Join Peter Skillen as he hosts this new ECOO event - a full day BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) workshop with a variety of learning centres focusing on planning, production, post-production, and exhibition of final media works to audiences - local or global.

What Will You Learn?
That is up to you! Visit one of the centres or visit them all! You can be an absolute beginner, or a 'techie' wanting to bump your skills up a notch!

You choose your ‘entry point’. Build your own plan for the day or be led by one of our facilitators. Learn what you need to know to bring digital tools to your students this year!

You may want to learn all about podcasting. Or moviemaking, HyperStudio, iLife, Audacity, Adobe Premiere Elements, Comic Life, Transform, Inspiration, Web 2.0 tools, digital photography, digital storytelling, etc. You get the idea. The facilitators at the centres will have the skills to support you. A broad range of media products and tools will be supported with awesome classroom projects as exemplars!

Who are Our Facilitators?
Minds On Media has a wealth of Ontario expertise with a couple of out-of-province stars thrown in for good measure!

• Mali Bickley & Jim Carleton - iEARN-Canada country coordinators and Adobe Youth Voices experts
• Hall Davidson, Director, Discovery Educator Network where he blogs, creates webinars, and entertains, inspires, and educates teachers worldwide!
• Kendra Grant and Anne Tyas - Ontario's experts on learning/writing/engaging ALL learners with Inspiration Software and Promethean Interactive White Boards
• Kent Manning - Want to motivate your boy writers? Come and learn from Kent. Digitalstory.ca
• Barbara McLaughlin - KABOOM! Barbara can show you how to bring student work to life with Comic Life!
• Ron Millar - an Ontario pioneer of educational computing and expert in using digital images in the classroom
• Michael Quinn - president of Global Thinkers and long time educational software creator www.globalthinkers.net . PortablePD.ca, PortableRadio.ca, MrsSmith.ca, MrToft.ca
• Jane Smith & Nathan Toft - Scholastic authors and experts in all things music, blogging and podcasting. www.PortablePD.ca, www.PortableRadio.ca, MrsSmith.ca, MrToft.ca
• Roger Wagner - creator of HyperStudio! Come and try HyperStudio5....digital fusion for divergent thinkers www.hyperstudio.com

Space is limited. Please register early! Lunch is included.

Note: We recommend these minimum laptop requirements: Windows XP or higher, Mac OS 10 or higher.