This year we have another GREAT lineup of nationally renowned keynote speakers. The keynote sessions for 2010 include:

Dr. Valenza has been the librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, PA since 1998. For ten years, she was the techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joyce is the author of Power Tools, Power Research Tools and Power Tools Recharged for ALA Editions. She currently blogs for School Library Journal.

Her NeverendingSearch Blog (now on the SLJ website) won an Edublogs Award for 2005 and was nominated again in 2008. She won the AASL/Highsmith research grant in 2005. Joyce is a Milken Educator and an American Memory Fellow. Her video series, Internet Searching Skills was a YALSA Selected Video for Young Adults in 1999. The video series Library Skills for Children was released in 2003, and her six-volume video series Research Skills for Students was released in Fall 2004. Super Searchers Go to School was published by Information Today in 2005. Her Virtual Library won the IASL School Library Web Page of the Year Award for 2001.

Joyce is active in ALA, AASL, YALSA, and ISTE and contributes to Classroom Connect, VOYA, Learning and Leading with Technology, and School Library Journal. Joyce speaks nationally about issues relating to libraries and thoughtful use of educational technology. Joyce earned her doctoral degree from the University of North Texas in August of 2007.

Check out Joyce's blog at http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html, her home page at http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/jvweb.html, or her school's virtual library website: http://www.sdst.org/shs/library.

You can also follow Joyce on Twitter - her Twitter tag is "joycevalenza".

Experience the retelling of this ancient myth with a more feminist twist! It is impossible for our schools and districts not to open the amazing new gifts in the box we call 2.0. The key to our future is in how we open the box and use its contents! With thought and trust and hope we can unleash student creativity and learning. Joyce will discuss 2.0 projects and tools that allow us to deliver curriculum in new and engaging ways. Join us as we open and explore Pandora's 2.0 box!

Join Dr. Valenza on Monday afternoon for a 3-hour hands-on workshop in the Hampton Room:
A Few New Things: Learning, Sharing, & Applying 2.0 Tools

Dr. Valenza conducts two follow-up sessions on Tuesday in the Balsam Room:
Let's Get Cooking: Library as Kitchen at 10:30 a.m.
My Favorite Widgets: Embedding the Best at 12:00 p.m.

Please see the online catalog for session and workshop descriptions.

Leslie Fisher's interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and recording. She grabbed her 300 baud modem, jumped on the Internet (before anyone really called it the internet), and started looking for music resources. She soon realized she was spending more time discovering technology than playing music so she changed her major and tried to figure out what geeky thing she could do for the rest of her life.

After graduating from USC with a Business and Marketing degree in 1989 and a quick stint as a Trainer, Leslie joined Apple Computer in 1992. When the Internet took off in 1994, Leslie was one of the first Apple employees assigned to study Internet growth and implementation.

In 1997, Leslie was roadkill on Apple's road to recovery and part of their massive lay off. Leslie planned to spend most of her huge severance package golfing and waiting a few months to look for a job. The day after her layoff, her phone began to ring with Apple customers requesting consulting, training, and presentation services. Before she could say "fore", Fisher Technologies Inc. was created to help educators with their technology implementations and decisions.

Fisher Technologies Inc. is now a worldwide company (meaning one employee named Leslie gets to travel the world teaching) specializing in Web Development, Web Tools as well as Digital Photography, Editing and Workflow. More information is available at Leslie's website: www.lesliefisher.com

Whether it is an item to make your life more fun and productive or a preview into what the future holds - gadgets capture our attention! Learn about some of today's most popular gadgets from the "gadget guru". This keynote includes everything from cool Web 2.0 sites to fun gadgets - covering software to sound! Also take a peek at some future gadget ideas with the potential to reshape your home, classroom, and computer. Begin the dialog of how educators might integrate "gadgets" into the learning process - if we do not, our students will ! ! !

Join Leslie on Tuesday evening for a 3-hour hands-on workshop in the Hampton Room:
Digital Photography & Photo Editing: Tips & Techniques

Ms. Fisher conducts two follow-up sessions on Wednesday in the Balsam Room:
iPod Touch/iPhones in the Classroom at 10:30 a.m.
Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter! at 12:00 p.m.

Please see the online catalog for session and workshop descriptions.

Dr. Annette Lamb has been a school library media specialist, computer teacher, and professor of education and library science. She is currently teaching online graduate courses for librarians and educators as a professor at Indiana University - Indianapolis (IUPUI). In addition to online teaching, she writes, speaks, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes throughout North America and is well-known for her realistic approaches to technology integration and information inquiry. In addition to working on state and national-level grant projects, she enjoys spending time with administrators, teachers, and individual school districts, universities, and museums focusing on practical, technology-rich approaches to teaching and learning.

Annette received her Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Iowa State University. Her roots in library, media, and technology are reflected in her passion for interdisciplinary approaches, reading and writing across the curriculum, and using a variety of resources from books to the Internet. Annette's numerous articles and over a dozen books are valuable resources for educators. Her popular website, Eduscapes.com, includes a wide range of award-winning, free resources for educators including 42explore, Teacher Tap, Literature Ladders, Activate, Naturescapes, Multimedia Seeds, and escrapbooking.com. She loves to share her ideas with others.

All of her sessions and workshops are available at eduscapes.com.

Immerse young readers and writers in a multiplatform world of information where divergent resources like websites, books, audio, and video converge. Learn about multiplatform content from graphic histories to science interactives. Graphic novels are merging with digital comics and young people are building their own animated stories and subject area reports to share on the web. Explore new ways to think about accessing information, creating student projects, and preparing young people for a technology-enhanced life. Build multiplatform learning experiences that promote active learning and 21st century skills.

For more information, see www.eduscapes.com/sessions/multiplatform.

Join Dr. Lamb on Wednesday evening for a 3-hour hands-on workshop in the Conway Room:
Beyond Googling: Applying Google Tools to Teaching & Learning

Dr. Lamb conducts a follow-up session on Thursday in the Balsam Room:
Digital Comics, Graphic Novels, & Sequential Art for Enhanced Learning at 10:00 a.m.

Dr. Lamb also conducts a 90-minute hands-on workshop on Thursday in the Hampton Room at 11:30
Get Graphic! Visuals for Deep Thinking, Inquiry, & Learning

Please see the online catalog for session and workshop descriptions.