ITD TALKS: On the Horizon--Educational Technology and Emerging Literacies

Joan Getman, Cornell University
On the Horizon: Educational Technology and Emerging Literacies
January 19, 2010, 12:00 - 4:00
CNYRIC, Conference Rooms 3 & 4

Ms. Getman chaired the 2009 K-12 Horizon Project Advisory Board, which produced the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition, the second in a new series of regional and sector-based reports that examine emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative expression within the environment of pre-college education. She will highlight digital/visual literacy and storytelling as skills that are becoming essential. A follow-up to Joan's keynote will include Cornell's Dr. Jennifer Wofford and Margaret Corbit, who will introduce specific technologies, including virtual worlds in education.

Please join us for a great opportunity to meet with our keynote speaker and network with other curriculum and technology leaders! Register here.

Joan Getman is Senior Strategist for Learning Technologies at Cornell University. Her goal is alignment of services with best practices, and current and emerging technologies. She does strategic planning for pilots, communicates evaluation findings and project outcomes, makes recommendations for improving and adding faculty services, cultivates partnerships across CIT and campus that leverage activities with similar goals and diverse sponsors, and facilitates faculty discussion of innovations in teaching with technology. Joan has a B.A. in Film and Psychology and an M.S. in Communication and Instructional Design.