Technology faculty from secondary and postsecondary schools will share what is working for them in engaging students. These 30-minute workshops will each be offered TWICE during three concurrent sessions, 9:30-11:20 a.m. On the registration form, please select your top FIVE choices. We will make every effort to give you your top THREE choices.
HANDOUTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND OTHER
MATERIALS:
Click on title of workshop for sessions with PowerPoint presentations.
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provided.
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Workshop Descriptions:
Advancing Your Manufacturing Classroom:
Creating an Advanced Manufacturing Course in Your School
Bob Sexton and Jeff Clutter
Advanced manufacturing is a relatively new course in Indiana. This session will focus on explaining what advanced manufacturing is and how you can implement it into your classroom. Funding options, tips, tricks, and pitfalls for these programs will also be addressed.
HANDOUTS:
Website Resources
MSSC Syllabus
Bring CSI into Your Classroom without the Crime Scene!
Susan Doring
Have you ever seen a student who didn’t like to watch television?! This hands-on biotechnology session will demonstrate how you can relate some of the technologies (specifically DNA extraction) used on today’s most popular detective shows to a standards-based curriculum.
Females, What Females?
Bev Bitzegaio, Kellie Bass, and Sarah Rodie
How many females do you have in your classes? If you are like the majority of the nation you don’t have many! Learn possible strategies for attracting females to your programs and how to retain them after they walk through the door.
Funding and Curriculum Changes in Technology and Engineering Education and Career and Technical Education
Doug Dillion
If there is one constant in technology it is change! We work in a field that is constantly changing; however, the change doesn’t only happen in the classroom. This presentation will focus on changes that have occurred in Technology and Engineering Education and Career and Technical Education courses in Indiana and funding that can support them.
Getting Your Students the Biggest Bang for Their Buck!
Jeff McNabb, Janet Swalls, and
Robyn Haase
Gone are the days of only receiving credit for Advanced Placement Math
and English! There are Technology and Engineering and Career and Technical
Education courses that students may receive credit for at Indiana State
University, Ivy Tech State College, and Vincennes University. This session
will discuss what some of those course offerings are and how your students can
receive credit.
He’s One of THEM!
Chris Hill
This Generation Y teacher will share his tricks of the trade on how to increase student learning by constantly challenging them to design, innovate and manufacture custom projects. Teaching modern manufacturing in an industrial arts lab enables his students to learn traditional industrial arts skills while working in a project-based, standards-based curriculum.
HANDOUTS:
Problem
Solving Activity
Student
Expectations
I Can’t Do Math!
Tom Savage
Students have been doing math in our classes for years, but didn’t realize it. This presentation will focus on non-traditional ways to incorporate standards-based mathematics into your classroom. You’ll have your kids saying I CAN do math before you know it!
I-Phones, Video, and Texting – OH MY!
Kelly Wilkinson
OMG, T911 (Oh my gosh, teacher alert change the subject). Do you sometimes wonder how to keep up with the students when it comes to new communications-based technologies? The world of communications has changed drastically over the past few years. This presentation will focus on ways of using different types of communications to catch the interest of your students while teaching them about technology in a standards-based approach.
Is There Room for Both?
Gary Werner, Mike Jacobs, and
Brandon Small
Saying hello to pre-engineering curriculums (such as Project Lead the Way) doesn’t have to mean saying good-bye to your existing programs. This discussion-based presentation will give perspectives on how two schools of differing size and geographic location in Indiana are keeping both programs for their students. Presenters will focus on challenges, tips, tricks, and rewards of keeping both programs.
Motivating Generation Y
Barbara Eversole
Generation Y is now entering the workplace and many supervisors and
managers are wondering what to do with them. This practical session will offer
information on this new generation and helpful tips on preparing students and
their employers to deal with the mix of four generations in the workplace at one
time. Come with your questions and with any tips you've learned about motivating millenials to share with others in this highly interactive session.
What’s New with ISU?
Kara Harris
Whether it’s been a while since you have been to ISU, been a while since you have been here without chasing students from event to event at Tech T.R.E.K., or you have never set foot of the campus before, chances are there is something new going on. This session will give you a back stage pass to see various labs and talk with faculty and students that are working with programs in the College of Technology. Information of program offerings, scholarships, and student organizations will be available to you to share with your students, in addition to ways you can become involved with outreach programs through the College of Technology.