Ballroom A

Joe & Kristin Merrill, Featured Speaker

Description: Learn how Chromebooks can be utilized in ways that make student learning come #interACTIVE! In this session learn how you can leverage the use of Chromebooks to promote student voice, give students access to choice, and grant them the freedom to create in the classroom. In this session you will learn how to make learning more relevant and engaging through the integration of technology and walk away lesson examples of each!

Target Audience: All

Ballroom B

Tony Vincent, Featured Speaker

Description: Making your own videos is an opportunity to authentically reach students. See examples, get advice, learn techniques, and find out about tools for improving your videos. You can apply this information to videos you might make for distance learning, blended learning, or differentiated instruction.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom C

Merve Lapus, Featured Speaker

Description: How do you talk about sensitive digital citizenship topics that students might be reluctant to discuss? Video can be a highly effective tool for warming up the conversation quickly and engaging students in conversation. Learn strategies and identify resources to help students develop mindful dispositions and build positive communities.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom 201

Shakir John & Morgan Thompson, FileWave (V)

Description: FileWave Systems Engineer Shakir John and Inside Sales Representative Morgan Thompson will give an overview of the FileWave multi-platform MDM software and highlight the importance and benefits of having one simple solution to manage all of your devices, anytime, anywhere.

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: Classroom teachers have been a "little" busy the last 12 months! We'll take a look back at some of the updates Google has released in the past year that could make you and your students more effective and efficient users of Google!

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

205

Kyle Thompson, Pine Cover Consulting (V) &
Michael Dietz, Newline (V)

Description: As educators, your goal is to help others learn and engage your students in ways that expand their knowledge. Newline Interactive makes it easier for you to keep students interested during class with tools designed for better collaboration and more creative learning. Join Pine Cove Consulting and Newline for a live demonstration on how interactive displays can increase classroom engagement. We will have a display board on site to show you just how much an interactive display can transform a learning environment.

Target Audience: All

206

Rebecca Topp, Norfolk Public Schools

Description: Do you have a student who is on an IEP? Does that student use technology to help them be successful? Not sure how to document that technology and what needs to be in the IEP? This session is for you. Come gain resources and information about different technologies that enable students to participate in class and how to document what the student is using.

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

207

Josh Knutson, ByteSpeed (V)

Description: In this session, Bytespeed’s Esports and VR Solutions Director, Josh Knutson, will outline the essential hardware for building out your own esports facility. Josh will cover key steps in identifying a space at your school that can be utilized for esports and some common examples of gear and accessories to get you started, along with examples of how you can create a broadcast space in your facility and the hardware and software needed to start streaming.

Target Audience: All

208

Joshua Brown, Nebraska Arts Council

Description: Learn about Nebraska Arts Council grants and opportunities for teachers. Meet NAC Roster Artists who can integrate creative arts learning activities with technology and address learning standards across disciplines.

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

209

Melissa Cleaver, Buffett Early Childhood Institute

Description: Young children are exposed to more media and technology, and at earlier ages, than ever before. Explore with us how to nurture kids' development as responsible consumers and creators of technology and how to empower educators and families as media mentors. Unpack Common Sense Education and Buffett Early Childhood Institute resources about young children's technology use and leave inspired with strategies that help develop balanced, healthy digital habits that are foundational for today's young digital citizens.

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource

210

Kimberly Ingraham-Beck, Gretna High School

Description: Cyber Security is a critically important career field for the future. Cyber.org has released free year-long curriculum to prepare students to take the CompTIA Security+ Exam. This curriculum leads students through hands-on activities like installing and removing backdoors, data sanitizing (retrieving deleted files), keyloggers, denial of service, cracking passwords, steganography (hiding messages within picture files), and more. Learn more about this curriculum that is available for free. Join me as I go through the curriculum I have taught my Cyber Security students for the past two years.

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

211

Ross Lemke, AEM Education Services

Description: This interactive presentation puts you in the driver’s seat for a simulated data breach. Attendees will be faced with a data breach scenario and must make the critical decisions in addressing an ongoing breach, avoiding pitfalls and guiding an organization through the difficult and often murky issues facing organizations during that time.

Target Audience: All

212

Apple Education

Description: Join us to experience a day in the life of secondary students as they leverage the power of Mac. Hear how teachers are using Mac to create interactive and engaging learning experiences, no matter where students are learning. Find out how teachers and students can use their existing Google and Microsoft workflows on Mac. Discover new features that help students and teachers be even more productive and creative.

Target Audience: All

213

Lindsay Zilly, Featured Speaker

Description: More efficiently and effectively communicate with your learners using hyperdocs. Learn how to create some from scratch and where to find some already designed hyperdocs too! I’ll help you create meaningful paths for your students to be successful!

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

214

Terry Julian, Hastings Public Schools &
Tiffany Widdifield, Minden Public Schools

Description: More than ever, students need to build foundational skills beyond the core to prepare them for the jobs in THEIR futures. Computer Science (CS) - computational thinking -is as foundational as math proficiency for the job market. While you may not be the “computer teacher” in your school, your curriculum area can stretch to include a lesson in CS to help build those skills.

In this session, participants will experience a computer science lesson and will be given resources to help them get started teaching computer science in their classrooms, in all grade levels, and areas of the curriculum.

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource

215

Otis Pierce, ESU 7

Description: In this session, you will get a chance to learn from multiple presenters who have 5 minutes and 20 slides to share their passion and learnings with you. This fast-paced session allows you to hear multiple ideas in 45 minutes.

Target Audience: All

216

Jessica Breitkreutz

Description: Learn how Canva can transform your classroom into a digital learning center!

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource