MECA Conference 2013

Exhibitor Move-In (Exhibitors ONLY) 8:00am - 10:00am

Exhibit Hall Open (Refreshments) 12:30pm - 5:30pm

Distance Education: What's In It For You? 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Cloud Computing in Education Through Google Drive 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Providing the Spark for CCSS 4:15pm - 5:05pm

Classroom behavior management using technology 3:10pm - 4:00pm

Making Technology Meaningful in Secondary Education 4:15pm - 5:05pm

The (Almost) Paperless Teacher 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Technology + Common Core = Success 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Enhancing Writing Skills Across the Grades with Tikat... 4:15pm - 5:05pm

Teaching with Tablets—Science/Math 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Using 21st Century Web Widgets to Enhance Instruction... 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Teaching with Tablets—ELA/ Social Studies 3:10pm - 4:00pm

REAL WORLD Lessons with Promethean 4:15pm - 5:05pm

Learn how to manage your iPads (iOS), Windows PC's an... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Crossroads Media Literacy Project 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Setting up an iPad classroom 3:10pm - 4:00pm

What’s New With Adobe Creative Suite 6 1:00pm - 1:50pm

What’s New With Adobe Creative Suite 6 4:15pm - 5:05pm

Challenges in Designing a Collaborative Classroom (as... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

'Oh! My Aching Back and Wrists' 2:05pm - 2:55pm

CANCELLED!! College Starts in Preschool: Successfully... 3:10pm - 4:00pm

What Does Building a Water Slide in your Community an... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Transitional Math Created for Struggling High School... 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Living Up to the Promises of the Common Core: Using P... 3:10pm - 4:00pm

CCSS Institute Replay: Using Formative Data to Measur... 4:15pm - 5:05pm

What's At the Core of Your Mathematics Instruction? 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Protecting Your Assets - Data Backup and Email Archiv... 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Getting the Most of Your Web Toolbox! 3:10pm - 4:00pm

Enterasys - Managing More Devices with Fewer Resource... 4:15pm - 5:05pm

Interactive Whiteboards – How to foster more than a g... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

1-to-1 Learning – Laptops, Tablets or BYOD? 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Making Technology Integration a Success – An Administ... 3:10pm - 4:00pm

Grant Writing 101 – How to Write Winning Proposals 4:15pm - 5:05pm

It’s All About You: Personalizing Learning Through th... 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Safe Social Networking for Teachers and Students 2:05pm - 2:55pm

The power of the I: Innovate, improve, and increase with Itunes U 3:10pm - 5:10pm

iPad Implementation-Making the Transformation from Recall to Application 3:10pm - 5:10pm

Make Your Own Khan Academy Style Videos 1:00pm - 3:00pm

How To Teach Keyboarding Like a Business Teacher 3:10pm - 5:10pm

Make Smart Choices with Smart Exchange 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Storybird: Encourage Creativity, Promote Writing, and Add Excitement to Reports, Presentations, and Tutorials 3:10pm - 5:10pm

Easy Student Presentations that Meet Common Core Research & Presentation Requirements for Grades K-12 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Using VoiceThread in the Classroom 3:10pm - 5:10pm

Using VoiceThread in the Classroom 1:00pm - 3:00pm

ActivInspire: Make & Take 3:10pm - 5:10pm

iTunesU and iPads in the Classroom 9:35am - 10:25am

Google Plus: Social Media to the Max! 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Photo Safari: Using Cameras to Raise Student Engageme... 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Fear Not the Dark Side Facebook ... Marketing Your Sc... 3:10pm - 4:00pm

Podcasting & Mobile Media for Authentic Learning 4:15pm - 5:05pm

The Elementary Computer Lab: More than Just Games 1:00pm - 1:50pm

CLICK THIS! 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Hands On and Hand Held - Video Conferencing using Han... 3:10pm - 4:00pm

Free Technology Tools That Increase Productivity 4:15pm - 5:05pm

iPad - Why? How? 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Blogging Your Way to More Timely PLC's 2:05pm - 2:55pm

Blogging in Common Core: Using blogs to teach writing... 3:10pm - 4:00pm

Breakfast in Exhibit Hall 7:30am - 9:30am

Exhibit Hall Open 8:00am - 5:30pm

Lunch and Visit Exhibitors 11:45am - 1:15pm

Refreshments in Exhibit Hall 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Opening General Session (Keynote speaker) 10:15am - 11:45am

Registration Open 7:00am - 5:30pm

Using Articulate Storyline, Camtasia, and Jing to Cre... 9:00am - 9:50am

STEM and Personal Finance: Making Financial Literacy... 1:15pm - 2:05pm

Using SchoolRack to Engage in Educational Collaborati... 2:20pm - 3:10pm

Digital Storytelling: A Fun and Easy Way to Teach Com... 3:25pm - 4:15pm

Tech Tools For Reaching the Core in Music 4:30pm - 5:20pm

Integrating Promethean’s ActivExpressions with Classr... 9:00am - 9:50am

Layering Web 2.0 Tools 9:00am - 9:50am

BYOD - Are you ready for 1:1 in your schools? 1:15pm - 2:05pm

The Hot Zone....Where Legends are Made 2:20pm - 3:10pm

PowerPoint to Prezi 3:25pm - 4:15pm

What Digital Story Tells You 4:30pm - 5:20pm

New Computer + Old Library Software = Upgrade Opportu... 9:00am - 9:50am

Computer-Created Common Core Concepts 1:15pm - 2:05pm

Amatuer Radio & Technology in the Classroom 3:25pm - 4:15pm

“Using the ActivClassroom to Assist with Formative As... 9:00am - 9:50am

Implementing the ActivClassroom into your Common Core... 1:15pm - 2:05pm

Top 10 Interactive Websites and Apps. for Use with th... 2:20pm - 3:10pm

Getting Acclimated to the ActivClassroom: Learner Res... 3:25pm - 4:15pm

Getting Acclimated to the ActivClassroom 4:30pm - 5:20pm

Google+: An Effective Group Collaboration Tool 9:00am - 9:50am

SAM7 Introduces The NEW Gradebook - Come see what it'... 1:15pm - 2:05pm

Learn360 101+: The Basics of Becoming a Streaming Vid... 3:25pm - 4:15pm

What’s New With Adobe Creative Suite 6 9:00am - 9:50am

What’s New With Adobe Creative Suite 6 4:30pm - 5:20pm

VIEWPOINT - A Whole New Way to View your Data 9:00am - 9:50am

Kurzweil 3000/firefly/firefly iPad App: Literacy Tool... 2:20pm - 3:10pm

21st Century Schools: Implementing Technology Effecti... 9:00am - 9:50am

How does a One-to-One Initiative Prepare Students for... 1:15pm - 2:05pm

Dynamic Duos: Collaborations Are a CCSS Necessity 3:25pm - 4:15pm

What's At the Core of Your Language Arts Instruction? 9:00am - 9:50am

Mobile Devices - Meet Your New Manager 1:15pm - 2:05pm

The SMART-er Classroom 2:20pm - 3:10pm

Collaborative Tools for the Classroom 3:25pm - 4:15pm

Empowering Schools Through Innovation 4:30pm - 5:20pm

Grant Writing 101 – How to Write Winning Proposals 9:00am - 9:50am

Making Technology Integration a Success – An Administ... 3:25pm - 4:15pm

Grant Writing 101...

Easy Student Presentations that Meet Common Core Research & Presentation Requirements for Grades K-12 1:15pm - 3:15pm

iPads and Apps in the Classroom 8:00am - 10:00am

Apps for Kids with Disabilities 1:15pm - 2:15pm

iPad Implementation-Making the Transformation from Recall to Application 3:25pm - 5:25pm

Edmodo, Hot Chalk, Schoology, All Free....Oh My!!! 8:00am - 10:00am

Getting Organized with Diigo 1:15pm - 3:15pm

Integrating Technology using SchoolRack (Free Classroom Website System) 3:25pm - 5:25pm

Give your Technology Skills a Tuneup through Octave Assessments! 8:00am - 10:00am

Electrify Your Lessons! Student Engagement through an Interactive White Board 1:15pm - 3:15pm

PowerPoint Design Masters 3:25pm - 5:25pm

How to Create an SMS Text Messaging System for Your School Using Cel.ly  8:00am - 10:00am

Improving Student’s Cognitive Performances with Concept Mapping 1:15pm - 3:15pm

How to Build a Social Media Network using Twitter, Cel.ly, Paper.li and WordPress 3:25pm - 5:25pm

CANCELLED: Storybird: Encourage Creativity, Promote Writing, and Add Excitement to Reports, Presentations, and Tutorials 8:00am - 10:00am

Wonderful World of Webquests - Best Practices & CCSS 1:15pm - 3:15pm

Four Square Writing on the Interactive Whiteboard 3:25pm - 5:25pm

Digital Photography for 21st Century Learning 9:00am - 9:50am

CANCELLED: Technology Policy: Keeping Your School--an... 1:15pm - 2:05pm

There's An(other) App for That! 2:20pm - 3:10pm

CANCELLED: iPhoneography: Making Great Photos with Yo... 3:25pm - 4:15pm

CANCELLED: Teachers/Students Presenting with iPads 4:30pm - 5:20pm

Ready, Set, Go 2.0 9:00am - 9:50am

CANCELLED: Managing Online Identities: Tips for Teach... 2:20pm - 3:10pm

No iPad? No Android? You can still have apps! 3:25pm - 4:15pm

Blogfolio: A Learning Tool for Pre-service Teachers 4:30pm - 5:20pm

CANCELLED: Teacher Travel: Using Communications Techn... 9:00am - 9:50am

Technology Across Time - Where we were, where we are,... 1:15pm - 2:05pm

How to Blog a Book as a Class 2:20pm - 3:10pm

iPads in the Classroom 3:25pm - 4:15pm

Web-based Freebies for Teacher 4:30pm - 5:20pm

Education’s Mobile Revolution & Common Core Standards 9:00am - 9:50am

Instructional Technology and The Common Core 1:15pm - 2:05pm

Social Media: All the Eggs in One Basket 2:20pm - 3:10pm

Solve the Common Core Dilemma for your Struggling Stu... 2:20pm - 3:10pm

From the Whiteboard to the 'Blackboard' 4:30pm - 5:20pm

Exhibit Hall Open 7:30am - 10:30am

Breakfast in Exhibit Hall 8:00am - 9:30am

Business Meeting and Closing Session 10:45am - 12:00pm

Registration Open 7:30am - 12:00pm

Mirror, mirror on the wall 8:30am - 9:20am

Head in the Cloud - Organized to the Core 9:35am - 10:25am

Bring POWER to Your Points 8:30am - 9:20am

Why Your PowerPoints Are Awful and What to Do About I... 9:35am - 10:25am

Using Promethean’s ActivClassroom to provide an engag... 8:30am - 9:20am

Teaching with Tablets—Early Childhood 9:35am - 10:25am

Magic Genie – I Wish for CCSS Content for my Digital... 8:30am - 9:20am

Tablets to the Max 8:30am - 9:20am

Employees' View of IT 9:35am - 10:25am

FREEways to Mobile Teaching & Learning 8:30am - 10:30am

Google What? Google+ 8:30am - 10:30am

Electronic Portfolios 8:30am - 10:30am

How to Create an App for Your Classroom Using AppsBar 8:30am - 10:30am

Wonderful World of Webquests - Best Practices & CCSS 8:30am - 10:30am

Student Presentations WITHOUT Using PowerPoint 8:30am - 9:20am

iTunesU and iPads in the Classroom 9:35am - 10:25am

CANCELLED: QR Codes: An Easy How-To for Classroom Use 9:35am - 10:25am

Edmodo--Building A Social Network Within the Classroo... 8:30am - 9:20am

Game-up Classroom Activities and Lessons 9:35am - 10:25am

Can You Hear Me Now??? Google Voice Can Help! 8:30am - 9:20am

60 Apps in 60 minutes or less 9:35am - 10:25am

Cell Phones in the STEM Classroom 9:35am - 10:25am