Program Categories

Concurrent Session—takes place in a meeting room with a formal presentation station and a seated audience. Length is one hour unless otherwise noted.

• Lecture—one or more presenters, each of whom address the audience independently. Content should be of high interest and widely applicable to the broader ISTE audience. Content should educate, inspire, challenge, and/or provide specific implementation ideas. For a particular project or initiative, the focus should be on replicable ideas, e.g., what works and under what conditions rather than an historical or detailed account.
• Panel—main presenter serves as moderator for his/her co-presenter panelists. Content should lend itself to a variety of perspectives with the moderator focused on creating a cohesive presentation.
• Model Lesson—requires two presenters. The first teaches a curriculum-based lesson to 30 attendees playing the role of students. The second acts as emcee, simultaneously explaining the lesson and instructional strategies and discussing evidence of increased learning for students and key conditions for successful implementation. Content should demonstrate digital-age standards, useful classroom management of technology, student-centered learning, learning theories such as project-based learning and differentiated instruction, and technology.
• BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)—hands-on exploration of software or resources via participants' own laptops or other devices. Plan for an interactive, hands-on environment similar to workshops with reasonable amount of content to cover in the one-hour timeframe. (Note: Not suitable for sessions featuring bandwidth-heavy MUVEs or requiring specialized software that isn't widely available or can't be downloaded from the Internet.)
• IVC Showcase—30-minute presentations by interactive videoconferencing (IVC) leaders and innovators showcasing their programming content and classroom initiatives via videoconferencing from their home locations.

Learning Station Session—take place in an open, public environment with multiple presentations taking place at once. Presenter(s) interact informally with attendees who visit their station. Length is two hours unless otherwise noted.

• Poster—content should focus on the implementation of a lesson, curriculum, technology, model, or project, or demonstrate a good electronic resource/tool or practice in teacher education or for securing or maintaining the technology infrastructure.
• Global Collaboration Project—content should focus on curriculum/projects that involve collaborations between or among learners in different countries.
• Student Showcase—content should focus on student work with K-12 students presenting their projects.

Research Paper Session—features original research on the general theme of using technologies to enhance education. Proposals are double-blind peer reviewed. Presenters retain copyright privileges.

• Roundtable—six papers presented concurrently in an informal table discussion format in the same room during a one-hour time slot. No presentation equipment or electricity will be provided. Presenters may elect to bring their own laptops to present key findings in their research, if needed. Each roundtable will accommodate up to nine people.
• Presentation—two papers presented consecutively in a formal lecture format in the same room during each one-hour time slot. Each presenter will have 30 minutes to present his/her paper, including questions and comments.

Workshop—3-, 6-, and 12-hour presentations featuring a more focused, in-depth exploration of content. Enrollment is limited and preregistration and additional fees are required.

• Hands-on—takes place in a lab environment where participants are actively engaged in computer-based activities as the primary focus of the workshop.
• Seminar/Demo—does not require or support computers or other devices; instead participants are engaged in other forms of non-computer based professional development activities.