Tuesday, February 26, 2002
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Registration for CoSN Public Policy Leadership Training
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Lunch and CoSN Public Policy Leadership Training Leslie Harris, CoSN Legislative Consultant, Leslie Harris & Associates
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	CoSN Public Policy Leadership Training Congressional Meetings on Capitol Hill
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Private Sector Council Meeting
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Capitol Hill Reception
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Registration Open
6:30 PM	Presentation of CoSN's 2002 Frank Withrow Outstanding Achievement in Education Award
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Open
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Welcome Address and Plenary Session I: National Overview on Education Technology and Policy Moderator: Bob Moore, 2002 Conference Chair & Executive Director of IT Services, Blue Valley Unified School District No. 229 Speakers: John Bailey, Director of Education Technology, U.S. Department of Education Leslie Harris, CoSN Legislative Consultant, Leslie Harris & Associates
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM	Refreshment Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Session #1 Session W101: Science Online Resources Session W102: Just the Facts About K-12 Education Technology Today: NetDay and Quality Education Data Session W103: Broadband in the Classroom - From Virtual Fieldtrips to Digital Libraries Session W104: Leadership Opportunities in Digital Schools Spotlight Session 1A: Handheld Computing in Teaching & Learning Spotlight Session 1B: Networks: Making a Difference in Education
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch with Exhibitors
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Concurrent Breakout Session #2 Session W201: The Impact of Global Telecommunications on Teaching and Learning Session W202: Approaches to Education Change and Equity in Rural Communities Session W203: Handhelds, Probes and Other Hot Emerging Technologies Session W204: Tools for Supporting Collaborative Professional Development Session W205: School Data - Mining for the "Gold" Spotlight Session 2A: Accountability, Alignment, Assessment, Achievement
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Session #3 Session W301: CLRN: Evaluating Standards Aligned Electronic Learning Resources Session W302: Administrative Standards - From Theory to Practice Session W303: Wireless: What's There for Your District? Session W304: Staff Development Planning for Technology Integration Session W305: Announcing the Availability of a Total Cost of Ownership Education Technology System Calculator Spotlight Session 3A: Cooltown @ School: Personalized Education in a Connected Community
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM	Session Break/Room Change
4:10 PM - 5:20 PM	Plenary Session II: New Roles for School Districts, State and Federal Government Moderator: Cheryl Scott Williams, President ISTE and Past Chair CoSN Speakers: Charles Lovett, U.S. Department of Education Amy Perry-DelCorvo, Education Strategist, Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES Helen Soulé, Ph.D., Director, Office of Technology, Mississippi Department of Education
5:20 PM - 5:30 PM	"Making it Happen" Award Ceremony
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Reception with Exhibitors
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Banquet & Town Hall Debate on Collecting Student Data: What's Appropriate? What's Not? Moderator: Tom Haynes, Anchor CNN QuickCast, Turner Learning Inc. Speakers: Mark Bohannon, General Counsel and Vice President for Government Affairs, Software & Information Industry Association Arnold Fege, President, Public Advocacy for Kids Margaret-Ann Howie, Esquire, Legal Counsel to the Superintendent, Baltimore County Public Schools
Thursday, February 28, 2002
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Registration Open
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Plenary Session III - International Issues Moderator: John Bailey, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education Speakers: Doug Brown, Divisional Manager, National Grid for Learning Division, Department of Education and Skills, Britain Pierre Gendron, Executive Director, Canada SchoolNet and LibraryNet Ignacio Jara, National Coordinator, Enlaces Network, Ministry of Education of Chile Frithjof Maennel, Information and Communication, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany Eric Rusten, Ph.D., Director, US/Brazil Learning Technologies Network & Deputy Director, dot-ORG, The Academy for Educational Development Takashi Sakamoto, Ph.D., Director-General, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan Ministry of Education
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Concurrent Breakout Session #4 Session TH101: Arts and Humanities Online Resources Session TH102: Creating the New Technology Plan Session TH103: Thin Client and Application Service Providers Solutions Session TH104: Innovative Approaches for Professional Development and Student Learning Session TH105: Using National Technology Standards to Provide High Quality Needs-Based Professional Development Spotlight Session 4A: CIPA Compliance - Planning a Truly Secure Network Infrastructure Spotlight Session 4B: Bold Leadership in the Digital School: Increasing Motivation Through Whole-Class Technology Solutions
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM	Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
11:50 AM - 12:50 PM	Concurrent Breakout Session #5 Session TH201: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Content Filtering and CIPA But Were Afraid to Ask Session TH202: The E-rate at 5 - Where Do We Go From Here? Session TH203: How Safe is Your Network and How Safe Are It's Users? Session TH204: Integrating Online and Classroom-Based Teacher Training Session TH205: The Fundamentals of Statewide E-Learning Platforms Spotlight Session 5A: Intel Model School Program Spotlight Session 5B: A Dream Deferred: How Do We Fix the Broken Promise of Educational Technology Spotlight Session 5C: Clients + Portfolio Systems = Technology and Curricular Win!
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM	Session Break/Room Change
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Luncheon, CoSN 2002 Annual Business Meeting & Plenary Session IV: Riding the Curl of Innovation Moderator: James Hirsch, Assistant Superintendent for Technology, Plano Independent School District Speaker: Jamie McKenzie, Teacher, Author and Speaker
3:00 PM	Adjourn CoSN Conference
CTO Council Applications for Broadband in the Classroom (Exclusively for School District Chief Technology Officers) Salons H
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM	Welcome
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM	Overview on Internet2 K-20 Applications
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM	Example of an Imagine the Future project of ThinkQuest/ANS
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	CTO activity allowing participants to work in teams to envision what applications they would do if they had all the bandwidth they needed
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM	Report back to large group
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM	Next steps
5:30 PM	Adjourn
International Symposium How Children Learn With New Technologies: Connecting Research to Education Policy & Practice (Embassy of France, Washington, DC) Sponsored by: British Council, Dell, Embassy of France, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). In cooperation with the European Schoolnet (EUN) NOTE: YOU MUST BE PRE-REGISTERED FOR THIS EVENT. Thursday, February 28, 2002
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	International Symposium Reception
7:00 PM - 7:15 PM	Welcome Address James Bosco, Ph.D., Chair, CoSN International Committee & Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Western Michigan University
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM	Framing the Discussion Moderator: Edwin Gragert, Executive Director, Ph.D., International Education and Resource Network (iEARN-USA) Speakers: Ulf Lundin, Director, European SchoolNet Russ Whitehurst, Assistant Secretary for Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
Friday, March 1, 2002
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM	Welcome Remarks
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM	Panel I: The Child and Technology - State of Learning Theory Research Moderator: Roy Pea, Ph.D., Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences, School of Education, Stanford University Speakers: Heinz Mandl, Ph.D., Chair of Education and Educational Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univrsitat, Munich Jean-Francois Rouet, Ph.D., CNRS Research Scientist, University of Poitiers, France
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Break
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Panel II: Children, Technology and Socialization - The State of Social Impact Research Moderator: Ulf Lundin, Director, European SchoolNet Speakers: Sandy Calvert, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Children's Digital Media Center, Georgetown University Margaret Honey, Ph.D., Director, Center for Children and Technology, Education Development Center, Inc. Monique Perdrillat, Consultant for France Telecom Education (International Internet projects for schools)
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM	Luncheon
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Panel III: Children and Technology Policy - Moving Toward an Intelligent Agenda Moderator: Chris Dede, Ed.D., Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Speakers: John Bailey, Director of Education Technology, U.S. Department of Education Marie-Christine Milot, Teacher, French Ministry of Research and Ministry of Education Takashi Sakamoto, Ph.D., Director-General, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan Ministry of Education Peter Upton, British Council
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Concluding Remarks