Welcome! We hope you'll join us for the Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference where area technologists, faculty, and other educators can get together and share ideas and teaching and learning with technology in the 21st Century.

I’m happy to have as our keynote speaker, Chris Lehmann, principal at the new Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. The Academy has fully integrated technology into the curriculum, providing students with laptops and working with teachers to help develop appropriate assignments that take full advantage of the technology available to them. Chris will share with us his experience thus far and will provide a valuable insight into what’s going on in the K-12 system. Chris has been blogging the experience at Practical Theory, a place to not only find out about the school, but all kinds of thoughts and information about technology in education.

Our theme this year is "Multiliteracies", the idea of developing literacy across various kinds of media including video, audio, web sites, and text. We hope that people with share theories behind teaching interpretation of multiple media, activities that have worked well in the classroom, or other work they have done to foster multiliteracy in their students. We especially want to think about reimagining technology not as a tool but as an aspect of the learning environment that requires us to rethink how and what we teach.

The conference will take place on Drexel University''s campus. Directions to the college may be found on the campus web site.

We're looking forward to an exciting and thought-provoking conference!