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Monday, December 8
 

8:00am CST

Social Media: Become a Connected Educator
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How do you connect with other educators and learners? Get started using Twitter and other social media channels to manage your own professional development. Gather and share resources to establish and grow professional connections tailored to your grade level, content, and interests. You chart your course, learning at your pace!
Speakers
avatar for Kara Osmundson

Kara Osmundson

Digital Learning Coach, Shakopee Public Schools
avatar for Sandra Riehl

Sandra Riehl

DLC, ISD #720
avatar for Joe Sage

Joe Sage

Digital Learning Coach & Physics Teacher, Shakopee Public Schools
This is my fourth year working for Shakopee Public Schools. I am a physics teacher as well as a Digital Learning Coach. I am passionate about teaching and am a life long longer.

Monday December 8, 2014 8:00am - 8:50am CST
Lake Superior A
  Breakout Session, Explore and Create

8:00am CST

Gamification: Learning to Play and Playing to Learn
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Professional development is often disconnected from life, motivation, and learning. Come play our game and find out how to engage a professional staff in a gamification type of learning. Learn the results of creating a “gamification/badge” system to increase the capacity of a technology support staff. This session may contain commercial content.
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BM
DM

Monday December 8, 2014 8:00am - 8:50am CST
Lake Superior B
  Exhibitor Showcase, Explore and Create

11:00am CST

iPads and Google: Transforming Science Instruction
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Hear how a science team has grown, leveraging 1:1 iPads to increase classroom efficiencies and choice. Examples of their success include: Project Based Learning, screencasting with Explain Everything and Show Me, camera use with lab reports, Google Forms, and Schoology Assessments. All team planning is done on Google Docs and Presentations, and shared collaboratively.
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SH
FS

Monday December 8, 2014 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Great Lakes Ballroom A2
  Breakout Session, Lecture

11:00am CST

Video Conferencing: Connect and Collaborate
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Use video conferencing systems to enrich your curriculum,collaborate with other classes, and learn from content experts. Learn the lingo. Explore the hardware and software options available for connecting your students. See how to arrange and conduct a live video event.
Speakers
avatar for Jon Larson

Jon Larson

Instructional Technology Specialist, ECMECC
Twitter: @ecmeccjon

Monday December 8, 2014 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Nokomis
  Breakout Session, Lecture

12:15pm CST

Systems Alignment to Transform Student Learning
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Join a dialogue around actual scenarios in which transformation of district vision and strategic plans has taken places. Explore strategies on how to align the district vision to an action plan that achieves successful instructional change. Build focus on educational practices and effective instruction to create 22nd century learning opportunities for all students.
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RA
KR

Monday December 8, 2014 12:15pm - 1:05pm CST
Lakeshore A
  Breakout Session, Lecture

12:15pm CST

Media Specialist Transformation
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It's a transformative time for media specialists and media centers. Hear how one district re-envisioned the role of media specialists into digital learning specialists. Learn how the specialists focus on collaborating, coaching and nurturing students as well as teachers, and remain the heart of the school community.
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LH
avatar for Sara Swenson

Sara Swenson

Media Specialist, Edina High School/Edina Public Schools
Sara Swenson is the media specialist at Edina High School and a national board-certified teacher. She also served as ITEM (Information & Technology Educators of MN) co-president from 2017-2019. Her student school book club has been reading together for over 20 years.

Monday December 8, 2014 12:15pm - 1:05pm CST
Poster Table 5
  Poster Session, Poster presentation

1:30pm CST

Common Formative Assessment Using Naiku at ISD 196
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Do you have plans to conduct common formative assessment? Do you have goals of helping your PLCs collaborate, collect, and make better instructional decisions based on data? In this session, we will share how we successfully implemented our plans and goals at ISD 196 using Naiku, an online assessment solution.
Speakers
MD

Michelle DeMers

Assessment Coordinator, Rosemount/Apple Valley/Eagan
SS

Susan Semmler

Info/Instructional Teacher, ISD 196/Rosemount High School

Monday December 8, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm CST
Lakeshore A
  Breakout Session, Lecture

1:30pm CST

Top Apps and Practices for Administrators
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With the ever-changing dynamic of technology, it is tough for educational leaders to keep up-to-date. Explore some of the top tools, apps and methods administrators nationwide are using that will help you in your day-to-day activities. Discover a wealth of online people and resources to help you continue your effective leadership.
Speakers
LF

Monday December 8, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm CST
Nicollet A
  Breakout Session, Lecture

1:30pm CST

Enabling Next Generation Learning
Enabling Next-Generation Learning...Together. When humanity meets technology, the way we learn changes and the way we teach is transformed. We are realizing human potential and seeing the results of our actions. When people are connected, wonderful and innovative things happen. Come learn more... May contain commercial content.
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PT

Monday December 8, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm CST
Nokomis
  Exhibitor Showcase, Lecture

1:30pm CST

EntrepreNerd Project: Does Entrepreneurship Fit into Education?
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Hello nerds, geeks, makers, dreamers, and knowmads. The Entreprenerd Project reflects upon research into the influence of nerd/geek culture in entrepreneurship and the implications for our schools in this new paradigm. Explore current theories, trends, and global experiences that illustrate emerging learning pathways for developing students’ “entreprenerdial” potential._x000B_
Speakers
JM

Monday December 8, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm CST
Great Lakes Ballroom C
  Featured Speaker, Featured Speaker

2:35pm CST

Meet ELA Standards through Curriculum, Collaboration, and Coding
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Are you looking for a new way to approach English Language Arts (ELA) standards? Imagine a unit that not only fulfills the standards, but also incorporates coding, engages students, and encourages creativity. We will share the collaborative teaching process, examples of student success, and the instruction unit using the coding program Scratch.
Speakers
avatar for Nancy Meyer

Nancy Meyer

Media Specialist, Nicollet Middle School
Longtime teacher, STEM Coordinator, and media specialist with both elementary and secondary experience. Sucessfully completed the ISTE-GM Artificial Intelligence Explorations in K-12 School Environments program.
avatar for Amy Smalley

Amy Smalley

Instructional Coach, ISD 191
I am an elementary and junior high instructional coach for The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District. Having formally been an enrichment specialist and reading and math interventionist, I continually look for new and interesting ways to challenge and engage students.
AT

Monday December 8, 2014 2:35pm - 3:25pm CST
Millennium Grand South
  Breakout Session, Lecture
 
Tuesday, December 9
 

11:00am CST

Introduction to CLASSFLOW
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ClassFlow helps teachers to easily create interactive lessons bringing together the technology in their classrooms, such as interactive whiteboards, tablets, and laptops. ClassFlow has two available downloadable apps (ClassFlow Teacher and ClassFlow Student) to support dynamic lesson delivery and content sharing across devices in the classroom. May contain commercial content.
Speakers
DL

Tuesday December 9, 2014 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Isles
  Exhibitor Showcase, Lecture

12:15pm CST

Data Driven Instruction Simplified!
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See how data-driven instruction can be simplified: computer-adaptive assessments, online instruction, real-time data, and lessons for teacher-student, face-to-face interaction make blended learning easy to implement. Experience our approach that supports educators by providing information needed to make informed instructional decisions. May contain commercial content.
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VW

Tuesday December 9, 2014 12:15pm - 1:05pm CST
Isles
  Exhibitor Showcase, Lecture
 
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