Over the years, Arizona's educational IT community has had a desire to create a statewide conference focused on their unique interests and needs. This forum is designed for networking and professional development for Arizona CIOs, CTOs and key technical and support staff from around the state.
Join us for the third annual Arizona CIO/CTO Forum. The goal of the conference is to focus on professional development and session topics centered on IT. The forum is an exciting opportunity to be part of building the future of Arizona K-12 schools.
More details to come!
Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, futurist, visionary and inventor in the critical areas of education and learning. Marc is the founder of Games2train, an e-learning company whose clients include IBM, Bank of America, Nokia, the US Department of Defense and the Los Angeles and Florida Virtual Schools. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Digital Game-Based Learning and Don’t Bother Me Mom – I’m Learning.
Marc’s professional focus has been on reinventing the learning process, combining the motivation of video games and other highly engaging activities with the driest content of education and business. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between games and learning. His innovative combination of educational tools and game technology – including the world's first fast-action videogame-based corporate training tool – is being accepted throughout schools, government and corporate America.
Called, “that rare visionary who implements,” Marc has designed and built over 100 software games in his career, including world-wide, multi-user games and simulations that run on all platforms from the internet to handhelds to cell phones. Marc has created the most advanced and engaging technology for education, business training and e-Learning. Marc’s presentations inspire audiences by opening up their minds to new ideas and approaches to technology and education.
Marc’s background includes masters degrees from Yale, Middlebury, and The Harvard Business School (with distinction).
8:45 a.m. – Registration / Exhibit Area Open
9:30 a.m. – Welcome
9:45 a.m. – Keynote – Marc Prensky
Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, futurist, visionary and inventor in the critical areas of education and learning. Marc is the founder of Games2train, an e-learning company, and his professional focus has been on reinventing the learning process, combining the motivation of video games and other highly engaging activities with the driest content of education and business. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between games and learning. His innovative combination of educational tools and game technology – including the world's first fast-action videogame-based corporate training tool – is being accepted throughout schools, government and corporate America. Marc’s background includes master’s degrees from Yale, Middlebury, and The Harvard Business School (with distinction).
10:45 a.m. – Break
11 a.m. – #1 Concurrent Sessions
Paradise Valley Unified School District: Library Media Centers (LMCs)
Our LMC’s now fall under the guidance of the IT Department, with the directive to modernize and deliver consistent curriculum. Balancing current and emerging technologies into all literacies includes: K-3 text centrism; 6th graders literate; 8th graders fluent; and 10th graders excelling; using "pvLearners" (Google Apps) to embed project based literacy activities.
Coming to a Classroom Near You, the 21st Century Learner
Whatever you call them, Millennials, Digital Natives, or the Net Gen, students today learn and think differently and require a different infrastructure of resources to thrive in education. This session will explore the current understanding on what it means to be "grown up digital" and present the tools that every district must provide students if they are to learn creatively and effectively.
Introductions:
Speakers:
Lower your costs and improve your security with Motorola’s Wireless Campus
Motorola’s innovative portfolio of wireless solutions includes award-winning “green” wireless LAN products for indoors and outdoors that have been market leaders in enterprise for years. Combined with fixed broadband and mesh hardware, Motorola offers the most complete selection of wireless infrastructure. In addition, a strong suite of handheld and fixed data devices and applications round out a portfolio that can uniquely provide the end-to-end solutions your school needs.
1 to 1 Access Through Private Cloud Computing
Dell and Stoneware have combined to help school districts build their own private cloud computing model to reduce IT costs, increase security and expand access all applications, files and data from any device, anytime, anywhere. Stoneware will provide a practical, step by step, phased approach to build your own private cloud computing model in three to five days.
EduAccess
The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) has developed a new identity management system called EduAccess. EduAccess is much more than just a replacement for the Common Logon framework. EduAccess allows ADE to fully manage access to ADE resources and identity information for all educational stakeholders, including parents and students. Partners, if they choose, can leverage EduAccess to provide single-sign to ADE resources. EduAccess allows ADE to delegate management of partner accounts to a designated administrator. EduAccess can even be used by partners to manage access to their own internal resources. Come and learn about the exciting possibilities provide by the EduAccess system.
Student Management Systems
Come hear what Liberty Elementary School District used as their process to evaluate Student Management System vendors and select their current SMS. We'll share our RFP review process, vendor selection and demo process as well as our implementation strategies. We have been "live" for almost three months now and will gladly share the goods, the bads and the uglies of switching systems. If you are planning on switching to a new student management system, this session is for you!
Jodi Obenstine, Director of Technology Services, Liberty Elementary School District
To Provision or Not To Provision: Using Google Apps for Email/Calendar Services
Representatives from one district share a glimpse into their decision to transition from internally provisioned Exchange Email to Google Apps for employees and students. Hear about the policy, technical and training issues such as security, functionality and archiving and status of the project today. Finally participate in a “provision vs. outsource-to-the-cloud” debate on the role of school IT Departments today.
Making Sane Choices: Balancing Technology Needs and Business Constraints
This session will highlight what the speaker has learned in the last six years of procuring, installing, managing and disposing of a school's computer technology (primarily computers, monitors, printers and software). Special emphasis will be placed on deciding on new, used or donated equipment; what and when to outsource; sample statistics; and suggested resources and vendors.
Noon – Lunch and Exhibit Area
1 p.m. – #2 Concurrent Sessions
Thin Clients and Thin PCs, Options to Save Money
Join this session and hear how thin clients and thin PCs can help your district through centralized management and reduced costs. Hear about a real-life implementation – Apache Junction Unified School District went from a classroom of thin clients to an implementation of 800 – and what the future holds. Hear also about a new 'Thin PC' solution that delivers high value, quick ROI, low risk and low TCO, while not giving up the end-user PC experience.
Preparing Students for an ISTE-based Future
Paradise Valley Unified School District uses considerable multimedia to create, collaborate, communicate and learn. Describing a number of audio/video practices; pTUNES, pTV, pCHAT, and pCAST, all falling under the umbrella of pBRO, the practices, technology and infrastructure will be shared.
The Active Learning Classroom – “A Genuine 21st Century Learning Environment”
Interactive whiteboards, document cameras, student responders, countless tools,etc. But how do teachers properly integrate them into a seamless learning and teaching environment? A team of experienced educators have assembled Classroom Solution Bundles across all content areas that enable genuine 21st Century Learning to take place in the classroom environment. Maximize your hardware investments and sample exemplary products while participating in a presentation that enables active learning through effective technology integration. Learn how carefully selected “best in class” educational software and web-based applications can advance your district’s/school’s technology goals and leverage your hardware investments. Participants will also learn how an effective professional development model can prepare your teachers with the confidence and knowledge to achieve success and improve student outcomes.
What is "Effective" IT? (formerly known as "Wild-eyed" IT)
As technology leaders, we spend a great deal of time "doing" IT. But what are we actually doing? We keep the servers and the network running . . . but is that really the entire scope of our jobs? Is there more to it (or should there be)? This session will be a conversational (and occasionally confrontational) exploration of what constitutes "effective" IT. We will look at the philosophical underpinnings of our jobs, as well as the various cultural forces at play in school districts that often hinder our success.
Feeding Faculty: The Challenges of Learning Communities and Offering More than Pizza
Yavapai College has had excellent success incorporating faculty training objects into the college’s portal system yet we are still challenged in creating learning communities within campuses and divisions. Our ongoing summer and winter multi-day training events, monthly hour long workshops, relationship with the IT department and diligent one-on-one support have created some good learning for faculty in both technology integration and adopting a more constructivist and learner centered approach. This workshop will highlight some of the successes and challenges the college continues to face with teacher training. Participants are encouraged to share their own stories and frustrations.
Saved from the Recycling Bin: Open Opportunities with Open Source Operating Systems
Representatives from one valley school district share technical resources and training strategies used to overcome some of the major barriers in configuring and deploying an open source operating system on aging district hardware. Find out how this initiative has helped their district reduce licensing fees, provide updated software on older computers, and introduce their predominantly Windows users to an alternative operating system.
Bridging the Gap Between Parents, Teachers and Students
Student Information Systems contain an array of data that are essential to maximizing student progress, but unleashing the power of this information requires timely access by stakeholders. Representatives from two Arizona school districts describe how their districts are meeting the challenge of providing key educational information to parents, teachers and students.
2 p.m. – Break
2:15 p.m. – #3 Concurrent Sessions
Unified Communications Help Student Achievement
NLCB demands it and ARRA will fund it - Alcatel-Lucent will explain how unified communications can help your district improve student achievement. Mentoring, tutoring, parent / teacher conferencing, master teacher collaboration, distance learning and much more, unified communications is not just integrating your telephony system with your voice mail. Discover through customer case studies and practical examples how Alcatel-Lucent's vendor neutral unified communications platform can help transform your district's teaching and learning.
Best Practices: Social Networking
We’re familiar with Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, blogs and other social networking opportunities, and many of us are using them in ways that blur the lines between public, business and private. What are our responsibilities for information we create or use from these sites and tools? Find out exactly what you are required to do from the following perspectives: Public Records Management, Open Meeting Laws and IT – and some best practices for doing so.
Games for Learning
Student Collaborators Xavier College Preparatory utilizes students to find games that can be used in support of coursework. Students who have met prerequisites and enroll in Game Development II use their knowledge of game mechanics and genres to find appropriate games for different subject areas and provide instructors with suggestions for implementation. The most successful games are those that reinforce classroom learning and are completed outside of class time.
Technology Connections: Innovative Digital Tools to Make the Most of District Implementation
Twenty-first century schools are a buzz word used by many. What does it really mean and what type of technology should be included? This session will explore new technologies and ideas to leverage your assets and bring innovation into your school district. We will cover the latest technology tools; such as digital response systems and ideas for successful implementation – such as a digitally shared classroom.
Intel ® Corporation – Emerging Solutions That Will Change the Client Compute Model in Education
Please join Intel to learn about the impact of the Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) in the education market and how to drive down TCO. DVC is a family of application delivery methods that will help centralize management and data security while still providing a rich, mobile end-user experience. Learn how DVC can give IT control while growing the capabilities and effectiveness of your users.
Windows XP Multi-hardware Platform Ghost Images
Are you tired of managing a different image for every hardware platform in your organization? So were we! In this session, information and resources will be shared that could help you…
Technology Planning in Arizona
Come join us for the unveiling of the new technology plan toolkit for districts. This session will provide an overview of the new tech plan approval process, template and valuable technology planning resources contained in the toolkit. The new template draws from the 2009-2013 Arizona Educational Technology plan recommendations for districts and helps connect technology plans goals with other existing district plans while helping districts stay compliant with EETT and E-Rate requirements.
See How Your School Can Do More with Less
World Wide Technologies joins with ClassLink and HP to demonstrate the ease of deploying virtualized thin client labs and the financial benefits these labs bring to K-12 schools.
Berj Akian, ClassLink Chief Executive Officer, demonstrates how school districts nationwide are transforming their technology infrastructure through HP thin clients and ClassLink Virtualization Solutions.
3:15 p.m. – Plenary Roundtable
3:45 p.m. – Wrap-up
4 p.m. – Adjourn
For directions and parking, visit the Convention Center’s website.
Nearby Hotels
There is no room block set up for this event. Below is a list of hotels within walking distance from the Convention Center. The farthest hotel is five to six blocks away.
Hyatt
122 N Second St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.252.1234
Holiday Inn Express
620 N 6th St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.452.2020
Hotel San Carlos
202 N Central Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.253.4121
Wyndham
50 E. Adams Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.333.0000 / 877.999.3233
Springhill Suites by Marriott
802 E. Van Buren Street
Phoenix, AZ 85006
602.307.9929
