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Robinson Headlines 2010 PETE&C

Sir Ken Robinson meets the sweetest place on earth at the 2010 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C), February 21-24, 2010. The Hershey Lodge and Convention Center will again be the site of the event which is expected to attract 3,000 instructional technologists, technology directors, school administrators, teachers, higher education faculty, exhibitors and speakers.

In addition to Robinson, Chris Lehmann will also keynote at PETE&C. Lehman is a principal at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia and a leader in advocating for 21st century schooling techniques for preparing students. Lehmann will speak on Tuesday, February 23.

Robinson, the New York Times best seller and internationally recognized thought leader in innovation for education and business will keynote on Monday, February 22. Until 2001, he was Professor of Education at Warwick University in the U.K. and is now Professor Emeritus. He has served as advisor to international organizations including the governments of Hong Kong and Singapore, the European Commission, and Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Among other roles he is currently senior advisor to the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles. In June 2003 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his outstanding achievements as a writer, speaker and leader in creativity, the arts and education.

Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, Pennsylvania Department of Education Secretary, will be the closing General Session speaker on Wednesday, February 24.

PETE&C opens with a series of pre-conference sessions on Sunday, February 21. There will be more than 200 session options for both K-12 and higher education audiences. In addition there will be a sold out exposition featuring more than 160 technology companies providing products and services to the education marketplace and a Student Technology Showcase on Tuesday the 23rd.

The complete conference program and registration information is available at www.peteandc.org.

== About PETE&C ==
Hershey, PA: Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C), now in its ninth year, will bring together the best in educational technology both in seminars and hardware and software vendors. PETE&C is truly Pennsylvania’s premier educational technology conference now being observed by other states as a model conference. Join approximately 2,500 other attendees and nearly 175 vendors and choose from over 300 educational sessions/seminars. You will learn “best practices” from true educational technology innovators who use 21st century skills in their classroom daily.

Have you ever asked yourself:

1. How should I spend my instructional technology grant money?

2. Is my school district utilizing the latest 21st century schools technology?

3. Does my school district have the infrastructure technology needed to deliver the latest instructional technology to the classroom?

4. Am I really getting the most from the data analysis reports provided by my student system, financial systems, and data warehouse?


Attend PETE&C and get answers to these and many other questions. If you can only attend one conference this year that could potentially save your school district money and time and where the latest instructional technology is demonstrated and explained, this is that one conference. Many people find this conference to be an excellent place to network with their peers, other education technologists, and IT professionals in an environment created specifically for them. Visit a student showcase presented by exemplary students from across the state of Pennsylvania. Learn all about Web 2.0 tools, Ning, Wiki’s, Google Docs, server and desktop virtualization, backup and disaster recovery, and much more. These are just a few of the many reasons why you and others from your school district should plan now to attend PETE&C 2010 in Hershey.

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