Ballroom A

Joe & Kristin Merrill, Featured Speaker

Description: Join Joe and Kristin Merrill, First & Fourth Grade teachers and authors of the InterACTIVE Class series, as they share their favorite tech tools for implementing a high-level, standards based instructional environment. Tried and tested, these tools and ideas come straight from their own classrooms. Learn which platforms will best suit your learners for creating, collaborating and communicating with families at home and how to build interACTIVE relationships with all!

Target Audience: All

Ballroom B

Tony Vincent, Featured Speaker

Description: Google Forms is awesome, but you already knew that. It’s great how responses feed directly into a spreadsheet for easy access and analysis. You can create assessments, surveys, checkout forms, and quizzes for students. You can also poll colleagues, collect information from parents, and keep logs. If you dig into the settings, you can do even more! Let’s take a look at things like limiting response length, pre-filling responses, tweaking confirmation messages, locking a form with a passcode, and authoring interactive stories. Let’s also explore ways to use the data collected in a form to make word clouds, name pickers, and maps.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom C

Merve Lapus, Featured Speaker

Description: Join Common Sense in this interactive session as we discuss the unique social and emotional challenges elementary school students may encounter as technology starts to play an increasing role in their lives, both in and out of school. You'll leave with activities -- from singing songs to writing poetry to role playing, -- that help build students' self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, relationship skills, and social awareness so your students understand how technology makes them feel, learn how to act with kindness, and make caring and responsible decisions online.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom 201

Cristian Perez, Computer Hardware & Gavin Raitt, Higher Ground Bags (V)

Description: Computer Hardware will be doing a presentation with Lenovo and Higher Ground bags on whats new for 2022. We will also be giving away a set of bags for 1 classroom.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom 202

Thomas C. Murray, Featured Speaker

Description: Throughout this summit, leaders will:

Reflect on their own leadership and what aspects help or hinder those they lead;
Explore ways to create cultures of innovation and risk-taking;
Explore a framework to identify practical ways to make learning Personal & Authentic
Identify issues related to equity in access and opportunity;
Leave motivated to continue the needed work in your school or district moving forward.

Target Audience: Separate registration is required for this event

Ballroom 204

Josh Allen, Lewis Central Community School District

Description: If the first you think of when someone says "Google Sites" is a clunky, outdated website creation tool, you're wrong! Come check out some of the fantastically cool things you can do with Google Sites that makes it a great resource for any teacher!

Target Audience: Novice

205

William Pulte, ESU 3 &
Jason Green, ContentKeeper (V)

Description: Districts are required to expand remote learning to support ongoing technology trends and student success. But implementing 1:1 programs can cause new safety, security, and student learning challenges. Real-time visibility and analysis of student activity, across all devices and web browsers, are critical in ensuring student safety, security, and instructional effectiveness. Please join us to learn how your peers address these challenges with analytics and reporting best practices.

Target Audience: All

206

Kimberly Ingraham-Beck, Gretna High School

Description: Come see how we use physical computing to teach a one-semester high school Python class. STEMBots, Microbits, Raspberry Pis, Tello mini-drones.

Target Audience: All

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207

Keith Ryskoski, Diamond Assets (V)

Description: Attendees will be active participants in the discussion about how to develop, implement, and sustain instructional technology plans. Topics will include planning, resource development and prioritization, and leveraging partnerships with vendors. Presenter will share experiences from district administrator lens and provide insight on how districts can maximize resources within their own districts.

Target Audience: All

208

Jennifer Logan & Jake Cooper, Patriot Elementary

Description: Want a fun and easy way for students to show what they know? Try podcasting! Podcasting can be simple and easy to use in your classroom whether you are teaching elementary, middle school, or even high school. Come to this session to learn how to get started podcasting with your students!

Target Audience: All

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209

Dr. Wendy Loewenstein, Omaha Virtual School & Eileen Heller, ESU 3

Description: The leading benefit of applying the beliefs of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Blended Learning in a classroom environment is increased learner engagement. Imagine the impact when you apply it to teachers’ professional development! Using Catlin Tucker and Katie Novak’s book, UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes, as a guide, we will examine this further. Let's collaborate on ways to build expert learners professionally who are resourceful and knowledgeable, strategic and goal-directed, and purposeful and motivated.

Target Audience: All

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210

Andy Boell, Northeast Nebraska Network Consortium

Description: The Cyber Kill Chain changes the perspective on how to get a leg up on hackers and adversaries. This session is a high-level overview of what the Cyber Kill Chain is and how to use it. We will go over examples of why hackers attack and how hackers are successful in their attacks. Then we can use the Cyber Kill Chain to identify attack attempts and disrupt the efforts of the hackers.

Target Audience: Advanced

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211

Levette Williams, AEM Education Services

Description: Work with Student data for a while? You got this privacy stuff down? Delve into some advanced interactive scenarios based on recent guidance and real cases received by PTAC. Or bring your own questions. You know how much we love saying “It Depends.”

Target Audience: All

212

Apple Education

Description: Join us for a discussion about how Apple products can support learning and teaching in your school or district. Discover the latest iPad OS and macOS features for education. Follow along as the team showcases several hands-on demonstrations of the newest tools and educational resources available. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these features in action and connect with Apple to help you integrate iPad and Mac into learning.

Target Audience: All

213

Lindsay Zilly, Featured Speaker

Description: Are you looking for ideas and tools to engage with your staff and/or your learners during online meetings? Join this workshop to experience tips, tricks and tools for improving your online meetings.

Target Audience: All

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214

Janet Carriker, Crete Public Schools

Description: Today's Elementary students will likely go into careers that do not yet exist and the skills taught through Computer Science can prepare them for the future. In the 2021-2022 school year, Crete Public Schools became one of the few schools in the state of Nebraska with a Computer Science specials class for K-5 students. Learn how we got the program started, about curriculum resources, and about the immediate benefits we are seeing with our youngest learners.

Target Audience: All

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215

Dante Boelhower, Striv, Inc.

Description: Student turned Striv team member, Dante Boelhower, shares his journey with mental health and how content creation and support from his teacher helped fuel his purpose, and helped him find his passion. Dante will dive into the student identity crisis, a perspective shift from consuming to creating, and the importance of digital media education.

Target Audience: All

216

Tyler Schaben, Omaha Public Schools

Description: With many schools and universities adopting more technology than ever before it is becoming increasingly important to educate ourselves about making our digital content accessible for all students. My goal is to give educators foundational knowledge about what to consider when they are building their online content. We will explore the reasons why accessibility is important, go over some general accessibility guidelines, and even practice identifying and fixing accessibility issues in a Canvas course.

Target Audience: Novice

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