SuperQuest2015: Southern Oregon
SuperQuest 2015@Southern Oregon
August 19-21
Rogue Community College
7800 Pacific Ave
White City, OR 97503
Registration Fee: Registration fee for Ashland, Butte Falls, Central Point, Eagle Point, Klamath Falls City, Klamath County, Medford, Phoenix, Pinehurst, Prospect, Rogue River, and Three Rivers school districts: *$25. All others: $50.
* You’ll need the promotion code for the discount (see contact for the code)
Questions? Contact Pamela Weaver (pamela_weaver@soesd.k12.or.us)
Schedule
- 8:00am – 9:00am — Registration
- 9:00am – 12:00pm — Course instruction
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm — Lunch-N-Learn
- 1:00pm – 4:00pm — Course instruction
Workshops Offerings
Note: Participants will choose one course to participate in for all three days.
FLL Robotics
Nikki Kolb, Educator and Robotics Coach
FLL stand for FIRST LEGO League and it is FIRST’s robotics program for students in 4th-8th grades. In this class we will build and program a robot using LEGO EV3 Mindstorms. We will also share experiences and advice for coaching FLL teams. While most of our time is devoted to programming, we will also cover projects and core values as part of the competitive arena. We will also cover how to use LEGO robotics in the classroom and after school programs. All skill levels are welcome. Participants need to bring a laptop with Mindstorms EV3 Education Software, EV3 LEGO kit, power strip, and ear buds. We do have EV3 kits to check out but please contact the instructor in advance.
Fab Lab: 3D Design and Printing
John Niebergall, Sherwood High School
Find out everything you wanted to know (and more!) about 3D Printing!
Chromebooks in Your Classroom
Instructor David Cosand and JP Newman
Chromebooks are the perfect tool for collaboration, content creation, and working with Google Apps in the classroom. This course will introduce participants to effectively using Chromebooks with students, focusing on integration, management, student engagement, and specific project examples. We will also explore Google Classroom, Chrome apps, and Chrome extensions which can be useful in the classroom.
This course is for all teachers of all grade levels, and can be taken by anyone with basic knowledge of computers. Participants should have a Google account. Participants should bring a Chromebook, power cable, and ear buds. A limited number of Chromebooks will be available for check out, but please contact the instructors in advance.
iPads Joined My Classroom, Now What?
Instructor Gary Laipply
Planning to use Pads in your classroom for the first time this coming school year? Or have you already made the leap and are looking for more ideas, tips, webtools, or apps?
Join this hands-on workshop and explore some practical techniques for using iPads in a classroom setting. Topics include basic procedures, management issues, workflow options, classroom websites, LMSs (learning management systems), screencasts, game-based activities, student-response systems, and more. Customize the content to meet your own needs and help others in the process. Above all, walk away with some useful tools in your digital pocket to start off the school year.
Bring an iPad, a laptop, and charging cables and choose your own areas of focus: setting up a website or an LMS, recording screencasts, designing daily agendas, or creating formative assessments.
The facilitator, Gary Laipply, will share some of his experiences from four years of managing 30 iPads in his 6th-grade Social Studies classroom at Talent Middle School.
Introduction to Arduino/Galileo
Derek Runberg and Jeff Branson, SparkFun Electronics
SparkFun Electronics in Partnership with Intel is pleased to announce our Arduino/ Galileo for Educators class. In this class we will introduce the basics of circuits, electricity, engineering and computing using Arduino. We will focus on activities and content knowledge to implement in a project-based STEM classroom. Some of the tools we will use are the Processing programming language, the SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for Arduino, and the Intel Galileo. This class is designed to give a basic foundation to start working with students in this heavily relevant programming and engineering setting. As an introduction to programming and exploring interactive computing, we will be using the Processing programming language. Processing is an open source programming language and environment that was designed for artists and non-technical individuals. Finally, we will be exploring the Intel Galileo; a microcontroller board developed by Intel that incorporates the Intel Quark Processor into the DIY projects and STEM classrooms. This class will not only leverage the ability to program the Galileo in the Arduino development environment similar to a basic Arduino, but also explore embedded linux, networking and the Internet of Things in small digestible chunks. Participants will walk away with a basic knowledge and a set of hardware so they can keep exploring the world of embedded electronics on their own.