Call for Presenters
Southwest Education & Technology
Conference/Tech Expo
March 3-4, 2009
The Regional Consortium
for Education and Technology in southwest
Presentations should
focus on the integration of technology in today’s classrooms. 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.
We will offer
preconference and breakout session formats. Preconference sessions of three
hours in length, will be held on Tuesday, March 3, with audiences restricted
to 20-30 attendees. Breakout sessions of one hour in length, will be held on
Wednesday, March 4, with variable audience sizes of 10-60 attendees. Please
consider presenting either a one hour 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 asked to bring their
presentations on a jump drive, CD, or DVD.
However:
·
If you need special software installed on the
presenter workstation, or
·
If you
require your personal laptop for your presentation
please contact Debbie Nelson at
rcet@mindspring.com
prior to submitting this form.
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 25, 2008. 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.
