Tammy Worcester

Pre-conference Session  Wednesday, March 12   Time 9:00-4:00     Room BlueRidge    Title Power Up With Powerpoint as a Publishing Tool!

Thursday, March 13       Time 1:00   Room Kannapolis B    Title Cool Computer Activities for Kids

Thursday, March 13       Time 2:00   Room Concord D    Title Tammy’s Favorite Technology Tips, Tricks, and Tools

Book signing event with Tammy Worcester will be at the Software Express booth on Thursday from 11:00-12:00.

 

Tammy Worcester has over twenty years of educational experience. She began her career in the classroom, teaching various grades from kindergarten to middle school. While teaching, Tammy also served as the technology coordinator for her K-8 school.

 

 

For the past ten years, Tammy has worked for ESSDACK, an educational service center, as an Instructional Technology Specialist, providing staff development and training in the area of technology integration. Her website, “Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers” (www.tammyworcester.com) is a popular online resource for teachers around the world. Tammy has developed several software applications for teachers and is the author of several best-selling technology resource books that are published and marketed nationally.

 

Tammy is extremely innovative and resourceful and specializes in finding unique and creative ways to use traditional computer tools in the classroom. She enjoys sharing her ideas with teachers throughout the nation and has a presentation style that can be described as inspiring.

 

Tammy’s experiences as a parent, a teacher, a technology director, and a training specialist have allowed her to develop a strong sense of best educational practices. Those skills, coupled with her technology expertise, enable her to collaborate with other educators to build models of effective technology implementation that will have the potential to truly transform schools.

 

 

 

Kevin Honeycutt

Pre-conference Session    Wednesday, March 12     Time 9:00-4:00      Room Rocky A     Title Driving Questions in Education: Are you geared up to drive education in the 21st century?

Thursday, March 13     Time 3:15     Room Kannapolis A      Title Winning on the 21st Century Racetrack

Thursday, March 13     Time 4:15     Room Kannapolis A      Title Online Safety

Kevin Honeycutt is an educator, artist and positive futurist. He describes himself as a "teacher who started

doing what his kids needed for their futures, whether he liked it or not". His podcast, "Driving Questions"

(http://kevinhoneycutt.org) is constantly featured in the top five in K-12 educational podcasts on

iTunes and is watched by educators worldwide.

 

Kevin's ARTSNACKS (http://artsnacks.org) social learning network is a place where he pilots new models of

21st century learning in cooperation with educators and learners from all over the world. He was an art

teacher for thirteen years in Kansas public schools, and has been an educational technologist for ESSDACK,

an educational service center, for the past five years.

 

Kevin consults with several charter schools who use technology to empower project-based learning and employs

brain research in all of his approaches to school design. He travels the country talking to kids, teachers

and parents about online safety and the amazing things learners can do with today's tools.

 

His MYSAFESURF (http://mysafesurf.org) website provides resources for parents and teachers to help them

learn to mentor their digital kids. Kevin is an artist who know how to paint a positive picture of the future of

education.

 

 

 

 

LeslieFisher

Pre-conference Session    Wednesday, March 12     Time 9:00-4:00    Room Concord E   Title Taking Digital Pictures and Editing Them Effectively

Thursday, March 13    Time 2:00    Room Kannapolis B   Title Gadgets

Thursday, March 13    Time 4:15    Room Kannapolis B    Title World or Warcraft: What is it and how can I apply it to the Classroom

Friday, March 14    Time 11:15    Room Rocky B    Title The Good, Bad, and Ugly: How to Take Effective Digital Pictures

 

Leslie Fisher’s interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and thus began a personal discovery process where technology replaced the flute and brought her nationally celebrated talents to us today. After graduating from USC with a Business and Marketing degree in 1989, she went to an Apple Computer Inc. subsidiary where she was in charge of the education marketing and training program. Wanting more technical experience, Leslie left this company in 1992 and joined Apple Computer Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer in K-12 education, providing technology solutions to school districts across Southern California. When the Internet took off in 1994, Leslie was one of the first Apple employees assigned to study Internet growth and implementation. Due to her knowledge of web design, server implementation and Internet resources, she became the Internet resource in the Educational Western Region. In 1997, Leslie was road kill on Apple's road to recovery and was part of their massive lay off. Leslie planned to spend most of her huge severance package golfing and waiting a few months to look for a job. The day after her layoff, her phone began to ring with Apple customers requesting consulting. Before she could say fore, Fisher Technologies Inc. was created to help educators with their technology implementation and decision. Fisher Technologies Inc. is now a nationwide Corporation providing web design, consulting, training and presentation services to school districts and companies.

 

 

 

 

David Warlick

Pre-conference Session    Wednesday, March 12    Time 9:00-4:00    Room Carolina C    Title Using the New Collaborative Web for Education Thursday, March 13    Time 11:45    Room Kannapolis B    Title Video Games as Learning Engines

Thursday, March 13    Time 3:15    Room Kannapolis B    Title Personal Learning Networks- Embedded Professional Development

Friday, March 14    Time 9:15    Room Kannapolis B    Title EduBloggercon

Blog Link:  http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

 

 

David Warlick’s unique voice and message combine a wide range of experiences, both in and outside the education arena. He ran two businesses before graduating from high school and spent more than a year in manufacturing before completing his undergraduate work. He worked for nearly ten years as a middle school social studies, math, and science teacher, during which he also wrote award-winning instructional software and introduced hundreds of teachers to the educational potentials of desktop computers.

 

In 1984, David moved to a central office position as Director of Technology and then on to the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction where he served as a technology integration consultant and built the nation’s first state department of education web site.

 

Since 1995, Mr. Warlick has been the owner and principal consultant of The Landmark Project, a professional development, web design, and innovations firm in Raleigh North Carolina. During this time David has spoken at conferences and delivered workshops for educators in nearly every state of the U.S. and audiences in Europe, Asia, and South America.

 

David Warlick has been an innovator and leader in the field of educational technology and a prolific programmer, writing some of the most popular interactive web tools available for teachers on the Internet — most of them free. He created and maintains the second oldest continuing online project, Global Grocery List, and writes for publications that include Technology & Learning Magazine, ALA’s KnowledgeQuest, Education World, and CUE Online. He has also written three books about modern technologies in education and contemporary literacy, and he has been quoted in Education Week, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY. What makes David a highly effective and sought-after speaker is that, at heart, he is a teacher with a contagious passion and enthusiasm for helping people discover a brand new world of teaching and learning.

 

 

 

Harry Cook

Mr. Cook is Segment Marketing Manager for Local Government and Education with Bellsouth. He has been with BellSouth for over 10 years and has been involved in the USF School & Library program since its inception.

 

Thursday, March 13

Time 11:45-12:30

Room Carolina C

Title Establishing an E-Rate Compliance Program

 

 

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