'All That JAZZ'
2004 International
Convention
Oct. 19th-23rd 2004
Chicago 2004
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'All That JAZZ'
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Don’t
miss a beat! Attend
the 2004 AECT International Convention where over 500 sessions offer you the
opportunity to immerse yourself in information that will “jazz” up both professional
and program development. Pre convention workshops offer a chorus of in-depth,
hands-on experiences conducted by some of the top experts and vendors in the
field. AECT division, affiliate and committee meetings are the chords in the
AECT melody that keep the association in harmony. To add new verses to the
lyrics, tune in to these leadership opportunities.
Evening activities will offer the opportunity to syncopate professional and personal pursuits. The International Student
Media Festival will have its own program track choreographed to attract students and teachers involved in student media
production.
Register now for your
advanced admission to the convention. It’s razzle, it’s dazzle, it’s glitz! It’s
the AECT 2004 Chicago International Convention and All That Jazz! Hotel
reservations need to be made separately, and can be made online or
by calling the Chicago Downtown Hilton at 312-922-4400.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
'Emerging
Technologies that Enable Distributed-Learning Communities'
Chris Dede
'Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Timothy
E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies'
Wednesday, October 20th, 5:00pm-6:00pm
Research documents the power
of face-to-face learning communities based on a culture in which
everyone collaboratively works towards collective
understanding. Distributed learning interweaves face to-
face interactions with communication and shared
experiences across distance and time. Examples of distributed-
learning communities include an international
mix of kids using mediated interactions to create an online
encyclopedia about Harry Potter’s fictional world, and
teams of mentor and novice teachers using the Milwaukee
Public Schools Professional Development Portal to share
teaching models and student artifacts online. This talk describes
my work on how emerging interactive media such
as multi-user virtual environments and wireless handhelds
create new types of distributed-learning communities
that require novel strategies for design and research.
Chris Dede is Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Timothy
E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies and Chair of
the school’s Learning and Teaching Area. His funded research
includes a grant from the National Science Foundation to aid
middle school students learning science via shared virtual
environments with digitized museum artifacts, a grant from
the Joyce Foundation to aid the Milwaukee Public Schools in
implementing a knowledge portal for teacher professional
development, and a grant from Harvard to explore applications
of wireless handheld devices in higher education.
'New Marketers of Standards, Accreditation, and
Certification'
Judith A. Hale
Author and Consultant
Saturday, October 23, 11:45am-12:45pm
Traditionally, the development and promotion of standards,
accreditation and certification has been the prevue of
academia and credentialing boards. However, today new
players have entered the market. The new players consist
of professional associations, government and quasi government
entities, consumer groups, consulting firms,
and product vendors. One of many questions is the degree
these new purveyors of standards and standardization
contribute to public interest versus mediocrity as their goal
may be primarily to influence the behavior of consumers and
competitors for personal gain.
Judith Hale, Ph.D., CPT is the author of The Performance
Consultant’s Fieldbook, Performance-Based Certification,
Performance-Based Evaluation, and Performance-Based
Management: What Every Manager Should Do To Get
Results. She has been a consultant to management in the
public and private sectors for over 25 years. She specializes
in needs assessments, certification programs, evaluation
protocols, and the implementation of major interventions.
She is a past president of ISPI and IBSTPI, Judith was awarded
a B.A. from Ohio State University, a M.A. from Miami
University, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.
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