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Common Ground 2012

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9:30am

Apps for iPad - Administrator Focus 325 Opening Pandora’s Box: Virtual Toolkits that Promotes Achievement for All 324 Padology: It’s All About Your App-titude! 320 This is Not Your Mother's Math Class 323 Transparency is the New Black! 322 What is Literacy in a 2.0+ World? 321 A Primer on School Finance 319 Customizing On-Demand Professional Development 326

10:00am

MD ASCD Meeting 318

1:00pm

What’s Everybody Talking About? – A Social Networking Workshop 316 Tools to Help CCSS Implementation 316

2:00pm

CEASOM Meeting 318

7:30am

Help Accelerate Struggling Students To Grade-Level Proficiency with Voyager! 326 Bookstore Opens Camden Lobby Exhibit MarketPlace Exhibitor Row Registration Opens Registration Desk

7:45am

Integrating Digital Media into your Curriculum with SAFARI Montage and DCP 346 Personalized Reading Environment from Capstone 338 The Mobile Device and Application Explosion in Education: How to Address the Dilemma & Simpli-Fi the Problem 335 Using Technology to Support Achievement in Common Core State Standards 334 Writing and Technology: Instruction, Publishing, and Collaborating 347

9:00am

Constructing Problem Solvers Using LEGO WeDo Robotics Poster Gallery 1-B Data-Based Decisions: Impacting Student Achievement 329 Growing Technology Literacy; Hitting the Moving Target 320 Meeting the Needs of All Students: A Win Win for All! 334 10 Ways to be an Education Marketing Genius Like Lady Gaga 346 3D Doc Camera - Intro to the SMART Doc Camera 330 including Mixed Reality Tools 339 Countdown to Student Success: 10 Ways to Engage 344 Dazzling Data + Engaging Instruction = Classroom Bliss 327 Enhancing Literacy with a Tech Twist 341 Go Mobile! Nifty Netbook Ideas for the 21st Century Classroom 345 iRead with iPods! Poster Gallery 1-E Kiddos Love Kindles: Using e-readers with English Language Learners (ELL) and the School Library Media Center Poster Gallery 1-D Mobileyes 317 My Story: Creating Ebooks in a Digital World Poster Gallery 1-A Now We're Moving Poster Gallery 1-C Preparing Dynamic PDF and Video for any Device 342 Retool Your School 323 Scientific Investigations in a Touch Screen Environment for Physics Poster Gallery 1-F Strategies for the Effective Implementation of a Digital Curriculum 326 Strengthening Literacy with a Data Projector Poster Gallery 1-G Student and Teacher Awards Gallery Walk Gallery The Digital Citizenship Module: From Design to Demonstration 330 Updating TPACK with Online Learning Tools 335 Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom 348 Using Technology with the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCSS 325 When you Think STEM, Think CTE (Career and Technology Education) 328 Why Working Memory Matters & How Cogmed Improves it 340 Building Instructional Leadership for the New Evaluation System 324 CCSS/EEA/SIP/PD: Managing the Mandates and Making them Work for Us 347 Race to the Top -- Where We Are; Where We Are Going 318 High Impact Instructional Strategies 338 PowerPoint Paranoia? Pop Your Projects! 336 Rules of Engagement: Using Personal Technologies to Motivate Rather Than Distract 321 Tammy’s Favorite Technology Tips, Tricks, & Tools! 349 Flipped PD - Making the most of your PD Time 319

10:00am

Keynote - General Session - Karen Cator 309

10:45am

Pre-ordered Box Lunch Pick-Up with Ticket 345

11:45am

Highlight - Special Presentation #1 318 Countdown to Student Success: 10 Ways to Engage 344 BCPS Home and Hospital e-Volves: Coverting to an e-Learning Center 335 Digital Illustrations in the Style of David Wiesner Poster Gallery 1-E Empowering Schools to Differentiate Learning & Student Progress with iPads 330 Enhancing your SMART Notebook lessons with Multimedia Tools 339 Extra, Extra, Read and Write All About It…Literacy in Science 341 Games from Scratch 329 Get Linked! 319 iBook Author - Create Multi-Touch Books 342 If Animals Could Talk Poster Gallery 1-A Integrating Mobile Devices within Classroom Curriculum 316 iPad2 in Action: Connecting Communities through Nature Poster Gallery 1-C iPadology 348 Livescribe Pens for Success Poster Gallery 1-B Math is Marvelous Poster Gallery 1-H Math with Mimio Poster Gallery 1-F Multimedia Mash-ups 325 Multimedia Meets the Common Core 320 Using iGoogle, Google Alert, Twitter and Rss to Mine the Internet - THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED 317 Leveraging Cloud-based Technologies to Help Increase Educator Effectiveness 340 The Level 5 Principal: Clearing the Plate for Effective Leadership 326 Investigating the Impact of Technology in Teaching and Learning 324 Taking your Digital Content to the Next Level 347 The F Factor: How 2 Fit Financial Literacy & FEFE Into Your Curriculum 334 Cool Web Tools for Interactive Whiteboards 349 A Cloudy Forecast for Education: Cloud-based Computing in K-12 321 Rediscover Content, Context & Computing 336 Admins 'N Sync: Piloting an iPad Program for System Level Administrators 323 The Core Challenge - The Inevitable Solution to an Unsolvable Problem 328 The Many Tools in the Instructional Technology PD Toolkit 327 Transforming Professional Development through Social Learning 338 Showell Shout Out TV Poster Gallery 1-G

12:45pm

Keynote - General Session - Hall Davidson 345

1:15pm

Consumer to Creator: 10 Tools for your students 318 Incorporating iPads into a Three Group Math Rotation: DI Practices 323 Learn the Basics to Build Your Mobile Device Management Strategy 316 Quick Tips for Improving Your Digital Photography Skills 317 Social Learning with ePortfolios: Engaging Students Using Mahara 326 Technology Support for Inquiry- Based Learning 339 Transforming the Classroom 342 Using an Evaluation Rubric to Select Content Specific Apps 319 Web 2.0 Tools A through Z to increase Student Achievement 328 What's New with SMART Technologies 347 iHave an iPad - How Do iUse It in the Classroom? 349 Common Core Look4s - A Peer Observation Tool 329 Integrating Intuitive iPad Technology into the Teacher Evaluation Process 330 Building A Pyramid of Success with Interactive Whiteboards 348 Don't Talk at Me: Making Staff-Based PD Relevant Again 325 Teaching Teachers to Teach: Innovative Web-Based Teacher Preparation Tools 335

2:15pm

Accpet the eCYBERMISSION Challenge 347 Acrobat X Pro ePortfolios in the classroom 342 Affordable LRS - Software-Based Solution for 1:1 Mobile Handheld Devices 338 An App a Day Keeps Us Innovative: iPads in the ELL Classroom 327 Beyond the Textbook: Discovery Education Techbook 344 Classroom Acoustics and Student Learning 341 Creatin' with Fablevision 317 Creating a 21st Century Library 325 Cultivating Character 345 Elementary STEM initiative in Howard County 327 ePortfolio: A Platform for New Teacher Learning 326 Explore the SMART Gallery Toolkit- Where there is more than pictures and dice. 339 Fluid Environments for Teaching, Learning & Technology 336 Harness the Power of Library Media Centers to Enable, Engage, & Empower 21st Century Learners 323 Interactive Software to Differentiate & Enrich Instruction 334 Redesigning the Student Notebook for the 21st Century 346 The Digital College and Career Readiness Continuum 340 Twitter is going to the dogs! 328 Web 2.0 Power Hour 324 Oh The Things You Can Do with Google Spreadsheets & Forms! 349 Educator Evaluation 316 Using Social Media to Market Your School 319 Using a Virtual Room for Instruction, Conferencing, and Webinars 320 Teachers, Transparency and Technology: How a Classroom Web-Presence Benefits All 321 Administrator Technology Toolkit Implementation at Towson University 329 Creating a Virtual School Hub for Teachers 330 Flipping Professional Learning with Teacher-Created Videos 335 iCurate: How To Become A Curation Rockstar 348

3:15pm

Easy Data Collection for Classroom Management and Assessments 330 APPlied - The Value of App Development for Students 319 BYOD Doesn't Have to Mean Uncontrolled 338 BYOD. Let’s get this party started! 339 Critical Information Literacy: Thinking About Online Information 334 Differentiate Instruction with Discovery Education STREAMING Builder Tools 346 Enhancing the Social Studies Curriculum Using C-SPAN's Online Resources 325 MD Technology Leadership Toolkit for School Administrators- Introduction 335 Pixie Provides a 21st Century Approach to Common Core Standards 341 Presentation Makeover 317 Teaching African American Civil Rights Through Art at the Smithsonian 326 Technology for Teaching Financial LIteracy 348 What Would MacGyver Do? 327 What's So Great about My Big Campus? 328 ESEA Waiver 316 Top 10 Attributes of a Principal 318 Beyond Our Walls: Connecting and Collaborating Globally using Web 2.0 320 Discourse ... Talk it Up! 324 Every Student Succeeding in Math! 345 Technology is a Terrible Thing to Waste 333 Using the Singapore Approach to Improve Student Achievement 342 Using the Whole Library for a Wiki-Based Research Project 329 Beyond Words in Word: Writing in an iPad, Transmedia Universe 336 Developing the Creativity in Every Learner (all) 321 Tammy's Favorite Technology Tips, Tricks, and Tools! 349

4:00pm

Tweet-Up Pratt Street Ale House

7:30am

Bookstore Opens Camden Lobby Exhibit MarketPlace Exhibitor Row Registration Opens Registration Desk

7:45am

Silent Auction Camden Lobby Classroom Audio from Lightspeed Technology 342 Integrating Digital Media into your Curriculum with SAFARI Mantage and DCP 346 Integrating Intuitive iPad Technology into the Teacher Evaluation Process 325 Learn about School Improvement Network's On-demand Professional Development Solutions 324 Learn About Turning Technologies' Student Response Systems 333 Mimio. Teach with Interactive Technology - Easily and affordably! 335 Personalized Instruction: Intervention + Rigor = Readiness 326 Personalized Reading Environment from Capstone 338 The Early Learning Challenge Grant and McGraw-Hill Solutions 348 Writing and Technology: Instruction, Publishing, and Collaborating 347

8:45am

Silent Auction Drawings Camden Lobby

9:00am

Student Achievement Monitoring (S.A.M.) 348 Using Data to Increase Student Achievement 325 A Collaborative Poetry Lesson Between Maryland and Hawaiian Students Poster Gallery 2-D Building Bridges Between ELL Students 334 Camp ITC: Online PD for Teachers 345 CSI- In The Class- No Bones about it! Poster Gallery 2-B Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity (C3): Inspiring Students to “own it!” 335 Don't Make My Mistakes: 10 Essentials to Successful eLearning Courses 326 Edmodo: A Tool with Limitless Possibilities Poster Gallery 2-I Getting SMARTer with the SMART Table Interactive Learning Center 339 Go Mobile! Nifty Netbook Ideas for the 21st Century Classroom Poster Gallery 2-C iOS Devices: Deployment and Management 338 Kidspiration in the Elementary Classroom Poster Gallery 2-J Ready, Set- Be Mobile with iLit, Inspire Literacy and other new mobile releases! 340 Rich Interactive Publishing for Mobile Devices with Adobe InDesign CS 5.5 342 Screencasts & Pencasts: Communicate Your Message 323 Smart Pens in the Elementary Classroom Poster Gallery 2-A Smartpen Technology with Middle School Students Poster Gallery 2-E Stretching the Technology Budget – Free is in our Price Range! Poster Gallery 2-L Teaching and Learning in the Hybrid Classroom Poster Gallery 2-F Tech + Creativity = Student Empowerment Poster Gallery 2-K The Library Goddess @ Work: Maximizing Web 2.0 Tools When Your Budget is at a Minimum Poster Gallery 2-H The Library Goddess @ Work: Maximizing Web 2.0 Tools When Your Budget is at a Minimum Poster Gallery 2-H Using the Smart Board to Promote Equity in the Foreign Language Classroom Poster Gallery 2-G Common Core Disciplinary Literacy Instruction: Understanding Text Complexity in History & Science Literacy Standards 319 What Effectiveness Looks Like In Media Centers 324 Black-Eyed Susan Picture Books 347 Increasing Interaction through Hybrid Learning 346 Quia 330 Technology to Improve Teaching Elementary Mathematics 341 Technological Strategies to Meet the Diverse Needs of our 21st Century Classroom 333 Google Activities for Kids! 349 Making Mobile Media Meaningful in (and Beyond!) the Classroom 344 Reading in an iPad, Transmedia Universe 336 To Friend or Not To Friend: A Guide for Teachers Using Social and Educational Networking Sites 321 MEEC Can Help! 320

10:00am

Keynote - General Session - Diane Ravitch 309

10:45am

Pre-ordered Box Lunch Pick-Up with Ticket 345

11:45am

1:1 Initiative Framework - Building a Personalized Learning Environment 340 Beyond the Textbook: Discovery Education Techbook 344 Digital Storytelling 330 Explore, Learn, and Play with MPT and PBS KIDS Lab 341 iPad/iPhone Apps - My App's Better Than Your App!! 323 Oh K-1-2-3- GO! Take the Leap! Integrate E-Reader/Tablets into K-3 Classroom 324 Screencasting: Capturing voice, screen, mouse clicks 318 Teaching Using Engaging Game Ideas 339 The All-New iTunes U 338 Using Skype in Kindergarten to Develop Creative Writing, Reading Comprehension, and Cultural Awareness 347 SESSION CANCELLED - Professional Learning Into the 21st. Century 319 Beyond the Projector: Strategies to Support Interactive Whiteboard Integration 348 Preparing STEM Students: Technology Education and Gateway to Technology 326 Using Bookrooms and Informational Texts to get to the CORE of the STANDARDS 342 Why does my Elementary Student Need to Know about Maryland's New CyberSecurity Jobs 335 Changed but Still Critical: Brick and Mortar School Libraries in the Digital Age 321 Creating and Collecting Digital Work 349 Transmedia Time: Synergy through Digital Storytelling, Social Technology, Multimedia and Gaming 336 IPods & Inquiry -- Real Answers to real Questions in Real Time 325 Just Say Know, Internet Safety for Educators 320 Magically Motivate Kids with Mimio 334

12:45pm

Keynote - General Session - Jack Berckemeyer 314 Keynote - General Session - Michelle Shearer 309

1:15pm

Creating a Dynamic PBIS Program in All Schools 345 Bringing the Classroom to Life Using 3D 326 CyberSTEM from Kindergarten to High School: Models that Promote Interest and Enthusiasm in STEM and Cybersecurity Fields 335 Effective Co-Teaching 348 Reaching A High Score: Increased student achievement through gaming. 324 Studio Makeover: Changing the Dynamic of a TV Studio 325 The George Washington's Teachers' Institute 320 The Role of School: Libraries in Serving Learners with Disabilities 334 The Teacher's iPad - Managing Classes with Your iPad 323 Trans-disciplinary Unit Instruction and Development 347 Transmedia Storytelling: Connecting Content and Learners 330 iPad: An Evaluation Tool 318 Using Video to Promote Collaboration and Communication 346 Using Virtual Manipulatives with English Language Learners 333 Graphic Inquiry: Dynamic Differentiation and Digital Age Learning 336 Professional Development Does Not = Professional Learning: How to Use the Revised National Professional Learning Standards for School Improvement Planning 319 The Collective Brain: DEN Star Showcase 344

2:15pm

Let Our Fingers Do The Surfing 324 Top Ten Things you Should Know about Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity in your Classroom 335 Classrooms in the Cloud: Laptops, Google, and Transmedia Learning 336 Creating Engaging Lessons with Web 2.0 Tools 341 Digital Conversion or 1:1 Learning 340 Do They Know It? Make Them Show It! 344 E-Books, E-Gads! Promises, Pitfalls and Practicalities 321 Engaging and Educating Young Minds with STEM Poster Gallery 2-A GOT TECH? USE IT! Poster Gallery 2-C GOT TECH? USE IT! Poster Gallery 2-C Illuminating Resources for Common Core Mathematics 330 Integrating Technology in Personal Finance Education 346 Lights, Learning, Action 320 Oranges to Apples - New to Macs? 323 Problem Based Learning through Product Cards Poster Gallery 2-B Reading, Writing & iPads Poster Gallery 2-D SMART for Administrators - Getting ROI on Your Investment 339 Strategies for Using LEGO Based Tools 345 Animation and Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum 342 Apple's Bento App: Fun with Databases 326 Using Edmodo and VoiceThread to Communicate and Collaborate 348 Who's Doing the Thinking and Talking in Your Classroom? 347 Highlight - Special Presentation #2 318 Highlight - Special Presentation #4 319 Leadership Styles in Implementing Instructional Technology 333 Digital Portfolios Made Easy 349 Common Core Writing and Technology 334 Differentiating Leadership: Supporting Our School & Central Office Leaders 325

3:15pm

Data Analysis: Making Sense and USE of your Assessment Data 335 Making the most out of what you've got... 348 rEVOLUTION How a 1 to 1 program changed the landscape of education in Talbot County 324 Technology Support for Inquiry- Based Learning 339 Wait, wait...ANYONE can Use This?! Discover Free Resources from Discovery Education 344 Xtra Normal Writing for the Common Core 334 K-12 Cybersecurity Education Programs 333 THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED - Technology Competencies All Educational Administrators Need 321 Building Effective Professional Learning Communities Districtwide 318 Creating a Balanced Evaluation System 345 Transforming Professional Development through Social Learning 319 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Pilot: Engage-Support-Challenge 326 Wii Math: Engaging Students through Gaming Technology 320

4:00pm

Appy Hour Pratt Street Ale House

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