Educational Technology conference in New York

Vision Ed’s Stonington Retreat in New York City, is organising a four-day intensive workshop aimed at empowering teachers, parents and administrators to effectively integrate creative technology into their classrooms. With hands-on workshops in Robotics, Computer Animation, Game Design, Digital Video and Blogging, participants will walk away with the resources needed to start or continue a technology program at their schools or organizations. The retreat will take place this summer July 31st – August 3rd, 2007 at New York University’s Kimmel Center. The upshot of this retreat will be: Learn about cutting edge research in the field of Educational Technology. View and try out exciting project ideas used successfully by veteran teachers. Engage in hands-on activities led by professionals in the field of Educational Technologies. Take away lesson plans and curriculum materials to use in your classrooms. Participate in discussions with people who face similar challenges, such as administrative support for new initiatives, faculty involvement in technology and learning how to make it all work. Access to new learning tools, including ones that are free and easy to implement within schools. Special guest Mitchel Resnick, Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, will be giving hands-on workshops in two of his new projects: PicoCricket and Scratch. The PicoCricket uses robotics to make programmable artistic creations, and Scratch is a free software based on a programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music and art. There will also be hands-on workshops in LEGO® Mindstorms®, both the RCX and the new NXT, as well as workshops in Microworlds, a Computer Animation and Game making software, and Digital Video and Blogging. To find out more and register online, go to www.vemny.org/stonington.html Vision Ed. believes that effective work with technology can have an enormous impact on learning and teaching. Our mission is to share this understanding with educators and learners to inspire educational excellence and school reform. For more information click here

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