Conference Portal Needs your Help

• Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:36 )
• Written by Joseph Chmielewski

Conference Portal provides zero-cost resources for teachers, instructional specialists, trainers and consultants.

But, Conference Portal is a one-person initiative, volunteer help increases our outreach to more teaches, educational specialists, grade levels and content areas.

Of course, Conference Portal uses technology to automate, replicate, multiply and distribute resources. This strategy models the techniques and tactics that teachers can use to leverage their efforts and save their precious time for productive pursuits.

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Open Source Instructional Materials

• Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:37 )
• Written by Joseph Chmielewski

Conference Portal supports Classroom Toolkit's effort in providing zero-cost instructional materials.

The first Open Source for Instructional Materials project, Classroom Toolkit provides classroom planning, project management and instructional materials designs that maximize the use of technology.

Focusing upon reusable modules, templates, graphic organizers and software automation, Classroom Toolkit offers unique models for instructional materials.

Check out all that Classroom Toolkit has to offer with other teacher-time-saver and teacher-support focused projects:

Zero-Cost Graphic Organizer Toolkit

Teacher Time-Saver Toolkit

Classroom Toolkit Newsletter Archives for "Tell it like it is" teacher professional self-development

Online Technology Resource Guide

• Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:37 )
• Written by Joseph Chmielewski

The Conference Portal is a "one-stop-shop" for technology shortcuts and outcome-focused resources for teachers.

Conference Portal operates as a "Switchboard," an "Information Interchange" and as an "Idea Way Station" automated resource and "way-to-do-it" modeling station.

And Conference Portal focuses upon free, low-cost and self-funding solutions that deliver no-cost or low-cost advantages and benefits to teachers.

So, what is cost-effective?

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Collaborative and Community Partners

• Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
• Last Updated ( Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:35 )
• Written by Joseph Chmielewski

Conference Portal brings teachers, instructional specialists, trainers and consultants to a Web-based community of doers.

Life-long learning is nice, but few teachers enjoy the luxury of even being able to "read for fun," let alone spend time on long-term intellectual self-improvement.

The day-to-day stresses, the red-tape dictated busy-work, and the non-instructional demands of a functioning bureaucracy (oxymoron?) gobble spare moments the way that elephants eat peanuts; i.e., inhaling them.

Collaboration and Community Sharing makes sense from an ethical and moral vantage point, but the math of one teacher's work being used by hundreds or thousands of other teachers provides incredible yield.

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