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Click on the links below to view all sessions included in your regular conference registration by category. You may also view Sessions by Time and by Presenter or use the Custom Program Search to browse the program by other criteria, such as: title, keywords, themes & strands, audience, and more!

BYOL and Open Source Evaluations
BYOL and Open Source Lab Session participants are kindly asked to complete only one BYOL/Open Source Lab Evaluation Form for each session attended.

Formal Concurrent 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
  Lecture Sessions featuring CEOs and/or executive leadership of ISTE'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(s) (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
  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
  Informal, one-and-a-half hour discussion format providing a special opportunity for like-minded educators to gather and network.

* BYOL and Open Source Lab sessions are included as part of your conference registration; however, due to limited seating these sessions require advanced sign-up in order to participate. Attendees may now sign up for more than one BYOL or Open Source Lab session per day, based on availability. Check hardware and software prerequisites ahead of time, via the Program Search Details for each session.

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 Collaboration
  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)

• Roundtable
  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.

Icon Key
Look for these icons on the Search Results pages to identify these featured initiatives.

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 Perspectives
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 conference 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.

Not Recordable
Indicates presenter has not given permission to record session in accordance with ISTE's Recording Policy.

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