Pictures Sounds Numbers Words…an online conference

Those great folk from Maine ran an online conference last week, Pictures, Sounds, Numbers, Words. All sessions have been recorded and are freely available here: http://mltiolc.wordpress.com/workshop-schedule/.

Ex-Governor Angus King presented the keynote on the first day, and during his presentation he talks about many of the themes of the flat digital World and the implications for education. One of the points he focusses on is the need for professional development when supporting educators, which is something we wholeheartedly agree with at Etech.

Last year I had the chance to briefly meet with Governor King and I was interested to learn that the total cost of the initial MLTI initiative was around 0.5% of the total Maine education budget. Interesting thought for those who might believe that 1-1 programmes are prohibitively expensive.

Following on from Karen’s post regarding Prezi, Dr. Ruben Puentedura presents a workshop on some of the theory behind Prezi, and also, how to get started with it.

Handheld Learning 2009

Handheld Learning 2009 is now open for registration, and if you register before July 31st you will receive a FREE iPod Touch to use at the conference and keep afterwards.

At last year’s conference, Studywiz Mobile won an innovation award.

This year’s programme includes speakers such as:

• Malcolm McLaren, Agent provocateur and artist
• James Paul Gee, Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University
• Professor Elizabeth Hayes, Arizona State University
• Gordon Shukwit, Director of IT and Learning Technologies, Apple Inc
• John Davitt, International Learning Advocate, NewTools.org
• Tim Brighouse, Former Commissioner for London Schools
• Donald Clark, e-Learning Expert
• David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect, One Laptop Per Child
• Tim Rylands, Teacher & Innovator