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8:00 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Business Meeting & Welcome
9:00 a.m. - Keynote Address:
Dr. Sally Johnstone - Director, Western Cooperative for Educational
Telecommunications
Dr. Sally M. Johnstone
is the founding director of the WCET at the Western
Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). In that role
she is a resource for state governing boards, legislators, governors,
as well as college and university administrators on higher education
technology issues. Her work with groups of this type include over a
dozen U.S. states as well as governments and organizations in Brazil,
Hong Kong, and New Zealand.
10:15 a.m. Breakout Sessions - Track 1:
11:45 Lunch & Luncheon Address:
Diana Oshiro & Komarey Moss, Myron B. Thompson Academy
“PERSONALIZING Online Education as we BUILD Learning
Communities in Cyberspace”
Because of the changing nature of today's students, economic pressures,
and rapid implementation of distance learning courses and programs,
definitions of what constitutes education and learning are changing,
too. The use of distance learning technologies, and more specifically,
online distance learning, have both grown out of and enhanced the changes
now occurring in the delivery of education. Thompson Academy will share
the lessons learned in this brief but intense 5-year journey developing
an exciting alternative to traditional schooling as we know it today.
A veteran educator
with an outstanding background in both state and school-level administration
in Hawaii, Diana Oshiro is currently the principal
of Myron Thompson Academy, a K-12 public charter school offering online
secondary and elementary home-based schooling. Now in its fourth year,
enrolment at the Myron Thompson Academy has grown from 30 to 774, with
students from Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, to Hawaii. Komarey
Moss is a science teacher at Myron Thompson, and coordinator
of activities on Coconut Island, a satellite site of the school.
12:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions - Track 2:
2:15 p.m. Wrap-Up Discussion
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