Abstracts

Keeping Students Safe in Cyberspace by Reyhane Alborz

In recent years, with the increasing use of technology in all aspects of life, especially in education, cybersecurity is now a top K-12 IT priority. Providing a safe and secure space for children has become an important issue. Especially in the past year, the Covid-19 caused many classes to be held online. This has both positive and negative aspects. Since children are learning and making mistakes, the online world can be scary. However, it's important to understand the advantages of going digital. Finally, children should be able to take advantage of cyberspace. They can communicate with loved ones, develop new skills, and gain access to information. For this reason, adults have a duty to protect children from these dangers and to give them the necessary awareness about cyberspace.

If you are a teacher or a parent, or you are dealing with children for any reason, the best way to protect them is to know the dangers of any environment in which they live. And know that prevention is the key to safety. Children are growing up with access to social media and smart devices. Controlling their smart device might be difficult, but it's never too early to teach them about safety.

In this presentation, cyber citizenship according to ISTE standards is discussed. The ISTE Standards provide the competencies for learning, teaching, and leading in the digital age, providing a comprehensive roadmap for the effective use of technology in schools worldwide.

Just Like in the offline world, we all want our children to be safe, secure, happy, kind, and ethical online.
This presentation aims to raise awareness of the dangers in cyberspace for students, introduce the types of these available dangers, and explore ways to deal with them. Finally, an application that is useful for protecting children in this space is introduced.

Learning With Merge Cube (Game-based Learning) by Sweety Sweety

With the inclusion of technology in the classroom, learning should not be taken for granted. By being teachers, we all understand that at present there are more chances our students get distracted from their learning. They may indulge themselves in other activities like social media or games. So, our responsibility increases to innovate such strategies in the classroom that students learn while playing and do not lose interest.

The ISTE standard also signifies building a shared vision by collaboratively creating a strategic plan that articulates how technology will be used to enhance learning. Merge Cube enhances learning by including innovative ideas in the classroom.

This presentation is about how learning can be engaging and interesting by using modern tools and technology. It is not necessary that students have to read textbooks and write notes like traditional methods to learn something new. My audience will see how modern technology has transformed the classroom into a virtual gaming world using 3-D.

Incredible Learning By Plickers (Increasing Student Engagement) by Veerpal Kaur

Instructive innovation is an indispensable piece of the learning environment in this advanced world. Frequently called informative technology, it is utilized to confer exercises, associate everybody engaged with the learning interaction, and make a solid advanced stage for learning. Mastering new abilities and adjusting to innovation rapidly and consistently is imperative to benefit the two educators and students. Plickers is a way to fostering a structure for progress is to guarantee you are embracing new study hall apparatuses.

I believe creating a course for other teachers and educators was one of my greatest learnings. It really had a great impact on me. I have given a workshop on Plickers, which was created to assist instructors in accomplishing their education and learning objectives. This course is intended to gather constant developmental appraisal information. Plickers is an appraisal device intended to check understudies' seeing rapidly. I have created that course on an incredible app, Plickers, intended to gather constant developmental appraisal information.

Holding The Virtual World In Your Hand Using Merge Cube by Babaljeet Kaur

The indulgence of technology in education changes the way of learning. Technology introduces plenty of new gadgets that take learning to easy and exciting levels. Merge Cube is one of those. In this era, instead of learning from the textbook, pictures and models, Merge Cube provides the opportunity for students to learn with the actual virtual image of the objects (3-D objects).

Learners get a chance to hold the virtual world in their hands.

So, in this presentation, the importance of Merge in the classroom will be discussed. My audience will see the magic of how Merge Cube changes the way of learning and transform passive learning into active learning.

Improve Understanding With The Interactive PowerPoint E-learning Module by Rajwant Kaur

Knowledge and time are the two primary and most valuable resources in the world we currently live in. Now, we have many opportunities to get benefits from learning easily and quickly with the help of e-learning technologies. There is no doubt; there are probably many people who want to share their knowledge, but they have no idea how and where to start.

In this presentation, I would like to share that we can easily share our learning and knowledge using PowerPoint as an authoring tool.

The e-learning module can make students interactive to stimulate their interests. PowerPoint is one of the authoring tools that are powerful and almost all in one solution that provides many opportunities for you to be a course creator.

E-module allows you to transform a boring slideshow watching into an interactive and practical process. Teaching through presentation has the potential to make a change in the educational process. It is a dynamic method of learning. If anyone knows how to use it properly in the classroom, it can do wonders for you.

Digital Citizenship by Kamalpreet Kaur Kular

We live in the era of the 21st century, and it is known as the ‘Digital age.’ Due to technological advancements, schools are responsible for teaching students to be “Digital” as well as good citizens. On the other hand, a digital citizen must have a certain level of digital literacy, notwithstanding misunderstandings, notably in the sphere of education.

According to the ISTE standards, safe, legal, and ethical use of digital tools helps a lot in understanding the role of digital literacy. Overall, my presentation is designed to create awareness on using the internet and being a “Digital Citizen” or “Good citizen.”

My presentation gives an overview of digital citizenship. Following it, I throw light on digital footprints and how can we safely practice the activities of the internet. It is essential to have the proper knowledge of “Digital Access” to the internet. I corroborate my research from the personal experience that I encountered in the entire MS IT program.

Mentoring and Assisting Synchronous & Asynchronous Learning by Geiza Bianchi de Lellis

During the fall term of 2020, my field activity was carried out when I assisted the professor of the Multimedia Authoring course as a Teaching Assistant. This course is part of the master's program in Instructional Technology at the New York Institute of Technology. Classes took place synchronously, in-person and online. Most students attended classes in person, while some attended online classes through Zoom.

This class model was implemented due to restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic, in which some students were unable to travel to Canada and had to start the course in their own country. My role consisted of assisting the professor and mentoring students during both face-to-face and online classes.

In addition to classes, I also helped students with their projects and after-class activities. Through digital learning management, Canvas, I implemented their learning, posting tutorial videos on the platform about Twinery and OBS software. I conducted tutorial videos using OBS, based on most students' doubts about their multimedia projects or core competencies required in some technology to complete their tasks. In addition, I also attended individually to students who requested assistance through meetings pre-scheduled by Zoom. During the course, I also helped the professor evaluating student activities and final projects through the Canvas platform, grading, and giving them feedback.

Convert Your PowerPoint To An E-learning Module by Aanchal Na

The development of information and communication technology now affects all areas of life. One such part is the field of education and learning. In this presentation, I will explain the impact of the e-module on me that I created on Powerpoint. I used the "ADDIE" model to make this e-module.

The ISTE standard 1C also signifies that Model digital citizenship critically evaluates online resources, engages in civil discourse online, and uses digital tools to contribute to positive social change.

An e-module is helpful for diverse learners; they can learn at their own pace. It is an effective way to engage students and encourage students learning. In this module, I used images, video, and audio to engage my audience.

In this PowerPoint presentation, I will discuss how we can make the classroom more engaging and productive with e-module. I will discuss how we can make PowerPoint more interesting for teaching and learning, how it can be effective for diverse learners. I will support my ideas with different researches and my own experience.

Safety Awareness while using Technology by Jignasha Vadi

Modern teaching-learning depends on the technology of networked computing more than ever. Whether it is the Internet or other less well-known networks, educators and students now depend on technology. As there is almost no limit to what can be done online, the Internet makes it possible to access information quickly, communicate around the world, and much more.

Networked computing offers easy access, a significant degree of anonymity, and while this presents us with unique opportunities, it also presents us with unique dangers. Unfortunately, the Internet is also home to certain risks, such as malware, spam, and phishing. Considering the increasing use and even dependence on networked computing, it is pertinent to examine the social, physical, and ethical dangers. This presentation critically debates whether the teaching/learning world with the Internet is as dangerous as the physical world.

If students want to stay safe online, they will need to understand these risks and learn how to avoid them. As the developing mind can hardly recognize the risk, students should be instructed to deal with reality and be safe. Computers can often give students a false sense of security. However, to stay safe online, students need to take a more cautious approach with the teacher's guidance.

Teachers can train students about the safe approach. Students should not be afraid to use the Internet but remember that it comes with many of the sme risks from the real world.

Learning Through An Interactive E-learning Module by Twinkle Mehra

Powerpoint gives you access to the slideshow maker tool. You can create, edit, view, present, or share presentations quickly. Here, we learn how to make presentations interactive and engaging. Interactive learning allows you to interact with the audience using different navigations, hyperlinks, and many more features.

It is a kind of storytelling in which you can easily jump into different slides with navigations. It breaks the monotony of the linear presentation format.

In this presentation. I am going to present my learning through an e-learning module on different components of food that deeply impacted my mind.

In this presentation, you will know why you should create an e-learning module, and why powerpoint is an effective tool to support this approach.

Digital Storytelling and Elements by Pooja Rani

In recent years, the use of new technology in educational institutions has expanded globally. The influence of new technologies in educational contexts has been largely good since new technology has provided educators with the chance to improve their knowledge and abilities, and therefore raise the level of education.

According to this presentation, digital storytelling is a strong tool for integrating instructional messaging with learning activities in order to create more engaging and interesting learning environments. It is a meaningful way to support a constructivist learning environment based on new teaching and learning ideas. As a result, this method has the potential to improve student engagement and educational results for students.

The goal of this presentation is to highlight how digital storytelling supports a constructivist learning environment, its origins, use to enhance teaching, and how pupils who learn to build their own digital tales improve their abilities in literacy. Moreover, information on the technologies utilized to facilitate the use of digital storytelling for education is provided. It also discusses challenges and other important aspects that students and educators should be aware of before implementing the use of digital storytelling in the classroom.

Interactive and Exciting PowerPoint: E-Learning Module by Gagandeep Kaur

Technology has begun to change the roles of teachers and learners. Technology is a powerful tool that can support and transform education in many ways, making it easier for teachers to create instructional materials to enable new ways for people to learn and work together.

PowerPoint is an effective tool to present material in the classroom and encourage student learning. PowerPoint improves the teaching and learning experience for both professionals and students when used correctly. It encourages and supports employees by allowing them to structure a presentation professionally.

In this presentation, I would like to share how interactive and exciting e-learning modules in Powerpoint to make our classrooms interesting and engaging.

Learning and Collaborating Through Interactive Powerpoint E-module by Tanya Sharma

We learn early that everything is connected in our surroundings from birds to trees to our food. We live in an incredibly rich ecosystem. Teaching about ecosystems has become more than important in K-12 Curriculum. Making students think about the environment that surrounds them is a great way of helping them understand its importance.

Now it has become more than important to educate students so that they are able to meet the needs of digital citizenry in every aspect whether ecologically, economically or culturally.

In this presentation, I have used Powerpoint as my main tool to demonstrate the types, working and importance of Ecosystems. This topic is explained according to the ISTE Standards. Powerpoint helped me create an interactive e-module for grade 6 to share my ideas in an effective and elaborative way using 21st-century tools.

Effective Virtual Classroom Through Student Engagement by Jaspreet Kaur

Student engagement has become a challenging area for the teachers especially due to COVID -19 pandemic as most of the educational institutions moved to online education. I opine that teachers must know about the importance of student engagement to impart remote learning effectively and efficiently.

Based on my learning and teaching experiences, I will reflect student engagement and why it is important in the classroom. The audience will know about various strategies, technologies, and tool which can make the virtual classrooms interactive and engaging.

Make Classrooms Engaging With An Interactive E-learning Module by Harsharan Kaur

Teacher and student responsibilities have begun to shift as a result of technological advancements. Technology is a powerful instrument that can help and improve education in a variety of ways, from making it easier for teachers to generate instructional materials to allowing individuals to learn and collaborate in new ways.

I am presenting about the project which has the greatest impact on me. This is the E-learning module that I did in the course Multimedia and Authoring course. Modules are an e-learning platform that incorporates a blend of teaching and assessment tools. In my e-learning module I used a wide variety of media types such as audio/video files, 3D models, images, text to impart education. This aligns with the ISTE standard 3e as it develops learning assessments that provide a personalized, actionable view of student progress in real-time.

In this, I will explain how creating an e-learning modules with PowerPoint makes the classroom engaging and interactive. I will further explain how it is an effective learning tool in the classroom.

An Amazing Workshop by Jaspreet Kaur Wander

Technology has made our teaching-learning process enjoyable. Teachers can engage students with various technological tools. Technology is helpful for students to construct, analyze, evaluate their work. Quizlet is an excellent tool that provides different study modes to students to help them learn according to their interests.

In this presentation, I am going to share with you what impact the Quizlet application and the workshop I designed had on my approach to teaching with technology.

Technology: Bridge the Gap by Qiran Chen

Under the impact of COVID-19, human society has been through significant changes, specifically the communication part, which serves humankind's basic needs. Educators have been trying hard to bring the students together, making the lesson engageable and creating an interactive learning environment.

As a student from the M.S.I.T. (Master's Degree in Instructional Technology) program, the presenter struggled greatly through different projects; moreover, the collaborative work becomes even more difficult. However, technology does an exceptional job in supporting learning and teaching. Nevertheless, technology helped me in my study and learning through my journey to the master’s degree. The major impact that technology brings to the presenter is not only how functional these tools are but also how does technology help shorten the distance between people, culture and even recognition from different perspectives.

In this presentation, I will share the learning experiences upon the impact of technology-supported individual/group work. In addition, the presentation reflects and wraps up the learning outcomes through the two years' study.

E-learning Modules In PowerPoint To Make Classrooms More Interactive by Kamal Singh

This is a technically advanced era. We can see technology everywhere. But not everyone know how we can use that technology according to the situation. I was also one of them. Before taking course of Multimedia Authoring, I did not know more about powerpoint.

Learning power point was not challenging, but how to use that in the classroom was challenging. While learning to use powerpoint in Multimedia Authoring, I memorized the days when I was in the school, and teachers faced difficulty in teaching students. I get to know the reason. Attention was the reason.

I created a E-module on pollution by using power point, by keeping all the things in mind to make classroom interactive. Power point covered everything.

In this presentation I will discuss,

How learning Instructional Technology impacted me?
How power point could be use as an interactive tool for teaching?

Increasing Student Engagement Through Interactive PowerPoint by Baljinder Kaur Sandhu

PowerPoint has become a source of presentation these days everywhere. But when we add the feature of interactivity to it, it becomes more powerful. An interactive presentation is one where you can interact with using navigation, hyperlinks, and hotspots, etc. So when you are presenting, you can click on some content and something will happen such as a popup box appearing or you can jump to a specific slide.

Interaction changes the way you can present and talk to students. It frees us from a linear presentation format, allowing us to jump to slides depending on the conversation and creating a personal experience for the students. This is key to an all-important ‘student-centric experience.

The ISTE Standards for Educators that are linked to this presentation are 2 E - Share lessons learned, best practices, challenges, and impact of learning with other education leaders who want to learn from this work. Standard 2 B - Build on shared vision by collaboratively creating a strategic plan that articulates how technology will be used to enhance learning.

In this presentation, I will be sharing the learning that has deeply impacted me which was an "Interactive E-Module" on verbs for grade 3. Through this presentation, I will be sharing various features of this tool and what makes it stand out in all presentation tools. I will support my points through studies.

Improve Understanding With The Interactive PowerPoint E-learning Module by Rajwant Kaur

In this presentation, I would like to share that we can easily share our learning and knowledge using PowerPoint as an authoring tool. The e-learning module can make students interactive to stimulate their interests. PowerPoint is one of the authoring tools that are powerful and almost all in one solution that provides many opportunities for you to be a course creator. E-modules allow you to transform a boring slideshow watching into an interactive and practical process. Teaching through presentation has the potential to make a change in the educational process. It is a dynamic method of learning. If anyone knows how to use it properly in the classroom, it can do wonders for you.

ISTE standards that are linked with this presentation are 2B- Build on the shared vision by collaboratively creating strategies plan that articulate how technology will be used to enhance learning. Standard 2E- Share lesson learned best practice, challenges, and impact of learning with technology with other education leaders who want to learn from this work.

In this presentation, I will share:

1. Why create an interactive PowerPoint e-learning module?

2. Why choose PowerPoint as a tool for creating e-learning modules?

Learning Through E-Module Using PowerPoint by Anju Bala

Technology has become an important part of education. It not only makes learning easy and interesting but also keep students engaged for long hours and bring meaningful changes. The traditional methods of learning can be beneficial, but due to Covid forcing us to do everything online, it becomes necessary to pay extra attention to students’ learning and engagement. The appropriate use of technology can solve all the problem related to learning or online learning.

I’m very excited to share my learning of e-module using powerPoint. This is a basic software used to make presentation. So let’s encourage students and teachers to do something advance using this common software.

In this conference I'll discuss:

Why Powerpoint?

Why teachers and learners should learn how to make E-module?

My beliefs regarding powerpoint before creating e-module?

How was the overall experience?

What I have learned?

What impact it have on me and my learning?