Event registration opens at 7:00am on Friday and Saturday, with sessions beginning at 8:15am and running through 5:15pm (Exhibits are open 8:00am - 4:00pm each day). Hilton New York is located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue & 53rd Street) in Midtown Manhattan. For more detailed information, please visit our Searchable Schedule and our page on Hotel Accommodations.

Schedule Information

The Celebration of Teaching & Learning’s schedule is organized around central themes or “content strands” (subjects that are the focus of presentations and workshops) to help you plan your visit to the event.

These content strands are:

• English Language Arts
  
• Instructional Technology
• Social Studies
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
• Whole School Issues

Within each content strand an attendee will have the opportunity to take part in a variety of different professional development experiences, including:

• Plenary Sessions: Keynote presentations in the 2,000 seat main hall
• Featured Speakers: Lecture-style presentations in 200-300 seat rooms
• Workshops: 30-50 seat classroom-style rooms for hands-on interaction with instructors.

To help plan your agenda and find detailed information on sessions, including descriptions, speaker biographies, session days and times, please consult the Searchable Schedule. Please note: Posted schedule includes only Plenary Speakers and Featured Speakers sessions at this point. Workshop sessions will be posted early January 2010–please check back frequently for updates.

All presentations range from 60-75 minutes, and seating is first-come, first-served. In addition, attendees may browse the Exhibit Halls**, where over 150 vendors will present the latest in dynamic resources for the K-12 classroom.

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DAILY SCHEDULE*

*Special Events and Book Signings will be offered at various times throughout the day.
**Exhibit Hall hours: 8:00am - 4:00pm.

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Mt. Pleasant Blythedale UFSD, Valhalla, NY

(Web – Global Awareness Project)
Their Web site about the Bronx River uses various media formats to link across an array of curricular areas. It features student narration, video and historical timelines.

LINK: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of the Bronx River

Signal Hill Elementary School, Dix Hills, NY

(Multimedia – Social Studies/Arts/ELA project)
Second-grade enrichment students wrote their own original script. Their plot centered on an animal in that community who was in trouble. They creatively solved the animal’s dilemma. After recording their play using Garage Band, their characters, props and scenery were created. Their movie was then filmed by capturing digital still photographs. Voices, music and still images were combined using iMovie.

P.S. 108Q, South Ozone Park, NY

(Web – Social Studies Project)
An interactive Web site about patents, property and piracy that revolves around a mystery that needs to be solved by the reader. It contains quizzes, interactive activities and games, and video of a trip to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. Also included are interviews with a teenager charged with piracy, an inventor and the Director of the USPTO, the Honorable Jon W. Dudas.

To play the game online, click here.

Oceanside High School, Oceanside, NY

(Video – Social Studies Project)
Students discussed how technology has changed over time and the ways that some people use it in an inappropriate manner. Students created short movies to address particular behaviors, emphasizing the importance of correcting those behaviors. This video is a compilation of their work to educate everyone on technology etiquette.

Public School 124, Brooklyn, NY

(Video – Science/Global Awareness)
This class became concerned that they didn’t know as much as they should about how to protect their environment, especially about safe ways to dispose of rechargeable batteries. They researched the topic and created a public service announcement (PSA) as an informational tool.

Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, NY

(Multimedia – Arts/Global Awareness Project)
As man has helped technology evolve, the environment has been forced to follow suit. In honor of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference’s objectives to save the Earth, students chose from an array of still photography image making technologies dating back to the 1850’s to create images that would enlighten people about the beauty and demise of nature.

To download the powerpoint presentation, click here.

The Glory & Demise of our Environment

Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY

(Web – Science Project)
Students conducted an experiment to see if the level of involvement in the memorization process has any association with the number of digits a student can memorize. They used the irrational number Phi, also known as the Golden Ration. The Web site shows all aspects of the design and analysis of the experiment.

LINK: Memorizing Phi