2009 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference: Ideas, Innovation, and Inspiration

Ideas, Innovation, and Inspiration

About

This event has been preapproved for 6 hours of FPG.

Mark your calendar for Maricopa Community College's premier learning technology event on May 19, 2009 at Glendale Community College. The program will include track and poster sessions, exhibits, presentations, workshops and more. Topics will include online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhanced learning, emerging Internet and Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning, technology applications that facilitate communication and collaboration, instructional models for collaboration in virtual worlds (Second Life, etc.), distance learning including mobile learning, open content and open source, E-portfolios and other assessment tools, student success and assessment strategies in online learning, online learning resources (library, learning centers, etc.), and many more. Wireless access will be available, so please bring your favorite mobile device so that you can participate in the social networking of the conference! 

Keynote

About Howard

Howard Rheingold has a proven record of accurate technology and social forecasting through more than two decades of syndicated columns, bestselling books, and pioneering online enterprises. Now he’s on to the next and biggest thing: the marriage of mobile phone, PC, and wireless Internet, which is changing the way we meet, mate, entertain, govern, and conduct business.

No armchair futurist, Rheingold was founding Executive Editor of HotWired, the first commercial webzine, where the web-based discussion forum and the online banner ad were invented. His most recent book, Smart Mobs, was acclaimed by The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Boston Globe, and it was named one of the “Big Ideas” of 2002 by The New York Times Magazine.

In the early 1990s, Howard wrote the fi rst book about the social uses of cyberspace, The Virtual Community, which forecast the Internet explosion. Years earlier, Tools for Thought anticipated a remarkably accurate vision of the future of the PC and Internet in the year 2000. In 1996, Howard founded Electric Minds, one of Time magazine’s “ten best websites of 1996.” He sold Electric Minds to Durand Communications in 1997.

Today, a merger of mobile communications, pervasive computing, and the Internet is triggering new forms of collective action. Governments have fallen. Industries have emerged. And novel forms of social communication and public have erupted around the globe. Few are more qualifi ed to help organizations understand how these trends and technologies will affect lifestyles and business. Through stories, case histories, and well-crafted forecasts, Howard empowers and inspires others to think about, discuss, and plan for the changes ahead. His customized “thinktank” sessions move beyond keynotes and include high-level brainstorming among top executives, planners, or engineers, as well as action-organized written summaries and follow-up online discussions.

Howard has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, ABC Primetime Live, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, MacNeill-Lehrer Report, NPR’s Fresh Air and Marketplace. He is a nonresident Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communications and a visiting professor at De Montfort University. Currently, he is teaching a digital journalism course at Stanford and a participatory media class at Berkeley, and he is working on a new book on cooperation. To learn more about Howard Rheingold, go to http://www.rheingold.com/.

Lunch Speaker

About Intellagirl

Sarah Robbins, aka Intellagirl, is a researcher, an academic, a writer, a speaker, a marketer, a mom, and a geek. She spends her time blogging (see links on the blog roll on her website below), researching, and traveling to speak to groups about Second Life, virtual worlds, and web 2.0 technologies and general digital coolness. She's also a digital coach helping people make the most of the technologies available to be more productive and more creative and has travelled and spoken to audiences about emerging technologies all over the US. To learn more about Sarah Robbins, go to http://www.intellagirl.com/. 

PreConference Sessions

Interested in more teaching and learning with technology? Plan to attend a preconference session:

Introduction to Google Apps :: Register Today

If I read another "bad" paper, I'll scream! Developing Alternative Assessments with Technology :: Register Today

Blended by Design, Designing and Teaching a Blended/Hybrid Course :: Register Today

Conference Sessions

We recognize that not everyone is at the same place in using technology in instruction. For that reason, the 2009 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference program was developed around the needs and interests of two types of individuals by tracks. The conference sessions will be organized according to these so that you may choose based on your level of experience.

Novice: Little or no experience in using learning technologies. It's time! Come and learn the basics or get an overview for an entry into applying technology in your instruction.

Experienced: 2-4 years of experience using learning technologies and is ready to try/learn new things. Learn what the latest software can do for you in instruction.