Technology Educators Conference Today in Hartford – Leave a Blog Comment for a Chance to Win
Attendees view Show and Tell 2.0, A Poster Session.
The Connecticut Educators Computer Association (CECA) is holding its annual conference today – this year in conjunction with the Connecticut Association of School Librarians (CASL) – at the convention center in Hartford. The conference is titled Teaching and Technology for 21st Century Learning and over 750 participants are in attendance.
CEA President Phil Apruzzese (center) talks with CEA members Edgar Roca and Maria Ehrhardt at the conference.
If you are one of the teachers attending the conference today, leave a comment on BlogCEA for a chance to win a $100 gift card. Let us know what you’ve learned at the conference, leave your name (or a nickname), and include your valid email address (email address will not be visible to other blog visitors). One blog commenter will be selected at random to receive the gift card – winner will be contacted via email. Leave your comment before 4pm on Tuesday, October 27 to be eligible.
IT IS A PLEASURE SPENDING TIME WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN MY FIELD.
A great way to learn, learn, learn, about technology, and to get new ideas for lesson plans and integrating technology into your day!
Here at the CECA/CASL conference – just attended an outstanding keynote by Jamie McKenzie on inquiry based learning & using import questions. We need to move away from topic research projects & involve our students in real problem solving & thinking!
Keynote speater terrific – Glad to hear people talking about thinking again. As a reading consultant, teachers still need to have reinforcement on how strategies and skills can help their individual disciplines to be understood by students.
The CECA conference is an amazing way to network, learn about new technology and media, and improve instruction through the latest and most innovative products and educators. Thanks! It is definitely worth it!
Great conference so far.
I am here as a bookseller, and as a writer myself, this event gives me energy that I would otherwise not get…
The conference has been excellent. I just learned about several Google Tools I have not previously used.
Thanks to CEA for all the work.
Meryl
Great conference! Learning about new Google Tools to enhance instruction and network with colleagues from around the state. Don’t miss this conference next year! Very beneficial.
Jamie McKenzie was an excellent presenter. I enjoyed his discussion of the various learning literacies.
Great conference so far. Jamie McK has been inspiring as always.
Thank you for today. Had a great time meeting other people in my field. Thank you!
I was very pleased with the quality of the set-up and presenters. After being away from education technology for a few years, I am also surprised to now see how good the available technologies are, as shown in the exhibit areas – high quality, very practical, and focused toward effective teaching and learning.
CECA/CASL Joint Conference has been a great day. The variety of workshops giving information for using with all levels of students and classes is terrific. Local teachers, librarians, and national speakers all contributed to a successful day. I would encourage anyone who is a teacher and uses, or would like to know more about using, any WEB 2.0 or technology resources in their classrooms to attend future events by CECA and CASL. It is also one of the few times during the year that educators with common goals can get together and share successes and ideas that students enjoy using in the classroom.
This conference should be attended by all educators!!!
Today’s CECA/CASL Conference was enriching and informative. I especially enjoyed connecting with colleagues.
It looks like video content creation is the wave of the future when it comes to students showing what they’ve learned. This is going to be tricky. Many teachers don’t feel confident showing students how to use this technology, and those that are may not be sure how to assess this relatively new medium.
Thank you to all of you who contributed comments yesterday and today! I just drew a winner and contacted that person.
I hope you all got a lot out of yesterday’s conference and that you’ll check back in at BlogCEA from time to time.
Thank you for today. Had a great time meeting other people in my field. Thank you!
The technology conference was great, as usual. I just wish I could have split myself into pieces, so I could have attended all the presentations of interest to me that were held at the same time. I was happy to sit in on Kathy Shrock’s info management presentation, although I’m still having trouble processing all the great resources available to us on a daily basis.
I can’t tell you how excited I was to see the picture of Thayer and myself (even though it’s a view from the back) in the mounted picture that accompanies this post. We really enjoyed doing a “poster” session. We felt we shared some valuable information with folks who stopped by, but it was much more relaxed and enjoyable than doing a formal presentation. Our use of Google apps, Moodle, PhotoStory3, VoiceThread, and other tech tools continues to increase as our school. We are so happy to have conferences such as CECA available to us where we can network, get new ideas, and refine those we are working on. Thanks CEA for highlighting this conference.
Carolyn