NMSTE+Planning+Document

Bi-weekly calls until February 15, 2011 Weekly calls in April, 2011 until the event
 * ** Month: December 2010 ** || ** Assigned to: ** ||
 * Agreed upon strands:

 1. **Engaging 21st Century Learners:** Who are our students? What can educators do to motivate and engage this highly mobile, digitally connected generation of learners?

 2. **Blended and Online Teaching and Learning:** Promising practices for Pk-20 online/blended instructional strategies for mobile learners. Best practices for K-12 and higher education instructors.

 3. **Educational Policy, Funding, and Assessment Issues:** What changes need to be made to accommodate the Digital/Mobile Teaching and Learning Paradigm?

 4. **Removing Barriers in the Digital World:** Challenges and successes in meeting the needs of all students (ELLs, SPED, low SES, etc.) in digital/mobile environments.

 5. **Digital Content and New Media Formats:** Where does digital content come from and how is it created, accessed, shared, owned, managed, etc.? An exploration of new formats including iTunesU, mobile apps, gaming/simulation, video.

 6. **Emerging Solutions from the Marketplace:** Come hear from our industry partners about technologies that support digital/mobile teaching and learning. .

Virtual strand- **RETA will host one possibly two virtual strands. If one then it will be a mix of sessions for both K-12 and IHE audiences. If there are enough virtual strand presentation apps to run two Adobe Connect rooms then we’d like to host K-12 sessions and IHE sessions separately.** **Ideally, there will be virtual presentations across the four conference strands.**

Pre-conference activity **Book Exploration** //Stuck in the Shallow End// Jane Margolis "Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, Margolis exposes a barely recognized fact: minority children ar still stuck in separate and unequal educational settings. Margolis points out why having high-tech equipment without a system in place to foster critical thinking does little to close the achievement gap in poor communities".

Speakers/Presenters: are there specific speakers we want to reach out to in addition to call for presenters? Marcy sent a list of possible speakers

Who will put together call for presenters? Jill/Tamara- Shelene will send out in eblast going out Dec 15

· RegOnline Active by 12/15 ||   || · Begin Vendor contacts December 15, 2010- we have 2 vendors already signed up, and 2 key sponsors. · Save the Date second eblast January 20, 2011 · Call for Posters/Presentations posted December 15, 2010 as part of first eblast · Discuss how Posters/Presentations will be displayed- for our Jan 3 call · Keynotes and Presenters discussed- for December 13 call; list was sent. Jamai and Tamara will work on contacting keynotes. Brian will email Scott McLeod · A/V confirmed – APS? · Badges confirmed- find vendor sponsor · Will sessions be streaming/video-taped? || Tamara
 * January 2011

Shelene || · ||  || · Deadline for Posters/Presentations due March 15, 2011 · Deadline for Breakout Session topics due March 15, 2011 · ||  || · All ads, logos, breakout session and posters/presentations information due April 6, 2011 · Program to printer on April 13, 2011 · Last minute additions to program due on April 20, 2011 · Conference April 28 -30, 2011 · ||  || · Post-conference survey May 6, 2011 · ||  ||
 * February 2011
 * March 2011
 * April 2011
 * May 2011