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Submitted by: Amanda Schreckengost,
Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School

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 Full-Day Seminars (9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.)
PC-B01 Developing A Sustained Vision for Technology: Shifting Perceptions to Action
John Gould, Drexel University
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices, Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course management, Policy/Planning/Funding, Professional Development/Teacher Preparation, Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research, Technology Leadership
Session Level: All

Technology offers educators opportunities for new school environs. They must understand that as new behaviors are required, the more resistance they will encounter! The essential question-How do you do this when you are feeling tremendous pressures for accountability and accelerating complexity? Learn the skills/strategies to answer this question.
PC-B02 Discovery Educator Network - Limited space available - Cost: $135
Discovery Educator Network

The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is pleased to present a special full-day preconference event – Digital Storytelling with the DEN. The day will provide STAR Discovery Educators and welcomed guests an exciting and enriching day of professional development focused on creative ways to use digital media in the classroom.

The day will begin with a keynote presentation from Dr. Jason Ohler, author of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. After the opening session, participants will have the opportunity to customize their schedules by selecting one of the following hands-on, three-hour workshops:

• Spinning a Digital Story with Web 2.0
• Director’s Cut: Making Movies with a Green Screen
• Lights, Camera, Education! The AFI Curriculum
• Tying it All Together: Moviemaker, Audacity and DE streaming

Lunch will be provided and the day’s festivities will come to a close with fun, prizes and special announcements from the Discovery Educator Network.

Registration for this full-day pre-conference event is limited.

Note: This event is free for STAR Discovery Educators. Contact your DEN team for more details.

Although the workshops are held in either Macintosh or Windows labs, only those sessions marked with an asterisk (*) are platform specific.