The title for this conference -- whose meeting place is, well, noticeably absent -- is apt. No need for a hotel; you can attend from the comfort of your own home with asynchronous events as well as live "fireside chats" held via Elluminate technology. A good conference for educators who wish to learn Web 2.0 for the classroom.
Instilling a desire for lifelong learning is the ALA's mission. Come to the Biggest Little City in the World to learn how to fill your library with the right materials, services, and personnel to wow young learners into a lifelong relationship with the library system.
VSS attracts educators involved in online learning all the way from Canada to Mexico and features a program that will lead new practitioners from the first to the final stages of virtual-school planning and administration.
This event aims to encourage parents to have their children walk and bike to school, rather than drive them (automobile accidents are the number-one cause of death and major injury for U.S. children), and to prompt communities to build an infrastructure of safe routes for our junior commuters.
More than 8,500 middle school educators are expected for the annual NMSA conference, keynoted by baseball legend, author, and community-service leader Cal Ripken Jr.
This year's conference draws Jonathan Kozol and Amy Tan to encourage educators to embrace new ways of being literate, of teaching English, and of seeding the gift of language in twenty-first-century learners.
Links:
[1] http://www.edutopia.org/edutopia-staff
[2] http://k12onlineconference.org
[3] http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/reno2007.cfm
[4] http://www.nacol.org/events/vss
[5] http://www.saferoutesmichigan.org/nationalconference.htm
[6] http://www.nmsa.org/annual
[7] http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/annual