bandwagon with all its problems? This session is an introduction to a technology infused primary classroom where technology is more than just games. You will be able to compare a SMART Board with Mimeo, see examples of useful IPad apps, check out some favourite software, and learn some tips and tricks that make technology manageable and learning fun while complimenting what you are already doing. The session will include a combination of demonstrations and hands-on exploration and learning presented by a group of primary teachers. Platform: PC Edmodo: **349wdh**  Clarence Fisher – Teacher, Frontier School Division In the wild, consumers live at the top of the food chain. In the technology world, however, being a consumer leaves you at the bottom - with the lowest skills. How effective schools move students up the food chain to become creators and producers will be the focus of the session. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **v0bfmb**  Sophia Palahicky – Manitoba Education This presentation will provide a forum for discussions around the characteristics of 21st century learners. It will allow educators an opportunity to discuss changing roles and expectations in face to face, blended, and online classes. It will also allow for the sharing of successful practice in the application of multi media principles and e-learning tools. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **5vekk3**  Andy McKiel – Consultant, St. James-Assiniboia School Division Throughout the day, BYTE Conference presenters will offer highlights of their sessions to those educators who can only attend BYTE from a distance. Even if you can't make it out to Neepawa for BYTE 2013, you'll still be able to participate from a distance by tuning into the Virtual BYTE livestream throughout the day. This session is open (you do not have to sign up for it). Anyone is welcome to drop in during the day to present or to watch. Platform: PC or Mac
 * A12 Creative Learning Experiences using your Digital Devices – (hands-on, single)**
 * A13 Teach Like a Rockstar (for free)! – (presentation, single)**
 * A14 Storyfinding – (presentation, single)**
 * A15 Social Media for Schools: Admin Uses and Abuses – (presentation, single)**
 * A16, B16 Global Education - Flatten Your Classroom – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * A17 Safe and Caring Schools in Cyber Times: Making Connections and Building Community – (presentation, single)**
 * A18 iPads in Music Creation – (presentation, single)**
 * A19 But I Prefer Paper and Pencil – (presentation, double session)**
 * A20 The EdTech Food Chain – (presentation, single)**
 * A21, D18 Teaching For 21st Century Learners – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * A22 Virtual BYTE: Expanding our Reach – (presentation, single, repeated)**

 Laurie Robson – Grade 2 Teacher, Beautiful Plains School Division Weebly could be the easiest way to create a great looking web page...for free. Weebly is a drag and drop environment with hundreds of themes to choose from. You can easily add tons of multimedia features like video, pictures, and photo slideshows. You will leave this hands-on workshop with the beginnings of a beautiful web site. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **2t3hs6**  Matt Henderson – Grade 9-12 Teacher, St. John’s Ravenscourt Cancelled  Kirsten Landen and Tyler Letkeman – Students, Brandon University From being used as a reflective tool and a means to gain meaningful feedback from peers, to creating primary resources that can be used in the classroom and building a valuable PLN, this session will demonstrate the benefits of blogging as an educator. This session will provide an overview of the many ways that blogging can positively impact your teaching through 1st-hand accounts, examples and hands-on activities. Laptops/devices are encouraged but not essential. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **uh2xzp**  Blue Jay Bridge – Grade 5-9 Phys. Ed. Teacher, Pembina Trails School Division This session will show how to use technology in your Phys Ed classes to increase skills and student engagement. Platform: Multiple platforms including PC, Mac, iPad Edmodo: **e4pt2h**  Dianne Nordstrom – High School Teacher, Beautiful Plains School Division Why just read other people’s books on the iPad. Why not create your own interactive electronic books and share them with others? In this hands-on session, participants will have a chance to explore a number of Apps that are designed to create electronic books for the iPad. Bring your own iPad. The best apps are not free, most cost around $3-$4. Be sure you have credit on the iTunes account for your iPad. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **nvtn6c**  Albert Krynski – Lifeskills Teacher, Portage la Prairie School Division So you have an iPad… now what? A look at how an iPad can be used as an everyday tool within the classroom environment. We will look at the features of the iPad and a few apps. Bring your own iPad. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **gt7qc6**  Joann Biehl – Teacher, Southwest Horizon School Division This session will explore how Edmodo and Wikispaces can be used to enhance learning in the second language classroom. Their application to the oral, reading and writing components of the Basic French curriculum will be presented. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **wahjqf**  Roy Norris – Grade 9-12 Teacher, Louis Riel School Division All grade 9 and 10 students at Dakota Collegiate in Winnipeg bring their own computers to class every day. Roy Norris has been teaching English in the 1 to 1 environment since the very beginning in the Autumn of 2010. This session will cover the challenges and the strong advantages that have emerged so far in the Dakota program. Platform: PC or Mac; web-based Edmodo: **dbzylh**  John Finch – Manitoba Education There is a new copyright bill and some very significant recent Supreme Court of Canada rulings regarding Fair Dealing. What has changed? A whole lot and most of it is good for teachers! Come hear the details and some ways of dealing with the challenge that copyright brings to your classroom. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **zl3nh3**  John Hiebert – Consultant, MERLIN You use the Internet for shopping, banking, planning and booking vacations and a multitude of other things. How safe is your information? This workshop will explore how to keep yourself safe as you explore the online world. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **kqqizn**  Ryan Miller – Administration, St. James-Assiniboia School Division This session will provide an overview of how GarageBand (or other audio recording applications like Audacity) can be used to support the teaching and learning in your classroom. Find out how you can use songwriting techniques to motivate and engage your students by participating in the recording and production of a song as the session unfolds. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **3jd5lu**  Lee Van Cauwenberghe and Donald Girouard – Teacher and Manitoba Education Consultant This session will demonstrate and provide examples of how you can use free access to the Manitoba Blackboard Learn managed web environment as your online presence to provide: collaboration, communication, and the creation and delivery of content. Blackboard Learn online classroom provides a number of useful tools in one secure location (wikis, whiteboard, chat, calendar, internal messages, email, announcements, discussion boards, journals, blogs, group work, grade book, rubric builder, quizzes, surveys, assignment management, plagiarism checking, mashups for YouTube/Flickr/Slideshare, and student tracking. You will be shown how to request your own free Blackboard Online Classroom and the process for adding your students to your classroom Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **b2lvbm** Britt Hainstock – Grade 9 – 12 Teacher, Seven Oaks School Division This session will be an overview of one teacher's experience planning and implementing the flipped classroom model at the high school level. Sharing practical technological tips and pedagogical rationale, the session aims to discuss the strengths and challenges of producing your own videos and designing a self-paced, "flipped" course. Britt Hainstock teaches English and Media Literacy, but the flipped model and supporting resources presented are applicable to any subject area. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **su4ypb**  Kent Schiltroth – Grade 7-12 Teacher, Fort La Bosse School Division Hands-on instruction for movie making units on a PC. Bring a memory stick and headphones. Platform: PC Edmodo: **ho23wf**  Mrs. Sherree McLenehan – Grade 9-12 Teacher, Portage la Prairie School Division The session will enable teachers to make their own wikis and gather ideas for using wikis in the classroom. This will be a brainstorming and a hands-on session. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **yg3rm**  Jennifer Borgfjord – Resource Teacher, Portage la Prairie School Division Have you been hearing about Pinterest but are not sure how to get started? This session is for the beginner pinner. Learn how to use virtual bulletin boards to organize and share professional and personal "things" found on the internet. Be prepared to set up an account using your web-based email address, Facebook, or Twitter and to create a username and password. Caution: Pinterest is highly addictive! Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **ckxag5**  Darren Kuropatwa – Consultant, St. James-Assiniboia School Division In this session we'll explore 6 different lightweight ideas/activities you can implement in your classes tomorrow to leverage mobile (and stationary) technology to document student learning and foster reflective ways for students to share what they're learning. We won't just talk about them, we'll do them. We will have fun playing with practical ideas that allow teachers to easily incorporate technology in their classroom daily, and leverage some of the mobile technologies that are increasingly found in students' pockets. Six Easy Pieces will be an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of using technology in the classroom. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **lztix0**  Val Noseworthy and Rosalind Robb – Manitoba Education The workshop will provide teachers with strategies, resources, and information to teach social justice and human rights content. Participants learn to integrate language arts, social studies, health, art, and Literacy with ICT to teach sensitive and challenging social justice and human rights topics, such as genocide, in a student friendly way. The focus of the workshop will be the Holodomor 1932-1933, a famine genocide, in which an estimated 7 million people were starved to death in Ukraine. Platform: PC Edmodo: **csnk3n**  Donna Johnston – Consultant, Mystery Lake School Division The Ignite (Igniting Interest in Technology and Engineering) Camp is focused around the Electricity unit in the grade 6 Science curriculum. Students have hands-on experience building electronic circuits (snap circuits) and robotics (LEGO Mindstorm NXT robots) by following project plans, and relate and reflect their learning experiences through blogging and digital storytelling. This session will have a hands-on focus and will demonstrate how students in the School District of Mystery Lake are using these technologies. (*Even though this camp is for grade 6 students, the electronic circuits could be used in the grade 9 Science Nature of Electricity unit.) Platform: PC Edmodo: **rhcni4**  Howard Griffith and Donald Girouard – Manitoba Education Middle and Senior Years teachers will have the chance to play in the new environment and see how easy it is to build or modify your own online environment to use with your students. You will explore how you can utilize some of the tools available (built-in wikis, whiteboard, chat, calendar, internal messages, email, announcements, discussion boards, journals, blogs, quizzes, surveys, assignment submission, plagiarism checking, rubrics, group work, grade book, tracking students and mashups with YouTube, Flickr, and Slideshare). Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **ur7cw8**  Phil Taylor – Grade 9-12 Teacher, St. John’s Ravenscourt School How can educators build a PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network)? We will examine the use of web tools such as Twitter, Diigo, Ning Educational Groups and will look at the potential impact MAPLE (Manitoba Professional Learning Environment) has had and will have on Manitoba educators. You are encouraged to bring your personal technology. Platform: PC or Mac, Web-based Edmodo: **y5jozg**  Erin Malkoske – Grade 1 Teacher, River East Transcona School Division Blogging in the classroom gives you and your students a global audience, engages reluctant learners, expands your personal learning network and connects your classroom to your families. Participants will learn the ins and outs of classroom blogging using Blogger and KidBlog and leave inspired to jump on board with blogging. Platform: Web based Edmodo: **c71aen**  Nora Heschuk – Grade 7-12 Teacher, Beautiful Plains School Division There has never been a better time to be a teacher! Ideas will be shared on how to use iPads, camcorders, digital cameras, computers and Internet resources to enhance learning and engagement in any class (with an emphasis on second language classes). I currently teach French exclusively, but have taught most subjects at the middle years level as well as English at the high school level. Come get ideas to give a boost to your French and ELA classes. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **04mtw4**  Rennie Redekopp – Teacher, University of Manitoba 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. Platform: Web-based and iPad Edmodo: **v64fhd**  Kent Lewarne – Grade 9 – 12 Teacher, Prairie Spirit School Division Using industry quality tools, students collect water quality data, upload and analyze it. Meeting many scientific inquiry outcomes, the South Central Eco Institute is collecting and sharing data from across much of southern Manitoba. Does your school want to get involved in a real life science experiment? Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **3e9h5u**  Gary Sallows and Jackie Sallows – Grade 2 and Grade 5-6 Teachers, Brandon School Division and Beautiful Plains School Division This session will review various management issues and apps that are used in our Grades 2 – 6 classrooms. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **57yduq**  John Finch – Manitoba Education With the use of Web 2.0 tools comes Terms of Service Agreements...have you ever read one? A discussion of what you may be giving up or giving away by clicking on "I agree". After all, if you are not paying for it, then YOU may be the product that is being sold. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **1gcgnm**  Barry Waldner – Teacher, Southwest Horizon School Division This session will focus on getting started with Edmodo, the social network for Educators. You will have an opportunity to see how to add students, create quizzes and upload assignments as well as mark these assignments and communicate with parents. There will also be a focus on using Edmodo for creating student portfolios. Finally, the presentation will show how Edmodo is used in a multi-grade setting using different classes, and with a distance education class. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **t97s9q**  John Hiebert – Consultant, MERLIN This session will highlight the differences between the personal and educational IT environments. Why they are different and why they must be different. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **i4l8ty**  Cancelled  Devon Caldwell and Leah Obach – Kindergarten and Grade 1 Teachers, Fort la Bosse School Division Need some new ideas for engaging the learners in your classroom? Discover how technology is linking the hands of our youngest learners and enabling them to make a difference in their local and global communities. This session focuses on digitally connecting classrooms and digital team teaching to promote teacher and student collaboration. By the end of this double session, participants will be excited to try a variety of tools and ideas to promote collaborative learning through engaging, interdisciplinary, student-centered learning experiences. Platform: PC Edmodo: **o5pqw2**  Stacey Matsumoto and Georgette Nairn – Early Years Teachers, River East Transcona School Division Opportunities to connect and collaborate with classes on a global scale are abundant. Global projects can create a high level of engagement in various curricular activities. This session, intended for Early Years educators (K-5), will examine a variety of projects, websites and tools that can connect your classroom to the world. Platform: Web Based Edmodo: **bugxvi**  Mrs. Sherree McLenehan – Grade 9-12 Teacher, Portage la Prairie School Division This session will allow teachers to create their own website and gather ideas on how to implement this online tool in their classrooms. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **7ylrev**  Penny Wallace and Beth Norrie – Grade 1, 2, and 5 Teachers, Fort la Bosse School Division Create stunning videos using Animoto for Educators. Fast, free, and simple to use, this tool has a variety of applications in K-12 classrooms. Perfect for reinforcing curricular outcomes, sharing special memories of a field trip or event, and displaying student work, teachers will also find many uses in their personal lives. Participants will have a chance to view classroom examples of Animoto videos, explore the various features, and create their own Animoto video. All participants should visit [] prior to the session to set up their free educator's account, and bring a number of photographs on a flash drive to create their video. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **vqf43m**  Paul Friesen – High School Teacher, Southwest Horizon School Division This session will focus on the use of apps to manage document and information flow in a distance education setting. Making files available to students, student submission of documents, marking submitted documents, and returning annotated work all need to happen in a timely manner without escalating teacher workload. Edmodo, Moodle, Adobe Pro, Mac Preview, GoodReader, Dropbox, and Notability will be examined with opportunity for sharing of other apps that participants have found useful. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **h32xof**  Erin Malkoske – River East Transcona School Division Daily Five is by far a favorite in our class, primarily because of the choice it gives students. Expert projects are the opportunity to share something the children are (or want to be) an expert on. They may choose to share knowledge from personal experiences or investigate a topic using books, the internet or other people. Their projects are published using a variety of traditional and digital forms and are typically shared online. The children love the freedom and variety that these projects offer and are 100% engaged in their learning. I love the purpose and motivation they have for life-long learning skills like seeking information, asking questions, organizing their thoughts, publishing in a wide variety of ways and public speaking. Platform: Web-based Edmodo: **c71aen**  Louise Langevin and David Juce – Grade 2 Teacher and Consultant, Park West School Division In this interactive presentation Louise Langevin and David Juce will show how to infuse AN iPad into an early year’s classroom. From using the iPad as part of a Daily Five activity to enrich your calendar time by having your students collaboratively examine the weather and graph the daily temperatures; the iPad is a great tool for enhancing student learning. In addition you will see how an iPad can be used to remotely control your desktop computer so that you have access to all of your desktop applications. Bring your own iPad. Platform: iPad Edmodo: **7eaoa0**  Guy Williams – Administration, Southwest Horizon School Division This session will provide administrators with an exploration of effective applications and creative ways to utilize the iPad professionally to support evaluation, organization and communication. Learn about applications and iPad management within the school setting. BYOD Platform: iPad Edmodo: **qncype**  Keith Murray – Consultant, Southwest Horizon School Division This session will look at the management of iPods and/or iPads in the classroom using Apple Configurator (AC). AC can be used at both the school level and at the classroom level to mange the apps, profiles and documents that your students will be using. Participants are welcome to bring along their own set of devices and Mac laptop. Platform: Mac Edmodo: **t3kf3o**  Ryan Ukno and David Citulsky – Computer Technicians, Portage la Prairie School Division This session will show how to properly troubleshoot and correct every-day tech problems that occur in a classroom setting. Platform: PC Edmodo: **iboa4d**  Landon White – Grade 8 Teacher, Beautiful Plains School Division Students have a voice. They have a voice regarding everything in their world. A challenge for teachers in the 21st century is encouraging students to not only find their voice, but to express it in unique and relevant ways. Students need the opportunity to show their abilities and ideas in a way that is important to them and to see their work shared in the real word. Using web tools, such as podcasts, blogs, and wikis, see how to enhance engagement and ownership by celebrating student achievement and allowing students to truly share their voice. Platform: PC or Mac Edmodo: **yeron8**
 * B4 Web Page Creation with Weebly – (hands-on, single)**
 * B5 Radio for Literacy and Revolution – (hands-on, single)**
 * B8, C8 Connecting, Reflecting and Creating: Why We Blog – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * B9 #pegeeks – (hands-on, single)**
 * B11 ePublishing with an iPad – (hands-on, single)**
 * B12 iPads in the Classroom – (presentation, single)**
 * B13 Using Edmodo and Wikispaces in the Second Language Learning Classroom – (presentation, single)**
 * B14, D16 They All Have Computers…Now What? Teaching in a BYOD School – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * B15 Copyright and Teachers – (presentation, single)**
 * B17 Personal Internet Safety: Best Practices – (presentation, single)**
 * B18 Songwriting with Students – (presentation, single)**
 * B20 Blackboard: New Online Possibilities for Middle Years Education – (presentation, single)**
 * B21, C21 My Flipping Classroom – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * C1 Movie Making, Using Green Screen and Adding Effects – (hands-on, double)**
 * C2 Wikispaces for the Classroom – (hands-on, single)**
 * C3 What are Your Pinterests? – (hands-on, single)**
 * C4 Six Easy Pieces – (hands-on, double)**
 * C5 Teaching Social Justice and Human Rights through Holodomor Education – (hands-on, double)**
 * C6 Ignite Camp – (hands-on, double)**
 * C7 What Can I Do With the New Blackboard Learn? - (hands-on, double)**
 * C9, D9 Building your PLN/PLC – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * C10 Classroom Blogging: A Window to the World – (presentation, single)**
 * C11 ICT to Improve Learning – (presentation, single)**
 * C12, D12 Great Apps and Web Sites for Demonstrating Learning – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * C13 Technology: It’s More Than Computers! – (presentation, single)**
 * C14 Using iPads in the Classroom – (presentation, double session)**
 * C15 I Gave Them Permission to do What? – (presentation, single)**
 * C16 Edmodo with Multi-grade Classrooms and DE – (presentation, single)**
 * C17 But it worked at Home! - The Challenge of Managing IT in Education – (presentation, single)**
 * C18 Creative Co-teaching – (presentation, single)**
 * C19 Little Hands, Big World – (presentation, double session)**
 * C20, D20 Expanding Classroom Walls – (presentation, single, repeated)**
 * D2 Weebly for the Classroom – (hands-on, single)**
 * D3 Animoto: Taking Videos from Average to Amazing! – (hands-on, single)**
 * D8 A Day in the Life of a Video Conference Teacher – (presentation, single)**
 * D10 Expert Projects – An Awesome Addition to Daily Five – (presentation, single)**
 * D11 It’s not about the Apps it’s about the Pedagogy! – (presentation, single)**
 * D13 IPad Support for Administrators – (presentation, single)**
 * D15 Apple Survivors Group – (presentation, single)**
 * D17 Basic Troubleshooting in the Classroom – (presentation, single)**
 * D21 Share Their Voice – (presentation, single)**