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7:00am EDT

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

8:30am EDT

Announcements w/ Alan November and Keynote with Geetha Narayanan - Innovations for Insights: 5Ws and an H (Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

10:20am EDT

Creating Collaborative Presentations! Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Creating Digital Curriculum Content: ePubs & iPads Terrace - Lower Lobby Creating Your Window to the World: Students Leaving a Legacy Statler - 2nd Floor Filter In, Not Out, Using Google Search Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Geetha Narayana's Keynote Follow up Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Less (Teaching) Is More (Learning) Georgian - 2nd Floor No Future Left Behind: 21 Century Classrooms…Converge… Learn…Create! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Primary Digital Portfolios Arlington - 2nd Floor Storyfinding White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) The Globally Connected Classroom: A Study of ePals in Written Language Development and Learning Berkeley - 2nd Floor WoW in School: The Hero's Journey Continues Clarendon - 2nd Floor

11:45am EDT

Curation for Learning Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Empower Your Students To Connect, Create and Collaborate With Each Other Arlington - 2nd Floor The Values Exchange Community: Enhancing critical thinking, persuasive reasoning and social awareness across the curriculum White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Building Biodiversity Knowledge and Tools for 21st Century Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Building the ∞:1 Program, or why your 1:1 program is short-sighted Statler - 2nd Floor Developing 21st Century Learners with 19th Century Content Clarendon - 2nd Floor Flip School: A Game Changer Georgian - 2nd Floor Gaming to Create and Learn Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Getting to Angry Birds Berkeley - 2nd Floor Introduction to Creating and Publishing with iBooks Author Terrace - Lower Lobby

1:10pm EDT

Building Biodiversity Knowledge and Tools for 21st Century Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Collaborative Learning Using Google Tools Georgian - 2nd Floor Crowdsourcing Edu Content Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Harnessing the power of the teacher and student voice to create a truly collaborative teaching environment. Arlington - 2nd Floor Learning by Inquiring Terrace - Lower Lobby Reimagining Schools - How to sustain Professional development Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Teaching Empathy Through Literature and the Web Clarendon - 2nd Floor The Values Exchange Community: Enhancing critical thinking, persuasive reasoning and social awareness across the curriculum White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) To Flip or Not to Flip Statler - 2nd Floor Reading and Writing Aware Berkeley - 2nd Floor

2:35pm EDT

Apps for the Classroom Terrace - Lower Lobby Combining Traditional Skills with 21st Century Tools to Improve Student Writing and Vocabulary Development in Class and At Home Clarendon - 2nd Floor Empowering Students to Manage Their Own Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor Finding Meaning in the Masses: Maximizing Your Professional Learning Community Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) iPads in Education- Examples from the Classroom Statler - 2nd Floor Learning Design & New Media Berkeley - 2nd Floor The Common Core and Lifelong Learning: Are We Pouring Concrete or Building Capacity? White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Who Owns the Learning Georgian - 2nd Floor YOU MATTER: 2 Words Changing Learning and Lives Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

4:00pm EDT

10 Important Things Librarians Should Teach This Year Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Be a Photography Artist/Genius in Under an Hour Terrace - Lower Lobby Digital Literacy: Show Me Don't Tell me Statler - 2nd Floor District-wide implementation of Google Apps for Education-Beginners/Intermediate White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) My Big Campus and Safe Web 2.0 in Education: Blogging, Messaging, Sharing and Collaborating Clarendon - 2nd Floor Reboot, Read, Write Arlington - 2nd Floor Rebuilding a school from the first building brick - and the first pedagogical brick Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) The Flipped Social Studies Classroom Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Transforming That Past Lesson For The 21st century classroom... A Ten Step Approach Georgian - 2nd Floor Twitter Tips and Tricks Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Modern Abolitionists: Developing Empathy Through Technology Berkeley - 2nd Floor

5:30pm EDT

Topic/Question & Tool Hands-on Gatherings (BYOD) Boston Park Plaza

9:00pm EDT

Annual BLC Bash (sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor