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 Half-Day Seminars (1:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.) - Cost: $55.00
PC-D01 Implementing Social Media for Your School
Jim Beeghley, Central Penn College
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Technology Directions/Trends: Issues, Innovations, and Research
Session Level: Introductory
This session will discuss how schools can use social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare to improve communications with their communities. Attendees will learn how to create a custom social media website pages, add icons to their existing websites and promote their new social media presence.
CANCELLED - PC-D02 Doing More with Less: UDL + Technology
Matt Bergman, Milton Hershey School
Target Audience: All
Presentation Strands: Adaptive Technology/Special Populations/Accessibility Emerging Technologies Instructional Strategies/Best Practices Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Session Level: Introductory
Today's educators are challenged to do more with less. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is based upon new brain research and advances in technology, which provides an effective approach to teaching, learning, and assessment. UDL emphasizes the use of flexible technologies and providing appropriate accommodations for ALL students from the beginning, allowing teachers to do more with less.
Although the workshops are held in either Macintosh or Windows labs, only those sessions marked with an asterisk (*) are platform specific.