Technology Playground

Come out and Play!

During the conference, save time to come and play in our technology playground. Mini-sessions will be scheduled throughout the conference at the Marriott and the Hyatt which will focus on technology literacy. You will have a chance to take some time to focus on technologies that you can take back to your classrooms and schools such as:



Bring your own "toys" to play with and get expert help with ideas for their use. On Friday and Saturday, sessions will include presentations by Sara Kajder, Ph.D, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech whose teaching has been anchored in assisting middle and high school students to connect out of school literacies with in school literacies - including helping students create multimodal texts (like blogs and digital stories), communicate their meaning-making through podcasts, and engage in web 2.0 learning spaces like wikis, twitter, and other tools. Regardless of the tool(s), Kajder focuses on the uses of new literacies to affirm the literacies students bring into classrooms, to produce knowledge, and to put students' knowledge to work. Recipient of the National Technology Leadership Fellowship, she is the author of Bringing the Outside In (2006), Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Students (Jan., 2010) and The Tech Savvy English Classroom (2004).

CLICK HERE to download the Technology Playground flyer.