Thursday, January 22, 2009
TRLD Session Schedule
Thursday FULL DAY Pre-Conference Session 8:00 – 3:30
1101 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
Reading Comprehension Lab: Supporting Learning with Technology
This session will look specifically at how technology can assist students in comprehending the text and materials they are reading. Participants will learn how to systematically teach comprehension strategies and use technology to support independent implementation of these strategies. This session will focus on supporting reading comprehension strategies in the content areas of grades 4-12 and post-secondary.
Presenter(s): : Kelly Fonner, Educational/Assistive Technology Consultant,
Scott Marfilius, Educational/Assistive Technology Consultant
Thursday AM Pre-Conference Session 8:00 – 11:00
1102 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
…and on the 8th Day God Created Google!? Part 1
Explore why the “divinely inspired” Google is changing the way teachers and students teach and learn in our schools…and not always for the better. Learn many aspects of the Google search tool and how to effectively teach them to students. Discover why a good Information Literacy Protocol is key to teaching students to become better consumers of information. We will also review some of the free Google Tools (iGoogle, Picasa, News Search, Images Search, Video Search, and Google Scholar.
Presenter(s): Floyd Braid, Chief Learning Officer, i3 Training Services Inc
1103 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
Hands-on with Web 2.0
Web 2.0 offers the potential for creating dynamic and interactive learning environments where users can publish and exchange information. This session will offer an overview and direct hands-on experience with a range of Web 2.0 Internet sites.
Presenter(s): John Fleischman, Assistant Superintendent, Technology Services, Sacramento County Office of Education
1104 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
Delicious Web: Tap Great Web Sites for Your Students - and Yourself!
Tap into quality web sites for educators and students. Apply creative and effective strategies to find more useful sites. Then organize and share your sites using a social bookmarking tool, www.delicious.com. Develop a growing collection of personalized, organized, useful links, and the skills to continue building that collection.
Presenter(s): Kirsten Haugen, Educational Consultant
1105 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
Enriching Online Courses Using UDL Development Strategies and Tools
Excellence in online teaching lies at the intersection of technological and pedagogical best practices. In this hands-on session, learn to create richer online learning environments for you and your students. Learn to design and evaluate strategies that provide multiple options for presentation of, engagement with and assessment of course activities.
Presenter(s): Dr. Melissa Engleman, Professor of Special Education, East Carolina University
Tara Jeffs, Associate Professor of Special Education, East Carolina University
1106 Pre-Conference Presentation
Middle to High School Transition: Helping Students to Be Successful
Dr. Mike Hall has been a part of successful implementations in schools across the US. His research based model provides a sound transition in schools of all sizes and with all populations. Dr. Hall provides participants with a real world look at how to make this model successful.
Presenter(s): Dr. Mike Hall, Executive Director of Secondary Operations, Glynn County Schools
1107 Pre-Conference Presenation
What’s Happening in DC? A Report from the Front Line
This session will discuss federal and state special education issues in both public schools and higher education. Topics will include the changes in IDEA, NCLB and the Higher Education Act, including regulations, reauthorization, technology/assistive technology, teacher preparation, funding, higher education disability requirements, and other late occurring relevant topics from Washington.
Presenter(s): Brenda Heiman, Professor, Speech Pathology, Louisiana Tech University
Joel Mittler, Professor, Special Education, Long Island University
1108 Pre-Conference Presentation
Can't or Won't
How can we tell if a bright child is deliberately underachieving or if underlying educational and/or psychosocial issues are preventing him or her from being academically successful? We’ll examine how holistic intervention can be used to understand and address a student’s needs. Resources, including a field-tested intervention will be shared
Presenter(s): Dr. Lori Flint, Assistant Professor, East Carolina University
Promise into Practice: Using New Tools and Tasks to Engage Student Readers
multiple activities which fuse best practices in reading instruction with powerful technology tools. Our goal will be to push against the "definition" of literacy just hard enough to allow new possibilities to emerge that take advantage of the literacies students bring into our classrooms and help them to engage with print texts in deeper ways.
Presenter(s): Dr. Sara Kajder, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Thursday PM Pre-Conference Sessions 12:30 - 3:30
1201 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
The Road from Access to Achievement
Digitized versions of students’ reading materials can increase access to text and improve learning for students with “print disabilities”. In this workshop participants will learn about emerging research and resources for using digitized texts to enhance content-area achievement. Based on work from the National Center for Supported eText and the NIMAS Development Center at CAST, the presenters will share the latest tools, tips and typologies for finding, evaluating, and creating digitized texts that make a difference.
Presenter(s): Dr. Lynne Anderson-Inman, Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Education and National Center for Supported eText, University of Oregon
Skip Stahl, Director, NIMAS Development Center, CAST
1202 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
…and on the 8th Day God Created Google!? Part 2
Come explore why the “divinely inspired” Google is changing the way teachers and students teach and learn in our schools…and not always for the better.
Presenter(s): Floyd Braid, Chief Learning Officer, i3 Training Services Inc
1203 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
Silly Rabbit, AT is for Everyone!
This no nonsense session gets right to the heart of preparing special education majors. A continuum of innovative models will be shared from self-paced modules to immersive programs. Hands-on examples of AT projects, tools, and innovations in designing assistive technology coursework will be the focus.
Presenter(s): Dr. Tara Jeffs, Associate Professor, East Carolina University
Elissa Poel, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University, Kathleen Puckett, Professor, Arizona State University-College of Teacher Education and Leadership
1204 Pre-Conference Computer Lab
Perfect Together: Pre-Service Teachers, Lesson Planning, and UDL
This session is for anyone interested in helping pre-service teachers learn meet the needs of diverse learners. Learn how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can be incorporated into lesson planning assignments for pre-service teachers. Discover a wide variety of free and commercial software and web-based resources to support UDL.
Presenter(s): Deborah Newton, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
Betty Nelson, Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1205 Pre-Conference Presentation
Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network
Recent innovations have served to return the Internet to its roots, a collaborative space where people work, teach, learn, and grow knowledge and content together. This workshop will acquaint educators with a range of tools for engaging in rich and continual professional development -- forming and maintaining Personal Learning Networks.
Presenter(s): David Warlick, Consultant and Author, The Landmark Project
1206 Pre-Conference Presentation
AIMing for Achievement: Using Accessible Materials with Students with LD
Wondering why students with LD need accessible instructional materials (AIM)? Wondering what formats are needed and where to get them? Concerned about how to use them to support participation and achievement in the classroom? If so, join Joy, Jeff, and Ruth to briefly review the why, what and where, then focus on practical strategies that support students as they learn to effectivly and efficiently use AIM in the educational environments.
Presenter(s): Joy Zabala Ed.D, ATP, Project Manager, AIM Consortium, CAST, CAST, Inc., Jeff Diedrich, Director, Michigan's Integrated Technology Suppports
Ruth Ziolkowski, President, Don Johnston Incorporated
1207 CANCELLED Pre-Conference Presentation
Funding Your Dreams: Grantwriting in the Information Age
Presenter(s): Dr. Sheryl Abshire, Chief Technology Officer, Calcasieu Parish Public Schools
1208 Pre-Conference Presentation
The Main Idea Strategy: Improving Inferential Reading Comprehension
Many students have difficulty understanding the main ideas in what they read, especially when they have to “read between the lines.” This session will introduce participants to a research-based strategy that includes step-by-step teacher lesson plans, instructional resources, and student practice lessons. Perfect for classroom use, tutoring programs, or adult literacy students.
Presenter(s): Dan Boudah, Associate Professor, East Carolina University
Thursday General Sessions 4:00 – 5:00
1401 Exhibitor Session
Differentiating Instruction with NEO 2
AlphaSmart™ solutions have a long history of supporting all learners. Both NEO and NEO 2 can be configured to support students with unique learning needs. In this session, we explore how educators can easily and effectively use NEO as a means for differentiating instruction among a wide range of students.
Presenter(s): Ian Hickey, Manager, AlphaSmart / Renaissance Learning, Burnsville, MN
1402 Exhibitor Session
Tips for Maximizing your AT Potential with WYNN Software
Students in today’s schools are struggling with the reading requirements they face, regardless of grade level. Those with a learning disability can be at an even greater disadvantage due to their need for a reading accommodation. WYNN reading assistance software can be the vehicle by which all students can succeed.
Presenter(s): Steve Boyle, Western Regional Manager, Freedom Scientific Learning Systems Group, Roseville, CA, Beth Thomlinson, Product Manager, St. Petersburg, FL
1403 Exhibitor Session
Top 5 Ways to Integrate Your ClassMate Reader!
Come learn 10 great ways the ClassMate Reader can be used to assist your struggling readers. The ClassMate meets the needs of a wider variety of struggling readers because it is not tied to desktop computers like traditional readers. There are plenty of ways to get accessible texts—and we’ll show you where.
Presenter(s): Mary Jo Barry, Marketing Manager, Don Johnston Incorporated, Volo, IL
1404 Exhibitor Session
Challenge Your Struggling Students to Become Proficient Writers
Challenge your students to become proficient writers, and perhaps even enjoy writing! Struggling writers have difficulty with basic writing skills such as handwriting, keyboarding, spelling, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, planning and organization. They have difficulty moving from “learning to write” to “writing to learn”. Kurzweil 3000’s writing tools teamed with explicit instruction can help all students become proficient writers.
Presenter(s): Jennifer Edge-Savage, Director of Implementation Services, Cambium Learning Technologies, Bedford, MA
1405 Exhibitor Session
Reading Strategies Every Student Should Know
Extensive reviews of reading research substantiate that teaching students how to use reading strategies helps them process text better (Duke & Pearson, 2002; Alvermann, 2001; The RAND Study Group, 2000; National Reading Panel, 2000). Because the research results are so positive, increasing numbers of teachers are including strategy instruction in their lesson plans, finding that they do not have to be reading teachers to be able to show students how to use reading strategies.
Presenter(s): Laurie Skiba, Regional Marketing Director, EMC Publishing, St. Paul, MN
1406 Exhibitor Session
Prepare! Advance! Excel With On-Line Tutoring!
The SkillsTutor program is an on-line, supplemental teaching tool that offers basic skills instruction for grades K-Adult. It is diagnostic and prescriptive, aligned to all state standards, satisfies requirements of No Child Left Behind, and is helping schools across the nation meet basic skills improvement goals. This presentation focuses on how educators can use the proven on-line technology program SkillsTutor, currently used by over 30 million learners nationwide, to improve students' fundamental skills in math, reading, writing, language arts, social studies, science, and life skills.
Presenter(s): Jerry Graham, Instructor/Coordinator with Chemeketa Community College, SkillsTutor, McMinnville, OR
1407 Exhibitor Session
Customized Typesetting Improves Literacy
New developments in publishing technology have converged to make customized books a viable reality today. Attendees will be able to experience texts in several new formats. Some are for ordinary readers, who will find that they read more easily and better remember what they read. Others are designed for readers with low vision or reading disabilities.
Presenter(s): Dr. Paul Beidler, General Editor, ReadHowYouWant, Seattle, WA
1408 Exhibitor Session
Exploring and Investigating the Impact of Assistive Technology Integration
Using supported technology in the form of a portable digital talking book player with accessible text. Exploring the results, scores, and habit changing behaviors for struggling readers. Bring your own laptop to experience how easy it is to access and transfer content on these portable units.
Presenter(s): Brenda McBride, Product Manager Learning Disabilities, HumanWare, Regina, Saskatchewan, Alison Gammage, Assistive Technology Learning Disability Teacher, Private School, Washington DC
1409 Exhibitor Session
Ginger Software Corrects Whole Sentences with a Click of One Button!
Ginger Software’s automatic text correction tool uses context to correct, with a click of one button, whole sentences containing grammatical errors, misused words and multiple severe spelling mistakes, enabling people with LD to independently produce high quality written texts. Ginger also tracks the students’ mistakes enabling educators to monitor students’ progress and personalize instruction. Using examples from texts written by students with LD we will show how the software works and how it can be used not just to compensate but also to remediate.
Presenter(s): Miki Feldman-Simon, VP US Operations, Ginger Software, Lexington, MA
Amit Gilon, VP Business Development, Ginger Software, Lexington, MA
1410 Exhibitor Session
Simple and Power Writing Tools: WordQ and SpeakQ
This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how WordQ/SpeakQ software (both Windows and Mac OS X) helps you write more easily. Users can benefit from a combination of word prediction, speech output and speech input to generate text when stuck with spelling and word forms, identifying errors, proofreading and editing.
Presenter(s): Fraiser Shein, Quillsoft Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1411 Exhibitor Session
Data-Driven Instruction for Striving Readers and ELLs Through On-Line Assessments
educators for effective placement, monitoring and summarizing of striving readers and English language learners. Participants will view online teaching and accountability supports for districts and classrooms on a searchable database of student test scores and reteaching options.
Presenter(s): Shawn Lowrie, Technology Implementation Specialist, National Geographic School Publishing
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