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Welcome to Techtoberfest 2016! Tooele County School District welcomes keynote speaker Jared Covili from UEN!

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There will be no paper copies of the Techtober2016 schedule. If you want a paper copy, feel free to print your own.

10:00am PDT

Sage Data

Speakers

Tom Rathke

Teacher - Stansbury High School, Tooele School District

Tom Rathke has been teaching business, financial literacy, computer, and broadcasting classes for seventeen years. He currently teaches business concurrent enrollment classes for SLCC. He previously taught instructional technology for USU.

Kim Rathke

Test Administration and Data Coordinator, Utah State Board of Education

Kim Rathke is the Test Administration and Data Coordinator at USBE. She has a master’s in gifted education and is Nationally-Board Certified in ELA/Early Adolescence. She supervises the systems team in the Assessment section that oversees RISE, Utah Aspire Plus, WIDA, DLM, NAEP... Read More →

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#135

Hands On, Session I | Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Active Classroom: Web resources for Social Studies and English

training on using the Active Classroom and an introduction to it's wealth of resources

Speakers

Jeff Saunders

TCSD

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#222

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

ALEKS

Speakers

Greg Duce

Utah Sales Representative, McGraw Hill

McGraw Hill's Reveal Math, ALEKS, Redbird, Acheive Math, Secondary Illustrative Math, and Everyday Math are all solutions available to you from McGraw Hill. We would love to help with presentations, trainings, and implementations. We would also love to sample our programs to you... Read More →

Lisa Johnson

Teacher, Tooele Jr. High School

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#223

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Canvas Practitioner

Speakers

Adam Kuntz

Strategic Consultant, Instructure

Adam has 10 years of experience in education as an instructor and administrator. Over the course of his career in education, he has led and assisted in several school technology and process implementations. At Instructure, he specializes in change management. His main goal is to help... Read More →

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#130

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Canvas Question Banks

Bring a laptop or internet connected device to this session!

Have you wanted to start using the canvas Quiz feature but don't know where to start? Do you know how to use it but just haven't found the time to get to it?

During this session we will talk (very briefly) about:
- How to build question banks.
- How to link the question bank to specific quizes.
- What the different quiz setting mean.
- Finding questions on Canvas Commons
- Importing quizes and questions from previous courses.

The rest of the time we will be working on getting quiz questions and quizes put together. Bring quiz and test questions to enter. Get some work done while you have one on one help.

Speakers

Oliver Hansen

Teacher/EdTech, Tooele County School District

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#216

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Coding for Elementary

Computer Science for Elementary

Now even the youngest students can explore the limitless world of computing. Code.org’s K-5 courses blend online, self-guided, and self-paced tutorials with “unplugged” activities that require no computer at all! Even kindergarten-aged pre-readers can participate.

Speakers

Tammie M Schlotterback

Blue Peak High School, Tooele County School District

Ask me about Computer Science Principles and how you can join the CS movement!

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#154

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Desmos SAGE Calulator

The DESMOS calculator can be used for both graphing and calculations. By the end of this school year, it will be the only calculator available within the SAGE tests. DESMOS is a fantastic upgrade from the old SAGE calculator! Come to this session to learn (a) how to use the DESMOS calculator so you can teach your students, and (b) how to include DESMOS in math lessons.

During this session, participants will learn how to use the DESMOS calculator. Additionally, we will implement a math lesson using DESMOS to show how students can login and teachers can use the teacher panel and dashboard to monitor and/or display student responses.

For this session, the lesson will be aligned with the grades 6-8 standards for mathematics.

Speakers

Catherine Callow-Heusser

Education Specialist, Utah State Office of Education

Catherine Callow-Heusser received her doctorate in Educational Research and Evaluation from USU, where she has worked 20 of the past 30 years as an instructor, instructional designer and researcher/evaluator of programs serving struggling students and students with disabilities. Dr... Read More →

Using the DESMOS Calculator docx

DESMOS Calculator ppt

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#151

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Educreations/Blendspace

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. The software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive lesson. Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that’s simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of media.

Blendspace is a tool that allows the user to employ videos, images, plain text, and URLs in creating multimedia presentations. BlendSpace is a powerful website tool that allows teachers to create, and students to access, lessons built around the blended teaching design.

Create lessons in 5 minutes!

Collect web resources in one place and share with just one link
Measure student understanding with built-in quizzes
Monitor student progress and adapt to student needs in real-time

Speakers

Jon Hughes

Teacher - Copper Canyon, Tooele School District

I love to use technology in my classroom. Google is my friend :)

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#214

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Epic Books

Attendees in this session will learn how to use the great ebooks and video resources Epic has available for many purposes in the classroom. Participants will also learn how they can leverage the library in Epic books for students to use at home. This session is best suited for elementary teachers.

Speakers

Jennifer Throndsen

Director of Teaching and Learning, Utah State Board of Education

Dr. Jennifer Throndsen is an experienced educator currently serving at the Utah State Board of Education as the Director of Teaching and Learning. Driven by impacting student learning, she takes pride in developing and designing policy, resources, and supports to help other educators... Read More →

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#218

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Google Apps

Speakers

Tyler Larsen

IT teacher, InTech Colegiate High School

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#137

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

I-Ready - Curriculum Associates

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#212

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Imagine Learning

Come learning about the Cloud upgrade for Imagine Learning in the district and how to access the program. Learn what is new and how it will benefit your students. Struggling readers and ESL students learn and grow so much with Imagine Learning.

Speakers

Ross Rogers

Customer Success Manager, Imagine Learning

I am your total support for Imagine Learning in the district. I provide training, tech support and just help you use the system.

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#219

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Journeys Dashboard

Speakers

Ruth Alvarez

TCSD

Beverlee Bunderson

TCSD

I have 8 children (whose first names all start with a B) and 23 grandchildren. I have been an Instructional Coach for over 10 yrs.

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#132

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

MOS Testing

Microsoft Office is a tool we could all use more efficiently. Come use Microsoft curriculum to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist Exams.
Please tell us a little about yourself:
https://goo.gl/forms/jbeezpR4h1csdUvi2

Speakers

Lorna Stewart

April Warby

Business & Marketing teacher, Murray SD

I have been teaching for 15 years in 3 different districts, and am nearly finished with my MBA from WGU. I am excited to begin teaching concurrent enrollment classes this next school year.

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#136

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Promethean Novice

Speakers

James Black

TCSD

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#141

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Reading Plus for West and Middle Canyon

Speakers

Southwest Education/Reading Plus

Representative, Reading Plus

709 W 340f0 South Bountiful UT 84010 801-390-0714 Kevin Sheridan

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#134

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Sexting/Cyber Bullying

Speakers

Det. James May

Tooele PD

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
CTE Atrium by Rm 159 Stansbury High 5400 Stallion Way Tooele, UT 84082

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Tech for ELL

Speakers

Carey mills

Teacher, TCSD

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#208

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Tech in k-2

During this session we will take a look at websites and apps that are useful to primary education classrooms. This will be very similar to what this session was last year, so you may or may not want to come again. We will also have time for participants to share their own advice for the younger grades and using technology so come with your own ideas.

Speakers

Carolyn Pratt

Teacher - Grantsville Elementary, Tooele School District

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#142

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Tech in Your Classroom: Use and Troubleshooting

This beginning to intermediate level course will go over common classroom technology in Tooele County Schools.

We will cover the following.

Teacher workstation
Printer
Projector
Promethean board
Document camera
Getting it all to work together

In addition its use, we will cover some basic troubleshooting you can do too.

Speakers

Corey Price

Technology Inventory Specialist, TCSD

I have been working for TCSD since October of 2013. Before that, I owned a business doing computer service and repair for 10 years. I love doing what I do!My current position in the Technology Department keeps me on my toes. I am anxious to learn and grow and look forward to this... Read More →

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
RM#209

Informational, Session I

10:00am PDT

Follet for Librarians

Destiny and Titlewave are designed to work hand in hand to make life easier for Librarians.

Speakers

Mitch Bingham

Consultant, Follett

Follett School Solutions is the largest academic distributor in the country, and I'm your local Follett rep. Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions. 801-885-9916 I'm happy to help any way I can.

Friday October 7, 2016 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Library Stansbury High 5400 Stallion Way Tooele, UT 84086

Librarian Specific, Session I | Informational, Session I