Equip • Engage • Empower
Every day, learning is taking place across barriers once thought to be insurmountable. For the 15th anniversary of OETC, join more than 6,000 attendees to explore the endless possibilities that distance learning and alternative learning models provide. Attendees will come together to teach and learn about new ways to equip, engage, and empower learners and educators across the state and beyond!
This session will provide information about & glimpses of the practice of formative assessment in middle school. The Formative Assessment in Middle School (FAMS) Project Director from the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) & the Project Coordinator from the Ohio Resource Center (ORC) will also demonstrate a variety of web-based platforms - including the FAMS Blog, FAMS E-portfolio & ilearnOhio - that support teachers seeking to meet the learning needs of diverse students in their classrooms.
This session will walk you through the process of making anytime, anywhere, any device learning a reality by incorporating these essential components: BYOD, Google and other web-based tools, learning management systems and use of the private and public clouds. We will also provide some strategies for helping your tech team overcome fear and just say yes to innovation.
We will demonstrate ways to create accessibility and accommodations for today’s familiar computing tools and apps such as iPads and Google Docs. We will demonstrate natural-sounding male and female text-to-speech voices, image dictionaries, screen Masking, graphic organizers, translators, tools for creating study guides and bibliographies, the list goes on...
Thinkgate® Elements® Instructional Improvement Solution (IIS) demonstration. Thinkgate® has designed the Elements® IIS interface and platform with a teacher-focus in mind. Our mission is to make Elements® so intuitive and easy to use, and the information for the classroom so robust and simple to compile – that teachers regard it as an invaluable classroom management tool. As a result, administrators deliver a system to the teachers that they want to use, not one that they have to use.
Get boys reading with technology in your library, using resources like sports databases, nonfiction and comic book eBooks, and more. This fun session includes trend and statistical information on the reading achievement gap between boys and girls that will be useful for collection development, grant writing, and communicating with colleagues.
Teaching, learning and technology are changing...is your classroom space keeping up? Our session will explore trends/issues faced by today’s educators, explore results from our case study involving actual classroom trials and view an animation of the LearnLab. Don’t miss this opportunity to understand how your physical classroom space, technology and furniture can be utilized to promote active learning. Your students will thank you for coming!
Thinkgate® Elements® Instructional Improvement Solution (IIS) demonstration. Thinkgate® has designed the Elements® IIS interface and platform with a teacher-focus in mind. Our mission is to make Elements® so intuitive and easy to use, and the information for the classroom so robust and simple to compile – that teachers regard it as an invaluable classroom management tool. As a result, administrators deliver a system to the teachers that they want to use, not one that they have to use.
ilearnOhio is the state’s comprehensive elearning platform for P-20 education. It brings together a web-based clearinghouse of high-quality digital resources and online courses with a learning management system. In this session, participants will learn about key aspects of the platform, preview system features and functionalities and find out how to use the system to support their e-learning initiatives.
Thinkgate® Elements® Instructional Improvement Solution (IIS) demonstration. Thinkgate® has designed the Elements® IIS interface and platform with a teacher-focus in mind. Our mission is to make Elements® so intuitive and easy to use, and the information for the classroom so robust and simple to compile – that teachers regard it as an invaluable classroom management tool. As a result, administrators deliver a system to the teachers that they want to use, not one that they have to use.
Get boys reading with technology in your library, using resources like sports databases, nonfiction and comic book eBooks, and more. This fun session includes trend and statistical information on the reading achievement gap between boys and girls that will be useful for collection development, grant writing, and communicating with colleagues.
Does your school issue iPads or laptops to students? What happens when they use these devices off-campus? In a world where technology allows students to access learning materials anywhere, anytime, protecting students on the internet becomes even more critical. This session will discuss best practices to ensure that students using the internet are just as protected at home as they are at school.
Overview of Document Management and a demonstration of SmartSearch Document Management software
With the number of challenges schools are facing as they work to prepare for the new Common Core Standards and Digital Assessment requirements, it is critical teachers are armed with needed technology in the classroom to make student progress a reality. Regardless of where you are in the technology continuum, this all-in-one system allows you to use whatever technology you have in your classroom environment - iPads, BYOD or clickers and turn instruction into an engaging experience.
Thinkgate® Elements® Instructional Improvement Solution (IIS) demonstration. Thinkgate® has designed the Elements® IIS interface and platform with a teacher-focus in mind. Our mission is to make Elements® so intuitive and easy to use, and the information for the classroom so robust and simple to compile – that teachers regard it as an invaluable classroom management tool. As a result, administrators deliver a system to the teachers that they want to use, not one that they have to use.
Are you getting the most out of technology you use to communicate with staff and parents? Do you have trouble justifying its costs, even though you know how much more efficient it makes your staff? This facilitated discussion provides an arsenal of ideas you can put to work immediately to make the most out of your communications technology, giving you the confidence and ammunition you need to justify this time-saving and increasingly indispensable link to parents, staff and the community.
Work isn’t a place you go—it’s a thing you do. Today’s school environment demands technology that enables access to software and data from any device at any location. To truly empower their students and teachers, schools need to navigate the vast and quickly evolving landscape of back-end virtualization, cloud, collaboration and management technologies that make the anyplace workspace™ possible.
- Cloud 9 Learning is a mobile management system (MMS) designed to manage and deliver K-12 instructional content on mobile devices. As schools embrace mobile learning, Cloud 9 fully engages students, teachers, administrators, and parents/guardians with a complete management system—for all major tablet and smartphone platforms. Cloud 9 provides effective instruction that aligns to Common Core and state standards—and takes advantage of communication and collaboration features associated with mobile computing.
