Schedule

Welcome to the DENaPalooza event page for the tour stop in Bradenton, Florida.

mstrother@mckinneyisd.net

chad_lehman@discovery.com


 * 8:30-9:00 || Registration/Light Breakfast ||
 * 9:00-9:45 || Opening and Welcome ||
 * 9:50-10:35 || Morning Session 1 ||
 * 10:40-11:25 || Morning Session 2 ||
 * 11:30-12:00 || Unconference Planning ||
 * 12:00-1:00 || Lunch and Networking ||
 * 1:00-1:40 || Unconference Session 1 ||
 * 1:45-2:25 || Unconference Session 2 ||
 * 2:30-3:10 || Appy Hour/Smackdown/Sharing Session ||
 * 3:15-3:45 || Closing ||


 * Session 1 **


 * Mary Carole Strother - Create Your Own Graphic Novel ** -Room 1076- Learn how your students and teachers can share their knowledge and become published authors. Participants will explore a wiki filled with a variety of resources that will allow them to create digital books and graphic novels using Discovery Education images and iPad apps like Book Creator and Comic Book. Share your creations with a global audience by using Dropbox, Evernote, or Edmodo. Book making ideas may be adapted to other content areas and across all grade levels.

http://createyourowngraphicnovel.wikispaces.com


 * Tom Turner - Student Center - Board Builder ** - Room 1093-This session will take participants through a step by step walk through of Discovery Education Streaming's new Student Center feature "Board Builder". Participants will also be able to view completed sample boards created by teachers and students and walk away with some concepts and ideas to incorporate this constructivist tool into their curriculum. Hands-on time will be given to begin constructing their own boards through demo accounts.

50 Ways to Use Board Builder


 * Carlos Fernandez - Merging Social Media Concepts Into Instruction ** -Room 1070- The harsh reality is that many of our school districts block key social media tools in their school learning environments. This presentation will focus on teaching tools and strategies that can be used by taking social media concepts (Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook…) and merging them into student’s daily common core instruction. Participants will receive all of the necessary tools to re-create and edit these ideas for personal use.


 * Debbie Bohanan & Danielle Aberbethy - Museum Makers ** -Room 1007- Participants will learn how to incorporate clips from Discovery Education into a multimedia project using Tech4Learning products Share or Frames. This session will highlight how students projects can be created to enrich a museum experience and be shared with others.


 * Session 2 **


 * Karen Zilhaver - Discovery Education's Free Resources for Teachers and Students ** - Room 1093-Highlight the Discovery Education corporate partnerships that offer an abundance of free resources to teachers and students. Including: Siemens; Toyota; 3M; Together Counts; Fit 4 the Classroom; TurfMutt; Good Egg Project; and more. Provide and overview of partnerships, showing some of the numerous resources available for the classroom. Interactive and informative.


 * Mary Marshall & Ryan Westberry - iMovie puts the STEAM into STEM ** - Room 1070-Workshop participants will learn how design adds a creative element to STEM activities by using the iPad/iPhone application iMovie. This puts STEAM into STEM!


 * Chad Lehman - Building your PLN with Twitter ** - Room 1007-Join us for a hands on session as you work to build your Personal Learning Network using Twitter. We set up your account or update your existing account and go over many the basics to make the most of Twitter. We’ll explore Twitter lingo, hashtags, and Twitter chats. Your PLN will grow because you’ll learn how to find new followers and get others to follow you.

@https://sites.google.com/site/twitterresources4u/


 * Mary Carole Strother - App Smashing iPad Fun ** - Room 1076-Let your creative juices flow as we use a variety of apps like Tellagami, Skitch, and iMovie mixed with Discovery images to create engaging and innovative projects. Learn to use iCabMobile to add Discovery movies into the mix.

http://appsmashing.wikispaces.com

UNCONFERENCE SCHEDULE


 * || 1:00-1:40 || 1:45-2:25 ||
 * Room 1006 || Teaching Computer Science K-12 || Presentation Apps for Kids ||
 * Room 1007 || Using Google Chrome || Class Websites ||
 * Room 1093 || What is Geocaching? || Board Builder Pt. 2 ||
 * Room 1070 || STEM on a Shoestring Budget || Google Forms ||
 * Room 1076 || Google Certification || Social Media/Twitter ||

APPY HOUR SHARING SESSION DOCUMENT