Learn why over half of all U.S. schools power their curricula with Discovery Education digital solutions. Join us whether you are a current subscriber to Discovery Education's digital media services or you are interested in learning more about resources to engage technology-savvy students. Experience the latest content and enhancements to Discovery Education streaming PLUS, Discovery Education Science, Discovery Education Health, Discovery Education MediaShare and Discovery Education Assessment. Learn how our new Curriculum Alignment service can match content specifically to your district's curriculum and see how our robust Professional Development services can enhance your district's instructional strategies with proven methods.

Inspire students to create dynamic content, communicate their understanding of subject matter, and collaborate on multimedia projects with the Adobe's Digital School Collection, which includes state-of-the-art Adobe software as well as curriculum and training materials to bring the learning experience to life.

Learn how Apple technologies can help students achieve and thrive in school while building the skills they’ll need to succeed in the workforce.

Come to this session to explore the abundant possibilities with new Livescribe smart pens. How you address special needs, classroom support centers and student assessment data will forever be transformed by these unique smart pens. Participate actively with this tool as you explore how it is currently being used in today’s classroom. Additional perk for the first 30 attendees will be the option to use a Livescribe pen and notebook throughout the conference.

Rob Murphy of Epson and Bob Friedler of CompView will give a comprehensive overview of how to implement and use modern technology to enhance the classroom experience. Technologies include classroom projections, classroom audio enhancement, Document Camera 101 and interactive classroom enhancements.

MediaCAST is a district wide solution for using digital media in classroom learning. It can deliver high-quality video and audio to every classroom and common area in your district, as well as to students and staff at home and in your community.

MediaCAST centralizes media storage and distribution, bringing new efficiency to your district. It is easy to integrate into your IT framework and is a solid investment because it serves so many K-12 needs: on-demand media retrieval, interactive classrooms, capture video conferences, morning announcements, distance learning, on-demand digital TV channels, on-demand video, athletics/graduation broadcasting. Use MediaCAST to integrate video into your curriculum by giving teachers the tools they need to build lessons that incorporate video, audio and other media linked to education and training standards.

See how Windows 7 will unleash the creativity of teachers and students to create new, educationally relevant 21st Century learning experiences. Find out how easy it is to use Windows 7 plus Windows Live to create great digital content for digital photography and movies.

Check out how continued improvements to the Windows platform allows Windows 7 to deliver an innovative end-to-end user experience that enables personalized computing for everyone ?hile allowing school administration to control the costs of IT management and support.

Teachers no longer have to wonder if students are grasping the concepts, they can tell by a click of a button! The SMART Response System is designed to enhance teaching and learning all day every day. The focus of this presentation is to show how a student response system provides a direct connection between the teacher and the student, allowing for instant results and immediate feedback. The powerful combination of software and hardware will accelerate instruction while meeting the needs of all learners, increasing teacher efficiency, and individualizing learning. Participants will walk away knowing how to utilize SMART Response (formally known as Senteo) as a summative assessment tool, a formative assessment tool, and an instant polling tool.

The powerful combination of software and hardware will accelerate instruction while meeting the needs of all learners, increasing teacher efficiency, and individualizing learning. Participates will walk away knowing how to utilize SMART Response (formally known as Senteo) as a summative assessment tool, a formative assessment tool, and an instant polling tool.

This session will discuss how the latest wireless LAN standard - 802.11n - can be used to create networks with wire-like performance but the mobility of a wireless solution. By rightsizing wired LANs - using energy-efficient 802.11n wireless everywhere you can, wired Ethernet only where you must - IT can significantly reduce operating expenses and lower carbon emissions. These benefits extend to fixed telecommuters and remote facilities, where new combination WAN+LAN+WLAN solutions provide the security of a VPN without the hassles of managing clients.

The session will feature hands-on labs with the latest 802.11n and remote networking gear, as well as rightsizing calculators that estimate cost and carbon emissions savings.

Participants will get an overview of the components of a 21st Century classroom, then will have an opportunity to use an interactive response system and participate in interactive classroom activities at the SMART Board. We will also focus on how teachers can customize tools like Notebook software, to support their best practice and the specific lessons they teach to students. By the end of the session participants who have laptops with Notebook 10 software will have had a chance to build a custom gallery, and to customize tools in the software to meet their specific needs.

Professional Learning Communities are a great way to share resources and customize internal communications and access for every teacher. Through the customized educational portal and Community Engagement system each teacher can have a customized log-in web page and receive communications that are directly applicable to them, the courses they teach, the professional development, and the groups they participate (3rd Grade Teachers, Science Committees, Steering Committees etc.)

This makes it easier than ever to share curriculum, lesson plans, best practices, and manage many customized sub-groups. This session will focus on how to establish Professional Learning Communities using the model of Jefferson County Schools (Colorado) that has a fully established and integrated PLC and on-line curriculum management system, and demonstrate how you can start doing this in your district.

These instructional strategies will surprise you! ?inding and playing video segments are just one of many ways you can use the media library of Discovery Education streaming. ?id you know you have an interactive atlas, dynamic calendar, thousands of quiz questions and tens of thousands of images, speeches, and sound effects? ?ome and learn how to integrate the Discovery Education streaming tools in new and exciting ways that are perfect for reaching the 21st century student.

Adobe Acrobat software delivers powerful solutions for improving classroom efficiency and enhancing communication throughout your educational community. Easily create and distribute curriculum, media-rich lesson plans, project materials, and homework assignments. Adobe Acrobat simplifies and streamlines administrative processes such as grading, record keeping, and more.

Learn how Apple technologies can help students achieve and thrive in school while building the skills they’ll need to succeed in the workforce.

Come to this session to explore the numerous possibilities that document cameras offer in your classroom. Build your own digital lesson plan with stills, movies and so much more.

Teaching Effectiveness & School Improvement Practices: Proven effective, individualized online instruction with embedded assessments. Research-based, ongoing professional development designed to impact teacher capacity and student success.

By now we've all at least stuck our foot in the door of the 21st century classroom and know the benefits student response systems bring to formative and summative assessment. Wouldn't you also like to be informed about not just what your students know, but what they are thinking? Come learn how to get your students talking about the topics you are teaching. In this session, participants will learn how to build learner response systems into curriculum-focused lessons in a way that makes each individual and his thoughts a central part of the learning process.

This session will discuss how the latest wireless LAN standard - 802.11n - can be used to create networks with wire-like performance but the mobility of a wireless solution. By rightsizing wired LANs - using energy-efficient 802.11n wireless everywhere you can, wired Ethernet only where you must - IT can significantly reduce operating expenses and lower carbon emissions. These benefits extend to fixed telecommuters and remote facilities, where new combination WAN+LAN+WLAN solutions provide the security of a VPN without the hassles of managing clients.

The session will feature hands-on labs with the latest 802.11n and remote networking gear, as well as rightsizing calculators that estimate cost and carbon emissions savings.

This hands-on session will cover strategies & tools used in KidBiz & TeenBiz that help students dramatically improve their reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. The differentiated approach, along with a focus on non-fiction content, has helped a wide variety of students improve skills & test scores. From ELL, SPED, Dual Language, and Remedial needs, to TAG and General Ed classrooms, all students receive content that's automatically adjusted to their ability level. Assessments are included that keep students moving forward at an appropriately challenging pace. You will explore for yourself and see what the BUZZ is all about!

Participants will get an overview of the components of a 21st Century classroom, then will have an opportunity to use an interactive response system and participate in interactive classroom activities at the SMART Board. We will also focus on how teachers can customize tools like Notebook software, to support their best practice and the specific lessons they teach to students. By the end of the session participants who have laptops with Notebook 10 software will have had a chance to build a custom gallery, and to customize tools in the software to meet their specific needs.

Learn how to use SMART Notebook Software, the SMART Interactive White Board, and the Airliner Wireless Slate to accelerate best teaching practices. See how this technology becomes transparent as you explicitly meet the needs of multiple learning styles. Participants will learn how traditional lessons are transformed through digital templates and planning.

Microsoft Office 2010 will deliver innovative learning experiences by providing rich and powerful new ways to express and share ideas. Discover how Office 2010 will enable students and educators to bring ideas to life with advanced video and picture editing, broadcast capability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, easy document preparation through the new Microsoft Office Backstage view, and visualize data in new ways with Microsoft Excel 2010.

They can collaborate better and take shared notes with co-authoring in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote 2010. Work from anywhere with Office Web applications, lightweight browser based companions to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote that provide access to documents from virtually anywhere and preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of device.