#TIES18: Full Schedule

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10:30am CST

Apple Playground

Come connect with Apple in the playground! Explore Spheros, Dash, MeeBots, and more with our Everyone Can Code program.

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Forest Lake Tech Team

Resource Page

Speakers

Lee Anne Brockman

Media & Technology Specialist, Forest Lake Area High School

I've taught chemistry and physics. I spent 14 years as a full time technology integrationist, and I am currently working as both a media and technology specialist. I teach our building's student tech team. This is a small (14) group of students who serve the building staff and students... Read More →

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Genius Squad Student Tech Teams

Resource Page

Come chat with Genius Squad students and learn about how student tech teams support their teachers and classmates with 1:1 iPad issues. Students will share recruiting strategies, curriculum resources, help desk protocols, activities, growing student leadership, coding, digital citizenship, and student-led technology showcases.

Speakers

Chris Turnbull

Innovation Development & Computer Science Program Manager, ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (Minnesota)

Chris is an Apple Distinguished Educator and has been a district level technology integration and personalized learning specialist for the past 18 years, exploring various forms of flipped professional development & supporting iPads as a learning and teaching tool in 1:1 PreK-12 classrooms... Read More →

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Hopkins West Junior High Tech Team

Resource Page

Speakers

Becky Jacobson

Science Teacher, Digital Learning Coach

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

How Student Tech Teams Transform Integration

Resource Page

Student Technology Leaders in our district have a huge impact on technology integration at all levels. Students on the Student Tech Team (STT) organize events, volunteer in classrooms, and support teachers as they learn new apps and web tools. Come see how our system works and learn about some of our favorite tools from the students themselves!

Speakers

Ashley Bingenheimer

Technology Integration Specialist, River Falls School District

Ashley has been a Technology Integration Specialist since 2016. She works with teachers and students in grades K-12 to ensure technology integration in the classroom is meaningful and engaging. Prior to working in Ed Tech, Ashley was an upper elementary teacher and an Elementary Math... Read More →

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Penguins Provide: Students Using Linux to Help Others

Resource Page

The Asian Penguins use Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to create new learning opportunities for our students and close our school community's Digital Divide. The Asian Penguins, our school's award-winning technology club, learn to use Linux to recycle old computers. These computers are given to needy families FREE OF CHARGE to make sure all of our young scholars have working technology in their homes. The Asian Penguins have been the subject of over 30 news articles talking about how we used Open Source to change our school. Stop by and learn how you can change your school, too!

Speakers

Luke Burris

Stuart Keroff

Community School of Excellence

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Students Leading Chromebook Repair

Resource Page

Schools in 1:1 programs find themselves having to manage and maintain resources, but the greatest resource, the student, is often overlooked. We're empowering students to be leaders, follow their passions and find connections through Westonka Technology Interns (WTI). WTI students repair the 1,800 Chromebooks in the district’s 1:1 initiative.

Speakers

Sue Simonson

Business/Technology Teacher, Mound Westonka High School

I have been teaching in the Westonka School District for 14 years. In 2014, I returned to classroom after serving for three years as the district Technology Integrationist. I attended the Google Teacher Academy in Chicago in July of 2013 to become a Google Certified Teacher/Innovator... Read More →

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

The Hub Club Presents...

Resource Page

The Hub Club is a student group at Minnetonka Middle School East and West. The club is organized into modules that last about 4 weeks long. During this playground you will hear from and play with student creations in the areas of--Cardboard Creations, a module that allowed students to build their very own arcade game using at least 75% cardboard & Sphero Mini-Golf, where students designed a mini-golf hole and then used code to get their Sphero in the hole. Thank you for giving these students an authentic audience and a little "extra" motivation.

Speakers

Lisa Reed

Minnetonka Public Schools

Monday December 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

11:45am CST

Apple Playground

Get the creative juices flowing with 3Doodler Pens

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In this session teachers will learn how students can use 3Doodler pens to create 3D printed creations. The applications for this process are endless! Students can create their own characters and settings for a story, they can demonstrate mathematical understand, their creativity is their only barrier! Students can even use a stop motion app to bring those piece to life!

Speakers

Austen Miller

Technology Integrationist/Coordinator, Morris Area Public Schools

I have been an educator since 2008. I am currently in my second year as the Technology Integrationist/Coordinator for Morris Area Public Schools in Morris, MN. I am always looking for innovative ways to use tech in the classroom, and I get really pumped when I find something that's... Read More →

Monday December 10, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

Make it Happen with MackinMaker

Resource Page

Making and tinkering are powerful and empowering ways to learn. If you give students the tools, time, and the space to work, they will do brilliant things.

Visit our makerspace playground and create, invent, tinker, and discover new things with us.

Speakers

Ethan Heise

Director of MackinMaker, Mackin

Katy Tessman

Makerspace Specialist, Mackin Educational Resources

Katy Tessman combines her professional communications experience and diverse educator background as the New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist at Mackin. From building relevant and diverse book collections that provide windows and mirrors for students to creating... Read More →

Monday December 10, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

Talahi Tinkerspace Engineering Design Process

Speakers

Jason Menth

Monday December 10, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Apple Playground

Come connect with Apple in the playground! Explore Spheros, Dash, MeeBots, and more with our Everyone Can Code program.

Tuesday December 11, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Arduino Cafe

Speakers

Dhaivyd Hilgendorf

Tuesday December 11, 2018 10:30am - 12:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Code for Change

Come check out how Minnetonka 6th graders are using code to impact their community. During this playground session you will have a chance to engage with student created Scratch and Micro:BIT projects. Teachers of the course will be standing by to answer questions about their project based learning approach to Computer Science, including what they have learned from the first quarter of this course.

Speakers

Lisa Reed

Minnetonka Public Schools

Tuesday December 11, 2018 10:30am - 12:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

10:30am CST

Coding K-5

#fullSTEAMahead

Speakers

Wendy Wellman

Technology, STEM and Business teacher

Tuesday December 11, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

Apple Playground

Come connect with Apple in the playground! Explore Spheros, Dash, MeeBots, and more with our Everyone Can Code program.

Tuesday December 11, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

Bloxels and CoSpaces EDU

Speakers

Beth Erlenborn

Library Media Specialist

Beth Erlenborn is a Library Media Specialist in Mahtomedi MN and teaches grades 3 - 5. She has a Masters in School Library and Information Technology. She is a Google Certified Educator : Level 1 and was named a Minnesota TIES Exceptional Teacher in 2016. She presented a poster... Read More →

Tuesday December 11, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

Flipgrid Playground

Check out the latest and greatest from Flipgrid - try out recording something in our studio and play with Flipgrid!

Tuesday December 11, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

Play-Yay! Cool learning activities that feel like play)

Come see littleBits, botley, Robot Turtles, Edison, and more!

Speakers

Jenny McNew

Tuesday December 11, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground

1:30pm CST

StikBot/Green Screens

Speakers

Victoria Tambornino

Media Technology Specialist, New Ulm Middle School

I have been teaching for 32 years in the New Ulm School District. I have been a first-grade and third-grade teacher and I am now in my sixth year as the media specialist/technology teacher. I love it! Our middle school is comprised of grades 5-8. In my 5th and 6th-grade enrichment... Read More →

Tuesday December 11, 2018 1:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Mirage - 2nd

Playground