Reform Symposium Program

THE REFORM SYMPOSIUM FOR NEW TEACHERS | FREE ONLINE CONFERENCE JANUARY 8, 2011

http://reformsymposium.com

Dr. Alec Couros

Keynote Speaker

Associate Professor of educational tech-

nology and media at the Faculty of

Education, University of Regina. He has

given hundreds of workshops and pres-

entations, nationally and internationally,

on topics such as openness in education,

networked learning, social media in

education, digital citizenship, and criti-

cal media literacy. His graduate and

undergraduate courses help current and

future educators understand how to use

and take advantage of the educational

potential offered by the tools of

connectivity.

Website: http://www.couros.ca

Twitter: http://twitter.com/courosa

THE REFORM SYMPOSIUM FOR NEW TEACHERS+ Free Online Conference January 8, 2011 Featuring…

http://www.elluminate.com

Contents+

Invitation 2

What is an Elluminate 2 Room?

Mentor Program 3

Continuing Education 3 Credit Application

Open Lab for Professional 3 Development

Meet the Organizers 4

Meet the Sponsors 5

Schedule 6-8

To register for free, visit us at http://reformsymposium.com

Dr. Milton Chen

Keynote Speaker

Senior fellow and executive director

emeritus at The George Lucas Educa-

tional Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit

operating foundation in the San

Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its mul-

timedia site http://www.edutopia.org

and documentary films to communicate

a new vision for 21st-century schools. He

served as executive director of GLEF for

12 years. He was the founding director

of the KQED Center for Education (PBS)

in San Francisco; a director of research

at Sesame Workshop, in New York,

working on Sesame Street, The Electric

Company, and 3-2-1 Contact; and an

assistant professor at the Harvard

Graduate School of Education. Dr. Chen

lives in San Francisco with his wife, Dr.

Ruth Cox, faculty liaison for academic

technology at San Francisco State

University.

Please join us for inspir-ing professional develop-ment from some of the most innovative educa-tional speakers in the comfort of your home!

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Invitation+ Dear Educator, It gives us great pleasure to invite you to our annual Reform Symposium Conference for New Teachers, which will take place on Saturday, January 8th, 201l. You can attend this online conference from the comfort of your home or anywhere you have Internet access. We have some of the best speakers that often present in major educational conferences worldwide. This amazing conference provides you the opportunity to connect with educators and professionals in the field of education worldwide. Over 2400 educators attended our last conference from 59 different countries. This year we will focus on interactive presentations that help new teachers with creating engaging classrooms and lessons, building relationships with students, improving literacy, working with Interactive Whiteboards, and much more. This year we look forward to 2 Keynote speakers, 18 presentations, an open discussion on Classroom Management, a panel discussion on Parental Engagement, a mentorship program, and an open lab for hands-on support in helping you continue your professional development on online educator communities. We promise you have never attended a conference quite like this! Join us for one session or as many as you like! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, January 8th! Your Organizers, Shelly Terrell, Kelly Tenkely, Chris Rogers, Melissa Tran, Lisa Dabbs, and Greta Sandler

All presentations will be held in Elluminate web meeting rooms!+

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Mentor Program+ Over 50,000 educators worldwide participate in daily professional development online. Many are veterans and experts in their fields and would like to support new educators. Join this session led by Kyle Pace to discover ways you can participate in educator communities to find online support 24/7 when you need it.

If you miss the session you can still join the program. Please register

on the Reform Symposium site, http://reformsymposium.com.

Continuing Education Credit+ The requirements for professional development (PD) or continuing edu-cation credits (CEU’s) varies around the world and within countries. Please visit http://reformsymposium.com/professional-development/ to download the forms and share with your local administration prior to working for this credit. The organizers, presenters, and volunteers of the Reform Symposium conference can’t guarantee that participants, schools, and districts will recognize and accept the Reform Symposium Professional Development Certificate and hours.

The Open Lab for Professional Development+

Throughout the conference we will have one Elluminate room open throughout the entire conference to help you with any concerns, issues, or technical difficulties you may have throughout the day. You are also welcomed to drop by this room if you have questions about any the sessions or need help creating accounts on social networks. Throughout the day we will also have 3 online professional development workshops dedicated to showing you how to connect with other educators through social bookmarking, joining educator groups on Facebook, and on Twitter. Please feel free to drop in at any time. Kyle Pace, Guido Europeaantje, and other volunteers will help be there to help you!

Kyle Pace Guido Europeaantje

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Shelly Sanchez Terrell is the VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella and

the Social Media Community Man-ager for The Consultants-E. She is also the co-creator of the award win-ning projects, #Edchat and the Virtual Round Table conference. The New York Times learning blog has included her on its list of the top 78 educators to follow on Twitter, @shellterrell. Her award winning education blog, Teacher Reboot Camp, is ranked as one of the top 50 best blogs for education leaders. Shelly is the author of The 30 Goals Challenge and teaches English lan-guage learners in Germany.

Melissa Tran has been a teacher, counselor, leader and advocate for youth at-risk for nearly twenty

years. Currently, she provides critical intervention strategies, and program and staff development support at sites around the country. Melissa is passionate about ensuring that New Teachers receive the coaching, mentoring and guidance they need to meet those challenges and is delighted to welcome you to the Reform Symposium. Follow her tweets @thenewtag and check out

her blog at The New Tag.

Kelly Tenkely is a technology trainer in Colo-rado and the author of the

award winning and nominated blogs, ilearntechnology and Dreams of Education. She encourages other educators to find their blogging voice with her Edublogger Alliance. She also writes many of the top viewed articles for The Apple including Top 10 technology Tips for New Teachers and 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports. She is working on a project to put iPads in the hands of every child. Find Kelly on Twitter, @ktenkely.

Lisa Dabbs is an Educational Coach and Consultant, New Teacher Connections

Group Facilitator, a Board Member of a Literacy Non-Profit, and the Library Board of Trustee in her community. Lisa has served as an elementary school principal for 14 years, a federal programs project director, English Language Arts consultant for Kaplan Educational Corporation and Adjunct Professor for Concordia University. She is the originator of New Teacher Chat (#ntchat), a weekly chat for new teachers on Twitter. Connect with her on Twitter, @teachingwthsoul and on her blog Teaching With Soul.

Christopher Rogers is a Lan-guage Arts and Theatre teacher in Morrisville,

NY. He is also the technology coordinator/integration specialist for his district. Since beginning his education blog, Ed Tech Swami a little over a year ago he has become very involved in the social media teacher’s movement happening all over the world. Find him on Twitter, @MrR0g3rs.

Greta Sandler is an ESL teacher. She teaches 5th grade at a K-12 school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She is passionate about teaching and technology. She loves to create meaningful learning opportunities for her students by combining her two passions. She is the co-creator of Blog4Edu. Blog4Edu is a project to support new education bloggers, student bloggers, new bloggers, and those who feel they need more support from their educator community. You can check out her award winning education blog About a Teacher and you can also find her

on Twitter @gret.

Meet The Organizers+

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Elluminate has been generous to provide the rooms for this conference!

Go beyond web conferencing with web, audio, video, and social networking solutions for 21st century education and training. Check out the incredible features at http://www.elluminate.com.

Edublogs will give away free 12 months Edublogs Pro subscriptions which

you can use on your own blog or give away to a friend or reader. Features include: 10gb storage, no ads, privacy options, premium themes, and much more! Check out the breakdown of features at http://edublogs.org.

SimpleK12 will give away free memberships to the EdTech UNconference,

each valued at $200. The EdTech UNconference is the first ever, year long, international, technology UNconference for educators. In addition to live monthly sessions, the EdTech Unconference gives full access to all of SimpleK12’s online learning programs to help teachers learn about and integrate technology directly into their lesson plans. It’s more than 700+ hours of online learning content that is used by more than 500,000 teachers. In addition, the EdTech UNconference provides a haven for ongoing forums, blogs, and collaboration. Check them out at http://www.simplek12.com.

Symbaloo will be offering a branded school solution for free for one year

to be raffled to one winner. For every participant of the Symposium we are offering free enrollment for our Symbaloo Certification Program. This 6-week program offers detailed instructions on how to use SymbalooEDU in conjunction with other Web 20 EDU tools. Check them out at http://www.symbaloo.com.

Glogster EDU will give every participant that registers 1-2 months of the

premium service for free and will give away a few lucky winners a year membership and some goodie bags! Check them out at http://edu.glogster.com.

Meet The Sponsors+ Attendees will get the chance to win fabulous prizes from our sponsors at the end of the event! Visit the website to checkout the latest prizes!

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The Reform Symposium E-Conference Schedule+ Saturday, January 8, 2010 - Beginning at 7am PDT!

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Presenter, Content Title and Description

Please visit our online schedule, http://bit.ly/rsconschedule

7-7:30am PST, 8am MST, 9am CST, 10 am EST

Welcome to The Reform Symposium for New Teachers 2011 Conference!, Opening ceremony, news and an exciting surprise!

7:30-8am Break


Joquetta Johnson presents: IWBs…Not Your Mother’s Chalkboard Good teaching paired with the effective use of IWB technologies; Participants will be provided with IWB resources that support teaching and learning in the 21st century.


John Spencer presents: Teacher Burnout This presentation will focus on effective ways to deal with and prevent teacher burnout.

8:30-9am Break

9-9:30am PST, 10am MST, 11am CST, 12pm noon EST

Melissa Tran leads this reflective discussion for new and seasoned educators: One Thing I’ve Learned We'll challenge participants to share one thing they’ve learned since they started teaching that they believe has made them better teachers.

9-9:30am PST, 10am MST, 11am CST, 12pm noon EST

Marisa Constantinides leads this workshop: Professional Development through Facebook and Nings Educators worldwide learn from and support each other in Facebook groups and online educator communities. Learn about these exciting groups!

9:30-10am Break

10-10:30am PST, 11am MST, 12pm CST, 1pm EST

Rich Kiker presents: Effective Online Classroom Management Come learn and discuss how to take your classroom online, create a 24/7 learning environment, and increase digital literacy for all of your students.


Gary Brannigan presents: Maximizing Children's Academic Potential Examine a model for parent-child and teacher-student interactions that stresses efficient use of time and energy through increased awareness of the important links in thinking, feeling, and behaving.


Guido Europeaantje leads this Workshop on Twitter: Turn 140 Characters into a Virtual Staffroom Come and discover tools and tricks to help you join the many educators for whom Twit-ter is a huge virtual staffroom where teachers from around the world meet, communi-cate, support each other and share teaching tips, resources, weblinks and opinions.

10:30am-11am Break

11-12noon PST, 1pm MST, 2pm CST, 3pm EST

Dr. Alec Couros presents: Why Networked Learning Matters This interactive presentation deconstructs some of the big questions regarding technol-ogy and its use in teaching & learning. What practices are here to stay? What will disappear? What will be different about schools in the years ahead? And, what do we need to do as teachers, educators, and parents to create the best learning environ-ments for our children?

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12-12:30pm Break

12:30-1pm PST, 1:30pm MST, 2:30pm CST, 3:30pm EST

David Ginsburg presents: Reflective (and effective!) Classroom Management This presentation includes real strategies for continually improving our interactions, organization and effectiveness and is for anyone looking to improve their professional practice, especially those working @ Middle and High School levels and those in high needs schools.


Stephen Davis presents: Finding the Nuance of Middle Level Instruction We will explore the dichotomies of the middle school student and discover ways to effectively and efficiently serve their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social needs. Middle Level Instruction is a blend of This AND That.

1-1:30pm Break


Pernille Ripp presents: Let Them Speak Creating a Student Centered Classroom Explore the use of hands-on learning, simulations student blogging and other strategies to create a Student Centered Classroom.


Joel Wagner TBD


Kyle Pace leads this Workshop: Professional Development through Social Bookmarking Through Social Bookmarking Free tools make it possible to have your bookmarks available wherever you go! You can even connect with other educators and share your favorite sites. In this workshop, discover how to access many sites in any subject that are educator approved!

2-2:30pm Break


George Couros, Amanda Henson of Parentella, Jim Folkestad, Monika Hardy & her student drive this panel discussion on Parent Engagement An open discussion on the best ways for educators to engage parents in the conversation! We will be joined by a principal, teacher, parent, and student!

3:30-4pm Break

4-4:30pm PST, 5pm MST, 6pm CST, 7pm EST

Colin T. Graham presents: Approaches to Teaching Mathematics More Effectively Is mathematics built up or constructed? Should mathematics be made explicit or hidden inside a cross-curricular project? Online or offline, or both? Should the curriculum be designed differently? if so, how?


Elizabeth M. Peterson presents: Getting Started with Arts Integration Learn more about what true arts integration is and how you can get started infusing the arts into your teaching whether or not you are an "artist." Includes ideas, resources and activities.


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4:30-5pm Break


Greta Sandler presents: Creating Safe Learning Environments During this session we will explore strategies to promote a love of learning by build-ing relationships and share different ways to get students to trust us and each other.


Becky Goerend and Russ Goerend present: Classroom Setup to Facilitate Student Ownership In this presentation, we will discuss different ways of arranging your classroom to create an environment that supports effective classroom management and helps stu-dents to learn and collaborate with each other.

5:30-6pm Break


Jo Hart and Phil Hart lead this discussion on Classroom Management An open discussion where you can bring in the struggles with your classes. Experi-enced teachers offer practical ideas on how to manage the classroom.

6:30-7pm Break


Nick Provenzano presents: Mentoring Everyone is a Side Kick! This presentation is going to explore what it means to be a mentor and different types of mentor relationships found in schools using classic Buddy Cop movies as a reference.


Joan Young presents: Maximizing Engagement and Learning through Positive Climate A positive classroom environment is essential to engagement and learning. Come discuss ways to maximize the use of novelty, humor and curiosity to engage learners from K-6.

7:30-8pm Break


Finding Online Support through a Personal Learning Network Over 50,000 educators worldwide participate in daily professional development online. Many are veterans and experts in their fields and would like to support new educators. Join this session led by Kyle Pace to discover ways you can participate in educator communities to find online support 24/7 when you need it.

8:30-9pm Break

9-10pm PST, 10pm MST, 11pm CST, 12pm EST

Closing Keynote with Dr. Milton Chen

10-10:30pm PST, 11pm MST, 12am CST, 1am EST

Closing Remarks. Attendees will get the chance to win fabulous prizes from our sponsors!

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