Interested in iPads and what they might look like in your environment? Come spend an evening with presenters from CAIS schools that have begun to implement iPads into all aspects of school life: academic, residential, and IT. Discussions will include, but not be limited to, eTexts, integration, and the pros and cons of having iPads in the community.

Agenda:
5:00 - Registration/Check-in
5:15 – Dinner
5:45 - 6:25 Concurrent Sessions A
6:30 - 7:10 Concurrent Sessions B
7:15 - 7:50 Concurrent Sessions C
7:50 - 8:00 Closing

Each group of concurrent sessions will include two dedicated topics and two options for unconference topics. The dedicated sessions will cover iPad use in Upper and Lower Schools; deployment of an iPad program; Sharing of Apps; and how to begin using iPads in your school. 

Unconference sessions:
What's an Unconference?  An unconference, according to the Wikipedia entry, is a "conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance." While unconferences are becoming popular (because they provide an excellent, flexible venue for ideas, networking, and participation), they have been around for decades, with the best-known format articulated by Harrison Owen as "Open Space Technology ". For an excellent description of the unconference format, see this Huffington Post article, An "Unconference" for Online Communities.

For this particular event....
... participants will be encouraged during dinner to propose specific topics that can be shared during the unconference sessions.  Do you have something - a lesson plan, teaching tool, Apps or information about how you use your iPads in school that you'd like to share with colleagues?  Bring it along and feel free to share it with your colleagues during these sessions.  Do you have questions about specific Apps or iPad deployment that you'd like answered?...suggest a session to have further discussions with your colleagues.