How to become a presenter at TSETC 2010

TSETC invites you to share your education technology experience to showcase your knowledge, skills, and best practices in educational technology. With over 40 concurrent sessions, our aim is to engage attendees across the educational spectrum on how to positively inspire technology use as a resource, and not just the solution.

TSETC will give accepted lead presenters a free registration to the conference (including post-conference reception).

After proposals have been collected, reviewers will pay particular attention to how proposals align with this year’s conference theme, “Ideas to engage. Technology to inspire”. Proposals should clearly demonstrate the use of effective adult learning principals and practices as well as provide an immediate application to the education work of the attendees.

Sessions are not intended to promote products and should instead focus on lessons learned with emerging technologies.

Presenters are expected to keep sessions as vendor neutral as possible. Please review the following information before submitting your proposal:

Types of Proposals

This year we will have both 45 minute sessions and 1 hour sessions. There is a possibility that if you apply for an hour session you may be asked to present a 45 minute session.

• Lecture/Conversation Sessions: One ore more presenters, each addressing the audience independently
• Panel Discussions: Main presenters serving as moderator interacting with co-presenter panelists
• Community of Interest Sessions: Facilitated discussion providing a special opportunity for like-minded educators to gather and network
• Bring Your Own LapTop (BYOL) Sessions: Presenter delivers content in a more interactive, hands-on environment where participants bring their own wireless enabled laptops
• Model Lesson: Requires 2 presenters. First teaches an actual lesson to attendees playing role of students. Second acts as emcee, simultaneously explaining the lesson and the classroom management/instructional strategies being implemented to the remainder of attendees observing. Content should demonstrate taking advantage of technology and the latest learning theories such as project-based learning and differentiated instruction.
• Hands-on: Participants are actively engaged with computers or other equipment (e.g. iPods, digital cameras, clickers) as the primary focus of the workshop

Presentation Topics

School Improvement

Addresses development and articulation of a vision for the role of technology in school improvement, and includes strands such as:

• Assessing Technology Integration Programs
• Digital-Age School Design
• Educational Visions/Planning
• Equity Issues
• Ethical Issues
• Funding
• One-to-One Initiatives
• Student Assessment & Data Analysis
• Supporting Research for Technology Implementation, School Reform, & Teaching and Learning

Digital Age Learning Experiences

Covers all aspects of technology use in the learning environment, and includes such strands as:

• Academic Content Areas Technology Integration
• Emerging Technologies
• 21st Century Learners and Learning Environments
• Podcasting
• Innovative Learning Technologies
• Engaging Web 2.0
• Instructional Strategies & Classroom Management
• Project, Challenge, & Problem-Based Curricula
• Special Populations/Assistive Technology

Professional Growth & Leadership Best Practice

Focuses on the development of leaders and the education and accountability of teachers, administrators, and other educators, and includes such strands as:

• Leadership, Vision, and Data-Informed Decision making
• Professional Development
• Online Professional Development
• Administrative Development
• Social Media
• Instructional & Administrative Productive Tools/Resources

Technical Support and Infrastructure

Focuses on the technology, resources, and policies necessary to build the technology infrastructure for effective teaching, learning, and administration, and includes such strands as:

• Best Practices
• Computer Networking, Systems, & Related Issues
• Emerging Technologies
• Web Development & Applications
• Support & Maintenance
• Open Source
• Effective Teaching Practices
• Developing/Locating Digital Content/Learning Objects