<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi everyone,<div>I'll be going to this conference, hope you can too. Its open to people outside of Northeastern. Registration is now open.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Teaching with Technology Mini-Conference<br>Tuesday, April 29 from 8:30 - 4:00<br>Curry Student Center ballroom<br>Free Registration <a href="http://www.edtech.neu.edu/TWT">http://www.edtech.neu.edu/TWT</a><br><br>Please join us for Northeastern's fourth annual Teaching with Technology mini-conference on Tuesday, April 29, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., beginning in the Curry Center Ballroom.<br><br>Our keynote speaker will be Katie Salen, well-known game designer, Executive Director of the Institute of Play and Associate Professor in the Design and Technology Program at Parsons School of Design. Co-author of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, a textbook on game design, as well as The Game Design Reader, she is currently working as lead designer on a digital game intended to teach game design to middle school and high school youth. She recently served as editor for the volume The Ecology of Games for the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning, and is co-editor of The International Journal of Learning and Media. Her presentation is entitled "Systems to Think With: Games and the Architecture of Persistence."<br><br>Following Ms. Salen's presentation, Northeastern faculty will offer presentations on effective uses of personal response "clickers" in large and small classes and ways they are using media-based assignments to encourage students to create content for their classes.<br><br>After lunch, faculty and staff are invited to explore interactive poster sessions on a range of technology related to effective teaching strategies. Topics include new technologies for teaching including educational uses of wikis, blogs, YouTube and Webcasting as well as Mashups, citizen journalism and collective intelligence. Participants can also enjoy a YouTube film festival, take a tour of the Library's Digital Media Design Studio and tour a virtual world in Second Life.<br><br>Teaching with Technology Day is co-sponsored by The EdTech Center, The Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CIETL), Information Services, SPCS and University Libraries.<br><br>Plan to spend the day and enjoy refreshments, a light lunch, and a chance to win an iPod Nano!<br><br>For more information, a complete schedule, and to register for this free event, please visit:<br>http://www.edtech.neu.edu/TWT </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div class="AppleMailSignature" id="53D03D9F-F582-418C-ACBD-CFF797C46B60"><div style="; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Lisa C. 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