Coverage of the FETC Conference
Here you'll find coverage of the FETC conference. The 2017 National Conference is being held Jan. 24–27 in Orlando, FL. We're providing news from the show floor and session highlights from the event. You'll also find coverage of past FETC events deeper in these archives. For show schedule, registration information, and other details about the conference itself, visit FETC.org.
Plans are already falling into place for FETC 2013, scheduled for Jan. 28-31 once again at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, including a special for early registration.
Today every teacher needs to be in charge of his or her own professional development, if for no other reason than district budgets require everyone to be so much more creative. Here are a few ways teachers can better take advantage of formal and informal learning, the use of a back channel, and modeling life-long learning.
T.H.E. Journal Associate Editor Stephen Noonoo recently spoke with the flipped learning founders about the movement's newest developments, the importance of at-home internet access, and how to flip your flipped learning professional development.
Does educational research data tell us anything? Can it prompt us to improve what we do? The important question for me is whether research of any kind prompts me as an educator to think about ways to improve my teaching.
Four experienced practitioners share what they’ve learned about community building and collaboration in an online environment.
Early childhood education expert and FETC speaker Gail Lovely shares her favorite free web tools for students, which require nothing more than a computer with internet access.
One FETC presenter details his very popular "Design a Disney World Theme Park" workshop, which teaches collaboration, creativity, and STEM concepts.
Schools have always been charged with the task of producing good citizens. But how has our definition of a "good citizen" changed over the ages?
As FETC organizers begin making plans for next year’s event, 2012 attendees are invited to give their feedback via a short online survey. Participants will be automatically entered into a drawing to win one of two $50 American Express gift cards.
FETC can be an exhilarating, instructive, insightful, hectic experience that is hard to duplicate once you get home. However, thanks to social media, there are ways to keep in touch with peers you meet there and continue the professional development that has begun.