2011 Conference Information

The 2011 ICE Conference was held in February and was a great success. The information posted on this page pertains to the 2011 Conference and is for informational purposes only. It does not pertain to the upcoming 2012 Conference. Please watch the ICE web site for new information about the 2012 Conference as it is posted in the months ahead.

General Registration Information: ICE Conference 2011

Access Your 2011 ICE Conference Registration

ICE Conference 2011 was held from February 22-25, 2011, and so registration for the conference is now closed.  We are keeping the above link active for the benefit of those conference attendees who need to log in again to view or print their registration invoice forms.

If you would like to view or download the full program listings for the Wednesday and Thursday general conference days, please click on the links below to retrieve the program listings in PDF format. Please note that these documents may be revised in the event that new sessions are added or if existing sessions are moved or deleted.

View or Download the Wednesday Conference Program Listings

View or Download the Thursday Conference Program Listings

Click here to view or download the pre-conference book.

ICE Conference 2011 Schedule

ICE Conference 2011
Exhibitor Information

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to be put on a wait list or to

be included in next year's mailing.

All the information you need for registering as a vendor, reserving a booth at the ICE Conference, or submitting an advertisement in one of the conference booklets can be found by clicking the following links:

• Welcome Letter

• General Exhibitor Information

• Other terms and conditions

• Advertising Information
   
• Charts (illustrating the breakdown of our attendees by facility as well as by position)
• The floor plan for the Exhibit Hall will help you choose the section you would like your booth. As in the past, you will select your booth by section.
  
  The floor plan showing available booths as of January 17, 2011.
  
  Pheasant Run Letter and Pheasant Run Forms.
  
  Alpha listing of Exhibitors
  
  Lead Retrieval Information & Signup

Link to Hotel Reservations

Booth Application - ICE Conference 2011

ICE Conference 2011
Featured Conference Speakers

Wednesday Keynote Speaker
Rushton Hurley

Rushton Hurley has worked and studied on three continents as a Japanese language teacher, principal of an online high school, teacher trainer, educational technology researcher, and school reform consultant. He founded and is the Executive Director of the educational nonprofit organization called Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of videos by and for teachers and students. These resources and information about his organization can be found at http://NextVista.org. Rushton trains teachers and students across the United States and beyond, and his fun and thoughtful talks have inspired and entertained audiences of all sizes.

Thursday Keynote Speaker
David Pogue

David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. Each week, he contributes a print column, an online column, an online video and a popular daily blog, “Pogue’s Posts. David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and he appears each week on CNBC with his trademark comic tech videos. With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the “for Dummies” series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles.

 Wednesday Spotlight Speakers

Ken Shelton Ken Shelton has worked as an educator for 8 years and currently teaches technology at the Middle School level.  He has earned teaching credentials in both Social Studies and Technology Education.  As a part of his active involvement within the Educational Technology community, Ken is a Google Certified Teacher, an Apple Distinguished Educator, a Discovery STAR Educator, and serves on the board for the Computer Using Educators Los Angeles affiliate (CUELA).

Karen Janowski Karen Janowski is an Assistive and Educational Technology Consultant providing assistive technology services throughout the greater Boston area. She is an adjunct professor at Simmons College in the Graduate School of Education. She is also a nationally recognized speaker and maintains a blog at http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com.  She is passionate about promoting student success and independence through the use of free and readily available technology tools.

Thursday Spotlight Speakers

Tammy Worcester For the past twelve years, Tammy Worcester has worked for ESSDACK, an educational service center, as an Instructional Technology Specialist, providing staff development and training in the area of technology integration. Her website, “Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers” (www.tammyworcester.com) is a popular online resource for teachers around the world. Tammy has developed several software applications for teachers and is the author of several best-selling technology resource books that are published and marketed nationally.

Clarence Fisher Clarence Fisher has been a classroom teacher for the past 15 years. He blogs professionally at evenfromhere.org, with his class at ideahive.org, and has spoken at conferences worldwide. Clarence has won several awards, including one of Canada’ highest teaching awards, the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching for his integration of technology into daily classroom life. His innovative classroom practices have been featured online, in books, magazines, and newspaper articles. He is an advocate of classroom 2.0, learning spaces that take complete advantage of the tools that are available to learners in their quest to learn rather than having school be something that is done to them.

Wednesday/Thursday ICE Spotlight Speakers

Carol Broos Carol Broos is in her thirty-second year of teaching and currently teaches music grades fourth through eighth at Sunset Ridge School in Northfield, Illinois, where she has been for the past twenty-three years. She has a 13-station MIDI lab in her classroom and uses performance and technology to teach music. Her entire curriculum is online at  http://beatechie.pbworks.com . Carol won the Golden Apple award for 2008 and the Mary Hoffman award as Illinois Music Teacher of the Year. Carol is a Google Certified Teacher, a Discovery STAR Educator, and an Apple Distinguished Educator.

Daniel Rezac Daniel Rezac has taught Science, Social Sciences, and Applied Technology en route to his position as a Tech Specialist for Northbrook District #30. His interest in Educational Tech began when he struggled with finding methods to translate materials to his non-English speaking students. He often presents about online learning environments, using Youtube in the classroom, and supporting classroom skills with video tutorials. He is a Google Certified Teacher and publishes at his blog, “Adventures in Ed Tech” (http://www.drezac.com) and for the “Tech and Learning Advisors Blog” (http://www.techlearning.com/section/Blogs).

Friday Featured Speakers

	Leslie Fisher Leslie Fisher’s interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She soon realized she was spending more time discovering technology than playing music, so she changed her major. After graduating from USC with a Business and Marketing degree in 1989 and a quick stint as a trainer, Leslie joined Apple Computer in 1992. When the Internet took off in 1994, Leslie was one of the first Apple employees assigned to study Internet growth and implementation. Fisher Technologies Inc. is now a worldwide company (meaning one employee named Leslie gets to travel the world teaching) and specializes in web development and web tools as well as digital photography, editing and workflow.
	Meg Ormiston For over twenty-five years, Meg Ormiston has been involved in professional development activities focused on changing instructional practice in the classroom. Meg marries her passion for technology with a deep curriculum background and over twelve years as a classroom teacher. Meg has served as a curriculum coach, school board member, keynote speaker, professional development specialist and grant facilitation specialist. Meg has also authored four books, written numerous articles, collaborated on professional videos and participates in many personal learning communities.
	Bret Gensburg Bret Gensburg was recognized as the 2006 eTech Ohio Technology Teacher of the Year for the entire State of Ohio. He is also one of a select group of educators recognized as a SMART Exemplary Educator for his knowledge and experience of SMART Technologies. Bret’s passion for technology certainly stems around interactive whiteboard technology. He has worked with many schools all over the country, training educators in how to integrate interactive boards into classrooms on all levels and subjects. Bret is also the co-founder of a technology integration user group which now meets in multiple counties oh Ohio.

Workshop Information

Workshop registration for ICE Conference 2011 is closed. For those people who have already registered for one or more workshops or Administrator Academy sessions, you may view or download the room assignments for each of the four conference days by clicking the link below. The location abbreviations refer to facilities used for workshops at Pheasant Run as well as the Hilton Garden Inn and the Advanced Center for Training directly across North Avenue:

GH--Gallery Hall at Pheasant Run
Gem--Gem Rooms in the Pheasant Run Tower
PRT--Pheasant Run
Hltn--Hilton Garden Inn
ACT--Advanced Center for Training located next to the Hilton Garden Inn

Workshop Room Assignments: Tuesday (2/22/11)-Friday (2/25/11)

Please Note: The room for the Tuesday Administrator Academy workshop titled "Boys and Girls are Different" has recently been changed--it is now scheduled to meet in Salon II.

The pre-conference book that we mail to ICE members in November contains the full descriptions of all of the full-day workshops, half-day workshops, and Administrator Academy sessions.

View or Download the 2011 ICE Pre-conference Book

Breakout Session Information

If you would like to view or download the full program listings for the Wednesday and Thursday general conference days, please click on the links below to retrieve the program listings in PDF format. Please note that these documents may be revised in the event that new sessions are added or if existing sessions are moved or deleted.

View or Download the Wednesday Conference Program Listings

View or Download the Thursday Conference Program Listings

For your convenience, we have also posted all of the Wednesday and Thursday session listings in single page "at-a-glance" format so that you can look over the entire program for each day. The link below will open these pages in PDF Format:

View or Download the Wednesday/Thursday "At-a-Glance" Sheets

Volunteer Information

• Volunteers indicate their desire to work a 2-3 hour shift at the conference by completing an online volunteer form at the following address: http://tinyurl.com/2011volunteers
• Volunteers register for the Wednesday and/or Thursday General Conference days online at http://www.iceberg.org when registration opens in mid-November and pay the full $110 fee for each conference day they plan to attend.
• Volunteers will be notified by a member of the planning committee in the days before the conference so that they know their specific schedule and assigned duties.
• Volunteers will check-in at the volunteer table when they arrive at Pheasant Run to receive a special T-shirt and conference information. After the conference, if all volunteer obligations have been met, volunteers will receive $75 back for each General Conference day (Wednesday and/or Thursday) on which they worked.
   

Hotel Information

We encourage all conference attendees and exhibitors to stay at the Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center in St. Charles, Illinois. It is the most convenient place to stay since it is the same facility that we use for all conference events and activities. We have negotiated special rates for people who attend the conference, so if you speak to someone at the Pheasant Run reservation desk, be sure to mention that you are attending ICE Conference 2011 to get the special rates.

Conference Room Rates:

Book Rooms Online: The easiest way to book your rooms at Pheasant Run is to use the online registration system. When you click on the link below, you will be taken directly to a special page on the Pheasant Run reservation system that was created for ICE Conference attendees. The special conference rates are already included when you use this link:

https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=486262&hotelID=2932

Book Rooms by Phone: If you prefer to book your rooms by phone, here is the phone number for Pheasant Run: 800-4-PHEASANT (800-474-3272). Remember to tell the reservation clerk that you are attending the ICE Conference in order to get the special conference rates.
 

ICE Conference 2011
Publicity Resources

The contents of this page are available for use by any individuals who would like to help publicize the 2011 ICE Conference. Please feel free to download any of the documents here and distribute them to your colleagues or other educational professionals who might have an interest in the conference. We have also included "badge" images that you can include on your own blogs, Facebook pages, or other web sites.

The following are conference flyers in PDF format that have been customized with content that will be of high interest to specific segments of the educational community. Please feel free to modify as needed before you share them with colleagues:

Assistive Technology Experts
Classroom Teachers
Library Media Specialists
Pre-Service Teachers
Special Education Staff 

Here are two documents in MS Word format containing information about the 2011 ICE Conference and the Administrator Academy sessions that are being offer this year:

ICE Conference Flyer
Administrator Academy Session

If you are a blogger or make regular use of any of the social networking sites like Facebook or Ning, we invite you to include one of the "badge" logos that we have created to help promote the ICE Conference. Both of these image files are in JPG format, so they should be compatible with most web sites and image editing software tools. Please download either of these image files for use on your sites and feel free to modify as needed:

ICE 25th Anniversary Button
"Going to the ICE Conference" Badge