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=BREAKOUT SESSION THREE=

Please choose one session from the list below for Breakout Session Three, 11:40-12:40.

Title**: [|Calling all BEES (the PodCast DOERS)]
 * SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Demonstration 11:40-12:40 in Write Place or Science Lab
 * Description**: Attend this HANDS-ON workshops and you will create two of your own podcast: audio and a PowerPoint synched with your voice. You'll learn how to make it subscribeable, get it on the web FAST via your Tech Team, and you'll see how easy it is to be create a PodCast when you are mobile with support from Ryan and the GBN tech team. **Leave the workshop with 2 Podcasts today!**
 * Audience**: General
 * User Level**: All Levels
 * Presenter**: Ann Penstone

Title**: SMART Tips and Tricks
 * SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Demonstration/Discussion 11:40-12:40 in B131
 * Description**: This session focuses on exploring a variety of //Tips and Tricks// in using SMART technologies in the classroom. We will also explore some exemplary practices and resources to start or continue your journey using SMART interactive white boards while leaving room for a question and answer period.
 * Audience**: General
 * User Level**: All Levels
 * Presenters**: SMART Facilitators

Title**: Technology, a catalyst of change in education
 * ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Discussion 11:40-12:40 in the Spartan Conference Room
 * Description**: This open forum is dedicated to discussing and sharing ideas about technology as a catalyst for change in education as a way of helping define the new direction of District 225 as Leading Edge!
 * Audience**: General
 * User Level**: All Levels
 * Presenter**: Marcus Thimm, District 225 Director of Technology


 * Title**: Visiting GBN's Introduction to Programming Course Part II
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Demonstration/Hands-on 11:40-12:40 in the Math Lab A250
 * Description**: Now that you’ve seen what is offered, give yourself a chance to try it out. This session will take a hands-on look at what constitutes our beginning course in Computer Science. See what you and your colleagues can create in just a short period of time. This is a continuation of the Part I session.
 * Audience**: Math and Computer Science
 * User Level**: All Levels
 * Presenter**: Ken Klamm, GBN Mathematics Educator


 * Title**: Utilizing Technology within the Multiple Intelligences
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Demonstration 11:40-12:40 in A204
 * Description**: This presentation will cover Gardner's mulitiple intelligence theory and the use of technology in meeting students' needs. Google Blogger, Sketchcast, group emailing, and podcasts will be demonstrated with an emphasis on multiple intelligences.
 * Audience**: General
 * User Level**: Beginner
 * Presenter**: Mardi Scott, Special Education Educator


 * Title**: Expanding your Personal Learning Environment: Bringing the Sources to You
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Discussion/Demonstration/Hands-on 11:40-12:40 in the Foreign Language Lab
 * Description**: The purpose of this session is to familiarize participants with RSS feeds, focusing on how aggregators can be effective learning tools that can be accessed at their convenience. Participants will be discussing and debating how RSS feeds can be utilized to expand their personal learning environments in an era when information and resources are overwhelmingly accessible. Along with the discussion, a brief demonstration will show how to create and use an RSS feed.
 * Audience**: General
 * User Level**: All Levels
 * Presenter**: Stephanie Olson, GBN Technology Trainer


 * Title**: Exploring the Possibilities of Multimedia in Student Learning and Engagement
 * Format,** **Time, and Location**: Discussion/Demonstration 11:40-12:40 in the IMC Classroom
 * Description**: The World has gone digital and students are producing multimedia at a rapid pace. How are you tapping into this resource? How are you helping students to understand digital literacy? How can you bring multimedia into the classroom to enhance instruction and the curriculum? Come explore the possibilities of multimedia production for student learning and engagement.
 * Audience**: General
 * User Level**: All Levels
 * Presenters**: Jon Sorkin and Ann Koller, GBN Foreign Language Educator and Instructional Supervisor