"Providing students with a 21st Century education"
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When
13th and 14th October 2011
Where
Bangkok Patana School
Who?
Classroom teachers K-12
Subject Teachers
ICT Teachers
Technicians
Administrators
Managers
Advisors
What
Bangkok Patana School has designated that the 2011/12 academic year will have an ICT theme for its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme. This coincides with all of our Secondary students being required to bring laptops to lessons and our Primary children having greater access to technology than ever before.
It was unanimously agreed that sharing our professional development with other educators in the region would benefit everyone so it was decided to turn our internal training days into one of the established TechEx conferences.
A bit of History
- TechEx 1999 – NIST
- TechEx 2001 – Ruamrudee
- TechEx 2003 – Ruamrudee
- TechEx 2005 – Bangkok Patana
All participants are asked to bring a laptop (or similar) Internet access device with them to this conference.
You might also find it useful to have a QR code reader on your phone or laptop. more ...
Participants' name badges will each have a QR code containing their contact information. Is this the end of business cards?
Guest of Honour
We are honoured to announce that our keynote speaker is Ian Jukes
Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer,
consultant, and university instructor. Over the course of the past 10 years,
he has worked with teachers in more than 40 countries and made more than
8,000 presentations typically speaking to between 300,000 and 350,000 people
a year.
Ian has written twelve books, 9 educational series and had more than 100
articles published in various journals. Ian Jukes is also the publisher of
an on-line electronic newsletter, the Committed Sardine Blog, which is
electronically distributed to almost 90,000 people in 60 plus countries.
more...
Keynote
The keynote presentation will be based on Ian's book, Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow, which provides a sense of how education can come to realize the long-term benefits of adapting to our current state of societal progress, and how our students will ultimately benefit.
We are also delighted to welcome Vivatvong Vichit-Vadakan who worked for 10 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. He also founded Thailand's very first Internet Service Provider (LoxInfo).
Khun Vivatvong will be addressing the question What exactly is cloud computing and how will you and your institution benefit from it? more...
The TechEx 2011 programme is available here as a pdf document.
Latest News
Registration for this conference is now open. Registration will close when we have filled all 602 places (that's the number of seats in our theatre). There are currently places still available. The registration form is here.
A number of people have reported that messages sent to them from our TechExAdmin@Gmail.com account are going into their spam or junk folders. Please check if you are a participant or a presenter and add our address to your 'safe senders list'
Many of you will have seen a lot of publicity about the potential floods in Bangkok and may be concerned. Please be assured that we are continually monitoring the situation and are in close contact with the BMA.
Currently the flood warnings for Bangkok are focussed on 13 lower lying areas which include: Bang Sue, Dusit, Phra Nakhon, Samphan Thawong, Bang Kholaem, Yannawa, Klong Toei, Bang Plat, Bangkok Noi, Thon Buri, Klong San, Rat Burana and Thawee Wattana. The school is not within these districts
What is TechEx?
TechEx stands for Technology Exchange. This conference is the fifth in a series of similar conferences which have been hosted at International schools in Bangkok by RIS, NIST and Patana.
The conference is designed primarily for the average classroom teacher who would like to learn more about using ICT to support teaching or the teacher who has a teaching idea worth sharing.
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Bangkok Patana School
Conference Photograph
We would like you to be a part of our Crowd Sourced Whole-Conference Photograph! For this it is hoped that your smart phone, tablet or a laptop has a built-in camera and connectivity so that you can send email ... or you are sitting next to someone that does have this capability. If you have image manipulation skills then bring those with you ... individual creativity will be an asset. It is also hoped that you like Latin music!
See the TouchTable and have a go!
We welcome colleagues from over 50 different international schools.