ISTELive 24 will be based in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT: UTC−06:00) as the in-person conference will be held in Denver, Colorado. You will have the option to display session times in MDT or in your device's time zone. You can change between the two by clicking the link for time zones on the program search page or in your presenter menu.
From your presenter menu, click on the title of the proposal you want to edit and scroll to the appropriate page. Click the link to the right that reads "View/edit this section."
Format, topic and delivery preference are not editable. Select fields that were used for review purposes may also be locked. Title and description are editable through mid February.
Please add presenter(s) to your session proposal by logging in to your presenter menu. Click on the title of the proposal you want to edit and scroll to the bottom of the page to the "Presenter" section. Click the link to the right that reads "View/edit this section."
There is a limit of four presenters for all formats except panels. There is a limit of five student presenters for all formats. Panel submitters will work with ISTE program staff to select co-presenters. Please see additional detail under “Panels” of the Format-specific session information below.
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruling requires that anyone who endorses a product through social media or presentations, should make the relationship with the brand (“material connection”) obvious. A “material connection” to the brand includes a personal, family, or employment relationship or a financial relationship, such as the brand directly paying fees, covering travel, or providing free or discounted products or services.
Disclosure of these kinds of relationships at ISTELive 24 is important because it helps keep recommendations honest and truthful, and it allows people to weigh the value of presenter endorsements.
As an influencer, it’s your responsibility to make these disclosures, to be familiar with the Endorsement Guides and to comply with laws against deceptive ads.
All ISTELive 24 presenters will be asked to disclose relevant details by June 21, including the company/companies and relationship(s)/compensation or indicate that they do not have a material connection to disclose. Please be sure that any presenters on your session are aware of this reporting. If accepted, the disclosure form will be located on your presenter menu.
All adult presenters must register to attend the conference.
By using the email address associated with your ISTELive 24 presenter record when you register, you'll receive the discounted presenter rate. ISTE deeply appreciates all that presenters do to shape and support the annual conference. Offering the most discounted registration rate to presenters is one way we hope to extend our gratitude.
Registration will be available in December.
In person: The standard front-of-room equipment set includes a LCD projection with screen, two lavaliers, one wired and one wireless mic, Apple TV hardware, Airplay/Airplay Mirroring service and a sound system to connect to presenter’s own laptop. All presentation areas will have a dedicated wired internet drop as well as a password-protected "Presenter" wireless network to support such technologies as AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring. NOTE: AirPlay functionality over Bluetooth (peer-to-peer AirPlay) with AppleTV is not supported. Please be sure to connect your presentation device to the password-protected "Presenter" wireless network in your session room. Attendees will have wireless internet connectivity.
Please note for Research Papers Roundtables: No technology or power is provided at each of the tables; a charging station will be at the back of the room.
Remember, you must provide your own computer or device. Please bring the appropriate VGA or HDMI adapter for connecting to projectors or display monitors if you’re planning to use a Mac laptop or iPad as your presentation device.
Virtual: ISTE does not provide equipment for presenters. Presenters must provide their own computer, internet connectivity, lighting, microphones, etc.
We suggest and encourage an ethernet connection to the device you are presenting from as it will provide a more robust and stable internet connection. A minimum of 5 Mbps upload and download connection is recommended for a consistent streaming experience. A speed test can be run here to verify your connection. It is also imperative when previewing and testing your presentation on the ISTE 24 platform you do so on the network you plan to present from as school networks or computers may have firewalls blocking the streaming service.
If you are presenting virtually and also in Denver, please be prepared with any equipment necessary to do so, as well as a quiet space to give your presentation.
Please consider accessibility! With ISTELive 24 being hybrid, we’re able to expand our audience to an even more diverse group of attendees and we want to ensure all can enjoy the experience. Please review these in person presenter accessibility tips for your live session, presentation materials and shared resources.
Available in December: you upload any materials or URLs that may be used or referenced in your session so in-person and virtual participants can benefit from your resources or contact you. Please consider resources that are accessible on screen readers. If you provide a presentation website with your session submission, it's automatically added as one of your session resources.
ISTE creates a digital tote that allows conference attendees to collect important materials from sessions or exhibits they may want to reference later. The tote is available in mid February.
Guidelines for formatting and submitting your research paper are available below under "Format-specific session information, research papers."
In person: You are encouraged to provide electronic or print handouts. Upload handouts via your presenter menu to make them available to attendees through the conference website program search. You may upload handouts through July 31. For printed handouts, you can use the room capacity information from the room specs on your presenter menu to gauge the number of copies. Poster presenters should plan to bring approximately 100 copies of their handouts.
Details available in December
Available in December: Presenters and exhibitors have the opportunity to link their sessions with online exhibit listings, making sessions easier to find. Please help us create a holistic learning environment that enriches the attendee experience while supporting your goals and those of our corporate partners. Establish connections with exhibitors whose products and services are an integral part of your session content on your presenter menu. You can connect up to 10 exhibitors to your session.
Details available in May
ISTE requires that primary presenters for in-person sessions are physically present to moderate their events and provide presentation laptop/tablet including connection for any remote co-presenters if applicable.
There is a limit of five student presenters per session with one adult chaperone.
Students must be with an adult at all times. Student presenter names must be added or updated by May 31 to ensure their badges are ready when they arrive or to be able to gain access to the virtual website. Non-presenting students or children under the age of 16 (including infants) are not permitted in sessions, events or the expo hall. Badged student presenters are permitted to attend their sessions only and the expo hall with a chaperone. A chaperone badge allows a non-presenting chaperone to accompany students at all times. The chaperone badge does not permit attendance at any conference events independent of student participation. A chaperone who is not presenting does not need to be named on the session record; a badge can be picked up onsite at the conference.
As the submitter/lead adult presenter for a student presentation, you're eligible to receive a nontransferable complimentary registration as long as you bring a K-12 student. We will email further details when complimentary registration is available in late January.
Due to space restrictions, additional students and additional chaperones are not permitted. ISTELive is a professional event for educators to share insights with each other to move educational practice forward. Part of making this a successful event is that presenters engage with attendees regardless of the format of their presentation. This is particularly true for poster presentations, with the students presenting and engaging with fellow attendees. We ask that any chaperones/chaperoning parents supervising the students not congregate around the poster as we want the students to share their work and learning with attendees.
During all active operating hours of ISTELive 24, no one under 16 years of age will be permitted to attend sessions or visit the expo unless that person is a badged student presenter or a school-aged (age 5+) registered attendee who has purchased registration and is accompanied by an adult chaperone. Students must be with an adult at all times.
Student presenter do not need to be registered through the Registration system, but student presenter names must be added or updated by May 31 to ensure their badges are ready when they arrive onsite or to be able to gain access to the virtual session if presenting virtually.
Log in to your presenter menu and click on your session.
Scroll to the bottom of the page where it says "Presenters" and click "View/edit this section."
Add the student's contact information under "Add presenters." If presenter is a K-12 student, email address is not required.
Be sure to indicate they are a student presenter by checking the "Student presenter?" box.
If a student is already listed on your session as a "Presenter," change the drop-down field next to their name to the role "Student presenter."
There is a limit of five student presenters per session with one adult chaperone.
During all active operating hours of ISTELive 24, no one under 16 years of age will be permitted to attend sessions or visit the expo unless that person is a badged student presenter or a school-aged (age 5+) registered attendee who has purchased registration and is accompanied by an adult chaperone. Students must be with an adult at all times.
In person: There is a limit of five student presenters per session with one adult chaperone. Students must be with an adult at all times. A chaperone badge allows a non-presenting chaperone to accompany students at all times. The chaperone badge does not permit attendance at any conference events independent of student participation. A chaperone who is not presenting does not need to be named on the session record; a badge can be picked up onsite at the conference at the student presenter check-in counter.
Non-presenting students or children under the age of 16 (including infants) are not permitted in sessions, events or the expo hall. Badged student presenters are permitted to to visit the expo hall when accompanied by an adult chaperone. Adult chaperones may not have more than five students per group. Students are expected to keep their voices down, stay in their groups and refrain from taking exhibitor giveaways unless they are offered. All student presenters under 16 must complete the expo hall Student Presenter Policy form and turn in the top half of the form when they pick up their badges at the student presenter check-in counter. Student Permission Form will be available in May.
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In person Creation lab ticketing
Preregistration is required for in person Creation Labs; seats not claimed 5 minutes before start will be released to those waiting in the stand-by line on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees can register for one Creation Lab each day.
In person: Hour-long presentation with one or more presenters addressing a seated audience.
Virtual: 45-minute presentation with one or more presenters addressing an audience in a webinar virtual experience.
Be sure to review your equipment and room set up prior to your presentation. Use the tools on your presenter menu to promote your session and share resources. If your session requires registration, use the email tool to communicate with attendees in advance.
You may request flexible learning session room as part of the Call for Proposals. Try to incorporate flexible learning concepts into your session content for maximum effect.
In person: 2-3 hours. Forums provide an in-depth, thematic learning experience curated for a specific audience or around a curriculum focus, and may include structured networking opportunities. May or may not require pre-registration and/or additional fees.
Virtual: No virtual offering in this format.
In person: A one-hour lecture featuring audience participation and interaction with the presenter(s) during the session, with hands-on interaction, discussion or creation of a collaborative document.
Virtual: 45-minute session featuring audience participation with the presenter(s) during the session via chat, with hands-on interaction such as creating a collaborative document or participating in a presenter-led poll or other activity. Held in webinar format with breakouts and the ability to allow attendees to share video and microphone.
In person: Hour-long presentation with a designated moderator facilitating a discussion among two or more panelists on a particular topic.
Virtual: 45-minute long presentation with a designated moderator facilitating a discussion among two or more panelists on a particular topic.
Proposers will submit an idea for a great panel topic, including potential panelists. If selected, they will work collaboratively with the ISTE program team to develop their idea and build out a diverse slate of panelists.
We want to ensure our panels have great representation from a variety of perspectives and demographics. In the interest of identifying and elevating new voices to our community, we can support proposers with panelist recommendations as needed. New voices can bring fresh perspectives and innovative examples to the program, and we want to create opportunities to intermingle ISTELive veterans with newer educators (or educators newer to our community). We think this blend makes for the most vibrant program offerings.
In person: ISTE Playgrounds are large-scale, multi-presenter, hands-on learning experiences with a variety of learning and demonstration stations based around one theme. Playgrounds allow for experiential, playful discovery of new technologies and practices in a hands-on learning environment, and include six hands-on learning stations and two small demonstration stages. Playgrounds showcase new pedagogical implementations and multiple sandbox experiences for attendees. Led by educators for educators, playgrounds focus on play, discovery and experimentation as part of the learning process.
Playground coordinators propose an overarching theme, and if selected, will work with the ISTE program team to further develop and build out the playground experience, including the recruitment and coordination of their playground presenters.
In person: A 90-minute, demonstration-style presentation delivered in an open, multi-station environment that enables presenters to engage their audience in more intimate one-on-one and small-group conversations. A visual poster display will be included in each station setup.
Virtual: A 45-minute live webinar virtual experience with visual elements and resources that are available to attendees.
Each presentation group will have 30 minutes to set up before their presentation and 30 minutes to teardown afterward. Please adhere to these timelines so every presentation group has sufficient time.
You must carry all of your equipment into the convention center. No deliveries will be accepted at the loading docks. If you have a lot of materials, consider mailing items to yourself at your hotel.
In person poster session tipsIn person formats:
Lecture: During your one-hour presentation time slot, there will be two research paper presentations followed by a brief discussion led by a discussant. The discussant will provide feedback about each paper presentation, as well as facilitate questions and answers the audience may have, time permitting. Each of the two presentations and the discussant will have approximately 18 minutes to present. Please plan to attend the entire session for your time slot/room.
Typically, presenters create a multimedia presentation (e.g., Google slides, PowerPoint) to present their studies (but feel free to be creative!). You will have a projector and the room should host 50-100 potential attendees (although typically audiences have varied from 15-50 attendees) but not a computer - so please plan to bring your own computer and adapter to connect. It also helps if you coordinate use of only one computer for the two presentations to minimize transition time and potential technical issues. Remember that many practicing educators will be attending your session. Make sure to engage them as members of your audience and make connections from research to practice.
Roundtable: Presentations with similar research topics are each assigned to one of seven or fewer round tables set for 10 participants where hour-long discussions take place. Roundtables are intended to be more collaborative discussions about research. No equipment is provided. Outlets may not be available. Attendees will have wireless internet connectivity.
Poster: 90-minute demonstration-style presentation in a multibooth location, which involves interacting one on one or with small groups. See Posters for more details.
Virtual formats:
Lecture: During your one-hour presentation time slot, there will be two research paper presentations followed by a brief discussion led by a discussant. The discussant will provide feedback about each paper presentation, as well as facilitate questions and answers the audience may have, time permitting. Each of the two presentations and the discussant will have approximately 18 minutes to present. Please plan to attend the entire session for your time slot/room.
Typically, presenters create a multimedia presentation (e.g., Google slides, PowerPoint) to present their studies (but feel free to be creative!). Typically presenters go in the order they appear in the program and the presentation will have a chat feature; therefore, it helps to monitor chat. There will be a volunteer who will record the session and be there for you to help out if there are any technical issues or questions. Remember that many practicing educators will be attending your session. Make sure to engage them as members of your audience and make connections from research to practice.
Poster: A combination of one 45-minute live session and a visual poster build with demo video and resources that are available on the platform throughout the conference. See Posters for more details.
LISTING PRESENTERS AND CO-AUTHORS
On your presenter menu, click on your research title. Then, at the bottom of the summary, click “View/edit this section for the presenters page.”
Presenters are typically listed in alphabetical order by last name, but research submitters can specify the order of presenters or co-authors as you prefer to have them displayed in the conference program and conference app. If you need to designate one author as the lead presenter, please use the role “Presenter” and list other authors as “Co-author.”
ISTE requires that primary presenters are present to moderate their events. Please indicate if your listed co-authors will also be presenting at ISTELive 24.
RESEARCH PAPER GUIDELINES
As a condition of acceptance, please upload your full research paper in PDF format by June 1 via your presenter menu. Research papers should adhere to the following requirements:
Research papers will be posted as submitted, without additional editing or formatting, so please proofread carefully. Research paper authors maintain the copyright to their papers and are free to submit them for publication. ISTE recommends including your own copyright statement on your research paper.
In person: 30-minute micro-presentation that focuses on a particular instructional model, technology solution or content provider resource. Two snapshots are combined into an unmoderated hour-long session.
Virtual: 20-minute micro-presentation presented consecutively with a 5-minute question-and-answer period following the presentations. Two snapshots are combined into an unmoderated 45-minute session in webinar format.
In person: A 1- to 2-hour off-site excursion, organized and led by the presenter, with a cultural, educational or historical focus that allows attendees to experience Denver and mingle with locals.
Pop up: Transportation is not provided, so please keep in mind location in relation to the Colorado Convention Center. Walking tours depart from the Colorado Convention Center. If you hope to visit a location with an entrance fee during your trip/tour, that entrance fee should be noted as part of your submission.
Virtual: No virtual offering in this format.