Conference Program
Throughout Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, you have the opportunity to attend concurrent sessions, which offer a variety of topics in the world of technology. These hour-long sessions are jam-packed with information to take back to your LEA. Act 48 credits are also available for each of these sessions.
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Keynote Speakers:
| Mondays Opening Keynote: Dr. Jason Ohler |
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Going Beyond Essays: New kids, New Media and New Literacies It is up to us to help digital kids write the media they read so they can be active media creators rather than just passive media consumers. We need to help them migrate from text centrism to media collage literacy in creative, thoughtful, ways. We need to help them cultivate their new media talents, adopt art as the 4th R and use research and narrative to convey their ideas in rich, compelling ways. We need to help them create media stories and projects that are articulate, transformative and help them imagine the world they want to create. And we need to help them collaborate and share their work and talents within the collaborative community of the social web. |
| Tuesdays Opening Keynote: Daniel H. Pink |
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A Whole New Mind Doctors. Lawyers. Engineers. Thats what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mom and Dad right? Actually, the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind, people like artists, inventors, storytellers, and caregivers. |
| Wednesdays Opening Keynote: Rafe Esquith |
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Teach Like Your Hairs On Fire: The Methods and Madness of Room 56 A teacher for life, Rafe Esquith has taught hundreds of children to believe in themselves. Let him inspire you today with his presentation that includes life in and out of the classroom. Rafe includes stories about classroom management, Shakespeare in the classroom, problem solving, history, and rebelling against a system that loves to crush creative people. Discover why Forbes Magazine called him a modern day Thoreau, who teaches the value of hard work, honest self-reflection, and the courage to go ones own way. |
Agenda (Tentative):
Sunday, February 8, 2009
7:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m. General Registration9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Full-Day Preconference Session
9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Half-Day Preconference Session
12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Exhibitor Registration
1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Half-Day Preconference Session
6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Vendor Presentations/Hospitalities
7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. General Registration
8:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Welcome Reception/Casino Night (Badge Required)
Monday, February 9, 2009
7:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. General Registration8:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Exhibitor Registration
8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker
10:15 a.m. 11:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions A
10:30 a.m. 11:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions B
11:45 a.m. 12:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
12:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Exhibits Open
12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Keystone Poster Sessions
12:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Dedicated Exhibit Time
2:45 p.m. 3:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions C
3:45 p.m. 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions D
4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Exhibitor Reception
6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner (Ticketed Event Separate Fee)
6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Vendor Presentations
8:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Birds of a Feather Sessions
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
7:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. General Registration8:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Exhibitor Registration
8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. General Session
9:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Exhibits Open
9:15 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions E
9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
9:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Student Showcase (Session 1)
10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions F
10:45 a.m. 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
11:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Dedicated Exhibit Time
12:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. Student Showcase (Session 2)
2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions G
2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
3:15 p.m. 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions H
3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (Hotel Hershey)
4:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions I
6:00 p.m. 7:45 p.m. Conference Banquet (Ticketed Event Included with Full Conference Registration)
7:45 p.m. 12:00 a.m. Entertainment: Burning House
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
7:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. General Registration8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Closing General Session Chocolate Ballroom (Speaker)
9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions J
11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions K
Conference Strands (learning tracks):
Adaptive Technology/Special Populations/AccessibilityEmerging Technologies/Trends
Infrastructure/Security/Management
Instructional Strategies/Successful Practices
Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course management
Media Centers
Mobile/Wireless Technologies
Performing/Creative Arts
Policy/Planning/Funding
Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Standards/NCLB
Technology & Ethics
Technology Directions: Issues, Innovations, Research
Technology Leadership







