Kathy+Schrock

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====Kathy Schrock has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, an adjunct education professor, and a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian. She is currently teaching online graduate courses for Wilkes University and Arcadia University as well as offering a series of no-cost Webinars for eGenio and edWeb. She is an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Teacher, and a Discovery Education STAR and a DEN GURU. ====

====In addition to teaching online, Kathy writes, speaks, blogs, tweets, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes throughout the world. She is known for her practical presentations dealing with pedagogically sound practices for the embedding of technology seamlessly into teaching and learning. Her passions are online tools to support classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type! ====

====Some personal facts about Kathy are that she lives in a geodesic dome, has a large Dave Debusschere sports card collection, drives a bright red Honda Helix motorcycle and watches Days of Our Lives each day! ====

====Kathy has been an avid user of the Internet since November of 1993, and, in 1995, she created her award-winning site, //Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators//, to help teachers easily wade through the many resources on the Internet. In 1999, Kathy partnered with Discovery Education and continues to update the resources on her site daily. ====

Full resume here if you are interested!
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//Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:45am GWCC Salon 5//
====An infographic is a visual representation of information. Come learn tips and tricks for using student-created infographics as an authentic assessment. The presentation will showcase how infographics are created and concentrate on the student literacy skills necessary to research, critique, summarize, and communicate information in a visual way to reach their audience.====

//Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:45am// //GWCC Salon 5//
====This session will review the basics of Twitter, talk a bit about the etiquette of Twitter, and explore hundreds of ideas of how Twitter can be used to expand the participants' personal learning networks and also be used to support the instructional process.====

//Friday, November 4, 2011 8:30am// //GWCC Salon 4//
====This presentation takes a look at technological predictions and predicaments that have informed the direction of current instruction, and ponders a few questions about teaching for the future. How can teachers design curriculum that embeds technology in a meaningful way? What tools should the classroom technology toolbox contain? What are the management strategies to facilitate this connected classroom?====

//Friday, November 4, 2011 9:45am// //GWCC Salon 4//
====This presentation takes a look at technological predictions and predicaments that have informed the direction of current instruction, and ponders a few questions about teaching for the future. How can teachers design curriculum that embeds technology in a meaningful way? What tools should the classroom technology toolbox contain? What are the management strategies to facilitate this connected classroom?====