JURISDICTION TECHNOLOGY CONTACTS EVENT
Program-At-A-Glance
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Mount Royal University, Calgary
8:00 a.m. –
8:30 a.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m. –
10:30 a.m.
Welcome and Plenary
10:30 a.m. –
Networking Break
11:00 a.m.
Breakout
Session 1
11:00 a.m. –
12:00 p.m.
Technology to Support K-4
Learners: Lessons Learned
Digital Learning Environments
Building an IT Service Portfolio
Video Communications in Alberta
Ross Glen Hall – EC1040
Ross Glen Hall – EC1060
EC2010
EC2075
Four school authorities in Alberta were
recently involved in a two-year mixed
methods case study of technology in
early grades. Teachers used an
inquiry framework to design
worthwhile and technology-rich
learning tasks supported by a
research community of practice.
Presenters will share findings and
implications for teachers and school
leaders in developing
technology-enabled, inquiry-based
learning spaces for young learners.
Presenters: Dr. Michelle Jacobsen
and
Dr. Barb Brown, University of Calgary
Anthony Hampshire,
Galileo Education Network
Association
Page 2 of 4
Join Cheryl Lemke from Metiri Group
as she shares how various
jurisdictions internationally are
approaching the issues of access,
infrastructure and digital resources to
meet the learning needs of all
students.
Presenter: Cheryl Lemke, Metiri
Group
How do school authorities manage
what seems like insatiable demand for
appropriate technology and support
when resources are constrained?
Find out how one school authority
communicates what IT does and what
it costs to increase engagement of
educational leaders in IT financial
decisions. Learn about the process
used, the tools developed, and how to
access and use them in your school
authority.
Presenters: Jeff Murray and Ron
Eberts,
Red Deer Public Schools
Angie Tarasoff, Alberta Education
Join School Technology Branch’s
videoconferencing (VC) support team
for a presentation and discussion
about the current technical state of
Video Communication in Alberta’s K12 system.
Participants will have the opportunity
to discuss VC configuration options,
what’s working well and what
challenges you may be encountering.
Presenters: Terry DeAlexandra, Qin
Chang and Dave Hauschildt, Alberta
Education
12:00 p.m.
– 1:00 p.m.
Breakout
Session 2
1:00 p.m. –
2:00 p.m.
Lunch
Flexible Pathways to
Success Project: Rocky View
Schools’ Story
Are We There Yet?
Purposeful Design:
One School Authority’s Story
They Took My Servers!
EC2075
Ross Glen Hall – EC1060
Ross Glen Hall – EC1040
EC2010
Flexible Pathways to Success was a
two-year project that explored the
impact of technology on student
learning in inclusive learning
environments. In particular, it was
interested in supporting learner
differences with regards to cognitive
ability (i.e., from cognitive disability
to gifted).
Join participants from Rocky View
Schools to hear their flexible
pathways to success story, as they
share what they set out to
accomplish, strategies used,
obstacles encountered, results and
lessons learned.
Presenters: Rocky View Schools
2:00 p.m. –
2:15 p.m.
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Networking Break
How do you know if you are making
progress on using technology to
support student learning? Join this
session to learn how others around the
world use metrics to track the journey
of policies into practice and to
contribute your ideas about what
indicators and sources of evidence
make sense.
Presenter: Cheryl Lemke, Metiri
Group
Wolf Creek team members will share
about our journey so far as we work
with teachers and students to
positively transform learning and
effectively integrate new and
emerging technologies in the
classroom.
Learn about Peace Wapiti School
Division’s journey in moving their
infrastructure to a third party hosted
provider— the decision making process,
the rationale, where they are at today
and what they plan to do in the future.
Attendees will hear about how we are
using purposeful design to develop
future-ready classrooms.
Presenters: Mark McWhinnie and
Greg Esteves, Wolf Creek Public
Schools
Presenters: Peace Wapiti School
Division
Breakout
Session 3
2:15 p.m. –
3:15 p.m.
Building a Shared Understanding
for Supporting Every Student:
Leveraging Technology
Cloud Computing and Privacy
Implementing the Quality
Learning Environment
Extranet Enhancements
EC2010
Ross Glen Hall – EC1060
Ross Glen Hall – EC1040
EC2075
Alberta Education recently released a
new Inclusive Education Resource
video series with discussion guides.
The series is called
Building a Shared Understanding for
Supporting Every Student.
Cloud-based services provide a vast
array of opportunities for student
learning and efficient administration of
education. However, there are privacy
risks that need to be addressed.
How do you move an entire rural
school authority toward a studentcentred approach to learning? How do
you build buy-in and unleash the
power of educators to innovate, while
managing risk and balancing
workloads?
This session will focus on the two
videos out of the nine-video series
that relate to technology: Making
Sense of Universal Design for
Learning and Using Assistive
Technology to Support Learning.
Presenter: Belina Caissie, Alberta
Education
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School Technology Branch has been
working with stakeholders on
developing a cloud computing and
privacy toolkit. Join your colleagues to
discuss some common cloud privacy
scenarios and how to address them.
Presenter: Tara Reimche, Alberta
Education
In this interactive session, learn how
Peace Wapiti School Division is
leveraging Research and Innovation
and Leadership strategies to
implement the Quality Learning
Environment.
Presenters: Mark Davidson,
Peace Wapiti School Division
Angie Tarasoff, Alberta Education
This session will provide an overview
of the recent enhancements to the
extranet, including Google Apps sign
in and enhanced administration
capabilities.
The session will also cover the
features and processes for managing
extranet accounts, application
permissions and new features for
directory and organization searching.
Presenters: Alberta Education