Re: [seul-edu] Our presence at trade shows

[Tom Hoffman <rid00654@ride.ri.net>]

For teacher-focused conferences, we need teachers who are using Linux in
their to give demonstrations to other teachers, which doesn't cost seul-edu
any money and would be more effective anyhow.  With any luck, I'll be able
to do some of this next year (once I get my Linux writing lab running).

--Tom



on 9/1/00 6:14 PM, Bill Ries-Knight at brk@slip.net wrote:

> There are many TEACHER focused conferences, they usually are related to
> the idea of "continued education requirements" or as "staff enrichment
> conferences".  I tried to dial in on a big Taacher Technology conference
> last year out here in Sacramento, California, and ran into a problem.
> The promoters of these shows are interested in PAYING VENDORS.  As a
> freebie group with no assets, there is a limit to where and what we can
> do.  I think we need some advocacy by our most eloquent members to this
> (these)groups.  I will try to dig through my old email archive and see
> if I can come up with an email contact for  the sponsors of the program
> in Sacramento.
> 
> Bill
> 
> Doug Loss wrote:
> 
>> Ray said something a while ago I wanted to get some discussion on.
>> He mentioned that going to Linux trade shows was all well and good,
>> but the people we need to talk to include teachers and educational
>> administrators who we won't likely see at such shows.  That's a very
>> good point.  Since we have fairly limited resources for attending
>> shows, can any of you alert us to conferences on "technology in
>> education" or something similar that we should attend?  We probably
>> ought to try to do some outreach in this direction, I think.
>> 
>> --
>> Doug Loss                 God is a comedian playing
>> Data Network Coordinator  to an audience too afraid
>> Bloomsburg University     to laugh.
>> dloss@bloomu.edu                Voltaire
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