METC 2010 Call for Presenter
"Reaching Beyond the Cloud"
Workshop and Session Presentation Proposal
Deadline for breakout sessions extended to September 30, 2009
What tech tools do you use to reach and teach your students or staff? Do you feel others would benefit from learning more about the technology tools used in your teaching? Do you have a desire to share your creative and professional successes?
If you or a colleague can answer yes to the above questions, METC 2010 invites you to apply as a presenter for a breakout session or hands-on workshop. More than 1,500 attendees from the Midwest are expected to participate including technology specialists, teachers, library media specialists, staff developers, administrators, instructional technology teachers, counselors, and information technology / network specialists.
METC 2010 program committee has established two goals:
- Design a program based on strands that encompass technology in all aspects of education – classroom, library media center, school / district offices and network infrastructure.
- Offer a program that fits into educators’ individual learning plans and aligns with high quality professional development.
To reach these programming goals, METC 2010 invites teachers, media specialists, administrators, technical support and other education-minded people who have effective instructional technology programs and management strategies to share their methods, plans and successes.
Preference of presenters will be given to those submitting proposals related to the program theme, Reaching Beyond the Cloud or one of the program strands. While presentations may address several of these strands, please indicate the primary strand that best describes your proposal.
Please indicate the level of technology integration based on Grappling's Spectrum and audience for your workshop or session.
In order to build an online searchable program database, you will need to include tags / keywords that describe your proposal. Reference the Strands and sub-topics for tag / keyword examples.
All workshops should emphasize hands-on experience for participants. Workshops may be either three hours (held in the morning) or six hours in length. Each workshop will have a limited enrollment. Please indicate if workshop is dependent on Windows or Macintosh OS. Presenters must identify needed software or peripherials.
Workshop presenters get a free one-day attendance to the METC!
Breakout sessions consist of a presentation with handouts and time for interaction among attendees and the presenter. Individual presenters are encouraged to share your strategies for successful curriculum integration and transforming lessons that involve complex learning and thinking tools.
- What tech tools do you use to reach and teach your students?
- How does technology impact and support your teaching and motivate students to think, collaborate and learn?
- How do you engage your tech savvy students? Does it make a difference in your classroom, library, school or district?
- How do you make technology work to increase student achievement?
- How do you use technology to differentiate lessons and meet the needs of all the students?
- How do you plan professional development for improved technology implementation?
- How do you juggle the volume of requests for more connections and stay sane?
- How do you implement technology on a shoestring budget?
Select from five types of presentation formats.
- 30-min Best Practices for Classroom Integration mini-session
- 50-min breakout session giving the attendees an overview or introduction of a topic
- 1-hr and 50-min breakout session that addresses a topic more in-depth. This will be conducted in two consecutive 50-min sessions with a Part 1 and Part 2. It may be a hands-on workshop BYOL (bring your own laptop).
- Student Poster session for your students to showcase how they learn and what technology tools they use
- Student plus Teacher session (bring your students as your co-presenters)
METC 2010 will offer a virtual conference for those who cannot attend in person. Details of the Vitual Conference will be available in September. When submitting a proposal to present, please check if you wish to have your proposal considered for the METC Virtual Conference.
Presenters and co-presenters will register for the conference and pay the presenter’s discount registration fee of $50.00 each for the day of presenting and $90.00 if attending the second day as an attendee.
Each presenter also agrees to upload electronic handouts to the conference website and furnish 50 copies of handouts for each session. Uploading directions for posting on the METC 2010 web site will be available in November.
All information should be completed on the presentation proposal. The preferred method to submit a presentation proposal is online. For Hardcopy submission, download PDF form and fax to 314-872-9128.
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