South Carolina’s premier educational technology conference is designed to promote the use of educational technology to enhance student learning. The mission of EdTech Techno Safari 2006 is to bring educators, administrators, technology professionals, college faculty and staff, public and academic librarians, business and industry trainers, industry representatives and policy makers together to think, discuss, listen and learn the best strategies to plan for, implement, and use educational technology in our schools.
The South Carolina EdTech conference is planned and delivered by the South Carolina Association for Educational Technology (SCAET), represented by multiple South Carolina partners that includes K-12, higher education, state government agencies, and telecommunications business partners.
Partner members of SCAET this year include: The South Carolina State Department of Education, South Carolina Partnership for Distance Education, Technology Services, South Carolina Educational Television, Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia (AAIM), South Carolina Association of School Librarians, BellSouth, Avaya, South Carolina Budget and Control Board- Chief Information Office, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and College of Charleston School of Education.
WHO WILL ATTEND:
Approximately 1000 K-12 and higher education teachers, administrators, technology and media specialists, business leaders, legislators and Department of Education personnel.
The exhibit hall will be a valuable part of the conference and ample time has been built into the conference schedule for attendees to visit the exhibits. Over 153 exhibit spaces were present in the exhibit hall at last year's conference.
CONFERENCE DATES:
This year's EdTech conference will be held at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on October 4-6, 2006. The preconference day is October 4th with general conference activities on October 5th and 6th. For a listing of daily scheduled events, visit the Conference Calendar.
Contact Information
- For general information contact our conference committee at: scedtech@sde.state.sc.us
