This document provides strategies and tips for submitting effective proposals to present at the ISTE conference. It outlines the general submission process, including timelines and evaluation rubrics. Key tips include choosing the right presentation format and audience focus, writing a clear and engaging title and description, having objectives written as participant outcomes, and getting feedback on proposals from others. Presentation experience and relevance to the conference theme are important factors in acceptance.
5. EVALUATING THIS YEAR
Session evaluations
Room counts
Overall conference-evaluation feedback
Requests from participants
General feedback
6. TABLE NETWORKING
How many of you are going to submit for this coming year’s
conference in Philadelphia?
Table Share:
What are your favorite types of ISTE sessions to attend and
why?
If you have favorite presenters, what is it that they do that
makes you keep coming back?
7. GOAL OF SUBMISSION
PROCESS
To allow the program committee and the
reviewers to get the best information
possible for choosing the program content.
8. GENERAL PROCESS
• Proposals are collected and grouped with a
team chair who is an expert in that area
• They assemble a team of 3-5 educational-
content experts to evaluate against the rubric
• Guidance/webinars to ensure objectivity
• 70 teams reading 2000+ proposals
9. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE
• Call for Participation – September
• Proposals submitted
• Program Proposal Review Teams Assembled
• Team Chair organizes team and schedule
• Team evaluates against proposal rubric
• Conference calls, emails, etc.
• Recommendations made to ISTE Program Committee
10. PROCESS NOTES
• Program chair may recommend multiple
presenters to team up in a panel, if the
themes are similar
• Clarification Issues
• Notifications sent
13. SUBMITTING - TITLE
• Titles should clearly depict what is going to
be presented in the session.
• For example, “Bytes, Camera, Action!”,
although creative, does not adequately
describe what the session is about.
• "Bytes, Camera, Action: Incorporating Digital
Video in the Classroom" does.
14. SESSION DESCRIPTION
• Descriptions should be accurate and
enticing.
• Workshop descriptions in particular should
be designed to “sell” the workshop.
• Effective descriptions should contain action
words and focus on benefits to participants
rather than a narrative of workshop content.
15. AUDIENCE FOCUS
• Chief Technology Officers/Superintendents/School
Board Members
• Curriculum/District Specialists
• Professional Developers
• Library Media Specialists
• Principals/Head Teachers
• Technology Coordinators/Facilitators
16. PROPOSAL SUMMARY -
GENERAL
• Educational significance and contribution to
the respective theme and strand
• Degree to which higher-order applications of
technology are addressed
• Ease of replication & value to participants
• Presenter knowledge and experience
17. PURPOSE & OBJECTIVES
• Written as participant outcomes
• Educational or infrastructure challenge/situation
• Technology intervention (include specific names/titles and
descriptions, if not widely known)
• Models employed (include brief description)
• Lesson plans or instructional strategies employed (include a
brief description of your resources/tools)
• Evidence of success, graphical displays of plan
18. CATEGORY SELECTION
• Strongly consider your audience
• Decide format – lecture, poster, workshop,
etc.
• Select appropriate theme/strand
• Let’s look at the presenter submission form.
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23. GENERAL TIPS
• Think back on highly-engaging sessions or
presenters you really liked:
• What stands out?
• Would you have done what they did?
24. GENERAL TIPS
• If this will be the first year you submit,
consider a poster session – plan for videos,
posters, and other materials, so you can
build your presentation experience
• TakingITGlobal, for example, prefers to do
posters because they are personal and
informal
25. GENERAL TIPS
• Think very carefully about how to write and
prepare for your intended audience
• Teachers – want successful and practical
sharing of ideas and resources
• Administrators – want to know about
instructional success, policy and funding
issues, scalability
• Tech coordinators – rollout issues, cost, ROI,
p.d.
26. GENERAL TIPS
• If you are fairly new to presenting, build up
your experience now
• Presenter background is important
• Presenter’s experience can help
27. GENERAL TIPS
• Have critical friends review your proposal
• The idea
• The theme/strand applicability
• The written contents
28. REMINDERS
• View current conf site to view accepted-session
details
• September is most the important milestone
• Start now with your idea
• Prepare your outline
• Get with a friend to come up with clever
title/description and sharp objectives
29. FUTURE CONFERENCES
• ISTE 2015
• Philadelphia, Penn., June 28-July 1, 2015
• ISTE 2016
• Denver, Co., June 26-29, 2016
• ISTE 2017
• San Antonio, Texas, June 26-29, 2017
