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Session I 9:00 Am SESSION I 104 - From Notebook to Network - Journaling, 108 - International Dance with iMovie Note-Taking, and Group-work in the 21st Lisette Barton, Atlanta International School 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Century Participants will review a presentation of Justin Bishop, King's Ridge Christian School International dance. Video has been captured 101 - I Speak Teen. Creative Technology in If no one reads it, kids don't care...or try very with steps to follow to include groups, partners, the Classroom: "There's an app for that!" hard for that matter. There's no doubt that or individuals from different cultures. The Kendrick Phillips, The Davis Academy having students write in a journal is a great video’s final performance will be filmed with Using creative apps, software, digital media, way to get them thinking while practicing writing costumes and danced with music. Participants and technology as a springboard to create skill, but who has time to grade it? Learn how can opt to dance following the steps in the inspired and thoughtful projects through to turn your journal writing time into a virtual video. Videos will be transferred to IMovie for technology. The Identity Project- an in school conversation/class discussion with the use of a MAC and edited for presentation. Examples will and in the community, multi-disciplinary free blog. Students try harder, write more, and be given and one class presentation will be documentary project for grades 6-12 using want to read the ideas of others...all naturally done during the session to edit. Participants video and technological resources to explore and without the need for meticulous grading on with video capability on personal phones would screenwriting, storyboarding, role-playing, your part. Learn how to make lectures be helpful, but not necessary. Comfortable current events, social media, and character interactive so that students feel like they are clothing is recommended if dancing, but it is education/student services. generating the material. And learn simple ways not required. 6th Grade - 12th Grade Administrators, 6th Grade - 12th Grade to build engaging online group assignments that maximize learning in a minimal amount of 109 - The Efficacy of Classroom Meetings in 102 - Connecting Kids and the Environment time. 6th Grade - 12th Grade Facilitating Creativity, Communication, and Through Photography Collaboration Trish Long, The Howard School 105 - WOBBLE BOARDS: Kelly Gfroerer, Holy Innocents' Episcopal Kids are exposed to thousands of images every KINETIC LEARNING! School day. Use their attraction to images and interest Katharine Zambetti, Holy Innocents' Regular Classroom Meetings promote in technology to connect kids to nature and Episcopal School collaborative and cooperative learning for build environmental awareness. This workshop Students construct wobble boards: 2x1 ft students K-12. In classroom meetings students will introduce a variety of cross-curriculum, wooden boards balanced on top of 3" PVC come together and solve-problems creatively. student-centered projects using digital pipes which are often used in physical therapy. Positive communication skills are taught and photography. The projects are designed not They learn about equilibrium literally & modeled through the process of classroom only to encourage creative expression, but to figuratively. For English/Language Arts they meetings. Students develop a sense of lead students to a deeper appreciation of the write original poems on board about the belonging and connection thus allowing for natural world and to develop conservation and concept of balance in their lives as teens. They productive, positive communication. In this environmental stewardship as lifelong values. contemplate priorities and achieving equilibrium presentation specific guidelines for Participants will leave with sample lesson plans in their lives & on the board itself physically. In implementing regular classroom meetings will and ideas to implement in the classroom and other subject areas teachers could use be discussed. Teachers, counselors, and the great outdoors. equations, kinetic principles, art design, administrators will learn the effectiveness of 6th Grade - 12th Grade yin/yang concepts, pros & cons, etc for board classroom meetings in achieving safe, decoration & themes. The board also becomes productive, and cooperative learning 103 - Clink Clank Cross-Age Collaboration a kinetic classroom break- gender based environments. Specific strategies for effective Elizabeth Lide, Paideia School learning for boys & brain stimulation for all! classroom meetings and research focused on Share visual and audio documentation of a Along with escape they can drill each other the efficacy of classroom meetings will be collaborative project: During a HS class outing academically while on boards to sharpen their presented. All to view Susan Loftin’s installation, we talked focus. The students can use them to de-stress about possibilities of collaboration. Clink Clank & break up study time bent over a desk or 110 - Digital Citizenship: Beyond Internet invited viewers to walk through a room filled laptop. 6th Grade - 12th Grade Safety for Today's Digiteen with 1,000+ clay pieces fired at temperatures Lanie Cox & Lisa Calderon, to produce subtle color and sound differences. 107 - Nurturing Innovative Problem Solvers Atlanta International School What if students introduced music and via the Design Process In today's world, teens are surrounded by movement to her installation? Two months John Davenport, Atlanta International School social media. It is their preferred means of later, Susan brought her piece to Paideia for a Piaget wrote over 40 years ago - "The communication and social interaction. Digital week. Students helped set-up in our gallery principal goal of education is to create men Citizenship goes beyond the typical Internet and a student musician recruited other who are capable of doing new things, not Safety Curriculum, encompassing not only musicians; one composed and performed on an simply repeating what other generations have safety factors but social etiquette, iPhone/iPad using the Animoog Synthesizer done-men who are creative, inventive, and cyberbullying, literacy, rights and app. Other students played violins and an discoverers". The 'Design Process' creates a responsibilities as well as health and wellness. electric guitar, read TS Eliot, moved through framework for students to solve design related This presentation and round table discussion the clay bricks, performed throat singing, built problems in a logical, though creative manner. will assist counselors in making internet safety structures, and beat rhythms. Elementary, JH Students may start off with the same problem, more applicable to today's "digiteen." and HS students took new leadership roles and though the solutions they come up with can be 6th Grade - 12th Grade worked together during a week of spontaneous radically different. My presentation will use learning. examples of student work to explain how the 6th Grade - 12th Grade design process fosters the kind of innovative problem solving skills, which will be crucial if we are to solve the problems faced by society and the environment in the 21st century. 6th Grade - 12th Grade 111 - When international university options open to students in grades 6 - 8. It involves learning beyond the classroom to develop might be a good fit for United States citizens teamwork, essay writing, computer assisted city global perspectives. Nicole Cook, Sandy Ferko & Lori Jones design, the building of a scale appropriate 6th Grade - 12th Grade Atlanta International School model of an ideal city in the future – all while In an era of increasing globalization, students solving a problem facing our country and the 121 - The Anglo Oscar Awards have more options than ever to study all over world today. 6th Grade - 12th Grade JuanCamilo Rozo, the world. In addition, as tuition costs continue Atlanta International School to rise and U.S. admissions become more 115 - Creative Pedagogy & Assessment The Anglo Oscar Awards is an English-based competitive each year, sometimes counselors Joey Morecraft & Katie Smith large-scale project 10th graders carry out each desperately need new university suggestions Fellowship Christian School year at the Anglo Colombian School in Bogota, for students to consider. Come hear from the This presentation will be a practical look at Colombia. In this project, students script, college counseling staff at Atlanta International actual assignments and assessments in the record, edit, produce and promote a short School about their experiences understanding English classroom that will utilize technology for movie, and later participate in an Oscar-style the opportunities for students to study in schools who have plenty of it and for schools award winning ceremony at the school's countries outside the United States. The who are in transition. theater, including red carpet appearances and session will primarily focus on the United 6th Grade - 12th Grade awards under different categories. This aim of Kingdom, Canada, and Europe, and aims to this presentation is to share the experience arm counselors with new ideas for their 116 - Cool Tools for the ELA Classroom involved in this project and give insight students! 6th Grade - 12th Grade Ashley Glover, Fellowship Christian School regarding how technology (video editing, image Cool Tools for the ELA Classroom! Come join editing, QR codes and blogs) was used and 112 - Incorporating
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