2002 keynote

edACCESS 2004 Pre-Conference Workshop

NEW PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP, TUESDAY JUNE 22

Facing Common Challenges: A Workshop for Technology Integrators

John Raymond, Director,
Technology-in-Education Laboratory (TIELab), Woodbury, CT

Eduardo Villavicencio,
Director of Academic Technology, Greens Farms Academy, Westport, CT

Everyone associated with technology integration and professional development has amassed a great deal of experience and wisdom on what works and what doesn't. But rarely is this information shared in a systematic way. This one-day workshop is designed to facilitate sharing of good practices and ideas in technology integration in three areas:

Through varied activities including role playing, breakout discussions, entering lesson ideas into an online database for future retrieval and more, attendees will engage in six hours of vitalizing cross-pollination meant to strengthen the technology integration efforts at each of their schools and build a lasting and supportive community.

Part I: Exporting Favorites: A Group Sharing of Favorite Curricular Uses of Common Productivity Software and Free Web Tools	Part II: Best Practices on Teacher Empowerment and Partnership building	Part III: Building a Meaningful & Successful Professional Development Model: What Lessons Have We Learned?
Each participant will need a laptop computer, preferably with a wireless card.

John Raymond is an educational technology professional and popular workshop presenter. In 2003 he ran workshops at a veritable alphabet soup of annual educational conferences (NYSCATE, NYSAIS, CECA, CAIS, NJAET, LLPI, CEESA and PETC). John is director of TIELab (Technology-in-Education Laboratory), an organization that develops uses of technology that are grounded in sound pedagogical principles. He is a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Commission on Technology and directs the Teaching with Technology program of the CAIS Summer Technology Conference. John publishes an online educational technology journal newcurriculum.com where he writes a monthly column.

Eduardo "Ed V" Villavicencio teaches math and serves as Academic Technology Director at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, CT. In 1994, Ed established Harvard University's Summer Science program for disadvantaged K-8 public school youth. Since then he has facilitated teacher training at schools such as Milton Academy, Concord Academy and the Park School. Most recently, Ed has been part of AISNE's Beginning Teacher Institute, presented at the CAIS Summer Tech conference and consulted for schools on "Digital Language Lab" potential of the First Class email system as well as other subject-specific collaborative uses.

For more information about John and Ed's work visit http://www.newcurriculum.com/

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