ITEC is pleased to announce, Hall Davidson and Alan November as the 2008 Keynote Speakers. A poster (PDF) will be available to help spread the word about the 2008 Keynote lineup. Short biographies follow:

Hall Davidson is a nationally known educator as a teacher, author, lecturer, and staff development leader. He has served on state and national advisory boards for telecommunications, technology management, technology integration, and instructional media. He co-authored the report of the Distance Learning Task Force in California, authored the media portion of the Technology Guide for the association of media and library teachers, co-authored the internationally marketed TECHWORKS school kits, and has published articles in national journals and magazines.

His classroom experience, begun in middle-school in 1971, includes mathematics, language arts, and foreign language. He served as on-camera mathermatics teacher in an Emmy-winning instructional series. He has since been Emmy-nominated as a producer. His productions include series for teachers on the Internet and Big6 information literacy strategy.

He has served on school site governance councils during school reform and on school-site advisory board. He co-founded Video-Using Educators in Los Angeles in 1985. He currently serves on the board of directors for Computer-Using Educators, the largest educational technology user group in the western United States. For nine Years he has served as director of the California Student Media & Multimedia Festival, the nation's oldest such festival, now in its 40th year.

For 15 years he has led trainings for teachers in video, multimedia, copyright, and technology integration affecting thousands of teachers. He currently serves as Director of Education at KOCE-TV, the PBS station in Orange County, California, and as Executive Director of Telecommunications of Orange County (TOC), a media consortium serving a dozen districts and over 200,000 K-12 students.

He is the father of two children currently in the public school system in Los Angeles, California.

Visit http://www.halldavidson.net/ for more details

Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology.

Audiences enjoy Alan's humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America.

Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Classroom Computer Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden. His writing includes numerous articles and best-selling book, Empowering Students with Technology. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.

Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world-class presenters and participants from all over the world.

Visit http://novemberlearning.com/ for more details.