Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

Our Mission

Creating awareness of how educators are engaging students in active learning with dynamic and creative lessons through the use of technology.

Mark your calendars for the 5th annual JSD2 Tech Expo! It will be on Tuesday, August 14th this year, from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Renaissance High School.  We will also have optional three hour afternoon sessions. 

***This year we are having a benefits fair at the same time.  Come and learn about many of your employee benefits.

The Tech Expo is a fun event: a dynamic keynote speaker, practical sessions presented by JSD2 teachers and vendors, exhibits of the latest technology applications, and lots of give-aways and door prizes.

This year we will have the Promethean Bus here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkWksVYgMbE

Once again this year, you will be able to earn a credit! Credit registration (NNU) and class requirements  are listed here: 

College Credit Registration and Information

Opening Session Speaker

Using Technology To Create New Knowledge

One of the unforeseen consequences into technology’s integration in the social fabric is the creation of new knowledge, including new content and new strategies for teaching and learning. The challenges of content creation especially match 21st Century learners and the digital classroom. Jobs, global problems, and communication will be intertwined with the creation of both knowledge and content, and the ability to look at and analyze what is newly created will become a 21st Century skill. Originally created as a strategy for teachers of the gifted, this approach applies to all learners and gives a new perspective on what to do with all those digital tools.

 Hall Davidson

Hall Davidson began teaching in 1971. He taught middle and high school English, mathematics, Spanish, and bilingual mathematics. Davidson has been on two college faculties teaching technology for teacher credential candidates. He left the classroom to teach math on television in Los Angeles on an Emmy-winning program and spent 20 years at Los Angeles area PBS stations teaching, leading staff development, championing content creation by students and teachers, and ultimately producing television series on education, technology, parenting, and theater. He frequently contributes articles to national education publications and co-authored TechWorks, an internationally distributed classroom technology kit and with a team founded Kitzu.org, a resource of free online kits to encourage project-based learning with media. For twelve years Davidson coordinated the nation’s oldest student media festival, the California Student Media Festival, where he reviewed over a thousand student projects. He has keynoted major technology conferences and consulted for professional organizations and corporations and has been on advisory boards and committees for organizations as diverse as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the California School Library Association. He has two children who attended Los Angeles public schools, one of whom graduated from UCSC and is preparing for graduate work in education at the University of Southern California. He was twice re-elected as site chairperson at the local elementary school where the categorical budget required his signature.

Hall Davidson joined Discovery Education in 2005 where he blogs, creates webinars, works in educational partnerships and serves as director of Global Learning Initiatives . He has spoken about technology and education to audiences around the world.
 

Closing Session Speaker

Dr. Linda Clark

 Dr. Clark is a career educator who has spent the past 41 years as an elementary teacher, principal and district administrator.  She is now serving her eighth year as superintendent,   and her 34^th  year in the district.  During her tenure, Joint School District No. 2 (Idaho’s largest district) has grown by 8,000 students, successfully passed a $139 million dollar bond issue, completed construction of 10 new schools, and opened 16 academic magnet schools/programs.  The newest magnet school is Renaissance High School, an  International Baccalaureate (IB) degree school which was constructed as part of the district’s new educational complex.  This complex also houses the District Administrative Service Center, District Training Center, and Idaho State University –Meridian, and was converted from an vacant manufacturing plant. After expansion, the complex  now provides 500,000 sq. ft. of educational program space, and is a center for innovation and collaboration between the district and its many educational partners.

Dr. Clark was recently recognized as the Outstanding Technology Leader of the Year by the Northwest Council for Computer Education.  She is the first superintendent and the first Idahoan to receive this recognition.  The Idaho Education Technology  Association also recently recognized her for Outstanding Support for Technology by an Administrator.

Useful technology sessions lead by Joint School District No. 2 Educators, IT Technicians, University staff, and a variety of vendor representatives!

Giveaways and drawings galore! 

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