Ballroom A

Joe & Kristin Merrill, Featured Speaker

Description: Join The Merrills (authors of the “InterACTIVE Class'' series) as they share how to integrate Wakelet into your classroom. Learn how this free tool can help transform your students' learning experience, provide easy outlets for differentiation and promote collaboration.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom B

Tony Vincent, Featured Speaker

Description: See techniques for constructing pictures that are immediately recognizable and universally understood by combining shapes in Google Drawings, Slides, Keynote, or PowerPoint. Teachers can use custom icons to communicate in a personalized way, and students love the challenge of drawing with shapes.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom C

Brian Luther & Chelsea Slavin, Compass Financial Resources

Description: Compass Financial Resources is a go-to resource for Nebraska school district employees for all financial questions related to retirement benefits plans, the retirement transition process, and selecting your preferred distribution options for those benefits.

Target Audience: All

Ballroom 201

Jeremy Robertson, Gaggle (V)

Description: Today’s students are growing up in a virtual playground. Their primary learning model is grounded in technology that navigates their future educational and professional careers. A child left unattended in a park and a child online can face the same dangers: bullying, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and acts of violence.

Hear Jeremy Robertson, Regional Director for Gaggle, discuss the key components of student and school safety, his experiences with districts across the country, and solutions for prevention. Together we can keep our students safe and engaged.

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

Matt Moore, Papillion La Vista Community Schools

Description: Topics covered in this session will include:

1. Understanding the use case for Jamboard

2. Inserting elements like sticky notes, images, and text boxes

3. Using whiteboard drawing/erasing

4. Instructional strategies with Jamboard

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource

205

Don Schroeder, FrontRow (V)

Description: Students have a lot to process in today’s learning environment. Now more than ever it is important that students clearly hear instruction from their teachers, contributions from their fellow students, even audio from instructional media. No matter where they are in relation to their teacher, students can miss up to 25% of instruction, making it easier for them to fall behind or miss crucial details of a lesson. In this session, we will discuss options to enhance audio clarity in the classroom, and what effect that can have on learning.

Target Audience: Novice

206

Scott Callens, Verkada (V)

Description: At Verkada, we’ve developed our SV11 Environmental Sensor to detect meaningful changes across your organization instantly. With the SV11, schools can leverage sensor-based data to monitor vaping without being present while still understanding what occurred and what next steps need to be taken.

Administrators can set custom thresholds to receive real-time alerts via SMS and email. When detected, an alert can also be sent to pre-selected faculty members and on-campus security, allowing teams to respond quickly.

Target Audience: Intermediate

207

Sharan Mahadevan & Jiten Gori, Ruckus Networks/Commscope (V)

Description: Are you struggling with securely onboarding BYOD devices and providing a secure guest network?

In this session, we will dig into Cloudpath, which is a vendor agnostic role based secure onboarding tool that helps eliminate the need for passwords. Imagine not having to constantly change passwords or not getting calls from students and staff with password issues. Cloudpath allows secure onboarding based on "role" while limiting the proliferation of WLANS, which is a big reason for airtime congestion on wireless networks. Cloudpath is simple to set up and deploy! Join us on this journey!

Target Audience: All

208

Christopher M. Knoell, University of Nebraska Kearney - Teacher Education

Description: Want to maximize student learning, accommodate for individual learner needs, and fall in love with teaching Math again? The Math Workflow framework leverages free technology, your current Math curriculum, & brain-based instruction to empower students to take ownership of their learning (and fill in any pandemic-related learning gaps) through the blending of: personalized, self-directed learning; assessment-based, flexible small group instruction; & heterogenous whole class instruction.

Participants will leave with a full toolbox & an implement-tomorrow plan for their very own Math Workflow!

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

209

Lynne Herr, ESU 6

Description: Are you responsible for technology integration in your district? Join the NETA sponsored Technology Integration Specialist group to discuss issues related to best practices in teaching.

Target Audience: All

210

Lucas Bingham, Papillion La Vista Community Schools

Description: Nebraska Tech Coordinators meeting

Target Audience: All

211

Rachel Jank, Concordia University Nebraska

Description: We all have stories to tell. At least, that’s what we try to convince our students, right? It’s hard to believe your story is worth telling if you don’t ever get the chance to share it with an audience. In this writing workshop-styled session, teachers will examine blogging as a multi-modal style of writing, using Google docs to collaborate on a blog genre study. Because the Nebraska Writing Project believes that “the best teachers of writing are writers themselves”, participants in this session will be guided through a process of writing and finding an online audience for their own work.

Target Audience: Novice

Session Resource

212

Apple Education

Description: Learn from inspirational stories of teachers who are having great success improving literacy, numeracy, creativity, and student engagement with iPad. Explore the built-in features on iPad and education apps to support early reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Discover innovative teaching strategies for personalizing learning for primary students. iPads will be available for use during this session.

Target Audience: All

213

Lindsay Zilly, Featured Speaker

Description: Transformative learning is a circle. Join this session for an opportunity to participate in an uncommon experience from a different point of view.

Target Audience: All

Session Resource

214

Daniel Fuhs, Madison High School

Description: Have you ever used a Snapchat filter to make yourself look like a wizard in order to increase student engagement?

During this session, I'll give several project-based learning activities (wizard and non-wizard based) that will create a fun, student-led classroom culture. You'll get specific examples of how you can replace lectures and quizzes with weekly and monthly projects that challenge students to solve problems.

The activities can be applied to any content area and emphasize collaboration and critical thinking with the use of Google apps like Docs, Sites, and Google Earth Tours.

Target Audience: Intermediate

Session Resource

215

Ken Sigmon, Sheppard's Business Interiors &
Ken Brown, Steelcase Learning (V)

Description: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Steelcase Learning researchers used multiple methods to understand blended learning’s value to educational outcomes and how space can play a role to ensure an enhanced experience for teachers and students.

Learning outcomes will include identification and discussion of:
The intensified challenges for education
Five things students need
Four macro shifts in how we think about learning spaces
Four key insights from the research

Target Audience: All

216

Brandy VanDeWalle, Sarah Paisley, & Darci Pesek, Nebraska Extension

Description: NebrASKa Scientist Field Trips target high school students across all 77,220 square miles of the state. As schools switch to virtual learning platforms, teachers have been searching for ideas on how to provide experiences that are engaging or like in-person field trips. NebrASKa Scientist Field Trips were created with the concept of bringing industries and professionals from across the state to schools. Each live tour highlights a STEM or ag-related career/concept and encourages students to ask questions. Tours are recorded for “on-demand” use and an extended learning lesson is also available.

Target Audience: All

Session Resource