Early Registration for The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference ends this Friday!
We hope you will consider joining us for this year's conference at the Milwaukee County Zoo on July 27th-30th.
About the Conference
The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference is a hands-on collaborative conference. Participants work with instructors from The Stephens Group utilize 21st Century Skills in order to create relevant real-world products. All instructors are real practitioners in the field of education.
In this year's conference we will be exploring the use of digital movie editing VoiceThread, Intel's Seeing Reason Tools, Skype and Google Maps to support learning. All comfort levels with technology are welcome to attend.
What's New at the Conference
Student Strand
This year we the student strand will be two days in length.
Students in grades 3-6 to come with their teachers on Tuesday, July 28 th-29th. Students will be creating a VoiceThread presentation with their teachers. In the past schools that have sent students with their teachers, have done so with the purpose of building capacity to do similar projects in their schools and having the students serve as technology leaders who can provide technical support on these types of projects. Teachers who are registering for the full conference should not register for the student track. More information is available on our registration page.
Social Networking Tools Breakouts
On Friday we have a series of breakout sessions on social networking tools. Presentations include Twitter,
Del.icio.us, Animoto, Pageflakes, Facebook, and
Wikispaces.
Apple Reception
On Wednesday, July 29th Apple Computers is hosting a reception on The Future of Mobile Technologies.
Brewers Tailgate Party
This year we organizing a tail-gate party to a Brewer's Game on the evening of July 29th.
Registration Information
More information is available on our conference website.
Early registration ends this Friday, May 15th.
Educators can receive two graduate credits for participating in the conference If you took the conference for credit last year, you will be able to retake it. The course is repeatable due to the fact that digital media is an emerging technology that presents new learning opportunities every year.
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