Presentations:
The
Transition from an Analog Environment to a Digital Environment
using DirecPC Satellite dishes - DirecPC Satellite
Dishes allow schools to have higher bandwith and higher download
speeds to the Internet. This technology allows your school's
network to be connected to the Internet instead of a single
computer. Reduced monthly rates are currently available to schools
through a partnership between Industry Canada's SchoolNet and
the STENTOR group of companies including NewTel Communications.
Over 150 of these dishes have already been installed and are
being used for school projects including Distance Education
pilot courses in the Vista School District. Frank Shapleigh,
STEM~Net Training Officer.
Room E5004, 9:00am-9:45am, Thursday, August 20, 1998
NetVista
Server - An Internet server designed and built for
K-12 schools, gives controlled secure access to the Internet.
It's features include web caching, Cyberpatrol and mailbox management.
Derek Gooderham, IBM.
Room E5004, 11:00am-12:30pm, Wednesday, August 19, 1998
Integrating
web-based activities into your curriculum. - Heidi
Gatherall, Newtown Elementary and Pat Wells, Bishops College.
Room E2002, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Tuesday, August 18, 1998
The
Role of a shared Learning Support teacher in Irish Primary Schools.
- The session will give an overview of the work in two primary
schools in Waterford city-: including evaluation, diagnosis,
and remediation in the areas of English and Mathematics. Participants
will be afforded the opportunity to peruse tests and texts devised
in Ireland. Grainne O'Neachtain is a remedial/learning support
teacher in Waterford, Ireland and a recent convert to the use
of IT.
Room E2003, 1:30pm-2:15pm, Tuesday, August 18, 1998
"Information
Technology": An Irish Primary School Experience.
Topics covered will include:
- How teachers in Ireland have introduced technology into
their classrooms-: the struggle.
- "IT 2000" Dept. of Education and Science initiative: the
change!
- Development of IT in Edmund Rice Primary School, Tramore-:
the struggle goes on.
Liam O'Neachtain is a teacher in Edmund Rice Primary School, Tramore,
County Waterford. He has been using IT in his classroom for the
past ten years. He is an IT Advisor and Tutor with the National
Centre for Technology in Education. His classes have won national
internet based competitions and the school has recently been selected
as an"Information Age Magnet School" by the Dept. of Education
and Science..As part of the Stellar Schools Project, his school
is twinned with Topsail Elementary School, Conception Bay South,
NF.
Room E1014, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Wednesday, August 19, 1998
Telelearning
in a School District Intranet - How to design and
develop a school district digital Intranet for the delivery
of senior high school courses. This presentation will focus
on the pilot project with the Vista School District involving
the development and delivery of Advanced Placement courses in
Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Wilbert Boone is
the Director of the Centre for TeleLearning and Rural Education.
Room E2003, 1:30pm-2:15pm, Wednesday, August 19, 1998
Telelearning
in a School Intranet - Discussion of pilot Global
Issues course done completely on the web using Web CT. Lyndon
Williams is a teacher at Musgravetown High School.
Room E2003, 4:15pm-5:00pm, Tuesday, August 18, 1998
Telelearning
and Digital Intranets - This session will outline
a challenge to the current model of school organization in teaching,
learning, management, and policy issues. Ken Stevens, Chair
in Telelearning & Rural Education, Faculty of Education.
Room E2003, 3:30pm-4:15pm, Tuesday, August 18, 1998
Cisco
Networking Academies - An overview of the program,
how it is being implemented in the Canadian market, industry
skills shortage statistics, what Cisco provides, what the school
would provide, an overview of the curriculum being offered to
schools in Canada (280 hours of multimedia driven curriculum),
who and how just some of the Canadian Networking Academies are
implementing this into their schools, and finally show a Video
which has two components to it. One is a Video News Release
that was distributed to news stations in North America after
the country PR campaign, and the second component is an excellent
recruitment video geared to students providing an upbeat graphical
depiction of Who Cisco is and how the internet technology works.
Anne Miller, Cisco.
Room E2003, 9:00am-10:30am, Wednesday, August 19, 1998
Y2K
Impact - Possible impacts of the Year 2000 Problem.
Joe Bullen.
Room E2003, 2:15pm-3:00pm, Tuesday, August 18, 1998
Youth
Employment - Discover the youth employment opportunities
with Community Access for Newfoundland and Labrador (CANAL).
Over the past three years almost 200 summer jobs have been made
available to work in CANAL sites across the province. Learn
more about Community Access and employment opportunities with
CANAL 1998 and 1999. Chris Gale, CANAL Staff.
Room E2003, 9:45am-10:30am, Thursday, August 20, 1998
ICT
in Irish Second Level Education : IT 2000 Initiative, The CBS
Tramore Experience. - John Hartery is a teacher
at CBS Secondary School, Tramore, Waterford County, Ireland.
Room E1014, 3:30pm-4:15pm, Wednesday, August 19, 1998
W.I.R.E'd - The Waterford Information
Revolution for Everybody and what we are about in Waterford.
I also propose to speak from my own area of expertise (not technology!)
on how to 'sell' the internet to the un-initiated and those
who have never had any computer experience. The STELLAR Schools
Program in Ireland will also be discussed. Mary Roche, Flagship
Communications, Waterford, Ireland. Nora Donovan, St. Angela's
Ursuline School, Waterford, Ireland.
