9:00 - 10:00

Celebrity E

John Schu’s Review of Books for You and Your Readers, Too!

Join in a conversation with John Schu as he presents some of the best new books. . In typical John fashion, he will share book trailers, websites, activities, and interviews you can easily incorporate into book talks and programs to get everyone in your library hurrying to your bookshelves to find the perfect books.

Celebrity B

Tech Talk by Richard Byrne

Technology to Take You and Your Students Beyond the Library Walls

Phones, tablets, and laptops are made to be portable, but do we dare allow our students to take them away from the confines of our class, library, or building? In this presentation, you'll discover how you can use technology in lessons that extend beyond the walls of the library. You'll learn how you can create your own augmented reality games, take your kids on geocaching adventures, use technology to collect scientific data, track activity, and plan for safe possibly outdoor (!) activities. The tools and strategies in this presentation can be used in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings and present excellent opportunities for teacher and librarian collaboration.

Celebrity D

Talk to the Expert - Steve Anderson

High Impact Instructional Strategies

Join Steven Anderson for a conversation on the 6 most effective, research-based, high-impact instructional strategies. You’ll have the opportunity to examine your curriculum and lessons to see how you can integrate these strategies into your classroom.

Play Area #1

Meet the Challenge: integrating STEAM Challenges into classroom routines.

Stefanie Adams & Heather Johnson

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists

Learn how hands on STEAM Challenges can help meet both ISTE and NGSS Standards while inspiring students to collaborate, problem solve, and build stamina. Participants will be challenged themselves and see examples of successful lessons you can easily integrate into your own classroom.

Apps to Preload: none

Play Area #2

Engaging Students in Literacy Celebrations

Marybeth Murdoch

Levels: 5, 6, 7, 8

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Administrators

Learn about and share ideas for celebrating reading across the whole school. Focus on what students do to get engaged and the simple supports teachers, administrators, reading specialists, and the library need to make an event successful. The presenter will provide sample rules, to-do lists, and an outline of activities for various literacy opportunities. Participants are encouraged to share a literacy event of their own or simply have the desire to implement one.

Apps to Preload: None

Play Area #3

Dominate Differentiation!

Dan Kreiness

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists

In this session, participants will be presented with ways to use digital tools to check for student understanding and deliver personalized learning accordingly. App smashing and other formative assessment methods will be reviewed and then tools will be provided for teachers to deliver differentiated content to their students.

Apps to Preload: GSuite, Google Classroom, Flipgrid

ALSO - Talk to an Expert Session in Celebrity D at

Play Area #4

Explore the new ISTE Student Standards

CECA Board Members

Levels: Any

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Administrators

Learn about the new ISTE Student Standards that have just been approved by the State of Connecticut. See how easily these standards relate to what you already do in your classroom. CECA Board members will run 3 different playgrounds with different games to help you learn all you need to know about utilizing these standards in your classroom. Stop by and try our games!

Apps to Preload: None

Play Area #5

Exhibitor Presentation: Shmonster

Come try PuppetMaster app!

Michal Finegold

Suggested for: All Educators

Make animated videos from your artwork, crafts, toys, anything you want. You animate just by moving your body or touching the screen while you talk.

I provide additional educational tools, including a suite of lesson plans aligned with ISTE and Common Core Standards across all subjects.

Please try it out and tell me what features and resources you’d like me to include!

More info: www.puppetmaster.com

CANCELED

Strike Gold with Strikingly.com by Ina Malloy

Richard Byrne

Technology to Take You and Your Students Beyond the Library Walls

Phones, tablets, and laptops are made to be portable, but do we dare allow our students to take them away from the confines of our class, library, or building? In this presentation, you'll discover how you can use technology in lessons that extend beyond the walls of the library. You'll learn how you can create your own augmented reality games, take your kids on geocaching adventures, use technology to collect scientific data, track activity, and plan for safe possibly outdoor (!) activities. The tools and strategies in this presentation can be used in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings and present excellent opportunities for teacher and librarian collaboration.

Celebrity F

Getting Crafty in Your Classroom

Alan Taylor

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators

The students walk into class, immediately get seated, and are ready to get started! That is the day and each period when ClassCraft is a part of your everyday routine. In this workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to get started with ClassCraft by creating their own basic account. Participants will see how ClassCraft easily integrates into Google Classroom, which makes it even easier to setup students and incorporate it into your daily routine. You will walk through the various components, such as the daily event and how students can gain or lose XP, GP, and HP. Students are placed into teams and utilize team work to progress through the levels of ClassCraft. You will also see how you can setup a Quest that incorporates your lessons or unit of study. Students will venture through a maze of missions in order to successfully complete their quest. Want to review with students? Setup a Boss Battle, which is a fun way for students to review.

Apps to Preload: none

ALSO - Talk to an Expert Session in Celebrity D at 10:30 - 11:30

Celebrity G

Be a Maker! Creating and Designing Through Books.

Jennifer Krayewski & Lindsey Dunn

Levels: K, 1, 2, 3, 4

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Technology Coordinators

Everything begins with a story! Join us for a session on making and creating projects through books. Participants will hear how Lower School students are practicing the engineering design process in grades K-3. We blend technology with building and engineering challenges that incorporate empathy, computational thinking, planning strategies and patience!

Apps to Preload: N/A

Celebrity H

Keeping the core strong!

Jane Martellino

Levels: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators

Building a strong reading culture takes focus and commitment. Using the new AASL standards aligned with ISTE standards, a K-5 media specialist created targeted lessons that aim to strengthen the core of personal and academic competency: reading. Learn 10 tips and strategies employed to build and strengthen a reading culture at the elementary level. Leave the session with tips and lessons that you can utilize or adapt to fit the needs of your students and staff.

Apps to Preload: Google Suite

Celebrity I

Having Fun With STEM & STEAM: An Author's Perspective

Alicia Klepeis

Levels: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers

From cat communication to circus science to how smartphones work, Alicia Klepeis makes science, technology, and engineering more than just a mountain of facts to memorize. A former middle school teacher, Alicia will share her thoughts on how to get even reluctant readers excited about reading, researching, and experimentation. She will also provide concrete ideas about hands-on activities that connect to her STEM and STEAM-themed books, from Explore Makerspace! to Fruits and Vegetables Explained.

Apps to Preload: None

Celebrity J

Leading Personalized Learning: Action Steps for School and Teacher Leaders

Tom Driscoll

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Administrators

In this session, participants will collaboratively explore many of these key components of personalized learning, such as learner profiles, competency-based progressions, flexible pathways and student agency. We will also explore current research and case studies from around the nation that highlight specific steps that leaders can take help refine a vision for personalized learning and put it into practice across your school or district.

Apps to Preload: None

ALSO - Talk to an Expert Session in Celebrity D at 1:30 - 2:30

Encore A/B

Exhibitor Presentation: Mackin

Connect Your Students to Digital Resources in MackinVIA

Hugh Ahearn

Levels: Pre-K, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators

Join Mackin Educational Consultant Hugh Ahearn and explore the industry’s leading eResource management system, MackinVIA. Bring your own mobile device or laptop for a hands-on experience using eBooks, online databases, and audiobooks within MackinVIA. We will demonstrate how this robust system can be customized to meet your educational needs and desires in the classroom and library, as well as assist administrators in purchasing and managing your school’s digital resources

Apps to Preload: None required; MackinVIA optional

ALSO - Talk to an Expert Session in Celebrity D at 11:30 - 12:30

Red Carpet A/B

Innovators ISTE Award for Outstanding Teacher

Leon Tynes Jr., technology instructor, Engineering and Science University Magnet School, New Haven, Connecticut talks about Project/Problem Based Learning

Project Based Learning is a instructional method in which students expand content knowledge and skills over a period of time while investigating and “solving” a multifaceted problem, or challenge. This promotes learning about different subjects simultaneously through student investigation and development of evidence to claims, and multimedia presentations illustrating the solution based on 21st-century tools. Mr. Tynes will share instructional strategies that have proven to yield significant learning amongst diverse student learners, and experiential activities that include all students in participating, learning, and achieving.

Spotlight A

Exhibitor Presentation: Rosen Publishing

Hands-on Approaches to Teaching Computational Thinking

Richard Hasenyager

Levels: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers

Use computational thinking to build competency-based practices across science, social studies, inquiry, and technology. Learn how to integrate computational thinking across the curriculum by identifying how the AASL, ISTE, NGSS, and C3 standards relate to each other. Participants will receive and practice hands-on, analog activities appropriate for elementary school students to explore the integration of computational thinking in their classrooms, libraries and programs.

Apps to Preload: None

ALSO - Talk to an Expert Session in Celebrity D at 11:00

Spotlight B

BADGIFY 'EM: An Innovative Approach to Digital Citizenship in Middle School

Diana Garra & Christina Hefele

Levels: 5, 6, 7, 8, Adult

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators

Launching a 1:1 Chromebook Program in middle school prompted one school district to search for an innovative way to provide unified digital citizenship training to over 1,600 students. Their solution was BADGIFY 'EM. This unique program uses a series of self-paced, stand-alone modules that combine multimedia-media and game elements to deliver a comprehensive program of digital citizenship training. The Badgify ‘Em format is easy and fun and promotes a school-wide culture that reinforces this learning. Thorough and on-target for middle school, Badgify ‘Em is an excellent vehicle to learn content and attain skills to become lifelong digital citizens.

Apps to Preload: NONE

Star Room

Don’t Take the Bait: Strategies for Building Students’ Media Literacy

Michelle Luhtala & Jacquelyn Whiting

Levels: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Post -Secondary, Adult

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators

Help students examine their relationship with digital media in order to become savvy consumers of information and respectful, purposeful content creators and information distributors. Practice easy-to-replicate strategies that you can use with students and in collaboration with colleagues. Plus, join a community of practitioners invested in sharing media literacy and digital citizenship best practices. One participant will win a signed copy of our book: News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News.

Apps to Preload: None

Table #1

High Impact Instructional Strategies

Steve Anderson

Join Steven Anderson for a conversation on the 6 most effective, research-based, high-impact instructional strategies. You’ll have the opportunity to examine your curriculum and lessons to see how you can integrate these strategies into your classroom.

Table #2

Microlearning: Mastering the 20 Minute (or less) Lesson

Tracy Mercier

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers

Microlearning is the answer to a Library Media Specialist’s unique time crunch. With 30 to 40 minutes to promote literature and teach a meaningful lesson, we need a more efficient way to do it all in short bursts of time.

Apps to Preload: none

Table #3

All over OER (open educational resources)

David Stoloff

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators, Higher Education

Come explore open educational resources, available free on the internet, to enrich student learning and curriculum. We will share OERs for teacher resources, lesson and unit planning, student edutainment, eBooks, and videos to expand learning and professional development.

Apps to Preload: None

Table #4

Tech It Up a Notch with Blogger

Elisavet Kousidis

Levels: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators

In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a blog using blogger and explore how incorporating this tool into the curriculum can enhance the educational experience of students. Also embedded in the presentation is creating an interactive slide deck using Google Slides to collect student feedback.

Apps to Preload: No app download is required but participants should have Google accounts in order to access Blogger and Google Slides.

ALSO - Traditional Presentation Session in Spotlight A at 2:30 - 3:30

Table #5

Google Educator Certification Demystified

Janet Kenney

Levels: All Levels

Suggested for: Classroom Teachers, School Librarians/ Media Specialists, Technology Teachers, Administrators, Technology Coordinators

Google Educator Certification courses are great resources to help us use technology with our students, but the process can seem daunting. I coordinated Dine and Discuss workshops in my school for those that wanted to work on the certification and we now have 8 Level One teachers and three Level Two teachers (including myself). Chat with me to see if the curriculum and/or certification tests are right for you.

Apps to Preload: none