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Program    Sessions By Category

Click on the links below to view sessions in a particular category. Go to Sessions by Time to view sessions by day/time. Use the Program Search to browse the entire program by presenter, title, keywords, themes and strands, audience, and more!

Formal Sessions

(in-room presentations; one-hour unless otherwise noted)

• Lecture
  One or more presenters, each addressing the audience independently.

• Spotlight
  Lecture Sessions featuring recognized leaders in Ed Tech.

• Corporate Spotlight [coming soon]
  Lecture Sessions featuring CEOs and/or executive leadership of NECC's Tier One and Tier Two sponsoring companies.

• Panel
  Main presenter serving as moderator interacting with co-presenter panelists.

• Model Lesson
  Presenter assumes role of teacher giving lesson while audience assumes role of students or observers in a classroom setting. Limited seating; first-come, first-served.

• BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)
  Presenters deliver content in a more interactive, hands-on environment where audience brings own laptops. Advance sign-up required. See below*.

• Open Source Lab
  Presenters teach, demonstrate, and show open source software in a Linux-based, thin client environment. Advance sign-up required. See below*.

• Tablet Lab [coming soon]
  Presenters demonstrate pen-based computing by teaching a lesson in a Tablet PC-based environment. Limited seating; first-come, first-served.

• IVC Showcase
  Half-hour presentations by interactive videoconferencing (IVC) leaders and innovators showcasing their programming content and classroom initiatives via videoconferencing from their home locations.

• Birds-of-a-Feather [coming soon]
  Informal, one-and-a-half hour discussion format providing a special opportunity for like-minded educators to gather and network.

* New in 2009! BYOL and Open Source Lab sessions are still included as part of your conference registration; however, due to limited seating these sessions will require advanced sign-up in order to participate. Attendees may sign up for one BYOL and one Open Source Lab session per day via their conference registration form beginning on April 15.

Informal Sessions

(exhibit-style presentations; two-hours unless otherwise noted)

• Poster
  Focused on the sharing of curriculum, staff development, or administrative Ed Tech ideas.

• Global Gallery
  Focused on the sharing of international projects, curricula, and promising practices.

• Student Showcase
  Features students sharing their classroom projects and activities.

Research Papers

(one-hour presentations featuring original research on the general theme of using technologies to enhance education)

• Discussion
  Multiple papers presented concurrently in an informal table discussion format in the same room.

• Presentation
  Two papers presented consecutively in a formal lecture format in the same room.

Program Search Key
Look for these icons on the Program Search results pages to identify these featured initiatives.

30th Anniversary
Presentations and events celebrating ISTE's 30th Anniversary and 30 years of Ed Tech vision.

SIG Picks
Presentations and events identified by ISTE's Special Interest Groups as being of particular interest to their members.

Leadership Strand
Program content is part of the Leadership Strand for accelerating school improvement, and may be of particular interest to administrators and other self-identified leaders.

Global Perspectivs & Collaboration
Program content involves some type of global collaboration between students and/or teachers, or the speaker is from outside the U.S.

ISTE 100 Corporate Partners
Identifies NECC presentations sponsored by ISTE 100 Members, select corporations that share and support ISTE's commitment to improving education by integrating appropriate technology and improving products and services available to educators worldwide.

ISTE Author
One or more presenters is an ISTE book or periodicals author.

ITRT Strand
Session focuses on effective integration of technoloy in to the curriculum and Virginia's Instructional Technology Resource Teacher (ITRT) Program.

Not Recordable
Indicates presenter has not given permission to record session in accordance with the new NECC Recording Policy.

Video On-Demand
Identifies sessions and events that will be recorded for postconference on-demand viewing via ISTEVision.