The TIE Conference will be held at Copper Mountain this summer on June 19-22, 2007.  See http://tiecolorado.org/2007/index.cfm for details.

This year, ITS will cover 20 scholarships for the registration fees of the conference and an additional 40 scholarships for 50%.  We'll look to coordinate housing to get the best prices we can which should make attendance at the conference available to those who want to go.  These scholarships don't count the ones we'll get for delivering presentations.

So, perhaps our numbers will be higher, but we'll do something else to make this year really different: We're going to "fish-bowl" this conference.

We will setup some blog threads (or perhaps a wiki) for the conference on our district site and check out wireless laptops to our attendees.  The conference is wireless so everyone will be able to sit in sessions and, instead of writing some notes on paper that only you can access, you can record your ideas for everyone! 

To be clear, this approach is not my idea.  I observed Anne Smith doing this with her language arts classes when I was visting Karl Fisch.  Boni Hamilton, Randy Stall and Mike Porter are designing the protocol.  I hope we educators can use the tool as well as I observed the students [;-)