Naomi Harm

Building and Growing Your Professional Learning Network

Collaborative social networks allow educators to create online communities that support their personal and professional learning. Whether your personal learning network is overflowing or just starting to grow, this session will help you to refine your network to best suit your learning needs. Naomi will lead you to interesting people who advocate for the effective use of technology to improve teaching and learning, while supporting a 21st century skills teaching and learning environment. We will discuss tips and tricks to leverage the potential of these networks and provide resources to help attendees set up their own networks. Participants will gain hands-on experience using social communication and collaboration media tools such as Adobe Connect, Twitter, Intel® Engage, Educators PLN Ning, back channel chats, and social bookmarking tools to build professional learning and social networks to lead effectively in your school district or educational organization.

Building and Growing Your Professional Learning Network-Naomi Harm

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Transforming Education with 21st Century Skills and ICT Literacy (Keynote)

In the education sector, there has been a growing movement toward infusing 21st

century skills into teaching. Driven by organizations around the world, this trend is more than a passing fad, and has caught the attention of those training and equipping teachers for the digital-age classroom. 21st century skills are what today’s students and graduates need to compete, and succeed, in today’s global workforce. There are a series of concepts and themes that go beyond the conventional to teach safe and effective technology integration and application skill sets. Whether you are a professor, an administrator, an instructor, a trainer or a future teacher, you must understand 21st century skills to be effective. So are you wondering exactly what 21st Century Skills and ICT Literacy's are all about? Are you trying to determine what steps to take to begin bringing 21st Century Skills into your classroom projects infused with Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) literacy?

Transforming Education with 21st Century Skills and ICT Literacy:-Naomi Harm

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Transforming Your Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. This session will not only teach you how to use new web technologies that are beginning to transform education, it will also put you well on the way to implementing them in your practice. The tools we'll be looking at include image/video editing and production, collaboration, writing and research, converters and widgets, presentations and virtual environments. These tools will allow teachers and learners to express their creativity in any curricular area, and you will learn how each of these tools and resources are being used in classrooms around the world.

Transforming Your Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy-Naomi Harm

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Google my way

Come explore the wonderful world of Google apps and its learning environment for

education. Participants will be totally immersed in innovative ways of how to use Google tools to support and extend learning opportunities for all of their students, and how the tools can support the productivity and efficiency of today's 21st century educator. This hands-on session will include activities for you to experience with advanced search techniques, collaborative web-based applications, and inspirational instructional strategies. Naomi will share ways she has worked with educators at the national level of how educators have implemented tools such as Google Docs and Forms, Google Maps, Google Sites, Google talk and so much more.