Sessions

The following sessions will all be offered three times throughout the day. Please choose a few sessions that you'd like to attend based on your needs and interests. You'll want to bring along your MacBook as many sessions will have a hands-on component. All sessions will operate on a 'first come, first serve' basis...

**Location:** Room 17
Participants in this session will discover many of the features of Edmodo that you can take advantage of with students. Edmodo is a social networking platform for teachers and students that makes it easy to share links, files & student work with your students and even their parents.

**Location:** Room 13
This session will provide an overview of how easy it can be to download videos from Discovery Education and have your students star in their videos! Find out how you can work with green screen video footage in iMovie and have your students narrate their own videos to demonstrate their learning.

**Location:** Room 15
Participants in this session will discover how their students can use Keynote to create simple slideshows or videos to show what they know. You'll find out how your students can access and use Creative Commons licensed images within their projects.

**Location:** Science Lab
This session will highlight a number of apps that could be used on iPads in the classroom. Participants in this session will gain insight into a variety of apps and settings that can support student learning by providing opportunities for students to create and share content.

**Location:** Room 19
This session will highlight how easily teachers can connect with other educators using Twitter. Not only will you gain insight into who you could (should?) follow on Twitter, you'll also discover the role that Twitter could play in your classroom.

**Location:** Room 1
Participants in this session will discover the many advantages that can be realized by creating and maintaining a classroom blog. Not only will parents have a better sense of the learning that's taking place in your classroom, but your students will also be motivated by the ability to share their learning with an online audience.

**Location:** Room 20
This session will provide an overview of the many ways Grade 3 students at Ecole Robert Browning have been using iPads to access and create content through a pilot project throughout the last twelve months. Find out about some of the challenges that were encountered and how these challenges led to rich learning opportunities for students.

**Location:** Music Room
This session will provide an overview of how GarageBand can be used to support the teaching and learning in your classroom. Find out how you can use songwriting techniques to motivate and engage your students by participating in the recording and production of a song as the session unfolds.

**Location:** Room 9
Participants in this session will discover some of the benefits of becoming a more connected educator through the use of Twitter and Skype. Find out how easy it can be to turn the walls of your classroom into windows to the world.

**Location:** Room 12
This session will highlight many opportunities for incorporating the SMART Board into daily classroom routines and learning centres. Participants will gain insight into a variety of ways that their SMART Board could be used to support teaching and learning in their classrooms.

**Location:** Room 4
The Internet is a vast resource of information with the quality of sources running from the good, the bad to the plain ugly. How do you filter through the noise? Better yet, what are the tools a teacher and/or their students can use to become curators of worthwhile information to share with others? This workshop will introduce participants the necessary skills to become information curators using a variety of free tools available to all.

**Location:** Room 11
Participants in this session will have the opportunity to take part in a math 'make & take' activity based on the Winnipeg Jets. You're guaranteed to motivate and engage your students by connecting the Jets to the curriculum and sprinkling in a little SMART Board fun for good measure!

**Location:** Library
This session will discuss how iPad apps have been used to meet student specific IEP goals. Case studies from an elementary school setting will be examined and discussed. This session will be of particular interest to resource teachers and classroom teachers looking for ways to support students with additional needs.

Participants in this session will learn about basic techniques that can be used to have students make fun and creative videos using i-stop motion animation. Find out how easy it can be to have your students bring their stories to life by creating characters and storyboarding their ideas.