You will need to have an account in the VTC conference in order to participate and have full access in the live conference. A conference account will be created for you when you officially register for the conference using the ESC Region XI workshop catalog system. Notifications will be sent out shortly before the start of the conference with your account information.
If you have an VTC account but have not officially registered through the ESC Region XI workshop catalog system once the conference has started, your VTC account will be denied access to the conference. Vendors and presenters are exempt. Need Help Logging In - contact Connie Swiderski, cswiderski@esc11.net or 817 740-7611.
Registration Concerns - contact Diana Madrid, dmadrid@esc11.net or 817 740-3697.
ESC Region XI Virtual Technology Conference construct your own conference from your desktop "Resistance Is Futile" November 9-12, 2010!
A conference to learn, collaborate and network with K-12 colleagues on educational technology topics. Held entirely on the Internet! Construct your own schedule from a variety of exciting presentations to attend throughout the conference or watch recorded versions. Presentations that fit your interests and time!
Steve Hargadon is Elluminate's Social Learning Consultant and the founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network (www.classroom20.com). He blogs, speaks, and consults on educational technology, and is particularly passionate about Web 2.0, social networking, Free and Open Source Software, computer reuse, and computing for low-income populations.
He runs the Open Source Pavilion and speaker series for the North-American NECC, CUE, and T+L edtech shows, and the organizer of the annual EduBloggerCon. He is also the Emerging Technologies Chair for NECC, a regular columnist at School Library Journal, the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE), and a blogger at www.SteveHargadon.com.
He has consulted for PBS, Intel, Ning, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, CoSN, and others on educational technology and specifically on social networking.
Joyce Valenza is the teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT’s School of Library and Information Science.
“If you call yourself an information professional, you have to be a professional in the information landscape of your time,” says Valenza.
David Warlick, a 34 year educator, has been a classroom teacher, district administrator, and staff consultant with the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. For the past ten years, Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting, and innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina.
David’s attribution tool, Citation Machine, serves more than a half-million visits a day and his classroom blogging service has more than 200,000 users. David Warlick is also the author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy, and has spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, and South America.
What makes David Warlick a highly effective and sought-after speaker is that, at heart, he is a teacher with a contagious passion and enthusiasm for helping people discover a brand new world of teaching and learning.
Tammy Worcester has nearly twenty-five years of educational experience. She began her career in the classroom, teaching various grades from kindergarten to middle school. While teaching, Tammy also served as the technology coordinator for her K-8 school.
For the past twelve years, Tammy has worked for ESSDACK, an educational service center, as an Instructional Technology Specialist, providing staff development and training in the area of technology integration.
Her website, “Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers” (www.tammyworcester.com) is a popular online resource for teachers around the world. Tammy has developed several software applications for teachers and is the author of several best-selling technology resource books that are published and marketed nationally.
Steve Hargadon 
