By Kris Walsh
In case you have not heard, Perry Central has been chosen as a host site for a “Summer of eLearning” conference this year. There are many of these regional conferences hosted around the state for staff members in neighboring areas to attend and learn about new and exciting tech tools and integrating technology into their classes. Last year the eLearning coaches had the privilege of attending 3 of these conferences. We really enjoyed these conferences and learned a great deal. We were so motivated by these experiences that when the Department of Education opened up the window for schools to apply to host, we jumped at the chance!
Our conference is called “PowerED Up- Inspiring Teachers-Empowering Students”. We will be hosting this conference at Perry Central from 8-2 on Monday, June 2nd and Tuesday, June 3rd. This is a regional conference and we are inviting participants from all of the area schools. We will feature great keynote speakers, interesting breakout sessions, displays from vendors, door prizes, and of course, tasty meals. Where else can you get all of this for only $30?
Our keynote on the first day will be Dave Burgess. Dave is a high school history teacher in San Diego. He has been recognized by his school for being most dramatic, most entertaining, and most energetic for the last 17 years running! We discovered Dave through participating in the DOE fall eLearning book club where we discussed his book, Teach Like a Pirate. In it Dave talks about bringing energy and passion back into the classroom. Feel free to check out his site- www.daveburgess.com to learn more about him.
On the 2nd day, our keynote speaker is Leslie Fisher. She is the Director of her own company, Fisher Technologies inc. She specializes in presenting, and training at K-12 schools. Since starting her own company in 1997, she presents at 25-30 events a year. We discovered Leslie at this year’s ICE conference in the fall. Her presentation, titled Technology Time Machine, was very interesting and well-received. She has a very energetic and humorous presentation style. It is little surprise that she is a popular choice for a speaker during this summer’s Summer of eLearning conference series. If you would like to learn more about her, check out her site www.lesliefisher.com.
In addition to exciting keynote speakers, we have a wide-range of breakout sessions planned. Topics planned include:
Unconference- a session with no agenda and topics determined by the moderator
Google Drive
Google Apps
KidBlog
Apple Apps
Social Media
TED Talks and Socratic Seminars
Project Based Learning (PBL)
MyBigCampus- separate sessions for beginners and advanced users
Presentation tools- Prezi, Thinglink, Google, PowToon
Movie Creation- iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Premier
Screencasting
Curating Digital Content
Coding
Content Area Literacy
Webpage Creation
Digital Citizenship
Finding time for Passion Based Learning
Chrome and Chrome Extensions
Text Annotation
Building a PLN through Twitter
We are also going to feature a technology petting zoo where there will be displays of some ed tech hardware that you can get hands on with and learn what it can do.
Please see our webpage http://www.pccs.k12.in.us/powered-up.html for more details. Registration will be opening soon! We will be emailing and Tweeting out info about the conference as details develop. We hope to see you there.
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