This GEG is part of world-wide network of educators who are seeking best practices around using Google Apps for Education and associated devices such as Chromebooks. The GEG is a community designed to build capacity of educational professionals and related paraprofessionals in providing educational tools for student learning. To qualify to build a GEG, you must be approved from Google and have a Google Certified Teacher in charge of moderating the GEG. Wolf Creek has been approved through this process to host the Alberta GEG.
To find out more about GEG:http://www.google.com/landing/geg/
Windows Movie Maker is the equivalent to Apple iMovie, a free tool to enrich student learning experiences using a tablet or laptop. Leveraging technology as a creative platform for student achievement is a key goal in Alberta, and there is no platform more widespread than Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8.
The goal of the session is aimed to allow participants who are new to Windows Movie Maker a “hands on” experience to become familiar and more comfortable with using the tool. Topics will also include additional best practice strategies to enable teachers with the fundamentals to embrace this technology towards enhancing student learning. Bring your own laptop with Movie Maker Loaded. Some Windows 8 machines will also be available.
Why do some relationships end, while others last a lifetime? This sessions will discuss the 5 stages of relationships and how they are applicable to technology in an education setting. Kylie Kissel brings his experience as a Google Certified Teacher, while Jeff Ramage brings his expertise as a network analyst. They work together at Wolf Creek Public Schools and will provide solutions and ideas to implement at each stage of the relationships, to help promote growth and avoid hitting a dead end to the relationships that you are trying to build in your district.
Getting the most out of tablets, smartphones and laptops in the classroom is a challenge. With so many changes in technology in the marketplace, the impact to educators and student learning is compounded the classroom. How do you ensure your students stay on task while navigating a myriad of programs, applications, and content sources? At the same time, how do you also ensure they’re developing the communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills essential to their future? For 25 years SMART has helped educators turn challenges into opportunities by empowering teachers with the right technology for classrooms.
Come join David Lapides and Bev Gallagher from SMART for a highly interactive discussion about the multiple learning technologies in the classroom and hear more about the direction SMART is heading, continuing to be the trail-blazer in classroom collaboration.
We’ve been using Minecraft in classrooms from grade 2 to grade 12. Come see examples of successful projects, and talk about how you can get kids playing and learning.
Join national Technology Strategist Greg Milligan as we share some exciting content on how we are building the best platform for education with Windows 10.
Education is always changing both inside and outside of the classroom. Students are changing and technology continues to evolve. As technology begins to proliferate, better methods to integrate technology and engage students is required.
Join us for a look into Windows 10 for Education and how this new platform will help both students and teachers achieve in the classroom.
Ignite the love of technology integration in your staff & community! Discover how to develop technology confidence in your staff via staff meetings, procedures & professional development. This session will give leaders of the school ideas on how to increase staff usage and comfortability with technology as well as how to spread the word to the community and change stories about school.
Provide proactive protection for your students and staff against malicious and inappropriate content in an ever changing internet landscape while still allowing the flexibility of block overrides giving authorities the ability to elevate privilege on demand using predetermined profiles. Seamless Authentication leveraging Active Directory and other authentication methods using 3rd party Wireless and Radius.
· Low TCO, Simplification of Secure Environment
· High Performance Firewall
· SSL Content Inspect and Control, Visibility of all traffic including encrypted traffic.
· Consolidated Features: Including Application Control, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware and Advanced Web Content Filtering.
· Seamless Authentication of devices and users to appropriate policy regardless of Wireless or Wired Ethernet.
· Authentication for 1 to1 programs,
· BYOD: Device and user authentication, policy control
• Enhance learning for the students with ease for the teachers
• Maximize safety and security in your school
• Increase productivity with the best technology available while staying on budget
Now introducing Phonak:
Real and meaningful education occurs when children are truly engaged. But such engagement is only possible when students can clearly hear and understand their teacher. Roger solutions by Phonak bridge the understanding gap by making the teacher’s words accessible to all students, those with normal hearing and those with hearing difficulties.
IT and ET leaders want clarity of aim, direction and roles in their organizations, but are challenged to engage leaders in their organization in a discussion about this topic. Often, the discussions become overly tactical – focused on specific point-in-time issues and services, or too pie-in-the-sky. How can you cooperatively engage leaders in a conversation that arrives at a decision about the overall direction for IT and ET in your jurisdiction?
In this session, the Four Futures of IT and ET in K-12 Education model will be shared. Participants will work with the model to answer two important questions: where are we today, and where do we need to be in three years? Through this process, participants will learn how to use this model to lead this important strategic conversation in their school jurisdiction.
Given the nature of the topic, ET and IT leaders are encouraged to attend the session together.
The workshop will explore moving beyond passive network connections and explore solutions to new ways to deliver technology in an Education Community of Interest.
We will discuss requirements identified by ATLE member engagement, including:
The challenge to provide comparable learning opportunities for all students no matter how rural is a huge issue worldwide. Educational equity must be provided with access to knowledge and content, wherever they are located.
While many educational institutions have multiple buildings and campus extensions there continues to be a great need to extend farther, provide access to rural students enabling them to have access to advanced courses or specialty programs, valuable content, resources and student services.
Through visual and unified communications, Polycom collaborative solutions help education institutions to more effectively engage students, extend reach, and expand offerings while enabling administrators to address budget challenges, operate more efficiently, and extend resources.
In this interactive session, Polycom will provide an overview and update of the RealPresence Platform, including new video endpoints, video management applications, video content management, and CloudAXIS suite: a software extension to the RealPresence Platform that extends face-to-face collaboration to anyone with a web browser on their computer, smartphone or tablet.
Access SIS anytime, anywhere, from any mobile device.
Take a look at how the Hall Monitor mobile application can transform your schools and create a more enjoyable experience for all.
The need to engage digital learners requires use of educational tools and technologies. In today’s K-12 classrooms, immersive technologies are being introduced at a rapid rate, yet many educators are in the dark without visibility to measure success.
On one hand your network requires scalability to meet growing demands, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi will help you meet that goal. The other hand will demand intelligence yielded through analytics that can measure and change outcomes to assure student success.
Only with Extreme Networks and X10 will you discover technology that transforms your network beyond a “data highway” into a strategic asset elevating the personalized learning environment for your entire student population.
Please Join Extreme Network's Chief Mobility Officer, Mike Leibovitz, as he shares his insight on challenges faced by educators and IT departments alike. Mike lectures globally on emerging education trends bringing over a decade of experience to his insightful presentation at the ATLE Convergence conference.
In this session you will discover:
Cloud services have both trickled and stampeded into Alberta School Divisions. As the technical impediments to these implementations have decreased the policy and security questions have not. Come and join the discussion as representatives from school boards, Alberta Education and private enterprise discuss the challenges of making and maintaining cloud computing part of the k-12 learning framework.
For today’s students, information technology (IT) plays an integral role in their everyday lives. They actively use many different technologies for their studies, work, and recreation. We will explore how Social Collaboration can be used to increase the engagement with these students. This presentation will also explore how Social Collaboration can be used to increase the engagement with students and prepare them for the workforce through Social Business. We will demonstrate how Social Platforms can provide an “exceptional Virtual Education experience” for all Students and members of staff. During our workshop we will show real life example of the environment we are now providing at other schools as well as exciting ways that the social platform can be delivered through an innovative low cost wireless device launched by revolutionary Canadian Tablet maker DataWind – using technology to empower students in underserviced areas around the world – enabling them to connect and grow in a Global way.
