This call for proposals showed up in my Inbox this week and I wanted to share this with you. I presented at the West Tennessee Technology Symposium last year and found the setting and folks to be inviting. I hope you’ll consider submitting.

I am giving you the first chance to submit a proposal for the 2011 WTTS this coming November 2nd. This year we are expanding our concurrent session offerings, and we are very excited to announce very soon our exciting keynote speaker for this year!

If you want to see the tentative conference schedule for this year (without any specific sessions scheduled at this point), click here: http://www.utm.edu/wtts/session_descriptions.php

If you want to submit a speaking proposal, click here: http://www.utm.edu/wtts/proposals.php

We have secured a special discounted hotel rate at the local Hampton Inn, but availability is limited, so make your reservation today if you intend on coming to the WTTS. You can find lodging and travel information here: http://www.utm.edu/wtts/dl.php

As always, we are looking for sessions on any technology topic that would relate to education and we have always enjoyed a broad array of topics at our event. If you have a question about whether or not a certain topic would fit within our conference, please feel free to ask us. Here is a listing of topics that we have had in previous years, to give you some examples of what we are looking for:

· Using Web 2.0 Tools to Create a Global Classroom Experience
· Unpacking the Podcast
· Using the Livescribe Pen in Online and Traditional Teaching
· Teaching with Clickers : Is it a paradigm shift?
· Monitoring and Understanding Your Data Center’s Health
· Gen Y: Reaching Them and Teaching Them
· I stream. You stream. We all stream for Ustream.Tv ™!
· Make a Power(ful)Point: Using Narrated Presentations to Integrate and Enhance Online Education
· 35 ½ Things You Can Do With Google
· Does Your Online Course Have A Leg To Stand On?
· Retrofitting Learning Environments for Today’s Hyper-Networked Students”
· Open a World of Languages by Catching the Wimba Wave
· Maximizing Classroom Collaboration Using Web 2.0 Technology: Google Docs
· Google Earth Integration with Classroom Activities, Lab Exercises & Student Presentations”
· iPods in Paris – Learning French Culture in an Authentic Environment”

Submissions will be evaluated and chosen based on how well the proposal fits the general theme of technology in education. Speakers will be notified of their proposal status by Sept. 15th, 2011.

Finally, I would appreciate it if you would forward this message along to any ‘networks’ of people that you interact with so that we can spread the word about the 2011 WTTS and our acceptance of proposals at this time.

Thanks,
Steve Holt