Please see below for some of Apple's Fall workshops and events. See links for agendas and registration.
Tuesday, October 15
Apple Tech Update for Education
Portsmouth Harbor Events & Conference Center
Portsmouth, NH
Technical Update (see agenda below)
8:30 am – 12:30 pm
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Digital Creation and Publication with iPad
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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Wednesday, October 16
Apple Tech Update for Education
The Verve Crown Plaza Hotel
Natick, MA
Technical Update (see agenda below)
8:30 am – 12:30 pm
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Digital Creation and Publication with iPad
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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October 23 – 24
Apple Interactive Space @ MassCUE
Apple Interactive Classroom Experience
Gillette Stadium
Foxborough, MA
Doors open every 30 minutes
2019 Fall Conference
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November 4
Foxcroft Academy Visit
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
975 Weset Main Street
Dover, NH 04426
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This will be a wonderful opportunity to see firsthand Foxcroft Academy’s technology infrastructure designed to support teaching, learning and innovation in the classroom. Attendees will hear testimonies from members of the local community. as well as tour the Foxcroft's classrooms for an in-depth look at their program. Other takeaways will be:
• Discover how Foxcroft Academy leverages iPad to connect day-to-day learning with cross-curricular standards to empower students.
• Visit classrooms where teachers are facilitators of learning and students are active and engaged participants.
• See students demonstrate and document learning in diverse ways, and find out from them how this enhances their engagement and achievement.
• Hear from the school’s leadership team about their vision for enhancing student learning and achievement with technology.
• Learn about the school’s unique model for supporting teacher leadership and empowering and encouraging classroom teachers to be effective innovators.
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December 1 – 3
Apple @ CMTC (Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference)
DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown
Manchester, NH
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Pre-Conference Workshops – Monday, Dec 1
Everyone Can Create: Ignite Creativity with iPad for Early Learners (K-5)
8:30 am – 11:30 am
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Everyone Can Create: Ignite Creativity with iPad (6-12)
12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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Enhancing Leadership Strategies with iPad Pro
4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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Concurrent Sessions – Tuesday, Dec 2
Strengthening Literacy with iPad
9:40 am – 10:30 am
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Bring Augmented Reality to Your Classroom with iPad
12:50 pm – 1:40 pm
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Agenda for Technical Update October 15 & 16
7:45-8:30 am - Arrival
8:30-12:30 pm - Presentation and Demonstrations
We will have four rooms with various presentations. Some sessions will run multiple times, some only once, and some will be hands-on. Seating for each of the sessions is first come, first served.
Deploying macOS 10.15: macOS 10.15 Catalina brings a number of new deployment and management features as well as security enhancements that are relevant for and will affect your deployments. Come to this session to learn more about enrollment customization, the Bootstrap token, the read-only system partition, the new SSO extension, system extensions, and more. This session will aim to provide a summary of all topics and changes that impact deployment and management and they will be discussed in the context of workflows. (Presented by Mike Boylan, Apple Consulting Engineer)
What’s New in Deploying and Managing iOS 13 and iPadOS: This presentation will focus some of the new deployment-related options and features available for iOS 13 and the just released iPadOS. We will cover updates to Apple School Manager, a new form of lightweight management called User Enrollment, discuss the new Single Sign-on Extension, and highlight key technologies to help IT administrators deploy Apple devices at scale while providing an optimal experience for your users. (Presented by Trey Bachner and Lars Ljungholm, Apple Systems Engineers)
iPadOS 13 for Education: Join us for a hands-on experience focused on the latest educational features of iPadOS. (Presented by Ryan Wiggins and Matt Brooks, Apple Development Executives)
Tech Roundtable: Informal Q&A with Apple Consulting Engineers and SE’s. We would love to hear how your deployments have been going, answer questions and solicit your constructive feedback that we can share with our product teams.
Federation Deep Dive: In the Spring Apple introduced the ability for Apple School Manager to federate with Microsoft Azure. Federation allows your users to use their existing district account as their AppleID. In this session we will provide an update on Federation. We have worked with a number of districts who have successfully implemented. We will share lessons learned, review the details of the process, and provide tips for success. (Presented by Devin McLaughlin, Apple Systems Engineer)
Sunsetting DEP & VPP - how to migrate: Are you still logging in at volume.itunes.apple.com (VPP) or deploy.apple.com (DEP)? If you were not aware access to these sites is going away as of December 1st. This session will review the upgrade process to move over to Apple School Manager and give you an opportunity to ask questions. (Presented by Patrick Hernandez, Apple Systems Engineer)
WiFi Explorer: Hands on session with WiFi Explorer, a tool to validate the wireless environment and optimize performance for Apple devices. (Presented by WiTS Senior Rockstar Field Engineer, Dave Cardona, Dave is a Sr. WLAN Engineer, Instructor, Wi-Fi SME, & APS Apple Readiness Review Engineer)
Implementing Single Sign-On for iPad and Mac using Mosyle Manager: Explore MDM workflows that can facilitate the use of cloud identity services such as Google, Office365, Azure as well as active directory (no bind required) to authenticate users on your Apple Devices and learn about the management possibilities that are unlocked by providing this experience during the setup assistant. (Presented by Bradley Schneider, Mosyle MDM Specialist)
School’s In Session with Jamf: How to Enhance the Student, Teacher, and Parent Experience with iPads: Take a hands on journey with us to experience the day one life cycle of an iPad. We will guide you from enrollment, to being in class, and then coming home after school. We will show you how you can use your iPads to empower your students, teachers and parents using Jamf. (Presented by Eric Blakely, Jamf Field Systems Engineer,)
