Tami Brass's List: 2008 Tech Conferences

In 2007, for the 5th year in a row, the same thing will happen, but it just keeps getting bigger and better! K-12 teachers, technology staff, and administrators from all over the world will once more join us in Memphis to share ideas for one-to-one initi
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December 6-9, 2008
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Minneapolis

Join your colleagues at the Midwest's largest educational technology conference.

> Over 160 stimulating breakout sessions on the latest in best practices
> More than 30 preconference professional development workshops
> Over 100 vendors of leading-edge education technology

Get ready to have your brain tickled with ideas from around the world. The 2009 Building Learning Communities Conference is designed to have an immediate and long range impact on improving teaching and learning.

FETC, a division of 1105 Media Inc., is one of the largest, most successful conferences in the United States devoted to educational technology. The conference program is designed so educators and administrators have an opportunity to learn how to integrate different technologies across the curriculum – from kindergarten to college – while being exposed to the latest hardware, software and successful strategies on student technology use. FETC is designed for teachers, principals and deans, district administrators, curriculum designers, media specialists, technology directors and various other educators.

Teaching History with Technology
Teaching English with Technology
Web 2.0 Workshop

This is a regional conference, not national, but it comes highly recommended

ILC is an interactive three-day conference and exposition produced in partnership with CUE and FETC for the K-12 education community. Devoted to advancing student achievement through innovative education strategies, ILC will offer “hands-on” workshops, concurrent sessions, meetings and exhibitions for K-12 superintendents, site and district administrators, technology directors, curriculum designers, media specialists, district CTOs and other IT professionals.

oin educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch community to share experiences and imagine the possibilities of Scratch.

For three days, July 24-26, 2008, we will gather on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to:

* share stories of how Scratch is being used in homes, classrooms, and community centers
* participate in hands-on workshops, to learn new Scratch techniques and strategies
* discuss research examining how and what kids learn with Scratch
* explore future directions for Scratch with members of the MIT Scratch Team

Games, Learning & Society - Madison, Wisconsin

Our Summer Technology Institute is designed to prepare teachers and administrators in the emerging areas of technology. Instruction will include the implementation or expansion of a wireless laptop program, Web 2.0 education and implementation ideas, and other 21st Century skills. Educators will get hands-on experience and learn more about the techniques, ideas and applications that have proven to be successful.\n\nDon't be left behind...come learn about software programs that work, open source alternatives and the exciting possibilities available with Web 2.0 tools. Collaborate with other educators to expand your learning network to gain exposure to the valuable expertise of your peers. We will also share the nuts and bolts of implementing a successful technology program to save your school time and money.\n\nWe are structuring this staff development opportunity around the new NETS standards for students. Sign up for one or both offered sessions.

The conference will be held at the Milwaukee County Zoo, July 28-31 (9am-4pm). It is a hands-on collaborative conference in which we will learn about wikis, digital mapping, digital photography, video-editing, and podcasting.

Students in grades 7-12 are welcome to come to the conference with their teachers. We also have a student track for students grades 3-6 to come with their teachers on Tuesday, July 29th.

The MERLOT International Conference (MIC) provides numerous opportunities to share, learn, and participate in conversations about teaching and learning with technology from experts and MERLOT users from around the world.

Hunterdon Central's Tablet PC Academy is a three-day conference for K-12 teachers, administrators and technologists who want to learn more about how to use tablet PCs in teaching and learning.

WIPTE is open to anyone with an interest in instructional technology. A wide variety of disciplines are embracing Tablet PC's and similar pen-based devices as tools for the radical enhancement of teaching and learning. This conference is intended to leverage this shared passion and to identify best practices in the educational use of pen-based computing so that all educators may benefit from this next generation of technology. Each WIPTE paper presentation includes an assessment component as an important part of the presentation. The WIPTE program also includes keynote talks, poster presentations, vendor booths, panels, and special sessions.