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7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor Registration & BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

7:15am EDT

BLC Orientation Session Georgian - 2nd Floor

8:30am EDT

BLC Welcome and Keynote with Dr. Eric Mazur Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

10:15am EDT

Bling vs Bang! (Where is the Learning?) Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Engaging Students in Digital Classrooms - Part I (Students' Perspective) St. James - 4th Floor (C wing) Follow up Q&A with Dr. Eric Mazur Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor How to Plan Cool and Practical Multimedia Projects Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Make Your Mark and See Where it Takes You Georgian - 2nd Floor My Big Campus – A Safe, Collaborative Platform for Authentic Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Nouns Versus Verbs: A Better Way to Look at Technology and Education Arlington - 2nd Floor PSI and PMI: Effective New Approaches to High School Science and K-12 Mathematics Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Public History and Virtual Museums: Students Opening Doors Franklin - 4th Floor (B wing) Student Success Through Virtual Learning Statler - 2nd Floor The Future of Search is Social - Are You Ready? Terrace - Lower Lobby The ABC's of Challenge-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom Lexington - 4th Floor (C wing) Worshipping at the Altar of "School" - 21st Century Style Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing)

11:30am EDT

BLC Drop-in Center and Charging Station Open Thoreau - 4th Floor (C wing)

11:45am EDT

21st Century Bricoleurs (Part One) Terrace - Lower Lobby Getting Connected: Global Collaboration, Communication and Digital Citizenship Through Social Media Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor How to Measure the Mission: Teaching and Assessing for Global Literacy White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) iWorld Supersession: iOS Devices in Education Georgian - 2nd Floor Kids Teaching Kids: Empowering Students Through Screencasting Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Learning to Blog; Blogging to Learn Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Managing Risk-Reward With Digital Media in Schools Statler - 2nd Floor Photo Storytelling: Images Tell Amazing Stories Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Twitter – Establishing Your Personal Learning Network Arlington - 2nd Floor When We Last Left Our Show: Legal Issues in Technology and Education Since BLC10 St. James - 4th Floor (C wing) WoW in School: Gaming Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Building Learning Communities, Literally Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Challenge Based Learning Lexington - 4th Floor (C wing)

1:00pm EDT

79 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools You May Have Missed Georgian - 2nd Floor Beyond Document Analysis: Creating Online Primary Source-Based Activities with DocsTeach.org from the National Archives St. James - 4th Floor (C wing) Facebook in the First Grade Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Flip Your Classroom: Implementing a Successful 21st Century Classroom Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Get Globally Connected! Terrace - Lower Lobby Not Another Paper! Alternative Projects and Social Media Arlington - 2nd Floor Reach: Tips and Tricks for Extending and Connecting Your Personal Learning Network Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Teaching Empathy Through Literature and the Web Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Teaching the Media Strand Statler - 2nd Floor Valuing Education Technology in Schools Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Frame by Frame: Using Stop Motion Animation in the Classroom Lexington - 4th Floor (C wing) iOS Apps for Learning Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing)

2:15pm EDT

Designing for the Future! Online Learning That Doesn't Put You To Sleep Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Models and Probes, Oh My! St. James - 4th Floor (C wing) More is Less: A 3:1 Program Demonstrates That More Technology is Paradoxically Less Disruptive Than a Little Technology Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor No Future Left Behind: 21 Century Classrooms… Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants… Converge… Learn… Create! Terrace - Lower Lobby Primary Digital Portfolios Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Student as Contributor: Digital Learning Farm Georgian - 2nd Floor The Five Skills Framework for Problem Solving Statler - 2nd Floor This Millennium is Starting Out Just Like the Last One! Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Using School-Safe Social Media Technology to Break Free from Curriculum’s Rusty Cage Arlington - 2nd Floor “Super Cool” - Advanced-Geeky Gathering Building Learning Communities Franklin - 4th Floor (B wing) District Wide Implementation of Google Apps for Education Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) It Can Happen: Self-Directed Learning in the Secondary Classroom Lexington - 4th Floor (C wing) Something to Think About Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing)

3:45pm EDT

Wrap Up and Keynote with Ewan McIntosh Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

5:00pm EDT

Stories of Success Reception Georgian - 2nd Floor

6:00pm EDT

Reception at FableVision FableVision Duck Boat (Purchased Tickets Only) and Dinner On Your Own Downtown Boston