2012 Educational Technology Conference | Center for Teaching and Technology

Overview

The 29th Annual MSU College of Education Technology conference will be held on October 27th, 2012 on the beautiful campus of Michigan State University in Erickson Hall from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm. The theme of this year’s conference is open and networked education and it is quite fitting that through a collaboration between the College of Education, the MSU College of Education Alumni Association and the Master of Arts in Educational Technology Program, this year’s conference will be FREE OF CHARGE to all attendees.

Featured Presenter

We are also excited to announce that Dr. Alec Couros will be our keynote speaker for this year’s conference. Alec is an Associate Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy. His graduate and undergraduate courses help current and future educators understand how to use and take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity. Find out more about Dr. Couros at http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/ or by following him on twitter @courosa

Type of Conference Sessions

The conference offers concurrent sessions in the morning at 10:15 a.m and 11:15 a.m., immediately after the Featured Presentation, and workshops in the afternoon after a lunch break. During concurrent sessions, experienced educators or trainers present a topic and discuss its relevance and applicability to the K-12 classroom and learning experiences as a pre-service or in-service educator. Workshops offer an opportunity for hands-on instruction in an hour and a half block of time. For a full description of the concurrent sessions and the workshops, please follow these links:

Morning Sessions

Afternoon Workshops

Conference agenda

Registration is now open. Space in workshops is limited, so register early before they fill up. Remember, this year’s conference is FREE OF CHARGE to all attendees, so bring a friend or two along! Those that would like a certificate of attendance can request one on the registration page.

The hashtag for the conference is #coetc12

Click here to Register

Thank you!

Terri Gustafson & Leigh Graves Wolf, PhD (2012 conference co-coordinators)
Center for Teaching & Technology / Master of Arts in Educational Technology
College of Education – Michigan State University
E: terrigus@msu.edu – P: 517-432-4329
Terri on Twitter: @tgustafson; @Centr4TeachTech
Leigh on Twitter: @gravesle @maet