Saturday, January 24, 2009
TRLD Session Schedule
Saturday General Sessions 8:00 – 9:00
3101 Featured Presenter
The SETT Framework: Straight from the Horse's Mouth
What is the SETT Framework really all about? How is it most effectively used? Who needs to be involved? What sorts of issues can be addressed through its use? Join Joy to dispel myths that have developed over the decade since the SETT Framework was first introduced in 1995. In this session, realities will be clarified and participants will see how the SETT Framework can be applied to AT decision-making, UDL decision-making, and more!
Speaker: Joy Zabala Ed.D, ATP, Project Manager, AIM Consortium, CAST, Lake Jackson, TX
3102 Exhibitor Session
Literacy for Struggling Readers and English Learners through Interactive Software
This session will present resources and strategies that will engage reluctant adolescent readers in a private, risk free, and motivating environment, through interactive software that gives students choice and rewarding content. Participants will view online teaching and assessment structured supports for teachers and students that will scaffold and inform reading and language instruction.
Speaker: Sonia Schmidt, Educational Consultant, National Geographic School Publishing/Hampton-Brown, San Diego, CA
3103 Exhibitor Session
A Fluency Solution - Read Naturally's Software Edition
Learn how to combine the research-proven strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and monitoring of progress into a single, powerful strategy to accelerate the reading achievements of Title I, special education, ELL, and mainstream students.
Speaker: Kristi Vincent, Read Naturally Consultant, Read Naturally, El Segundo, CA
3105 Computer Lab
Literacy 2.0: Engaging Adolescent Readers through Professional Learning Communities
Presenters will share effective implementation of a professional learning community with Web 2.0 tools with a focus on increased reading comprehension for all learners. The impact on emerging literacy strategies coupled with traditional classroom practices will be demonstrated, with an emphasis on immediate, low-cost implementation in any setting.
Speaker: Mark Davis, Reading Specialist, Barrington High School, Barrington, RI
Deborah Gorman, Reading Specialist, Barrington High School, Barrington, RI
3106 General Session
A Force More Powerful: Blended Learning for the Digital Age
Come learn how to join two emerging technologies in education to create a “Force More Powerful”. This workshop will demonstrate emerging research from concept mapping and digital media production, and show how the two can be simply joined by combining media software freely downloaded.
Speaker: Mark Geary, Assistant Professor, Dakota State University, Madison, SD, Gabe Mydland, Assistant Professor, Dakota State University, Madison, SD
3107 General Session
Alternatives to Written Output for Students with High Functioning Autism
Students with Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism often comprehend the content of the curriculum yet due to fine motor and organizational difficulties are unable to demonstrate their understanding in traditional paper and pencil format. This workshop will focus on specific assistive technology and strategies to support curriculum access.
Speaker: Susan Simmons Ph.D., Education/AT Specialist, Diagnostic Center-Southern California (CA Dept. of Ed.), Los Angeles, CA
Saturday General Sessions 8:00 – 10:00 (2 hours)
3110 Featured Presenter Computer Lab
So You Want to Start a Blog? Do it Today!
In this supportive lab, explore exemplary educational blogs, then dive in to create your own - for professional development, class news and homework, project journals, or a student writing and discussion forum. Add images, widgets and links. Discuss internet safety and privacy. We’ll use free web tools. Your blog is yours to keep.
Speaker: Kirsten Haugen, Educational Consultant, Eugene, OR
3111 Featured Presenter
An Educator’s Guide to Podcasting
Podcasting is perhaps one of the most accessible and least expensive techniques for using technology to teach and learn. This session will define podcasting, demonstrate how to find and subscribe to podcast, and also how to produce your own podcast. The main goal of this session is to de-mystify.
Speaker: David Warlick, Consultant and Author, The Landmark Project, Raleigh, NC
Etext for All Students
This session will present an update of the National Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) initiative, and how this effort provides the foundation for the universal design of instructional materials available to all students.
Speaker: Dr. Skip Stahl, Director, Technical Assistance, CAST, Wakefield, MA
3113 Featured Presenter
Creating 21st Century Learning Environments
This session will look at best practice implementations across the country. Participants will be able to clearly define the 21st century classroom and put together a plan for creating it. Funding strategies will be discussed.
Speaker: Dr.Mike Hall, Executive Director of Secondary Operations, Glynn County Schools, Brunswick, GA
3114 Computer Lab
Web 2.0 Tools and Resources for Educators
Come explore why Web 2.0 will lead your students and you to a more interactive experience on the web. This session will deliver the most valuable collaboration tools for educators. Participants will walk away with tool knowledge and resources that they can quickly and easily implement to foster student achievement.
Speaker: Brent Bovitz, Technology Coach/Specialist, Eden Prairie Schools, Minnesota, Eden Prairie, MN, Nathan Gabel, Technology Coach/Grade 4 Teacher, Eden Prairie Schools, Eden Prairie, MN, Vic Pengilly, Technology Coach/Grade 4 Teacher, Eden Prairie Schools
3115 Computer Lab
A Web of Solutions: Maximizing Learning on the Web
Come learn how to make the web a more powerful learning tool for all students. Participants will learn about browsers, add-ons, gadgets, widgets, web sites and other tools that support access for all students to the web for reading and research. This is a hands-on session. Participants will receive extensive resources. We recommend you bring a memory stick.
Speaker: Claire Zeijdel, General Manager/Technology Instructor, Bridges Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Kim Antonius, Professional Development Manager/Instructor, Bridges Canada, Mississauga, Ontario
3116 General Session
The Teacher’s Technology Toolbox for English Language Learners with Exceptionalities
This presentation will demonstrate how assistive and information technologies can be beneficial for English Language Learners with exceptionalities (ELLE). Specifically, presenters will describe low, mid and high-tech options and present no or low cost web-based resources that can be used for increased comprehensibility (Krashen, 1981) in content area instruction and language acquisition.
Speaker: Stacy Dean Ph.D., Instructor, University of Virginia, Keswick, VA
Saturday General Sessions 10:45 – 11:45
3201 Featured Presenter
Teaching Writing with 21st Century Tools
This session will explore compelling, classroom-tested strategies for teaching writing with Web 2.0 tools and emerging technologies.
Speaker: Dr. Sara Kajder, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
3202 Featured Presenter
Sorting through Electronic Text Reading Supports
This session will cover the features of these systems including speech, writing tools, study supports and scanning of print materials. Leave with the information that you need so that you can make consumer-based decisions when looking for electronic reading technologies.
Speaker: Kelly Fonner, Educational/Assistive Technology Consultant, Lake Geneva, WI
Scott Marfilius, Educational/Assistive Technology Consultant, Self Employed, Bayside, WI
3203 General Session
Turn of the 21st Century Literacy
This presentation provides evidence and demonstration of Web 2.0 applications for preparing teachers for 21st Century literacy skills. A ning, www.globalconnections2008.ning.com was used in a graduate level instructional technology course, English Language Arts and Technology, to give in-service educators an authentic global experience. Participants develop applications for their own classrooms.
Speaker: Sarah McPherson, Chair Instructional Technology, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY
3204 General Session
What are Templates or Assistants?
Templates or Assistants are files that when saved may be edited without changing the original. Consider newsletters-each time you type different articles. Rather than starting over each month, use templates to save time/effort. Come see what Templates/Assistants come on your computer and where you can go to get additional ones.
Speaker: Sammie Hutchison, Technology Teacher, Albuquerque Public Schools - Lew Wallace Elementary School, Albuquerque, NM
3205 General Session
Preferring Text-to-Speech: TTS First for Reading/Writing Issues
“When do I give up and give students technology?” reading teachers often ask. But literacy technology is not just an accommodation for the severely disabled. Text-to-Speech creates additional read-to time, improves sight-word recognition, allows comprehension skills to grow, and offers students access to content which can give reading a purpose.
Speaker: Ira David Socol, Research and Teaching Assistant - Special Education Technology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
3206 General Session
The Bully Follows You Home
Cyber-bullying is not as widely recognized as traditional forms of bullying in large part because of the technological gap between students, parents and teachers. Students currently occupying our high schools have been raised in a world where digital communication is as important and substantive as face-to-face interaction.
Speaker: Joshua Perks, Masters Student Secondary Ed, Educational Technology, Texas State University, Austin, TX
3208 General Session
Delivering Higher Education to Tribal Communities Using Technology
The presentation will describe and discuss how the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Language Revitalization at the University of Minnesota Duluth uses distance technology (ITV, UConnect, Moodle) to deliver hybrid degree programs in early childhood, elementary education, special education, master’s in education, and doctorate in teaching and learning to reservation communities.
Speaker: Thomas Peacock Ed.D., Associate Dean, College of Education and Human Service Professions, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, Elizabeth Albert-Peacock, Instructor, Department of Education, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
3209 General Session
Universal Design for Learning: Best Practices to Support Diverse Learners
Providing specific examples of how technology can support Universal Design for Learning, this session reviews theory and research related to learning disabilities and best practices that support academic success. Participants create an action plan identifying strategies and resources needed to begin implementing instructional practices that reach the majority of students.
Speaker: Annesa Hartman, Instructional Designer, Landmark College, Putney, VT, Alicia Brandon, Associate Professor, Project Manager, Landmark College, Putney, Vermont
3210 General Session
Expanding Read Aloud Opportunities through Supported Electronic Text
Research touts several benefits for reading aloud to individuals. Since technology allows digital audio to be paired with text, it provides great possibilities for expanding read aloud opportunities. This presentation will describe and demonstrate three major avenues for expanding read aloud opportunities, audio books, text-to-speech software, and individually-created podcasts.
Speaker: Dr. Laurie Ayre, Associate Professor of Education, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Marian W. Boscia, Associate Professor of Accounting, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Saturday General Sessions 12:00 – 1:00
3301 Featured Presenter
Literacies for Learning in 3-D Virtual Worlds
Online immersive environments are increasingly popular as places to teach and learn, for kids and teens as well as adults. Travel to Second Life with our avatars and see how 3-D immersive worlds can support learning across the curriculum. Learn about innovative 3-D learning objects and literacy skills for effective reading, writing, and studying in this new environment.
Speaker: Dr. Lynne Anderson-Inman, Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Education and National Center for Supported eText, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
3302 Featured Presenter
English Language Learning via the Web
English Language Learning (ELL) systems have been available for many years, but ELL via the web is still relatively new. This session will offer information about methods for selecting and using ELL web sites. Participants will have an opportunity to view and discuss a variety of different sites designed for supplemental and core instruction.
Speaker: John Fleischman, Assistant Superintendent, Technology Services, Sacramento County Office of Education, Sacramento, CA
3303 Featured Presenter
Using Technology Supports to Differentiate Instruction
Differentiating instruction requires us to change the level, pace, or kind of instruction in response to individual learners’ needs, styles, or interest. When students are given the supports they need to compliment their learning style, they can make greater educational gains. This session will support teachers in meeting the diverse needs of learner, by exploring appropriate learning opportunities that utilize technology-enhanced instructional strategies.
Speaker: Scott Marfilius, Assistive/Educational Technology Consultant, Bayside, WI
3304 General Session
Honoring Cognitive Diversity in the Secondary Classroom
Some of the most significant differences that exist within our students are invisible to the naked eye. The complex neurological profiles that students bring to classrooms are often viewed by the misguided lens of “normal”. This session will highlight classroom techniques to honor cognitive diversity using a strength-based, empowerment model.
Speaker: Philippe Ernewein, Dean of Faculty Training and Development, Denver Academy, Denver, CO
3305 General Session
Using iPods as Tools for Developing Academic English Proficiency
Using iPods as Tools for Developing Academic English Proficiency
In order to succeed in school, English Language Learners (ELLs) must master academic English, which is the language found in textbooks, writing assignments, assessments, and classroom discussions. This presentation will demonstrate how iPods can be used to help ELL students develop proficiency in this critical area.
Speaker: Kevin Smith, Technology Integration Support Specialist, Clarke County School District, Athens, GA
3306 General Session
Bridges to Success: a Summer Technology Program That Works
Learn how two roads-one struggling to teach our high incidence student’s technology supports, the other tasked with closing achievement gaps necessitated by NCLB met and solidified a bridge for students. We have four years of data demonstrating student success in writing using WORD, Write:OutLoud®, Inspiration, and solid teaching strategies.
Speaker: Terri Grundy, Assistive Technology Specialist, North East ISD, San Antonio, TX, Paul Cantu, Program Coordinator, North East ISD, San Antonio, TX
3307 General Session
Using Text Readers to Improve Reading Skills. What Works ?
Why do students with reading disabilities have poor comprehension? This presentation will explore what factors to consider when using audio text to address students comprehension difficulties, and which can make it worse. It will provide researched based, cognitive strategies for classroom instruction, to improve skills and foster independent learning.
Speaker: Alison Gammage, Director of Teaching and Learning, Nationall Cathedral School (Lab School of Washington), Washington, DC
3308 General Session
Integrating GPS, Google Earth, and Geocaching into the Curriculum
American students are behind in geography. Take advantage of the world around you by incorporating GPS receivers, Google Earth, and Geocaching into your already existing curriculum. Find out how to match up fun, engaging activities and projects with your required standards, resulting in physically active, collaborative, and genuine learning.
Speaker: Diane Main, Technology Teacher, Milpitas Christian School, San Jose, CA
3309 General Session
Enhancing Social Competence through Video Modeling
Social skill deficits are among the most significant challenges for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, a neurological disorder affecting 1 in 150 births (CDC, 2007). Typical areas of difficulties in social skill competence include initiating and maintaining interactions, sharing enjoyment, expressing empathy, and understanding the interests of others (APA, 1994). Impairment in social functioning can lead to social isolation, negative peer interactions, anxiety or depression and can be expressed through episodes of challenging behavior. Explicit instruction in social skills and social understanding provide a basis for the development of social competence and meaningful relationships. This session will present the results of a video modeling project in two public school classrooms.
Speaker: Erin Peterson, Educational Specialist, Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3, Homestead, PA, Michelle Lubetsky, Educational Specialist, Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3, Homestead, PA