Call for Presenters
Southwest Education &
Technology Conference/Tech Expo
March 4 - 5, 2008
The
Regional Consortium for Education and Technology in southwest
This conference is aimed at using technology for
instruction by showcasing the latest in classroom applications, displaying
software and hardware, and providing sessions and workshops dealing with
issues of technology in today’s schools. Topics include, but are not limited
to educational computing, innovative uses of software, multimedia, funding,
telecommunications, and technology planning and should be geared toward
elementary and/or secondary teachers, tech directors, library/media
specialists, and/or administrators. Presentations should focus on the
integration of technology in today’s classrooms.
We will offer preconference and breakout session formats.
Preconference sessions of three hours in length, will be held on Tuesday,
March 4, with audiences restricted to 20-30 attendees. Breakout sessions of
fifty minutes in length, will be held on Wednesday, March 5, with variable
audience sizes of 10-60 attendees. Please consider presenting either a fifty
minute breakout session, or if your topic requires in-depth study, please
consider presenting a three hour morning or afternoon preconference session.
We strongly encourage presenters to model the use of
technology in their sessions by using presentation/ multimedia software and
state-of-the-art equipment. Each presentation room will be equipped with the
following:
Presenters are encouraged to bring their presentations on a jump drive, CD,
or DVD. If you need special software installed, please
contact Debbie Nelson at
rcet@mindspring.com .
Additional
computers, printers, and power strips/extension cords for your presentation
must be furnished by the presenter.
The technology committee strives to provide high-quality
professional development. Therefore, all submissions will be reviewed and
evaluated by the technology committee based on relevance of the topic to
conference tracks, educational significance, value for participants, and
presenter knowledge and experience. Not every submission may be selected.
Conference or preconference registration fees will be waived for
preconference presenters. Conference fees will be waived for breakout
session presenters. There is a limit of two presenters for each session.
If
you would like to be considered as a presenter, please return a completed
presentation proposal form by October 19, 2007. If you have questions about
the conference contact the RCET-SW office at 417.523.5560 or email us at
rcet@mindspring.com
. We hope you will become involved in our
exchange of ideas on the present and future of educational technology. Check
our web page (www.rcet.net) for
conference info and updates.
Presentation Proposal Form in PDF format This version is suitable for printing and completing by hand or on a typewriter. Please download the form, complete, and submit by mail or fax to the RCET office. If you do not have the Adobe reader, you can download it from http://www.adobe.com.
Presentation Proposal From in Word format. This version allows typing directly into the form. Please download form, complete, and submit as email attachment to rcet@mindspring.com. If you do not have MS Word, you can download the Word Viewer program from http://www.microsoft.com.
