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7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor

8:00am EDT

Registration & BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

8:30am EDT

3D Assessment: Visual, Design and Multimedia Arlington - 2nd Floor Being Smart with Graphs Franklin - 4th Floor (B wing) Building Biodiversity Knowledge and Tools for 21st Century Learning St. James - 4th Floor (C wing) Collaborative Teaching Across Geographical Boundaries Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Creating an Environment for Innovation: Partnerships, Program and Spaces Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Design Matters! Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Digital Storytelling: Simple Special Effects Statler - 2nd Floor Global Rock Stars: Building a Community of Learners White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Google Search - Hold Onto Your Hats Georgian - 2nd Floor Inquiry Learning and Research in the Digital Age History Classroom Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Mapping Your Curriculum with Google Maps Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Podstemic: Changing the Face of STEM Curriculum with Mobile Devices Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Applying Technology to Character and Leadership Education Terrace - Lower Lobby Express Polls: “Express”ly Create Life-Long Critical Thinkers Lexington - 4th Floor (C wing)

10:00am EDT

Announcements and Keynote with Rob Evans Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

11:30am EDT

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

11:45am EDT

Balancing Innovation and Tradition in a Rapidly Changing World Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Developing Student Collaboration Skills with Google Docs Arlington - 2nd Floor Empathy: The 21st Century Skill Georgian - 2nd Floor Follow up Q&A with Rob Evans Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor I'm on Twitter, Now What? Terrace - Lower Lobby Just Point and Shoot: Using Video to Capture Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) STEM to STEAM to STEAMIE… Turning Up the Temperature on STEM Education White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Ten Things to Teach Your Students About Failure Statler - 2nd Floor Transform the Culture of the Classroom: What About 21st Century Skills, Literacies and Fluency? Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Global Technology and Engineering Consortium (GTEC) St. James - 4th Floor (C wing) More Than Your Local Paper: Exploding the Bounds of Learning with Global Journalism Online Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Students as School Tech Support Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing)

1:00pm EDT

Augmented Reality and Location-based Learning: Experiences in the Ether Georgian - 2nd Floor Creating Sustainable Change: On-Site Peer Coaching Paired with Innovative Leadership Terrace - Lower Lobby Don’t Just Write About It, Produce Documentaries In Your Class Statler - 2nd Floor Finding Meaning in the Masses: Maximizing your Professional Learning Community Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Inventing the Entrepreneurial Faculty Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Let Us Start at the Very Beginning - Creating a Learning Environment for Young Learners Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Plug Them In: Engaged Learners are "AMP"ed Up White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Student Tools for Collaboration Arlington - 2nd Floor The Annotated World - Getting Ready for The Internet of Things Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

2:15pm EDT

Apps for the Classroom Georgian - 2nd Floor Education in China, Reflections on Our Journey Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) How Do I Get Connected and Create Collaborative Global Relationships? Berkeley/Clarendon - 2nd Floor Leadership for Engaging Students Digitally Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor QR Codes: Connecting the Physical and Digital World One Scan at a Time White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Teaching Empathy Through Literature and the Web Terrace - Lower Lobby Why Change? Strategies for Communicating the Benefits of 21st Century Learning and Technology Integration Arlington - 2nd Floor Bringing Joy to Student Learning: The Power of Inquiry Statler - 2nd Floor

3:45pm EDT

Reflection and Next Steps with Alan November Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor