The challenging new frontier in education has arrived. This session showcases the myriad applications of synchronous online instruction in support of district needs: course supplements in a time of budget constraints, remedial coursework for at-risk students, home instruction. Connect with students in their environment: the virtual landscape
It is our goal to help you learn ways to evaluate and shape your school’s or district’s SMART Board use. It is easy to walk into a classroom and see that a teacher has something displayed on a SMART Board, but how do you really assess what type of learning is taking place? We will investigate ways to further integrate and evaluate the use of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, Notebook software, and other educational technologies. Together we will explore effective and engaging uses of the SMART Board, ways to help teachers plan and design interactive learning environments, how to use SMART Technologies products to assess student learning, and so much more.
Teachscape Reflect was developed as part of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been used to capture over 12,000 lessons in more than 3,000 classrooms across six states. This workshop will focus on bringing this study and its findings to the conference attendees. They will view the video capture solution engineered by Teachscape which involves panoramic digital video cameras that require minimal training to set up, are operated remotely by the individual teachers, and do not require a cameraperson. After class, participating teachers can upload video lessons to a secure Internet site where they will review the video, and individually or collaboratively view, share and comment on it anytime, anywhere. I will show them what the recording station looks like, and how the video can be viewed, tagged, edited, etc. online.
Yes, there is hope! See the most recent technological advances in Pupil Transportation and how they lead to cost savings. Every district is facing budget constraints and those dollars are better taken out of operations than class rooms. See the latest solutions to reduce transportation costs, whether contracted or district owned. Things can always be done better, see the tools that can get you there! Hear testimonials as to how other districts are handling the current financial crisis.
This subject will briefly describe the E-Rate program and the most common reasons for funding denial, then focus on recent rule changes that will result in loss of funding for many applicants. The presentation will describe the best practices for avoiding the loss of funding.
Join us for an informative session on the resources, services, and data available to you as a member through New Jersey School Boards Association. View a live demonstration of the Labor Relations web page and learn where to find valuable information on breaking issues, teachers’ settlement rates, salary guide, insurance comparisons and other hot topics. A must see for new members, as well as a great refresher for our experienced members!
Participants will see sample fraudulent documents and view a live online demonstration detailing the ease and speed of determining a student's actual residence using new online database technology. This is the same technology and databases used by credit card companies to quickly identify potential fraud now available to school districts.
We will share our Assistive Technology (AT) mission:
* provide ongoing professional development for teachers on the use of assistive technology tools in the classroom.
* facilitate the process of implementing assistive technology in the classroom.
* involve students and parents in the use of technology to support learning goals.
* pilot the use of new and innovative assistive technology tools and collect data to assess student outcome.
Additionally, we will present how we chose the AT team members to insure that the entire district would benefit from development and implementation of this initiative.
Unified Communications (voice, video, messaging, and emergency communications) can bring you savings on the one hand, and facilitate parent-teacher interaction on the other. This session will highlight the challenges in this type of large project and how to overcome them, and describe the various applications that can be applied to facilitate parent-teacher interaction.
We will be presenting solutions for electronically storing student and business office records. We will also present various scanning solutions in a state of the art imaging center which has been DARM approved. Our partner, Salem County Vo-Tech will be sharing the districts experience in digitizing their paper records.
We will demonstrate the power of a single source of information with integrated planbook, gradebook, special ed., and teacher evaluation tools. Working together seamlessly, the modules create the most complete picture possible of the whole child, tracking nutritional, medical and instructional histories of students and giving power to improve schools.
All school districts are eventually faced with upgrading or replacing aging phone systems. Wading through the myriad of phone system choices can be daunting. This task can be far more manageable when you’re armed with a few basic facts. Join Lower Cape May Regional’s Frank Onorato as he discusses his process of choosing and deploying a 133-extension Hosted VoIP solution in his school district.
