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If you’re working with video software like Moviemaker, Photo Story, or PowerPoint, this audio editing program will give you the control and creativity over your project that you’ve been seeking. Load and explore this free recording and sound editing software.
 * 4101 **
 * Audio Editing with Audacity **

Bennett High School, Bennett School District 29J
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Judith Broyles (broyles.judith@bennett.k12.co.us)
 * Technical Focus: ** Multimedia
 * Grade Level: ** High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Station, Wheeler A

This session presents information about different kinds of tools that can be used to assist students in accessing lesson content, processing and learning information, and showing their mastery of information and concepts.
 * 4102 **
 * New Ideas About Assistive Technology **

Fulton Heights Educational Program, Pueblo City Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Elizabeth Santersero (kat1800@hotmail.com)
 * Technical Focus: ** Diffferentiation Technology
 * Grade Level: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Station, Wheeler B

Are Web 2.0 tools effective when teaching English and Language Arts students? This presentation explores that question and provides time to practice using tools that are relevant to ELA students.
 * 4103 **
 * Building Rigor With ELA Students **

Abraham Lincoln High School, Denver Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Lynn Gershman (lynn_gershman@dpsk12.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Social Studies, Web 2.0 Tools, Social Media, Wikis, Blogs
 * Grade Levels: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Station, Wheeler C

This session highlights the use of e-readers with an emphasis on their impact on reading engagement and motivation.
 * 4104 **
 * Kindles for Kids **

Glacier Peak Elementary, Adams 12 Five Star Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Tammy Anderson (tammy.anderson@adams12.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Language Arts
 * Grade Levels: ** Pre-K–Elementary
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Copper Station, West Hall

Are you interested in learning more about Google Apps and the collaborative avenues they opens to you and to your students? Join us to examine and discuss Google App projects that align to each of the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Students.
 * 4106 **
 * Reaching the NETS-S through Google Apps **

Chaparral High School, Douglas County School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Liz Walhof (Elizabeth.Walhof@dcsdk12.org)
 * Co-Presenter: ** Kiffany Lychock
 * Technical Focus: ** Google Apps
 * Grade Levels: ** Pre-K–Elementary, Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Village Square, Ponderosa

This presentation focuses on building flipcharts using the appropriate elements necessary to address the different learning styles within the classroom.
 * 4107 **
 * Creating More Effective Flipcharts for Whiteboards **

Avery Parsons Elementary, Buena Vista School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Bonnie Grover (groverschool@msn.com)
 * Technical Focus: ** Web 2.0 Tools, Techie, Professional Development, Interactive Whiteboards
 * Grade Level: ** Pre-K–Elementary, Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Village Square, Lodgepole

Scalable game design is a means to teach computational thinking. An introduction to CT and building a game using AgentSheets software will help you discover a great way to increase your engagement with your students. Session attendees should download the software before attending this sessions and Mark will have an activation key available at the session or you can download the PDF file below..
 * 4108 **
 * Teaching Computational Thinking With Scalable Game Design **

@http://www.agentsheets.com/products/trial/index.html



Mrachek Middle School, Aurora Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Mark Shouldice (mgshouldice@aps.k12.co.us)
 * Co-Presenter: ** Dr. Alexander Repenning
 * Technical Focus: ** STEM, Computer Science
 * Grade Level: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Village Square, Bristlecone

How do you take what you have learned and continue to connect, communicate, and collaborate with others? Creating a Personal Learning Network aligned to four simple goals builds on what you have learned to keep you focused on learning all year long.
 * 4111 **
 * Personal Learning Network: TIE 2011 & Beyond **

Douglas County School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Kim McMonagle (kmcmonagle@tiecolorado.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Professional Development
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Conference Center, Bighorn B

You know Google Docs and you know Google Sites, but you want more! We will explore these Google apps in detail and learn what is capable in a safe, district-supported environment, as well as how to maximize organization and workflow.
 * 4112 **
 * Google Apps Workshop (Intermediate) **

Online Professional Development, Denver Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Michael Wacker (mwacker10@gmail.com)
 * Technical Focus: ** Google Apps
 * Grade Level: ** All Grades
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Conference Center, Bighorn C1

Bring your library/media center into the 21st Century by giving your website added functionality and interactivity. Stimulate online book discussions among your students and faculty using free web tools.
 * 4113 **
 * Growing a Community of Readers **

Euclid Middle & Sandburg Elementary Schools, Littleton Public Schools
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Rebecca Moore (rmoore@lps.k12.co.us)
 * Co-Presenters: ** Carolyn Mast, Sally Tejan
 * Technical Focus: ** Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, Google Apps, Social Media
 * Grade Level: ** Pre-K–Elementary, Middle School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Conference Center, Bighorn C2

This fast-paced, energizing session will open your eyes to the vast possibilities of integrating digital media by streaming Discovery Education in the classroom.
 * 4114 **
 * Fifty Ways to Use Discovery Streaming in the Classroom **

Clear Sky Elementary School, Douglas County School District
 * Session Website**
 * Presenter: ** Jennifer Jensen (scuba.jennifer@gmail.com)
 * Co-Presenter: ** Lindsay Hopkins
 * Technical Focus: ** Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, Web 2.0 Tools, Google Apps, Multimedia, Professional Development
 * Grade Level: ** All Grades
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Conference Center, Ptarmigan A

Participants will learn to use a wiki site, a great tool for data collection and sharing. Wiki technology allows your students to effectively use Web 2.0 tools in a science laboratory setting.
 * 4115 **
 * Using Sensors with Wikis in the Science Classroom **

Broomfield High School, Boulder Valley School District
 * Session Website not available at this time**
 * Presenter: ** Mark Little (mark.little@bvsd.org)
 * Technical Focus: ** Science
 * Grade Level: ** Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Conference Center, Ptarmigan B

Visual strategies are culled into eight significant ideas for instructing in the 21st Century through the use of video and streaming resources. Learn practical and readily usable strategies, best practices, and research-based approaches to teaching with a variety of media—DVDs, streaming media, YouTube, and cable TV.
 * 4116 **
 * 21st Century Teaching and the New Media **


 * Session Website not available at this time**
 * Presenter: ** Len Scrogan (len.scrogan@bvsd.org)
 * Grade Level: ** Pre-K–Elementary, Middle School, High School
 * Session: ** Friday 8:30am–10:30am
 * Location: ** Conference Center, Ptarmigan C