10:45 - 11:45 Session 2 - Session Descriptions



Session Title: Using GarageBand as a Versatile Reading and Fluency Tool

Room: 106A
Presenter: Matt Kreider; 3rd Grade Teacher, Cocalico School District
Audience: K-6
Description: Participants will learn how to use Apple GarageBand as a tool to assist with individual student fluency lessons.

Session Title: Discovery Education in the Elementary Classroom

Room: 106B
Presenter: Vicki Reed; Instructional Technology Specialist, Hempfield School District
Audience: K-6
Description: Discovery Education has a wealth of resources available to you. Besides videos, you can get songs, theme pages, assign students specific resources, create assignments and build writing prompts with pictures or video. Come and see all Discovery Education has to offer.


Session Title: Math Tools for the Classroom Teacher

Room: 106C
Presenter: Andrea Kretlow; Elementary Math Specialist, Conestoga Valley School District
Audience: K-6
Description: Learn about tools that assist in making data-driven decisions and focus on meeting individual needs in Mathematics. Learn about free websites that support the students through these data-driven decisions and see some fun iPad apps. As a math coach I have a wikispace with resources that I will be using throughout my presentation.

Session Title: Digital Discourse- Using Edmodo as Facebook For The Classroom

Room: 103
Presenters: Mike Deiter; 5th Grade Teacher,, Columbia Borough School District
Jasmyn Smith, Madison Simpson, Jenice Henson; 5th Grade Students, Columbia Borough School District
Audience: Intermediate (4-6)
Description: Participants will discuss the benefits of, and learn how to use Edmodo, the educational version of Facebook. Learn how to direct posts, create assignments and polls, and insert media such as pictures, movie files, and Youtube. Observe how to create multiple groups to foster threaded discussions by subject. Examine how students can respond to the teacher as well as to each other in a meaningful way. Discover how Edmodo could be used as a resourse for absent students and early finishers. Current fifth grade students will conduct guided live displays of Edmodo's uses!


Session Title : Electronic Whiteboard Playground

Room: 106D&E
Presenter: Polyvision, Promethean, SMART