Classroom+Connections


 * Classroom Connections**
 * Located in the Copper Pavilion tent**

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This session is designed to help you narrow your focus to portals and websites that can address specific content needs in the Reading, Language Arts, and Math domains.
 * DC1103 **
 * Save Yourself from Search Overload **

Pete Mirich Elementary School, Weld County School District
 * Session Website not available at this time**
 * Presenter: ** Denise Blevins (blevinsred@gmail.com)
 * Technical Focus: ** Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
 * Grade Level: ** Pre-K–Elementary
 * Session: ** Wednesday 1:30pm–2:30pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 1

Find out how Google Apps can increase participant engagement, enhance efficiency, and accelerate productivity for your team’s professional development.
 * DC1104 **
 * Google Apps for Professional Development **

eDCSD: Colorado Cyber School, Douglas County School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Sohne VanSelus (sohne.vanselus@dcsdk12.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Web 2.0 Tools, Social Media
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Wednesday 3:00pm–4:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 1

Discover methods to creatively and effectively use Google Apps to challenge your students to construct, collaborate, and evaluate as they digitally meet the 21st Century.
 * DC1203 **
 * Get Googled Classroom Connections **

Oberon Middle School, Jefferson County Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Erin Mayer (emayer@jeffco.k12.co.us)
 * Technical Focus: ** Science, Google Apps
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Wednesday 1:30pm–2:30pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 2

Technological help needs to be well-organized and well-documented. We implemented Spiceworks free network management software to create a trouble ticket website for our staff—learn how our help desk dramatically improved as a result.
 * DC1204 **
 * Need Helpdesk Software? **

Buena Vista High School, Buena Vista School District R-31
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Matt Brooker (mattbr@buena-vista.k12.co.us)
 * Co-Presenter: ** Kevin Hargrove
 * Technical Focus: ** Techie
 * Grade Level: ** High School
 * Session: ** Wednesday 3:00pm–4:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 2

Want to get organized, get rid of all that paper, be able to find those lesson plans, search for a keyword, find a handout, have students organized and collaborating? OneNote planner and note-taking software is a valuable and under-utilized solution for educators.
 * DC1304 **
 * Microsoft Office 2010 OneNote for Educators & Students **

Peetz School, Plateau School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Leslie Raffelson (raffelsonl@peetzschool.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Techie, Multimedia, Social Media
 * Grade Level: ** All Grades
 * Session: ** Wednesday 3:00pm–4:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 3

Learn to create step-by-step visual directions with Snagit screen capture software. Enhance student assignments with markups and graphics, or make visual presentations to be used in a variety of content areas.
 * DC1403 **
 * Snagit: Stealing Isn’t Always Illegal **

Lewis-Palmer High School, Lewis-Palmer School District #38
 * Session Website not available at this time**
 * Presenter: ** Denee Child (dchild@lewispalmer.org)
 * Co-Presenter: ** Carrie Hendrix
 * Technical Focus: ** Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, Techie, Multimedia
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Wednesday 1:30pm–2:30pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 4

Teach students to teach themselves piano, guitar, or drums using Piano Marvel software. Simple and engaging, Piano Marvel revolutionizes the process of learning an instrument.
 * DC1404 **
 * Piano Marvel **

Colorado State University–Pueblo
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Tim Peters (tim.peters@colostate-pueblo.edu)
 * Technical Focus: ** The Arts, Music
 * Grade Level: ** All Grades
 * Session: ** Wednesday 3:00pm–4:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 4

Grand prize winners from the fourth annual APS Technology Fair share projects they created that showcase their units of study over the year.
 * DC1504 **
 * APS Student Tech Fair **

6th Avenue Elementary School, Aurora Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Shannon Wentworth (scwentworth@aps.k12.co.us)
 * Co-Presenter: ** Gwynn Moore
 * Technical Focus: ** Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, Web 2.0 Tools, Techie, Multimedia, Wikis, Blogs
 * Grade Levels: ** Pre-K–Elementary, Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Wednesday 3:00pm–4:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 5

Learning is social! See just how powerful a social network can be for creating student ownership, as well as a supportive school and classroom culture.
 * DC2101 **
 * Build School Culture Now: Social Networking **

eDCSD: Colorado Cyber School, Douglas County School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Sohne VanSelus (sohne.vanselus@dcsdk12.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Web 2.0 Tools, Social Media
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Thursday 9:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 1

Use the power of Google forms to build pre- and post-assessments for students that are easily accessible, measurable, and gradable.
 * DC2102 **
 * Googlific Assessment **

North Arvada Middle School, Jefferson County Public Schools
 * Session Website not available at this time**
 * Presenter: ** Andrea Pless (aradclif@jeffco.k12.co.us)
 * Technical Focus: ** Educators
 * Grade Level: ** All Grades
 * Session: ** Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 1

Using Share, students can create portfolios that are highly representative of a varied body of work. Share captures performances and reflections through text, voice, and video which are then shared through HTML, Flash®, and interactive PDF files.
 * DC2201 **
 * Share Powerful Assessments with Digital Portfolios **

Tech4Learning
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Matt Keillor (mkeillor@tech4learning.com)
 * Technical Focus: ** Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, Multimedia
 * Grade Levels: ** Pre-K–Elementary, Middle School
 * Session: ** Thursday 9:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 2

Follow one teacher’s yearlong journey to implement a technology-rich science curriculum through her newly created one-on-one classroom. Learn how to use free, web-based tools such as Google Apps and Edmodo to enrich the learning experience.
 * DC2202 **
 * Transformation: Creating a 21st Century One-On-One Classroom **

Oberon Middle School, Jefferson County Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Erin Mayer (emayer@jeffco.k12.co.us)
 * Technical Focus: ** Science, Web 2.0 Tools, Google Apps, Social Media
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 2

Learn ideas that connect “Battle of the Books” with the digital generation. Write about, question, and practice competing for the literary confrontation with these 40 titles and your young students.
 * DC2301 **
 * Battle of the Book in the 21st Century **

Learning Resource Services, Colorado Springs School District 11
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Melissa Smead (melissa.smead@d11.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Language Arts, Web 2.0 tools, Google Apps, Social Media, Wikis, Blogs
 * Grade Level: ** Pre-K–Elementary
 * Session: ** Thursday 9:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 4

The Curriculum Customization Service (CCS) is an integrated, web-based tool designed to facilitate teachers’ planning and delivery of differentiated instruction. CCS enhances existing curricula using digital library resources and shared, teacher-contributed materials in the context of articulated learning goals.
 * DC2302 **
 * Curriculum Customization Service: A Tool for Customizing Science Instruction **


 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Loretta Melhado (lmelhado@ucar.edu)
 * Technical Focus: ** Science, Web 2.0 Tools, Multimedia, Professional Development, Digital Libraries and Communities of Practice
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 3

Content Specialists from the Colorado Department of Education will demonstrate helpful Web-based tools from Google and Intel, as well as explain the benefit s of using webinars as a communication tool.
 * DC2401 **
 * Free Web Tools for Teaching **

Colorado Department of Education
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Barry Cartwright (cartwright_b@cde.state.co.us)
 * Co-Presenters: ** Brenda Barr, Mary Pittman, Teresa Yohon, Karol Gates, Amy Engleman
 * Technical Focus: ** Multimedia
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Thursday, 9:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 4

Bring your K-5 science lessons alive with the help of the Internet. You will walk away from this dynamic session with numerous resources that can easily be integrated into your instruction.
 * DC2402 **
 * Internet Resources for the Science Teacher **

Wilder Elementary School, Littleton Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Carol Boorom (cboorom@lps.k12.co.us)
 * Technical Focus: ** Science
 * Grade Level: ** Pre-K–Elementary
 * Session: ** Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 4

Session participants will learn how to implement an information literacy unit, coordinate the results, and track the progression of students’ learning through the use of product examples, discussion, and video.
 * DC **** 2501 **
 * Information Literacy: A Collaboration of Technology and Research **

Eagle Valley Middle School, Eagle County School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Abbey Sonnenberg (abbey.sonnenberg@eagleschools.net)
 * Technical Focus: ** Language Arts
 * Grade Level: ** Middle School
 * Session: ** Thursday 9:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 5

Discover a quick way to teach Modern Language Association (MLA) format to students by researching the question “Why did the chicken cross the road?” in EBSCO, taking citation information, then writing a “paper” in MLA format with in-text citation.
 * DC2502 **
 * One-Sentence Research Paper **

Emily Griffith Opportunity School, Denver Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Sally Bertoli (Sally_Bertoli@dpsk12.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Language Arts
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm
 * Location: ** Copper Pavilion, Table 5