Katie Nielson - Voxy EnGen

Tadd Wamester - Voxy EnGen

Fatma Ghalian - Queens Public Library

Persistent shifts in hiring demand and the future of work have accelerated in recent times. Immigrant and refugee communities have been disproportionately affected by job losses, and make up a larger percentage of essential workers in healthcare and retail. Adult education programs are critical to building an inclusive and equitable recovery through English language, digital literacy, career pathway and academic transition programs. Within this session we will workshop a blended program design to optimize employment outcomes for ELLs.

Career Pathway (IET) and localized, adaptable workplace English programs can make a critical difference in how successful and impactful these programs can be at opening up internal career pathways and talent pipelines. But "selling" programs to employers and upskilling partners can be challenging. How do you gauge employer readiness and how do you convince them of the value in partnering with adult education programs? And once you have their buy-in and launch a new program, how do you measure impact and Return on Investment (ROI)?

Insight into how blended and virtual IET programs support English language learners as they pursue career pathways and advancement in healthcare, technology, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and many other growth sectors will be discussed. The "jobs of the future" are already here, so let's explore how you can rapidly prepare your learners for success and workplace satisfaction over the long-term.

Conference Strand: Instructional Design

Target Audience: Post-Secondary

Recording

Stephanie Schaefer - Seton Catholic Central

In the 2020-2021 school year, I balanced online and in-person math learners by employing a wide variety of tools to engage my learners. In this session, you will learn about how to use tools like Desmos and Nearpod to engage learners wherever they are.

Conference Strand: Remote Learning (COVID Response)

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary

Recording

Rebecca Ekstrom - Algonquin Middle School

Fake news isn't new, (John Adams used fake news in 1769 to undermine the British), but fake news is currently an online epidemic. In this interactive nearpod presentation, you'll be shown tools that you can use with your students to help them tell the difference between fake news and legitimate news. Please use a laptop or tablet for this presentation.

Conference Strand: Instructional Design

Target Audience: Grades K-12

Recording

Stephanie Affinito - University at Albany

In this session, we will explore how hyperdocs can be used as launching points for writing notebooks. We will think about how they generate writing inspiration, bridge the connection from paper and pencil to technology tools and create communities of writers.

Conference Strand: Remote Learning (COVID Response)

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary

Recording

Nathan Hammond - e-hallpass

Breakthrough approach for our digital era allows you to monitor, control and enhance your hall traffic with e-hallpass.

• Contactless Hall Passes
• New Social Distancing Tools
• Limit Passes Building-Wide
• Limit Passes For Any Student (Or Group)
• Limit Passes To Any (bath)Room
• "Frequent Flyer" Detector
• Prevent Student Meet-ups
• Anti-Vaping Features
• Increase Accountability
• Enhance School Security
• Tardy Management Features
• Time Saver for Teachers and Admins
• Free Pilot

Conference Strand: Emerging Technologies

Target Audience: Grades K-12

Recording

Alyson Van Hooser - Van Hooser Associates, Inc.

The importance of educators in the lives and well-being of today's world has never been more evident. With all the demands of the day-to-day responsibilities, many educators are left feeling burnt out and empty. Is there a solution? Yes. It starts with a perspective shift. Through the presenter's powerful encounter with a grade school teacher, little did that teacher know, they would be making an impact on multiple generations 25+ years later. As the story of this encounter unfolds, this inspirational, powerful presentation will help revive the energy, purpose, and meaning among attendees. Additionally, attendees will walk away with a three-part process for creating stronger connections among leaders and employees, teachers, and students.

Conference Strand: Leadership

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary

Recording

Mary Berkery - Excelsior College

Amber O'Neil - Excelsior College

In two, asynchronous, introductory US history survey courses, a free curation tool, Wakelet, is used as a tool for artifact storage and content creation for a major course-long project as an alternative to a traditional research paper. Students compile primary and secondary sources and images related to their research topic and then create lessons and presentations to post to their Wakelet for others. The process of locating information, organizing and evaluating it, and creating new content allows students to apply historical thinking, contextualize the past, and learn through the process of teaching. 

The capstone for the bachelors in liberal arts uses Wakelet as a creative tool for a collection of professional reflection journals and a final electronic portfolio. Using Wakelet as the tool for completing these allows students the flexibility to be more creative in how they demonstrate professional presence, and gives them a chance to showcase different strengths and even experiment with something besides text-based reflections. 

This presentation will address the benefits and challenges of using Wakelet and address key takeaways for audience members hoping to employ the tool in their own courses. 

Conference Strand: eLearning

Target Audience: Post-Secondary

Recording

Joseph Sanfilippo - Teq Inc

This session will overview the SMART Learning Suite Online that allows you to provide lessons and activities directly to student devices to provide content, complete activities, assess students and collect data both inside and outside the classroom.

We will cover how to use pre-existing content such as PDF, PowerPoint, and Google Slides to convert and add activities, deliver lessons to students and provide for out of class instruction.

Conference Strand: How to/Integration

Target Audience: Grades K-12

Recording

Benjamin Pearson - Excelsior College

Anna Zendell - Excelsior College

Susannah Rodriguez - Excelsior College

Over the past twenty years, the scholarship of writing instruction has undergone a significant paradigm shift. As scholars rethink writing instruction to address these challenges, they have identified a variety of strategies, which we (borrowing from the language of economics) have placed into two categories: supply and demand.  On the supply side, there are strategies for reforming introductory writing classes to better equip students for the variety of writing challenges they will later encounter. On the demand side, there are strategies for activating students' pre-existing writing knowledge and skills in the disciplinary classes they will take in their major or degree field.

In this presentation, we will briefly discuss the scholarship informing course and curricular changes at our nonprofit online college. We will then examine the ways in which we have adopted best practices from both the supply and demand sides of the writing equation to re-imagine our introductory online writing courses, expand our online writing support services, and develop a new Writing in the Disciplines initiative. We will place special emphasis on the ways in which we have leveraged online teaching and learning technologies to support and implement each of these projects. Finally, we will share resources that can support attendees in implementing WID initiatives at their own institutions.

Conference Strand: eLearning

Target Audience: Post-Secondary

Recording

Christine MacPherson - Hudson Falls CSD

Laurie Guyon - WSWHE BOCES

If 2021 taught us anything, it's that it's not about the tools driving our instruction. Join us as we reflect on the best of 2020-2021 and, more importantly, what we take into the new school year. Instructional practices that amplify student engagement as well as how we assess learning will be explored.

Conference Strand: Instructional Design

Target Audience: Grades K-12

Recording